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I followed Colorado from the mid-80s to the late 90s. They had an amazing run of success under Bill McCartney. That man out-recruited Nebraska, and that's no small feat. Much like Nebraska, Colorado messed that entire program up by leaving the Big 12 Conference in 2011, and probably since they fired Gary Barnett, Colorado insisted on hiring coaches on the cheap that had mediocre to terrible records before hire. I'm happy to see they've decided to spend some money and attracted Sanders.

Eh. Players are plenty talented. It's the increasingly weird play calling that isn't spreading the ball around. Dawson Knox is a talented player, but he gets 2-3 targets a game. The most targets he's had is 7 vs. the Browns. Hines is a talented player but barely sees the field on offense. For as much grief as McKenzie gets, he too more or less gets like 3 targets a game outside of Detroit (10) and Miami (9). The offense has bogged down to Allen, Diggs and Singletary, with occasional sprinkling of the others. There's a game coming where they will need to rely on the supporting cast to get the job done.

Yes. 100%. Besides all the Christmas visuals and the fact that the movie takes place on Christmas Eve. Redemption: John/Holly relationship, Powell redeeming himself shooting Karl after shooting the child earlier in his career Christmas miracles: The FBI shutting off the power to open up the vault, McClane making it out alive. Scrooge: Hans Gruber ruins an otherwise fantastic looking Christmas party.

I know Die Hard is a 34-year old movie, but it makes me sad watching it these days seeing all the actors in it who've passed away. I mostly remember Clarence Gilyard for his role in Walker, Texas Ranger. That show ran for quite some time - 1993-2001.

Kingsbury's offense is a simple college set long figured out by the NFL defensive coordinators. That's why the Cardinals often look like a "go long!" Saturday flag football team that relies on hero ball and one athlete being better than the other athlete (Hopkins). Kingsbury has quietly been one of the NFL's worst coaches.

Dan Campbell and the Macho Man have to be related in real life.

To Ken Dorsey: I know you got a lot of heat for you raging out in Miami, but please start drinking the 30 cups of coffee pre game again. The chill Ken Dorsey designs lame offense.

Klein inactive is a mistake. The linebacker depth after MM isnt inspiring. Klein and Hines are in game shape. There's no reason to be slow rolling their production.

Push or shove, Dorsey/Allen must start trusting players not named Diggs/Davis/Knox. The smart play is to start calling plays for guys like Morris, Gilliam, Hines. They've been open. Hell, start throwing to eligible linemen. I don't care.

The early parallels I see between what I understand of this situation and what transpired in San Antonio is that the player is radio silent. The head coach is giving increasingly awkward explanations. The team activates him. Player still doesn't play. There's no player/Coach presser. Weeks go by and the situation remains static and the disconnect between player and team becomes increasingly evident. I hope this all doesn't come to pass and he's out there for the Lions game and everything is a ok.

IMO, it has similar parallels of the Kawhi Leonard/Spurs disagreement.

The Republicans need to simultaneously walk away from Trump, abortion and the uniparty Washington Republicans (McConnell). Essentially burn the house down, excavate the foundation and start all over. You don't get much farther with DeSantis because he's beholden to the "so-called Republican" anti-American moneyed donors who love the foreign wars, open borders for the slave labor, and globalism. Globalism is anti-American. They will distract you with all the culture war crap while selling every American out to global corporate interests as jobs and wealth move out of this country. It started with NAFTA and it hasn't stopped. I truly wish there was a political party that truly put middle America first. A secure border puts lower-income Americans first. Not sending kids off to stupid wars puts Americans first. Safe cities puts Americans first. Cheap energy puts every American first.

Talented coordinator, bad head coach. The Raiders are a team full of athletes, but few real deal football players.

Bad decision. He has to take a deep breath, relax, and send that pass to Morris for the ten yards.

RSV has been worse in years past, and it's been around for decades upon decades, but the hysteria over RSV happens to directly coincide with new RSV vaccines coming to market for parents all ginned up to hysterics. Every time I see an article about RSV or previously COVID, there's a children's hospital attached to it that go figure, has significant investment in the vaccine to treat it.

Voted "Pretty confident." A loss here, and it *is* time for some panic/urgency, whatever you'd like to call it because that Vikings loss should have been a smelling salt to everyone at OBD this AM.

That's tolerated incompetence, which I loathe more than the incompetence itself. Probably highly paid incompetence that punches out at 5 on the dot every day. Is the 2024 election going to be based on 49 states since Arizona won't get their results in until after inauguration? This slow roll counting should piss off both parties.

It's an evaluation of the contingency plan for Allen if nothing else. The Bills are paying Case Keenum $3.5 million for the "break glass in case of emergency" spot performance. You get 1.1 million for holding the proverbial clipboard. (Barkley). If Keenum plays this weekend, I expect a rough first quarter from him but better performances in 2 through 4.

He's not going to hold up to the rigors of being a freshman senator in Washington. She's always been the brains behind the Fetterman operation. I give it 3-6 months, but she'll be in the seat by the end of 2023.

He's a linebacker. If the Bills picked him up, that's where I'd play him. He's good at run defense, and he may improve in coverage with less territory and responsibility.

Quite surprised at NY and MI governor races. Surprised Michigan demands another four years of Whitmer. Surprised the crime isn't yet bad enough in NY to try someone different. It'll be interesting to see if Caruso can win in LA. In hindsight, I shouldn't be surprised at the Fetterman win here because I strongly suspect he'll resign in short order come 2023 and Governor Shapiro will install his wife as the senator. I think that's "the" plan. This referenda on abortion carries an expensive cost. I don't think the majority of America that aren't millionaires realize that this time next year, you're not only going to continue getting strangled by high prices for food and energy, your 401s will be eaten alive simultaneously, and you may not have a job.

Out of all the races here in PA, I'd suspect they'd be primarily interested in the governor's race. On one hand, Mastriano is the conservative Republican. On the other hand, the Mennonites aren't fans of the Christian nationalist movement many feel Mastriano is aligned with.

An interesting detail in my neck of the woods is the greater number of Mennonites at the polls today. A lot more than I've seen in previous elections. You'll usually see a wagon or two, but the parking lot had many more wagons and bikes throughout the day today.

Super Bowl teams peak at just the right time. I felt the Bills did that last year. They turned it on late in the season, winning 4 straight to close it out. In 2020, they had six consecutive wins after the bye. My biggest concern is this mid-season malaise takes away something you want - like being home for the playoffs.

Raiders: You chose poorly with that head coach pick. Should have stuck with Bisaccia.