dickleyjones

a fine example, yes.

naaah, there are many worse scenarios possible. nice hyperbole though.

this is the one i remember: for the angry times:

unless someone here can see into the future, all we can do is wait and see. good news though, it appears that some people here can see into the future and they already know Allen will fail. so let's just move on...right?

it's a good thing we have all of these people from the future to tell us what will happen. Now we can watch Allen definitely fail stress free. yay!

"historically bad"? that is quite the conclusion you have drawn after just a few games.

i didn't say he was good at selecting personnel. i said "that's why he's the coach" i.e. not the gm.

guess that's why he's the coach.

sounds reasonable, i agree it is all closely tied. maybe more accurate would be: Strategy = What you want to do overall, which includes: Culture = What you want your guys to be willing to do Tactics = What you want your guys to do and execution is the intersection of culture and tactics.

no i'm saying that culture is a part of strategy. there is no trumping involved.

culture is real. and it is part of strategy. this is really not difficult...

plans within plans.

agreed. let the outrage ensue!

in this case, culture is part of the strategy.

ok, you're fired.

they took a shot and failed. did it come at any cost besides ownership's pockets?

I have to wonder how much these self professed "analytics guys" actually have any education on the matter. it wouldn't take much to know that the statistics they have available don't support the conclusions they draw from them. yes data science is helpful but only if you know how to do science properly.

it was a learning opportunity and they used it to teach the young QB exactly what to do.

maybe. maybe not. i don't know and neither do you.

not the dreaded kneeling!

"hot take" - you flatter me. it is simply one observation i was not stating a hard fact or rule. i agree with most of the rest of your assessment. allen himself said the game is faster than he expected. and of course it is, his own experiences have been at a slower pace. i don't know about you, but when something is new to me i have to practice it a bunch of times, and slowly, to get it right. i'm a musician and i think the experience is similar. i decided to learn drums in the past year. trying to drum an normal speed at first was impossible. i was terrible. i got hours of practice in at a slower pace, concentrating on what i was really trying to do. one day i woke up and suddenly certain beats were easy to play. our brains are plastic but it takes time for change. Allen has not played at this speed yet. now he is. as his brain adjusts itself to fit his new experiences, he will improve.

terrible is maybe a little too far, but you are correct. allen even said it himself after the Cinci game "faster than i expected". almost every throw was behind. practice should slow things down for him and then we will see what he can do.

is there a way to bet against this? the actual chance of mcdermott being fired is near zero.

my take is that the game is a little too fast for Allen right now. he said so himself during preseason. some practice in real games should get it all to slow down.