Punting is as bad as bunting

Before I forget about it.  If you were a fan of the show Timeless, which seems to have a cult-like following, listen up.  NBC got such a backlash from canceling the show that they filmed a 2 hour finale'.  When two characters were killed off and THEN the show was canceled people were PISSED.

Being a time travel show of course they can be revived but not if the last show was never seen.

Tonight - NBC.

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Last night the season finale' of Survivor, season 37 was broadcast and AGAIN a good guy won.

This year it was David vs. Goliath's.  The Goliath's were good looking players that were given everything they needed and now were super successful.  The David's were players that had to work for EVERYTHING in their lives and are successful.

The winner was a David named Nick.  He grew up in a trailer, his mother died from a drug overdose and his dad sold blood to by milk for the kids. Nick wanted to be a lawyer to be rich and became one but did not want to work in a big city,  but,  that was where the money is.

With his $1 million in winnings he is moving back to his small town in Kentucky to help drug victims and family's, his life long dream.

Many say this was one of the best seasons on Survivor.

The average contestant this year lost about 1 pound a day in body weight. Having only 1/4 cup of rice a day to eat will do that. One guy lost almost 30 pounds.

The record was 80 pounds in 36 days in Survivor 3 where they REALLY gave you no food but what you could catch.  The game has progressed.

this year there were two typhoons and one they had to evacuate the island for 3 days as a cat 3 typhoon hit (the 2nd time a typhoon made for evacuations).  One guy was air lifted out with a REALLY bad back injury.

In Survivor 3 a contestant blacked out and fell face first into the camp fire and was rescued by the camera man.   That same season while off location at a tribal council a flash flood wiped out their camp.

Things get pretty serious on Survivor.  One contestant fell asleep on an ant hill and was air lifted out with toxic poising from ant bites.  One year 2 people at the same time blacked out from heat exposure - THAT was scary.  It truly is SURVIVE.

It's a VERY physical and emotional challenging game where every one knows how to play now which makes it more like a physical chess match.

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The NFL has taken MLBs idea and is really getting into analytics. One thing they are seeing is that punting is old school and teams REALLY should never punt unless they are inside THEIR 20 yard line.

The average team has about a 60% success rate on 4th downs, even 4th and longs are in the 60% range. GOOD teams are 70% and Kansas City is 90.6%. 

I saw one study last year that I can no longer find that explained why you should never punt.  The theory is that once you punt you can not score because you do not have the ball.   Zero chance (unless your defense scores ) if you go for it you still can score on that drive and you only get a limited amount of drives in a game.

 If you fail on 4th the other team has just about the same chance of scoring whether it is from the 50 yard line to the 10 yard line.  Crunching the numbers between a successful 4th down and scoring on that drive and giving up the ball and the OTHER team scoring . . . .it works out to  . . NEVER punt.

BUT it's hard to change old school coaches minds.   One team in collage did it last year and punted ONCE.  They won their division championship ( a minor collage conference).

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What is going on in Kansas.  Four Republicans have now switched sides and are Democrats saying the Republican Party no longer express their views.

"I hear every day from people who have been Republicans for their lives, lifelong, and they just said, 'I can't do this anymore. This is not what I stand for,' and that's how I felt," Sykes said. "I'm better served to focus on my job than trying to defend the Republican Party."

WHAT?  they are tired of defending the Russian take over of America?  Putin tells Trump to get out of Syria and . . . . even though EVERYBODY in government says NO!  Trump says YES.

So the money laundering of Russian money controls Trump and since his kids owe Saudi Arabia $400 million he won't do anything to them for killing journalists.  FUBR.

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I'm on a train page on Facebook and there are an amazing amount of old train photos.   This one caught my eye - seems a LITTLE close.  Saying I grew up next to the train tracks has a new meaning.

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I think this is Oscar material movie and Steve Carell will be up for an Oscar.   Interesting from WWII buff it is historically accurate from weapons to uniforms and is a true story.  Watch this and make a decision on whether to see it or not.

I mean - if you can get tears in your eyes FROM A TRAILER . . . . .

https://youtu.be/rBiyoc4E3mM

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Merry Christmas for all of you that are traveling!  Peace.

Rod, DJ, Gus, Sophie and Iggy