Augie

I guess Beane hasn’t been napping, after all!

I find it best to just “manual ignore”. He’s not alone, but high on the list.

Certainly not, and I trust Beane to be smart about how it’s structured, but…….it does make me curious!

Wait, he’s 32 with a 6 year deal? What’s going on here?

He picked up the pen, but changed his mind and ran out of the room. It happens. 🤷‍♂️

To Cap Hell for all of them trying to keep up! 😋

Met a guy on my wife’s work team at Anchor Bar the day before the opener vs Steelers. I knew he was diabetic, but apparently there was a lot I don’t know. I expected a heavy guy, but he was very thin and in his 30’s. The longer I live, the more I realize how much I don’t know. I am an expert at ignorance!

I heard they wanted him in the NFC, which made me chuckle. Houston thinks they are relevant! 😂

Envy his giant paychecks…….

I was in college driving home from Cincinnati to Buffalo with a buddy for Thanksgiving one night. For some reason I was in my parents Cadillac with all kinds of crazy features I was unfamiliar with. We get to Cleveland and veer right to go along the lake and the snow starts. Then it gets worse, then it gets REALLY BAD. Nobody on the roads but trucks. A night you just don’t go out. One feature I was unfamiliar with was a high beam setting where if no headlights are coming at you it automatically turns on the high beams. That annoyed the trucks ahead of me. I learned that the truckers did NOT like that, and they had spotlights they could shine back at me, blinding me like I was blinding them. This would turn my high beams off, until a few seconds after they turned the spotlights off. Then they flip back on. It’s snowing HARD, and there is nowhere to pull over. I can’t figure out how to change the settings in the dark while white knuckling just to stay on the road. I keep pissing off trucker after trucker. I slow down to get way behind them so as not to annoy, but along comes another truck. They must have been on the radio with each other, because eventually my buddy says “OK, now I think they are trying to kill us!”

…..or your…..never mind. Stomp on the head wearing a helmet.

I don’t know how it’s going to evolve, but we have a son still in his 20’s and it will affect those people the most. He’s spent about half of his working life at home and he’s been spoiled by the Covid work from home life style. He argues, correctly I believe, that he is MORE productive working from home. He lives near us in Atlanta, and one hour daily is generally considered a light commute. He could be working instead, and save his company on office space. My wife, on the other hand, has heard from those up top that it is time to get back to the office, and she mostly agrees. She deals with people and feels she’s more effective when it’s in person. She was in Boston and Philly last week, and NYC this week. She misses the interaction and it’s her job to inspire others. That is harder to do on a screen in your extra bedroom. I think it will come back, but there will be far less new construction of commercial high rises. They will be happy to fill the space they already have, so I think the actual skylines will not change as much from commercial construction as residential construction. Many people moved away from city centers, but I think that will come back more than the commercial space.

He was a WR in college at Arkansas State.

Looking at reviews and their website it appears to be alive and well. I’m not sure where I got that impression.

Strangely, I had just looked up Tempo a couple hours ago. I thought they had closed for some reason. Maybe that was just a Covid thing? Not much on the menu for my vegetarian DIL, but almost every place has something to accommodate them. Usually a bowl of pasta that costs about a dollar to make. Chandler Jones would be great as a player and a mentor……IF the deal is right. He’s no spring chicken. I hope he comes at a reasonable price for a chance to get a ring. I’m doing my part so we can maybe eventually rival the Mario Williams thread! 😋 .

I think it’s worth noting that most of those positions are backups, not the primary guy. We will need DB’s (you can never have enough but we are good at finding and developing them) and a 2nd TE (unless Sweeney makes a leap). WR is a legit need, but behind Diggs and Gabe Davis (I don’t see Beasley sticking around). Maybe one of the young guys steps up? It’s not as bad as it looks at first glance.

….and we have the balance of free agency and the draft to fill them. Every team has holes. I trust our guys to have a plan, and to execute it better than most teams.

…and walk on in college, I believe. That is an amazing feat! I’m also happy for him. If there’s on position I trust our guys to evaluate and develop, it’s DB. Easier playing primarily zone.

I think it’s very believable that they would look into it. That is what they are paid to do. I’m also not at all surprised that they were not willing to pay the price Carolina wanted. He’s not a franchise QB, so he can be dealt, for the right price. The injuries and the salary are probably the reasons we were limited in what we would offer, and that just wasn’t enough. Makes sense to me.

Oh! Oh! I think I know the answer to this one! .

Interesting that he actually WAS a WR in college. Catching the ball is very natural for him.

You WILL be reported if you try to show us your buh-tocks.

Early in the morning. OK, maybe more specifically Jan/Feb of 1985 as a guess. EDIT: more like late ‘84, not that it matters.

I’ll play along……because I might lose sleep tonight unless I get this off my chest. This might help. I was living in Hilton Head when my uncle in Buffalo passed away. My then fiancé took care of my dogs while I drove up thru Cincinnati with my parents to pick up my sister in college. It really was a beautiful service, and the falling snow at the cemetery created that special quiet solitude. My father, in his infinite wisdom, decided to stay for dinner at some place on Maple Rd. Lovely, really. We headed back toward Cincinnati a bit before dark. Before we hit Cleveland I get the wheel. My entire nuclear family is in the car, and they are all sleeping in a dark whiteout. I have never seen anything like this along the lake between WNY and Cleveland. I can barely see the hood ornament, much less the road. I start driving by “feel”, like when you hit those studs in the road to define lanes. I’m staying between the bumps. At this point, I just want to pull over, but I can’t tell where “over” is. We will get crushed by any truck coming from behind. All options are bad, and I am the only one awake. THEN, I feel the bottom drop out and I think we have gone into the ditch, but it’s too smooth. It was like the drop on a rollercoaster. There was no “tire thump” on the right side of the highway I can’t see. It was an exit ramp, and I blew thru thru the stop sign to get back onto that nightmare! My mother then woke up to see the situation, and she added some sailor talk I can’t post here. Still freaks me out to this day. About an hour later my dad woke up as we were heading south from Cleveland and offered to drive. Gee, thanks…..

Do you think this might be why Trubisky chose Pittsburgh? 😋