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A wasted year for Allen. I feel the same way. Here’s an off-season idea: trade Gabe Davis (to the giants?) and start over at WR behind Diggs. Keep on hitting that rock and it breaks eventually. We will never win S with any other attitude.

Agreed. Standing in the stadium today I felt they were gassed. Everything seemed forced. They gave everything they had this year in the face of a mass shooting, Matt Araiza, weather, injury, asinine travel, more bad weather, and a near death experience on the field. Not to mention the offense was a patchwork mess with the new coordinator. On to next year.

We were talking about stacking AFC/NFC on the same day. I completely agree with you that it is an interesting idea. Probably doesn't work for TV purposes, though. Say, for example, the NFC played on Saturday. The NFL would force Dallas to fly from Dallas to Tampa to Dallas to SF in the course of a week and play on five days' rest. Not good for competition. And, the league would waste a huge game (both NFC are going to be massive draws) in an afternoon time slot on a Saturday.

No way Giants Eagles isn’t in prime time with markets ##1 and 6. I spoke with a member of the media about the TV schedule on the way out of the WC game and the consensus among everyone there was that we would land on Sunday afternoon if the Giants won. I’m dumbfounded by the ratings for our 1p game, but I can’t see how anyone knocks two huge markets out of a prime time playoff game.

I didn’t know Settle was hurt. That’s bad. If I’m Miami I’m going to pound away at us this week and try to get a few big plays on PA and a stray deep shot here and there.

The bet here is that McKenzie and Phillips don’t play this week, that Beasley takes McKenzie’s spot, and that John Brown and Brandin Bryant are PS elevations.

I disagree. This reads like Brandon Beane all day long. And, if it's Beane, good for him. Somebody had to say something. A little nugget on Vincent. He is the guy who broke JP Losman's leg. And it was a hit job. The older guys, particularly the defensive players, were tired of Losman running his mouth in camp. So Vincent smoked him late and broke his leg because he's the guy who could get away with it. When he (Vincent) was here he had the ambition of becoming a billionaire, and Ralph used to pull him from practice to take him to lunch.

That’s a great idea.

So then why do you care when someone on the players’ side complains about the health insurance provided by the league? I strongly suspect it’s going to be an issue in the next CBA. It’s the right of the players to negotiate it. I think they’ve earned it, and have for a long time.

The majority don’t retire as millionaires. And, the majority don’t retire in a traditional sense. They just stop playing football and move on to other vocations. Nobody has a problem asking these guys to take some Toradol on any given Sunday. So nobody should have an issue asking the league and its teams to buck up for medical care. And, define free. In my view, guys like Darryl Talley, for example, earned that health insurance in the field. The fact that the payments are made after their ability to compete has ended makes no difference to me.

No worries about football. But my kid is never playing goalie in lacrosse.

The fairest thing to do is probably to call it a no contest, for the entire world outside of the Kansas City area to root like crazy for the Raiders on Saturday, to have the Bills play (as they are) on Sunday at 1, and to have the Bengals/Ravens go on Sunday at 4. Bills get a shot at the #1 if the Chiefs lose, and Bengals get a shot at the #2 if the Bills lose. Everybody loses a little in that situation, but that's the way it goes when presented with an issue like this one that transcends football and nearly all other trivialities in life.

Who cares. Let’s make sure our guy lives. That’s all I care about. Football comes later.

I just talked to an ER doc. Obviously it’s speculation. But Hamlin needs prayers. Football isn’t even secondary right now.

Diggs. Knox. I'll go with tempo as #3. I'd like to see them play with a little more pace sometimes. Maybe diversity as #4. Still waiting for a rope-a-dope game plan like we saw against KC in the regular season last year. This would be the week to bust it out if we have it.

For old times’ sake, hoax. But I agree with you that Beasley is something sorely missing from the offense. Whether he can be the guy who was extremely productive for us for a few years remains to be seen. I have no issue with taking a hill shot at it, though. There’s nothing to lose by trying to work him in, and plenty of (third and medium distances) to gain.

This can’t be true because the Steelers can still get to nine wins.

Solid point. I think a healthy diet of berries and salmon would be appropriate for this tailgate for those seeking to prepare similar to a bear. Get a free trial of YouTube TV and you should be good.

No. But it distracted McDaniel. I don’t know if this made the broadcast, but he was jawing with fans in section 114/115 during the first quarter. Never seen a HC do something like that during a game.

4th and 18 against the Vikings not knocking the ball down. I sense a pattern here.

This. Coming from an OP local. This will be your best bet tomorrow. Traffic getting out of there is going to be a nightmare in the snow.

OMG get the metaphor. It refers to engaging in a pointless activity. Like sting that signing Bease and dumping Stevenson is like changing one dirty tshirt for another equally dirty T-shirt.

That’s not the issue. He left not because of his beliefs, but because he couldn’t keep them in check at and relative to his place of employment. Them’s the breaks, as they say. So long as he’s a team player and can contribute a bit, I’m glad he’s back. He’s one of us, irrespective of what he does or not believe relative to the now-academic issue in question.

I look at it this way. When was the last time we saw Josh stand in the pocket, flat-footed and unmolested, and unleash a rope in the middle of the field? It’s been awhile. He’s under too much duress. Some of this is scheme (can’t throw it at somebody’s back, and maybe a couple of boots, rollouts, or an effective screen game to get the DL moving side to side and running around a bit might help), but most of it is poor OL play.

Agreed on both counts, and I’ll add that if Hodgins was still here he’d have had a crack at this role already.