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I think the future, not necessarily the immediate future, of our defensive backfield is looking a bit better tonight.

Well, THAT was fun.

Welcome to the Cole Bishop Welcoming Gala. .

Are we having fun yet? I remind myself that it’s a game, and I’m not even playing in it.

If you like mindless ramblings, you came to the right spot!

So….was your wife slipping that into your morning coffee?

I had a relatively mild case of sciatica a couple decades ago, and it is NO JOKE! I feel for you and anyone else going thru that. There is just no getting comfortable. Coincidentally, a friend who lives up the road has been dealing with sciatica and a bad knee at the same time. A PA near their second (remote) home gave him a couple gel shots for the knee after draining it. He apparently had a bad reaction to the shot(s) where he has a bulging disc that he’s been dealing with. Maybe an infection? It’s all a mystery right now, but he’s at an ER for the 4th time in a week right now. At one point he lost all feeling (and control of his bodily functions) below that disc. They almost had to med-evacuate him out of the mountains to get to more serious health care. The gabapentin and other meds barely put a dent in the pain. Backs are obviously tricky, to say the least. My sciatica eventually faded as I changed how I was dealing with a long daily drive. Our buddy might need surgery, but is trying to avoid it at all costs. I wish I had something helpful to offer, because I know it sucks for you. Getting good imaging of what the problem is seems to be the first step so you know what you’re dealing with and how to proceed. Good luck. EDIT: They have now put him on a broad spectrum antibiotic while trying to narrow things down getting cultures. The 4th ER is the charm! This is a lot more than the sciatica he started with. Looks like he has an infection from the shot and it’s spreading thru his body. Healthcare is broken. Very badly broken. .

I’m tellin’ ya’, don’t mess with that Karma!

If there is, I hope they are smart enough not to raise thier hand.

That was up there with Roberts James of the Bills for great careers that sadly would never happen. I’m going to plagiarize myself with a copy and paste I just put in another thread. I bet THIS crazy injury isn’t on the NFL list: I’ll go ahead and tell on myself. In a little league football game my buddy forgot to wear his cup, and when the ref went down the line telling us to knock on our cups he was ruled out for the game. I was giving him grief and having a good time doing it. We were in front of the concession stand and I turned to run out onto the field, but as I turned I learned the flagpole was directly behind me. I hit my forehead and got one of those giant goose eggs on my forehead. It looked like someone put a golf ball under my skin, and it was so big I couldn’t get my helmet on so I sat with him on the bench the whole game. Karma, it can bite you on the arse. .

I agree our LB’s are a lot like big(ish) safeties, but we generally only play a couple of them at a time. Ed is not a big guy, but not shockingly small for a 3T. I don’t think size is Ed’s problem, he’s the opposite of those guys who just never get hurt I mentioned earlier. We do play an extra DB a lot (which is not uncommon), but other than that I think we are a mix like most teams. .

Is this just bad luck, or do you have somebody to blame? I think in the long run it mostly even out. One of the most amazing things about the NFL to me is that small group of guys who can play a dozen or so years and only miss a few snaps over a career. That is crazy, superhuman kinda stuff.

She’s a winner…..as long as we keep clicking.

I’ll go ahead and tell on myself. In a little league football game my buddy forgot to wear his cup, and when the ref went down the line telling us to knock on our cups he was ruled out for the game. I was giving him grief and having a good time doing it. We were in front of the concession stand and I turned to run out onto the field, but as I turned I learned the flagpole was directly behind me. I hit my forehead and got one of those giant goose eggs on my forehead. It looked like someone put a golf ball under my skin, and it was so big I couldn’t get my helmet on so I sat with him on the bench the whole game. Karma, it can bite you on the arse.

Will he get a HC job, or should he be fired? We should lean clearly one way or the other, right?

Hyper conditioning. I said nothing about juicing 😊

Did you enjoy the game last week? If you did, the season wasn’t wasted. If you didn’t, maybe a new pass time is in order? Only one team wins the upper Bowl each year. Not being that one team does not mean the season was wasted. I try to focus on the ride, it can be a lot of fun!

I don’t feel any smarter, yet.

So, I think I’m the first to admit this, but we have no candy and we are leaving the lights OFF. Are we the only ones? My wife warned a couple friends up the street who are bringing in grandkids because it seemed like the thing to do. We had friends maybe coming to town for the weekend, and she planned to dress up and put a table at the road handing out adult beverages and candy, in that order, but that fell thru. It’s a small neighborhood, with very few kids and some imported grandkids. The candy event is limited, but if you pass out margaritas maybe the evening continues? The adults would have come here like moths to a light.

I feel like he’s gotten much better about keeping his head up and hitting mostly the opponents. That used to be a serious issue, but it’s not nearly as bad as it used to be. At least, that’s the way it seems to me. But once you get “the Rapp”, it tends to stick.

I have heard from the Missing Mead, and he says thank you for all the kind birthday wishes.

If people use demeaning nicknames for McD, I just dismiss those people. I mean, are we supposed to take that seriously? I was hoping we could act like grown ups. But it happens quite a bit.

You’re not wrong. Oh, and I won’t trade one SB ring for years of sucking. A ring from 1991 or 2022 gives me zero satisfaction as I watch a game this weekend.

Yes, candy is very bad for you, and you already have all those Percocets lying around in a bowl.

….the second time.