That's No Moon

That's not what I asked. If you can't make a play on the receiver in the endzone to break up the play how do you defend that play other than breaking up the ball? Simply tackling the guy isn't good enough, they still score. Saying you have to make a play on the ball gives a HUGE advantage to the offense in that they can run 6'5" receivers or 6'7" TEs out there who are guarded by 6' DBs and if the DB makes too much contact with the receiver he will get flagged for DPI anyway. Any team that isn't exploiting the intermediate to deep middle of the field with large players now is foolish.

And I also saw a play that was the scenario I suggested. Seam route into the endzone to a tall player with a ball thrown high over the trailing DB. The safety came over and hit him in the chest with a shoulder to break up the play. Flag thrown. How precisely do you defend that play? The corner had good coverage and the safety rotated over. The only thing you can do now is try to play the ball which again gives a massive advantage to the offense.

Success is there to be had by those who can figure out how to exploit what is ALMOST illegal and who can be creative. To me some of the new rules seem a little bit contradictory in terms of safety. You have 8 guys penned up 10-15 yards from the kick who aren't allowed to block until the ball is caught or hits the ground. OK, well that means they will have to retreat on the kickoff and not block in that initial 10-15 yard area. Which gives the kicking team more time to run unimpeded down the field which will inevitably lead to a bigger collision. I would think, if you were wanting safety, that you'd force the kickoff team to engage inside that 10-15 yard box rather than not. That those players aren't allowed to block at all regardless of where they are until the ball is caught or lands also leads me to believe we will see a TON of mortar style kicks that are intended to land around the 15-20 yard line. If you have a group of fast players who can't be touched until the ball is caught you could force a fair catch on a kickoff if you did it correctly. On windy days this rule is going to be crazy. It also opens up a bunch of new surprise onside kick opportunities. Again, 8 guys have to be within 15 yards of the kick. They will need to have at least 1 man deep which means there will be, at most, two additional players between midfield and the goal line. That's an awful lot of space to lob a pooch kick into when your players can't be touched when the ball is in the air. When I saw these rules I thought that a guy like Steve Tasker would have devoured people in this scenario. It makes a guy like Marcus Easley from a couple years ago more valuable. I wonder how Robert Foster and Cam Phillips tackling is.

That's good advice.

There are jokes in there regarding meat and patties and buns but I wouldn't want to break decorum.

Name and town please. My favorite local place is Taqueria Moroleon in Avondale, PA. Just across the DE border on Rt. 41. Lots of Mexicans in the area due to the local mushroom industry so there is some really good food.

Could be worse. We haven't had a run of high 90s/low 100s yet.

It's particularly disgusting today for only being 85 degrees. 87% humidity on a sunny day is uncalled for.

Arrachera a la Tampiquena Molcajete is also good

He really needs to switch towns. The fishbowl of Buffalo is so small there is no way for him to lay low. Also, exclusive video from a high level New Era BoD meeting, provided by Dunkirk Don

Not necessarily. If there were other executives, or even underlings who got wind of this and were pissed all it takes is a call to good ol' Timmah to get the media poop storm started.

Sounds more like some people at New Era weren't pleased to have Russ on board.

Every word was true. Good times.

True story. I lived with a kid named Matt in college, actually there were 2 Matts in the hall. One night he gets ripped and pees on another kid's bed. Not in it, on it, hosed it down. Like he's standing at the urinal. The owner of the bed was a kid named Josh. There were also two Joshes. This one was about 6'4 265lbs and worked as a bouncer in the evenings. He was known as Angry Josh so as to differentiate between them (the other Josh was Dirty Josh but that's a different story). So anyway Matt drunkenly pees on Angry Josh's bed when Angry Josh was at work. Angry Josh comes home at like 3am and goes completely apeshit. Matt is hiding behind his locked door while the rest of us are laughing our balls off. The next day we hung little signs all over the building that read "Do not pee here" and henceforth Matt was known as Wet Matt. So yes, Wet Matts can indeed strike at any time or any place!

Furthest I ever went by train was Wilmington DE to New London, CT. It took something like 5.5 hours. I came home on the overnight to avoid a snowstorm and the train sat in Penn Station in New York for an hour and a half just because it was how the train was scheduled. That was somewhat frustrating though I was able to sleep. They tell you you can't lay across the seats but if the train is empty, like mine was at 3am, they didn't seem to care. One the plus It was quicker than driving (on the way up at least), and I was able to work on the train. Taking the train in the NE Corridor is very convenient and makes a lot of sense. Long train travel? Not so much. For example, it takes me about 6.5 hours to drive to Buffalo and a total of 3.5-4 hours to fly including driving to the airport and getting through security. Any idea how long a train ride that is? It's 12-16 hours depending on which trains you take and you have to get yourself (and your bags) from Penn Station to Grand Central to change trains during your multiple hour layover in NYC. 69 hours in a seat is an awfully long time and good for you for doing it but it's not worth the difference in price for me. If you flew out of Buffalo rather than Rochester the price is between $430 and $600 round trip depending on exactly which flight you take, which day you travel, etc. and you'd be there in 7-8 hours not including the hour drive to BUF. Flying out of Rochester makes the flight over $800 roundtrip. Make sure you get up and walk around the train every couple hours. DVTs are no joke. Also, you'd be shocked at how often trains hit things. Cars, animals, people, etc. My wife's uncle used to do counseling for Amtrak engineers and he'd constantly have stories of what the trains had hit recently. We'd jokingly call hit Sir Topham Hatt's Calamitous Railway because I think the only railway that hit more things than Amtrak is on the Island of Sodor.

I forgot how much I hated Haywood Jeffires

I think this could significantly change if not ruin the game because it gives the officials yet another way to hand out yards and first downs, or nullify them, on essentially every snap of the game. College football refs get it right sometimes and get it very very wrong other times. NFL refs are no better. More judgment calls made in real time by people who are unable to seE a replay or who are out of position to make the initial call in the first place will lead to errors. It's going to become that a big hit is a penalty whether it's head contact or not. That is basically where college is now, particularly in the secondary. They have the benefit of replay and they STILL get it wrong. Teams would be very smart to attack the intermwdiate and deep middle of the field with large bodied players. It is almost impossible to guard the way the rules have evolved. Opi is basically legal, dpi is called very close, defensive holding is an automatic first down, you already couldnt hit a "defenseless" player and now you really can't attack the receiver at all. Get someone shaped like Gronk and throw it there. All you can do is try to knock the pass away.

They'll keep letting everyone and their emu inside the plane until someone decides to put a bomb in one or makes a service animal suicide vest. Then it will become an issue. I'll bet there are already a bunch that are drug mules (no pun intended - but picturing a service mule gave me a chuckle)

Good policy and solid to tie it to food safety. Interested to see the cell phone video from when they try to enforce it though.

Allen should hit the hospitality tent on purpose once just to enjoy the scene it creates. Actually, what would be better would be if the horribly uncreative people at PSE would realize this is a thing and make a game of it with all 3 QBs trying to hit a bulls-eye on the tent. Have each QB throwing for a fan and whoever hits the bulls-eye wins a prize for their fan.

What if they were Ostrogoths? Uhm, yeah. That probably would have been the GTFO moment for me and if I were the Dad I'd call my sister and ask WTF is up with your kid and why didn't you teach them any reasonable manners. I'm going to a hockey tournament in February that's 20 minutes from my sister's house over a long weekend. We are staying in a hotel and it never crossed my mind to crash at her house for 3 days let alone doing it without asking her. Your parents should swing through Iowa sometime randomly and just show up. Of course, that means going to Iowa which is a punishment unto itself. They were out of folding tables for weeks.