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04/27/13 11:41 PM
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04/27/13 11:44 PM
Who's got it better than us? NOBODY!
WR Ted Ginn Jr. is gone via free agency, are any of these guys candidates to take over punt returns?"Well, I think we've got enough options within our current roster to handle that and certainly going to give anybody that's willing to step back there and handle the duties an opportunity to do so."Would QB B.J. Daniels be one of those guys that could do it?"Could be, yes."
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04/27/13 11:50 PM
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Your division rivals all added very fast slot receives this offseason, Arizona Cardinals WR Ryan Swope, St. Louis Rams WR Tavon Austin and Seattle Seahawks WR Percy Harvin. I take it you're confident in CB Carlos Rogers' ability to run with those guys?"We're confident in the players that we have in our locker room."Do you kind of have to keep up with the Jones though. When you see a team is adding those players, do you then make a counter move at any point?"Once again, I think it's all how you look at this. We feel like the players that we added to this roster are going to improve the depth on this roster. They're going to improve the competition on this roster, and with no assurances to anyone. Everyone has to earn their job. This is a new year. So, everyone that was on the roster prior to the last three days, and all the ones coming in, they're going to have to earn their spot. There's no givens."Who do you see competing for that slot cornerback role besides Carlos Rogers? CB Perrish Cox? Would CB Nnamdi Asomugha as well?"Well, I think that, once again, the coaches can talk more about the scheme and everything else. But, there are other guys, [CB Chris] Cully's [Culliver] certainly capable of moving inside. [CB] Perrish [Cox] has played inside. [CB] Nnamdi's [Asomugha] played inside before. You always talk about matchups, are we manning up these guys, or are we playing zone and covering them in an umbrella type of situation. So, I think we've got to look at it a lot of different ways. And you take care of certain things with scheme more than just one-on-one matchups."Do you feel you have cornerbacks who can match up one on one with those receivers? I was just clarifying."No, that's not what I said. Do I feel that way? I feel our guys are very capable of playing football with the guys that are in this division, or across the National Football League. That's what I do believe, 100 percent believe that. But, what I said was it takes scheme sometimes to take care of different schemes that other people are throwing at you. No different than it does when they're playing against us and our personnel. This is a matchup league. It's a personnel matchup league. And you either do it with personnel, or you do it with scheme. Those are the two ways you take care of it."
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04/28/13 01:45 AM
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But that isn’t necessarily appropriate. Even if all elite quarterbacks, Rodgers included, had the exact same odds when it came to 4th quarter comeback opportunities, and therefore chance was completely responsible for any discrepancy in the results, over time, there would undoubtedly still be an elite quarterback like Rodgers who would have that 3-18 record (about 1% of all star quarterbacks, in fact!). Do you see why? Some in the statistical community refer to this as the Wyatt Earp Effect. You’ve undoubtedly heard of Wyatt Earp, who is famous precisely because he survived a large number of duels. What are the odds of that? Well, it depends on your perspective. The odds that one person would survive a large number of duels? Given enough time, it becomes a statistical certainty that someone would do just that.
04/28/13 01:50 AM
In retrospect, there are good and bad drafting teams. But in retrospect, there are people who make lots of money picking the stock market and flipping houses, and there are people who lose just as much money on the same endeavors. The true question of whether something is skill or luck is if it is repeatable. I’m not saying the door is closed on the issue, but there appears to be no real evidence that picking winners in the draft is a repeatable skill.
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04/28/13 02:02 AM
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stewartjack wrote:The comparison of Aaron Rodgers record in 4th-quarter comebacks to Wyatt Earp is badly flawed. First, in a duel, each one has a chance to "win." A quarterback who has a lead by definition cannot "win" a comeback, so you can't include those "wins" in the statistical category. And of course, unlike a single-elimination draw (a dual being the ultimate), a quarterback may play the same opponent many times, with 4th-quarter comebacks a potentiality every time. IOW, if Wyatt Earp's (or anyone's) dueling partners could fight them many times, the results might be quite different. In a physical test of skill, learning an opponent is possible, whereas in a physical game of chance (roulette, flipping a coin), there are not strengths or weaknesses in the opponent.
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