oldmanfan

I’m always up really early so I just keep watching until the game day thread goes live!

Ok boys, let’s matriculate the ball down the field!

Floyd. And more depth at DT. And McD calling the D. And healthy veteran safeties. But we’ve done nothing different on D. You acknowledge we’ve improved the interior of the O line which should help control Q. Williams, but then say Josh will still need to run for his life. Oh, and Brown is heathy too now. Whatever. Wallow in misery if you want.

One of whom is coming off an ACL. Funny how that’s ignored. And we no longer by and large have MLBs in the league like Butkus or Lewis that clog the middle. The trend is more mobile LBs for pass defense, and D lines clogging things up in the run game. Funny how that’s ignored.

Unbiased. Right. We’ve made changes on each line to address some of the issues you mention, added to the RB and WR/TE positions, and you act like we’ve done nothing. Unbiased my ass. it’s going to be a tough game for sure. It will come down to our coaches and making good calls.

Can always count on Tue to make a mistake

We have no idea what we did but my wife has it working now. Hope we can get it going next week! What the hell is this Enjoy the Zen crap?

We changed to having the same email for each. Still trying to figure it out

But when we do that it keeps asking us to verify our location. We go to YouTube/location and it asks us to put in the email. We do that then give the password and when we try to open the game it goes right back to the verify thing. We think it may be that our TV is under one email address and the You Tube NFL package is under another?

Someone help me out. Is you tube different than you tube tv? On our TV (which is like 7 years old) we can go to things like Amazon TV, Netflix, and you tube. I can pull up you tube videos on this TV as well as shows on the other services. But today when we try to bring up the games it keeps asking to verify our location. And we try to do that with no success. I am able to watch games on my phone though. So what is going on?

When we try and pull up location all it gives us is a country?

Same thing. I can pull it up on my phone but not TV. I wonder if my TV is too old.

No student discount. This is the most infuriating thing I’ve seen yet.

This you tube thing is crap. It brings up a screen asking to verify your current playback area. We do it and we still can’t get it to go on my TV. Can anyone help?

We shall see

I did not say anyone is infallible. Nor did I say fans (short for fanatic after all) don’t get to voice opinions. Just that, on the whole, folks with more extensive training and expertise in an area have a better chance of being right in that area than those who don’t. So I prefer to wait and see what happens before criticizing. People are saying Bernard is doomed to fail based on a very limited data set. I choose to see how he does before judging.

This raises an interesting philosophical point. The Internet and social media has led to many thinking they are knowledgeable in areas because of the ready access of information. Take pro football and our current GM and HC. Do they make mistakes that fans can criticize? Sure. But do they make as many as someone here on this board would make if thrown into the job? Not a chance. Because they are indeed more expert in their field than any of us are. I’m an IVF lab director with over 40 years experience and I have folks without a high school diploma try to tell me on social media how reproduction works. Sorry, but I am an expert; you are not. It would be like me taking my taxes to an accountant and then telling him or her I’m going to redo them because I know better. So when it comes to football I give guys who have done this for years the benefit of the doubt, because I believe experience and expertise is to be valued and not belittled.

I need advice as well. I have three jerseys; a blue Tasker and a blue Kelly, and a red Allen. I usually start each season with Tasker until we lose, then go to Kelly, and then to Allen on the next loss. But since we haven't gone all the way to the Lombardi yet should I change up the rotation?

Was just going to start something about this. I don't think it's a puff piece; Gaughin doesn't do those. Sounds like he's working hard on diet and such to have a good year this year.

Each guy gets his shot. How about we just watch them and see how they do?

He had throat cancer. Hope he isn’t having a recurrence.

Bass.

A lot to dissect here. I am a bit surprised by Sims, but not Florio. Florio says things to get attention in my opinion, and doesn’t know that much about football. Criticism about not adding to help Josh seems unjustified to me. This off season Beane addressed weakness in the O line interior with McGovern and Torrence. Addressed pass catching with Kincaid Sheffield, and Hardy. The RB position is stronger given two proven veterans have been added. So I don’t get Sims there. If he is saying we need another star WR I would say if we got one then that person would fight with Diggs for throws, and then how would Diggs react? Plus people tend to ignore Davis was playing hurt most of the year. Our O should be better, the keys being Dorsey’s play calling and Allen spreading the ball around and taking easier throws. On defense guys are getting older but O don’t see a huge drop off this year. Guys will be replaced over the next couple years though like Hyde and others. The big thing on D will be McD; I expect the D to be more aggressive than what we saw with Frazier. I am bored with all the speculation about the team supposedly having interpersonal issues, Diggs having issues, etc. To me it’s just hot air. Any pro athlete is extremely competitive or they would never reach professional level. Last year the team dealt with issues that I’ve never seen other teams deal with such as Knox’s brother, Von’s injury, blizzards, and of course Damar. And it caught up in the Bengals playoff loss. In the interviews with guys afterward they basically said they ran out of gas. My prediction is we finish second in the division to the Jets; they each go 10-7 but Jets win the tiebreaker. The Fish do not scare me at all as long as Tua is their QB. And the Patriots roster simply does not match the Bills. I suppose it’s possible the Bills crater but very unlikely. One last thing. At some point McD will get fired. Likely Beane will as well. Because that’s how pro football works. But I think they win one before that happens, hopefully this year.

Keeping him in my thoughts and prayers.

Then you criticize. But I presume you know the adage about assuming. And there was a post Edmunds plan; you just didn’t like it.