Microsoft: “Please don’t use Copilot for high-stakes scenarios” Also Microsoft: “Here’s Copilot to manage play-calling!” bsky.app/profile/hype...

I’ll only use it for scenarios where the answer doesn’t matter then

We're about to see a record number of flags for too many guys on the field.

I wish I was blind so I couldn't read that

Jerry Jones is gonna hire a chatbot to coach the Cowboys.

Defense is in punt block formation on the second play of the drive.

Imagining Pete’s reaction when they tell him about this and I think it probably looks a lot like the banner pictures on my profile here.

Belichik might personally kill someone.

Not in the league anymore so he ain’t gotta worry about it

I remember how awkward the first couple seasons where the NFL had to use Microsoft Surfaces exclusively on the sidelines... May this provide us more priceless moments

They can't... filter currently?

Why would you need an LLM to do any of that? It’s just simple filtering that has been around for decades.

Shit. And I've basically completed all of my fantasy drafts for the season. But if I don't know which teams are making heavy use of AI, how can I know which players to fade?

Szzs

I think a lot of people are forgetting that we're talking about football coaches, not data analysts. I know we hate everything about AI every minute of every day on Bluesky, but this makes sense to me

If your team is coached by Sean McVay or any of his protégés then you are cooked.

they don't already have filters for that now? that seems like a pretty basic thing. i think joe montana football for the genesis had that. granted, it'll be hard for ai to match the incredible speed of blast processing

There is literally no need for “AI” in the process he’s describing, this is just a search function.

Going to be funny when ChatGPT has the Eagles running the tush push play on 4th & 25. 😄

Everybody gets a Jordon Hudson!

So this is AI, huh.

This is monstrous and any coach that uses this would be an instant pariah and laughed out of the league. That said, I’d be happy if I heard Mike Tomlin turned his clock management over to Copilot. Grok, even.

that's not AI, that's filters

Head coach falling in love with AI is prob actually UNC’s best shot at success.

this is out of desperation

Dolphins about to go 0-17

Jets fans will have a field day with this during next year's WYTS.

@grok is this 4th and 2?

Sweet, Browns have a shot if we don't fucking use this and eveyone else is calling Hank Hill-esque plays.

Is this the same Copilot Microsoft rolled out for Excel with a disclaimer not to use Copilot if you care about accuracy or consistency of results? www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

About missconceptions what is the purpose of AI-driven formulas in spreadsheets: The Great AI Spreadsheet Misunderstanding: What Microsoft's =COPILOT() Really Does (And Why People Are Missing the Point) www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-...

And yet it's so inconsistent at this task that Microsoft felt compelled to add a disclaimer that AI will be inconsistent and inaccurate. There's a reason 96% of AI ventures are failing and over 80% of mobile users don't want or care about AI. Welcome to the .com Bubble II, Electric Boogaloo

AI has it's use cases, which I tried to emphasize in the article. But, It's important to recognize it's not a silver bullet and cannot be trusted without review if it is dealing with mission critical data.

AI does have value, but the current signal:noise ratio is way off the mark. Shotgunning AI at everything is counter productive, invasive, relies heavily on exploiting user data, and the technology lacks the ethical guardrails needed for widespread application. Most AI is glorified spellcheck.

Can the game get even more micromanaged? Apparently yes!

Hey, if anyone wants to watch two computers play mathball badly I think you can set blood bowl 2 to have the computer play both teams.

BOOOOOOOOOOOO

Oh no

Him and Mike McDaniel gotta be on the shortlist for sure. Anyone else? Jonathan Gannon?

Gannon is already a robot so

lotta people asking questions about my ‘I cured my porn addiction’ shirt that are already answered by my shirt

I think Ben Johnson wrote a program to do this by himself as a dolphins assistant a decade ago.

Would probably have been an improvement over Matt Eberflus. Not sure he wasn't beta testing this as it is.

I just asked Copilot to create a goal line play. This is what is spat out...

You should never put your Drow Assassin this close to the line of scrimmage. Rookie shit.

Hmm

If McCarthy was still in Dallas he'd use this against the niners in the divisional round

Is the TE supposed to do a triple jump in the middle of the PLUFF route?

You laugh but the Pluff route can be devastating with the right QB

The ol ‘rb turns into wr1’ route

Channeling the 2014 Chiefs

Copilot defaults to scheming against the raiders defense apparently

I think the QB is actually picking up the RB at the line of scrimmage and then they combine Voltron-style into WR1 once they get downfield.

