Malazan

because the fallacy that the guy you don't see playing is always better may not actually be true...or the one that NFL coaches won't play the better players because of strange, murky "reasons"

Gase was promised safety this year and will be back next season. I'd bet a dollar on it.

Your talents are wasted here. You should get a job with the national enquirer.

Lee Smith is alive. That is my favorite Lee Smith fact.

without the fleshy appendage, my uncle is my aunt.

Improving the running game is the currently the best way they can improve the passing game. You want to stop these teams from dropping so many people in coverage and getting more 1on1s then...run the ball.. teams not worrying about the run at all is currently the most difficult obstacle the passing games faces.

Is Darnold still a 'starter'? It's a very convenient injury for all involved.

Watson trying to will his team to victory again

That's kind of the opposite of 'standard' then. An 'abnormal' performance that "no one can ever live up to" wouldn't be standard.

I love Frank Reich. I think he's a really solid coach. Glad they got the win. Still think Rivers is an ***hole though.

Something I didn't notice was a smart "non-play" by Boettger. He was on the wrong side of brown going down field and two defenders are coming in. He doesn't try to get a hand on those guys that was likely to not slow them down and had a good probability of ending up with him getting a penalty trying to make a play. A lot of guys might hero in that situation, but you can actually see him think about it and then just put his arm around Brown and opts to let Brown run. Looked more like a common thing done by players to let the guy know you're there. Didn't seem to have any force on it at all.

That you thought he was multiple people kinda testifies to that.

I don't watch the halftime show! I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY PICKED A MUSICIAN I DON'T LIKE FOR THE HALFTIME SHOW I DON'T WATCH!

So when I said that I thought Jackson lacked the focus to be consistently great year after year and struck me as a guy who would have an MVP year then read his own press clippings and maybe not work as hard, I wasn't insane? Strange, because so many on here told me I was was...

It tends to annoy me when it's extreme in either direction because real questions don't get asked. There's a thread here about the Davis non-TD.. ask him if he was in, ask McDermott why he didn't challenge. Deep dive into how the Bills handle the replay challenge. There's a lot of football related things to talk about and people who write words about sports seem to often have a hard time not going for the soft questions whether it's about somebody's recipe for apple pie or the "Do you think you'll be fired?" type of stuff that's never going to get an interesting answer about football.

You don't have to replace McKenzie's talents to replace the 5th receiver on the team. I never said they were the same player.

I think there are some QBs who can be good and not 'have it'. I feel kinda the same about Herbert. I said the same about Darnold to some Jets fans I know. Can you imagine Darnold going into an offseason and saying, "I'm not good at this, but after this offseason, I'll never be bad at it again."? How about the effortless way Josh just seems to make friends with everybody? I think that's super helpful for a QB. I don't think anyone would be surprised if Josh had an endzone celebration with every guy on the team and practiced it with them.

I kinda want to see a Jim Kelly era uniform (that can wait a year or two though), but I have no complaints about anything they've worn this year.

Long story, short. Cousins holds some sort of prayer get togethers in team facilities (and has a history of openly advocating for his teammates to share his beliefs) and Diggs wasn't interested (Diggs seems to be religious though). Cousins didn't like it and that supposedly exasperated the situation when Diggs would tell cousins he made an error. Not the prime reason for the fallout, but in my own opinion one that probably could have been avoided all together with some common sense. If you're really interested some searches on the Purple Pain forums will lead you to the threads from last season where this all was discussed.

I guess that depends on what 'good terms' are...are they not sniping at each other? Sure. Cousins isn't getting a Christmas Card for Diggs, that's for sure. The sh*t with the prayer meetings should never have been allowed.

Digging (get it?) into that Minnesota situation.. it's really unfortunate that it was portrayed in the media the way it was and he ended up with that reputation. It's hard to shake. A lot of fragile egos and unreasonable people were involved. Some really ridiculous things that put people in awkward situations and when they don't do what certain people want off the field.. those people start making things on the field part of their grudge. Bottom line, he wants to win and get better. He's not shy about talking about what's wrong whether it's him or someone else. I can speak from experiencer, I want the guy who tells me to my face that I screwed up over the guy who is silent about it or only talks to other people about what I did wrong. Some folks in Minnesota preferred pretending they didn't make mistakes.

I think Hodgins certainly has the potential of being the 5th receiver. You said a bunch of other stuff that I did not say anything about.

He may already be replaced (Hodgins) who had a solid camp. Granted that doesn't mean much. I'm also in favor of bringing McKenzie back at a low salary, but yea, if he's not back it's not a very big hole to fill.

The people still trying to herald cam are getting to be amusing. Sometimes, I make the mistake of going to pft and watched their show with florio and the other talking about what an amazing performance cam had against the Jets... like really? I watched that game and while he was completing passes... nothing about that performance was something I'd look at and be like, 'We're ok at QB'

pff should be a banned site / word