2019 Offseason SIM 0.5

[mike]

5 point home favorites losing is a choke job no matter how ya spin it.

[Matt]

Not when Rodgers is playing out of his mind. I can't see how anyone is a favorite against that guy. That throw he made at the end was simply amazing.

Bad coaching combined with a young team was too much to overcome. They'll be back. The NFC East is theirs to own for a while. Eli's getting older in NY, the Redskins are still suffering from the RG3 trade, and the Eagles are the Eagles with that big empty trophy case.

[Pat]

5 point home favorites losing is a choke job no matter how ya spin it.

"In sports, a choke is the failure of an athlete or an athletic team to win a game or tournament when the player or team had been strongly favored to win or had squandered a large lead in the late stages of the event."

A spread of five is a one score game, and I think at one point it was a three point spread. And that's just the line set by Vegas. I know a lot of people picked the Packers to win this game for a multitude of reasons (the more experienced team/coach, the Cowboys lack of pass rush, lack of home field advantage, the hot team vs. rusty bye team, who had looked better the final six weeks of the season and well, Aaron Rodgers.

I don't see how that game could be considered a choke at all.

[Sully]

Ok, I should be in and exported.

[BradZ]

5 point home favorites losing is a choke job no matter how ya spin it.

Trust me, I get it, but that's lazy analysis no matter how you spin it.

Often, affiliation declarations come in handy on such topics, so full disclosure: Cowboy fan, born and raised. No bandwagoning and no apologies. I've never been interested in schadenfreude based sports fandom, but I know plenty of segments of the population that do. I've lived the lean years and the pinnacle years. I'm excited about where things are headed and think this past Sunday will go a long way to forging who the new young leaders of this team will become.

[Z]

Not sure how losing in the second round of the playoffs to a team whose previous loss was before Thanksgiving can count as choking.

[mike]

"In sports, a choke is the failure of an athlete or an athletic team to win a game or tournament when the player or team had been strongly favored to win or had squandered a large lead in the late stages of the event."

A spread of five is a one score game, and I think at one point it was a three point spread. And that's just the line set by Vegas. I know a lot of people picked the Packers to win this game for a multitude of reasons (the more experienced team/coach, the Cowboys lack of pass rush, lack of home field advantage, the hot team vs. rusty bye team, who had looked better the final six weeks of the season and well, Aaron Rodgers.

I don't see how that game could be considered a choke at all.

"Just a line set by Vegas" lol. Here's a novel idea, how about they prepare the players to play so they aren't down by multiple scores 10 mins into the game. they choked in preparation.

Trust me, I get it, but that's lazy analysis no matter how you spin it.

Often, affiliation declarations come in handy on such topics, so full disclosure: Cowboy fan, born and raised. No bandwagoning and no apologies. I've never been interested in schadenfreude based sports fandom, but I know plenty of segments of the population that do. I've lived the lean years and the pinnacle years. I'm excited about where things are headed and think this past Sunday will go a long way to forging who the new young leaders of this team will become.

I respect your fandom entirely. I don't respect the people in south Philadelphia who've never been to Dallas that are "die-hard" fans. This is just me poking a stick about the choke job that happened in Arlington last weekend.

Not sure how losing in the second round of the playoffs to a team whose previous loss was before Thanksgiving can count as choking.

Packers weren't the favorite though.

[Spear]

I thought there was an override on the Manager lineups? It's not letting me edit them now.

[Matt]

Mike is the stereotypical Philly fan. He is the angry guy that throws snowballs at Santa Clause!

I was born and raised in Texas. My hatred for Philly beats all. From a sports standpoint if that city burned to the ground I wouldn't care. Historically I think it's pretty cool though!

[Z]

Packers weren't the favorite though.

I don't buy that a Vegas underdog winning means the favorite choked.

[Spear]

I thought there was an override on the Manager lineups? It's not letting me edit them now.

If that's not the case, then I'll go ahead and hire a Manager that allows me to have control.

However, I thought this was changed in '17.

[Matt]

I thought there was an override on the Manager lineups? It's not letting me edit them now.

Alright guys Spear fell for it. Everyone can go back to being GM & Manager now.

And there should be an option...I'll do some research.

[Matt]

It's a commish setting!

Global options, bottom left side of the screen. "GM-only users always control lineups (Legacy Mode)"

It will have to be turned on by the commish.

[mike]

Mike is the stereotypical Philly fan. He is the angry guy that throws snowballs at Santa Clause!

I was born and raised in Texas. My hatred for Philly beats all. From a sports standpoint if that city burned to the ground I wouldn't care. Historically I think it's pretty cool though!

Claus*

And he was a terrible Santa, no beard, was drunk, and in the year that the Eagles were the worst team in the league (not the only time) they were all set to pick one and take the rb from USC (juice)....they were winning at halftime. I'd have throw more than snowballs at him had I been alive then.

Or puked on him.

Or tased him.

But definitely would trust that process tho 😉

[BDub]

Damn, what do you guys think of us Green Bay fans?