This is the Lay-Round Podcast with your host, Jay-Jay Zacharyse.

What's up everyone, it's Jay-Jay Zacharyse and the editor-in-chief at Fandall and at

NumberFire.com and this is episode 213 of the Lay-Round Podcast, one of the many shows

that are part of the NumberFire Podcast Network.

Thanks for tuning in.

I wanted to open up today's mailback show with a question that I got from at Zacharyse

Picker on Twitter.

It says, I heard some people describing the Pat's victory as a victory over analytics

because they ran the ball so many times on first down.

But it worked, and isn't analytics just about figuring out what works and doing that.

I think we're making a mistake if we're taking what happens in a single elimination

playoff and drawing strong conclusions.

It's amazing what happens to narratives based solely on the outcome of games.

The Patriots won that game and they deserve to win that game.

They outcoach the Chiefs.

But if D4 doesn't line up off sides, do you know what we're hearing from Talking

Heads this week?

We're hearing how Tom Brady threw three in receptions in an AFC Championship game and

that his run is over.

Instead, the talk surrounds Bill Bella checks genius now New England won the football game

by running the football.

And they did that in a pass heavy era.

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