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The Saudis can buy any non NFL football league they want or start a brand new one and they can pay mega bucks for star players to play in their new league. And it will fail. Miserably. As has every other such experiment to challenge the NFL stranglehold on popularity. The NFL is king and PGA, LIV, or any other pro golf offering isn’t even a blip on the competition radar so I don’t think that’s the best example to illustrate whatever Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning influence in pro sports may be.

700k in LA is not a good number for advertisers who pay the NFL premium rates. In fact, it sucks. When advertisers see a 12% share of viewers, it’s a loss because that means 88% of the viewing market has their eyes on something else.

It’s been playoff games since the loss to the Broncos.

Oh, for the days when we had an O Line that could execute them like the one that Thurman enjoyed.

The league may be ok with the number of eyes, but the advertisers who pay a premium rate during NFL broadcasts certainly aren’t. For advertisers, it’s all about the percentage of viewers tuned in during a particular broadcast in a particular market. LA has never been strong in that regard and the local affiliates have never been too happy about it, either. It’s a tough pill to swallow when Sunday matinee movies and reruns of Gilligan’s Island draw more eyes for advertisers paying far cheaper ad rates.

Yep, those Celtics would heat up in the 4th quarter just in time for Mendy Rudolph to take over on their benalf.

Hats off to a tough Raiders defense. I’m shocked but not surprised in the least that they won the game. Whenever two divisional opponents who know each other like the backs of their hands square off, anything can happen. I hope this informs McD and company for next Sunday.

Have we already forgotten how much Poona Ford sucked this season?

I’d appreciate a critical analysis of the difference between lucky and fortunate. Since every team in every game every week stands some chance to lose, then I guess all the winning teams are “fortunate” every single week.

Yes, Josh showed up when it mattered most. But there is nothing “lucky” about great players rising to the occasion, especially when we’ve seen it time and time again from Allen over the years. Luck simply had nothing to do with it.

If you’re gonna insist that we were “lucky” to win this game, then you also have to accept that we were UNlucky to have to rely on being lucky to win in the first place. The Chargers were the beneficiaries of a string of fortunate events in the game as well. And there was nothing lucky about the plays we made to win it at the end. We earned everything on that final drive. Pooh pooh it all you want but good teams find ways to win ugly games.

He’s hangin’ with Fendi Onobun.

Pretty sure it’s not Lou Piccone.

The NBA has athletes like that. What a weapon that would be on the football field.

Laughable. Tom Brady threw more balls into open zone areas than anyone. He was just a lot better at it than Minshew was on that particular play. And it’s not like Brady never threw a bad ball that made his receivers vulnerable, either. Sorry random internet dude, but if Kazee doesn’t take the cheap shot, it’s just another overthrown pass and you’re not giving a crap about anything Tom Brady has to say on the matter.

Nor should he. The last thing he should be concerned about is some inane barstool debate among biased fans.

Fred Williamson would agree with Jack Tatum.

Can he play WR?

Yep. Best 1 tech DT gone, best LB gone, best CB gone. It is not wrong to say that hurt a ton in the short term. But the additions of Douglas and Joseph along with the unexpected turnaround by Dodson have more than helped to steady the ship.

Any QB worth his salt would say he needs to make a better throw in that situation. But QBs make those throws all the time. Minshew missed. Simple as that. It was a poor throw, not a poor decision because the receiver found the open area in the zone and that’s where the ball is supposed to go.

So QBs who throw to open spaces in zones are making unacceptable throws? We see that multiple times a game by QBs good and bad every week. Granted, the throw lacked a finer touch but it was a good attempt nonetheless. The only unacceptable aspect of the play was Kazee’s criminal lack of self control.

Please allow me to settle it. Thurman = best since OJ, with apologies to Joe Cribbs Cook = best since Thurman, with apologies to Fred Jackson and Shady McCoy

Are you at all familiar with the concept of “the journey?”