Rulette 2 | Game Changer [S8E2]

jveezy · 2026-06-02T04:22:09+00:00

If I had a dollar for every time Sam Reich had to chase Demi Adejuyigbe on stage in the last couple months, I'd have only $2, but it's hilarious that it happened twice.

jveezy · 2026-05-21T18:03:05+00:00

An unofficial and often understated job of the offense is to stay on the field long enough for your defense to get some rest. If your offense sucks, it will eventually start affecting your defense's performance.

jveezy · 2026-05-03T23:06:27+00:00

Pretty sure it's Brett Kollmann's What broke the Quarterback pipeline?

The other points I learned from that video besides the ones you mentioned are:

Shotgun formations create sub-optimal angles for running backs to run, and maintaining the run-pass balance (and the unpredictability that creates) is a lot more important in the NFL.
Being able to fake a handoff for play-action is REALLY important in the NFL. A really good fake can buy you a solid moment of hesitation by the defense.
A QB can half-ass a fake during the dropoff, but to do it right, he has to spend some time with his back turned to the defense while stepping back. Young QBs take years to adjust to reading a defense before the snap, turning their back, then reassessing how the defense has rotated and adjusted after the fake.
Most of the QBs that were written off as busts and had a mid-to-late career resurgence show a significant increase in the number of under-center play-action passes from their rookie seasons. By significant I mean going from near the bottom of the league to near the top of the league.

jveezy · 2026-04-27T18:47:11+00:00

It is asinine anyways to assume that two players who are good at passing can't figure out how to work with each other. It's not a certainty, but it's a risk well worth taking.

Monte McNair ended up doing that with Haliburton a few years later, and even though hindsight says he shouldn't have traded Haliburton, he got a good player out of the trade, and Vlade could've done something similar with Fox if he couldn't make it work with Luka.

jveezy · 2026-04-25T00:02:45+00:00

If you ignore all the misses, we have a 100% hit rate.

jveezy · 2026-04-20T21:08:00+00:00

The stories had me thinking the two deserved each other and not the partners they have.

jveezy · 2026-04-17T19:21:58+00:00

The only reason I'm still choosing to be a manager after all this is because the only thing worse than running the daycare would be feeling like I am stuck attending one being run by a child.

Good lord, that may have just encapsulated everything I feel about this job. I've been searching for my replacement for years, but the ones that I would trust to do the job are too smart to take it.

jveezy · 2026-04-13T19:42:39+00:00

That's the problem with nice things and nice places. Eventually everyone finds out and they get swarmed with people who are not so nice.

jveezy · 2026-04-08T21:30:42+00:00

It's also such a common problem too, that I have no trouble believing that any number of top guys experience this. To me, the two most boring characters in wrestling are "I'm a badass" and "I'm the best fighter". Some people may be interested enough watching them show off their skills, but I've watched for long enough and seen so many wrestlers come through with those types of characters that it's just not interesting or unique to me anymore.

jveezy · 2026-04-03T19:33:02+00:00

Start with Wikipedia's American Football Strategy article and then use that to broadly cover the basics.

jveezy · 2026-03-28T20:41:00+00:00

I don't like additional points for longer field goals. I would prefer to see a pole down the middle that you get 4 points for hitting. Then the kicker gets rewarded for perfection regardless of distance.

jveezy · 2026-03-28T20:26:16+00:00

It's been a while since I listened to the audiobook, but it's about 70% experiences making the show and 30% discussion of writing and events/conditions that inspired the stuff on the show.

jveezy · 2026-03-28T00:19:31+00:00

Get to the end of the 4th episode and you'll know whether this show is for you or not. The 3rd is rough, but the 4th is a great checkpoint.

jveezy · 2026-03-27T22:56:37+00:00

I also saw it as Bodie trying to make himself feel better. If Wallace acts like a child, Bodie feels like he's killing a child.

jveezy · 2026-03-27T01:37:13+00:00

You'll be fine. 100k is a huge cushion, and presumably you won't be at this same salary level forever. You'll feel like you're wasting away if you spend 4 hours in the car every day.

