[the Talking Can]

Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

The other thing that people are completely overlooking are the economics of scale when it comes to investing in players.

If you take Parcells' theory that there are only so many men on the earth that are a given size with a given athleticism, which nearly every personnel guy does, then you also have to look at the number of teams that will want people of specific builds for their schemes.

With so many teams in the NFL moving to a 3-4, it made identifying and finding talent for the 3-4 precipitously more difficult than in years past. Whereas before you really only had to contend with New England, Pittsburgh, Dallas and to a lesser extent, Baltimore for 3-4 talent, now you also have to worry about:

Miami, Cleveland, San Diego, NYJ, Green Bay, Denver, and San Fran and Arizona run hybrids.

So, you have a huge increase in demand for a relatively fixed asset. That will make 3-4 players more expensive (particularly NTs) and more difficult to find.

Had you stayed in a 4-3, you would have had the same amount of talent, with far fewer suitors, particularly for your linebacking corps.

What the Chiefs, and many other teams have done this year is the exact opposite of Moneyball--they are chasing trends after they've been established rather than being ahead of the curve and getting players with certain skillsets that are undervalued by the demands of the market.

I'm going to assume you meant to talk about "scarcity" instead of "scale." Otherwise you typed a bunch of gibberish.

And there are way to many variables involved in the league for you argument to be very compelling beyond a general "eh"....even as abstract arguments go, it posses little explanatory power for what we see in the NFL....and I'm not even sure how'd you go about cramming the square peg of "money ball" into the round hole of the NFL....

mostly seems like a hurried excuse to remain vaguely unhappy for reasons I have yet to make sense of....in other words, you fit right in on the Planet as it currently proceeds through a rather ugly case of Post Traumatic Carl syndrome....

but raised on cocks does think it is a brilliant point, which should be a big ass shrieking alarm to anyone's common sense....


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i like you, and respect your opinions, and I'm glad you're back posting...this place is better for it

i'm trying not to be an asshole to everyone (just that clueless fuktard raised on anal rape), or you specifically, but i can't help be befuddled by the shoddy complaining that has absorbed this place ever since we all got what we always said we wanted: a house cleaning and a new way of business..it's like Darwin waching evolution in fast forward as ever more abstract and dubious arguments are born in a furious attempt to be unhappy about the shitty job of getting knee deep in shit and cleaning up a shit pile...


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(and if only there was some way pioli could be informed about parcell's "theories" about the nfl....alas, there seems no way to bring the two together....)