Looking Back At The 2024 Man vs. Machine Rankings Debate: Who Won? (Episode 838 with Evan Silva, Mike Leone, Adam Levitan)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
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Adam Levitan, Mike Leone and Evan Silva revisit their preseason Man vs. Machine episode to assess which side came out on tope and asserts their status of King of the Rankings.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Whether Points per Game or Total Points are a better measurement of success
- Leone's Kyle Pitts takes come back to haunt him
- What went wrong for Zamir White
- How Jaxon Smith-Njigba's rise was foreseeable
- How Evan smashed his Malik Nabers predictions
Timestamps:
3:56 - Devon Achane
6:44 - Drake London
10:05 - Total Points vs. Points per Game
12:35 - Malik Nabers
16:23 - DJ Moore
20:24 - Rome Odunze
23:55 - Jonathan Taylor
27:05 - Josh Jacobs
31:27 - Jaxon Smith-Njigba
35:12 - Zamir White
38:28 - David Njoku
41:26 - Kyle Pitts
46:18 - Brandon Cooks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 838 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.3 | My name is Adam Levittan. I am one of the co-founders here at ETR, and today I'm excited to try something new. |
| 0:29.7 | We are going to do a review of episode 752, which of course, I know you all have the episode numbers memorized. |
| 0:37.0 | Episode 752 was the annual man versus machine episode, |
| 0:41.8 | aka Silva versus Leone rankings debate. |
| 0:46.1 | And we're going to try to declare an actual winner of the debate here today. |
| 0:50.7 | Leone, it's been a while since you've been on the program. |
| 0:53.1 | How's it going, buddy? |
| 0:54.4 | You know, I've been better. |
| 0:56.5 | Tough, tough weekend for my bills. |
| 0:58.1 | So we're just, we're hanging in there. |
| 1:00.2 | Quickly, Leonie, can we settle this once and for all? |
| 1:02.0 | Was it the ref's fault or did the bills simply not play well enough? |
| 1:06.1 | Both. |
| 1:06.9 | Okay. |
| 1:08.2 | Silva, how's it going today? |
| 1:09.7 | The rigged stuff is stupid. |
| 1:11.4 | I'll say that. |
| 1:12.7 | Yes, there's a difference between rigged and close calls consistently going the chief's way. |
| 1:18.6 | But, you know, that's a new one. |
| 1:20.6 | Recovered every single fumble on the turf in two straight weeks. |
| 1:23.9 | So they had some luck their way, too. |
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