The Frankish Reich

How bout that F bomb, Tom. Your little girl is watching

Whaaat? Holding on a Brady offense??? What is this world coming to????

23 seconds off the clock on that "drive" Yes it is Brady Time

and there it is

I sense a big PI in 3, 2, 1 ....

Fast pace finally calmed down that Saints pass rush.

so awesome!! Love watching this.

You seem to be describing Jimmy Garoppolo ...

I have zero interest in this game or this whole miserable division. But yet I will sit here and watch just to see Brady humiliated. Yes, I am that petty.

Next year with the 49ers? Sure. He'll be a right-handed Tua with all that speed around him.

I think you mentioned this before. Anyway, thanks! It’s on my quiet (for me!) days of Christmas-to-New Years reading list. By the way, the answer is No. It should not be legal, just as it wasn’t in the NFL till about 2006. It strikes me as a really bad idea from the player safety standpoint, and a boring play anyway. So if Josh is big enough that he doesn’t need the extra push, doesn’t allowing that hurt us rather than help us? It would help a small guy like Tua more.

Me at 4:00 - Go Bengals! Me at 7:20 - Uh oh. Why did I want the Bengals to win? They’re coming for us.

Can we say “last 6 weeks of his rookie season?”

Justin Fields = Josh Allen, Sophomore season? Discuss.

I don't have numbers, and I'm not basing it on anything other than Musk trying to weasel out of his original offer, and the flow of advertisers out of Twitter. And the fact that it certainly wasn't a consistently profitable enterprise before he bought it, and the balance sheet is certainly worse now.

That's such good actual analysis that I might have to give in and actually subscribe to The Athletic. Unless of course you just keep digesting the best parts for me.

I'm no fan of Newt. But if the Republicans want to convince me to vote for them again, they ought to look back to his Contract with America days. I wasn't a fan of all the ideas there, but that's what they were: IDEAS. Actual policy changes and government structural changes. Not "own the libs" talking points. - term limits - social security reform (Yes ... it's necessary. It will happen on an emergency basis with far worse repercussions if we wait instead of doing it with phased-in actuarially sound principles today) - a balanced budget amendment (I don't like this one; COVID showed us the necessity of deficit spending in certain emergency situations. Having said that, I know that everything is an "emergency" to politicians who want to hand out candy. So it's two cheers for balanced budgets) - tougher sentencing on federal criminals - welfare reform (not sure I liked the proposals at the time, but they dragged Bill Clinton toward more sensible strategies that Obama and Biden have been working furiously to undercut) Will we see that kind of serious policy debate in 2024? We certainly didn't see it in 2022 or 2020.

Q. If Elon were to try to take Twitter public again today (new IPO) what would it be valued at? Remember, he paid $44 billion.

What did you buy? I'm thinking of doing what a lot of people are doing now: one larger gas engine vehicle for longer trips (the charging network is pretty sparse in the mountain west where I live), one EV for everything else. By the way: just paid $2.69 a gallon for gas. So it seems like SOME of this was "transitory" after all.

Agree. Just like Mahomes last year, Allen got a little tired of just taking what the D was giving him. In the first few games it looked like McKenzie was making strides in finding those open spots the really good slot receivers (remember Beasley?) specialize in, but then Josh got a little Diggs/Gabe obsessed.

Agreed. I remember when McKenzie first arrived here. A lot of his early touches were on plays that were easy reads for the defense with predictable results. It took a while for Daboll to figure out how to use him. I think that by the end of the regular season Dorsey will find ways to get Hines into space, and I'm looking forward to seeing that. He is a McKenzie type, but with more flat-out open field speed.

Dawkins: very good Morse: average in his decline phase Rest of O Line: replacement level Knox: someday potential may translate to actual play. Now? Average Davis: better than average, not clear how much room for improvement there RBs: average So …. he’s not wrong. EDIT: I checked PFF just for fun. More or less agrees with me other than Singletary and Cook rate quite well (above average) and Davis rates as purely average at best

Hackett is horrible in any year and with any team, and Russ has been horrible in Denver. But the idea that Russ was horrible last year and that Geno is that much better simply doesn't reflect the facts. Wilson's passer ratings last year, game by game: 152.3 128.8 111.2 116.0 93.7 [he got hurt in this one and missed the next 3 games] 39.7 [first game back post-injury, probably rushed it] 80.1 110.6 99.4 115.2 55.3 [Rams; his only real dud, discounting the first post-injury game] 104.1 133.0 110.7 In short: he started great, he got hurt, he came back too soon, and apart from one awful start against the Rams (they had a way of doing that to opponents last year), was really good in the last 7 games. In total: 9 out of 14 starts with a QB rating of 100+. Compare Josh Allen this year: 5 out of 11. [Yes, I know QB rating is flawed, but check any other metric and you'll see something very similar]. If he wasn't "elite" last year, he was still very good, and outside of the Holy Trinity (Rodgers, Mahomes, Allen; I refuse to include Brady] you could make a case that he was right there with the rest of the next tier. This is what's so shocking about exactly how bad he's been this year. This kind of drop-off really doesn't happen. Cam Newton and Peyton Manning are the only recent examples I can think of who've just fallen off a cliff year-to-year like Russ has this season. The Broncos were perfectly rational in trading for him based on what they saw from him last season. Watching him this year, I do think he's just done as a good NFL QB. I think he'll rebound, but never be what he was, even in the supposedly "down" year of 2021. But can he be that much worse than he was last year without some kind of significant injury explaining it? Answer: we won't know until Hackett is fired and an entirely new offense is put in place. My best guess: he won't actually be good next year, but he won't be horrible like he is this year.

That would seem to be the strategy here. Maybe he’ll come out a winner like Kirk Cousins. Or maybe he’ll miss that huge contract entirely. By that time he’s a 27.5 year old run-first QB looking for one of those 6 year deals ….

Who was this strong-armed mad bomber QB we had c. 2008? Where were they hiding him?