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On 12/12/2017 at 05:53, Xann said:

2018 Buick LaCrosse Essence (2.5L mild hybrid) with Sun & Shade package, Sights & Sounds, and Driver Confidence 1

50 minutes ago, Brumerican said:

The Jags are finally watchable and this is their last game until August . 

Typical.

Do you think Marrone will be the new permanent coach?  He does seem to have Bortles playing better.

On 11/7/2016 at 00:26, maqroll said:

Does Ernie take a cut of every Subaru sale? And if so, how?

He owns the Subaru distributorship for New England.

On 10/22/2016 at 00:14, maqroll said:

Thinking about trading my 2004 Ford Escape in for a new Suburu Cross Trek. Anyone drive a Suburu?

Coworker has one (a cross trek) and the transmission went within a year...

Also note that if buying a Subaru in New England, you're giving money to Ernie Boch, Jr....

Any tie game in the NFL pretty much has to be good and weird, and that was definitely one.

11 hours ago, sexbelowsound said:

Ah, about 10 hours of NFL or Pep's wank brand of football followed by the anti-football duo of Conte and Mourinho?

Easy choice.

I admit that I haven't watched any of the Premier League this season (and to be fair, haven't shelled out for the channel I can watch EFL (?????) games on), but with all the moaning about the quality of the games in the NFL this year, how bad can the football from Man City, Chelsea, and Man Utd be?

Of course, pundits have been whining that the NFL is going downhill for at least 25 years, so...

Two weeks ago, the two longest streaks of not going an entire 4th quarter down by more than 1 score were the Patriots at 35 games and the Panthers at 27 games.

The current leader in those stakes is the Raiders at 19 games and counting.

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...Ryan Fitzpatrick had an unbelievably terrible day against the Chiefs -- quite likely the worst we have ever measured. We can't say for sure, because it's too early to know just how good this Chiefs defense is, and league-wide baselines will change throughout the season. But for now, Fitzpatrick's game scores at minus-324 DYAR, significantly worse than anything else on the record, and only the second to sink below minus-300 DYAR.

1. Fitzpatrick (Jets vs. Chiefs, 2016): -324 DYAR
2. David Klingler (Bengals vs. Oilers, 1994): -302
3. Rex Grossman (Bears vs. Cardinals, 2006): -284
4. Weeden (Browns vs. Eagles, 2012): -274
5. Smith (49ers vs. Colts, 2005): -270
6. Tim Hasselbeck (Washington vs. Cowboys, 2003): -270
7. Aikman (Cowboys vs. Cardinals, 1990): -269
8. Donald Hollas (Raiders vs. Dolphins, 1998): -266
9. Brian Griese (Broncos vs. Colts, 2001): -265
10. Kordell Stewart (Bears vs. 49ers): -263

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It certainly doesn't help that Fitzpatrick completed 45 percent of his passes, or averaged 4.3 yards per pass. But the biggest reason Ryan Fitz-six-picks had the worst day on record is oh, those many turnovers. (And three of those interceptions came in the red zone. Only seven quarterbacks threw three red zone interceptions in all of 2015. Eli Manning was the only player with five). Fitzpatrick isn't the first quarterback in league history to throw six interceptions in a game, but he's the first to do so since Peyton Manning against San Diego in 2007, and only the fourth to do it this century.

Six-interception games used to be a lot more common, according to Pro Football Reference. There were three in the 1990s, nine in the '80s, eight in the '70s, and ten in the '60s. And remember, there were fewer teams and fewer games per season (and thus, fewer opportunities to throw six interceptions in one contest) back in the day.

Basically, when nearly everybody was using run-based offenses with deep passes, interceptions were a lot more common and weren't viewed as that bad.  In field position terms, a deep interception isn't dramatically worse than a punt.

http://www.footballoutsiders.com/audibles/2016/week-3-quick-reads

9 hours ago, BOF said:

How the hell has he managed that in 1/7th the time of the other 2 though?  OK obviously you've got to BE down multiple scores in the 2nd half.  No bother to Jax   But there've been plenty like them over the years.  It's amazing that no-other quarterback has racked up bigger numbers over a longer career.  At this rate he'll have the record to himself by a country mile.

