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  1. 2 hours ago, B-Man said:

     

    DID THE INTEL IG STAFF HELP THE ‘WHISTLEBLOWER?’ – It certainly appears that somebody helped the “whistleblower” research and compose the complaint that is based on hearsay. Margot Cleveland argues familiarity with federal whistleblower law points directly at somebody with the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community.

     

    FYI: Having worked as a journalist with dozens of federal whistleblowers over the years, my immediate reaction to the complaint was it was not the product of the typical government worker who has been unfairly disciplined for calling attention to wrong-doing within an agency. They tend to be obsessive, poorly organized and extremely impatient, characteristics that are nowhere evident in the complaint. Just the opposite.......by Mark Tapscott

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    OrpKj9dy_bigger.jpgJohn CardilloVerified account @johncardillo 2h2 hours ago

     

    Using today’s Democrat’s standards, Kennedy would have been impeached for his backchanneling to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

     

    Let that sink in

     

     

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    Sorry for the completely off-topic reply here, but Mark Tapscott was one of my best friends in college.  Glad to know his move up to the NE was fruitful, and that he's still writing! :)

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  2. 8 minutes ago, NoSaint said:

     

    Once JAs helmet starts going down, and given jones position on him... there was almost no legal strike zone to truly stop forward progress. 

     

    I dont doubt he wanted wanted to lay lumber but it’s also late in the game and if I recall was relatively near the first down marker. If Allen drags a guy 3 yards extending a drive... it’s an absolutely ugly hit and needs to be penalized but it’ll be tough to eliminate from the game completely. 

    You're trying way too hard to give benefit of doubt,  and defend the indefensible. 

  3. 1 minute ago, familykwi said:

    Horse collar is not just grabbing inside the jersey, it's pulling the runner backwards to the ground.  None of that happened, so good no call in that regard.  Josh was unquestionably hit in the head and I've seen lesser contacts called.  Still don't understand the intentional grounding

    Evidently,  it didn't cross the line of scrimmage,  which I missed live, if correct 

  4. I'm so glad that someone made this thread;  I was JUST looking for it, and was wondering if it was here, or BBMB.  Even if it originated elsewhere, I sure hope it stays, as I LOL'd through almost two whole pages, until The Jokeman brought a little too much reality to it.  So, no more pics of Schlitzie I guess;  not trying to make fun of people that can't help it.  But hopefully people can have a sense of humor, and laugh at the rest of it.

     

    People really need to lighten up, FFS.

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  5. 1 hour ago, B-Man said:

    How much longer will these people put a "D" next to their name?  You'd think that Sane(r) people would think, at some point, to have a D next to your name means you have to be so far left, so into the race and identity-politics before actual ideas, that the VAST majority of the country don't agree with, that you're marginalizing yourself to a portion of society that can't get you elected.  I pray the majority of the country is against the stuff the "D's" are putting forth (all of the intersectionality BS), and I'd think they'd see that (see: Trump).  Maybe they'll get there (that understanding) after "2020 - Trump Wins!" headlines.  Probably not even then.  At some point, though, the D's are going to have to rein in their craziness.  When they lose my grandmother and my father, who both 'lovingly' refer to me as 'Rush-baby', they've lost the core of the sane D's.  They're never going to win again, with the loony-far-left that they're targeting now.  At least for now, thankfully, there aren't enough of Tibs in the world.

  6. 1 minute ago, WideNine said:

     

    Daboll said in his presser last week that they do not game plan for preseason, rather they pick areas to work on against live competition...

     

    Missed the game (was on the road), but it sounds like there is more work to do on the things they were working on.

    If that's the case, and they were working on the running game, (which is pretty clear from the game) then I think they'll come away thinking they did pretty okay, to be honest.

     

    The first 3.5/10 of the game was running when everyone knew we were running, even after some key 'injuries' or 'hurts' on the starting o-line.  They showed that Shady and Frank still have what made them stars, even when they knew we were doing that.  It wasn't until, like others have said, the last bit of the 2nd qtr when they allowed the O to open up and do their thing, that they showed what they are capable of with a balanced O.

    4 minutes ago, SCBills said:

     

    Makes sense that they wanted to work on the run game as it was a holding fest early on, but they definitely started picking up 4-6+ yard chunks as they found their groove. 

