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IIRC, the reason some teams didn’t wear a second helmet & throwbacks / alts this past season was due to supply chain issues and the rather late timing of the announcement by the league office. Paul Lukas of UniWatch has said previously that more teams will be involved next season. Some of the most looked-forward-to are a Kelly green set from the Eagles, red for the Bills, silver for Seattle throwbacks, creamsicles for TB. These will be for two games a season… possibly three since the 17th game was added. Houston seems to be approaching for a redesign in 2024, unknown if it will be major or just tweaks. The Cardinals may be doing a new set for next season depending on whether they initiated a notice to the league & Nike last year (the planning for these things has to be done at least a year in advance and notice must be given to the league a year prior). It’s been far too long with this set of pinstripes and color blocks and red yoke. Please let them go back to a classic look like the Tillman era Arizona flag on the sleeves with the new angry bird logo… rather than a complete redo that Nike has proved they cannot be trusted with. Rams may be ditching the bone-color duds, and introducing a new yellow jersey, which may be a throwback. Disappointing that we didn’t bring out the standing buffalo throwbacks for at least one game this year. I’m not sure whether they will have to be retired if the red helmets do re-appear as those would become our alts. Not sure if we could drop our red color rush and have the standing buffalo in their place. Dallas, for example, brought out two throwbacks this past season so it should be *possible*. I, for one, have never been a big fan of the reds / ketchup bottle look.

And, at that, there wasn’t an improvement. McKenzie doesn’t cut it as a third / slot. Shakir showed some ability but I’m just not sure where he would fit. Johnston out of TCU is a dream on the other side from Diggs and Gabe needs to step up — drops and inconsistency are maddening. Why do other teams complete EVERYthing and we’re always like “oops”?! Even Diggs has had hands of stone at times. KC can sign guys off the street and that week they look All-Pro. The idea that one guy can anchor the room is passé — elite O teams have two or three marquee guys at WR/TE. Jefferson, Theilen, Don Beebe’s son, Hockenson. Hill, Waddle, Gesicki. Chase, Higgins, Hurst. Evans, Godwin. etc. Time to upgrade the Center position and get some cap savings there. Morse is one bell ring from retirement.

Putting so much money and resources into the DL / defense in general has gotten us… this. Can’t stop ANYone in the run, opposing QBs who aren’t dog 💩 complete EVERYthing. … What does it matter to invest in DL when offenses are allowed to hold with impunity in today’s league? Let Edmunds walk, let Ed walk. Offense has been kept status quo with an expectation, maybe, that Josh will make chicken poop look like chicken salad. We couldn’t move the ball for anything. Need to invest HEAVILY in offense in FA and Draft. That’s where it is in the modern game. WR needs massive upgrade; Gabe is not who we thought he could be. OL needs upgrade at RT, LG, and C.

Andor is more of a slow burn until the heist ep.

Did I spy the R5-D4 droid (that was the one Uncle Owen first tells Luke to get from the Jawas in ANH) in Mando’s N1 droid compartment? How awesome of a callback detail would that be if Peli Moto owned it after it puked oil all over itself at the Lars homestead? She bought it from the Jawas… maybe the one she dated for a few months? Some people 💩 on fan service moments like these, but I love them! Dave and John have been great executive producers & writers.

Meth central, according to Dave Chappelle, who lives there.

Her admitted heavy drug use, including cocaine and opioids also did her heart no favors. That NBC Today Show concert in the early 00s where she stumbled around and was slurring the whole song was just sad. RIP

It makes less and less sense to spend on DL, and D in general, when the league & refs allow / turn a blind eye to OLs holding on every play. League wants scoring, at the expense of having good defensive players but getting boned by the rules changes so in favor of offenses. They want an arms race and comparatively besides Diggs, we’ve gotten Josh just a few drones to work with. I mean, he can do a hell of a lot by himself, but if we got him some REAL WRs and better protection on IOL & RT who were also not liabilities in the run blocking… we’d be unstoppable on O against anyone.

