The Frankish Reich

You see the Steelers getting to 28? 30? Cause even with our decimated D, I don't.

Next week: Araiza!

Gotta hand it to them. They knew when it was time to start planning to move on from Favre by drafting Rodgers. And they knew when it was time to hand the job to Rodgers too. And then they did it all over again with Love.

Many here would prefer to live in these modern-day Garden of Eden Republican strongholds. I offer you ... the Great Southern Tier, where traditional small-town values of God, Meth, and Government Benefits still rule the day. https://www.post-journal.com/news/top-stories/2019/01/plight-of-blight/

It was a fun ride. Flacco has always been kind of a surly disagreeable guy, at least publicly, but he seemed to actually be enjoying this last waltz, at least in a Joe Flacco kind of way. A nice ending. Now know when to walk away for good.

Somebody jumped there, but I think the officials just want to get back to the hotel at this point.

Not a full rebuild. But speed ages poorly, and the window is starting to creak …

No way she comes to Buffalo.

I’m a Tua fan, but this is the game that proves that they’ll have to move on if they want to do anything in the playoffs. Kirk Cousins?

Last series: totally Kyle Ortons that run. At least try something to get past the sticks. This series: 3rd and long, check down to a 3 yard pass.

Yep, there’s no Playoff Tua there. Still the same safety first approach even when the situation demands something else.

Look at Andy vs McDaniel. Andy is dressed like every WNY guy about to have a heart attack shoveling snow. Nothing extra. McDaniel is bundled up like Kenny from South Park. As Buffalo’s Gregg Easterbrook always said, Cold Coach = Win.

Why do you talk as though there’d be some problem with that?

Bad taste in music. Suspect taste in punters. Great taste in linebackers.

Thank God we don't have a mayor named Bill Brown.

And for those who joined late, a clarification: Not the Minnesota Vikings Football Club. No. The actual Norse Vikings of nine centuries ago. They would play Kick the Irish Monk's Skull in gale force winds.

I haven't followed that string of citations, but off the top of my head it wouldn't surprise me if this is correct. Yes, we have a territorial dispute. And yes too, religious fanaticism is certainly making it worse.

Checking the hourly on Wunderground for OP, looks like 80% chance of snow at game time right now, with 25 mph winds. That is ... debilitating. NWS says a "blizzard" needs 35 mph winds, so not quite there, but really close. But of course it is so localized that you never really know till morning.

I'm afraid you're right. Intense cold? Probably worse in KC. Snow? Could be just as bad in Green Bay. Wind? Well, NE and Chicago can give us a run for our money any given Sunday. All 3 at once? Now that's an Orchard Park Special.

Exactly. From a pure football fan's perspective, I'd like to see a game where each team's strengths and weaknesses actually factor into the result, rather than having the result dictated by a boomerang punt into the wind or a slick/frozen hands fumble or three.

So you would agree that the way the game played out was basically a roll of the dice. Nathan Peterman actually performed well (!). If that's not enough to convince you, nothing will.

Dome, no dome, whatever. But do you have to build the new stadium on the same Orchard Park site? How about somewhere a little outside the worst lake effect area?

I saw the story on the ICJ on CNN World this morning.

We were already in the playoffs. We'd have played backups. I don't think people are getting the difference between ordinary "bad weather" and the kind of conditions we played in vs. the Colts in 2017 (sustained massive snow but no wind; we pulled it off in OT with Joe Webb playing QB - that just shows how flukey the conditions made it) or vs. the Pats in 2021 on Monday night (they won with Mac Jones throwing 3 passes). THAT's the kind of weather I'm talking about. If we get that, it's basically a coin flip.

Well, it's obviously all hypothetical. But ... yes.