Losing is what does it, especially when a lot of those losses are blowouts.  So you get a lot of those by being either a QB whom a bad team has enough confidence in to be on the wrong end of a lot blowouts (of course, after enough of those, one loses their job) or by just hanging around long enough (and being a QB with a reputation for comebacks helps).

On that theme, the leaderboard for all-time losses.

1. Vinny Testaverde: 90-123-1
2. Favre: 186-112
3. Tarkenton: 124-109-6
4. Warren Moon: 102-101
5. Kerry Collins: 81-99
6. Drew Bledsoe: 98-95
7. Brees: 124-94
8. Marino: 147-93
9. Esiason: 80-93
10. Joe Ferguson: 79-92
11. Jim Hart: 87-88-5
12. Eli Manning: 99-86
13. Dan Fouts: 86-84-1
14. Elway: 148-82-1
15. Ken Anderson: 91-81
16. Peyton Manning: 186-79
17. Dave Krieg: 98-77
18. Palmer: 84-77
19. John Hadl: 82-76-9
20. Matt Hasselbeck: 85-75

(The actives who are within possible striking distance, considering their age, include: Rivers (93-69), Roethlisberger (115-56), Ryan (75-53), Brady (172-51), Romo (78-49), Flacco (77-47), and Rodgers (81-40), Alex Smith (69-53))

Also:

Blake Bortles is now the all-time NFL leader in garbage time touchdowns (defined as TDs when down by multiple scores in the second half in games lost*).  In 32 games played, Bortles now has 21 such TDs, passing Johnny Unitas (20 in 211 games) and Tom Brady (20 in 223 (and counting)).

*: Yes, I know that down 9 points in the 3rd quarter isn't really garbage time.

QB DYAR (minimal defensive adjustments in force; honestly I'd expect all of the top 5 to see major declines as retrospective defensive adjustments take hold))

1. Fitzpatrick (176)
2. Ryan (174)
3. Carr (147)
4. Garoppolo (144)
5. Manning (141)
6. Palmer (131)
7. Tannehill (130)
8. Newton (101)
9. Dalton (91)
10. Prescott (87)
11. Rivers (86)
12. Taylor (83)
13. Siemian (81)
14. Bradford (63)
15. Cousins (50)
16. Mariota (43)
17. Wentz (43)
18. Keenum (31)
19. Flacco (24)
20. Brees (17)
21. Roethlisberger (10)
22. Hoyer (10)
23. Wilson (3)
24. Brissett (-10)
25. McCown (-16)
26. Gabbert (-25)
27. Bortles (-34)
28. Stafford (-37)
29. Cutler (-60)
30. Rodgers (-64)
31. Osweiler (-69)
32. Smith (-95)
33. Luck (-114)
34. Winston (-173)

Since the start of the 2007 season, the Patriots have lost a total of 39 games (regular and postseason).  Gus Bradley now has 39 losses since 2013.

Bringing in the college headhunting rule (sending off for more than one half of football (if you get sent off in the second half, it carries over to the first half of your next game)) would be a start.

The Chargers' loss was their third blown 21-point-or-greater lead since 2012 (blew a 24-0 lead against the Broncos in 2012, blew a 28-7 lead against the Texans in 2013).

Top QBs by DYAR this week (zero over a season is calibrated to be roughly the level of mid-tier backup QB; at this point in the season, there are no adjustments for the quality of the opposing defense, so Stafford, Brees, Luck, Carr, and Gabbert will all probably see downward revisions and Newton, Siemian, Garoppolo, and Tannehill will all probably see upward revisions)

1. Stafford (197)
2. Brees (195)
3. Luck (150)
4. Winston (148)
5. Carr (132)
6. Rodgers (106)
7. Ryan (96)
8. Dalton (75)
9. Wentz (70)
10. Rivers (66)
11. Hill (58) / Prescott (58)
12. Palmer (51)
13. Roethlisberger (42)
14. Smith (37)
15. Garoppolo (37)
16. Mariota (30)
17. Gabbert (24)
18. Bortles (18)
19. Osweiler (17)
20. Manning (10)
21. Cousins (-2)
22. Wilson (-4)
23. Flacco (-25)
24. Fitzpatrick (-27)
25. Newton (-28)
26. Siemian (-53)
27. Taylor (-60)
28. Cutler (-79)
29. Griffin (-94)
30. Tannehill (-120)
31. Keenum (-177)

3 hours ago, Milfner said:

Rams coaching staff just looks terrible. During Hard Knocks I swear all they did was scream in their players faces all day apart from when Goff connected with a WR on a basic slant and they all spaffed everywhere. They deserve Jeff Fisher.

