Red alert! We don’t know what red-zone stats mean
UNLESS Fox’s Joe
Buck or Troy Aikman give it a shot, Sunday we’ll have traveled another NFL season in which red-zone stats are presented as significant — yet no one knows anything about them.
Do they begin with any possession at or inside the 20? Does first-andgoal from the 2 rate the same significance as fourth-and-8 from the 19?
If anyone knows, they’re not saying. All we need to know is they’re very, very important. Even if you kick a firsthalf-ending or game-winning, game-ending field goal from inside the 20, that’s a red-zone failure? I think it is!
This is how significant they are: The 7-9 Buccaneers finished third in red-zone scoring efficiency. The 12-4 Patriots finished 26th.
The No. 1 red-zone defense was the 7-9 Broncos. The No. 3 red-zone defense belonged to the 2-14 Bengals.
But TV and the NFL insist they’re essential statistical enlightenments. Then again, the NFL decided to call “off weeks” “bye weeks” and all media, like sheep, instantly complied, dismissing the accurate meaning of a bye.
It’s all a con, continued: Recall the claim of ESPN genius Jay Bilas that even if full scholarship athletes don’t attend classes, they benefit from the socialization lessons learned by being on campus?
Yep, according to Bilas, academic fraud has its social advantages.
Knick Marcus Morris, who Wednesday negatively applied female comparisons to Memphis’
Jae Crowder, completed his socialization training at the University of Kansas.
Crowder, who instigated Wednesday’s Garden melee by childishly taking a 3 rather than dribbling out the clock with a big lead, must have completed his socialization process as a U.S. geography major. He was enrolled in Howard College (Texas), Southern Georgia Technical College and Marquette University.
And Jim Dolan, also conspicuously short on socialization skills, is just another bully who can’t even take a jab. Does he expect love and sympathy in exchange for annual, expensive ineptitude? How long would Dolan remain working for Dolan?