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That's what the dip will do. Getting started earlier gets the strike zone ahead of the body. On the slice the hands are in front of the strike zone (club face), which in turn is behind the rest of the body. I know a thing or two about slicing a golf ball, and when I noticed Bass start the shoulders early the recent spate of hooks made sense.

The video upthread is quite the hook. Slice is a fade. Maybe that's natural for him, but he's been hitting hooks for awhile now. The extra point, that video upthread, Blue and Red, I think a miss earlier this year. I appreciate that he missed right (a slice) from distance against the Jets. But the point remains that he's also been hitting hooks fairly recently. He's a mess.

EDIT - you can see it in the video upthread. Watch his shoulders. He's still, and then he leans in and ends up hooking it. FYI - you can see something similar with Allen on sneaks. After a hard count, he dips ever so slightly before he goes. Big tell.

I know not the first thing about kicking. So take this with a chunk of salt. He's been hooking it since camp. The return of the Blue and Red featured a similarly awful strike. What I notice in the stadium during pre-game and halftime warmups is somebody who is horribly inconsistent and who tends to, however slightly, lean more into the approach the longer he waits. The lean, based on my rudimentary understanding of soccer and physics, throws off the approach and probably produces more of a hook. So I wonder whether getting him to "go" earlier on the play clock would help. But the reality is that, if we're at that point, it's probably time for a new kicker.

There's a difference between being for something and not being against it, and my suspicion (based on anecdotal information) is that McD was not against Diggs's departure. But I can't speak to whether he was affirmatively for such a move.

Which helped us accomplish the mission that year, which was to make the playoffs. I believe he had the TD catch in the snow game, without which we don’t make the playoffs that year.

This. It’s a small price to pay to take what could be a big swing. The found money from the Davis comp pick can relatively easily be packaged with the ghost of Ryan Bates to move up. 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6. Not too shabby. Plus 11+ games of a motivated Cooper and the possibility that such motivation matures into a comp pick a year down the road.

Congratulations to you and the now-bigger family!!

Sign me up. Hoax.

It’s a problem, but we had Miami and Baltimore mixed in there. The bigger issue is that we’re winning because we’re playing very efficient football. Is it sustainable? Time will tell.

This is a good observation. Rodgers is on borrowed time, and he probably doesn’t care about next year. The other layer here is that I wonder how many offers the Raiders actually had on him. It seems like this thing developed pretty quickly yesterday, and I’m wondering if the Raiders jumped at the Jets to get it done before the Jets lost interest and the Raiders were stuck with the contract and the player.

Me too. Maybe he can end up on IR with damaged confidence if it’s an issue. He’s just a mess right now.

True. They beat Washington by a field goal, too, right? And survived Tennessee. They are what their record says they are. Their play has to be that they can win 8 of 11, including against us, and grab either the division or a wild card at 10 wins. It’s a tall task.

The Steelers game is massive for them. (And for Rodgers health, which may be at issue after that affair.). I think they have the Texans at home on a short week, right? Weird things can happen. I can only surmise that they’re looking at this like they can go 8-3 or better, get hot, and make a run. With an interim HC who doubles as their DC, a new play caller, and the scepter of a weird, brittle old QB hanging over everything. One of the overlooked things with them is how well he can relate to younger teammates. He damn well better play better because that situation is one that has the potential to unravel fast if the old guy who probably doesn’t relate to a lot of the younger guys blames everyone but himself for their failures.

Postgame he said he thought Williams converted the route to an in cut. I thought blamed Williams for running the wrong route. Which explains why he didn’t lead Williams a bit more toward the sideline. But I completely agree with you. Garbage throw. The explanation made no sense if it was in fact an in cut, and it was a gross underthrow if it was a 9.

Waiting strikes me as a good plan. It buys a little time to see if Samuel either gets healthy, figures it out, or accomplishes some combination thereof. And, it gives us a little space to see what might shake loose in Carolina (Johnson), Jax (Kirk, although I’m not sure he’s what we need or if we can pay for him), and maybe elsewhere if a team at the margins of competing loses a few in a row (looking at you, NYG). It also buys a little time to see what happens at the kicker position, which may need to be addressed with cap space and an asset. Frankly, as I type that, I wonder if kicker is more pressing to the FO than we think and more urgent than the WR position.

You might be on to something with unhappiness with Mike Williams. Rodgers, in my view, kind of blamed him in his postgame presser. Even if Williams kept his feet, there’s a small chance that the ball still is intercepted, and a better chance that Williams takes a shot from Johnson that breaks up a catch. I hardly think that Mike Williams is the problem, though, after watching them last night.

I don’t get this one. Rodgers looks old. Maybe this is the “all in” move for them while they still have Rodgers. But it’s odd to do it after dropping to 2-4 and losing to the team ahead of you in the division. 11 wins and a win over the Jets in Orchard Park probably wins the division this year. I have a hard time seeing how we don’t get to 7 more wins assuming continued health of our quarterback. I suppose they think they could go on a run given their remaining schedule, but . . . I don’t get it.

Actually, they were penalties because the arbiters of such matters decided to declare those activities infractions. And, Brown was chirping all game. Dawkins apparently did something dumb to get his. So, no, my problem, to the extent there is one, is not with the refs. Under the circumstances, it was wise to get them off the field in that scenario.

And also trying to make sure the hotheads didn’t get baited into a penalty that would have stopped the clock.

There were a lot of garbage calls. The Brown call we know was trash. We don't know what Dawkins said, so I'll reserve judgment there. The PI on Hollins where Manute Bol would watched the ball fly over his head was also bad. Too much involvement by stripes on both sides.

I dunno. It was blocked up well. But he hits it hard. He delivers blows. He falls forward. Got a little wiggle too. He doesn’t have the cook explosion … but there is a lot to like.

There is no such thing as an ugly road division win. This one was huge.

Normally I don’t like to say stuff like this unless I have a better idea, as in a specific replacement. But we are getting to that point. Everything with this guy is an adventure now.

The biggest issue right now is teams have figured out they don’t have to play two high against us and can come screaming downhill without any fear of us making them pay for it. Samuel, to date, has been a complete waste of money. Shakir being hurt is probably the biggest injury thus far. Scantling is useless, Coleman is a rookie still figuring things out, and we have a problem right now at WR.