That's No Moon

Bills were -2.5

We had a flock of turkeys congregate in front of my kids' elementary school every day for a couple years. They mysteriously disappeared. I still see different turkeys all the time, deer, squirrels, opossum, foxes galore, bald eagles if you go to the dam nearby, the occasional pheasant. I'm pretty sure I could call a turkey to my backyard at this point and you could clip him and a pair of trophy bucks who come there every day too. Suburban Philly, apparent sportsman's paradise.

They don't have turkeys in Minnesota? Fire Klentak, fire McPhail, Brett Brown already got fired, I'm sure if Elton Brand got fired everyone would be fine with that.

Yes, I also remember when we got Marv Albert and Paul McGuire every week.

They also gave themselves an out after this season where he only counts 1M against the cap for 1 year if the release him. It will be interesting to see how this evolves during the season.

You just need to shift your mindset and accept that 30 points is now the weekly target and some weeks it's going to take more than that. Just look at how many points are scored in every game every week. Gone are the days of the 35 point over unders. Even bad teams are getting into the mid 40s and 50s regularly and 60+ happens frequently. You just can't count on any defense to hold people under 20 on a regular basis. Under 20 is a great defensive gam or an inept offensive one. Much less than 20 is a total anomaly. It used to be that 20+ was enough to win most games. It just isn't anymore. Teams that win score and do just enough to slow the other guy down or make them turn the ball over a couple times. So far this year, out of 47 games played, only six teams have won games scoring less than 24 points. Only 3 have won scoring 20 or less. There have only been 3 teams held to single digits so far.

This isn't so much of an apology as it is an indictment of the Jets. He didn't wrote this for you, he wrote this for angry Jet fans. All of the plaudits he gave the organization from Beane to McDermott could easily be read as see what the Jets could have done but didn't. The Bills hired the right people who got Allen help while the Jets hired the wrong people who didn't get Darnold help. Not that it matters, but this is more Mehta trolling the Jets.

The way we haven't covered the middle of the field the last two weeks Waller should terrify you.

Not even remotely

Actually, you have the best situation. If you can prove you can't get a signal you can buy it streaming only without having to get all of directv WFT is a division opponent. Philly gets Cleveland WFT because. in theory, Philly is either Eagles or Steelers fans for the most part and both of those groups would want to see that tripe. In theory...

Sticking me with Washington v. Cleveland. <facepalm>

The salary cap will be flat at best this off season which will cause a little bit of disruption to salary inflation. QBs will still get paid to be sure, but lots of middle tier vets are gonna get squeezed hard. I think you start talking extension to know where everyone stands on the issue. If Josh continues to play like this the price only goes up. If he comes back to Earth a bit it's more reasonable and if he, God forbid, reverts to his previous self for an extended period of time the price comes down. I think it's prudent to let this one play out a little.

Niagara Falls is Fat Tony. Maybe Diamond Joe Quimby. "But Alice, I brought you the meat!"

Two, both by the same multi-township police department. One for going 47 in a 35. It's a straight country road way out in the middle of nowhere. Used to be 45, the township dropped it to 35 for no reason other than to write tickets. I was on my way home from work shortly after the signs were changed after a crap day and was daydreaming for a minute. I drove on the road every day at that point. I should have known better, but it's still aggravating that the limit was changed in the first place because it's still way too slow for that road. One for driving with an expired inspection sticker. Tag was about a week out. I knew it. I had an appointment at the shop literally the next day. Cop pulled up next to me at a traffic light, pulled in behind me after the light turned green and followed me for a little while. Long enough to run the plate and see if I was going to commit any other infractions presumably. Fortunately, I don't work in the same place and my in-laws moved out of that township so I very rarely have to drive through there anymore. There is an interesting road near where I live that, according to the signs, has a different speed limit depending on which direction you are going. It's 35 going up the hill and 25 going down. And it's a hill, not like a mountain, and the road is straight. I don't think it's intentional but the road defines a township/borough border also so it could be. Depending on how the border runs, the uphill side is in the township and the downhill side is in the borough so, theoretically, they are each responsible for signing their respective side of the road if they each own half the road. Dumb crap like that happens in PA all the time, the joys of a Commonwealth and local control. There was a bridge over RR tracks nearby that essentially fell down because two bordering municipalities claimed that they didn't own the bridge so neither of them paid to fix it...ever. It first closed in 2008 after a the decking fell through. They didn't replace it, they patched it. It closed again in 2019 to be replaced when the state finally agreed to pay for it and it has been closed since 2019 because Amtrak is holding it up. Giant traffic nightmare for a dinky little bridge that somehow nobody owned. The article is from 2008! I worked there then and this was a PIA at that time, it's much worse now. https://www.southernchestercountyweeklies.com/news/borough-e-caln-working-to-re-open-chestnut-st-bridge/article_787246c3-c3f5-5402-9682-652bc57634dc.html

I like referring to them as "the Dallas". It makes it more like a singular force of evil rather than collection of forces of evil.

That said I'd gladly have some FDR level weak legs...

In related news water is wet. FWIW, Collinsworth always reminds me of The Kids in the Hall

I don't believe it was parallel but neither of us are going to get a camera angle that shows whether it was parallel or not. It was close and it was a hard hit on a play that looked illegal. It's going to be called every time. It's the same as the defenseless receiver thing. You just can't hit a player in the middle of the field. It's going to be called every time whether or not the player gets hit in the head or the chest or anywhere. It doesn't matter. If it's a hard hit the flag is coming. As an old guy I'd love to be able to transport Jim and Andre from 1987 to the modern day. Jim would never get hit late or low and he could have played until he was 45 rather than 35. Andre would be able to run across the middle with even more abandon than he already did.

I don't really want Nick Bosa right now. Linebackers were an issue today. Dodson made some nice plays but he got sucked in on play action a lot and the middle of the field was very very open.

Regardless of the outcome today, I agree with you. They got up a couple scores and they tried to shut it down in the 3rd quarter. They completely got away from everything that had worked in the first half, and then worked again in the 4th quarter, and tried to grind out the game. The current NFL isn't set up to function that way and fortunately they snapped out of it and went back to what was working for them earlier after they yakked up the lead in the game. Whether McD and Daboll like it or not you have to keep the hammer down and keep scoring points. It's a mindset thing and they need to improve their killer instinct, from the coaching staff on down. If you can bury someone, you need to bury someone. It's not good enough to try to run out the clock. Hopefully a lesson was learned today.

That's true, but he was moving toward the opposing goalline. Whatever, it's the same with everything in he NFL these days, if you hit someone too hard it's going to be a flag.

The linebackers are terrifying.

And since the league is buddying up to gambling and some of the owners even have stakes in gambling houses it makes getting this stuff correct all the more important. The appearance of impropriety can be as damaging as actual impropriety.

Anther college one You asked someone to post one the was close enough to matter. I found one. There have been a bunch of others. I'm not asking you whether they were good or not. You asked for close enough to discuss. Don't make it sound like this never happens. It's a fixable issue with minimal effort expenditure and technology usage that won't fundamentally change the game in any way at all. This is one of those issues that doesn't matter until it does and nobody cares until it happens to their team.

This in is from a college bowl game. You asked for NFL, but same principle applies. two times that I found in 5 minutes. Counting Bass that would be 3. I'm SURE there are a lot more than this but I don't have a running log of every FG attempt made with video to back it up.