Caught a couple of TCU games and thought that Max Duggan’s playing style is akin to Josh’s, especially on rushes. Like… Josh Allen’s mini-me, as he’s just 6’0”. He declared for the draft iirc, but don’t know where he might go. I could get behind using a late-rounder on him in the third & eventually backup QB slot so there would be more continuity to the O if, god forbid….

I did some inset shelves in our garage upstairs bonus room. And we did a pine tongue and groove ceiling. Nothing too complicated or fancy. Much more a finishing guy, myself. Or re-finishing. Have gotten several pieces of furniture on my area’s Buy Nothing FB page and Marketplace and did some minor repair / filling / sanding and stain & poly or the Polyshades stuff.

To say nothing about his effectiveness there, that’s a TON of money (~$16M per iirc?) that’s then moved to a position that doesn’t pay nearly that.

True, mostly. Some streaming content looks absolutely brilliant, but until football goes 4K, HD on regular teevee is still going to be the norm. Football really drove the SD => HD conversion. I saw the box that wirelessly transmits signals to these teevees on a CES page and it does have an antenna input as well as HDMI etc.

Yes, just looked up a bigger article with much more detail. Chuck Hughes. https://www.sportscasting.com/the-tragic-on-field-death-of-chuck-hughes-may-have-sadly-stemmed-from-a-misdiagnosis/

In a piece shortly after last night, there was a bit about sports players who had serious or fatal injuries on the field / court. The soccer player last year, a couple of basketball players, and a Detroit Lions player who had a heart attack on the field after a hit from Dick Butkus. He was pronounced dead at the hospital 50 minutes later, but he was dead on the field immediately after the hit. It was late in the 4th quarter and they finished the game, going through the motions.

That was definitely on my mind last night soon afterward. The minimal amount of padding — especially among WRs and DBs — compared to even 10 years ago is kinda insane.

Maybe a bit of an aside here, but has anyone else searched for “Damar Hamlin” on eBay? Wow. Rookie card signature was up to $26,000 with 66 bids. Not quite sure what to think about that…

I mean… I think the football gods got it right. On Stroud’s big run, UGA’s #88 was held / mauled and dragged down and if he weren’t, he gets a sack there and it’s pretty much game over. No call from the 🦓. Terrible.

Was going to say Bean / Beane / Beanie but @muppy beat me to it.

posted on the soulseeds FB page:

Remind me again why Josh isn’t our Walter Payton MOTY nominee? All credit to Dion, but I don’t think I’ve heard / read his community involvement anywhere near as much as Josh’s. Of course, that may be the nature of being a star QB. And it might be that TPTB (or maybe even Josh himself) want to spread around the accolades. Regardless, this is a team full of great guys.

Dang, they can just confiscate anything? I have a few baseball jerseys that I’ve customized, and I’m in the process of customizing an old ‘90s Jim Kelly authentic whose numbers came off in the wash. Customizing or making for personal use / wear is OK; buying/selling it isn’t. This is the same reason why the govt had such a beef with the mob for booze (during prohibition, with the added ‘it’s against the law!’ wink wink), gambling, marijuana — they just want the tax monies from a $300 sale instead of a $30 one. Government doesn’t like when someone else tries to get in on their racket.

I’m not saying it wasn’t clean. Not saying anything we did today wasn’t clean. But it seemed like to me our guys were gunning for White with extra verve. Clean hits but HARD. It just seemed like a bit of payback. Or like a hockey enforcer who goes after the guy who hurt their star guy — sends a message.

You know, I wonder how much there was a little ‘extra’ put into it as some payback for them injuring Josh’s elbow in the last series of the first game. Mess with our QB, we’ll mess up yours worse. #F—AroundAndFindOut

IIRC the commentators were speculating that it may have been something to do with avoiding Elam hitting the ‘rookie wall.’ The zone/man thing makes more sense, but maybe it was a combination of a number of factors. Elam will have had 18 days bw games so it’s a bit of a rest for his body that was only used to 10-12 games per season.