Analytics have ruined baseball and basketball, but they've made football more exciting
Analytics or you know, advanced statistics, Sabre metrics, all these things has in a way ruined baseball and basketball... Football is the one sport where analytics and advance like metrics has made football significantly more exciting... the nineties football and early 2000 football when it wasn't even a question. If you had a fourth and two, you'd punt. Like, why would you want that?
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View episodeEvery January 22nd, all NBA teams should be required to try and break the single-game scoring record in honor of Kobe Bryant's 81-point game
Darren Rovell actually had a great idea that on February or January 22nd, every single year, the day that Kobe dropped 81 on the Raptors, every team should have to try to break the record. I like that idea. That's good.
James Harden will try to score 60 points in his next game to answer Joel Embiid
I'm gonna bet on James Harden in his next game to go out there and try to score like 55, 60 points. Yeah. I feel like he's got something to prove. He's got an answer for it.
Joel Embiid will not win MVP this year because he'll miss too many games
He probably won't be able to win MVP 'cause he's gonna miss too many games this year. He's already missed 11 outta 40... it will be very funny if Joel has like an even better year than last year. But because he plays like 64 games instead of 65, that'll be the quickest that everyone will turn on a rule.
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The Chargers might have the most must-win game of all time playing the Raiders with the schedule they have. If they don't win this week, it's over.
Texas won; Ohio State choked
I'll say Texas win, Ryan Day choke. The play calling, I don't know, maybe they got too conservative. I think they probably did.
Oregon is probably out if it loses to USC
The USC game will be massive. If Oregon loses that game, they're probably out.