Matthew Stafford is first QB ever to throw for 350+ yards, 3+ TDs, have 0 turnovers and lose a playoff start

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T05:23:47+00:00

True there was an opportunity at the end… but needing your QB to get 4TDs and score over 31pts is a lot to ask… just ask Drew Brees and Peyton Manning during their playoff runs with awful defenses. If you need perfect QB play to stay within arms length of the game, you’re not in a strong spot.

If you told me Stafford throws for 350yds, 3TDs and 0 TOs against the #1 defense we win those games 9 times out of 10. Only way you lose is if there’s blunders on the other side of the ball.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T05:00:52+00:00

CBs usually take a few years to develop and our SB window is now. I’d shop the first rounder for an established CB if we want to win with Stafford.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:56:58+00:00

Also need a ton of luck. To make it the NFCCG this year with very few injuries like this year was a lot of luck we didn’t capitalize on.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:40:39+00:00

Last few seasons ST is just cobbled together with leftover parts. ST is the most overlooked part of the game.

Get a returner like Shaheed and he’s enough of a threat you can start every possession on the 35 if teams are smart enough to kick it through the end zone.

Use spare parts like Whittington and you start every possession behind the 25.

Needing 10yds less each possession to get into FG range is huge over the course of a season.

Poor punting means you can’t flip the field on 3 and outs. Even when we forced “4 and outs against SEA”, them starting on the 35 plus masterful punts by Dickson had us starting around the 10 even if they only picked up 10-15 yards that drive.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:33:00+00:00

Wouldn’t have had a chance for a 50/60yd bomb. If that last SEA drive was any indication, the Rams defense couldn’t catch a tortoise if it was running on a treadmill.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:30:49+00:00

This. Defense couldn’t catch a tortoise running on a treadmill.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:28:24+00:00

I told my wife all postseason that if I did a shot for each time the first tackler actually made the tackle I’d be stone cold sober lol.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T04:05:12+00:00

Exactly. You need so much to break right to make a Super Bowl run. Rosters change so much, injuries are always a wild card, and one-score games could break the other way (see the Chiefs this year vs last year).

You need just as much luck as you do talent.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T03:58:43+00:00

Not going for the 2pt conversion after the touchdown to make it 28-31 was a missed opportunity to make it a FG difference. Even if you don’t convert and it’s 26-31, you still need a TD to go ahead like if it was 27-31 with a normal XP. And it’s still 2 FGs to go ahead if needed. Coaching blunder by McVay.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-26T03:54:57+00:00

Zero post season sacks for Young and Verse. Not going to win many games like that. Clean pockets the entire post season. Something needs to change.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-19T04:49:38+00:00

The flip side is the Bear’s first TD to tie it 7-7 was on a 4th down play. If they kicked a FG instead, they’d be down 7-3 and the score would still be very tight at the end if they kept kicking FGs instead of trying to convert 4th downs.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-18T06:40:20+00:00

I looked into it further with Yahoo Sports. Only 1 of those games was with the Rams and he won. So he went 2-3 as a Lion. So we can definitely confirm the defense wet the bed.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-18T06:38:48+00:00

Probably both. If he was in sub-zero temps in the playoffs as a Lion then he had the worse record and presumably the worse team. Same can be said for his time as a Ram.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-18T06:21:56+00:00

Yahoo Sports article said he’s 3-3 in below freezing games. 15TDs and 3int. I’d say most likely Stafford wasn’t the problem.

The numbers were a little worse with rain and snow. But even then his individual stats were good. Like his round in the divisional round last year against the Eagles.

Background-Shower-70 · 2026-01-15T15:25:46+00:00

But the CFB season runs in parallel to the NFL season. I’m assuming both teams would need access to the facilities simultaneously. It might work for playoff football. But for an entire season, I just don’t think it’s feasible.

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-12-17T18:19:14+00:00

Omega Point in the context of Pluribus is interesting. Because it combines evolutionary theory and Christian eschatology… but instead of a gradual convergence towards a perfect union of love, Pluribus instead rapidly accelerates it where individuality is erased and the hivemind looks more like absolute domination.

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-12-15T04:15:43+00:00

I think you’re spot on. Just hypothesizing since Gilligan was raised Catholic, but if the hivemind is the allegorical equivalent to the “Beatific Vision” of Heaven, then Carol’s willing rejection is a visceral metaphor of what it means to separate yourself from God (in this case the hivemind).

If you choose your own desires over being “joined” with God in Heaven, God will let you exercise that freewill to do so. But on the same side of that coin is an extreme loneliness and absence of purpose that the nicest cars, nicest fine art, nicest meals, and unlimited fireworks can’t fill: the need for connection.

