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Mock drafts you can do by yourself. The network probably turned Mayock loose - that was "his" thing they were paying him to do. Being a GM and drafting, you have outside influences - the owner, the coach, team brass, the scouts, player agents, the NFL, highly paid hallwalking team "consultants" for starters. You have a lot of people in your face, feeding you information, some of it right, some of it wrong, all of it biased. I think it's very difficult to "be your own man/woman" as a GM.

I think Kingsbury is in danger of getting fired. His teams just go flat on the back end of seasons, college and pro. This Cardinals team tonight was DOA. You don't sign all those expensive vets year after year to flame out in wild card games.

The storm of shortages have yet to really show up. Those will be in February and March. The media won't talk about it, but this trucker vaccine mandate at the US/Canada border is going to create problems the average American family will feel imminently.

The country doesn't need a rematch of Trump v. Clinton in 2024. It'd be nice to have two non-Baby Boomer candidates that aren't approaching 80.

Not his entire career.

He was a hot coaching candidate just a few years ago. I think there remains a prejudice against special teams coaches as head coaches, despite your John Harbaughs and Bill Belichicks. Joe Judge and his disaster in NY won't help matters - he was a long time ST coach that straight up failed. Bisaccia and Dave Toub (KC's ST coach) always get the interviews but not the commitment.

I have no idea why these Senators don't ask Fauci about the DARPA memo that Veritas "found" or otherwise received. That should end Fauci's career in government. I don't care about his salary or him personally. I'd care about preventing another lab accident, and that starts by ending the research money. You only do that by getting rid of the true believers who think it's ok to fund it.

This game will be close. Chiefs are a fragile team - they are like the Bills - punch them in the face first and they have a hard time recovering. You can run *and* pass on that defense, and their OL is down Niang. If the Steelers can escape the first quarter without a double digit deficit, they are in business. His receivers need to catch the ball. Their dropsies are a killer.

Epps is *somebody*. FBI, CIA, informant, someone. The man is either an agent or under protection. The man isn't trying to hide.

He is the human manifestation of the lazy sell out nobody expects to become.

I'm sticking to my Doug Flutie/Rob Johnson co-leading the charge. I want this to happen. Considering the decades long civil war on this topic, I feel such an event would bring the war to a close.

I watched the first two seasons. Designated Survivor had a hard time deciding whether it wanted to be Scandal, 24 or West Wing. The show had numerous showrunners, so each season felt differently story wise. I feel Designated Survivor and the Andre Braugher led "Last Resort" that was on ABC for a year suffered because they were high concept political thrillers on a network that wants to play it safe. You put Designated Survivor on say, FX, and the show would have been a lot more interesting. There was a day when the networks were cool with showing nuclear war (The Day After), the Soviets taking over the United States (Amerika) and the FBI in a running gun battle in broad daylight (Line of Duty, the FBI Murders, retelling of the 1986 Miami Dade shootout between the FBI and Matix/Platt).

Sidney Poitier stared in one of Hollywood's greatest comedies of the 90s, 1997's "The Jackal". The casting agent must have been so high he/she could touch the sun putting together this movie. In this comedy, Richard Gere has an IRA guy with terrible Irish accent, Bruce Willis plays a gay hitman from some foreign country with terrible accent. Jack Black has a small role as a weapons specialist. Sidney Poitier plays himself, looking bewildered, wondering what he signed up for.

Miami must be in the sweepstakes for somebody they want so they need to be open. My guess is that it's not Harbaugh, I think his alleged popularity in NFL circles is agent spin.

Can you imagine if they did this with the flu? All they are doing is greatly jeopardizing the response to the next great health crisis. Nobody is going to believe these guys after this COVID nonsense. Society will tune them out from the start, and perhaps that crisis will be more serious than COVID where you want people to pay attention.

He was a baffling pick by the Bills. The Bills selected him way too high in the draft and then asked him to do something he didn't show skill at while at Clemson - getting to/sacking the QB. The shoulder was a problem at Clemson too...and well, it remained a problem. He did not project to DE or LB nicely but probably could have developed as a linebacker if that was the intention from draft day.

This is excellent work and I enjoyed reading it. I appreciate your straightforward writing style.

I agree that most retired NFLers are terrible at this job. A lot of them lack charisma. Too many YouTube podcasters try to emulate Florio. That's not a positive. Most, not all, of the great sportscasters started in radio and doing minor league baseball, and I believe if you wanted to find promising talent, that's where it still lies.

He must have Juan Castillo's superstar agent. Does he check a box as a diversity hire? Is he asking to be paid in livestock or something other than money? It's baffling why there'd be interest. He's a terrible NFL HC. The only place he performed well was at Penn State, and his name is not to be spoken there.

Listened to the oral arguments at SCOTUS this morning. You need a big set of balls to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court. I can see how that could be so absolutely intimidating you'd lose your train of thought under the barrage of questions and being interrupted by a Justice mid-sentence and pivoting to their argument. It's a hard read for a layman to figure out where these judges stand. I thought they grilled the attorneys for the states and the retail federation hard but the same judges then launch into the government with the same aggressive questioning. I think both sides got into the weeds on COVID too much - it's fundamentally not about COVID at all - it's really a question of whether the executive branch can do what they've attempted to do here. I think if this mandate is upheld, there is not much stopping this President or any future President from using federal agencies to launch loosely held together mandates through ETS as a punitive action against an industry or start mandating all sorts of "protections" that benefit another industry like the health insurance lobby. They would absolutely love mandatory physicals, flu vaccinations, weight loss, non-smoking to keep their costs lower in the name of "workplace safety."

Out of curiosity, did you ever run your analysis on any other position? I'm curious whether it'd apply to say middle linebacker or center. I'm thinking of positions where you make the line calls and defensive calls. I tend to assume centers and defensive play callers *would* score highly.

If he's "back" and I doubt he is, it's one game. That'll get dinged. It'll hurt a lot. You need months to properly recover from foot surgery, and now that the bench physician can't just shoot you up with Toradol, it'll be a real deal pain.

If I was Daniel Snyder, it'd be the Washington L'Enfants and my mascot would be a guy dressed like an 18th Century aristocratic Frenchman who hurls spicy insults with a French accent like Sacha Baron Cohen did in Talladega Nights. He'd essentially have a WWE entrance to every home game.

I doubt a deal will be reached in an election year. This is an easy yes for us Bills fans but it's a hot potato for a candidate, especially in this unstable economy with inflation, and possibly a recession on the horizon.

By a 2019 definition, it's not crazy to say that COVID isn't the biggest story of 2021, but the failure to respond to COVID is. Despite the lockdowns, the masks, the social distancing, the vaccines, the mandates, you have more cases of COVID than ever before. And two years in, the governments of the world still don't know where it came from, or worse, unwilling to tell where it came from.