The Frankish Reich

Not me. I’ll be honest, I missed out on a lot of the big run up in stock prices the last 2 years, having reallocated to a T bill heavy portfolio when COVID hit. Now those T bills are pressing up against the historically normal range (4% for relatively short term bills) which provides a nice secure stream of income for a lot of retirees. I’m getting close. Remember: inflation awful if you have debt. Manageable, and sometimes not bad at all, if you don’t.

You do realize the idiot Trump tariffs (idiotically kept in place by Biden) have contributed significantly to the rising cost of durable goods? Have you thought about buying a refrigerator lately? Just look.

Turn out the base. Let us take the House and Senate and we’ll kill the filibuster and ban abortion nationwide. So much for “state’s rights.” Thank you, Sen Graham (a man far more likely to get monkey pox than to get pregnant, or to get a woman pregnant) for revealing that all that “return the issue to the states” crap was bs)

Agreed. Maybe he’ll come around. Being a head coach/CEO/whatever is just not the same as being the lead assistant, so it may take time. McDermott was mocked as McClappy back in those first couple years, and he’s grown into being a rock of stability. But no, I didn’t like the hire. The Broncos 2022 are not the Bills 2017. The rookie McDermott Bills had a shock playoff season, but everyone knew this was a team trying to build for true contender status in 3 or so years. The 2022 Broncs should be in win now mode with their 33 year old QB and a lot of talent in its prime/cost-controlled years. An excitable rookie coach like Hackett was just the wrong choice. As others have said, he was Rodgers bait, not the best overall choice.

Today’s inflation report: prices rose 0.1% month-to-month. Huge overreaction to the year-over-year inflation number (8.3%). Core inflation, stripping out energy/food is somewhat troubling (6.3%), but I like that this will encourage the Fed to finally return us to some semblance of interest rate normality.

Actually it did help. It’s kind of like the “Kelce Puzzle” or “Kelce Conundrum.” I learned a new word.

Part of being a head coach is knowing the difference between what a player believes he’s capable of doing and what he’s actually, realistically capable of in a real game situation. “McManus was making them from 65 in pregame warmups” is like “my first baseman hit a dozen homers in batting practice.”

That’s it. Broncos: multiple penalties of the “we’re not prepared” variety, including 2 (and it should have been more) delay of games. Plus nothing resembling a 2 minute offense, hence the total lack of faith in the offense to get the ball into normal FG position. It’s tough to lose an opener against a team that really looks like it’s built to draft Bryce Young.

These are great. Particularly the bolded one.

I think you're wrong. But I'm starting to have second thoughts. Did the Seahawks ever - even in their dominant years - have modern, quick release, high completion percentage, precision passing game? Or was it all "let Russ run around and someone will break open sooner or later?" I'm not sure that works in the 2022 NFL, and it certainly doesn't work if your QB is 33 and not as evasive as he used to be. EDIT: I looked it up. High completion percentages? Yes. Of course, a lot of that was dinks and dunks too. But here's the missing element. Wilson had 849 rushing yards in 2014. Then as many as 513 just two years ago. Last year he was hurt a lot and the run disappeared from his game. And tonight? Not a good sign for Broncos fans since he didn't really show any running ability.

I actually thought he was going to bring the offense back in after that. McManus missed that first one by a mile.

He somehow coaxed a decent season out of Blake Bortles?

Pete Carroll is Belichick's age. Belichick could pass for his father.

Here in Colorado the local press talks him up as a kind of Ted Lasso nice guy/unorthodox inspirational leader. Problem is he needs that Ted Lasso Nathan sidekick kid for tactical decisions. It wasn't just the final drive. It was weird playcalling all night. And a passing game that looked rudimentary, kind of like the Josh rookie year Bills. Nothing over the middle, no slot receiver/pick plays, etc., all of that stuff that modern NFL offenses are made of.

I'll be practicing my delivery in front of the mirror tomorrow morning. By the way: Hackett's post-gamer. Sounds like a podcast at 2X. What is wrong with this guy?

Far too chubby for that. Shrooms are all but legal in Colorado. So I'm going with that.

I'm in Colorado too. And I'm definitely gonna be using this line several times tomorrow. 🤣

Right. Sloppy, pick-up game style passing game. They have the athletes to make the plays, and Wilson gave them the chance to make the stat sheet look decent, but there was no crispness to it. I think it will come. "Smartest man in the room" Hackett treated camp and preseason as nothing more than an opportunity to get your players hurt, and it showed here.

And this same Mike Flynn was out in charge of our nation’s security. He is 100% baths!t 😜 I guess he’s now trying to claw his way back into some semblance of relevance by … claiming that he was the victim of a government hoax called QAnon? Does that count as Flynndication? (I love this thread and only comment on it to keep it alive. Sadly the Q Analysis thread went away alongside the Original DR)

Shaq seems to be the same guy whether he’s getting paid now or whether he’s playing for his next contract. Phillips, on the other hand …

He has been impressive. He’s doing what I thought DiMarco was supposed to do. But where’s the love for Jerome Felton?

They were perfectly timed to allow Cole to collapse to the ground after 8 yards, each and every time.

Kinda true. I like the guy - seemed like a great teammate who knew his backup role well. So I was trying to convince myself that he’d actually be good in his second go-round as a starter. But the highest praise I can come up with so far is “maybe a slight upgrade over the 2021 version of Big Ben.”

Yes, I'll answer: Because the guy was the "Clark County Public Administrator," which (if you're not embezzling money) apparently means (I had to look this up) he "secures property of people who pass away in Clark County while a search for family or the decedent's executor is performed." Not a very sexy or political job. In other words, who cares? This is what I mean about the Culture of Victimhood. All you people can say is "but if it had been a Republican, the headline would've been "Election Denying Trump Ass Kisser Arrested for Murder." Sometimes your job is boring and nobody cares about your political affiliation because it has no connection to the story.

It looks like that "complete hack activist journalist" was as much of a nobody as your Julie Kelly. Someone who writes for what used to be the free alterna-rag in Las Vegas, churning out bad takes for 50 bucks a story. My point: the mainstream media covered it, covered it well, and continues to cover it.