The Frankish Reich

We are one Leroy Hoard away! Seriously, though, you have a point. Moss was supposed to do this. He failed. We’ve tried Gilliam a few times with some success. Singletary is effective but has neither breakaway speed nor power to churn out a couple yards when we need it. Cook (and Hines presumably?) are pure speed guys. Out last battering ram type runner was … Boobie Dixon? Karlos Williams? Super Bowl contending teams sometimes need pure role players like the “I’ll get you 2 yards” guys.

My rational side says it’s all ok. Sometimes you flip a coin and it comes out heads four times in a row. My irrational side sometimes sees a little Chargers in this team. In other words, on paper (in many seasons during and after Philip Rivers) one of the best rosters in the game, but always managing to screw it up when it counts. Then again, wasn’t that Andy Reid until a few years ago?

So Josh = Clyde Drexler?

How quickly we forget the bad old days …

I was heartened to see the rather sneaky (buried in the middle of pages of pregame Jets posts) return of Jimmy Spags. Hmmm…

Yep. I'm seeing some of that. Of course, Mahomes had his similar stretch last year, trying to make the big play when defenses were oriented around stopping it. I'm not worried. Yet. The Eagles low turnover rate = not sustainable. Sometimes it really is just luck.

I've hated it since it started. But it's gone past the point of no return. It's now the official moniker for Bills fans everywhere.

I forgot that you only get a pinky ring if Rex Grossman is the opposing QB. I am praying that we don't go to the Super Bowl only and be forced to accept victory over Geno Smith. I'd almost rather not make the playoffs at all.

You get a little (well, a lot) older, you get a little perspective. 1. It was great entertainment! Really the best 3.5 hours of entertainment this month. Makes up for my wife making me take her to the opera last week. Honestly, I would rather spend those 3.5 hours of fantastic entertainment resulting in a Bills loss than 3.5 hours of a 6-3 Bills win c. Jauron Era. 2. I saw tremendous feats of athleticism. Diggs' ridiculous one-handed grab. Jefferson's ridiculous multiple grabs. Gabe's ridiculous non-catch catch. 3. I saw jaw-dropping twists of fate. The goal line stand followed by the fumbled snap. I don't even care to try to calculate how many hours of football I've watched in my life (could it add up to a full year? isn't life too short for that?), and I have never ever seen that happen before. That's why we keep watching. 4. In the end this is watching grown men play a kid's game, putting on a helmet with a stylized bison on it even though almost no one on the team has a true connection to Buffalo - at least not a connection that pre-dates signing with the Bills, or that will post-date a Bills career. They trick us into watching by saying it's "Buffalo vs. Minnesota." It's not even the World Cup with general identification of teams and nationalities. It says nothing about the relative merits of Erie County and Hennepin County. It is entertainment, not life. Relax. Enjoy the show. Get on with life. Until next Sunday.

Delcious irony - totally lost on the Trumpies - if Lake "comes from behind" through late-counted votes to win in AZ. But this one should've been easy for the Repubs. Ducey (term-limited) was a solid conservative governor. These nutcase fringey candidates are struggling everywhere.

Wow. These are some horrible teams. I hadn't been tempted to watch either one until I got bored tonight. Now I know the truth.

Amazon gave Al Michaels a ton of money to openly mock these Thursday night games. That's the only reason I'm watching.

OK, that's weird. It's ok to be anti-abortion/anti-birth control because a lot of religions encourage procreation? And there were the Shakers, but that's a big reason why they died out. Poor Donny feeling rather irrelevant ...

No, we can't ascribe the absolutely huuuge day on the markets to the surprisingly good Democratic showing on Tuesday alone. Nor is it the relatively good inflation numbers alone. But we can say this: the markets kind of like what's happening. Divided (mildly divided, but close) government makes crazy swings less likely.

So you're saying you've spoken to me. Good point. We do need a rebalancing. It was always said that American politics (as opposed to many European countries) is played between the 40 yard lines. After the last 10 years or so, I'd like to see us go back to that model.

Your point is well taken. The Democratic Party on the national level today bears little resemblance to the very successful Democratic Party of Bill Clinton. But have you looked at the Republican Party lately? How is the Trump 2016 platform - one that was left standing in 2020, the Party leaders being afraid of publicizing it again - related to, say, the Bush 41 platform? The Reagan platforms? As I mentioned elsewhere, there's just one constant: overturn Roe v. Wade. Everything else is different. Free trade? That's so 1986. Balanced budget? Ditto. And on and on. Third parties always fail in our electoral system. But sometimes you need them to carve out a new space in the center and to start dragging the Republicans AND Democrats back there.

What a strange argument. Opposition to Roe has been a litmus test for Republican candidates for at least 30 years. (There were some pro-choice Republicans on the national stage before that, including Bush 41, but he changed too to get the nomination.) The Republican Party has shifted back and forth on almost every other major issue: fiscal austerity was in until Trump, now it's out. Promotion of democracy/human rights in the world was a core principle from Reagan to Romney; now it's out in favor of America First. Free trade was a core Reagan belief that carried on through Romney, but no more post-Trump. But there's been one guiding light for all nominal Republicans: we are against abortion rights, and it all begins with overturning Roe v. Wade. So you won! Congratulations!! And guess what? Now that you can ban abortion in a non-purely symbolic way, it turns out people really don't like that policy at all. Not even in Kansas. To suggest that it's some kind of weird quirk is itself weird. It is a core principle of the Republican Party, ending abortion. Actually THE core principle. The people hate it. That's kind of a problem, no?

The horror! People who might not otherwise vote - or be able to vote in person - actually ... VOTING! Because you eliminated the inconvenience of waiting in a line. Anything worth doing is worth waiting in a long line for, right? If I am walking around town and I see a line, I assume there's something good going on at the end of it and I instinctively stand in it. And if I'm in Anthem, AZ retirement community, I get to combine that line-standing with the culture of complaining. Nothing more American than that. This non-line standing thing? It's downright undemocratic.

But I thought that all those late votes would come in to cement Dem victories. Isn’t this just the opposite of 2020? nevermind. Don’t let that impact anyone’s vote manipulation fantasies.

You’re right. Weird to you and to me. But I think he knows his audience extremely well, and his first order of business is to get enough of that Trump culture war base over to his side. And they eat this stuff up.

I was concerned about Keenum as the backup this year, and nothing has happened to change that. I’d feel much better with Trubisky. I think I just saw too much Keenum with the Broncos. It wasn’t pretty. He’s a standard issue veteran backup, but this team is extremely Allen-centric, and while Trubisky can kind of pull off the Homeless Man’s Josh (can run a little, throw on the run, etc), Keenum just can’t.

Just trying to push this to 100 pages … Kinky Boots Ron strikes me as smart enough to tack hard to the center as soon as Trump is out of his way. If that happens…. Can’t wait for Trump to start spilling the dirt on Ronnie. Should be fun.

Correct. I should note that PA also rejected a fine Democratic Senate candidate, Conor Lamb, in favor of monstrous bozo and future Senator Fetterman.

If I remember correctly, he just dropped 27 bucks on two Red Baron pizzas and a gallon of milk, so … probably making a Kaopectate run?

Oh yeah? If they say we evolved from apes, why’s there still apes? - The Wit and Wisdom of Sgt Valedictorian Herschel Walker, B.A., magna ***** laude, Trump University.