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My points were independent of each other. Flacco's success fades as teams figure him out. At this point in his career, he doesn't seem as capable of overcoming that as he did when he was younger. Regardless of how Flacco plays, the Bengals problem remains their defense. It would have been their problem even with a healthy Burrow ... as today's game against the Jests showed. While Flacco threw an INT on the last play of the game, they had the Jests down 15 points in the fourth quarter and let them score 2 TDs, a 2 point conversion, and a PAT.

The Steelers didn't have much, if any, film on Flacco on the Bengals. As teams figure out what the Bengals are doing on offense, Flacco's success is going to diminish. In his previous stints as a backup, Flacco has tended to look good early on and then his play drops off. More importantly, as somebody upthread posted, quarterback is not the Bengals' problem.

Why do we regularly see/read/hear of multimillionaires/billionaires who engage in insider trading, fraud, Ponzi schemes or even commit violent crimes in order to make more money? Some people are just never satisfied with what they have, no matter how much that might be, and have to accumulate more by whatever means necessary. They have always been around in human history, and we frequently label them "great" as in Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon. American bankers and industrialists like John D Rockefeller, Jay Gould, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, etc are venerated figures.

If a backup QB was a good starting QB, he wouldn't be a backup. The best backups can come in and maybe win a couple of games for good teams when their starters go down for a few games. A backup QB replacing a crappy starting QB on a bad team (like the Jests), is doomed.

Bryce Young has played pretty well this season. Actually, he started playing significantly better about the middle of last season. I'd rather take my chances with Dalton.

I see Woody picking a QB who fails again while some other team or maybe even two hit it big in the QB lottery. It's what Woody does.

I think it's pretty clear that the real problem with the Jests is the ownership. Until that changes, the Jests are going to rinse-and-repeat ad infinitum, just like the Bills and the Lions did for decades until new ownership changed the mindset at the top. The last decent NFL QB the Jests drafted was Chad Pennington in 2000. The last successful HC the Jests had was Rex Ryan who left after 2014.

@Casey D When I post sarcasm, I almost always include " //sarcasm off" at the end.

The Panthers are significantly better than they've been, but they were playing the Cowboys, the team gave up 30+ points in 4 of their 6 games, including 37 to the Russell Wilson-led Giants and 40 to Green Bay.

Yes, it's the Portage Escarpment. In fact, Rte 394 out of Westfield climbs the escarpment and is called South Portage Road.

The Ravens were 1-2 and their defense had given up 96 points in 3 games before the plague of injuries began.

Have you watched any of today's games, especially that travesty from London this morning? Any of other teams' games all season? The NFL is filled with amazing plays -- both good and bad. There's a group of fans on TSW who see only the problems the Bills have. They want the Bills to not only be perfect but to be perfect in the way that they think the Bills should be. The loss to NE last week has put them into a frenzy of self-pity, each Chicken Little feeding off the pessimism of the other like-minded Chicken Littles. Fixed it for you.

Didn't the sportsbooks originally have the Ravens as the favorites to win the Super Bowl before the season actually started? All the sports talking heads claimed that the Ravens had "the best roster in the NFL". When they started to play actual games, though, the reality turned out to be that the Ravens weren't anywhere near as good as everybody thought -- and that was before all the injuries. Sure the Ravens aren't mathematically eliminated, but they sure haven't looked like a team that could go 9-2 since the fourth quarter of the opening game.

Well, in that case, the season is over and we might as well throw in the towel. Fire the entire FO and coaching staffs, trade everybody, and start at square one with a bunch of draft picks.

The Ravens now need to go 9-2 just to get to 10-7. They still have to play Minnesota, Pittsburgh twice, New England, and Green Bay.

Bryce Young is becoming a pretty decent QB.

Was that PI on Elam????

Well, there are a bunch of entertaining, back-and-forth games!

Why do you consider that "sick and unwell"??? I've been rooting for the Fins because I want those AFCW teams to all be bunched together.

The Ridge starts east of Rte 20. The villages of Westfield, Brocton, and Silver Creek are below the Ridge, although there are some hilly areas. Ask the realtor where the Ridge begins in the areas you're looking.

Absolutely. I'm off to do some yard work since Fields is still in the game.

As long as Woody Johnson owns the team, the Jets are gonna be Jests. The Johnson son who was in charge of the team when his papa was doing his ambassador thing looks like "a chip off the old block", so the Jests fans are doomed to an eternity of ineptitude.

Absolutely!!!! I would have to root for both of them ... and feel so happy for the Series winner at the time feeling so sad for the team that lost. The Brewers have never won the Series, and have only made the Series once, in 1982. The Mariners have never even made the Series. They have only made the ALCS three times, the last time in 2001.

Don't buy a house up on the hills east of Lake Erie ... or buy a really big snowblower. If you're a few miles from the lake, and you can look west out of a window or off a deck/porch and can see the lake, you are probably on the Ridge. The Chautauqua Ridge is the shore of the much larger old glacial lake that once covered much of WNY. It's like the Niagara Escarpment in Niagara County. Take a drive on Rte 394 from Barcelona towards Mayville or Rte 39 from Dunkirk/Silver Creek towards Gowanda, and you will recognize when you leave the lake plain and go up the Ridge. There's a great spot to see how sharply the ridge rises above the lake plain at Luenesman (sp) Overlook Park outside of Dewittville, which is just northeast of Mayville on Rte 430. It's a great view in the fall.

Brewers win the winner take all game, 3-1, against the Chicago Cubs. The Brewers scored their 3 runs on 3 solo HRs, each with 2 outs.