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This is true, but you understand there are folks who think math is a fascist concept.

They were never impressive in this tournament. Outspoken and arrogant can write those checks when you cash them with victories. When you don't win, there's going to be an excess of schadenfreude.

Today is @HappyDays off day. I said I would fill in. Gabe Davis has a catch technique where he claps his hands together rather than forming a basket with his hands. Joe Marino spent about ten hours talking about it. It's not the best. He's also chronically injured. He had one superlative playoff game, but in reality he is wildly inconsistent. Maybe Kincaid is that special rookie that can in effect take over the WR2 role and relegate Davis to the go routes that he is good at. Of course, Davis is flashing in training camp, though in real games he will revert to form. I know this is somewhat over the 3 minute 27 second time limit, but my cat keeps jumping on the keyboard. @BADOLBILZ also has an impressive back catalog on this topic for those dissatisfied with the quality of Davis bashing in this post.

I was just kidding. I would never do that to you. Good beer excuses minor sins. It's somewhere in the catechism.

I'm sorry. I have to put you on ignore now.

@GunnerBill has a metric that indicated McD doesn't take CBs with arms as short as McDuffie's. That fella's take is a lot of surmise without substance.

You're in.

I don't really bet. As an academic and a poet, I don't have cash to play with. But if I did, I think I'd put some down on Spector as an interesting speculation at MLB.

We should get t-shirts made up and form a club.

Who was traded? I thought the newbies were all FA pickups. Or possibly this is a joke about Gabe Davis . . .

There's no doubt that lots of folks are excited about 12 personnel now which is all that is necessary for my observation to be true. I am confident that Kincaid is the real deal, however. Your habitual snark is noted.

I recall @NewEra and I catching a lot of flack pre-draft for pushing for Kincaid and 12 personnel. Folks kept dismissing it and then acting as if Kincaid only made sense as a Knox replacement. Now suddenly it's everybody's jam. (Not singling you out, Virgil, of course. As a prophet-poet, I'm sure you saw this all coming.)

I've no idea about Twitter. I don't use it. As far as I'm concerned it was bad before Musk took over. How far that has altered one way or the other is immaterial. If there's any news of note, it usually shows up here. I hope you are correct about Brown. That would be huge if true.

I'm not interested in the political snide that inevitably comes into this kind of conversation. It is utterly unhelpful for either side to simply presume that everyone who disagrees with them is a moron, nor is it kind or in fact intelligent to do so. I do think it is worth pointing out that what is happening in popular culture is not only true for the movies and Hollywood generally. The music and publishing industries are equally affected. It is not just a question of ideological overreach. Technology, AI, the consolidating of platforms so that in reality there is an oligarchy of only a few dominant distributors has resulted in decisions that are 1) using entertainment as a write off for corporations that make their bones elsewhere with the result that zealots that care about approbation from a tiny minority green light material that satisfies the few at the expense of the many or 2) paradoxically, there is a lazy, supposedly market-driven criteria that produces bland, repetitive, uninteresting products that leaves no room for the truly innovative and interesting work of artists. In the book world, a great writer like the late Cormac McCarthy would never be given the runway to acquire an audience today.

Dawkins was subpar last year and Brown was not good. Better IOL will help a lot and it should contribute to better tackle play. Let's get to competent first and then try for very good. If it's great, we're going to win a SB if the offensive playmakers stay healthy.

I guess my joke didn't come off. I know what they are, but thanks for the explanation. It's kind of you.

So now that you surmise he is exonerated, you're worried that he's not good at kicking dogs?

I'm not technical at all. I know I've had trouble with file size limitations. There are some apps that resize gifs for free, but I haven't tried them because I never care enough to bother.

Hell, I do that routinely without surgery.

How can it hurt? At worst, he's a camp body. At best, he's a lottery ticket that blooms late with Josh Allen as his qb.

I think maybe you should add in a snarky comment about focus and his actress girlfriend.

What you might miss is his two kickoff returns for td, but the league is doing everything they can to deemphasize that part of the game.

Fair enough. I think he may have more lead back potential, but either way, I agree that the running game needs to be more coherently woven into an overall strategy. I didn't see that last year, in any event. I also didn't see much use of Cook's receiving ability. What he can do is not just take a quick swing pass out of the backfield. He can actually track the ball on longer routes and for whatever reason that didn't show up in Dorsey's game plans.

I heard that Ken went and saw Oppenheimer and now Barbie won't let him back in the Dream house.

Bigger than hiring Ralph Kreuger? No, I don't think so.