(10-25-2022, 02:23 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(10-25-2022, 01:58 PM)Cleatwood Wrote: https://twitter.com/benbbaldwin/status/1...z1wHdgPqCA

They're not unlucky. There's analytics for everything now. You can be really good at alot of things and simply suck huge donkey balls at the most important things. Whether that's life, finance, work, school, football, etc. 

What's that classic excuse kids had in school, "I am really a bad student, but, a really good test taker" or "I am a really good student, but, just do really, really badly with tests". 

It's the same thing here. Offensively? They do a lot of good things. High percentage underneath stuff, sneaky good running attack, they get a lot of things right, but, when it comes to driving it all the way home? Guess what? They [BLEEP] suck. These guys are taking the hot girl out on nice dates, living it up nicely but they never get out of the car and walk her to the door and seal the deal to put the cherry on the top. 

That's this offense in a nutshell. All year. They get you there, they just can't finish. Same goes for the defense. Despite all the poor performances, the bad outings against the pass, the bad outings against the run. These [BLEEP] somehow manage to stay in the game, BUT. Jussssssst when you think they're fixing to get off the field on 3rd down late in the 3rd and 4th quarters? They dick it up. 

Give me the analytics that shows me where it's not them being unlucky and more along the lines of them just being flat out sucky in THE MOST CRITICAL PARTS OF THE GAME.

When he says unlucky I think of these things: 

- the drop by Etienne of a game winning score 
- numerous bad first down spots 
- losing Futakasi the game(s) we need to move the passer out of the pocket most (colts/Texans have statue QBs). 
- dumb roughing the passer penalties that the rest of team is not responsible for yet suffers the price for 

To me it is basically a case of the ball bouncing our way or not and why we’ve lost these games as one reason AMONG OTHERS that we’re in players control. 

We are the reverse mirror image of the giants. They have WON every game by one score and we have lost every game by one score. The giants are living on that law of average teeter totter and so are we but on opposite sides. It’s a dangerous place to be to. One bad bounce and a team like the Giants lose that game. Watch what happens later this year or next year when they start losing one score games. Commentators will be asking “what’s wrong with the Giants?”; when really they are the same team that just lived life on the edge.  Eventually we will have the hall bounce our way hopefully. Hopefully

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