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EPA per play is a good metric. Bills were 12th (20th this year but still working off that ravens mess). Right in the big mess of average. Feels about right and pretty good for a first time DC. Hoping we get just above that this year. DVOA is also a pretty good holistic stat.

I've never heard of anyone eating beer, but I'm willing to give it a try!

Tigers, Cubs and NYY advance. Cubs vs Brewers should be a fun series

Being homophobic to own the MAGAts 😎 You forgot the NFL

I do not share your optimism that Brady will unveil an aggressive gameplan designed to score early and often and force NE to chase the points. I think he will continue to do what he's done, to call a balanced, physical, heavy game. But what I'm interested to see is: what does he do if the Patriots bottle up the running game and WR screens and LOS in general? How stubborn will he be? Or, hopefully, how adaptive will he be?

True, but he brings in QBs who have the traits he wants. All those guys are accurate, timing based QBs who just run the plays and stay within the scheme and system. They succeed because they are who the system was designed to use. Tua would be good there, for instance. The problem is when things break down, those guys can't do much. But he has shown you can get pretty far with QBs like that.

Got that. Asking about shadows on field during game.

They just would have dragged their feet and be in the same shape

Yeah, I forget this league is very different than usual. It's a friend's salary draft/keeper league. Two years ago, they changed it to add individual defensive players instead of team units, and you now draft a team QB instead of individual QBs. It's been fun, but damn my guys are getting killed early already. 3 guys on IR off the bat, had to drop Bosa, BYE week just started, & had to grab some random players tonight just to fill out the squad. Wow, totally forgot about that! The stat they showed at the end of the game was pretty crazy. Only 4 x QBs have ever started 3-0 in their 49ers career. Y. A. Tittle, Jimmy G, Brock Purdy & now Mac Jones. 3/4 are Shanahan's guys. That's a testament to what a great coach he is.

Its Corning Gorrilla Glass, thats why it doesn't look like its there

They are definitely not a great team right now. Shanny is a great coach though

Interesting format to that league

What about simulations of canopy shade on the field during a game??

Right now the only draft pick that is not helping that hurts is max. we are getting a lot more help from Walker and Hawes and even Strong then anyone could have hoped for. Landon Jackson seem to be in the doghouse and the chance he even gets activated before the end of the year is shrinking by the day once the two suspended guys come back I give it almost a 0% chance he get any snaps this year.

Went with the Lions as well.....like the idea of saving the Colts for when they play the Titans.

I mean, Eric Bienemy was theoretically a great OC too, but we all know who the real brain behind the operation was. Let’s see McDaniels prove he can do it without Belichick first, before we anoint him.

Rams coming off a loss, facing the Ravens. Perfect.

Their schedule is extremely soft…it’s sustainable.

I’d go Lions rather than Colts. After this week, Lions have several tough matchups in a row. Regarding the Colts, I’m still not sold on Daniel Jones and would be leery of taking him over Geno Smith and Pete Carroll. Colts also host the Titans in a few weeks, so that might be the week to actually target them.

Out of character for Mcvay. If Andy Reid is calling s play in that situation, that call wouldn't even enter his top 30 possibilities. Especially with Stafford kind of on a roll like that.

Don't forget Sam Darnold went there for a year, then moved on and thrived.

One of the worst calls on a huge 4th and 1 by McVay. I told my son in the moment, don’t hand off, it’s a bunch of beefy guys clogging it up and it will be a giant dogpile for no gain. Sure enough, that’s what you get. Don’t take the ball out of your best players hands (Stafford). and that’s what he did.

JOHN NOONAN: The Speech the Pentagon Didn’t Want, but the Military Needed. War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s headline-grabbing speech in Quantico this week has irked the professional commentary class but is drawing accolades from those who matter — the men and women on the frontlines of America’s defense. Hegseth’s remarks to every general officer in the U.S. military, which called for a force-wide military reset and realignment back to warfighting fundamentals, were derided in all the usual places. The Atlantic led with “hundreds of generals try to keep a straight face.” The New York Times wrote, “his address focused on the kinds of issues he would have dealt with as a young platoon leader in the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq or as a company commander in the Guard. He talked about grooming standards. . . . He preached the importance of physical fitness . . . [he said] without presenting any evidence, that standards had been lowered across the force over the last decade to meet arbitrary racial and gender quotas” (evidence of that here, should NYT researchers need assistance for future stories). MSNBC’s header proclaimed the speech “was even worse than expected.” Not one of the authors of these pieces was a veteran. None of them fought on combat deployments under the failed military leaders of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. And none of them were twice awarded the Bronze Star like Hegseth. My various interactions with military pals are hardly scientific, but credibly tell a very different story than the one bouncing around the usual echo chambers. One USAF fighter pilot and graduate of the service’s elite weapons school, on the cusp of separating from service, texted me that he “may have to reconsider leaving.” Another Air Force colleague, a quiet critic of this administration, admitted, “at least we’re getting serious again.” And an old infantry officer pal, now retired, offered me a relieved “finally.” A more scientific Congressional report in 2021 found that 94 percent of sailors interviewed said the string of high-profile operational failures was related to Navy culture and leadership problems. (Full disclosure, I worked on this report as a Senate staffer). The reaction to the speech was reflective of the wider disconnect between people who think for a living and people who do for a living. It was a microcosm of the 2016 and 2024 elections, with high-wealth, high-status coastal smarty-pants types utterly appalled at the national electorate’s rejection of weird political fads, their plea for common sense, and exhausted need for a return to the basics of good governance. This is a fair summarization of the Biden Administration’s treatment of the Pentagon. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas frames it as a widening ideological dichotomy between the “people who take a shower before work and the people who take a shower after work.” I always liked the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne’s quote, possibly apocryphal, “I prefer the company of peasants as they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” In modern America, there seems to be an inverse relationship between educational credentials and common sense. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-speech-the-pentagon-didnt-want-but-the-military-needed/