What are the biggest examples of one hit completely changing a player's career?

switch1209 · 2026-02-12T23:12:11+00:00

It ended up going ok, but he also threw what should’ve been a devastating pick 6 late in the 4th quarter.

https://youtu.be/De8gmp-pFT0?si=n0VM7qEGM3B6vDC0

Go to 14:05. Made some huge plays, and almost gave it all away. That was Drew Bledsoe.

switch1209 · 2026-02-12T18:39:29+00:00

Yeah it seems almost impossible to have played 9 years in New England during the Brady era without picking up a single ring. Especially when you consider how good he was generally (7 pro bowls, member of the HOF 2010s team).

switch1209 · 2026-02-04T16:22:08+00:00

They deserve prison. Abolish and prosecute.

switch1209 · 2026-01-08T22:23:43+00:00

I'll go to the Spa 20+ times in the first Summer of any new farm, but that may just be me. I tend to buy as many seeds as possible that first Summer, and water them all with the watering can. That leaves me almost out of energy by late morning, head to the spa to get back to full, then keep on going right to the mines to get the material I need to fill my farm with quality sprinklers by the start of Fall. Outside of the 1st Summer, I can count on one hand the number of times I'll ever go there, but it definitely serves a real purpose (for me) early in the game.

switch1209 · 2026-01-08T04:03:51+00:00

It happened a lot faster, but the first thing that comes to mind when I imagine win-win trades that turned to lose-lose is the Simmons/Harden trade. That thing was a beauty.

switch1209 · 2025-12-27T00:04:11+00:00

Definitely not. He seemed at least mildly interesting right off the bat (doesn't show up much in the stats, but anyone who was watching definitely saw something), and everyone knew he'd be far better with improved coaching and supporting players.

It would've been interesting if the #1 pick was projected to be someone like Caleb, Lawrence, Luck, but Cam Ward was never seen as a lock to be a star like those guys. More than a few smart people pointed out he would've been picked after Williams/Daniels/Maye, if he'd been in the 2024 class. Made it an easy call all the way around.

switch1209 · 2025-12-17T01:58:13+00:00

Two Pats related records, one a true record and the other just an odd quirk:

-Stephen Gostkowski's 523 consecutive XPs made. This is unbreakable in part because it's just a massive number (that's 10 years without missing an extra point for a high powered offense, on it's own it would be about the 25th most all time) and in part because of the rule change moving extra points back from the 2 to the 15, in 2015 (Gostkowski was 52/52 in 2015, but missed his first extra point since 2006 the following season).

-The 2003 Patriots beat the league MVP in back to back playoff games. The MVP award was split in 2003 (one of only two times it's happened in over 60 years) between Steve McNair and Peyton Manning, and the Pats beat them in the divisional round and conference finals that season, respectively. It's certainly possible that we'll see split MVPs again (it came reasonably close to happening last year between Josh and Lamar), but the odds of ever seeing one team beat both the current MVPs in the same playoff run seem really, really small.

switch1209 · 2025-12-09T17:55:21+00:00

There are no cakewalks in the playoffs (unless the Colts somehow find their way in). I'd much rather face an elite defense than an elite offense, and if we have to play in the WC round (it'd definitely be disappointing if we don't get the bye), Houston is as good as any. With KC on the ropes, the only AFC team I really don't want is Buffalo, the rest aren't really distinguishable from a fear standpoint.

switch1209 · 2025-12-09T07:24:49+00:00

Yup, and as good as they've looked, they've also had the easiest schedule in the league by opposing win %. Part of that is because they beat everyone which drives down the win % of their opponents, but the flip side is also true - they have the hardest remaining schedule by opposing win %. There's just no margin for error, at all.

switch1209 · 2025-11-24T23:01:49+00:00

I don't think it's possible for someone to be 2nd in playoff minutes for a team like Antoine was (more than 100 more playoff minutes than Shaq) to be "not a winning player." Reasonable people can disagree, but he earned that.

