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Should CIN believe they have nothing to play for? At 8 losses, and another game against Baltimore at home, a win over them drops the Ravens to 6 losses and a Steelers loss to us drops them to 6 losses. With 5 to play after today, 1 remaining against Baltimore (who have no easy games left if CIN doesn’t give up) and a tough schedule for the Steelers along with Baltimore/Pittsburgh still to play each other twice, 2 games back doesn’t seem insurmountable. Unlikely, yes, but not crazy imo.

The biggest reason Trump’s popularity has nose dived is A) The economy and B) men under 50 don’t think he’s doing remotely enough. I’m not here to defend that man. But politics do matter. I know this by experience, growing up on Long Island and spending a ton of time in NYC. Now living down South. They mattered during Covid. When my friends lost businesses do to Draconian leadership and when they were strongarmed into a vax they didn’t want by that same leadership. Meanwhile, we were wide open in Georgia & South Carolina due to Republican leadership. Our state governments fought back against any efforts to strong arm us into long term business closures, school closures and vaccine mandates. They matter in terms of safety. To the extent that I had my head on a swivel, always, in NYC subways and certain areas. Aside from pockets of Atlanta I would never have any reason to be in, I never feel that way here. I never feel that way in Greenville or Charleston or any city in Florida. The only southern city people are starting to become concerned about is the one infiltrated by leftist judges, leaders and without the check of a Republican Governor… Charlotte. Politics do actually matter and I can 100% tell you as a business owner, not Covid vaxxed and feeling safe in the areas I spend time in… they’ve affected my life.

You said this isn’t political. This 100% is. And yes, the sad genesis of what happened yesterday was a chaotic, disaster of a withdrawal, by the Biden Admin who were pseudo-rubber stamping any and everyone into this country for four years. The ramifications of which we still haven’t fully felt. How many people are in this country, that never should’ve been here.. and what happens when they start feeling resentment, angst or hatred for a country they never considered themselves a part of? This is, sadly, only the beginning.

When we have an Afghan National shooting two soldiers on US soil, Somalis running a welfare fraud scheme in Minnesota for terror organizations as a Somali Mayoral candidate loses because of a Somalian blood feud dating back to their homeland, while an openly socialist anti-Semitic Mayor is elected by a foreign born voting majority in one of our biggest cities, id say it’s time to start paying attention. The cracks are beginning to show.

One side wants to import a third world that is incompatible with our way of life and meets Americans with resistance every step of the way when we try to prevent the preventable from happening. The other side wants to stop that, to the extent that we even demand Trump to do more than he’s doing. It is, absolutely, political. And these incidents will continue.. mass immigration will dilute our societal fabric, weaken the middle class and continue to put people at risk - until we get people in power to do their job, fight back against suicidal empathy and protect Americans. Europe is a flashing warning sign and we still have time to start righting this ship.

Am I to take this as you supporting mass deportations now? Otherwise, my point stands.. he came here under Biden after his disastrous withdrawal and like so many others illegally in this country, shouldn’t be here. And Trump needs to be doing more to get them out.

Economic populism, especially in the wake of Trump seeming to not care about financial insecurities of Americans, could help Democrats make some inroads with men. But then you’re asking them to align with this…. And they won’t.

Afghan National resettled here under Biden. We shouldn’t have to live like this.

Yea…. That’s too far. Beyond trash talk.

The worst thing I heard was that McDermott can’t afford to fire Brady. And that makes sense. What successful HC fires OC’s back to back in such short order? It’s a horrible look and might be THE overarching reason we’re stuck with this guy for the rest of the season.

Shavers is just a guy. He’s fine. But the only good game he’s had was because of a TD off a scramble drill. When he had to win a route in the red zone a few weeks back, he got owned at the line, which delayed his route and screwed up the play. Our best bet is if Cooks has anything left in the tank and we roll with Cooks, Palmer, Davis and Shakir then hope Kincaid can stay healthy. Cooks and Palmer, theoretically, can separate on routes, Davis is a big body and has chemistry on scramble drills and they use Shakir & Kincaid out of the slot.

Yup. Not great. But in fairness, I think Young and Turner etc are good players but Verse makes that DL go. If you have that guy on the DL, everything else falls into place. For years, the Chiefs had Chris Jones. They still do, but he’s not the guy he used to be. And because of that, they struggle to get pressure on the QB without blitzing. Karlaftis is in that Rousseau bucket and they don’t have much else. Same for the Ravens since Madabuike went down.

I agree PIT is a big game for the tiebreaker purposes and the fact we already lose that with Houston, but every week is not a “must win” unless we think NE trips up a bunch. 13-4 might be the 1 seed record.

I feel like you haven’t looked at the schedules of those around us. Not just from an “oh, they’re difficult” standpoint, because Jax aside, they all are but a lot of these teams also play each other. Houston & KC play each other KC and LA play each other LA & Houston play each other BAL & PIT play each other, twice Indy has 3 losses and every single one of their remaining games is tough