Um, has anyone run the math on this? Cause this is some Yogi Berra-like shit.
If I'm not mistaken this would mean that EVERY player on the team who meets that goal will be 100% better than they were last year in 100 days -- around mid season.
This would essentially double everyone's statistics. For example to be 100% better:
Eli would throw for 60+ TD and 8000+ yards
Beckham would have 20+ TDs and 2800+ yards
Landon Collins would have 10 INTs
Nat Berhe would have 4 concussions, etc.
Even getting 50% better, the stats would be rather unrealistic. I wonder if this has occurred to anyone on the team yet?
Goals are lovely and all, but I think football guys should maybe stick with NON math-based motivators. Like Talk is Cheap, Play the Game.
Since you only think analytical it prohibites you from dreaming big.
Now go get your shine box
that does not necessarily add up to 100% in 100 days -- it is only reflective of how much better you are than you were at the start of the day
this is not like accumulating interest
every individual suffers setbacks from time to time
Hot take: Odell should be ashamed for dishonoring the touchdown, which is supposed to be special and not something a guy does almost twice a game.
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To hell with the numbers, I'm looking forward to polyamorous relationships with various sideline equipment and a dozen hatchet job editorials a day from Steve Serby
Hot take: Odell should be ashamed for dishonoring the touchdown, which is supposed to be special and not something a guy does almost twice a game.
"Beckham is going to score at least 10 TDs this season. If he wasn't so selfish he might have gone down at the one and tossed Paul Perkins a bone."
It was my understanding that there would be no math.
Just say "Improve a little every day" and leave it at that.
Also, he didn't say improve your statistics by 1% each day. He said get 1% better. When you figure out how to measure THAT (even incorrectly), let us know.
It's a game where everything is measured. If you improve, your statistics get better. That's how they quantify improvement, and it even plays a part in how determine guys' salaries. So I simply connected the dots with statistical examples to make the point.
I personally find this mantra goofy, and not well thought-out. Thought some of you might have too. That's all this thread was about. It doesn't matter.
If the team is buying into it, the mantra could be soup is good food or save the whales for all I care.
Then the numbers would come into alignment...
Just say "Improve a little every day" and leave it at that.
I'm guessing the math wasn't intended to be taken literally, just the message. Kind of like when a coach says give 110%, also an "impossibility".
Pedantic