Jeff Fisher still thinks it's 1975.

You have to think that he's going to be gone within minutes of the end of the season.

Meanwhile....

Tom Who?????

17 hours ago, StefanAVFC said:

What an atrocious win.

The Seahawks over the past few years have to have the worst offensive line play for a contending team ever.  I'm coming around to the view that the management has made the conscious decision to not invest there and count on Tom Cable to keep the line from being a total disaster, so they can spend the money elsewhere.  There's no other explanation (besides something involving Pete Carroll, John Schneider, or Paul Allen; a camera, and farm animals) for how Cable keeps his job.

On 5/4/2016 at 22:31, leviramsey said:

Was feeling a little flush a while back, so purchased a new ThinkPad.

• T560 model
• 15" 3K screen
• 3 cell front battery & 6 cell removable rear battery (which also puts the keyboard at a nice typing angle)
• Core i7-6600U (4 cores, 8 threads)
• 256GB NVMe SSD (the SSD is basically directly attached to PCIe; I'm getting sustained 900 Mbyte/sec reads)
• 32GB RAM

Installing Linux (Mageia for me) was surprisingly easy. The only real issue was the installer not recognizing /dev/nvme0 as a device which Linux could be installed to, which necessitated an install to USB stick, boot to USB stick, go to single-user mode, partition and mount SSD, copy files from stick to SSD, chroot, and install grub to the UEFI partition (this is my first UEFI system, and it's nowhere near as bad as I feared) dance. Beyond that, everything just worked. I run X at 1920x1080 because for now the 24" monitor at work that I hook up to this maxes out at that resolution and I don't see the point in having a laptop screen display more than the external monitor. The keyboard is fantastic (and the pointing stick is, as expected, superb; it's also amazingly nice to have middle click on a laptop again). Battery life has been amazing (despite Linux apparently not doing power management properly for this chipset). Everyone else on the team is a MacBook user, but I've caught some envious looks (I passed up an offer of a company-paid $2500 MacBook (not long after we separated from the laptop and printer guys, we were suddenly able to buy nicer laptops...) to buy this on my own... I can deduct it on my taxes and avoid having IT enforcing policy on me).  It came to $2,000 or so.

Heartily endorsed.  The Intel GPU isn't spectacular (but Intel GPUs are the best-supported in Linux), but anyone like me who needs something between something ultraportable and a mobile workstation can't do much better than this.

The kernel now properly scales the CPU clock (before, every core was always running at at least 2 GHz; now with just web browsing active, all 4 cores are sub 700 MHz).  At work I've been able to use it for 10 hours solid without needing to plug in.  Meanwhile my Moto X from 2014 dies after a few hours of use and maybe 8-9 hours of idle.

On 9/6/2016 at 05:19, BOF said:

I tend not to follow the pre-season matches, as the teams are a hotchpotch of starters and fringers.  So I've no idea if your 4 pre-season results are ever in any way representative of whether your team is going to do well in the regular season or not.

For my power ratings, I tend to just take the halftime scoreline and double it.  That tends to reflect how good the players who will see the field will be, though it does result in a somewhat higher tie-rate.

On 7/11/2016 at 18:06, maqroll said:

This was the first of the "new" stadiums, I think they built it in 1992? You're the first person I've ever heard say they liked the place!

 

 

1991, I think.  It's simultaneously the first of the new stadiums, but, like SkyDome/Rogers Centre, it's also the last of the cookie cutters.  Camden Yards in 1992 is really the first of the new stadiums.

On 6/24/2016 at 01:54, Rodders said:

Incoherent general rage seems to be the power du jour. I think many Sanders supporters will stay at home rather than vote for someone massively in the pay of big business tbf. Some will vote for Trump

The most recent poll I've seen said:

55% of Sanders supporters will vote Hillary; 22% Trump; 18% Gary Johnson

(though to be fair, and saying this as someone who will vote Johnson, a lot of the Johnson support in these 3-way polls is "anybody but Hillary or Trump"... I'd expect to see, where Jill Stein is on the ballot, that a large proportion of that 18% will vote for her)

(though it should include the fourth part, "Freeze" (from 2002)...)