ndirish1978

Yes! Darr will bring his entire playbook, which consists of a single page:

Wake me up to use this playoff simulator what we don't have a losing record. I'll save everyone the time: we lose to the Patriots and we're out unless the Broncos, Ravens and Titans all fall apart. We lose any game before then and you can flush every scenario down the toilet because we're not beating the Patriots.

He's a kid with a "rivalry" mentality trying to hype himself up. He doesn't understand the business side of this, or he is willfully ignoring it.

They don't care about your tailgating experience, they don't profit from it enough and the antics quite frankly make the fanbase look boorish. A new stadium downtown with a retractable roof allows them to hold more events (concerts) and would have a net positive effect on the economy. Reduced tailgating space means people would be funneled into the bars/restaurants in the area. Expect this to be the route they go with.

I bring them both back and play them sparingly

At 8-8 we would need the Titans and Ravens to fall apart. Playoffs not happening.

This is such a passive-aggressive beta move

I believe this is correct.

I wonder about the financial ramifications of this. How much did the league lose? What about all the fans who booked tickets to go see the game and now have to cancel travel and hotel plans?

Starting Barkley is the type of short-sighted thinking that has kept us down in the dregs of the league for years. Embrace the suck and get better, that is the only way we will ever wind up with a franchise QB.

I imagine it feels akin to dropping a clothes iron on your gonads. Probably not the best feeling.

We need an actual QB coach. I have zero confidence in the one we have now. The only saving grace is that Daboll is supposedly investing a lot of time in Josh

We need a RT. You don't really draft those in the 1st. I'd draft WR, OT, C, OG in that order.

? One of my best friends did the same thing and has been miserable about it all season.

Deal, done.

Nope. The one saving grace of this season will be getting our future franchise QB some experience. We aren't winning out the rest of the season, we are 100% missing the playoffs. The only positive we can get from this season is developing young talent. Handing the offense off to a backup QB with no chance of being a long-term starter is ridiculous.

Ridiculous. This season on O is 100% about Allen getting as many reps as possible. Starting Barkley in lieu of Allen gives us yet another losing season with no upside.

He must have messed up thousands of people's fantasy football teams. As someone who no longer plays fantasy football, I find this hilarious.

He will be a solid #3. We still need a #1 who can ball out and a reliable guy with speed.

I like him as a backup, Cut Peterman and keep Barkley and Anderson while Allen starts. We can jettison Anderson in the offseason and just keep Barkley and Allen next year.

Dawkins/Teller should be set for the next 8 years on the left side of the O-line. Unfortunately we need starters at the other 3 positions.

I think they took the guards off this season and just played everyone they thought could amount to something and let the players prove them right or wrong. We have some young WRs that might turn out to be ok and we've been churning the roster at that position like crazy. They have been rotating guys through OL, due to injuries and one moron who retired in the middle of a game they have been rotating players through at CB and MLB. Next year will be better, but I don't expect more than 5 wins this season.

This isn't a tank, it's ineptitude. I don't think they expected to get back into the playoffs this year, but they are learning that their "team-first" approach isn't working at all.

My point being that columnists don't really need press credentials.

Question, when did either of them actually prove that they deserved free entrance to games? I don't recall either of them citing actual sources. They write columns, why should they be entitled to access to the players and press conferences when all they do is write "gotcha" stories with negative takes. They can write bitter columns just watching the games like the rest of us.