Fadingpain

It's fascinating, that aspect of it. Psychology is a huge component in team athletics and it's not really exploited or examined as fully as it should be in my opinion. The combine measures everything in terms of physical parameters and physical performance. How about measuring, for example, a hatred of losing, or an unwillingness to quit? Those psychological components of a player are arguably much more important than his standing broad jump distance.

Hah! We are now crossing posts with each other... What is interesting is that the slight difference in extra point distance has really mucked with the kickers' heads apparently, despite the range being easy FG territory. I don't fully understand that. I would not have predicted moving the ball back this amount would alter the success rate this much. Something fun to consider would be a total re-haul of the entire point scoring system. There's a pretty big difference between scoring 3 points for a FG and 6, 7, or 8 for a TD. And it's a lot easier these days for kickers to hit a long FG making it much easier than scoring a TD. If the point scoring gap was reduced between a FG and a TD to only a couple points for example, many more games would be close right until the end, or to put it another way, it would be much harder for a better team to pull away and blow out a weaker opponent. You would think the NFL and its sponsors would be all over this idea, as I have to imagine tons of games are turned off at halftime in a blowout.

Yeah, I threw in my PS in anticipation of a post like yours! It's a good point to consider though. I still like the idea of going for 2.

That's really not that funny...the sound guy is not exactly 20 years old and he slammed his head very hard twice! Once off #98's chest area and much harder off the turf.

If two point conversions are made at a .537 percentage, everyone should be going for 2 every time. That means you'll get your 2 every other time basically, which is the same as hitting the extra point every time. The difference is the single extra point is not automatic anymore (making going for 2 more attractive) and you never know if this is the game when you will defy the probability and go on a little run of making the 2 points 3 times in a row for example. It's like flipping a coin. The probably of it coming up heads is .500, but that doesn't mean you can't flip heads 9 times in a row during a little odds-defying streak in a small sample size. (PS: I guess if you are only going to score 1 TD in a game, going for 2 and missing would hurt you more than if you were going to score 2 or more TDs...but I'd go for 2 every time regardless).

No, the year for doing this was 2014, when we boldly moved up for Sammy Watkins.

Well technically speaking, we haven't beaten anyone with a winning record.

Cousins looks good but why stop there? Let's get Brady in the off-season. If that falls through, Aaron Rodgers.

+1 We will lose to Oakland and Pittsburgh and at least one of the Jets and Dolphins. We'll be 8-8, maybe 9-7...right around where we always are...and out of the playoffs again.

Anyone know what happened to Al Michaels? Is he sick? Really enjoy him on Sunday nights and it's not the same without him. Green Bay seems to be in a funk lately.

Wait a second! Most folks around here can't figure out the difference between "their" and "they're"....but then you come along with proper usage of the cedilla diacritical mark!?

They've got Mitch Trubisky going 3rd overall to Chicago. Crap...didn't realize he was expected to go THAT high.

Just watched the whole video. DRAFT THIS GUY. Take him AS LOW as we can, while still making sure we get him. 6'3" and actually runs well too. His throwing stance/mechanics are way ahead of Tyrod already. He's a junior. Is he expected to come out in the upcoming draft?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1rUqecfA0

Not really what you'd call a strong passing attack.

NE in a groove and Brady driving them down the field...in a driving rain.

Consider me a 49ers fan, at least for the duration of this game!

Just checking in with SF and NE. Can't believe it's 13-10 with 5 minutes left in 3rd quarter...and SF driving! Well..sort of. My God Kaepernick just threw a bad ball.

The success of this team will always be limited with Tyrod as the QB. Will Whaley and Rex be back next year? I think they will. If they are, so too will Tyrod. And really, that's the end of the story. At least until the next regime change.

Is he right handed? Looks like the left thumb is bad; I'm guessing he's right handed and right arm dominant...so some sort of bullet proof thumb protector shouldn't impact how he holds the ball that badly. I assume he'll have something like that on his thumb certainly next week and maybe beyond.

That Tyrod can perform well, on occasion, is not enough. Consistency is the mark of the professional.