UConn James

Hoping there will be some kind of museum display space, like the Packers have. Was hoping it would be its own building, but 🤷‍♂️.

If that's the case for any uni getting DQed / thrown to the back of the equipment closet, then we'll have to break out the Kelly era set.

Surprised he was let back into that country after his exhibitionism / sexual assault -- he was reportedly helicoptering his junk and then tried to get close to her -- on the woman in the pool a couple-few years ago. Aside from being a menace to society because there's been no real consequences for his behavior, he's a menace to himself. Once he's out of money and can't do NDA settlements and buy off the right people, he's gonna fall HARD. That time might be now. His story will NOT end well.

November and the air temp will be 82 during game time down there. Not sure what it will be in the sun side on the field. Did they amend that stupid rule that if the home team doesn't use the cooler fans then the visitors can't either? That literally put lives at risk. They don't remember Korey Stringer? UConn has an athletic performance lab named in his honor. We learn NOTHING.

I don't think the situation is helped by McD's man-love for undersized guys at DL & LB. LBs here are ~ 215-220. I mean... 💁‍♂️

I went the whole first page of this thread looking for Tre White and I was like... wait... did I see an entirely different play?! Yes, Tre had to drop coverage bc he just can't keep up with anyone. And he handed coverage off to... no one .... and dropped backward and away toward a guy who was already covered. Just... It was like 'if I close my eyes, Rice is not there!' I can't even anymore.

Post-game drug test incoming.

Josh had a smelling salt package in his mouth on the outro shot.

Merry Natal Anniversary, mead!

Yeah. EA shut it down last year. I played til the bitter end. 🥺 That was a user named Ed something, right?

Been around since the early days and every version & host of this board. We've built up quite a community here in the last coming up on 30 years. Unbelievable when I say out loud... 30 years. Miss a lot of the old regular posters. NJ Sue. Homework. IYKYK. The LOST (tv show) discussion thread after each episode. We had a user here tgreg who worked at that Bad Robot production company but did not work on the show. The thread had a really huge page view count because people everywhere came to read it here on TBD. Truly a cultural touchstone time that has not & will not be repeated.

Achieving greatness is not as difficult when you literally buy all of the best available players and have a $415M payroll. But does this even include all the put-off Bobby Bonilla style deferred payment schedule they gave Ohtani? Red Sox fan here. Clearly spend more than a lot of teams. But have spent a lot less in the past 5-6 years of penny-pinchin' (despite having the highest ticket prices in the league) and shed a bunch more with the Devers trade. Nice that we've rebuilt the farm system and a bunch of those players have now come up and done well. There absolutely needs to be a salary cap. And a salary floor. Having 8-10 competitive teams and 20+ that spend less on their entire operation than the Yankees spend on sunflower seeds is just terrible. The cheap owners don't re-invest what they get in ticket, concessions, parking, media deals, and just pocket millions. I see what you did there! 😉

It's 2:30 a.m. and it's going to the 18th inning. Soon they're going to be getting pitchers from out of the crowd. Wow.

Which... is saying something. Storm is just parked on them and not moving anywhere. 🙏

It also helped that we were playing against Andy Dalton. Not exactly great mobility at QB which has burned our asses this year and, well, every other year. Let's not start thinking this D is fixed or anything near just bc McD grabbed a playcall sheet and turned on his radio. It's still undersized, oft-injured (probably in no small part due to being undersized), and slow. No amount of a slightly different configuration is going to turn chicken ***** into chicken salad.

Re: Hailee's anxiety having any bearing on Josh.... I really do hate to dismiss other peoples' struggles bc you can't know exactly what another person goes through in this life. But. With that said.... If it's something that can be helped / fixed with 10 minutes of a bit of solitude or a blanket and warm cup of tea.... that's a Hollywood version / privilege-class anxiety. ... It's not crying on the floor, wondering howTF you're going to make ends meet, 99 problems and the car broke down is one, mom's been in cancer treatment for two years, the world these days just feels like a complete poop show, insomnia is an old friend, and you don't know what the next step is or whether you even want to take a next step... kind of crippling anxiety. A NSFW (language) extraordinary poem, ~3 minutes. "My dad says therapy is a rich person's thing -- poor people've got ***** to do!"

Oh man. 🥺 That's far too young. Scientists have been growing organs in labs for quite a while now. And "organs on a chip." Yet it's like we're forever "10 years away" from any kind of advancement for any kind of treatment for any kind of disease.

Well... if he can stay within 10 yards of his assigned receiver during a play he'll be doing better than Tre White.

Apparently from yesterday. Grass has had its first mow, in baseball outfield diagonal pattern (it's better for the grass to mow it in different directions each time). Wondering why the right sideline is the same shade as the real grass versus the left sideline artificial turf (which is still incomplete) being so much lighter green. 🤔

245 pounds? Much too big for LB in McD's scheme.

Time is a flat circle. I guess we have to re-learn the whole "gambling is bad" thing. It infects everything. I am this close to not watching football anymore. The league is in bed with Vegas. Didn't watch anything last weekend when Bills were on the bye. It's only a step above wrestling at this point.

On seeing highlights, Detroit's second goal where they tied at the end of the 2nd period... the scorer had set up camp in front of the crease. Power just stood like 3 feet to the left of the goalie. Just stood there and watched it happen. So aggravating. There's nothing going through his head saying 'Do something about this'?!?!!!

The logic is that they coached on the side that McD is not known to have heavy involvement with. Handed them the keys to the O and let them drive without much interference.

The Xs and Os just haven't come through. There was a small window but we are at the very tail end of the undersized-all-around defensive zone scheme having any kind of success. The pendulum has swung back to bruiser RBs running it roughshod. McD has refused to re-invent and, honestly, I think his tree is going to be pruned & grafted sooner rather than later.

One could argue for McVay, and tho it is early, it has had some measure of success.