I don't understand the Eagles losing the NFC Championship as more soul crushing than losing to the Pats in the Super Bowl.
2001 Steelers loss to the Patriots was easily worse than 2004. They were 10 point favorites in the AFC title game.
Duh, how could I forget Oakland and the Chargers. And I guess Balt makes sense also. I would definitely include Carolina and Miami. That AFCCG in the Orange Bowl is what unhinged Shula against the Pats.
It is, and the idea that the team might have a digitized, computer-supported tool to quickly analyze and diagram opponent plays is so easy to imagine the Patriots pursuing.
Great article. That's some good sports journalism, especially because, buried deep down, is a hypothesis that makes a subtle bid to answer the article's question...
Computer Vision, as a discipline, is a long way from being reliable enough to have a consistently-accurate model for this stuff. But if Harrington hacks at it long enough, I bet he can start saving coaches a good fraction of the time they spend on this, even if it won't totally replace their oversight.
Jeff Fisher just had a stroke and face-planted into his grilled chicken salad.
I wonder how well this will work though.
Oh yeah, baby!!
I disagree. This was a self inflicted wound. McCree simply had to go to the ground, or hell, even just knock the ball down. it was over. Why on Earth he decided to continue returning the ball is baffling. There was nothing to really gain from it. They would either win by 7 or 14, but they would've won any way. You knew that as soon as Brown forced the fumble and the Patriots regained it, the Bolts were cooked. It was fait accompli. That Chargers team was stacked.
Wasn’t that also Schottenheimer’s last dance?—he was let go or retired right after that, right?
Yup. Norv Turner took an inferior team farther the following year, before losing to the Pats again in the AFCCG.
My sense is that the value in the software is turning an analog thing (game film) into a searchable database format. So that when a coach (or player) wants to review film of an opponent, you simply enter your search parameters ("run plays" "#34" "3rd down") and get all the pertinent plays. Then the coach or player can devote his time to the film study.
I think I understand that but I guess I mean, having Google Maps makes it really easy to just find directions to places where you used to have to look at and internalize a map, including lots of extraneous or tangential information.
That Conti Super Bowl party seems pretty weak. Three adults and a child doesn’t seem like much of a party.
I'm guessing the Conti Super Bowl parties back in the day were stuff of legends but they've been going on for 25 years and it's just hard to keep that momentum going.
These things are great, but none of them compares to the slew of videos I STILL WATCH from the Butler super bowl.
An absolute classic of the genre. IIRC a parallel thread was started in RMPS specifically to post this one, wasn't it? They all look and act like they'd just seen a hostage execution video... of someone they knew.
I’ve always enjoyed the girl in the back left corner. Trying so hard to not burst out laughing on the tying and winning goals. Someone even made her put on a Leafs sweater for OT.
Scientology is a hell of a drug.Vinnie Barbarino looks like shit these days.
She can be seen taking the sweater off as she walks into the room after Kessel's goal. I can just imagine the bros yelling at her to put it back on as it all slipped away. If you think about it, it was all her fault.
I think what the software will allow you to do is catalogue the plays, so say you wanted to see all the film where Gronk caught a pass between 7 and 10 yards on 3rd down in the 4rth quarter you could punch it in and bring up the film. The computer algorithm would have done the grunt work of tagging the film, as well as giving you data for analysis.
Right I get that.
It's all her fault for going to that party. It looks like they have a bag of Lays and an 12 pack of Labatts.
I like the credits in the end. “Fear not Leafs fans, we took the Bs to the limit, have a young and improving team, the future looks awesome!”
