The Frankish Reich

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.

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. 🤣