EastDallasCowboy
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I was thinking about this Sunday earlier, and was trying to find different ways to look at this game. A lot of people will look at it with individual matchups in mind, but any gambler knows this is the worst possible way to predict a game. After all, players are human and prone to any number of variances in their play. You can never assume that player A is better than player B and so A will win the matchups, and it's even more assinine to go down the list doing this...there are just too many variables.
So I was trying to find trends for this game, but was having trouble doing so. There's not a lot of recent history between these teams, and not a lot of crossing over amongst the players. So I thought I might ask here, the two part question:
1) What trends do you see in this game that could lead one to predicate the outcome? and;
2) Which of these trends do you put stock in?
For instance, the two trends I was able to come up with were;
a) Randy Moss always torches Dallas. No matter the quarterback, no matter the team, no matter the stadium or the weather....Randy Moss has always torched Dallas.
b) San Diego's defense under Wade Phillips showed, albeit with a very small sample size, the ability to get to Brady. The Chargers handily beat the Pats in '06, and short of a fubar finish would have beaten them in the '06 playoffs when Belicheck and Brady are supposedly at their best.
Both of these are solid starting points, but each has holes. After all, Dallas was pretty mediocre from 98-05, so is it that Moss is just that good against Dallas, or was Dallas just that bad? And while Wade's defenses showed a penchant for pushing Brady into turnovers, was that his scheme or was it the players?
Just thought it might be another way to look at the game, and an interesting conversation to have.
So I was trying to find trends for this game, but was having trouble doing so. There's not a lot of recent history between these teams, and not a lot of crossing over amongst the players. So I thought I might ask here, the two part question:
1) What trends do you see in this game that could lead one to predicate the outcome? and;
2) Which of these trends do you put stock in?
For instance, the two trends I was able to come up with were;
a) Randy Moss always torches Dallas. No matter the quarterback, no matter the team, no matter the stadium or the weather....Randy Moss has always torched Dallas.
b) San Diego's defense under Wade Phillips showed, albeit with a very small sample size, the ability to get to Brady. The Chargers handily beat the Pats in '06, and short of a fubar finish would have beaten them in the '06 playoffs when Belicheck and Brady are supposedly at their best.
Both of these are solid starting points, but each has holes. After all, Dallas was pretty mediocre from 98-05, so is it that Moss is just that good against Dallas, or was Dallas just that bad? And while Wade's defenses showed a penchant for pushing Brady into turnovers, was that his scheme or was it the players?
Just thought it might be another way to look at the game, and an interesting conversation to have.
