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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5586748, member: 173"]
Millhouse is totally bought in on analytics and thinks you can tell everything relevant about sports from a spreadsheet.  So that’s his reference.

I like analytics, but realize you need to look up from the spreadsheet and figure out if the output is relevant or if it’s garbage.  In the case of the defense this year, I’d pitch almost everything in the trash.  Broadly I think guys like you or me who played defense realize just how horrifically awful the position the defensive players were put in.  Idealist nerds seem to think everyone should have put the fact the offense was a liability aside and just “played hard”.  I can tell you if I was on a team that was down 21-0 before I hit the field, my 100% would be closer to 70% - even though I’d be legitimately trying to be at 100%.  It’s demotivating beyond the ability of anyone who hasn’t been in that situation to understand.

No idea why everyone harps on EROB but many give Nixon a pass.  If I was a defensive player on this team, I would 1000% be hitting the portal if I had any other viable option.  And it wouldn’t be because of EROB - it’s because because I was irate at how bad the situation I got put into on a weekly basis by Nixon and the offense.

Not a defense of ERob - but frankly I think it’s a travesty if both ERob and Nixon aren’t gone.  The folks defending Nixon have lost their minds.
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