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My wife is an avid runner, and just ran the Disney half marathon last weekend. The week before we left for Disney, she was telling me that she was pissed off because these special "compression socks" that she had ordered from a particular company hadn't come in yet. People, when they do Disney runs, dress up in a particular theme, and these were a particular color blue, because she was going to do a "Frozen"/"Olaf" theme. Next morning, on MY Facebook page, an ad popped up for this compression socks company, and it was for THE EXACT SAME PAIR OF SOCKS THAT SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT. Same color, everything. Alexa is about to get tossed in the street.

This is where I'm at. While I'm somewhat indifferent to Daboll (don't love him, don't hate him), Coach McDermott has earned my trust through three seasons, and if he believes that Daboll is the right man for the job, then so be it.

How about instead of calls favoring one team or another, the officials just call the game fair and down the middle? Novel concept, I know.

At the end of the day, you can't tell me that an NFL owner is going to deny the job (or refuse to hire) a coach who is more qualified, and has a better shot at leading their team to a Super Bowl than a less qualified one, simply because of color. (Almost) every owner in this thing is here to win. That should be (and I think is) the number one driving factor.

Yes, but anyone can see that Brady has begun to decline. Manning, at that point, hadn't. Once the age decline starts, there is no stopping it, and certainly no reversing it.

Yes, but they won in spite of Manning. Not because of him. He was not good. And it wasn't one of those scenarios where he was still better than everyone else. If I remember correctly, there was a lot of talk about maybe letting Brock Osweiler take the reins for the playoffs. Manning suffered a foot injury, and almost lost his job permanently because Osweiler came in and played better than he had before the injury. It was his worst year statistically since his rookie season.

See: Rex Ryan

Why is this a thread? He's the best in the game. So... yes.

A wild card will be a lot more difficult to obtain out of the AFCE next year. Good thing we'll just be winning the AFCE outright.

Get. Some. Suck on it Brady.

I'd be curious to know what the rule on that states. I hate how a returner just waving his arms constitutes a dead ball. Make the returner field the damn ball.

At least the day is starting (Sabres win) and ending (about to hopefully be a Cheats loss) well. Too bad the meat of the sandwich absolutely sucked.

Could he have done more? sure. Did he produce more in this one opportunity than Foster did essentially all year? Absolutely.

Irony...

Scoring field goals instead of touchdowns. period.

Honestly, despite the sack, I feel like Ford has played pretty well. It was halfway through the third quarter before the three-time DPOY made any bit of an impact on the game.

Agreed. Houston's offense hasn't shown they can score at all so I'll take three.

Totally dominating this game

I have hated the way for a couple years now that the returner just has to wave his arms and that means it's a dead ball? They need to do away with that crap. Make the returner actually play the ball

let's go here! Tre has held Hopkins to a whole zero catches so far!

Haha, yeah... something like that. Like I said, I'm just an airplane geek. And Charlotte Douglas International has a little overlook area where you can sit and watch planes take off and land, and my son loves to go over there and hang out for a little while. So I actually was looking to see if they were flying to Charlotte or to GSP. Figured if they were coming to CLT, we'd go over there and see if we could see them come in. But it was pretty cool... two years ago, after winning in Miami in week 17 and going to the playoffs, I was able to step out on my back patio and watch the team's plane fly over my house at 35,000 feet, headed back to Buffalo.

During the preseason, when the Bills were flying to Spartanburg, I knew what day they were traveling, so I just pulled up outbound flights out of Buffalo-Niagara. There was only one flight going to GSP (UA2532), and the same flight number had a return trip from CLT to BUF scheduled for Friday night after the Bills-Panthers game. I was able to put 2 and 2 together. And they use the same flight number every week. I actually pulled it up yesterday when I saw the Bills' facebook post of the team getting on the plane - same flight number, from Buffalo to Houston. It was over Pittsburgh at the time.

Flight number is UA2532. Easily trackable with any radar tracking app. I'm an airplane geek, so I have flightradar24 on my phone. Can do it on the computer too.

Just sent you a PM

I'm honestly not convinced that we'll get the respect if we do win a Super Bowl. And I'm okay with that.