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    Jordan Phillips wrist injured

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    1 hour ago, Rich Stadium Original said:

    Saw a report of a sprained wrist somewhere...nothing official. Team actually got a bit nicked up yesterday. McDermott even mentioned it in his press conference.

    I think Spencer Brown had fingers x-rayed after the game. Ty Johnson came to the sidelines twice with right shoulder drooping twice--looked like stingers to me. Leonard Floyd sat out for a bit being evaluated for an unknown injury, but went back in. No reports of severity from what I've seen

    This is actually concerning vis a vis NFL scheduling. First, we fly to London to play a team that has been there for 2 weeks, now we have a short week playing a team coming off a Thursday nite game. Unfair enough having a team coming off a Thursday game getting an extra couple days of recovery when they play on Sunday, but now we get one less day to recover. Schedulers didn't do us any favors this season.

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    The Golf Ball Rollback is Stupid

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    3 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:


    I have taken a bunch of lessons, watched a lot of YouTube videos, listen regularly to multiple golf podcasts, and practice very regularly. Yet I can’t seem to ever break 90. 

     

    I actually remain puzzled by it, because I feel like my short game is now decent and my putting very much improved. My irons are pretty good, though not long. And I drive it long. 
     

    I basically tend to have one bad shot per hole, and then you add that up, and it’s basically bogey golf or where I am— 90s.

     

    i did play a 9 holes once this summer where I shot a 40. I realized during that round that my chipping was almost perfect. I chipped to within 4 feet or less a bunch of times, leaving 1-putts. I am guessing if I can up my short game to that level consistently, I can shave a lot of strokes off. But that is hard! 

    Sounds like your issue is mental not technical. As the saying goes, golf is 90% mental, 10% psychological. Hundreds of books on the mental game, read one if you haven't. Only other advice I can give you is worry about your next shot, not your last one (kind of like life itself,it's a game of what's ahead of you, not what's behind you. ) I have a feeling once you break 90 the flood gates will open and you'll be shooting low 80s regularly, and it won't take you nearly as long to break 80 as it did to break 90. Search out this thread next summer and let me know when that happens!

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    The Golf Ball Rollback is Stupid

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    9 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:


    I have long arms and so I think in my driver swing, I am really able to whip through it. Doesn’t help me as much in irons, where I don’t hit it nearly as far.
     

    I basically shoot low 90s out there. It’s frustrating because I feel like my game is solid all the way around, but I can never put it together in a round. A few blow-up holes and it’s over. 

    If you're driving 250+ you should be a single digit handicap. I drive 200 mid summer when there's roll, usually 180-190. On a 6,000 yard course I still hope to break 90 when I stand on the first tee, though admittedly I'm disappointed more often than not on the 18th tee when it's obvious 90 isn't in play. Watch a few youtube videos, if that doesn't work take a lesson.

    The Golf Ball Rollback is Stupid

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    1 hour ago, Augie said:

     

    We want to get out 10 year old grandson clubs, but we honestly are not sure if he’s a lefty or a righty, STILL! We should take him to the range, get left and right junior clubs and see what he does. 

    Fun fact, Phil Mickelson aka Lefty is right handed, the only thing he does left handed is golf. Growing up his father and he would face each other, Phil would mirror what his father was doing. 

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    The Golf Ball Rollback is Stupid

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    On 12/6/2023 at 4:38 PM, Joe Ferguson forever said:

    almost ready for the senior tees.  That's ok with me.  I use soft balls.  keep it in the short grass.  they've lightened up some rules this year.  u can ground the club in a  trap, replace and lift a plugged ball....hell, we have organized mutually agreed upon cheating rules anyway.

    You can ground the club in a penalty area now (formerly know as a hazard,) however you still can't ground a club in a sand trap aka bunker. It's fine to do it in your mutually agreed upon soft rules, but don't do it in official events like an invitational tournament. You can however remove loose impediments in bunkers, which wasn't allowed prior to 2019.

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    Burned out?

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    9 hours ago, damj said:

    I don't know if it's just me ... but after the last 13 weeks, I'm burned out with this team. I'm a season ticket holder,  and I'll be out there the next 2 weeks regardless and sporting the red, white and blue ... but I really don't care anymore.

