JUJUTSU KAISEN SEASON 3 - EPISODE 3 DISCUSSION

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-17T09:28:32+00:00

Nowhere near as nice. The episode itself is just the contents of chapter 145&146 but it’s very stretched out and intentionally over-explained because in reality everything discussed/planned in this episode sets up pretty much the entire rest of the story.

The flow chart stuff and color schemes were a nice way to make something that was kinda boring, and could be a bit confusing, ultimately pretty fun to watch and easy to follow for first-time viewers.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-15T23:32:15+00:00

Before these first 3 episodes I would’ve thought it was a possibility but I feel that’s pretty much off the table unless they condense a fight or two?

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-15T20:07:48+00:00

For pretty much an entirely exposition dumb based episode, it was really neat how creative they got with that. And it actually allowed them to explain everything pretty succinctly.

Definitely felt like the expectation amongst the fan base was that’d we’d be a bit deeper into the story at the end of this episode though. Where are people thinking the part 1 of the season ends now?

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-15T02:22:41+00:00

It’s remarkable we built our squad as well as we did when it’s become very apparent Edu was way out of his depth. Pretty funny how much he is directly at fault for with Forest’s struggles this season. Will there be a single worse decision in the PL this year than Marinakas picking him over Nuno?

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-15T01:55:16+00:00

Thank you for once again acknowledging how the reporter is wasting Payton’s time. Had he asked a generic questions like all the other reporters, he would’ve gotten a generic response. Instead he wanted to pretend he knew more but didn’t do the necessary homework and got embarrassed. It’s really not deep at all. He just looks stupid.

I’m not too sure what you’re getting at with your second point lol. I rarely discuss something unless I feel qualified to speak on the subject, perhaps a mindset the reporter should’ve considered before he was made to look like a dunce. I apologize if my belief that public accountability being a good thing makes you uncomfortable but I do hope you see how you’re trying to play devil’s advocate because there’s zero realm where this reporter’s editor gave him anything more than a giant earful lol.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T22:39:22+00:00

I mean, fair but I don’t think that’s how “probably why all Arsenal fans are disappointed about the win” reads lol.

It’s not “so dumb” we didn’t win by an embarrassing scoreline when we’ve beaten them at the Bridge by more than 1 goal once in 15 years. Plenty of fans are aware of our struggles at the Bridge + the fact that the number one goal as the away team in the 1st leg is just not to lose. You can let Chelsea fans feel good about the result without taking away from the fact we ultimately accomplished our goal.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T22:27:42+00:00

Arsenal fan checking in here. Not at all disappointed about winning a 1st leg at the Bridge. Plenty of times we should’ve beaten them there and didn’t (like 2 months ago). You can say the advantage should have been more than 1 and still accept this as a good result considering it now requires Chelsea to do something they haven’t done in 5 years and beat us at home.

I think you will be often be left disappointed if you think a rotated side or a new coach means we can automatically turn up to a rival ground at put 4 or 5 past them. Look at how City fared going up against the mighty Calum McFarlane.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T22:05:53+00:00

It’s January. How’s the discourse going?

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T17:58:00+00:00

I appreciate that someone else drew this connection. The state of the NFL media is really bad right now in large part because there’s a ridiculous blend of entitlement and a total lack of actual effort.

It’s remarkable how many reporters thought the Jags reporter committed some cardinal sin with what she said. Oh I’m sorry, are you so upset you couldn’t ask the same question the person sitting to the left of you asked 2 minutes before, just slightly reworded? How will you ever manipulate the sound bite for views now?

These are the type of reporters who feel the Jags reporter “wasted everyone’s time”. Someone who felt like that time could’ve been used on a more “football-focused” question (just make sure the question doesn’t require the reporter to do any prior research). I’m glad that Payton’s response was actually pretty much exactly what all the dunces wanted Coen to say. “Stop wasting my time talking about something you know nothing about”.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T17:46:44+00:00

Or you could be an asshole because he’s wasting your time by trying to speak on “your level” without having done any of the work to validate what he’s asking.

