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  1. On 12/6/2023 at 5:40 PM, Kincaid Kool-Aid said:

    Von’s gotta be a scratch. Forget the off the field stuff, which is of course awful. Dude is a waste or space right now on the field until proven otherwise. This is a perfect chance to get him off the field for a multitude of reasons. 

    Putting the DV issue aside for the moment, I thought I read here awhile back that Von's knee brace was potentially coming off after the bye?  Hoping the added week off might lead to a healthier, more confident and effective Miller.

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  2. 34 minutes ago, Mango said:

    I think Greeny is right. Allen played great vs Philly. A lot of things are true at the same time. Allen is really really really good, he gets held to a wild standard, and sometimes he needs to be better. Some games have too many turnovers and poor decisions. 


    Short story long. I am critical of Allen at times and he has played phenomenal at times. Anybody piling on the Philly game is out of their gourd. 

    They are taking the opportunity to really pile on at this time because of 6-6, which is as much McDermott's D's (and injuries) fault as Allen's.  The last two games against NYJ and Philly were probably the two finest games Josh has played in the last calendar year.

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  3. 6 minutes ago, BillStime said:

     

    Hoax

     

    I wish, but this is "my lived experience", dude.  Maybe I'm just living in a bubble of it in my personal life since my wife is friends with the founders of BLM, but it is seemingly everywhere around me, including with most of the young folk I work with.

  4. 47 minutes ago, Buffarukus said:

     

    I talk about what liberalism stood for. How it no longer resembles itself and has flipped its values. Instead you pull out the comparison to MAGA. Its gross?

     

    I can go on. I did.  But this isnt small "cultural bs" just because you do not  have the capacity to care about the effects or dont believe they are true. These are major shifts in society whether you acknowledge them or not. Then when i ask for a comparison, i get the below.

     

    Im not sure what you get in your feed. I also dont care. I think your an adult who can make a logical distinction between bs and truth. what you think should be directed toward X to make ignoring authors or topics easier. But thats not what the left wants. They want to decide for me. They dont seem concerned about gov encroachment in those decisions for others. They think words are violence and every voice that opposes theirs should no longer have one...for our safety. I dont see those calls from the right. Very liberal of them.

     

    Thank you for articulating what it feels like to be a disaffected liberal Democrat.  There is a growing authoritarianism on the left that is both disheartening and a bit frightening, and there are large swaths of under-40 types on the left who strongly identify as anarchists and/or Marxists, especially young women.  My wife, her friends, and basically every late-millennial early Gen-Zer she teaches in her college program ascribe to this new way of thinking.  Shutdown, shame and eject any heterodox thought that could possibly challenge current social justice dogma.  Go watch the Evergreen State or Yale Halloween struggle session videos.  That is the type of illiberalism that is inculcated in young progressives who are now taking the reins of power in our institutions.  For anyone not already indoctrinated in their church, this should alarm you.

     

    When I rant about this stuff, it has nothing to do with Trump or implicate any sort of support for him or right-wing politics in general.  Just because they happen to be correct about Woke insanity, doesn't mean I believe they are correct about much of anything else.  As far as I'm concerned, Trump has fascist tendencies and I do not trust him with what remains of our democracy.  I will continue to support traditional liberal Democratic ideals, but I won't sit silently while the party is hijacked by formerly fringe weirdos.  

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  5. Holy cow! I hate to be a wet blanket, but somebody's been passing out the special Kool Aid to board members over the bye.  We just came off puking away a completely winnable game against a very overrated Eagles team that just had their doors blown off by the 49ers. The way this team is playing, 9-8 will be a real accomplishment and that will leave us two games out of the playoffs.

     

    Yes. I agree that some of our young guys have flashed, but we are 6-6 and nearly everything (big picture-wise) has been trending down for this team over the last 13 months. Add to that an aging roster, bad cap situation and a ton of holes to fill and it's very very difficult for me to pump sunshine at the moment.  Having spewed all that, I really hope I'm wrong and the optimists get to pull this thread up and dunk on me at the end of the season (and further in into the future).

     

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, The Wiz said:

    This game stuck with me longer than normal.  I usually get over it in a few hours but it really wasn't the game that I was pissed off about, it was the officiating that I'm still wondering how these guys have jobs.

    That's part of it for sure.  The fact that we actually overcame all of those ridiculous calls to find ourselves on the cusp of victory not once, but twice, only to piss it away.

  7. January 7 - February 10, 2000.  There were three separate actions during those 35 fateful days that cemented the "curse."  Johnson over Flutie, Music City Miracle, and then unceremoniously dumping Bruce, Thurman and Andre on the same day.  My wife believes that the curse will last 40 years like the Israelites wandering of the desert.  I sure hope not.

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  8. 1 hour ago, zow2 said:

    Us fans just need to realize that losing to: Jets, Jags, Pats, Bengals, Broncos, Eagles,  (possibly KC, Dal, Mia?)...means they just are not too good., and they would've flamed out in the playoffs and pissed us off even more.  

    The only games where I honestly thought the other team just beat us were the Jags, Bengals and Pats games.  We were clearly the worse team on those days.  We largely dominated the other losses if not for idiotic turnovers and late game coaching blunders.  We should be sitting at 9-3 right now and the metrics agree.

  9. 1.  13 Seconds

    2.  Bengals playoff

    3.  12 Men

    4.  Pats 2023

     

     

    There are some other very memorable ones (Philly '23, Vikes '22, Jets '23, Jags '21, Houston playoff, Pats wind game, etc.), but many of those are less defined by Sean's coaching than by either near miracles (Vikes/Philly), acts of God (wind game) or poor play by Josh/offense (Jets/Jags).  The four I have on my list I hang directly on Sean for either ridiculous coaching blunders (13 seconds/12 men), not having his team ready to play in either a big game (Bengals) or against an inferior opponent (Pats/Broncs) or complete collapse of his defense at the end of a game (13 secs, 12 men and Pats).  This week's game would be no. 5 on my list.

  10. It's a bummer, since Bass looked like he was going to be our Justin Tucker or Butker for the next decade.  Still, despite the crappy season, his career FG% is the same as the guy who beat us yesterday.  Not ready to run him off just yet, but if the downward trend continues the rest of the season?

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