The Frankish Reich

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.

Well, thank God we have Big Mollie to set the record straight. Completely local official in Las Vegas who nobody ever heard of outside of Las Vegas MUST BE LABELED A DEMOCRAT! Otherwise we might think he was a Republican doing some kind of Jan 6 inspired targeted killing. The persecution complex among Trumpies is getting absurd. This got tons of coverage, it had nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with a corrupt local official, exposed by a good journalist, taking revenge.

Since you mention the Wash Post tagline, here's their coverage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/slain-las-vegas-reporter-spent-career-chasing-corruption/2022/09/09/4b4283c0-2ff6-11ed-bcc6-0874b26ae296_story.html In the weeks before the June primary, German bylined reports about an office “mired in turmoil and internal dissension” between longtime employees and new hires under Telles’ leadership. Following the stories, county officials hired a consultant to help oversee the office. Telles blamed “old-timers” for exaggerating the extent of his relationship with a female staffer and falsely claiming that he mistreated them. He posted complaints on Twitter about German, saying he was a bully who was “obsessed” with him. Telles ended up finishing last in the three-way primary and was serving out the remainder of his term at the time of the killing. The articles “ruined his political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause,” Chief Deputy Clark County District Attorney Richard Scow said Thursday. Why did I bother to check? Well, because this is what happens why social media junkies like Big Blitz depend solely on those insta-comment/hot take twitter feeds for their news. The Wash Post and all other media outlets covered this story, covered it well, and continue to cover it.

Well, since you summoned me ... Correct. You are no attorney. So I read this stay-at-home mom's legal analysis, and I can assure you that she (B.A., Eastern Illinois University) is no attorney either. The claim: a co-worker of a selected juror heard this juror (let's call her Juror 1) say that she had been called for federal court jury duty, and that she hoped that she'd get selected because (something about the Whitmer case). The co-worker supposedly contacted the attorney for one of the defendants, and the attorney filed a motion to dismiss Juror 1 based on that. It seems that the jury (including Juror 1) had already been impaneled by this time. The investigation: the Clerk of Court was deputized to follow up on the allegation. The clerk found that the allegation was actually this: a friend or associate of the co-worker heard THE CO-WORKER (not Juror 1) say that Juror 1 wanted to be on the jury. And then apparently the co-worker didn't confirm the story. So that's it. That's the whole whoop-de-do that gets stay at home QAnon moms hot and bothered. I think the technical lawyer term is "a Hail Mary Pass."

Don’t interrupt DRs Ghost, please. He’s in the middle of a conversation with himself.

The Rams took a step back personnel-wise. The Bills took a step forward. The Rams are still very talented, and their management has shown the creativity to adapt and get better as the seasons goes on, so I’d expect some clever cap manipulation and a key trade acquisition or two before the deadline.