The Frankish Reich

Prediction: tonight will be Jake Kumerow’s big night. Somebody’s gotta get those Gabe targets.

The SNF wrap said it all. 8 completions last week. OK, so that was in heavy rain. So perfect evening tonight, 7 completions. I don't care who you have as targets, that's still awful. It's like Tebow is playing QB for the Bears, but without the running game.

WTF Raiders. You just need a few more yards for a 85% chance to make it FG. And you lose it just like that.

I’m 100% certain we are better than Miami, but … that speed does worry me. It’s not like Tyreek hasn’t burned us before. I have a hunch that this McDaniel is figuring out how to get the most out of Tua and his limitations. Actually, 6 TD passes suggests it’s more than a hunch.

True. And a couple unduly risky throws (for him, not Josh or Mahomes). There must be a better way given the receiving talent they have.

Tua comes out throwing ... downfield? Into tight windows? Oh, and gets picked off. Maybe we should go back to the checkdowns.

Also known to have a drink or two, every now and then ... and he's 74.

Wow. I bet tomorrow we find out Herbert is playing with cracked ribs.

Could've at least set up for the 75 yard FG

They solved the Kelce rebus but they're still gonna lose this one.

He's hurting.

Damn. I love watching the great young class of AFC QBs. Hope it was just the wind knocked out of him.

You know how you guys always mock the latest Trump investigations? "This time we really got him!" Well, this time you really didn't get Hillary. Again. You know how you also say "No one cares?" Well, this time really no one cares. It's over. "Hillary's emails" "Benghazi." Haha, nobody's listening (except Julie Kelly and her stay-at-home-mom army)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/durham-inquiry-trump-russia.amp.html What? Winding down? No Gitmo for the perps?? Where’s that Storm you promised us?? 😜

You mean the Diggs Rebus? It sounds so much more philosophical if you put it that way.

1. Aaron Donald gonna make a lot of interior offensive linemen get bad grades. There’s no “strength of opponent” grading curve. 2. PFF is pretty good with large samples. And as I’ve pointed out, I think it’s telling that every O line change Beane made in the off-season was to a guy with a better PFF overall score last year. So it pretty much agreed with what real pro scouting staff see. One game at a time? Well, take it with a boulder of salt. But they grade on “who won the matchup” on each and every passing/running play. So if Donald beats Bates, but Allen has already gotten rid of the ball or rolled outside to avoid the rush, well, that still grades as “Donald beat Bates.” Of course in a real game it’s not so simple as A guy like Bates/Morse often has help, and defensive line stunts make it hard to score a man to man matchup that doesn’t really exist, so that’s why it’s pretty silly on a game to game basis.

Julie is offended! It's "former political consultant and stay-at-home mom." It's not just the woke lefties who police language.

True. It’s not good for defined benefit pensions unless they have a healthy COLA built in. It’s actually pretty good though if you want a steady stream of income from bond investments.

No. They don’t. They read hot tales from Twitter feeds from pro-Trump GOP (if there’s a remaining normal GOP around I haven’t seen it since 2018) and paste them here without even noticing how absurd some of them are. Blame Biden and the Dems all you want for the most recent stimulus package (which was clearly not needed at the time it was passed) and the preposterously named Inflation Reduction Act or the ridiculous student loan forgiveness (any inflationary impact there won’t be seen for a few months). But you can’t rewrite history. Or maybe you can given that a lot of people will believe any garbage hot take that their favorite tweeters post.

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.