The Frankish Reich

And adding an elite receiver is the easiest way for a team to vault ahead. Diggs, AJ Brown, etc.

Complete domination. 21:00 to 9:00 time of possession. Miami completely exposed (and the Chargers the Team You Don't Want to Get in the Playoffs If They Ever Make it There). But only a 10 point game thanks to the Chargers sleeping on that fumble.

Is Chan Gailey still alive? We need a Special Screen Game Consultant.

Why not?

There is such a thing as overthinking.

I agree. Chargers destroy the Miami myth tonight.

Kind of true. I refuse to anoint the Eagles, but I gotta admit, they've got something happening there

Josh Johnson in at QB for the Niners. He clearly won the Broncos backup QB job this preseason but they went with Rypien. If he'd been in there for Russell Wilson today at least they would've had a chance. He's .... Adequate!

49ers are the best team in football IF they can get even average performance at QB.

I think the problem is this: Wilson finally tried (because grudge game for the Broncos; the Chiefs are to them what the Pats were to us) to carry the team on his back and did things like actually put his head down to try to get a key first down running the ball. And the result? Exactly what he and Hackett seemed to be afraid of: a significant injury. So they can score 13 points and lose with the 2022 Russell Wilson, or score 24 points with the old Russell Wilson and watch him get knocked out of the game. Not a good place for the Broncos to be.

Meanwhile: Brock Purdy = Gardner Minshew on a good team. Could this actually work? Chiefs-Broncos is a better game, but I'm hoping to see plenty of highlights of Tom sulking.

Hey, he learned!

More on Hackett and Kubiak's son. Rypien doesn't have the arm to throw those even if he's not hit. Stupid.

There's a lot that Mahomes and Allen have in common this year. Both are prone to getting greedy, unwilling to grind out those unsatisfying 24-14 wins ...

By far. Wilson looked like he actually had some fire in him again .... until that fire resulted in him getting a concussion trying to run for a TD. Meanwhile: all Mahomes had to do is make sure he didn't turn it over and this is an easy win. And that's exactly what he didn't do, trying to run up the score.

We can only hope that Zach Wilson is being kept in an isolation chamber with food being passed through a slot in his door. We need that boy healthy on Sunday! (Mike White should be sharing ice cream cones with that mystery illness guy)

There's a helluva backstory there, but right now I'm not sure I want to hear it.

First Tre White dogging it, luxuriating in his mountain of hundred dollar bills, now Jamison Crowder! Seriously, I like Crowder. I think signing him was a good idea, and an experienced slot receiver is something we really need. Fingers crossed that he gets back for the playoffs.

Dunkirk Don, is that you? And if it is, are you enjoying the millions you made by buying up land near the new Bills stadium in Darien Lake?

The NFL has cleverly created a calendar to keep serious fans locked in all year: early summer OTAs, camp, regular season, Black Monday coach firing day, extended playoffs, Super Bowl, free agency, and finally the draft. And they’ve hooked me. I pay attention to all of that. Except the pre-draft month or so with the preposterous mock drafts in which the very best will get about 4 or 5 picks correct (meaning team + pick number match up). Why people do this, I’ll never know. That’s the time to take a month of from thinking about the NFL. Tune back in on draft day itself.

This is true. I would like to see the government (Fed? State? Both?) condemn a lot of land on the US Side and try to restore it to its natural beauty. That land is a blighted anyway. I see old 1800s paintings and it’s kind of the Yosemite of the East. Let Canada have the hotels and arcade crap.

I've watched a lot of Broncos football this year. And my impression: maybe the guys we thought were big-time playmakers aren't. Sutton appeared ready to resume where he was before injury, but to me he seems like he's not getting separation consistently. Jeudy is nearing bust territory. I thought Noah Fant (he went to Seattle in the Wilson trade) was a only being held back by poor offensive schemes and quarterbacking. He's a bit behind last year's productivity. Add to that 3 guys hurt on the O line and the only real standouts at the skill positions last year - Javonte Williams and Tim Patrick - going down for the season by Game 1 and there's the recipe for the disaster we're seeing. No doubt Wilson has been really bad, and Hackett has been worse. But a season like this makes you reevaluate everything you thought you knew. Sutton, Jeudy, even Javonte - they may not be around. Wilson's contract says he has to be there for basically 3 more years, so they've go to bring in a new coaching staff and new players to try to make it work. There really is no other option. Dreams of a Super Bowl competitor are over. A .500ish team next year? I don't see that as out of the question.

Not ideal for him like SF, but the Rams are a pretty good landing spot: - he will definitely get an opportunity this year on a team that still has talent. Mostly defensive talent, but still. - good offensive minds who may be able to figure out how to maximize his talents and hide his shortcomings - it is by no means certain that Stafford will make it all the way back. He could be Peyton Manning in his final year next season. So Baker has a continuing chance if he stays there.

In my lifetime, I saw the Democrats go waaay to the left of the median voter once: McGovern. And he got clobbered in a defeat that has never been matched. But the primary process will always pull candidates too far to either side. Hillary 2016 was a victim of Bernie; she couldn’t occupy the center like good ol’ Bill after Bernie shifted the party hard left. What we have going on with the Republicans is just plain weird now. Not ideological, just weird. Celebrity candidates like Oz and Tommy Tuberville and Herschel Walker, not to mention Trump himself.

I don't like Julio Jones suddenly showing signs of life again. Yes, there is a perfectly good chance that the Bucs pull it together in time to do some damage in the playoffs.