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If Bass struggles the first half of the season….

I have good feelings about the Sooners this year Tons of talent

Buffalo716 -- a heartfelt post if there ever was one. I and others appreciate your deep knowledge of the game and your willingness to share it. On this latter topic, I read a piece on how the D could show man but really be in zone. One of the "tells" that its a man D is for the O to put a WR in motion to the opposite side. If a db fallows that motion, it's man. But the piece described how the db could follow the motion, thus showing man but the D was really playing zone. This tricks the QB into thinking it was man coverage. Here's the rub (no pun intended): I cannot find the post and I cannot remember how the D plays zone to the side the db vacated. Do you know the answer? Thanks

That is baseball in a nutshell. It never ceases to amaze me how folks who have watched the game for decades don't grasp the fickle nature of the game when viewed through small time frames. Neither Tampa nor the O's 2025 season is likely to be defined by the games played this and last week, they are just another chapter in a longer book.

I certainly did hype up Gilmore to no end

If I forgot anybody I apologize @BuffaloBill ✌️✌️✌️

Not sure what you are debating. The fact that the Diggs trade came after free agency began only enhances how strapped they were for spending dollars. Apologies for lumping things together (as one offseason) rather than laying out the exact timeline of everything in detail. The team was $41 million over at the start of the NFL year (so before the Diggs trade, which only made things worse when it happened). The team released a number of players and restructured a number of others, so they could "work around the cap" as Beane stated. So they would have some money to spend. [Note: Tre wouldn't be released until April 1st, Diggs traded on April 3rd.] In the end, the Bills were 22nd in free agency spending last year (they were worst in the NFL in being over the cap at the start of the new year). So, are you trying to say that they had plenty of money/cap room in 2024 and chose not to use it or used it poorly? Or that the Diggs trade didn't also affect their offseason (he was $3.2 million more against the cap traded than if he stayed---$31 million against the cap total--- and he had to be replaced with another player and their salary and cap hit)? So, not sure what you mean by "misleading" and "revisionist history." I'm not sure what point you are actually questioning or how Samuel being the 4th highest paid FA WR weighs into it?

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The backstory to the album this is from is interesting: According to Wilson, the concept album is written from a female perspective, and the concept and story are inspired by the case of Joyce Carol Vincent, where a woman living in a large city dies in her apartment and no one misses her for over two years, despite her having family and friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand._Cannot._Erase.

You literally just made me spit out my tea you sob Yeah I'm drinking tea at midnight

Why do you think this genuinely good man never gave his granddaughter the time of day? Seems like the kind of thing a genuinely good man would do. I guess he had a reason for shunning this innocent young girl.

@Big Blitz soon won't be able to afford his rent.

Tariffs will be covering it - the deficit isn’t going to be addressed in the BBB. That’s later. It’s cute commies suddenly “care” about the debt.

Outstanding post. Some of your better work in the post-mentally fit era. Kudos.

This is what it’s like when you have nothing. You should be happy America is restoring the greatness it lost post Iraq during the Obama Error. But your partisan reflex disease prohibits you. Sad!

I wish they would have reported the “low confidence” fact. That way we could trust CNN. I wonder why they didn’t. Any thoughts?

Me reading this:

Tampa got out in front of the O's 6-0 in the 2nd inning, O's came back to beat the Rays 22-8. now they won't score for another week