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With SD being an understudy of Jim Johnson, I'd expect: 1. Misdirection all the time. No more predictable "oh we'll just rush 4...."" 2. Many more blitzes from the secondary and linebackers. 3. Many more opportunities for interceptions.

I think Trump is vulnerable. I also don't think DeSantis is going to be the candidate to overtake him.

I think the DeSantis campaign is DOA already, regardless of the money being thrown at him. Looks a lot like Jeb Bush 2016. Flat. Made a bad choice to start taking advice from the Bush crew. I won't be surprised to see a candidate like Tim Scott do better than him in the early primaries.

Voted lower. If he wanted to play for a lousy team, he would have stayed with the Cardinals. With that in mind, the legitimate SB contending teams have no money, so he'll take a lower 1-year deal to try for a ring and enter 2024 FA for the new contract. It's harder to get in the HOF without at least one championship to your name. That's at least what I'd do. 😃

Bucs, Cardinals and the Commanders have already raised the white flag on the 2023 season.

I remember how much time and work you used to have to do to score that stuff before the internet, especially if you liked an out of market team. Stores didn't sell Bills or Spurs gear where I lived. You had to first know who made the shirt or jacket you liked, then order their catalog, then call and place your order, and then wait patiently for it.

Optimism: The Super Bowl window year of all Super Bowl window years. Loaded roster. Front office addressed holes in roster. I see McDermott running the defense as a plus. Pessimism. Will the psyche of this team change? The team continues to play games without a sense of urgency, focus, mission. Another lackadaisical, sloppy entry into the playoffs.

The running game. It's back. I think the 2023 version of the NFL will again see prolific running backs, especially on teams that don't have a prolific QB/WR1 tandem. The Eagles gave the league the blueprint last year. An effective running game, especially in the second half, leads to victories.

Fans can divorce teams. You can fall out of love. There are times where a team no longer deserves your interest or your money. I divorced the Pittsburgh Pirates several years ago due to their crap owner and lack of any identifiable plan to be a remotely competitive baseball team. If he could care less about the team's performance, why should I?

He's out of shape. Clearly. The biggest problem for the Bills OL is summed up in this picture. Beer league softball strong, but terribly conditioned, especially compared to the guys on the Eagles and Ravens offensive lines. The Eagles running success is due in large part to the excellent conditioning of their linemen. Those guys are physically in the game in the fourth quarter. Bills OL are physically exhausted by halftime. Lots of hands on hips, gasping for oxygen.

The 90s, especially the early part of the decade. All of the teams I followed - Bills, Spurs, Pirates, Twins were all good, and sometimes great during the decade. I also look back fondly at how the networks did games back then in the late 80s-early 90s. Summerall/Madden. Enberg/Olsen. Costas. Musberger. O'Brien. NBC had Bill Walsh calling games.

Re: Ray Lewis: Inconclusive on murder because he pled to an obstruction charge, thereby preventing a trial. The white suit he wore that night was never recovered, he pled guilty to obstructing justice in a double-murder investigation, was fined $250k by the league, served a 12-month probation by the league, and settled out of court in two confidential settlements with the victims families. That sort of mess would make me slow-roll his candidacy into the hall if I were a voter. That case impacted his on the field playing career, which we're told is all that matters for a HOF vote, and the NFL pretends it never happened.

Ray Lewis. No way he should have been voted into the hall in his first year of eligibility, if ever. That entire double-murder case (which remains unsolved 23 years later) still smells.

I think they will trade Ed Oliver at the deadline, regardless of the season he's having.

Leslie O'Neal, Defensive End Played 1986-1999 Chargers, Rams, Chiefs NFL DROY 6 Pro Bowls 132.5 career sacks, 14th in NFL History, tied with LT I think he gets overlooked because he played for some very crappy Chargers teams between 86-95.

Perhaps less. It may have been at peak commercialization when malls (and disposable income in the US) were in their prime, and the amount of intellectual property being pumped out by the entertainment industry was high. Much of the beloved Christmas entertainment stock - the songs, the shows, were made decades ago by people from a different generation. There's very little new content. We still watch Rudolph from 1964. Mariah Carey's Christmas songs came out in 1994. Elf was made twenty years ago! (2003). There used to be close to 22,000 Christmas tree farms in the US, as of 2002. Today, it's less than 15,000. The NFL would have never dared run a game on Black Friday even in the early 2000s, not to mention the 1990s. Nobody would have had the time to watch it. Black Friday was an event day to be out shopping.

I'd sue her and her attorney until I ran out of lawyers to do the paperwork. I'd also go after any organization that I had evidence they pressured the Bills to cut him, simply to make them spend time and money. Her attorney stoked a very public fire about this case, and that shouldn't be without consequence. I don't fault the Bills for releasing him because he was needing to devote most of his time to the case, and as a rookie, you need to be in team meetings and practices 100% of the time. Availability is your #1 job skill.

I don't think Seinfeld's comedy is outdated but I've always thought he was the stand up comic for the boomer generation, with limited crossover. Not everyone "gets" his comedy. I always found the created side characters funnier than the main cast. I've been surprised at the Friends revival. To your point about old shows, the genius of In Living Color and Mad TV would never see the light of day with today's culture. I also don't think you could do dance shows today - Soul Train, American Bandstand, Dance Party USA, Club MTV.

I think Joe Burrow is a far more consistent and composed player than Allen at this juncture. I think he will consistently give the above average performance, but the number of those truly great historic performances, especially in a pinch, will be limited. Josh Allen is this generation's Brett Favre or Kurt Warner IMO. When on, he's *on*, but he's not always going to be on. There will be mind-scratching throws and erratic performances. However, these quarterbacks can deliver those amazing performances - the comeback win, the shootout win, the Super Bowl win.

I'd say no. Nick Foles knows the Andy Reid playbook. Plays without hesitation and makes smart decisions. Outside of said playbook, he's not all that good.

I gave an A. I think you have two, possibly three players who will start multiple games in 2023, and they all appear to be legit football players, not athletes learning how to play football. I really like the Kincaid and Shorter picks. They are both talented at route running, and that's the key skill you want in a pass catcher.

Top NFL team in talent at the FO, Coach and player level. The leap from the really good to great is 100% emotional and mental for this team. When this team's collective "head" is right, they can soundly beat every team in the league. That's the hard work for 2023.

I think it takes two to tango. There's likely a 180 degree difference between the personalities of Ted Thompson and Brian Gutekunst that's also at play here. Things seemed to really sour between GB and Rodgers after Thompson passed away in 2021.

Washed up has-been. If Twitter didn't exist, no one would care.

Yep, we'll see. Colorado football has straight up sucked since the Gary Barnett days, and that was back in 2005. Recruitment wise, it's only up from here!