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I imagine the emphasis on turnovers was huge. The Steelers aren’t just a run of the mill defensive unit. That unit wins games for them. Despite the fact that I think CC is a knucklehead, the point about beating yourself was true and despite their clear efforts to avoid doing just that - they still almost did it.

Seriously? Our first double digit wind total in 20 years… Two playoff appearances in three years, where we had none the previous 17… You have problems with the organization? FFS

In general, I think fans need to lay off the offense. The talent level just isn’t there yet and they’re doing their best to make chicken salad. I mean, why get mad at people who are mostly incapable of doing great things when they don’t do them? It is going to take a bit to get the talent level up to par. $90M in cap next year should help, if anyone worthwhile makes it to free agency.

Especially given how many different positions there are in football.

Doing another Post Malone show with daughter. College son wanted an electric skateboard to get around campus. If that gets him outside, then I’m all for it. Lol

Ha. Stupid speech to text.

So, I try to emphasize experiences over things. Tickets, a trip, lessons, etc... or a gift that facilitates experiences.

I think a lot of fans had a hard time being patient enough to see what Jack would develop into. He certainly didn’t have the polished talent of McDavid right out of the gate. Personally, I find it much less stressing to just watch the game and let these kids grow into whomever they’re going to be.

It was an amazing weekend filled with Triumph history and memorabilia (hosted at the Metal Works). Pictures with the band, a performance and then an after party with Gil Moore where he talked to fans for 5 hours. I spent 45 minutes with him. Then the next day, those who stuck around to go on a third party bus tour were hoodwinked into stopping for coffee where the band was in back of the coffee shop and we got to hang out with them for another two hours in a much smaller group. That’s where my picture came from. I sat and listened and told stories to Mike Levine for quite awhile. Then finished the night with Gil spending more time with us at dinner. When we filed out for our final goodbyes he was sobbing and hugging everyone like we were sons going off to war. Grown men crying everywhere. Lol it was ***** intense. So emotionally draining. Many of the people I met agreed that it was extremely difficult to process everything that happened to us that weekend.

Playing the devils twice certainly helped.

I won’t derail the post game - I’ve been meaning to post this in the music thread… But a couple weeks ago I went to Mississauga to participate in a Triumph documentary. People applied to be one of 150 fans to be a part of it and it was one of the most incredible things I’ve ever done in my life… it was ***** amazing. I got to see them play 3 songs for the film. Front row with Rik Emmett about 6 ft away from me.

Dude. Are you a fan?

I'm not gonna lie - the whole 50-year uniform is incredible. Sharpest team in the league with that kit.

Is this a Lehner reference?

I guess those are t-shirts they put over the top?

According to GR... The Caps have beaten the Bruins 16 out of the last 17 times. ?

BS in Optics 91, MS in Optics 93. University of Rochester Institute of Optics.

I'm aware - optics is what I do. "It goes" was my overly lazy way of pointing out the relationship. I left out "inverse" for brevity.

It has to do with the wavelength dependence of light scattering off particles in the air. It goes as x^4, where x=wavelength.

True was 8th in scoring... I'm not weeping for him. It's remarkable that 8 teams were +/- 1 game from either other.

2nd highest scoring team... 5th in the standings. Booooo.....

You are not good at this. You just tried to tell me that losing on the last play of the game is better than effectively “losing” earlier, but with still a chance to win. You literally had victory in your hands. You had the two correct choices to chose from. Certain defeat or a most likely defeat with a small chance of victory. And you chose certain defeat. God bless the internet.

If you want to get into this I would be glad to, because I’m ready to die on this hill after having to read such asinine statements. Your 1 vs 2 possession argument is straight off the short bus. Hey, no ***** ***** it is better to have not missed the two point conversion and have the chance to tie the score later. You just changed the entire argument. If you can’t see this then let me give you an equivalent scenario: Knowing that going for the two point conversion on the second TD is going to fail, it is better to go for it on the first TD. See how that works? See how when I automatically assign failure to your option, it makes the other one the obvious choice? The problem is no one is making these trivial arguments (well you and RF are). There is only one case to be considered here, what situation would you rather be in if you don’t convert your two point conversion. That is the scenario. There is not another one. The charts in that article say there is a small difference favoring the two-point conversion. Maybe too small to be consequential without knowing more detail. I thought this would be larger. So did the author. But do you know what the chart and the supporting article doesn’t say? Do you know what it unequivocally doesn’t say? That going for the extra point on the first TD would produce a better expected outcome.

I'm fairly certain every single sentence you wrote is wrong. lol Congrats??? It's clear you haven't bothered reading the piece. Nate Silver didn't even write it and the prediction engine is from ESPNs NFL analytics staff. I was not the one that said it was a coin flip (although league-wide the success rate is around 50%). The rest has been covered previously. The stats community agrees with the logic that going for two earlier when down by nine is better, but ESPNs win probability engine that was used by 538, shows it more even than expected. Even then, Brian Burke, who wrote that engine, tweeted today:

You’re probably right. I doubt the analytical experts at 538 and ESPN’s statistical department thought about that. They probably just missed it while over thinking it. Good call.