Local Hour: The Fire Starter
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What advanced metrics did Tony and Mike analyze?
Tony, you and Mike were pouring over the advanced metrics. What were the final stats on Greg Cody yesterday in terms of production, number of carries, number of targets? What can we say is the final stat total on Greg Cody?
So before I give the final stat line, we did talk about it here in the analytics department that when we scripted our first 15, he was great.
What were the final stats on Greg Cody's performance?
We had the right blocking assignments. The offensive line did their job. The quarterback called the right place, called the mic out. Greg was able to understand where his blocking assignment was and hit the gap and hit it hard.
After those first 15, we kind of fell off a little bit. Yeah, they stacked the box. Brought the safeties down. Honestly, you should have utilized him better in the play-action game, and you didn't do that. You let him down. He softened up the defense for you. I do appreciate that you guys are really getting into the press conference explanations on this, and you're right. I will accept the criticism. I should have used him better. Any failures of Greg Cody are my failures and my failures alone. I like that. But the thing that I had asked you was, I asked for a number of carries we had yesterday and just some general advanced statistics. Yeah, 22 for 78. Okay, see, that's not bad.
Not great. 64 in the first half.
We said we were going to say committed to the run game.
And 22 carries when they stacked the box. 10 of those carries came when they stacked the box.
Do you feel like we're going to do better or worse today? Because he's come in today and said he's proclaimed himself a Firestarter. He wants the nickname as a running back of Firestarter, which is a good... It's a good nickname. We would agree that any running back in the league would like – if a running back – if we started calling A-Chan Firestarter and got it off the ground, A-Chan would love to be called Firestarter.
How did Greg Cody's performance impact the team's strategy?
In Greg's case, I think it's appropriate because he was amongst the first to discover fire.
Yeah.
I like that. I want to adopt that as my official nickname, by the way. I want people to start calling me FS, Fire. Firestarter's a little unwieldy. But in terms of the carries and the yards, I'm more concerned with carries than yards. It's a Cesar Tovar theory.
That's a baseball player that's not a running back. Okay, listen to his... All right. He's been doing this to me for 40 years. Stuffed at the line. 40 years. Do you guys... Tony, do you know what he's referencing? Does anyone there, does his son know what he's referencing when he says it's a Cesar Tovar reference?
I've heard it. It's the guy batting average. Go on. Did you just drop a Firestarter sound effect? No. Oh, I like that.
Tony, do you know what he is saying when he is saying Cesar Tovar? No, I have no idea. Roy? No. Mike? I think I've heard it on this show before, and it was a guy that was like boomer bust.
Well, Cesar Tovar was a former Minnesota twin. He may have played for other teams, but I'm thinking 60s and 70s. And he was notable because he once had over 700 at-bats in a season. He was a guy who was just prolific. And I like the idea of a lot of at-bats. You know, you give me 700 at-bats, it doesn't really matter whether I'm hitting .241 or .278. No, because the at-bats are akin to carries by a running back. You know, I'm the kind of guy who would like 31 carries, and it doesn't particularly matter if it's only for 68 yards, you know, because I'm putting in the work. You know, I'm doing the lifting. You also did have a fumble here I didn't know. Obviously, the Packers versus Steelers situation was a fumble.
We were in the red zone there. We were getting really close to coming home, and you did fumble.
But I recovered my own fumble, didn't I?
I don't think so.
Oh, I thought I did.
I'm afraid we've started three and out, and you know what that means, Greg.
What's that?
Punt.
Nice.
What nickname does Greg Cody want to adopt and why?
I like that. Cesar Tovar, not even on my catchphrase countdown.
Cesar Tovar, can you guys give me his career average, please? I'd like to now go through. Thank you, Zaslo. What do you have? 278 career average.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What advanced metrics did Tony and Mike analyze?
0:00–0:21
2
What were the final stats on Greg Cody's performance?
0:21–1:40
3
How did Greg Cody's performance impact the team's strategy?
1:40–3:42
4
What nickname does Greg Cody want to adopt and why?
3:42–15:45
5
What is Dan's controversial opinion about Jokic and Jordan?
15:45–21:50
6
How is the current NBA discourse affecting fans' perception?
21:50–43:54
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