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Basham is a very strong man but with s-l-o-w feet, and limited quickness. Offensive linemen can keep strong, but plodding defensive linemen literally at arm's length from their quarterback most of the time. I'd bet that he'd come in last in the lateral ladder drill of all the defensive linemen on the roster. That was the big negative in his draft profile, and remains as a professional player.

I'm not concerned yet, but I see, without some guidelines, this being abused for strategic advantage because I don't know who makes that call to cancel the remainder of a game in progress. (Late season game where one team is losing big in a conference or divisional game, and a tie benefits said team more than a loss, or picking up the game later, buys time for rest or a new strategy.) I also think the gambling world would have big problems with cancelling parts of in-progress games.

Exactly. Same team.

I loathe corporate jargon, and I can spot the insecure phony in a meeting by how often they use the jargon. It's a never-fail personality test. "let's take this offline." "change agent" "ducks in a row" "low hanging fruit" "moving goal posts, needle" Also... "it is what it is"

As others have stated, they lack killers and intensity. This whole team has a feel of middle manager calm and discipline because that's who Sean McDermott is. It works until you hit adversity. I bet you $50 that Ken Dorsey got talked to about his rage in Miami last year, and how "we all have to act like the professionals we are..."

No. Super Bowl-caliber teams do not participate in OTJ training of extremely green, raw talent quarterbacks. Plus, barring disaster, he wouldn't play in Buffalo either.

I voted yes, and I'll add she initiated it.

He's the definition of 90% amazing athlete, 10% football player. He was set up for failure in the NFL because Clemson played him in a weird LB/DB hybrid type of position that doesn't exist in the NFL defense. He never learned a single position in college, and the Cardinals threw him out there and he failed. I think he would become a good player if he learned one position, and much like Trey Lance, spent a USFL/XFL season playing it.

49ers would be smart to either trade him to a team that would play him *this* season, or work out a deal/arrangement to have Lance get playing time in the XFL/USFL/CFL. Lance is exactly the kind of player that would benefit from a full season of "minor league" professional football experience where he's the guy, for better or terrible.

I don't think the Bills will run *a lot* of the two linebacker sets we're accustomed to seeing. I think the Bills know that position is vulnerable, so you'll see a lot more of the 3 safety look on defense. I think Taylor Rapp and Siran Neal are going to get a lot of playing time this year.

Agreed, but that's all voluntary exposure to the culture of the day. If you're living forever, you're going to live through the good and the bad. If someone told me in 1990 about 2000-present, I'd probably say "eh, I'll pass on renewing that eternal life subscription."

Likely be able to do it, but few would want it. An "indefinite" life would lack meaning and purpose. You also don't want to be in the position where you outlive everyone you know several times over, especially your own kids and even your grandkids. Concepts like retirement, kids and grandkids would also be irrelevant. I think it'd be miserable to live through so many periods of time. I don't think someone who was 40 in 1950 would really enjoy today's culture.

He's legitimately fat and that impacts his range of motion and quickness. Look at Trent Williams, Lane Johnson, Laremy Tunsil. Those guys are well-conditioned tackles. Dion Dawkins needs a trainer and a nutritionist. The Eagles run game was so dynamic last year because that OL was in shape. They were able to play at 1st quarter energy in the 4th quarter because they were in shape. I think the Bills OL overall are strong but they are strong men with slow feet. They wind fast, and quick defensive linemen can get around the tackles as the game goes on.

Movie sequel: Blind Side: With a Vengeance The Tuohys probably didn't break any laws, but they certainly played a successful con on Oher.

Was. Gets by on reputation of what he once was. IMO, got politically correct and lazy with the big money and second marriage. 1990s Howard Stern would have probably been doing man on the street interviews in NYC in 2020 instead of being holed up in a basement for nearly three years. He would have paraded pornstars in Times Square only wearing surgical masks.

They can get away with it in today's political climate where you've got a media that's grown comfortable with censoring. Either fans don't care or don't know. You also just have very fragile people today, and there's definitely one in Orioles management. Kevin Brown probably got the "you're an employee of the Orioles. You don't work for ESPN. Your job is to call a game, not be an analyst. Tow the line. Maximum positivity." In the 90s, fans and the media would be all over the team for doing something like this. There wasn't anything over the top or even inaccurate about Kevin Brown's presentation. My guess is they didn't like the graphic that spelled it out under a title "Tropical Depression." Haha.

The US team reads too much and believes too much of their own press. Nowhere focused or hungry enough, and this team just didn't play well together. Echo of the 2004 US Men's Olympic Basketball Team.

I enjoy the comradarie.

Nate Hackett is by all measure, a smart man but a bad coach. The greater NFL fraternity also really likes and respects his dad. Nate Hackett has an air of Luis Castillo coaching invincibility. No matter how bad he is at his job, do not fear, he *will* be hired for another one. You can almost hear Hugo Weaving - You hear that Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."

Pee-Wee's playhouse was a genius of a show. In our house, it was must see TV every Saturday morning back then. That theme song was stuck in my head. Thought about this show as I endured watching Barbie a couple weeks back. Paul Reubens was comfortable delivering a message through oddity, comedy, (and often double entendre and innuendo) without the lecture and being mean-spirited about it. That's the boat Barbie missed by a mile. He had a pretty good character actor career post Playhouse - I remember his characters in Blow and the Blacklist.

Jim McMahon.

I'd take any decade of my lived life prior to the 2000s. The Matrix movie had it right - the apex of western civilization was the 1990s. The world was arguably "better" before the internet.

I don't like that it feels we've got to impeach every President going forward for something as a means to cripple the White House. The Clinton and Trump ones were all about politics and none of them should have happened. That being said, it's hard to ignore the facts coming out about President Biden. You don't see anybody really refuting the information, we're just ignoring it. My guess is that if the impeachment effort moves to a proceeding, he'll announce he's not seeking another term and that'll satisfy the Republicans. I think the irony here that everyone thought Trump would pardon himself and members of his family as he exited office, and it could be Biden that actually does it - pardoning himself, his sister, brother, son, wife, the whole gang.

There's intrigue there - LVR revised his contract that permits LVR to cut him and be free and clear of the remaining years of the contract due to the foot injury. They can cut him anytime before the end of the season. I can see where they will play him September/October and release him at the trade deadline so he can pick up with another team, if healthy. All he really needs to do to is get that foot dinged, which is inevitable, IMO.

I saw Barbie and IMO, it is a bad movie. A bizarre, cynical movie, with a mean-spirited undertone. It doesn't like anybody, man, woman or the Barbie doll, and it makes all of the characters unlikeable in the end. The theater was mostly silent. The movie mentions the "cognitive dissonance of the patriarchy" at least 20 times. Bizarre monologue by America Ferrarra, dance scene by Ryan Gosling. I don't think all the kids in attendance had any idea what was going on. It's really more like an art house film. Haven't seen Oppenheimer. MI7 was very good. I enjoyed the science fiction angle of the story, but the way Paramount moved the story around falls short - the beginning should have been at the end, like originally scripted. Paramount did it no favors releasing it on a Wednesday afternoon.