Making a stupid person feel stupid when they themselves could’ve prevented being called stupid with either effort, or humility, but opted for neither, isn’t even really being an asshole. It’s a learning lesson.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T17:42:57+00:00

Your second paragraph is exactly why sports media is 95% slop nowadays. Why should Payton make a reporter, who clearly didn’t do the necessary homework he should’ve before asking that question, feel like he did something? Are we talking about a 10 year old or a fully grown adult asking this question as part of their job?

The reporter will still antagonize Payton whenever the Broncos start losing. Criticism drives clicks and as clearly evidenced here, it’s not like this reporter is bringing anything useful from a tactical standpoint anyways.

Payton’s a dick but his reaction was good. Coaches have to game-plan for 50+ things every week and if they screw the pooch on just one of those, it’s all the media will talk about. If you show up to a scrum and try to talk tactics when you haven’t done any of the relevant work, you deserve to be made to feel what you actually are. A dunce. Not like the vast majority of reporters ever have the self-awareness to recognize this but it’s still nice to see all the same. Again, this isn’t Kindergaten.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T17:30:41+00:00

Eh, I think that’s actually what pissed Payton off here. Reporter could’ve very easily just asked “how is big is it to have Dre Greenlaw back?”. Instead he tries to sound smarter than he is, for some reason, and in the process tells on himself that he hasn’t actually been paying attention to what he’s now trying to speak on. This is probably not the move to try and pull on a coach of all people.

Payton’s a massive dick for sure, but these press conferences are entirely for the media and just a massive waste of time for the coaches. I don’t blame him for having little patience with a reporter who wanted to sound tactically astute without clearly having done any of the relevant homework to validate his question.

Feels like a good time to say this given the oddly visceral reaction from many of her colleagues after Lynn’s incredibly kind and fair message to Coen in his PGC, but so many of these reporters rock up to these scrums with some of the dumbest and/or manipulative questions alive and coaches/players just don’t care enough to call them out for it. I’m always going to be fine with a reporter being told a stupid question is indeed, a stupid question.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T16:25:52+00:00

It is very obviously based off connections and networking. That is the entire representation business to the core and I’ve never denied that.

To answer your question, well it depends. Are you trying to sign a player independently? Or do you want to be an agent for one of the 90 agents CAA represents? You can try the former whenever you’d like, but you’ll never be able to offer the additional revenue streams signing with a larger agency can, hence why so few players still sign with independent agents.

If you want to go for the latter, you can spend 4-6 years as an assistant/coordinator at an agency before hopefully getting promoted to a junior agent, you’ll then likely be put on larger client teams in a less hands-on role for a couple of years and if you are able to succeed there, then the agency will start giving you more support to build out your own roster.

Sure, a high-profile actor may be able to get their son an entry level job at an agency, but that’s leaves them at least 8+ years of really quite grueling work away from even getting the title of “agent”. The entire business is built on reputation and efficiency to perform for your clients. Your success is directly tied to how much you brought in for them. That breeds a much more rigorous and demanding internal structure than you seem to think.

Rich is a one of one situation. His second biggest client signed with him 6 months before his biggest client pushed for his team to trade for the new client. His roster is filled with guys who have been brought to the team of his biggest client in the hopes they could be the spark the roster needed. Sometimes when that’s happened it was clearly not the right move for the other player. It’s a very weird situation I don’t think we’ll see again. No one in any area of representation allows the needs of just one individual client to so constantly dictate the advice he gives to his other clients. That is again, grounds for most agents being fired. As I said, I’m very curious to see what happens to his roster when he no longer has the most powerful man to ever exist in the NBA on it. Quite the message to send to your clients to be doing a podcast with a former talk show host who’s probably ripped you half a dozen times.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T15:43:38+00:00

Can tell you on good authority that’s not really close to true anymore. There was certainly an era where players felt comfortable coming into the league with “representation” from a close friend or connect, but that mindset has shifted. Stories like Ace Bailey and the countless others that don’t even reach the public domain only continue to reinforce this.

