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I'm going to enjoy watching Red Zone today. Steelers vs Jests is Rodgers vs Fields in Met Life. I have NFL Gameday Morning on. They are really trying to talk up Fields. IMO, the only reason anybody cares about Fields is because he was such a high draft pick. Mariucci (I think) was talking about how Fields has improved every year. Unfortunately, that improvement hasn't been significant enough to make Fields a good QB. It's likely to be raining during at least the first half which I think favors Pitt. I think the Stillers win because they're simply a better team than the J-E-S-T-S. I'm most interested in Fishies vs Colts at Lucas Oil, Titans vs Broncos in Mile High and Giants vs Commanders in Northwest in Landover. I want to see how Sam Darnold and Geno Smith look with new teams, and get a look at JJ McCarthy. Cleveland's DL vs Cinci's OL seems likely to determine the Brownies' fate in this game. If Garrett and Co can get after Burrow, they have a chance. Last year that Bengals' OL was pretty shaky, and they didn't do much to improve it. Especially with the game in Met Life!

So, maybe Tyreek would have gone in the 3rd or 4th round. Worthy isn't another Tyreek. He's just a small fast WR. The problems the Chiefs had with their OL probably limited their ability to throw downfield as much any lack of downfield threats, so I think that probably affected Worthy's yards per catch. Mahomes frequently didn't have time to let long downfield plays develop. That crappy OL play really bit the Chiefs in the arse in the SB because the Eagles D didn't give Mahomes to hit short passes until the game was out of reach.

Tyreek was a fifth round pick. Day three is where small but fast guys tend to go. Big but fast guys are much harder to find, which is why they tend to go Day 1 or Day2. If Mahomes had had better protection last February, the Chiefs might have had their "threepeat" but they didn't, and all of Worthy's fancy SB stats were meaningless.

They didn't have "the luxury of drafting a player with a limited skillset" in the first round. They needed another every down WR plus a better OT than they had as well some youth on their DL. They were desperate to add another speed demon like Tyreek, so they were willing to overlook Worthy's negatives to get that speed.

I'm not particularly a follower of Swift's personal life, but the article's description of the some of Swift's traits/behaviors do suggest that she may very well be somewhere on the Autism Spectrum. Autism isn't a new mental disorder -- it was first recognized by a psychiatrist in 1943 -- although it was only recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a mental disorder in 1980. It wasn't until 2013 that the APA officially recognized that several disorders with overlapping symptoms were related and consolidated those under "Autism Spectrum Disorder". Many very creative or successful people exhibit traits that could be evidence of ASD. Some historians think that the great artist Vincent Van Gogh could have suffered from ASD. Having attended the VanGogh immersive experience that came to Buffalo several years ago, I think it's a plausible explanation for Van Gogh's genius as well as his rather chaotic personal life.

What "victory parade"? It depends upon the nature of the injury. There's less correlation between size/weight and non-contact injuires or injuries caused by a player hitting the ground than between size/weight and injuries caused by collisions.

Coleman was a full participant on Friday. Worthy collided with Kelce early in the game on Friday and didn't play again. He's going to have an MRI on his shoulder to determine the severity of the injury.

yes!!!

C'mon ... it's the Chargers.

So bad!!!!!! 😄

I disagree. It's not the city/market culture that creates the kind of team culture that produces winning teams. A winning team starts with the ownership who sets the entire atmosphere because he hires the GM who usually but not always hires the HC. The HC is the guy who is probably the most influential in turning a collection of guys, from superstars to practice squad players, into a team. The Rams, Eagles, Niners, and Bucs are all regularly successful teams located in large metros.

You are missing the point that @finn made that when 2 teams are closely matched, luck/chance becomes much more influential than normal. I'm not talking about how the game was tied, but that it was tied, and that winning the coin flip gave KC the first crack at winning the game. KC couldn't stop the Bills any more than the Bills could stop the Chiefs in that game. The way they were playing, the coin toss for OT was much more important than it might have been in any other game that season. The game wasn't tied because the teams had failed to score in the second half, but because each team scored almost at will during the last few minutes of the fourth quarter.

There's no better example of the outsized role luck (probability) plays in a football game between closely matched team than the 13-seconds game. Neither team could stop the other. The Chiefs won the coin toss, and the Bills never got to touch the ball. If the Bills had won the coin toss, they were likely to go to the Super Bowl.

Teams regularly work out kickers. They want to see what the kickers who are available can do "just in case" they have need of one, so I'm not sure if there's any real significance to these workouts.

The Dollar Tree used to be "everything is a dollar" but a few years ago they raised their price to $1.25. I haven't shopped there in a couple of months, so they may well have gone up to $1.50 by now.

As others have said, Clark was only available because the Packers wanted Parsons. If the Packers had been interested in trading Clark before they had a chance at Parsons, they would have traded him months or weeks ago. How do you know that Clark would be better than any of the Bills current DTs -- or even fit the Bills defense? I've heard him described as a nose tackle while the Bills use 1-tech and 3-tech DTs. Today's defenses are much more complex than in the past, so an excellent player in one type of defense might not do so well in another. Oh, yeah, and stop using every opportunity to instruct Brandon Beane on how to do his job.

Back in the 1960s, my parents said the Beatles would never last, too. Taylor has already been around for almost 20 years, releasing her first hit, "Tim McGraw" in 2006, so I wouldn't bet against her

Are you saying that the Grateful Dead had a cult following? 😲 According to an expert post upthread, fan cults are a recent phenomenon, apparently starting with Taylor Swift.

I have always thought the Sahlens' skins tough, so I'm a Ball Park Franks fan.

Bumping for those looking to find the Bulls first game.

I have the standard lenses, which don't correct vision problems like near-sightedness or far-sightedness. They fix the diminished sight caused by the cataracts, so if you started wearing glasses when you were young, you will still probably have to wear them. That was fine with me because I was very afraid that my sight couldn't be corrected enough with glasses so I could continue driving. After my surgery, I passed the vision test for my driver's license without glasses, and no longer have that restriction on my license. I still wear no line bifocals because I can't stand fooling around with readers. The more "advanced" lenses (and probably not paid for by insurance) can correct near-sightedness, far-sightedness, and even astigmatism (I think). I believe some are bifocal as well. If you want to toss away your glasses or contacts permanently, these more expensive lenses are what you want. Hope this helps.

Thirty years ago, I took time off work, stood in line for two hours on a cold, windy day in Albany NY to get a bracelet that let me come back two days later and stand in line for three hours on an only slightly less frigid day to spend a small fortune (at the time) on 4 nose-bleed tickets to see Garth Brooks. I wouldn't stand in line to see Taylor Swift only because I'm old and don't go to concerts (or sporting events) because it's way too much trouble.

You can go back even further than McCartney. Colonel Tom Parker managed every aspect of Elvis Presley's career for his entire career. Between 1961 and 1967, the Beatles manager Brian Epstein orchestrated their rise to superstardom. In Detroit, Barry Gordy's had a stable of singers, musicians, and songwriters cranking out "Motown Sound" hit after hit.

I got an 87 with the Bills and Blue Jays with being a fan for 15+ years. I don't follow any other team sports except football and baseball. I agree. My favorite college football team is Penn State.

For somebody who decries a supposed American obsession with celebrities, you sure as hell are well versed about a singer/songwriter whom you profess to hate. I think when you look in the mirror, you see somebody who has an unhealthy obsession with Taylor Swift. Bull manure. Our society isn't "cooked" at all. It's simply evolved into a society that you don't approve of because you preferred the version of American society where straight white Christian males ruled the roost and everybody else had to kiss their macho arses to have a chance at any crumbs left on the floor.