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To be fair, before the games were played, Colorado was the team that should have gotten in. Oregon is the answer for #4 in the playoff and were only found to be better after bowl season.

The bowl system was worse than the BCS. See any Rose bowl stopping the #1 vs. #2 teams.

Except in 1998 leaving out undefeated Tulane and 1999 leaving out undefeated Marshall and 2000 letting in Florida State to the national title game to play Oklahoma over Miami and 2001 letting Nebraska to the national title game over Colorado and 2003 leaving out USC from the national title game in a three way contest and 2004 leaving out Auburn, Utah, and Boise State out of the national title game when 5 teams were undefeated and 2006 leaving out undefeated Boise State in favor of a one-loss school to play Ohio State and 2007 leaving out undefeated Hawaii for two loss LSU and 2008 leaving out undefeated Utah for any of the one-loss teams and 2009 leaving out undefeated Cincinnati, TCU, and Boise State when 5 teams were undefeated and 2010 leaving out undefeated TCU when 3 teams were undefeated and 2011 leaving out Oklahoma State in favor of a rematch of a divisional game in the national title. "Worked" is a loose term.

Use 8 and have a caveat that you must win your division to be in the playoff. If you didn't win your division, you must have won the conference championship or crowned regular season champion to participate. One non-power five team must be included from the eligible list. Problem pretty well solved of regular season importance and objectively best teams getting in.

We have all broke laws, it just whether they are enforced or not and whether they lead to knock on effects for people's livelihood. https://www.rd.com/list/weird-laws/ Depending on the crime and what the charge is, this can lead to a criminal record and inability to pay fines. The inability to pay fines then becomes the criminalization of being poor. Tack on the fact that most people don't have the financial well being to handle an unexpected expense, most of America would be ripe for being plunged into poverty based on a criminal charge (warranted or not). https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/success/1000-emergency-expense/index.html Add to the equation the over policing of low-income individuals and you have a situation that is ripe for cyclical poverty based on criminalization (warranted or not). Then, if you are charged with criminal activity, it usually precludes you from the vast majority of employment opportunities. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304851 It is not hard to see the system that creates cyclical poverty waiting for an impetus. This impetus could be mundane (jaywalking) all the way up to a societal catastrophic event (Tulsa domestic terrorism).

You can return punts...I didn't know that was something Nebraska was able to do. Pierson-El saved so many Riley games from being a complete joke with special teams points. Wish he would have been a better receiver though.

In your post the article you referenced doesn't have those stats then. It has the same problem as what started the conversation.

The KC and Detroit fall into the same trap and I don't see the long term statistics. The St. Louis one actually added the rate which is completely appropriate and helpful. So one out of four that Ezra never mentioned to make his point and made demonstrative conclusions from. See the problem with his supposed conclusive reporting and bold claim.

Same problem related to the statistics, new article. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-history-of-chicago-homicides-htmlstory.html Looks like 2016 was higher which was also a blip and not the trend. Maybe Ezra should have shown or made said graph to help us out don't you think?

He easily could have laid out most of the same narratives, but with the gist of "People advocating for x, y, and z should probably be ready to answer concerns related to an increase in the last year of a, b, and c which had been trending downward." But I don't sell papers, and I would probably write a s***ty article. Actually, I definitely would write a sh**ty article.

I am not saying anything about the conjecture he put forth and the conclusions he made other than they were a bit low vision. I don't have better answers to any of his questions nor did I intend to answer them, but his conclusions based on "the largest percentage increase since 1960" is statistically correct, but not at all nuanced. He got everyone's attention with it and made some bold conclusions based on the increase, but with context, my answer would be "". Maybe we wait a couple years before saying what happened last year was a foregone change to the environment or just a blip on the continued way down. I don't think this last year of data is an as automatic retribution of the thoughts being laid out by some of the groups like he thinks it was.

I think the statistical tweets laid out a nuance that pretty well covered the original tweets. Posting only the numerical growth gives no context for the change. Only that it is a deviation from the previous sample. Giving a in depth analysis to the changes over time means that this year is a departure from previous year that requires further explanation. Did he try to explain the historical context or did he try to grab attention? Use your own discretion and tell me he did a good job of explaining the factors going into the quote posted and the nuance that may need to be applied to the, “worst ever since 1960.”

If you invest $5 dollars and you make 40% a year on it how happy are you? You invest a million dollars in something and it goes up by 7% a year how happy are you? Going up means everything has changed right? It is concerning that things have gone up this year, but is it an inflection point for growth, a resistance to the trough, or a blip on the downward slope? I don’t think that was a part of Ezra’s analysis.

Mobile messed up.

People aren't meant to manually scroll that far.

I guess I am coming around to the Georgia hype as well. Clemson was not the same without T Law, Alabama has a bigger reload, and tOSU doesn’t have the next great QB obviously ready. The margins are a little wider for someone “new” to sneak in the top 4 if any of these have slip ups this year. Oregon and North Carolina could be sleepers that could find their way in with the right luck/parity.

How that 2011 team didn't do better says a lot about him/Wisconsin's ceiling in any given year. Before that year, I said they would win the national title with Russel Wilson at the helm. He was the missing piece that transferred into their lap.

National champs, even!

Unless we were in the SEC, then we would be ranked #16 because we are only right behind #15.

Nope. He lost so much money that he will never pay again.

If they don’t want to work, they don’t want to work. They can deal with the repercussions accordingly. Working less in America is generally probably not a bad thing outside of a few certain industries.

Is this not what is within their freedom to do? I wouldn’t want to hire these people anyway if you can’t trust them.

Dang, I need me some of that sweet unemployment paper.