Motorin'

The menopause commercial?

Eagles fans booing Dak Prescott was he's presented with the Walter Payton man of the year award is pretty special.

I didn't know that Nick Siriani is a WNY'er, Southern tier born and raised. Jamestown guy, Southwest Central High. Go Iggels?

How long did it take to find out that Merck was concealing data? And you aren't the least bit concerned that the pressure to get the vaccine out at warp speed may have future safety concerns? And even if your maximalist stats about the benefits of the vaccine are accurate at face value, does that mean the actual safety of the vaccines should not be considered?

I think the major concern is that the shot was primary lipids and cholesterol and there were concerns about blood clotting and myocarditis. Combine that with the CDC coming out and saying that most people who died from Covid had comorbidities (diabetes, heart disease, obesity ect), then I think a legitimate question arises: could the long term effects of the vaccine be worse off than getting Covid for healthy people? I can't help but think of Vioxx. Remember it took the FDA over 7 years to say, oops! This drug makes you 200% more likely to die of a heart attack... Our bad... Most drugs take 5-7 years of safety trials. Bc you can't have longitudinal results without long term studies. To pretend like we know the vaccines are safe over the long term when the amount of time necessary to do longitudinal studies isn't even close to having passed is a bit insulting.

A message from Travis Kelce to the mayor of Cincinnati, who talked an ridiculous amount of smack before this game:

The Chiefs have like 10 rookie and 2nd year players starting. We need to revamp through the draft, and quickly.

Should have been 3, but Cook got there a half second early.

I rewound it. They blew it dead before the ball was thrown but nobody could hear. But it was clearly what happened. And they blew it dead bc the play clock started before the snap of the ball on a dead ball play. It was the right call.

He's the only Bengal I want to play well.

They lost their QB in the first quarter. It would have been a totally different game. We really missed out on a good matchup.

Inconceivable!

If Garner Minshew has 4 turnovers in a couple of weeks the Eagles have no chance.

Mahomes and Burrow have combined for 29 points over the last 8 quarters of Super Bowl play against the NFC's best defense. And you're using a Garner Minshew 4 turnover game that gifted the Cowboys 28 points as some kind of proof against the Eagles defense.

Just like last year, and the year before.

Jason Kelce is so good and such a throw back. Not many 6' 2" 290lbs lineman can manhandle the line of scrimmage.

It should be 0-0 right now. Heads up move for Smith to call whatever play that was to get that snap off before there was enough time to review. But if your the 49ers watching the guy catch the ball call for a no huddle snap you got to wonder if you need to throw the flag.

You mean the two runs out of shotgun in 11 formation handing the ball to a stationary RB that didn't work most of the year? I'm talking about using heavy packages against their nickel D with pulling lineman and pin pull technique. It worked on the first drive in Cinci all the way down the field. But it was never used in Buffalo. I'm taking about using an advantage you have until you make the opponent adjust, which then opens up the aspect of the passing game that their nickel is designed to shut down. Instead Dorsey spammed the same concepts out of the same formation and got a whole 3 points in the second half. But getting physical on offense would have been a bad idea cause we were down 10 with the ball to start the second half. It would have been really dumb to run right at Hendrickson and muscle the ball down the field on the opening drive of the second half and try to establish a physically punishing presence. We needed to play softer with more finesse to have a chance... Got it.

The only drive they committed to running the ball against the Bengals nickel defense was the only drive they scored a TD on. It's similar to the New England weather game in a sense. The winds blowing left to right at like 50 mph and they refuse to set the FG up on the left hash. And lo and behold Bass misses wide right from the right hash. Now we can't win the game with another FG from the left hash, we have to score a TD into fierce winds. They refuse to accept the reality of the situation and adjust accordingly. It's also why the Giants won Super Bowl 25 and the Bills lost to a team with far less talent. They exploited the Bills weakness and the Bills refused to take what was being given to them until it was almost too late. What I'm suggesting is that the Bills coaching refuses to look at the other team's weakness's to exploit. And had they done so it could have been a more competitive game. Instead they give their best RB only 6 carries on a sloppy day and let Josh throw 25 incompletions on low percentage passes. Coaching certainly was not the only reason the game was lost. But it was the only thing that could have kept them in the game. And coaching failed as miserably as the offensive and defensive execution.

And yet the Bengals only scored 7 points in the 3rd quarter, and only 3 points in the 4th. 10 second half points. On our only TD drive we rushed about as many times as we did for the rest of the game. Had we had two more drives like that at any point in the game, it puts us within a FG of tying or a TD of taking the lead... And the Bengals would have had fewer drives that they did, not more.

Definitely agree on the Bengals superior wr talent. And it's not so much that I'm focusing on rushing stats. It's that I'm focusing on the inflexibility of the Bills offensive scheme and their refusal to seemingly game plan for their opponents weakness. Something the Bengals can't be accused of. The Bengals are a nickel D that's susceptible to the run out of heavy packages. While their D has been able to shut down elite passing offenses. So for a Bills team, that lacks in receiver talent against a defense that has routinely shut down Mahomes with their cover 2 and simulated pressure, not to take advantage of the heavy ground game was infuriating. I'm not suggesting a complete change in offensive philosophy, rather opponent specific game planning. Here's one area that Daboll does seem much better than Dorsey. And yeah, the game felt over at 14-0... But it wasn't. Had the Bills converted 2 additional drives for TD's at any point, we're talking a 27-24 game with the possibility of getting the ball to drive for the winning score. And I think their best chance of staying in that game was to lean on the heavy package run game and utilize play action. Instead we played into the strength of their D, exposed our weaknesses on the line and at wr. And attempted way too many low percentage throws in clutch situations.

Yeah, that's true. As a general rule. But the thing about the Bengals game is that the weather, poor footing and the defensive alignment meant the run game and high percentage underneath pass game would give the offense an advantage. Instead we relied in low percentage passes and refused to run... But the Bengals didn't. One of the worst running teams in the league put up 172 yards on the ground, compared to 240 yards through the air. Josh actually threw for more yards then Burrow, but couldn't keep drives moving. The Bengals moved the sticks on the ground and schemed up high percentage passes all day.

Except for the catch rule. The old catch rule the reciever only had to have two feet down while possessing the ball for a microsecond. If the old catch rule were reinstated in today's NFL, the results would be off the charts. Although it also resulted in a ton more fumbles that today would be ruled incomplete.