September 06, 2018 06:36AM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 135
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max
I suggest you listen to her podcast. You may like it. Enjoy. Personally, I can't get through all the giggling.
Max, as a long time poster on this board I will do my best to be respectful here but I'm going to float an idea that might not go over too well. I listened to a podcast where she was discussing her video study of NFL linemen and my very first impression was that she says "like" a lot. But then a funny thing happened - behind the "likes" and giggling (I don't actually recall a ton of giggling in this one), there's a pretty intelligent young lady applying some serious real world science to football. That said, I absolutely did have to overcome my own bias and not assume she was just another talking head with a platform.
Is it possible that our personal biases are factoring in here? You aren't fond of the way she communicates, which is totally understandable. But I think it's getting in the way of your objectivity. She was on the payroll of ESPN/Disney in off air capacities, and was a speaker at the 13th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this past March.
So what I'm saying is maybe our "old guy" filter is factoring in here. Our parents and grandparents probably had similar things to say about us, or our generation in general when we were younger. I have no problem if you don't care for her personality, communication style, etc. - but I think you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater by completely dismissing her.
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