The Frankish Reich

Agreed. I don't get the Steelers. Are they trying to win this year? Develop Pickett for future years? Because doing both at the same time seems ... unlikely.

Please do it Tomlin. Give your boys some kind of chance here.

We did it for a quarter century.

Yeah, those are ridiculously specific. Baseball does that now with defensive ratings, but in those we know exit velocity, launch angle, everything, so it's just a matter of physics to call a play a "10% chance of getting an out." But there's way, way too many variables in football.

OK, it's Trubisky Time. Big 4th quarter comeback.

Exactly. In an alternate universe, we didn't trade up for Allen and then wound up drafting Tua. And if Tua were playing exactly like this for the Bills, we'd be saying "we didn't get Mahomes and Allen, but we finally have a keeper at QB."

But do we need to hear someone say "he's no elite QB" every time Tua throws a pass? We get it. He's not our boy.

I kind of like him. I don't know what his ceiling is, but he has some swagger/doesn't seem to be running scared out there.

So maybe he's prime Jimmy G. Was I imagining him being in a Super Bowl?

Is that what he learned at Yale? The 4th Down Calculator doesn't know that the Steelers offense is putrid.

The proof is in the long term stats. Every QB has lucky plays. Tua played well the 2nd half last season, and better this season. Those things even out.

Wow, given Pitt's offense I wouldn't have done that.

The Tua Sucks thing is getting absurd. Guy's made a big leap. Yes, he has some explosive offensive talent now. But I've seen other QBs fail with explosive offensive talent. No, he's not Allen. We get it. But he's good. Legit good (if he can stay on the field)

Well, there's quite a bit of distance between Allen/Mahomes and the rest of the league. I don't think anyone expects him to hit that level. Ryan Tannehill? Derek Carr? I think right now Miami would be happy with that.

Not always. It is when you have an established franchise QB, but a lot of people here basically argued that he's a no more than a young version of Teddy Bridgewater. So that's the comparison here.

So you're saying it's the 46 year old ...

I know Tua takes a lot of crap on this board, but he passes the "with or without you" test - the Dolphins' offense is clearly much, much better overall with him at QB.

You mean until Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady come back home to N. Cal? I'm hoping they continue on the Russell Wilson path this year, but there is no way SF mortgaged the future with plans to stick with Jimmy G. or Trey Lance. Some kind of move is coming.

I think he will. Rypien is a perfectly adequate limited skills/smart/risk averse QB who gets rid of the ball quickly - think a less accomplished Case Keenum type. Rypien will have a Taylor Heinecke/Bailey Zappe moment on Sunday and Broncos fans will have a collective meltdown. Wilson has been bad, Hackett has been worse, the entire offense has been putrid. But I really don't get the schadenfreude thing - Wilson committed 100% to Denver, did and said all the right things off the field, and just so happens to suck on it. I get that Seahawks fans turned on him, but it's not like he's trying to suck with the Broncos.

Kid Rock, Canadian Millennial Edition.

If only Trump had done the same when the courts (including the Supreme Court) shot down each and every one of his arguments. Victor Davis Hanson used to be a respected professor of ancient history and a thoughtful conservative critic. He is now nothing more than a hack, saying there is absolutely no meaningful distinction between challenging the counting of votes in the courts and then conceding when they decide against you vs summoning an angry mob to try to stop a ministerial process from being completed AFTER your court challenges have failed.

The decision seems correct under existing legal rules. But the rules have to be changed. In our federal system the courts are not allowed to issue “advisory opinions.” If Congress passes a law of dubious constitutionality, or if the President implements a policy that runs afoul of the Constitution (and I believe this one does), there’s also no “taxpayer standing” to challenge it. You’d have to find an individual plaintiff or plaintiffs to show that they are being harmed by the policy. “My taxes may go up in the future” is not enough. It’s not just Biden, although this is a pretty extreme executive action. Trump diverting appropriations to building his wall was another. In our system, Congress is supposed to have some control over how taxpayer monies are spent. Maybe we need a doctrine (or even constitutional amendment) to allow the courts to strike down unconstitutional policies based on a certification by a certain percentage of Congress, etc.

True.

True. Brady is a Michael Jordan type. Most of the greats are just fine with being remembered as such. When you hear stories about Jordan he’s never been happy unless he’s competing and (in his mind, even if not on a field of play) winning.

Or when Tom Brady takes over at QB next year. Imagine the double TE lineup when Gronk and Kittle line up on opposite sides for Tommy.