A woman had Netflix for 6 years.
She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.
Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account. He changed 9 things in under 15 minutes.
Her homepage transformed overnight. The autoplay trailers stopped. The "continue watching" list cleaned itself up. The recommendations got sharper. The buffering on her 4K TV disappeared. The categories multiplied from 30 to 2,200.
She said "it feels like a completely different app."
He said "it is. You've been using the factory settings for 6 years. Netflix ships the version that keeps you scrolling longest, not the version that helps you find something fastest."
Here's every setting he changed 🧵
It's funny how the Tush Push suddenly isn't a player safety issue anymore. I can't believe that just so happened to coincide with the Eagles suddenly not being as good at it. It really makes you think...
This 4 minute breakdown of the Eagles final play from Nick Foles is the best I’ve heard & is absolutely worth a listen.
The Eagles should consider offering him a job somewhere on the staff.
What a clown show offense. For the season as a whole, the Eagles had a 35% run rate from shotgun and a 78% run rate when not in shotgun.
They also had a 77% run rate from 13 personnel, a 61% run rate from 12 personnel, and a 32% run rate from 11 personnel.
They tipped plays off all season, were arrogant enough to think it wouldn't matter, and were stubborn enough not to bother changing when it became obvious that it did matter.
Nick Sirianni has the luckiest arc in NFL history. Was intended to be a bridge HC while they ate the deadcap following the Wentz trade then the GM put together a generational roster and he rode the wave of two incredible coordinators (Steichen and Fangio).
The Eagles offense currently ranks 25th in success rate. They are producing a positive play on offense at the same rate as the Jets.
This is the lowest success rate an Eagles offense has had through Week 12 in the last 20 years.
In the span of 15 minutes
The Eagles block a FG, then score a go ahead TD and then block a game winning FG for a scoop and score
The Browns are down 10-0, tie it at 10 and then block a game winning FG. A few plays later they kick a game winning FG
Jets are down 23-6 and Tampa is kicking a game sealing FG to go up 9. They block the FG and score to go ahead 27-26
I went back and charted the Eagles' QB alignment tendencies for week 1 and came up with these numbers for the first 2 weeks combined:
Pistol: 2 pass (the first play of each game) | 18 run
Under Center: 2 pass | 14 run | 9 tush push
Shotgun: 57 pass | 15 rush
Excluding tush push plays, the Eagles have called a pass play on 79.2% of shotgun snaps and called a run play on 88.9% of non-shotgun snaps.