SageAgainstTheMachine

Just read the wiki article. Mr. Wells may not have known he'd be carrying a real bomb, but he was implicit in planning the bank robbery, so the result isn't what you'd call heartwrenching. I say joke away!

I envy you Alaskans. I'd like to wake up at 9 and just watch the game.

That's a pretty flawed rating system.

Whatever responsiblities belong to Russ Brandon at this point, building the football team is no longer one of them.

One of my favorites. I watched it when I was a child, and then I was surprised at the degree to which I still found it hilarious as an adult. By chance, do you remember a scene where Cranston's character Hal suffers a stress breakdown from being charged with responsibility over the boys for an evening, and he ends up in a confrontation with hundreds of different manifestations of his being, each one attempting to advise him? Too funny!

I like to think the writers intended for us to think that way. In the beginning of the series, when Walt was a Casper Milquetoast, Hank didn't have enough respect for him to ever consider Walt's involvement. Now that W.W carries himself with a sense of identity, the inklings would be more believable. I hope that made sense. And yeah, you can't say enough about Aaron Paul. I'm continuously amazed by his ability to carry a scene without ever opening his mouth. Perhaps I'm just taking Bryan Cranston for granted at this point, but right now it's very debatable over which man is the more capable actor.

Well that's just too bad for Arizona, then.

John, I'm with ya. Is it probable that the Bills will make the playoffs? No. I'd personally put the odds around or under 25%. But it's pretty foolish to pretend like there's no point in even watching the season because the Bills have zero chance. Where's the winning spirit in that??? Most years, you can count on a one team in each conference to surprise everybody and make the playoffs. Last year it was the Chiefs. Why not the Bills this year?

I win.

My favorite part was Jesse vacantly staring into his duffelbag of cash, and then later dismissively shrugging off its disappearance. It was a sort of dismal reminder of why Jesse got himself into this mess in the first place, and how little he now cares about his initial motivation. Season 2 Jesse would have been a wreck over his money growing legs. Now he's just so broken that it doesn't matter. The scene you mention was awesome too. I love Walt lifting his hands and saying "you got me" as Hank jokingly (?) accused him of being the W.W. in Gale's notebook.

I'm pretty certain that would be considered a run to the left. 65% of the Bills rushes were up the middle or to the guards...I would guess because Jackson is primarily a vertical rusher?

http://footballoutsiders.com/stats/ol Take a look at the second table. The Bills ranked #1 in the NFL running in the Left Tackle direction. I think Demetrius Bell is the long term answer at LT if he can stay healthy like last season.

An additional first down or two per game can be the difference between a good team and a bad team.

Apes was great except for Freida Pinto. She's pretty and all, but I think a cardboard cutout of the actress would have done an equal acting job.

Better make it double ply. We don't want the other team backing out because we're chintzy.

I stand by what I said. Words to live by.

No, I guarantee you that everybody agrees with him. Go up to an injured Bill and call him a pus*y to his face, and see what happens. If you wouldn't say something to a man's face, don't say it behind his back.

OR every single team in the league is dealing with this and we're actually lucky because, unlike a lot of teams, nobody is seriously injured.

Advanced statistics can aid general managers in building teams that win. Ergo, they matter.

15,000 yards only gets you a maybe these days?

Spiller - Super Fast Evans - Scary fast Parrish - Really fast Johnson - Pretty Fast Easley - Very fast Jones - Darn Fast Nelson - Rather Fast Roosevelt - Kinda Fast I believe those are the official ratings.

I'd like to point something out. Those defending the old passer rating system seem to be relying on its efficacy in predicting winners. Fine, it predicts winners. That isn't the point of the statistic. The point is to specifically identify the role of the quarterback in his team's success relative to his running backs, receivers, tight ends, etc. Team batting average is great at predicting winners in baseball too, but sabermetricians dismissed it long ago in the context of identifying individual achievement at the plate, because it isn't comprehensive. It's the same with passer rating. It isn't a fallacious statistic, but it is rather arbitrary. Taking 4 stats, weighing them, then smushing them together isn't comprehensive enough in an age when so much other information is available. Take the following example. In passer rating, if the QB dumps the ball off to his running back, who jukes two defenders while using aggressive second-level blocking by a FB and OT and scores a 50 yard TD, the QB gets the exact same amount of credit as he would if he placed a perfect bomb to a streaking WR in single coverage for a TD. In my opinion, you simply can't defend a statistic that is so poor at accounting for context.

Haha, no problem buddy. I explained this in a couple threads, but unfortunately I cheated and thus gave up on the project between weeks 6 and 7. I believe it was on Day 46. I ended up losing about 15-20 pounds in the process. There was really nothing mind blowing about the experience...just a lot of boredom and even more flatulence . I regret the whole thing, because it was more about grabbing attention than any real personal growth. That's not to say I didn't learn anything, though.

Yeah, I'm a total sabermetrics nerd. I hate to admit it, but I've even been to a couple of the conventions. Football Outsiders is one of my favorite websites, but I was unaware of the other two. I'm interested to read that article from Cold Hard Football Facts because passer rating, to me, is just short of completely useless as a statistic. As others have pointed out, it pays no attention to context and in football you absolutely cannot analyze without context. Additionally, passer rating severely overrates conservative QB play and pays no attention to plays during which the QB never throws the ball (sacks, fumbles, rushing yardage).

As soon as I clicked 'enter' on my previous post I thought "Wait...there ARE more lecherous male teachers, the teenage girls just differ in that they aren't willing to !@#$ disgusting middle aged men. Teenage boys on the other hand..."