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The other reason those tackles looked like suck is KC could not give them a lot of help because TB's interior DTs have to be double teamed. I think Suh is a POS, but a good article on the value of interior DT's that can stop the run and pressure the passer. https://www.buccaneers.com/news/defense-interior-importance-against-kansas-city-sblv-media-day-ndamukong-suh "Mahomes has the second-best completion percentage against the blitz in 2020, including the postseason, at 68.4%. His 9.5 yards per attempt, 15-0 touchdown to interception ratio and 135.3 passer rating against the blitz rank first. Yeah, Mahomes has a 135.3 passer rating when he sees five or more guys in his face. And the Bucs know that. Even back in Week 12, they only blitzed Mahomes on 17% of his dropbacks, which was the lowest rate in a game under Bowles since he arrived in 2019. But while Mahomes is good against the blitz – he's not as good against pressure. Again, making the distinction between blitzing and pressure. They are not one in the same. Under pressure, Mahomes has a completion percentage of just 48.0%. His passing yards per attempt goes down to 6.3. He's got a 5-1 touchdown to interception rate and his passer rating is down from 116.4 when not facing pressure to 78.7 when he is. Ten of Mahomes' 25 interceptions since 2018 have come against pressure. So clearly, you need to pressure him. But maybe not blitz him… Which is again why a four-man rush that can generate pressure will be so crucial against the Chiefs. The good news is that said four-man rush will now also be helped by nose tackle Vita Vea, who returned against the Packers after a 15-week absence due to a broken ankle. He played 46% of the team's defensive snaps in his first game back and had his presence felt, especially against the run, and in a couple of those sacks stolen by JPP and Barrett. The Bucs are simply a better team with Vea on the field and the Next Gen Stats back that up. Against the run when Vea is on the field the Bucs give up an average of just 2.7 yards per carry. When he isn't, it jumps up to 3.9 yards per carry. Against the pass, the Bucs had a 32.7% quarterback pressure rate and a 10.5% sack rate in 153 dropbacks with Vea on the field. Without Vea, the Bucs have a 26.0% quarterback pressure rate and a 5.9% sack rate. That's a huge difference."

I also saw Kelce cut off his route and reach behind him trying to snag a poor pass, receivers diving to get their hands on balls. I also saw KC receivers make amazing attempts to come back to balls thrown into double coverage. The diving pop-up INT-that-wasn't near the end that the refs said the receiver did not get his hand under was another poor pass that was turfed. Don't get me wrong, Mahomes to me is one of the best off platform passers in the game - especially near the LOS. Sidearm, across his body, through a crowd of defenders, shovel passes, and he usually puts it in an exact area where his receivers can make a play on it. That sideline pass while airborne was freakish and in an area for a diving reception. Would have been a tremendous throw and catch. He also can throw dimes when clean - there were a few beauties tonight as well. However, with the pressure and his sure-handed Kelce safety blanket gone, he made a lot of ill-advised throws where he forced passes into coverage, was off target on more than a few tosses, had 2 turnovers (could have been a lot more), and was unable to drive his team to a TD. At the end of the day: Goat 3 TDs and 0 INTs Mahomes 0 TDs and 2 INTs

I think that the US has to rethink their overall ineffective approach to pandemic response. We need some mechanism where the US on CDC advisement can declare a Federal pandemic emergency that streamlines prevention and vaccination protocols and removes our current fragmented state-by-state management of the response efforts. It has been a cluster ****

Yep. Folks need to read the whole article. A bit lame how they stuck that rather important information at the very bottom.

Congrats Todd Bowles. Had a crappy Jets org to deal with for years. Gets his ring and his defense was the star of the show.

I am so freaking jealous of TB's linebackers.

LBs who cover Kelce.... brilliant. End the SB with a White INT.

I would counter that Tampa has taken away his quick reads and their d-line is that good.

Mahomes is playing like hot garbage tonight. He has chucked a bunch of balls that should have been INTs. KC has some great receivers that have been making adjustments all night to throws. Credit Mahomes for getting the ball in the right zip code with the heat he is under, but welcome to life for most QBs.

No where for Mahomes to step up. We need that impact NT on our line.

KC's defense looks small once you get past the line. Decent tacklers though...can come up and make a stop.

Well if you can pressure and stop the run mainly with your front 4, you can figure out how to take away Kelce and Hill. Then KC comes back down to Earth. Our front 4 are just that average right now, and Tampa's LB's can cover and tackle.

No pocket for Mahomes to step up into, and can stop the run with their front 4. Tampa has a solid d-line.

Mahomes looks pretty average when he gets pressured or sacked. Allen gets hit all the time.... just saying

Don't think I can watch this. Years of Brady ball-washing meets the ball-washing heir apparent in KC. Like choosing between slightly different flavors of barf.

Hopeless. Like rowing a boat with one oar. You never get anywhere with some folks.

