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I agreed with everything in your post, but there were a few things I wanted to comment on.
I share your same academic interest in the Patriots at all three scales of analysis you mention (per-play strategy, game-level decision making, season level GM strategy). It is probably why we tend to "like", "agree", and "winner" each other's posts. I also just tend to think about things "academically" generally.
However, if you were actually with me while watching a game, you would find I can be quite rowdy and emotional in my support as well. When I am fortunate enough to attend the games live, I have been know to lose my voice trying to help the team get false starts, and I can be found "busting a move" following touchdowns. My previous jokes about needing to re-watch games because of my Bacchian (jovial or drunken) tendencies were only partially in jest.
However, my strong tie to the Patriots is because of the "academic" interest at this point. I could go to a Bills game, jump onto plastic furniture, and yell while throwing bildos on the field just as easily as I could cheer for players in Patriots laundry. It is the analytic part that keeps me a Patriots fan. (The winning helps also, TBH). I would still have no issues with yelling my head off at a Bills game if they were playing in a game with minor Patriots implications.
I believe in the mantra "In Belichick We Trust" in the following sense: Given the "anomaly" of the Patriots dynasty in the cap era, we should give BB full control to do what he wants. I even want him to have "control" after he retires from coaching, in the sense I want us to still apply the principals that brought him success after he is done. This belief is both because I think it would give us the best chance at continued success, and I am academically interested if Belichick will be able to set up a program of success that lasts beyond his tenure.
I could not agree with this part more. The entire reason I give "hypotheses" is to either 1) share the insights that my hypotheses might have, and 2) learn why my current "hypotheses" are inadequate. Sometimes I omit the "IMO", or the "my perception", "my impression", etc. But I hope people understand that it is implicit. I tend to include them in statements I am less confident in, and omit them in ones I have higher confidence in. That said, lack of certainty is central to the human condition.
Do you have a background in MBA programs or service academy officer training programs? I can somewhat imagine how Belichick's processes could be helpful. Yet, would definitely like more elaboration on it you have more thoughts on this! Although I have some background in academia, I don't share this particular background.
Anyway, I'm guessing that much of this sounds oddly dispassionate, remote, academic ... whatever ... to a lot of "fans", but - above and beyond enjoying the multiple, simultaneous rochambeau games within each play, and the chess match within each game/season as a whole - this is the "fun part" for me . It is what it is, to coin a phrase.
I share your same academic interest in the Patriots at all three scales of analysis you mention (per-play strategy, game-level decision making, season level GM strategy). It is probably why we tend to "like", "agree", and "winner" each other's posts. I also just tend to think about things "academically" generally.
However, if you were actually with me while watching a game, you would find I can be quite rowdy and emotional in my support as well. When I am fortunate enough to attend the games live, I have been know to lose my voice trying to help the team get false starts, and I can be found "busting a move" following touchdowns. My previous jokes about needing to re-watch games because of my Bacchian (jovial or drunken) tendencies were only partially in jest.
However, my strong tie to the Patriots is because of the "academic" interest at this point. I could go to a Bills game, jump onto plastic furniture, and yell while throwing bildos on the field just as easily as I could cheer for players in Patriots laundry. It is the analytic part that keeps me a Patriots fan. (The winning helps also, TBH). I would still have no issues with yelling my head off at a Bills game if they were playing in a game with minor Patriots implications.
I'm actually not an "IBWT" guy.
I believe in the mantra "In Belichick We Trust" in the following sense: Given the "anomaly" of the Patriots dynasty in the cap era, we should give BB full control to do what he wants. I even want him to have "control" after he retires from coaching, in the sense I want us to still apply the principals that brought him success after he is done. This belief is both because I think it would give us the best chance at continued success, and I am academically interested if Belichick will be able to set up a program of success that lasts beyond his tenure.
And, it's not about my personal hypotheses being "right" or "wrong"; it's simply about learning, about attempting to understand his processes.
I could not agree with this part more. The entire reason I give "hypotheses" is to either 1) share the insights that my hypotheses might have, and 2) learn why my current "hypotheses" are inadequate. Sometimes I omit the "IMO", or the "my perception", "my impression", etc. But I hope people understand that it is implicit. I tend to include them in statements I am less confident in, and omit them in ones I have higher confidence in. That said, lack of certainty is central to the human condition.
After nearly two decades of this study, one conclusion I've come to is that MBA programs and service academy officer training programs could benefit greatly from studying BB's processes.
Do you have a background in MBA programs or service academy officer training programs? I can somewhat imagine how Belichick's processes could be helpful. Yet, would definitely like more elaboration on it you have more thoughts on this! Although I have some background in academia, I don't share this particular background.
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