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Hoax. Are they praying for a cure for her heart disease or or her diabetes? This comes from a churchgoing person and a believer. Her best bet isn't to ask for a miracle. It's to use tools that God has given her to do such things as exercise restraint and to lay off the hot dogs and the Chef Boyardee.

The Brown challenge probably is in the draft or on the roster (Tommy Doyle). Benford replaces Poyer, so long as Dane Jackson returns. Edmunds replacement probably is in FA. QB2 is starting to look like Kyle Allen or someone (Mariota, maybe Matt Ryan) willing to work cheap (think $2m/year).

I wonder if they're going to shoot for David or Wagner at LB. Based on McD's comments this offseason, I think they may want an alpha in that role. It's perfectly reasonable to try to fill the job through the draft, to beef up at DT (see ya, Ed) and move Milano there with Spector/Klein/different JAG at weakside, or to (gulp) hope that Bernard makes a quantum leap and can cut it. But I wonder if they want a big dog in the middle and a personality that maybe Edmunds simply doesn't have.

I'll be surprised if they go guard in round 1. It's kind of like RB. We can (or, put better, should be able to) find guys later (the Saffold failure notwithstanding). Better roster management probably is to take a tackle and then kick Dawkins into guard if the tackle we find is equal to Dawkins. Would leave us with a cost-controlled LT and the ability to either trim Dawkins's pay or say adios to what then would be that $15m guard. I'm not against drafting for RT in round 1, but I suspect they're going to look at Brown's play last year as a reflection of his health and gamble that one of Brown/Doyle can lock that job down this year. And, from a long-term roster management perspective, we really need a WR who can start no later than next year. Davis likely is gone, and the slot play last year speaks for itself.

Could mean Poyer is gone and benford to safety.

I somewhat agree on re-tooling. This is a tweak year. Improve OL, and skill on O, get younger on D and adjust philosophy on D to become ire aggressive. As long as we can keep Allen upright we are never out of contention.

This. All day long. She has all the characteristics of bad news. Maybe they are. Maybe they have more room with Waller gone. But nothing has happened yet - They were both geography snobs from what I heard. More her than him.

The wife needs to shut her yap. That’s my two cents. I suspect he wants to come back, but she’s into cash and sand. Today will be interesting.

I think the Benford issue turns on what happens with Dane Jackson. Poyer, I suspect, is up in the air. The bet here is that his market is not what the wife expected, and he (they) will have to compromise on location or money. I'm interested to see what happens with him today.

I’d do it, too. Ed isn’t worth $10m. And there’s a good change both he and Davis walk next year. Real loser might be Davis, who I suspect would see market value depressed by going to this iteration of the Rams.

That organization understands how to protect a superstar QB.

Good for Keenum. He wasn’t coming back here. Personally I’d prefer not to pay the backup any more than Chad Henne made last year with KC, which, IIRC, was $2m. Keenum I believe was at $4m, and he was not worth anywhere close to that.

At the very least we wouldn't have seen Eli Ankou getting blown away so regularly. But there's also this little matter of putting up a 10 spot or whatever our paltry number was on the other side of the ball.

Allen to Diggs in Detroit was the best throw of the season. Hands down.

Everyone is replaceable. Some are more easily replaceable than others. But everyone is replaceable. (Note: this axiom does not apply to Josh Allen, who is not replaceable.) Personally, I prefer volunteers to hostages. If he wants out, then that’s fine. He can rework his deal and leave for a destination of our choosing. If not, then that’s fine too. Gotta have people who want to be here.

I might be in the minority here, but I trust McD to get this right. His track record speaks for itself. One of the things that I find . . . Interesting . . . About the conversation is the point that McD may assume responsibility for playcalling next year. It tells me that perhaps he wants things done a particular way moving forward, which suggests to me that he saw a particular problem with the defense. That suspicion may be unfounded, but the idea that McD is going to get his fingers into the defense more moving forward is very interesting to me.

I agree with the point on “needing” to make a change. Did this have to happen? No, of course not. The defense was good. My concern with Frazier lies in the idea that the “book” is out there on him. I’d like to see a “Spags” game out of him, or Lou A. game out of him when it matters most. We never quite got there. So, I completely agree - we did not need to make a change. I just wonder if it’s time for a fresh set of eyes, for fresh ideas, and maybe a little unpredictability at key moments. Time will tell, I guess.

I hated the Bengals game. I thought we were in trouble when I saw the inactives and Benford on the list. Not enough corners dressed and headed for too much zone. First play Burrow looked at Edmunds (over Chase, I believe) and threw right at him. Easy pitch and catch, just like the rest of the day.

We will miss him more than we we think. He’s kind of like Edmunds to me. Better than his detractors think. Probably not as good as his proponents believe. Overall he did a really good job. But, philosophically, it probably was time for a change, or at least for a fresh set of eyes.

He’s not as good as his supporters think. And he’s not as bad as his detractors think. We’ll miss him. But he’s not worth a cap hit greater than Milano’s charge. And, even if we had him at that number, he’s probably not worth keeping around with Milano and investing $20m in off-ball linebackers. I’d rather hire cost-effective replacement labor and sink the savings into the offensive side of the ball.

Could you elaborate? Is it the Hall departure of which you speak? Or the new hire? Or both?

1/8 = .125. They just raised the price by effectively the rate for the Cleveland game this year. They did the same thing the last time snow pushed a game to Detroit. I get inflation, etc., and I renewed today. But it doesn’t mean that I don’t think that it’s . . . a poor look given the crappy weather and other difficult experiences that we’ve endured as STH the last couple of years. (For example, the BS at the gates in the NE MNF game, the ridiculous amount of snow to walk through into the Miami regular season game that they couldn’t be bothered to arrange to have plowed, freezing our butts off too many times to count, the slow entry through Gate 6 this year against NE, etc.) Basically they just took a game (understandably, under the circumstances) from their best and most loyal customers and kept the cash.

His opinion has never mattered in this context. He is a sports talk show host. He could think present-day Joe Montana and Madonna are the best two quarterbacks in the league. Or the worst. It wouldn't change a thing.

This. We need to recalibrate: invest in the lines, get a little more creative, find a bit more speed, and deal with the need to have cheap labor on D and ST. Then we need a little randomness go our way for a change.

Garbage call. Most consequential piece over over-officiating I can think of.