Jason in LA
01-13-2011, 04:24 PM
Seeing that a lot of folks hate Collin Cowherd I thought I'd share this funny story from his show today.
I think it's Cowherd that says don't out think the room, or something like that. Well he surely did today.
He mentioned that in a book that Bill Walsh wrote, Walsh stated that explosive plays (plays over 20 yards) make a huge difference. That teams with 2 explosive plays a game win at a very high percentage of the time. I think he said like 85% of the time.
To me that statement didn't seem to make much sense. What if the team's defense sucks and gives up explosive plays? What if those explosive plays lead to FGs and not TDs? And all it takes is two plays of over 20 yards to win a game? That doesn't sound right.
Well anyway, Cowherd looked up the numbers, and stated that the playoff teams are like a combined 25-5, or something like that, when they have two or more explosive plays in a game. He stated that the Patriots are 6-0 when they have two or more explosive plays. Well, that doesn't doesn't seem to mean much. Seeing that the Pats are 14-2, you can throw out a lot of stats and they'll have a winning record when that happens. Cowherd didn't bother looking at teams with losing records. So the numbers that he threw out there didn't really prove the theory true.
So Mark Schlereth and Trey Wingo came on, and Cowherd started going on and on about why he loves the Steelers. Because the Steelers had 77 explosive plays while only giving up 40, for a +37. Then Cowherd says that the next best playoff team was the Pats, at a +2, then the Jets, at a +1, and everybody else was in the negative. Cowherd, without realizing it, destroyed his own theory.
So Schlereth was like, "Wait a minute, if all those other teams are in the negative, how did they make the playoffs?"
Then Wingo jumps in and yells out "Bogus stat!". Then Schlereth was like, "Yeah, that's a bogus stat!"
Cowherd sounded all embarrassed, and like a 13 year old wimpy kid he was like "It's not a bogus stat."
Cowherd quickly changed the subject and didn't bring up the explosive plays theory for the rest of that segment.
I think it's Cowherd that says don't out think the room, or something like that. Well he surely did today.
He mentioned that in a book that Bill Walsh wrote, Walsh stated that explosive plays (plays over 20 yards) make a huge difference. That teams with 2 explosive plays a game win at a very high percentage of the time. I think he said like 85% of the time.
To me that statement didn't seem to make much sense. What if the team's defense sucks and gives up explosive plays? What if those explosive plays lead to FGs and not TDs? And all it takes is two plays of over 20 yards to win a game? That doesn't sound right.
Well anyway, Cowherd looked up the numbers, and stated that the playoff teams are like a combined 25-5, or something like that, when they have two or more explosive plays in a game. He stated that the Patriots are 6-0 when they have two or more explosive plays. Well, that doesn't doesn't seem to mean much. Seeing that the Pats are 14-2, you can throw out a lot of stats and they'll have a winning record when that happens. Cowherd didn't bother looking at teams with losing records. So the numbers that he threw out there didn't really prove the theory true.
So Mark Schlereth and Trey Wingo came on, and Cowherd started going on and on about why he loves the Steelers. Because the Steelers had 77 explosive plays while only giving up 40, for a +37. Then Cowherd says that the next best playoff team was the Pats, at a +2, then the Jets, at a +1, and everybody else was in the negative. Cowherd, without realizing it, destroyed his own theory.
So Schlereth was like, "Wait a minute, if all those other teams are in the negative, how did they make the playoffs?"
Then Wingo jumps in and yells out "Bogus stat!". Then Schlereth was like, "Yeah, that's a bogus stat!"
Cowherd sounded all embarrassed, and like a 13 year old wimpy kid he was like "It's not a bogus stat."
Cowherd quickly changed the subject and didn't bring up the explosive plays theory for the rest of that segment.