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People complain no matter what an athlete does. In these days of "load management," the feat is even more impressive.

The more I study it, the more I think that this draft sucks. Like 2013 levels of bad.

No NFL records are unbreakable. They added a 17th game, and they will likely add an 18th. Not that you would know this because it's baseball, but the most unbreakable record in global sport is Cal Ripken's 2,632 consecutive game streak. In May 1982, Ripken missed the second game of a doubleheader. He didn't miss another game until 1998. They play 162 games a season and he never took a day off for 16 years.

It's not only weak, but also boring. It's weak at the fun positions like QB and WR, and stronger at the positions that are less fun like DB and DT. The best players in this draft are likely to be an undersized EDGE and a two-way player that will primarily play DB at the NFL level. Hense the lower level of intensity to these pre-draft weeks.

Who the heck knows. We're just going to have to come to grips with the fact that this is a pretty weak draft all around. We can fall into the trap of comparing prospects to each other, but the reality is that there even fewer sure things than usual.

I don't usually share personal information on the Internet and I wish I hadn't done that here. We were riding out a midwestern thunderstorm with tornado warnings in the basement and I had a few glasses of wine to pass the time. Of course, I meant 1915. I don't even know if the story about the Lusitania is true, but my mother's aunts told it all the time. I did look up the records and they made the crossing in August, 2015 on the St. Paul. And the story about the Queen's speech is my mother's and she was born in Rochester in 1947 so that part checks out. Back to football. I hope the Chiefs play yearly on Christmas. Them losing to the Raiders two years ago was by far the best gift I got that year.

It'll be in the middle of the night over there. I'll tell you a Christmas story. Both my mom's mother and father were born in London, and she spent Christmas at her father's family's house. These people were the poorest of the poor before emigrating. Her grandfather was an East End day laborer who had 10 kids who all lived in two rooms. But they still made all the grand kids (my mom and her cousins) listen to the Queen's speech before they could open their presents. They also drank Harvey's Bristor Cream. For my WNyers, he emigrated and got a job at Kodak in Rochester. He made extra money working in George Eastman's gardens because he wanted only English gardeners. Then the rest of the family, including my grandfather, all came over after he had a job. They had tickets on the Lusitania in May 1915 but got re-booked on the St. Paul in August 1915. Neither my mother nor I would have been here if that "misfortune" had not happened to them. Quite the f-ing story.

FWIW, I wouldn't have signed either one of them. But I have no control over what the team does so all I can do is support them and hope for the best.

Two years ago, the Raiders beat the Chiefs. It was like an extra gift. In fact, it was the bast thing I got that year.

As a fan who never played football at any level. I don't remember hearing about 1Ts and 3Ts until the lead-up to the 2019 draft. Now we're hearing about this again because it appears that the Bills are in the DT market. The way I understand it is that a 1T lines up over the center more or less. In other words, a NT in a 3-4. A 3T lines up over one of the guards. Then, the DE/EDGE guys line up against the OTs. So, in the run game the 1T is primarily responsible for clogging up the middle and stopping any runs through the A gap. Am I correct in this?

This. There is a spring transfer portal window from 4/16-4/25 so they had to get him in place before that. They can complete the paperwork later in the spring. As an aside, one of my favorite college players that never made it in the league was Stanford RB Bryce Love. He alone was worth staying up to watch late-night Pac12 games. It's a shame that injuries derailed his career because he was going to be a good one.

Back when it was in the theatre at MSG, I would have gone just to see the disappointed Jets fans in person. It was must-see yearly TV event.

The way the Eagles run that play, it's a false start. The center rocks backward and then is moving forward and downward as he snaps the ball. They just need to start calling the rules that the NFL already has.

Maybe for you it did, but we had 12 pages of debate on the subject in the aftermath of the game:

I'm the one who posted what he's responding to and I don't even agree with it. I was playing devil's advocate. People don't seem to know what that means. The Bengals SUCK without Jesse Bates, DJ Reader and Joe Mixon. They just spent a lot of money to run it back with a non-playoff team.

To play devil's advocate, Joe Burrow has elite pre-snap processing skills and is an incredibly accurate passer. He is the most Brady-like of any young QB in the league. This year, he had almost 5,000 yards passing this year with 43 TD passes. Those are elite numbers and he led the league in both of them. Everyone on this board was praying that they didn't sneak in as the seven seed because we were so afraid of playing Burrow. Their offense is elite and they would have made the SB if they had any type of a defense.

People here in Cincinnati drop Allen from that list and add Burrow. He's not your average Joe, after all:

Well, acording to fans there are currently top-five QBs. Mahomes Allen Jackson Burrow Stafford Goff Daniels Stroud Love Hurts

Didn't know there were fellow tennis fans on here. You should come to Cincinnati some time. Nice tournament, easy access to players, and free parking.

Not so much an idiot as a massive Pats homer. He never played for another team and his show is basically reminiscing about the Brady team. Gronk does actually hate the Bills. Thanks a more interesting topic of discussion.

Yeah, the Bills sucked!

Diggs has created a version of the world in which he is simultaneously the hero and the victim.

Probably meeting with him so much to see if they can deal with the personality.

But speed needs to be able to catch. If all you need is speed, John Ross is a FA and still only 29.

It also shows how bad this year's FA class is. The Pats are spending buckets of money and will be only marginally better.