Honestly surprised a team hasn’t tried this before

You've never had your Pluffer flip out to the smargans and blup? You never make Head Clarg with that kind of miscus.

The more I look at this, the worse I realize it actually is LOL.

First and goal at the 22

TE magically disappears and appears twice while running the “pluff” route. I respect the use of magic in football

pluff

I will be angrily screaming at my television for Brian Kelly to run the Pluff route at least once this fall.

The Pluff route is much better suited to the college game IMO

Put the TE out wide on a PLUFF, Z on a go route, QB runs a route through the RB and meets the Y receiver in the endzone

AGI IS IMMINENT!

A goal line play with 20 yard routes. They call it the Reverse Orlovsky.

Announcer: "What a play! The QB runs out hands to the RB who throws deep to his receiver running a swiggly go route for a touchdown!!!"

Other announcer: that Pluff route REALLY had the defense fooled!!

If you count the unlabeled black dot, that’s only 10 players.

That’s the shadowback. They count as two.

it performs mitosis at the snap

I suffocated to death laughing while reading that. Congrats on your first confirmed kill.

Did the RB turn into the WR1

The QB turned into the RB turned into the WR1

There are 11 on offense. The FB is stacked on the HB’s shoulders and they’re in a tench coat which is why that dot is black.

We do play 9-man high school football in Minnesota and the Dakotas, so this might work? Nah

When you train your AI on the Jets playbook...

The black dot is there for the QB to collide with and create a butt fumble.

Like I said...

more, more!

this is actually a really good play for if the other team overslept in their hotel rooms and didn't show up at the stadium

"Goaline? Gotcha. So many many yards do you need? Like 25?”

We call this one the Pluffernutter.

The result:

@mattharmon.bsky.social is WR1 running a route that looks like he’s having a stroke then falling over what you mean by “sacrificial X”? Does it still count if he lines up in the slot?

Smart decision to only put 10 guys on the field.

No defense is the key to this play.

The RB turns into the WR1. But then the TE turns into the Pluff

Is there an opponent lined up behind the Oline?

Might be the ref

No way a false start by the center is getting missed by that ref!

There are 11. You're not counting the pluff.

Looks like the pluff is running off the field. I think the plaff was supposed to sub in, but maybe didn’t hear the play call?

And somehow still 5 of them are in the backfield

I love a both tackles eligible play.

Five yards and a pluff of dust.

You folks are criticizing it for only having 10 players, but think of how much money the owners will save by losing roster spots.

Copilot assuming that you had two holding penalties at the goal line to put you back 20 yards...

I don’t think it knows that the refs will give your team an illegal formation penalty if they lined up this way.

The more I look the better it gets...why the dashes on the TE route? Where is the white dot for WR1? Or does RB turn into WR1 once they cross the line of scrimmage? And then as others have noted, what is the black dot? If that is a defender, then where are the others? Just A+ all around!

The dashes are the pluff

Whichever coach masters the "pluff" route this year is winning the Super Bowl.

Well, duh, OBVIOUSLY the black dot is our wr riding piggyback on the FB. No one can stop that two headed beast

Copilot named this play “Bluff Jet Power Pass”

I don’t understand football plays and even I know this doesn’t make sense lol

The 2024 New England Patriots wish their offensive scheme was this good

Game over

"And he told me to get out there and win one more for the Pluffer."

illegal formation

9 guys plus a 10th guy who got voided by the Sentry, daring formation!

There's a long snapper above the margin, on the actual goal line. The defense will be caught unprepared for a 35 yard snap

Pretty sure you can only use a Sentry in the National League, so my St. Paul Vikings would never be able to run this.

now I don't know shit about fuck about football, but none of this looks right to me

Absolutely not enough men on the LOS.

Hey everyone, run out of the back of the end zone.

Here's what GPT5 did: ✅11 players ❌Goal line 🤡Two QBs 🧈WRs line up offsides QB1 lines up as center, center lines up as left guard, "guard" lines up was left tackle, QB1 snaps it to QB2 who snaps it to the FB, who then throws behind the line of scrimmage to the HB. Brilliant.

Gotta admit the defense would be in WTF mode

My copilot is badass

At least you guys could get yours to look like a field

Needs a Pluff

Me, who’s never played football and has a minimal understanding in the context of fantasy: that looks crazy, right? I mean… right…?!

Defensive coordinators hate the pluff route.

Ok QB, you have to morph into a running back, and then into a wide receiver. Got it?

