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A team's life cycle is a big circle. Rebuilding is part of the cycle. I think they will need to draft better because I forsee Kraft pinching pennies for the next year or two. Cam Newton's 2020 performance didn't surprise me. He was done and is done. The foot injury is chronic and it appears he's now got a shoulder problem to boot. He can give you a good September until the foot gets dinged.

I don't know. A bomb leaves a ton of evidence that can be traced pretty easily. Why would someone bomb an empty street filled with solid brick buildings with no one around? That just doesn't make a lot of sense off the top of my head. Happy holidays to everyone regardless of the news we are commenting on.

My guess is it is probably a meth lab. Probably something spilled in transit and driver panicked. Best time to move a lab is when no one is out on the road. The "shots fired" is probably the initial ignition of the precursor.

Brian Billick. 80-64, Super Bowl winner. I don't know what happened with his career. He never coached again after the Ravens. It's amazing the Ravens have only had three coaches in their history - Marchibroda, Billick and Harbaugh.

Josh Allen had high marks for being a coachable person. Josh Rosen and Sam Darnold did not. Rosen had a lousy attitude and a lot of quit. Darnold is still the same QB he was at USC. Absolutely no evolution. Coachability is a wonderful skill set to have as a person. As you explore the greats and busts at that position you'll often find that as one of the common denominators.

One of the many shortcomings, and potential for shenanigans, of the response was the federal government's lack of requiring labs to have one consistent PCR testing cycle range and showing the quantitative result of the test to establish the patient's viral load at the time the specimen is retrieved. Everyone is walking around not knowing what a negative or positive test truly means in terms of viral load, and I think that means a lot. A positive and negative can be separated by a single cycle but you can remain quite infectious. On the flip, you may be asymptomatic and think you've got a weak strain of it but your viral load, in reality, may be completely off the charts. I think if people knew conclusively how infectious they were, they'd be more careful not to spread it around. Many other viral tests for EBV, HIV, etc. all test for viral load but when it came to COV-2, nope, it just had to be positive or negative. When you had mono as a kid, the reason you stayed home from school for a week is that your viral load would generally decrease to a non-infectious level over that course of time. You could conclusively know that via test. With HIV, viral load IS the gold standard, it's an absolute need to know metric.

A lot of break-ins and robberies serve dual purposes: paying off debts and recouping the losses via filing an insurance claim. I'm always amused at all the brilliant burglars who know precisely where all the firearms and rare coins are in homes.

Of the three, Feliciano would be my top priority. He's really solid at two positions on the line, and in my opinion, the most consistent lineman the Bills have. I'd want to keep that versatility and consistency.

The *really* Inconvenient truth for Nickelodeon is that Dan Schneider really made them who they are today. The network has sagged since they cut ties with him. If it weren't for reliable SpongeBob, nobody would watch.

What are you willing to give up in order to be "safe" from the germs?

I wouldn't forgive it. However, the government should permit student debt to be treated like all other debt as it pertains to discharge in a bankruptcy. Student debt is very difficult to discharge. The government could also cap the amount a student could borrow based on the subject the student pursues to minimize risk. If you're going for that art degree, you're capped at a lower amount than say a STEM degree or a degree in the trades. Higher education, as an industry, needs to be burnt to the ground and completely rebuilt.

I'd say the 2020 Patriots are the 2000 Bills.

My answer: Whoever hires the assistant coaches and coordinators. If you hire effective teachers and communicators, good results follow. That's a key difference between the Beane/McDermott Bills and previous Bills teams - they prioritize those skill sets over Xs and Os. Coordinators and assistant coaches make or break a team.

When John Brown is on the field, his presence makes the engine operate at its peak efficiency. I'd dare to say he's Josh Allen's favorite receiver from a confidence standpoint. I wouldn't want the Bills to let him go. I don't think there's any defense in the AFC that has the resources to shut both a 100% healthy John Brown and Stefon Diggs down, and it'll prove to be a catalyst in the playoffs.

That's such a classic. Here's another. +1

I think he'd fire McCarthy if a big name becomes available. I couldn't see Urban Meyer or Jim Harbaugh being a Cowboys coach, but somebody like that. McCarthy didn't learn from what went wrong in GB. He's just doing what he's always done.

"It is what it is." All my brain sees and hears is Faith No More when I hear it.

You're right. I guess when I see him in the highlights, he looks older, and I see an old guy who's not enjoying what he's doing.

Pete Carroll, Bruce Arians, Vic Fangio and Andy Reid top my "don't be surprised" list. Mostly because of their age. Carroll will be 70, Arians will be 69 with health issues, and Fangio will be 69 and looks completely miserable. Andy Reid, if he wins another SB, that might be enough for him and KC has the heir apparent in Bieniemy. My dark horse is Matt Nagy. I think Chicago might do some deep cleaning. It's not working there.

I think Howie Roseman and Jim Schwartz are out. The team plays hard for Pederson. The problem for Pederson is the league is solving RPO and Wentz doesn't have the mobility he had. They used to generate a lot of offense off RPO. Roseman has lost his drafting and pro personnel magic. They have a lot of ok players but few great players. The great players are getting old. His free agents never play because of injuries. The Schwartz defense fools no one. The Eagles are closer to a full rebuild than they are contenders.

I think it's hilarious that Tampa Bay selects the word "defense" for the part of the team that's on the field when Tom Brady is on the bench resting. I literally laughed out loud when I caught some of the game and saw Suh drop back in coverage and lumber after the KC speed. That was a Kansas City track meet yesterday. Bruce Arians is a lot like Sean McDermott and arguably most of the coaches in the league. Even when matching up against a great tactician like Andy Reid who knows where you're going to be, they still believe in *their* scripts of plays and will dutifully execute them. They then wonder aloud on Monday on what went wrong - it must be the players! I don't think the TB version of Bruce Arians is the engaged Indy-era or early AZ Bruce Arians. He looks like a guy just collecting a paycheck ever since the health problems.

If the Saints choose to ride or die with Hill at QB, they will die in their first playoff game. Defenses will shut off the run and make him pass....a lot. I don't understand why every team doesn't keep a QB and perhaps a kicker in isolation. Seems like a shrewd move, especially for playoff teams. Having the Broncos situation happen to you in the playoffs is a job termination-level offense IMO.

Brown makes that offense hum. When he's not on the field, it never hits that next gear.

The only time period in recent memory where I remember the Lions being somewhat consistently "good" was all the way back in the Wayne Fontes era where they got close to the SB in 1991. Jim Caldwell is the only Lions coach since Joe Schmidt in 1972 to have a winning record, and it's barely a winning record at .503. The Fords (husband and wife) never hired the right people. I expect now that ownership is in the hands of Sheila Ford Hamp, there's a chance things will be different there because although a Ford, she's cut from a different cloth than her parents and even her brother, Bill. I don't think she will keep Quinn and Patricia - they are as good as gone.

ESPN, Headline News and even MTV were the canaries in the coal mine. Cable news is at nearing the juncture where you'll start to see more frequent layoffs of established talent, retrenching of live programming and more less expensive pre-recorded slop at all the major networks. I think Disney will pull the plug on ESPN cable when the existing contracts expire.