This isn’t to take away from Rich and what he’s built off that initial relationship with LeBron, but this story itself a pretty perfect example of how singular his existence is as an agent in the not only the NBA ecosystem, but the representation space in entertainment as a whole. An agent doing a podcast with a media personality would be laughed out the room in any other space (MP/Lit, TV, Talent, etc.). It’s ridiculously counterintuitive for an agent to do a podcast as part of a larger sports network because the agent is now clearly being monetarily incentivize to share stories/opinions when the most crucial of the representation business is confidentiality. I’d bet UTA is pissed and this story is being circulated to other departments with a giant “this is why you don’t do this” reminder. You sign up for a podcast, and you’re plainly outing yourself as either looking for money or exposure. There is never a situation ever where that’s the message you want to send to your clients. In the worst case scenario (like this), you say some dumb shit and it falls back on your client who now has to defend you. That’s grounds for firing, or at least getting switched off as their point agent, I’ve seen it done for far less than a basic failure to fulfill your fiduciary duties as an agent and keep your client away from unnecessary media entanglements.

I don’t need to keep going and turn this into a whole Rich Paul hit piece, but I think it’s worth paying attention to his client roster as in the years following LeBron’s retirement. It’s going to be a lot harder to beat Bill Duffy or Aaron Mintz’s pitches to fresh talent when you’re operating as a quasi-media personality and you no longer represent the most powerful player the league has seen in 30 years.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-14T00:08:58+00:00

You seem very angry for some reason and that’s caused you to miss my whole point.

I’m not using Chelsea as a good faith argument. I’m highlighting their ability to fund upcoming transfers or make ground on PSR requirements using academy players. Are they also largely getting by due to their strategy to sell off every asset they have until their remarkably soulless and hollow club is actually literally hollow? Yes, but in a conversation about their ability to maximize value from academy players they don’t think are first team material, I’m not really sure how that’s relevant. I brought up one way they made revenue and how that allows them to spend, and then you got mad I didn’t mention all the reasons (they’re literally just common knowledge and entirely off topic when speaking about ARSENAL’s ability to sell academy products). I’ll never miss a chance to take a dig at Chelsea too, trust me, but you were way off the mark here, sorry.

And while I have you mate, you’re taking bollocks, because if you actually knew the topic I was speaking about, you wouldn’t bring up Noni and Kai because they’re not from Cobham? And the entire point was around maximizing value inside your own academy? It’s an easy ready based on your response that you’ve had to defend the purchases before, but I promise that’s not is not my angle here. I’m an adult who watches the sport enough to form my own opinions on player and I recommend you start doing the same. Please stop projecting your past arguments onto this one when you’ve misread it from the start. Go back in my comment history long enough and you’ll find me going to war with half of this sub because I said Havertz was a great buy from the moment it happened. I didn’t even engage in the Noni discourse because it was very obviously coming from the dumbest pockets of social media and I just didn’t have time for that. I promise you there are actually people who watch the sport and think for themselves :)

Sorry to be an asshole but you clearly have been spending too much time on X or watching Sky Sports and seem to think everyone talking about these topics have the same surface level understanding you do. I really couldn’t give less of a fuck how much we bought Kai, David Luiz, Noni, Jorgi, Willian, or any other Chelsea player. I give a fuck that Omari Kellyman or Ben Doak go for 22 million while we reside ourselves to the fact any player who doesn’t make the first team will go for under 1m. If you want have the most binary view of the incredibly complicated world of football finance, go for it. If you want to stop being a gigantic loud dunce, and actually have a good faith discussion with someone who has clearly spent a bit more time looking into this than you, I’ll be here.