I asked Copilot to spit me out a play after seeing yours, and I can honestly say mine is more efficient because I'm running it with 9 players on offense. The defense is only bringing out 7.5 guys though, so not sure what they're thinking. Also not sure why only the RB is lined up behind scrimmage

Must be a CFL play based on the route depth.

In fairness, the defense is not expecting that.

So the QB changes positions twice throughout the play? I suppose it would confuse the defense, but wouldn’t it too long to develop to be useful on the goal line? I Give it a C-

"Alright guys time to pull out the Tight End Pluff"

Wen pluff routes, @mattharmon.bsky.social ?

Only ten players? Man, the CFL would wax these guys.

No matter how many times you ask it keeps spitting out Spider 2Y Banana

Ah, the ol' "Pluff Pluff Pass" play.

these guys don't know ball

Pete Carroll, this is your chance to Figure Some Stuff Out, seize the moment.

new Hard Knocks scene just dropped youtu.be/8YzSHIYxdRs?...

John Harbaugh asking Grok if a play that Copilot gave him is “woke”

“But the algorithm said he was gonna have a 100-yard game!” “Maybe try restarting it?” “Did you update it?” Me:

It's going to be funny when all the people who have criticised the rise of analytics in nfl decision-making become first adopters of this AI bs on the sidelines

"CAUSE GROK GOT A GREAT ASS!!"

ChatGPT ≠ Copilot

That's what i love about sports: the fast, data-driven decisions!

ChatGPT told me that the Seattle Seahawks were the youngest team to ever win a Super Bowl and that they did it after being in the NFL only two years, in 2014. Good luck out there!

You don't need Copilot to do any of those things and if you use Copilot to do those things it will be much slower.

Exactly. This isn't using AI, it's using data labels that you can filter and sort by This is AI to the same people that think ctrl-f + replace is AI

Never send an AI to do grep's job.

I see so many 4th down tries this season. It's the perfect biased data set that should never be relied on for decision making.

Brandon Staley was but a herald

Based on results we could replace the last 40 years of Bears coaches with a Magic 8-ball and save a lot of money here

Coach: "We're at the one yard line. What should we do?" ChatGPT: "Throw it." Malcolm Butler: "Thanks."

wtf does AI need to do here? can't this just be done with any spreadsheet that has a filter function

Purely for the buzz. No one would be talking about filtering as it’s pretty standard and basic. Everything old is somehow magical now that AI regurgitates it.

Disrupting the facet industry

They're apparently chucking AI on Excel but are saying to not use it on owt important/legal. Absolutely absurd isn't it.

Is this AI? Or is it just a search feature?

If my coach starts using AI to call plays, then what are we paying him for?

Can you imagine the chatbox calming down Nick Sirianni instead of big Dom

I’m excited for this to improve Mike Tomlins coach’s challenge success rate

gdi they could have asked me to build an app with live pbp.

Mike McDaniel making AI his fall guy for this Dolphins season >>>>>>

Why even play the games? They could just do a whole AI-generated animated football league, and we can watch the games with our AI imaginary friends.

So, it’s going to take something that can be implemented more reliably without AI (filters), and add in a % failure rate by using AI?

Isn’t this just smashing the “Ask Madden” button?

If computers are gonna dictate plays then at what point are we just watching a computer play video games with human avatars? Is the thrill of the sport not putting human bodies, minds, and ability to react quickly to the test, including play calling? At what point is the sport no longer the sport?

Obviously, this is bullshit and no team needs AI to filter plays like this. That said, I can't wait for Aaron Rodgers to punt on 3rd and 9 from the 50 because Copilot misunderstood the prompt.

You could do everything he said in this tweet with excel (and there’s not a chance the information would be wrong)

Coach tossing their laptop in the garbage the first time the AI tells them to go for it on 4th down

ALL SIDELINE TECHNOLOGY AT THE NFL LEVEL DOES THIS

HEAD COACH: Computer! I need a play for 3rd down! CHAT GPT: you’re right! 3rd down is an important down. I’ll come up with a play. Try a hit and run, the best play for 3rd down. HC: that’s a baseball play! GPT: I’m sorry. You are right. Hit and run is for baseball. How about pick and roll?

HC: That's basketball! We are playing a football game. GPT: My mistake again! You are playing a football game. I suggest calling "Bluebberry 29." HC: I don't know what that is, but why did you spell blueberry with three Bs? GPT: The word "blueberry" has the letter B three times. Did the play work?

That's not AI it's a database query with some filters, good god.

NFL coaches are going to punt on 2nd down, get boo’d, and act like an XCOM player missing a 99% shot

"The AI told me to punt" is going to be the new "The chart said to go for it."