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Can you prove it was insecure, and that any such insecurity affected the result?

You’re entitled to all of these views. But they aren’t winning elections. So the R question now is to move to the middle or to double down on this stuff. This was the best environment for Rs in maybe decades and what did they get? Maybe marginal control of the House, a basically deadlocked Senate and, at least where I live, status quo despite scads of money spent on mailers, etc.

Yes. Saw him voting around 11a.

For what it’s worth, McD was in a pretty good mood when he was out and about this morning. So there’s that.

Can and will is not does. That’s the problem.

I’m OK with Elam and Benford is a revelation. But, otherwise I agree with you. Cook and Bernard are useless. The Araiza situation nearly submarined the season. Shakir has promise, but . . . It doesn’t translate to the field yet. Spector is a JAG, and Tenuta wasn’t even a JAG.

We’’re all living and dying with this. Myself included. But I thought McD was pretty light in the presser. Not what I would expect if preliminary analysis was devastating. The Rapaport report probably is right. Somebody in team PR likely fed it to him. Happens all the time in exchange for help with other stuff later. I can’t believe an athlete with a $250m contract wouldn’t be able to cut the line and have an MRI (and have it read) within 24 hours of the incident. So I suspect that they’ve had the MRI done and read, and that McD is playing a little loose with this one to make the Vikings prep for Allen and Keenum on Sunday. I won’t feel good until I see Allen on the field on Sunday. But I feel better than I did an hour ago.

So is Rule #1. Or is it Rule #2. Whatever. Show your work, DoQ.

It’s always after the bye or a break. He’s a rhythm guy and he typically comes back slowly out of the break. This is different, though. Too many uncharacteristic decisions.

Don’t forget the throw over the middle that was a mess. It’s not about the accuracy. It’s about the decision making. And, right now, it’s bad. Concussions are funny things. Whether it’s a concussion or something else, he is way off right now.

Honestly, from an immediate football perspective I’m more worried about the elbow than the concussion. I will not be surprised to see Keenum next week. He’s off. The double-clutching, the awful interceptions, frankly the touch throw to Kumerow that he missed that would have ended the GB game . . . He’s just not right. And I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he was concussed against GB.

I think I started this in a different thread. I wondered about it in the second half of the GB game, and I still wonder about it following the Jets game. Bottom line here is that something is up. Maybe he was concussed on the shot in the GB game. Maybe he had a COVID booster and it’s screwed him up. (I had vertigo after my most recent booster and for a couple of weeks thereafter I felt like I just wanted my brain back. It was horrible, and I can’t imagine anyone with those side effects trying to play professional football.) I don’t know. But he’s not right. Without any care in the world for football I hope he’s OK. He’s one of us.

That’s part of why I think something happened. Tried to laugh it off. But I’m just saying: that was one powerful collision. And the way he played in the second half against GB and today lends itself tot the idea that something happened. He hurt the shoulder against the raiders. That injury affect accuracy. Whatever’s goin on here seems mental. It’s so out of character for him.

It was right in front of me and it was loud. I thought he was concussed on that hit.

For what it’s worth I really think he was concussed against GB. It would explain a lot.

Hoax. Self-victimization is unbecoming, FYI. The special master was a delay tactic. Frankly it wasn’t needed in a situation such as that one. The DOJ (and other investigatory agencies) typically set up “curtains” to ensure that anything that might be privileged is sifted from documents that could be evidence and that are forwarded to prosecutors. Say, for sake of argument, that the FBI is right and that it seized from Mar-a-Lago docs related to national security. There’s no reason to diddle around with a special master to ensure that something that might be privileged (a letter between Trump and counsel) or immaterial (a receipt for a hamburger at Five Guys) isn’t reviewed by the FBI. Time is of the essence. The same arguably goes with the prosecution, too. Justice delayed is justice denied. No reason to wait around for a special master who might work two hours a day to go through thousands of documents. It was a smart tactical move by Trump’s attorneys that ultimately backfired (or, at least, didn’t work out as planned).

Like everything else in todays society too many people treat this issue as black and white. It’s not. It’s gray. I completely agree with you about the dangers of cash bail in certain scenarios. I also question the wisdom of precluding bail in other instances. As you’ve noted, this isn’t a “one or the other” situation. But unfortunately too many people see it that way.

innocent until proven guilty.

Good point. It’s Paul pelosi’s fault he was assaulted because he didn’t have a shotgun handy to go all Dick Cheney on his attacker. Hoax.

Said another way it’s Moss and a little less than Cody Ford for Hines. What’s the harm?

Ridiculous. But let’s play a stupid game. Say Paul had a gun and wants to use it, but gets the shakes and misses, and then the assailant puts the hammer through Paul’s skull and kills him. At that point, is it Paul’s fault for being a lousy shot? Or, what is the assailant was shot, but the bullet stopped by a vest? It’s then Paul’s fault for not having a high caliber rifle?

Hoax. They had a choice whether to get the vaccine. Give me liberty or death, they said. Some got liberty, others got death. That was their choice. Paul Pelosi didn’t have a choice when a criminal burglarized his home and hit him with a hammer.

Yup. Not one word about what could be an attempt to assassinate the Speaker of the House. Victim blaming. And Paul Pelosi’s statement constitutes “actual proof.” It’s up to the fact finder whether to believe it.

This is a solid comeback. Somebody else may possibly have been ripped off, so it's OK if Trump ripped me off. Love the logic. Hoax.

That game was a powder keg after Diggs got hit late. The Allen hit before that, although clean, also contributed. Both teams were laying the wood to each other last night.