    Exactly - someone else posted the stats, but pretty sure the top three were at +4.0 YPR

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Dkollidas said:

    Also, Zay playing deep into 2nd half... is he a cut candidate if Duke/McKenzie/Foster show better?

    I think so.

     

    To expound, I think we have a decent crop of 5-6, where the fifth and six (and maybe 7th) receivers are actually going to have to contribute on ST's.  We, lol, certainly didn't have that problem last year.  And it's a good problem to have, if Zay Jones is not longer being given a spot b/c of his draft-position, but is going to have to step up to make the team!

  8. 2 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

    He definitely knows he called himself out on it in an interview on the sideline during the game.

    I didn't get to see that, as I'm in Tulsa, but thanks for that info!  He seems like the type that will take responsibility, but hopefully he learns from the mess-ups (and I think he is).

     

    As an aside, this was a blessing for me, getting to see them in prime time, on a national stage!  I, as much as anyone, wanted them to 'unleash the hounds', but we got what we got, a pre-season game where they were working on a specific part of their game.  I didn't get to see the first two, where it sounded like JA and the offense slung the pigskin around.  We got a hard-nosed, pound the rock first-half.  Boring, but they showed our RB's still have legs, both of the old guys :)

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  9. 8 minutes ago, ScottLaw said:

    He deserves all the criticism in the world for that INT. That was a god awful decision and It's not the first time he's done that. 

    He does, for the INT that was overturned by the penalty;  I agree, fully.  I hope that doesn't continue into the regular season.  It was a bad decision, and hopefully he recognizes what he did and why he shouldn't do it ever again.  But they're going to happen with JA, as I think he's very Favre like, in that he'll take a chance, as he trusts his arm, for good or bad.  We'll see what happens going forward, but I was wearing my new JA jersey during the game :)  Serious man-crush here, so says my wife!

  10. 18 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

    I agree for the most part but thinking about it I'm still a little annoyed. The run game doesn't exist in a vacuum what were testing out the clock killing scheme? Passing plays into the run game just like running plays into passing doing just running just tells you what happens when you become completely one-dimensional. It also didn't help that the script on stopping Allen is to force him to pass so it was a little like we were running repeatedly into a brick wall.

    Coaches wouldn't fans would.

    When you can run the ball, when they think you're going to run the ball, you're in a great position.  But I'm pretty sure you know that already.

  11. 16 minutes ago, Warcodered said:

    Kind of hard to assess first team they were clearly working something with the run game.

    This was my thought exactly.  Running on 1, 2, and then hoping for a 1st on 3rd down, hopefully that's not the plan series in and out throughout the season.  It seemed they were making sure they could pound the ball when need be.  And I don't recall any called QB scrambles (thankfully - and hopefully those are extremely few and far between in season).  I think they just wanted to show we have a deep backfield, and see what the O-line could do put behind the 8-ball.

     

    Once the 2nd stringers came in, I felt like they threw the ball more, and it seemed they mixed it up on 1st/2nd down more (someone will compile the number of run/pass/down, and see if what I saw jibes).  I will say, though, it seems we have a viable backup if(if) that's needed at some point this season.  Nice to have that safety blanket.

     

    But it seemed tonight, for the 1's, was all about making sure they COULD run when they had to.  And we were in bad field position all night, due to a bad drop by Beasley (not going to happen often), and some poor special teams play.  We almost got into another bad field-position situation b/c of a JA turnover that should have been, and I hope he doesn't repeat that often.  But it's hard to gauge the overall performance of the 1's, given they were clearly going run-heavy.  And going run heavy, when they had a couple 'injuries' along the line early.

     

    But, what do I know, I'm the eternal optimist when it comes to our team :P

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  12. I thought the officiating was okay, just so long as they call it the same, game to game, team to team.  They have to learn what they are and aren't going to call, and adjust accordingly.

     

    For instance, we got a gimmie interception overturned by a ticky-tack call on roughing JA.  BUT, if they're going to call that game to game, team to team (QB to QB) the same, then so be it, defenses have to know that, and act to make sure they don't draw that call.  And honestly, I think they've been calling that 'push' on JA pretty fairly.  Yeah, wimpy call, but they call it pretty evenly across the board (at least when they're trying to protect the QB - JA didn't get them last year, hopefully this year he will).

     

    Otherwise, I thought it was pretty evenly called, even if it was sloppy (and that's, I guess, to be expected, 3rd game in pre-season).

     

     

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