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Probably because you're not very important and wont ever be.
The oldsters I know working that hard are usually well paid and pretty essential to to the business. The oldsters who work with the ethic you described never progressed much beyond their original position. They also tend to be the first to be let go.

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My personal experience is that most times what is praised as a strong work ethic is simply inefficiency rebranded and worn as a badge of honor. I manage a large team and the people that are most essential are those that don't often need extra hours to manage their responsibilities.

Now, there are a few true dedicated folks that can stay zeroed in on task for large amounts of time. But usually it's just low-trust micromanagers looking over their staff's shoulders all day and then spending those extra hours to take care of their actual responsibilities. It's real easy to look essential to a business when you simply don't let others make decisions and work to their full capability.

I'm Gen X, can't stand the miserable fluorescent lights and use earbuds so I can't hear all the people yapping around me. Which by the way, whoever popularized the "open office" concept can go frick themselves.

Also leaving at 5:00? Screw them for not committing the best years of their lives to a shitty office environment and company that'll kick them to the curb the first moment that a balance sheet shows that profits might be slim.

It's not a televised commentator thing, but I listen to the NFL Network on Sirius while I commute. I like the shows they have because it's always ex-players, coaches and GMs breaking down games, team and front office strategies.

Every once in a while they'll sub in a couple of women to lead the shows. I immediately turn it off if they are on. I tried to listen a couple time but they only talk about surface stuff and the insight and insider detail I'm looking for is completely gone. Or worse, they derail the conversation into some superficial crap when folks with real experience start going into detail.

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hitters are emphasizing power and elevation in their swings.

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Not just players, but modern metrics lean towards "bomb and gauge" baseball being more efficient for scoring runs than playing small ball.

Both the metrics and player compensation model have incentivized the shift away from hitting for average.

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I grew up in Pittsburgh but my favorite team is the Commanders.

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Traitor... Also Moon Football sucks this year. :lol:

JK... I get it, the Mark Malone / Bubby Brister era Steelers were enough to push a lot of folks away.

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Did they lose a lot off their defense from last year?

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Only 5 defensive players are back from last year. One of the players that left is Umeozulu.

They kept some key players but had a lot of attrition and lost a lot of depth. If we can have a second half like last week, we should be able to wear them down. We just need to keep from going down a few scores early and let them slow play the game.

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Does this have the new small block v8 engine instead of the shite engines?

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It will have the new gen6 engine. But buyer beware as they are promoting "proven advanced efficiency technologies". The same proven technologies that were grenading the previous gen engines.

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I never wanted Kiffin and was relieved he was never considered, and I think any self-respecting Bama fan knows how that would have been a horrible choice.

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To be honest I wouldn't have minded if Lane came here. It would have been exciting, but likely would have ended like a train-wreck. The statistical fact is that DeBoer has had much better outcomes as a coach than Kiffen.

Record vs. top 25
DeBoer: 20-6
Lane: 13-26

Kiffen has the same career win percentage against top 25 teams as Houston Nutt

Record vs. top 10
DeBoer: 8-3
Lane: 5-16

Career win %
DeBoer: .861% (124-20) using only his major college record (60-17 .779%)
Lane: .690% (118-53)

One of the strangest stats about DeBoer is that he has the highest all-time coaching win percentage as an underdog (67%)

Statistically, DeBoer is tracking to have a career that's in line with Bobby Bowden. Similar win percentages against all opponents (DeBoer is higher), top 25 and top 10. That is far from bad.

Fans feelings about his personality aside. There just isn't anyone out there other than Kirby or Cignetti that are getting better outcomes for their programs.

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Marino should have done more with the talent he had around him.

At Pitt, he was one of four future Pro Football Hall of Famers on the 1980 team. The 1981-1982 teams lost as the #1 team in the country.

At Miami, he was 1-2 in the AFCCG. All three games were in Miami.

As tough as the NFC was during his career, there’s no shame in not winning a Super Bowl. But if he were as good as some people think, he absolutely either should have won a natty at Pitt or at least made it to more than one Super Bowl with the Dolphins.

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This is a wild take. Outside of Duper and Clayton, the talent in Miami was pretty bad. During the length of his career, '84-'99 The Dolphins only had 4 seasons where the defense ranked in the top 20 in the league. Two of those seasons were at the very end of his career. Only one time did in his career the Dolphins had a 1,000 yard rusher. Look at the great QBs of his era and all the Hall of Famers they played alongside. Marino only played with one, Dwight Stephenson. No one carried a team more singularly than Marino.

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At Pitt, he was one of four future Pro Football Hall of Famers on the 1980 team. The 1981-1982 teams lost as the #1 team in the country.

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Marino had 5 losses as a starter, they were to two #11 ranked teams, a #4 ranked team and a #2 ranked team and eventual national champions, the lone unranked loss was to Notre Dame in '82. 3 of the 5 losses the defense gave up over 30 points. The only really questionable game of his career was the last one which was the Cotton Bowl against the SMU Pony Express.

I can't believe that Joe Thomas isn't on this list. Warren Moon, Fran Tarkenton as well.