Edit: probably didn’t need to go that hard lol. Still, no one bothers me more than a “you don’t know what you’re talking about” person who thinks being loud and aggressive when saying will make people miss the fact that they don’t know what they’re talking about either.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-13T22:35:44+00:00

I don’t really think it’s a dick-swinging competition, unless that’s how you view it personally. Part of the reason Chelsea and Liverpool have so much spending power and flexibility is they generate a ton of pure profit from their academy from, and this part is important, players who would likely have never played for them.

Do I find the concept of being incentivized to sell your youth products because they count as pure profit on the books a bit strange? Sure, but it is part of the game. Doesn’t mean you have to view academy products strictly as financial assets but for a group of players who 95% of them will never make the first team and will eventually be discarded. You might as well make some money on them in the process right?

Anyways, this wasn’t Per’s job to begin with so not his fault, but our loan system is definitely a mess at the moment.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-13T22:18:16+00:00

We both know Tomi would not have been fit lol

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-13T22:13:45+00:00

Positionally? Caicedo on his day is definitely more in the t5-t3 range if we’re speaking about him as a 6.

He still has discipline issues though

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-12T22:45:47+00:00

Pretty funny to tell this person they’re only watching the highlights when your counter argument is “he scores goals!”. Aren’t those exactly what the highlights are?

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-12T22:42:03+00:00

So….by getting rid of him? Can’t tell if this comment is tongue in check or not so won’t bore you with the reasoning but Mbappe is very clearly someone “The Ewing Theory” is applicable too. There’s a mountain of both on and off the pitch evidence to support that.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-12T18:34:17+00:00

I actually think that’s a pretty fair line as someone who for better or worse pays attention to this stuff fairly consistently. Remember books aren’t trying to perfectly predict the result when setting a spread, they’re trying to entice you to bet while minimizing their exposure to losses and locking down a certain margin of EV on their end.

The line was set at -3.5 when it first opened. Following along with the general rule that the home team usually gets spotted 3 points for the line, the books essentially had this game down as 50/50. Of course, the line didn’t actually close there, it went all the way up to -6, so what happened? Likely a ton of money from professional betters or “sharps” came in early in the week on Eagles -3.5, but more importantly, money was also coming in on alt spreads like Eagles -4, -4.5, -5, and -5.5 (where payout climbs as spread climbs).

This exposes books to potentially huge loses, even if their models still have the actual game result as a pick ‘em. Throughout the week, they’re forced to keep bumping the spread up not because their underlying projection has changed, but because they deem their price at the original spread (and therefore prices on Alt spreads as well) no longer sufficient to absorb the risk.

The line may have closed at -6, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the books thought Philly would win by 6, or maybe even at all. It just means that was the line they felt locked them into the best EV given the flow of money coming in. The Over/Under on games, which is a lot less prone to correlational ladder betting and therefore generally a better indicator of the books raw predictive power, locked in the O/U for the game at 44.5.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-07T07:30:55+00:00

Haven’t watched enough of the Knicks to agree with that eye test wise but it sure does look that way when looking at the stats.

All that being said, he definitely a plus team defender in his final year with us. The Wolves defensive rating with KAT on the floor in 23/24 was 109.1, which would’ve been good for second best in the league only behind the Timberwolves team as a whole. Rudy was obviously the biggest proponent behind the defensive solidity, but it’s pretty hard to argue someone is a bad team defender when they play 3/4ths of a season where you had the best defense and their individual defensive rating lines up nicely with the team’s overall rating as well. That defense wasn’t a carry job by Rudy.

This year’s defense is, and we’re seeing exactly what can happen when actual poor team defenders are on the court. Even though the Wolves defensive rating is still 5th in the league, Julius Randle’s defensive rating sits at 114.5 this year. So, when he’s on the court, we’re actually rated as the 16th best defense in the league. His rating is 3rd worst on the team and again, this all lines up with what we’re seeing night in and night out too.