     

    But then again, maybe it is just me ... I don't care about much of anything any more. 

     

    I looked to the Bills to be a distraction from everything else in my life,  but they're just as F'd as everything else

    Didn't read through 4 pages so apologies if someone has already said this...was telling people all last week that the fans needed the bye week every bit as much as the players. The Sunday/Monday/Thursday nite games combined with the way the Denver and Philly games ended has me mentally exhausted. Hitting that deer on the way back from the Tampa Bay game didn't help either.

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    Coy Wire - CNN Video on a possible new Planet being born

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    15 hours ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

    Sure, until it gets screwed like Pluto in 2006 based on some technicalities..  

    It's actually based on only one technicality. The 2006 requirements for a planet were:

    It orbits around the sun

    It has sufficient mass so that it becomes a nearly round shape

    It has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit

    Pluto meets the first two. Re the third one, to quote Augie above, "No, I don’t know what that means either. 🤷‍♂️" But you can be sure that if someone had told Pluto in 1930 that he had to clear the neighborhood to be a planet, he would have done it!

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    The last game played on Black Friday was Buffalo at Boston in 1962

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    31 minutes ago, chongli said:

     


    Ok, probably not on the field then? But players in the video were running on either side of it. during that field goal We need someone who was at the game or saw it on TV. Or is familar wuth Nickedson Field in Boston.

    Probably the pole just in front of the stands in this old photo of Braves field (subsequently Boston University and then Nickerson field). In the video of my above post you can see it more clearly than in the original post. I'm also struggling inserting links in to posts!!

    BravesField_Lo[2].jpg

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    The last game played on Black Friday was Buffalo at Boston in 1962

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    http://www.bahistory.org/BravesField_Lo.jpghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPbSgGgL3X0

    1 hour ago, MJS said:

    It's hard to tell. It could have been at the edge of the field.

     

     

    Patriots played at Boston University Field, formerly Braves Field. I think it's the pole shown at 25:15 of the video of the 1960 Patriots season. Looks to be at the side of the field.

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    How To Defend The Eagles QB Sneak

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    4 hours ago, Virgil said:

    One thing I noticed in the Chiefs game, is that the Eagles seem to deploy a tug-o-war trick.  They don't push immediately, but instead let the defense get some momentum and then the Eagles push back on them when their balance is off.  

     

    It might be a crazy idea, but I wonder what would happen if you matched their delay.  Just pause for a split second and then go high.  

     

    I could be terrible wrong

    I was thinking a little variation on this. Just have the middle open up and let let Hurts run through for 4 or 5 yards and hit him hard from the side. Make them think twice about running it again.

    The rule change allowing runner to be pushed from behind never should have been made. How the hell does it improve player safety to let a runner have 300+ pound linemen push him from the front and back.

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    Immigration Is Good For America

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    2 hours ago, L Ron Burgundy said:

     If we were smart we'd change our immigration laws. Use analytics to tweak how many let in and from where.  Nobody wants to do that though because it's a lot of work. 

    Little doubt there's room for improvement but how would we know? First step is to start enforcing our immigration laws. After that we can go about seeing what's working and what can be improved by changing them.

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    The only positive thing with our recent struggles, for the board

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    11 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

    Were you allowed to keep the venison? 🤔

    Must have been an end of the rack that caught the bottom corner of the windshield, front door was dented but would open, back door wouldn't even open, and there was a piece of his tail left on the tail light. Friggin thing still ran off after all that. Bet he had one hell of a headache though. Guessing he probably died at some point but he got away from the accident.

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    The only positive thing with our recent struggles, for the board

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    For me the one positive of a so-so season is hopefully not having so many prime time games next year. Driving back to Rochester after Sunday, Monday, and Thursday nite games is becoming more of a chore than a pleasure, the next two 4:25 games aren't so great either. We hit a deer on the way back from the Bucs game (testament to Honda that we were able to drive it the last 60 miles, insurance company totaled my buddy's car.) Hope the Dallas game doesn't get flexed. The away games have been filled with prime time as well. Guess that's the price of success, but I do miss the routine of the steady diet of 1:00 o'clock games during the drought!

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