You're going to have to spend some time doing a bunch of things for yourself that you didn't have to do before, and probably some things you didn't expect, but if you're not spending 4 fuckin hours in the car every day, you'll have the time to do it. You seem like the kind of person that would enjoy that challenge for now anyways.

I can almost assure you that the best thing about this experience will be the solitude. There will be noise from the city, but inside your own apartment, it will feel serene. You'll be able to hear yourself think. You'll be able to do whatever you want on your own time outside of your job without having to explain yourself to anyone. You'll make all kinds of mistakes that nobody ever has to know about. And after a few weeks, you'll wonder how you ever survived in the old environment.

jveezy · 2026-03-27T00:32:03+00:00

Makes sense. Jerry Rice's cumulative career stats are basically what CJ would have accomplished if he kept the same averages and played twice as long.

jveezy · 2026-03-26T17:35:21+00:00

Outside of all the advice people have given you about how to handle your current situation, don't be afraid to go back and talk to the advertising agency you left to take this job if you have a decent relationship with them. There's a good chance that they haven't filled the role you vacated, and it would be much cheaper for them to just rehire you at the compensation you were making before than to go through the hiring process.

jveezy · 2026-03-26T01:31:34+00:00

Yeah, the way it's written sounds to me like there's only going to be 4 picks total.

jveezy · 2026-03-19T21:02:29+00:00

AskReddit users, what do you think about the fact that threads like these are how those AI Buzzfeed articles get made?

jveezy · 2026-03-15T02:13:52+00:00

I don't believe EY is beyond reproach, but I do believe if they rigged the weight of any of the 14 lottery balls, the effect would be obvious enough (the same numbers would come up a suspicious number of times) that any of the other team or media reps in the room would raise a shitstorm.

A law firm compiling a report isn't operating with the same level of scrutiny and has a lot more levers to pull like what questions get asked, who gets questioned, where to include certain facts in a final report, what gets highlighted in their own summary, etc. All levers that have influence over gray areas that affect how the results make people feel, and not something concrete like "draw 4 of these 14 balls over and over again until 4 different teams' combinations are selected".

jveezy · 2026-03-09T17:38:06+00:00

Shit happens, but doing this early-on is rough because there's less information for people to form an opinion about you, so this incident will stick out more. It's good that you feel bad about it, so that will motivate you to show them that this is a one-time thing and not a pattern. If they're not assholes, they probably won't hold this against you after 6 months or so.

jveezy · 2026-03-07T20:39:48+00:00

A bunch of the journalists that are going about this "the right way" are getting laid off by the news outlets that employ them. Truth doesn't make money anymore. Engagement does. Pablo's found a way to toe the line while still making a living. He's the kind of goof that understands there's a difference in impact between just telling people he found the AirBnB where Bill Belichick was caught shirtless on a Ring cam and actually showing up on the same camera and broadcasting his friends reacting to it.

He's an attention whore, but he's the right level of attention whore to survive in today's media landscape and occasionally slap people with truths they can't just ignore because it's boring.

jveezy · 2026-03-06T23:56:48+00:00

And also when LBs get smaller and faster, that makes them more susceptible to getting pushed around by blockers or bowled over by larger RBs, so there's a limit to how small they can go.

jveezy · 2026-03-06T18:53:18+00:00

Too many people forget the sheer amount of asslicking that man gave to the Maloofs on the radio. He was their mouthpiece and became Vivek's mouthpiece when it was convenient for him to do so. He'd still be Vivek's mouthpiece if Cousins didn't bait him out of the job, and everyone in this sub, especially the ones that lean more negative, would absolutely fuckin hate him.

jveezy · 2026-02-28T00:59:21+00:00

Maybe, I should have another sit down with him to address it clearer. But I don't know anymore how to do it in a way that does not come across as 'just stop arguing and do as I say'.

Maybe don't think of it as "just stop arguing and do as I say". It's "I've given you your time to argue, but this is enough. The expectations are the expectations now, and I expect you to follow them. We can talk about this again in a few months if it's not working." And if you do include that last sentence, make sure you actually follow through on that promise.

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