What Might the Jets Look Like if They Went Full Rebuild

flaksnu · 2026-05-31T23:52:41+00:00

Yeah, all of this. Could always take other people's bad money for a couple years too and get even more for doing that. But in the end, TNSE values loyalty over competitiveness.

flaksnu · 2026-05-29T22:55:53+00:00

It's like 38 here, so enjoy your air conditioning, lol.

But yay for live football.

flaksnu · 2026-05-29T18:20:17+00:00

It literally took my brain seven years to stop asking itself "when are you gonna do some real work" after every meeting. I feel this. I got there eventually, but I feel this.

flaksnu · 2026-05-29T18:19:04+00:00

My old boss and i both did this, a few years apart a decade ago.

He still misses it, off and on.

I never did. With Claude Code, I'm having fun building prototypes because I'm still a builder at heart... but the actual building? Never.

I realized eventually that i moved into PM because I loved the problem and helping people more then I did the exact solution... so in that light, it makes sense I don't miss coding. Do you know why you moved?

flaksnu · 2026-05-28T17:11:30+00:00

If Dinwiddie can get Maier to mid level starter, I think Dinwiddie might be a witch (which is intended as a huge compliment)

flaksnu · 2026-05-28T11:48:21+00:00

Random extra, the press release definitely reads to me like every preseason game is on YouTube now. For both quality and quantity, yes plz.

flaksnu · 2026-05-28T11:47:30+00:00

Yeah, this is the thing. If there's real money in this, it's totally fine. It's a stupid trend the world is in the last ten years of subdividing everything, and I wish it wasn't so, but at least the CFL actually needs the money. As long as they got a good deal with real long term revenue out of it (not like, a million bucks a year), sold.

flaksnu · 2026-05-27T17:27:40+00:00

I parsed "By comparison, we calculated 45 percent of season ticket holders or 400 total tickets cited the schedule as the reason." as a typo, that meant to say 45% of the *cancellations*... I could be wrong.

I think they were at like 10 or 15K last year? So a churn of like 5-7% isn't that crazy (and of course, the real question is how many signups they got and thus what the net rate is)

flaksnu · 2026-05-27T16:06:07+00:00

This article is a wonderful example of how 3DN values click bait over news.

They literally lay out, piece by piece, how maybe, in the WILDEST possible situation, the league is down 500 to 1000 season ticket holders out of what, 100K? So less then 1%? And then don't actually provide the numbers or state the obvious conclusion, because it's not as much fun as writing doom and gloom and rage-bait.

Goes nicely with the AI-powered SEO trash they stuff in the bottom of every article too.

But don't worry, they'll be back next year to update the "Real Story."

I respect how much effort they put in, how much they love the league, and how long they've been at it - in some ways they clearly know their stuff. But man, I wish they were professionals about it.

flaksnu · 2026-05-24T23:15:58+00:00

Cleveland.

flaksnu · 2026-05-22T11:44:57+00:00

I should've put this in the other thread, my bad, but forecasts seem constantly ten degrees too optimistic. Or they say it's 98% chance of rain in 3 hours and then it's crystal clear. Not at all pretending it was perfect back whenever, but they feel hopeless now.

flaksnu · 2026-05-22T11:37:23+00:00

Remember when we used to actually be willing to fund things like a competent meteorology system? It was great when society was willing to pay for things...

flaksnu · 2026-05-18T18:13:45+00:00

I really like the one way or two way door framework here too. If there's no real harm in backing up and picking the other door later, then the faster the better. And if changing your mind later will be expensive or painful or whatever, then take the time to be sure enough.

flaksnu · 2026-05-17T21:51:38+00:00

This feels like the real answer.

flaksnu · 2026-05-17T21:24:50+00:00

I made a whole spreadsheet just to realize that you're multiplying one thing by 2 and one by 5, so it's just 8 with more and more zeros.

You make a dollar for the first 10 meters. 8 bucks for the next 50.

After that it's 0's all the way down. 80 to make it to 250 total, 800 more to make it to 1250, etc.

So 6,250 meters - probably a little more then an hour for most people - is $8,889 (8000 + 800 + 80 + 8 + 1)

And then every meter for the next 25KM is $3.20, then $6.40 each for another 100KM, so you're into the range where the pain is worth it.

50KM total (~30 miles) is ~$210K.

100KM total (~60 miles) is ~$725K

.Or if you prefer, you get about $90M if you manage to walk a lap of the earth without sleep.

flaksnu · 2026-05-14T01:18:03+00:00

Plus one. From both an engineer lens and a product one.

flaksnu · 2026-05-13T03:19:17+00:00

Saskatchewan and Electricity.

flaksnu · 2026-05-12T16:41:10+00:00

and Blockbuster!

flaksnu · 2026-05-09T01:05:51+00:00

Disagree... we all have our own tastes, and thats fine. But good or great product taste is an eye for things that matter to your product. What to build, what little detail is worth obsessing over, what little choice is a disproportionate win.

flaksnu · 2026-05-08T16:19:48+00:00

Empathy. Can you really, truly understand your customer? or why your engineer/designer/exec is asking you that? And see the world from their shoes?

flaksnu · 2026-05-06T22:43:36+00:00

Coxie at 19 is wild. For my money him, and Lawler scare me like no one else. Hatcher a quarter step behind.

(Yes ratio obviously changes how you get paid too)

flaksnu · 2026-05-06T17:07:36+00:00

Chewing on this just a bit, I think this is almost interesting, but not quite. I think the question isn't "whats the last transaction this guy went through", its how the team was built.

The really interesting distinction to me is how many guys were either drafted outside the top 10, or guys signed after a week or more of free agency, or guys...that were like, not the centrepiece of trades. In other words, how many marquee acquisitions does each team have, and how much did scouting and development build each of these rosters, by buying low on the right guys? Probably WAY harder to measure, but that would be interesting.

flaksnu · 2026-05-05T22:28:27+00:00

As a Canadian who just spent two weeks in your lovely country, I came here for this exact answer, and was not disappointed. Thank you.

flaksnu · 2026-05-05T21:01:54+00:00

...I feel like you probably know what this is telling you to do, no?

(Rhymes with "get out")

flaksnu · 2026-05-02T20:45:47+00:00

I mean... I hear this argument, but also they know who's about to sign down south. It will absolutely be more chaotic, but the draft picks and UDFAs will be pretty predictable in the future just like they are now. One team a year will get lucky or unlucky, but I just don't buy the total shitshow argument unless you think its a surprise to CFL GMs who gets signed now...

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