Wroughting

I don't think they're interested in winning, just trying not to be embarrassed like they were against the titans.

I thought the same thing at the time, make it a two score game. I think the 50/50 stat could be misleading since probably quite a few attempts are made by bad teams that are losing. If your odds are even slightly higher than 50% it makes sense to go for two as it would mean more points in the long run.

They got it right on that call anyway, it was 1st and 13 after the penalty. The broadcast showed the wrong down and distance, but it was correct on the field.

I feel like the helmets should be better. These hard plastic ones are like cars of the 60s, you get in an accident and the car is fine, but the passengers are messed up. Seems like a lighter helmet that can crumple and break would absorb more of the energy from impact. When it gets too bad throw it away and get a new one. Not something feasible for lower levels of competition, but it seems like something the nfl could do. But what do I know, I'm just a guy with a thought.

Jason: That's a nice shade of blue y'all got there, eh?

A deep ball would be nice!

The have and have-nots have always been there, at least in the past 20 years. You have a good qb and decent coaching, you'll win more than you'll lose. The difference this year, at least in my opinion, is that scoring has never been easier. A bad team with a good defense could score maybe 20 to 25 points and upset a good team occasionally. Good teams are putting up 30-40 points regularly this season and the bad teams simply cannot, even on a great day. Until they can find a way to get more good quarterbacks, this will remain the case.

A non profit organization still has to make money... nothing is free. And if you don't have to compete to make money, then this is a non sequitur. Again you keep conflating culture with strategy and strategy with tactics. Culture, what ever it is, is a by product of your strategy.

We define things differently because you're defining them incorrectly. I'll assume you work for a private company. The goal of the company is to survive, which typically means making money. Your boss developed a strategy, put the patient first. He then employed tactics, such as hiring friendly nurses and making staff smile. It sounds like his strategy paid off. None of that has anything to do with culture. McDermott is collecting his friendly nurses, the Rams are developing the cure.

No, but I think most winning strategies would involve getting more talented players.

A change in focus is literally a new strategy.

What if the employees, who are otherwise great human beings, can't meet those expectations? Or are only people that can meet those expectations part of the culture? What is the nature of your business? So you're saying that strategy trumps culture, which is what exactly?

You're confused, that's strategy. Strategy is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty. You keep talking about Mcdermott's vision, again, that's strategy. The goal of every head coach should be to win the super bowl. How he gets there is his strategy. Our coach's strategy appears to be collecting a bunch of guys that love to play football, call it culture, play fundamentally sound and hope to win. So far it's been a pretty mediocre strategy, little good, little bad. It's an older strategy, one we've seen before in Buffalo many times to mostly poor results. Culture isn't real, it's something losers talk about winners having to give themselves hope. Some intangible thing is all they're lacking, it's not that the other team is more talented or employs better tactics. You know what most successful organizations do? They find margins and they exploit them. The Patriots have done this for years. Pick plays, deflated footballs, taping practices and who knows what else. They find the widest margin they can and live there as long as they can. In the business world companies exploit cheap labor, lax regulations, tax breaks, all sorts of things. I'm sure the Chinese kids working to build my iPhone aren't talking about how great the culture at Apple is.

In their defense, a Nathan Peterman led team is not a playoff team.

What a weird juxtaposition this thread is. Non-christians speculating without evidence, Christians asking for more. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, I think McDermott prefers Christians, but mostly from a team building perspective. Belief can be a powerful thing, we'll see how it plays out.