The Frankish Reich

Please do this Panthers. Why the hell not? At least you get someone other than the opposing team’s fans to pay attention to you for one sports news cycle.

November 17, 2009 - January 4, 2010. More of a Perry Fewell epoch. But what a memorable epoch it was.

Well, there was that. But if that was Josh he’d be trying his hardest to fake his way back into the game too. I never want to gloat over a team’s misfortune caused by a potentially serious injury. (Brady’s knee injury excepted, of course)

Funny, yeah, opening the thread to see that banner. But I do feel a little bad about laughing since it’s three concussions to two QBs that got them to this point. Are you certain we would’ve beaten the Jets with a QB signed off the street if Allen and Keenum went down? (I’d feel pretty good if Matt Barkley could be signed off the Falcons practice squad though)

But with that one … maybe he is?

I imagine there’s a lot of gentlemen’s agreements out there — you’ll agree to take a spot on the PS, and if we don’t elevate you by [date] we won’t get in the way of you finding another home. And maybe even give you a good rec…

Rather than being somehow better suited to the left side in the abstract, I’d guess that Bates benefitted from playing next to a really good LT (Dawkins) rather than a still-developing RT (Brown)

Thank you for reminding me of the bad old days. The chaplain who was consulted on 4th down decisions like he was more of a voodoo priest.

I love it. And if Daboll/Dorsey did it you'd love it too.

I think it's actually calculus. You need to find all those inflection points: - Tampa vs. the Jets. Is it o.k. for me too root for the Jets to beat Brady? They are no threat to us, so I guess that's o.k.? - Tampa vs. the Raiders. A very minimal threat. O.K. to root for the Raiders? That feels o.k., but I'm not sure. - Tampa vs. the Chargers. Now it's getting complicated. Or maybe we can just enjoy a damn football game and not have someone telling us how we're supposed to feel when we're watching it.

My wife loves the look of the Stelvio. I've been the boring husband blabbering on about reliability issues. What's your experience?

Silly fanboy stuff. The same stuff we dealt with a generation ago with Kelly is better than Marino and Elway. Two future no doubt Hall of Famers, we've got one of 'em, and people still have to find a reason to split hairs.

Well that's it then. This no doubt caused Brady to realize that he should've signed with the fins.

You mean the world is indifferent to which team I root for on my basement couch? Why didn't you tell me this years ago. Think of all the wasted hours! All the unnecessary beer and wings!! You mean NONE of it mattered?

Don't sell yourself short. If there's a Tech Sales GOAT, my money's on TheCockSportif.

Right. Being too locked into Bills fandom can take the fun out of watching other games. Kind of like the gambling obsessive who always has to have some extraneous "action" going on instead of just enjoying the game.

Because sometimes people watch football games because they just enjoy watching football. And having villains is part of that. Not everything is long game strategy. Sometimes a game is a game, and a football fan is a football fan, not just a Bills fan.

Cook needs to run like Pacheco, given that he was drafted about 130 spots higher.

Exactly. Not every great QB we can't seem to get past is despicable. I have no issue with Mahomes as a player or a person. He's incredibly talented and entertaining and the Allen-Mahomes rivalry will be legendary by the time both are done.

It just comes later for Tommy.

OK, Mahomes and Allen are heads and tails above everyone else in the NFL in terms of making unbelievable/ridiculous plays. They are destined to meet again. And again. And again. An epic era for NFL fans.

Well, 51.8% sounds significant over the course of all the NFL games played since 2018. I'm not seeing any compelling argument for why it would vary significantly from 50/50. (I do get that the number may be slightly influenced by one really good team always choosing to defer) The key number isn't "win the toss, choose to defer" win percentage. It's "win percentage for teams that receive the opening kickoff" regardless of how they got there (winning and electing to receive, or losing and having the opponent defer). Any idea of what that stat is?

Not looking terribly likely ...

We're not even out of the first quarter and I've had to stop myself from cheering on a good KC play 2 or 3 times. It's ingrained now. I can't root for Brady even when it makes sense to do so.

That's just his wiener exhibiting the fencing reaction. See, it's all about the concussions, not the general narcissistic stupidity.