It can only be conjecture at this point. The fact that members of Trump's campaign knew of Russia's hacking of DNC emails and were coordinating release via WikiLeaks is a matter of record. It is outlined in the Senate bi-partisan report on the matter and the reason Stone was incarcerated. "An unidentified "senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information [Wikileaks] had regarding the Clinton Campaign," the special counsel's office wrote in its indictment of Stone. "Stone thereafter told the Trump Campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by [Wikileaks]." The fact that Trump was aware, encouraged, and embraced the hacking effort, is also a matter of record and the attempts to dilute or pass it off with a nod & wink as a joke are weak. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-putin-no-relationship-226282 Although Hilary won the popular vote by over two million she lost many swing states (and their electoral votes) by narrow margins. It is conceivable that the negative press around the emails was enough to sway the election, but still conjecture. The argument could also be made that the Hilary campaign and the DNC itself helped Trump to win. If the DNC did not have emails that documented coordinated efforts between them and the Hilary campaign to shaft Bernie in the primaries then there would have been no mud to sling. There were a lot of Bernie Backers that either didn't vote, or voted Trump in protest. This does not negate what Trump and his campaign did to encourage and coordinate release of the emails with a foreign adversary, just that there are more factors to consider when looking at Trump's win and assessing how that happened.

Every single flaw you ascribe to Biden, Trump has exponentially displayed. You are hopelessly lost in your unwavering desire to continue to worship that incredibly flawed man over facts and reason and the needs of sound government. Meanwhile Biden will serve out his term and I will just objectively look for the next less-flawed candidate who I think can do the job the best. I am not tethered to any politician by some kind of odd messianic umbilical need or rational. Trump should just turn his Mar a Lago golf resort to a commune so his followers can hand over all their worldly goods to Trump Org, live there in monastic poverty, and then he can leverage the financial and tax advantages of having his own religion. A leader's ability to assemble and retain a competent team to you know.....govern the nation is IMO likely the most important quality. The rest is gravy.

For the leadership qualities I look for in any leader be it a business leader or one holding public office. I am not into or overly enamored by firey rhetoric. It is just so much hot air. What I Iook for in a president, irregardless of party affiliation, is ability to assemble and retain competent expertise as staff. A fundamental necessity for that staff is that they can disagree with him (or her someday) and give their expert advice sans fear of reprisal. See my response to the wacky guy. I believe Trump is an effective showman, salesman, and rabble-rouser, but an ineffective, incompetent, and dangerous leader. As many have said, you all need to move on.

And you "genius" completely miss the point. Between two cognitively declining old guys, I'll take the one who can hire expertise, delegate work to them, let them do their job, and retain them over the angry delusional guy whose pervasive leadership quality is his demand for abject loyalty over competence in role. Example: Rudy the melting, farting, but ring-kissing gaffe-machine.

So the position of Trump supporters who have yet to be weaned off his shiveled **** since he lost is: ......that Biden is combative and lies. OMFG the irony 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

This again? Both dudes are old with likely cognitive decline. One is a complete dick, thinks he's a genius, and cannot hire expertise and delegate work without getting bent and firing them for having better ideas than his random and poorly thought out crap. The other recognizes that good leaders don't have to be so insecure that they have to compete with the expertise they hire and can delegate and let them do their job. Biden is a better leader. As for memory impairments, Trump has had his share. "Confusing people and generations memory loss is the symptom most closely associated with Alzheimer’s. While Trump famously forgets the names of people (as he did recently when he called Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple”) and places (as when he called Paradise, California, “Pleasure”), one could make allowances for such gaffes. More troubling, Michael Wolff reported in "Fire and Fury" that at the end of 2017, Trump failed to recognize "a succession of old friends" at Mar-a-Lago. Trump, at 72, seemed to hit a new inflection point when he said, “My father is German. Right? Was German. And born in a very wonderful place in Germany.” In fact, his father was born in the Bronx and it was his grandfather who was from Germany. Dementia Care International says a "person may start to mix up relationships and generations” in the second stage of dementia."

So many folks do not understand clinical trial protocol, but somehow think they should reference them to support positions. Just about any organization can register a clinical trial. Many do not even get off the ground to a phase 1, or acquire any participants and just get scrapped. That there is a clinical trial registered absolutely means squat in regards to progress, efficacy, or safety. This UK trial is limping along with little reason as a randomized trial has already been done testing hydroxychloroquine and other potential drugs and the results peer-reviewed. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/global-research-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/solidarity-clinical-trial-for-covid-19-treatments The "Oxford" site and clinical results link take you to: Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 3/F, 60th Anniversary Chalermprakiat Building, 420/6 Rajvithi Road, Bangkok 10400 Thailand A bit of a saga from there. First we cover incentive. The study received 20 million from various health charity organizations, but to collect they probably need to keep going. It was shut down for a few months, but was allowed to reopen with strict guidance on dosage. They talk up 1 patient registered...I think in Pakistan. There is still no evidence of efficacy towards infection prevention. Trump used it and caught Covid-19. I have my doubts and variants would make consistent results less likely. Their last blog notes say this: "Scientifically proving that hydroxychloroquine provides even a small health benefit could save thousands of lives before vaccines become widely available, and COVID-19 brought under control." Seems to be a walk back on wide-scale benefits. NOTE: The very first thing you see on the clinical.gov site is this notice: "The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Know the risks and potential benefits of clinical studies and talk to your health care provider before participating. Read our disclaimer for details."

..likely too the funds that were siphoned off his doomed election challenge fund-raising campaigns. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-shifted-money-into-indebted-private-business-forbes-2021-2

I will definitely check it out. Just did...and they nailed it. All that manufactured privilege churn from an old dude wearing a jacket and recycled mittens.