Originally posted by Mike Rogers
OK firstly I dont really care much about PPP, beyond them being part of the league, but, seeing as half your team (And others that dont seem to be connected to you at all?) felt the need to spam my inbox accusing me of 'always hating your team' and 'not giving the promoted teams any respect over the seasons'...
I'll address a few of your insecurities:
Originally posted by djhoffman99
I don't agree. It's impossible in any game to "plan" for a specific number of anything, but you certainly set your team and individual tactics to create situations that result in sacks, fumbles, INTs, etc. That to me, is planning.
And while I agree 4.5 ypc isn't great, the point was 2.6 ypc doesn't accurately reflect how the running game did.
You missed the point of everything I said which was very clear Planning to win a game by gaining 4 INTERCEPTIONS is not a rational possibility.
Therefore when picking the likely winner in the Picks thread, people tend not to include the possibility.
Indeed I agree, you can plan to put players in the best possible position to make a play on the ball, and set them to aggressive for INTs in the hope you get a turnover.
However that is not the tactic of a team who believe they are the favourites in the game, very much the opposite in fact.
But the 4 INTs are a lucky by-product of solid gameplanning. (And you cant argue that fact because Bort has stated that a significant % of the difference in deciding if a INT occurs is entirely dependant on luck (RNG), if not it is a PD.
You can generate more 'chances' but you CANNOT generate INTS.
What your team should be talking about is...
Korbs completion % was under 50% which IS a direct result of gameplanning.
The 10 PDs that are a direct result of the tactics and the players builds.
Now as far as the ypc avg, I posted the true figure seconds after I made the initial post, but again your team ignored that.
And on that issue 4.5 ypc might be good in the NFL, but in todays GLB is NOT a GOOD result in the running game, it is in fact distinctly average, certainly not bad, but not enough to be truely happy with in a game where the run would be crucial to the result, which I think you'll agree with.
It is however within the expectations that most of us who watch the league closely would have predicted when a solid running team meet a strong run defense.
Which leads me to the point I actually made, which was that it was EXPECTED that Korb would get a fair few sacks, which would mean you would need to gain significant yardage on the ground.
It was also EXPECTED that Korb would be able to contain your running game to a certain extent (Enough that its unlikely you could make up for the exceptional pass rush.)
It was NOT expected that Korb would lose the turnover battle 5-1.
And THAT is why your victory was seen as an 'upset', not because people dont know your a good team, but that Korb were seen as one of the best.
Now I would suggest that either PPP players get over their self indulgent mememe phase and start reading posts without looking for insults, or they stop reading prediction threads.
Either way NO MORE PMs Complaining to me about it PLEASE - Thanks.
(And to make it CLEAR, the djhoffman99 quote is used for clarity only and not to direct these comments at him personally, it just sort of runs together nicely with my response to the idiots.)
Hmmm, well I seriously doubt half our team is spamming your inbox - I know I certainly didn't - either way I have no control over PMs sent to you by anyone not named djhoffman99. And, I'm not particularly concerned about whether people here give PPP it's "due respect" whatever that is. We play this game, and the outcome is the outcome, for better or worse.
I got your point completely from the beginning, and said very clearly no one can plan for a certain number of anything. But you can plan to create TOs or not, and to say that setting tactics to create TOs or sacks or anything else is a mindset of an underdog is just silly. You play to your strengths and/or as a response to your opponents perceived strengths/weaknesses, which is what we did and I suspect Korb did too.
I think I've addressed all your other points in previous posts, but in closing I'll say personally I fully expected to win this game, and I don't think we played particularly well, especially on offense. The proof will be in how the rest of the season unfolds.