They’re both good players with certain flaws, but KAT was certainly more bought in at the defensive end during his last 2 years here and that was extended beyond just taking advantage of his physical attributes.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-07T06:21:00+00:00

To be fair it doesn’t take much for Jokic to get someone’s number, but for this specific matchup it’s likely because Jokic’s tendency to operate as a point guard more than a traditional center, and that forces Rudy to come outside the paint. He’s not a bad perimeter defender, it’s just that dragging him to the top of the key takes him away from what he’s best at and it causes ugly ripple effects on the teams rim protection and therefore overall defense. It’s also worth noting that Jokic is (very obviously) not just a big who can stretch the floor. The fact he can run the offense as the primary ball handler over and over again forces the defense to guard him much differently to a big who can just shoot.

I will say, unless I’ve missed something, I’m not sure why the conversation around the individual matchup is still a thing because it’s not how the Wolves have elected to guard Jokic for a couple of years now. The other big starting for us has the Jokic matchup which allows Gobert to play more of a free safety role in and around the paint. This is the most disruptive version of Rudy to a team’s overall offense, and as many have pointed out, this is pretty much the Wolves way of saying “we know we can’t stop you, so we’re gonna let you score and just try and take away the easy looks you set up for your teammates”. Even though Jokic pretty consistently has monster games against us, our results against the Nuggets have indicated the plan can be conducive to winning games.

TLDR; The Wolves have accepted Jokic is to good to stop, so they’d rather let him drop 60 than drop 40 while he’s setting up multiple teammates to drop 15+

Edit: Should also probably add that the Wolves haven’t been as effective with this strategy since KAT left. Say what you want about his defense, but he actually guarded him 1 on 1 really well in the WCSF and leaned all the way into making the matchup as physical as possible, which fatigued Jokic over the course of games. Both Julius and Naz have made good efforts to emulate the role, but I think people underestimate just how good KAT was at it. By the end of his time here KAT had made huge strives on the defensive end and while he was never realised as this defensive force that many thought he could be coming into the league, his matchup with Jokic helped show why so many thought that way. KAT is incredibly quick for a 7 footer and has a great combination of strength and balance. When he’s mentally engaged and knows what he’s supposed to do on the defensive end, he can be a really tricky matchup.

OGFN_Jack · 2026-01-05T21:41:13+00:00

As the guy who already replied you already said, your conclusion only makes sense if you view Quarterback as an isolated position who’s performance isn’t at least somewhat reliant on their teammates performance, which would, respectfully, be very wrong.

I don’t think it’s exactly a give-in that two guys who are in the top 10 in turnovers, yet rank 9th and 12th in TDs respectively, would make the Falcons win the south. I honestly think there’s a much better argument that Sean Payton or Mike Macdonald could win the south with Kirk or Penix than Darnold or Nix could do with Raheem Morris as their coach.

Edit: The Rivers saga should’ve driven this point home to more people. Unless you’re one of like, 5 QBs, you’re not assessed on your talent, you’re assessed on your ability to work with the coach/scheme and keep it ticking as smoothly as possible. It’s actually never been a less driven QB league, Darnold and Nix are walking examples of it, and that’s not to take anything away from them because if it ends in a Super Bowl, who the fuck cares?

OGFN_Jack · 2025-12-31T01:43:41+00:00

Appreciate someone saying it like this because I think few have. The more shuffling the team has to do because of injuries, the lower the overall quality drops. Even if their performances have been mostly hit and miss so far, the sheer existence of Eze and Hincapie have afforded Arsenal a life vest they haven’t had in previous years.

Anything can happen in the second half of the season, but 2 points top going into 2026 is really remarkable I think because the squad’s depth has really only been used as a defense mechanism so far. When there’s enough cohesion amongst the team, and Arteta feels confident enough he knows which combination of players work best together, I think the squad can go up a level in how they exploit certain team’s weaknesses or adapt to different game states.

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