Gadgetory

hi I'm Neil life itself on a verge and I'm Spencer haltom recipe nation and we just wanna have a little conversation about some pretty hilarious news and my opinion today which is that the Minnesota Vikings are wearing Google glass a training camp which is not going to help them not suck this year but I think Spencer has some ideas on what it might help them accomplish it really does like before we just start making fun of the Vikings which is going to be the point of this whole thing if there is actually a modicum of useful information and it sort of forward thinking in this which is a lot of football's about the eyes and a lot of the coaching that people do particularly in the defensive secondary and for skill positions on offense involves looking at people frightened looking off the safety going through your reads now Google glass probably can't but the technology they've got actually do I tracking I'm just assuming that's probably not something that's not yet yeah not yet however what it can do is that it can give you the perspective so if they really are turning their head to look at receiver one two three four then you'll be able to follow along with them and while that's probably not as valuable for veterans who are certainly doing this already um it's a matter of getting your number two and your number three and guys who are just coming into the pole trained up on that so this might actually make some sense for the AFL yeah but not for the Vikings because they're terrible uh so the Rams did this last year right do you that like take the sports world on fire the Rams we saw this first first engineer from training camp make an impact and how you think about sort of sports and sports journalism and what you're seeing from players not really because the Rams are bad and today be safe you know they're not they're not a particularly great team however it's cool that they're playing around with it because I think one coaches just want information if you want to talk about the information environment that they work in you know ideally coaches want perfect information everything they do is sort of a step towards getting that and if you can actually get what they're looking at and seeing on the field right because typically a play will say well I saw this and I saw this well you'll literally be able to go to the data and say no you didn't you actually get the safety at all or you didn't see the receiver coming across the middle and didn't react and once you get past a certain level of football once you get past the college level when you're really sort of pattern reading at every single opportunity that will actually help so it didn't necessarily rock the world I don't I think it might if you saw actual improvement based on that but here's the other trick the people wearing Google glass have to be good ha right and I think that's the key challenge for the Vikings right is they're not very good what do you think if you're I mean I don't know what which are there many bad quarterbacks do you think we'll most benefit from google glass let's see our Vikings quarterback roster now I primarily do college but we're still dealing with Christian Ponder yeah i mean i know for improvement there as far as i can tell okay there there won't be any improvement there because again the raw material inside the inside the helmet has to work and ponder is just hotter this is another thing that sucks for them okay I don't want to take pity on the biking but pottered arm is only so strong right and he came into the league of somebody who had some nagging injuries to begin with so it might not go that well now who can actually help would be Teddy Bridgewater hey Bridgewater Teddy Bridgewater coming in is going to have to go from chris peterson recurrently University of Washington head coach is fond of saying that there's this learning curve for quarterbacks at you know middle school high school college and pro and once you get to the pros he's talking about not only going through multiple options like in high school it's like you're throwing to that guy yeah he's up he's on foot taller than everybody else and he weighs 50 pounds more and he's really mean so just give him the ball and we'll watch everything happen right you get to college like well we have like two or three options you so know what you're looking at and know what you're throwing into and then when you get to the pros it's like okay you have a full moving spectrum right like moving chest and blows up right and we need you to know exactly where to put the broken we're but the night right we'll we'll script the plays you just need to know how everything's moving for fruit water that's going to be really useful because he played very well in a very collegiate offense with some pro elements in it so I think it's good actually like I think as a learning tool it's got a lot of potential firm that's awesome so last question yes or no is there any chance the Packers don't beat the vikings twice this year no no the Patrick will beat the vikings by awesome i'm eli patel that's been Spencer hall this has been a lengthy troll of dieter bohn the new executive editor of The Verge and I will talk to you soon you