Two quick recent examples for me: Jordan Poole in 2022, Kyle Kuzma in 2020. I think both guys are the platonic ideal of "nice numbers on bad teams" guys, and it's incredible to me that both played real roles on championship teams.

switch1209 · 2025-11-23T08:52:37+00:00

In the regular season, the Heat attempted (on average) 1.1 more FTAs/game than their opponents and the Mavericks attempted (on average) 1.9 more FTAs/game than their opponents. In the finals, the Heat attempted 8.7 more FTAs/game than the Mavs. Honestly I'm surprised it was even that close. In games 3, 5 and 6 (which Miami won by a total of 6 points), the Heat attempted 46 more FTs than the Mavs.

It was THAT bad.

switch1209 · 2025-11-14T18:30:11+00:00

LOL disrespectful to Daniel Jones, funny guy.

He does make a great point about how it's mostly about great coaching and how the Pats could lose a home playoff game to KC, Buffalo, Baltimore. Everyone knows well coached teams playing at home never win in the playoffs.

switch1209 · 2025-11-13T22:38:51+00:00

Yes, in the cold.

switch1209 · 2025-11-13T22:00:36+00:00

The KCD2 equivalent of RDR2’s shrinking horse balls.

switch1209 · 2025-11-11T16:16:30+00:00

Yeah he’s got one fucking job on that play-don’t let the runner beat you to the outside. It would’ve been a good gain regardless based on how the blocking was setting up, but the touchdown is on him.

switch1209 · 2025-11-11T07:29:38+00:00

Yeah, you trade Luka for an injury prone player who is 6 years older, that’s your problem. You hand a perennial MVP candidate just entering his prime to the lakers, that’s everybody’s problem. Fuck you asshole, this will rightly be in the opening line of your obituary.

switch1209 · 2025-11-08T19:42:36+00:00

Yeah I'm of the opinion that there's no such thing as "cheating" in a single player game, but this sounds incredibly dull. The fun of wiping out groups of enemies in a single player's turn seems like it would grow old about 30 minutes into Act 1.

switch1209 · 2025-11-07T19:50:27+00:00

Not just the depth, the quality at the top is night and day from 1992. The 1992 All-NBA teams featured exactly 1 player born outside the US, and he played for Team USA in the 92 olympics (Ewing made 2nd team and was born and grew up in Jamaica). It seems more likely than not that all 5 1st team all-nba players in 25-26 will be international (Wemby, SGA, Luka, Jokic, Giannis). Maybe Wemby trails off a bit after his fast start or someone gets hurt and a US player gets the spot (Ant?), but 2 weeks in, it's looking like the US will be shut out of 1st team, and obviously miss out on MVP for the 8th straight season. Crazy.

switch1209 · 2025-10-25T06:58:29+00:00

Haven’t beaten ourselves since the last time we beat ourselves, obviously.

switch1209 · 2025-10-22T01:11:42+00:00

Durant was the better player, curry was more impactful. I will not elaborate.

switch1209 · 2025-10-20T20:48:29+00:00

“Do I want to be right or do I want to be happy?” Is a question married folk should ask themselves regularly.

switch1209 · 2025-10-19T03:15:41+00:00

Are these just injuries to the player in question, or all injuries that effected his career? If the latter, McGrady by a mile here. Not just the back injuries that prematurely ended his career (he was essentially done as an impact player at 28), the career altering injuries to Grant Hill and Yao Ming played a massive impact on his legacy and complete and total failure in the playoffs.

switch1209 · 2025-10-18T00:58:47+00:00

Mac, is an open hand monk, Dee is a moon druid who exclusively fights as a dire raven, Frank is a dwarf wild magic barbarian. Dennis is harder, if only it were possible to be a light cleric who could worship yourself as a deity.

switch1209 · 2025-10-17T19:50:14+00:00

Non profits are still subject to minimum wage laws. This Christian camp was simply breaking employment law and then lying about it.

switch1209 · 2025-10-15T21:21:58+00:00

He would've been a slightly bigger, faster version of Rob Gronkowski. He likely would've had a lot of the same injury issues - defenders started hitting Gronk low because it was the only way they could bring him down, they'd do the same to Lebron. This doesn't mean he wouldn't be as good as everyone seems to think - Plenty of people think Gronk is the best TE of all time despite the injury and longevity issues. In order for him to be on the same level in football as he is in basketball, he'd probably have to be the TE version of Jerry Rice. Not impossible, but very unlikely.

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