UConn James

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.

If you’re in a profession where this kind of side hustle is verboten, I don’t understand why she wouldn’t blur her face or have some kind of disguise. Especially when the face isn’t all that great looking to start with. But one could argue that it was by design, because these ones who are found out and get in the news get a lot of free publicity => clicks => money.

That dais almost had the best tackle on Josh tonight. Big *phew* that he caught himself.

Bills have been doing that for a very long time, through multiple GMs, coaches, owners, and even when we had Clements and Winfield. There’s always 5-10 yards of free space for WRs / TEs whenever we line up. I’ve seen other teams cover closer before the snap, but even when we would get dunked and dunked on quick outs in that gap space, we’d keep doing that. I dunno. As for the OP topic, I rarely see the blitz actually work in the McD-Frazier D. If it’s Edmunds, he just runs directly into a blocker… like he’s LOOKING to engage rather than actually get PAST them. And then the QB often hits a pass in the middle where he would have been. It really boggles the mind. There are times in the past two years where we literally blitzed 8 guys and still got stood up by the opponent’s OL and a chip from a RB. Granted our DLine last year and before was 🐕💩, but one might think 8 blitzers could get home, but they wouldn’t. ESPECIALLY when it was against Ratrick kittyfoot Mahomes

Isn’t that what shows up when one uses the emojis on your device’s keypad rather than inserting them by the pull-down menu for emojis on the posting format on-site here?

I root for US, Netherlands, and France since I live here, my mum’s side is from Friesland in the Netherlands (she was born there, emigrated age 6), and my dad’s side is French-Canadian and I did 4 years of French in high school. If forced to choose one… I think Netherlands / Nederland. Been learning more about and embracing the Dutch side more since my mum passed. It’s a tie to / way to remember her. In the WC Final they made in 2010, she got REALLY into it. But, also, I don’t watch other than WC. I think it’s because it’s so long between anything actually happening, the faking injury drama / waaay over-the-top diving and crying in pain when someone touches their shoulder, and because usually when anything does happen it’s called back on an onsides call. Really just don’t understand Offside. I mean… I know what the rule is, but I just think it’s stupid, just like the three-line-pass rule was stupid in hockey and made games so unwatchable and half of them 0-0 ties.

Are heated roof elements not a thing that would melt snow on contact and be led through a series of drains? Like the things to prevent ice dams that are shaped like VVVVV? They’re installing heating elements underneath the field to help the grass and melt snow. Why not the roof? I refuse to believe that it’s a problem that couldn’t be solved.

Knox was open in the flat on a pass play, and Josh ignored it and went deep right, incomplete. Didn’t keep notes but it was in the second half. Some terrible decisions by QB1 today. Tried to go for the home run throw too many times rather than taking what was there.

I’m guessing it’s for Mo-vember, which highlights men’s health issues and during which some guys grow a mustache. It really doesn’t look good and superstition is a real thing. Use that neon green silicone strip Gillette and shave that shizz, Josh

Did he have a broken leg bone? Or was it an ankle issue?

I put it at 30 years before the concrete starts failing. Acid rain and ever-increasingly wacky-weather wear are going to take a toll. The concrete from the 2013 renovations at the current stadium was already crumbling, as shown in the BN pictures awhile back. Tennessee design info said they were putting the clear roof on to minimize weather damage and the expensive upkeep that causes.