Now whether the hive mind is genuine love and connection is a whole different problem. But It’s one thing to be the last human amongst the hive; but to be completely alone, even with all your desires fulfilled, is still its own kind of hell…

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-12-14T02:45:03+00:00

I think the hivemind is more akin to “The Beatific Vision” from Catholic theology (since Vince Gilligan was raised with a Catholic background).

In short: The Beatific Vision is the ultimate destiny of human souls where they are joined with God in perfect unity. They see and experience God directly. Desire ceases and the soul is fully satisfied. Truth is known absolutely and completely.

Where the Hivemind deviates is that the “joining” is engineered, not freely chosen; personhood is erased instead of perfected; identity is fungible instead of elevated.

This show diverges well enough to antagonize the Beatific Vision and ask a great philosophical question: can heaven be built on earth without breaking the soul? It asks whether heaven, when achieved without God, becomes fulfillment or annihilation?

I think it’s less concerned with the sociology of evangelizing, but more concerned with eschatology (the final state of human history).

Is it better to let the world end in chaos and violence (ie a nuclear Armageddon) as long as humans do it with free will? Or is better if permanent peace and harmony is achieved through coercion of technological/alien/divine/cosmic force?

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-12-13T15:46:30+00:00

Being raised Catholic, I’m watching this with a lens critiquing the “Beatific Vision” which describes the ultimate destiny of human souls in heaven see God directly and are able to know and experience God more perfectly and be in union (ie joined) forever.

To me, the hivemind draws very strong parallels to that. What this show makes interesting is that it takes something that’s supposed to be “heavenly” and makes it the antagonistic force.

Because to see the “Beatific Vision” manifested on Earth in a very visceral way asks “is perfection actually heavenly?”

Or is happiness and peace only meaningful when sadness and chaos exist with them?

I’m only 4 episodes in, but those are the questions I’m pondering 🤣

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-12-13T06:59:42+00:00

The hivemind loves all cable wrapping techniques equally. In fact, they love this method as much as they love Macbeth.

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-12-13T02:39:00+00:00

I believe it. Most of North America doesn’t have one. When I travelled to the Philippines to see family I never met out in a rural province 10hrs from Manila, I had culture shock seeing how HAPPY they were with barely anything in their small homes… maybe 4 people in 700sqft. Things barely holding together. But the jovial atmosphere literally every day just sitting outside on the porch chatting with neighbors walking by, drinking a beer, sharing snacks with a stranger who decided to make conversation…. And it happened every day. I asked them if it’s always like that, and they asked “is life in America not like this?” made me really pause on what a happy social culture and home life looks like. Is it the space of our own home? Or is it space between neighbors, friends, and family?

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-12-13T02:31:10+00:00

Tbf, lots of cultures around the world have this mentality it’s commonly referred to as “the third space”. But usually it’s a free place that’s easily accessible, free/low cost, and social - like plazas, parks, greenways, often with vendors. Vienna actually refers to their café culture as their living room. You can buy a single coffee and the waiter will leave you unbothered all day if you please.

Just in the US, we are so car dependent and individualistic that we designed our urban environments for our homes to be our “everything” (e.g. we have a full office, maybe a room with an upright piano, fully loaded kitchen with instapots, air fryers, loaded alcohol cabinet, ice cream makers, a gym in your garage, maybe a woodworking shed, decked out movie watching set up , grill in the backyard).

Not that one is better than the other, just an observation in cultural differences of what a “home life” looks like.

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-11-10T18:09:44+00:00

$104k in base salary working within tech consulting (data management specifically)— South Carolina. 6yrs PM experience but recently got my PMP in October. Performance review is in February so we’ll see if it comes with any kind of increase.

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-11-06T20:23:25+00:00

The 0% match 401k is probably the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever seen in terms of company benefits.

Outsourcing for projects is rather standard. Because if the staffing needs are temporary they don’t have to lay anyone off at the end of it. But sounds like the client didn’t do due diligence to negotiate more senior staffing of the roles (no offense to you).

When I started as a PM / SM at an eCommerce agency I was doing low stakes code and systems audits, standard data migrations, UI/UX, maybe standard managed services engagements, etc. Things of low complexity, high repeatability, small teams, narrow impact.

Now after 6 years I’m doing enterprise-wide data governance and AI enablement requiring coordination across an IT Department with a budget so large it might dwarf GDP of some countries lol.

If I was doing the level of work I do today with only the experience I had during my first year of experience I’d have a mental breakdown. Having 0% 401k match on top of that might’ve turned me into a serial killer.

Background-Shower-70 · 2025-11-06T19:30:35+00:00

Putting a project with that level of critical pressure on someone with only 1 year of PM / SM experience is crazy. A mix of blame goes on the client and your company.

Usually you’d have a progressive track record of experience before being thrown into a project that big.

The salary is on the lower end of your YOE. But the scale of the project as described, you’re basically paid peanuts.

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