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by bmm6o 3533 days ago
> Long story short: quality is always important. as the median age of user rises, quality requirements increase dramatically.

The alternative interpretation is that younger users will put up with lower quality even when it is not rational.

Football isn't the most important thing in the world, but within it communication and data-gathering are mission-critical. If your processes are not reliable, that's a problem. You're accepting a risk that they will not work when you need them. And the trade-off is for an incremental improvement when they do work? Why would a rational actor find that acceptable?

Rather than being an old luddite, maybe Belichick is one of the few coaches with enough clout to call out the NFL's solution as being unacceptable.

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> The alternative interpretation

And that's even accepting the interpretation of this as old vs. young, which I would need more than 1 data point for.