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Narrative still is different for some. That view it like you just laid out. Getting off the glass half full wagon and realizing that is kind of a nice sounding way of saying you are a half short of a full glass, produces a different take.

I just felt like his rankings in general were kind of just dumped out of a bag and however they landed was where he was ranking them. After the top obvious choices. As people have said, Dan’s finals are coming up. Everything he is doing at least on offense is trying to cover a wart. He will have to deal with it in the next 12 months.

We were in the middle last year. Way up from what we were. I think we will see it is easier to go from bad to sort of decent than it will be from sort of decent to excellent and highly ranked. Just like drafting for starters gets harder when you have some decent starters. People pay a ton , in all kinds of pursuits, trying to get that last 5%.

Lol same here. I have too many email accounts I don’t know how to access any more.

Rico was huge for about three or four games. But not necessarily in a way that can’t be replicated. I still think it was a combination of motivation on his part plus excellent OL play. It wasn’t Just Him. We have put a ton on the Brooks proposition and will just have to see what happens. I could have put that into a single reply if it wasn’t a holiday lol.

They are all different. If attitude and that sort of thing make a difference I have to put Murray in the trail position. But he has the most raw talent. Funny how that works

It shouldn’t be asking too much for a player to step up and make the most of an opportunity. Like a Cherilus or Wallace. Or someone we aren’t even thinking about. The positive is that we have minimized the number of positions open to a no name type. Most are pretty solidly filled.

Was too dumb to block anybody I couldn’t figure it out lol. I think I realized how yesterday when looking in my settings for the email settings. It is sort of clumsily implemented in the software, not intuitive I guess I would say.

Certain teams can be beaten that way and others higher in the pecking order can’t. The ability to beat the lessers at least keeps your floor to a certain level, which you try to build from.

That’s a good point. At the same time if you do go what you see will likely influence your sports interaction experience. Like Pamdora’s box. If you go for personal freedom or liberty above (almost) all, and I guess I would land there, you keep it. I wouldn’t miss it though.

And Bryce is a long way from prime Jake. So it needs to be some really good Fox ball.

Phillips is a huge gamble. No doubt. I am hoping that he hit a streak of bad breaks and has come clear out on the other side of all that. If he is right he has to be an upgrade on Burns. At just about the same money. He sets an edge too which we weren’t getting before.

Smack Central is in the realm of sports smack talk though. Which yeah can be fun and funny. This political and cultural stuff divides the people here that would otherwise be on the same side. In the narrow focus of sports fanning. It isn’t my decision or call, and I can do either. Do have opinions on it though. And agreed this may be one of a dying breed of communities but it is still the best format for people interested in one particular pursuit. I haven’t seen better formats. Can find something you said five years ago. To me even lol. This other stuff is so much stream of consciousness in the moment focused. And this can do that, but a lot more.

Pressure causes most of it. My hope is that even if are not sack terrors, constant pressure closing their margin time wise can be productive in that area. Guys hurry, try to do too much, all that stuff. More mistakes are made.

And the running game. As you start facing the stronger defenses in the playoffs and possible bad weather it becomes key. It doesn’t change. We sure spent a ton of assets trying to be in the cool kid great offense club only to end up back where we started. Game manager QB and run the ball/stop the run.

If you are going to have a chance with a QB like we have, better have an outstanding defense. And I am big fan of defense to start with. It killed me watching the defense be neglected to help Young. So this is s much better state of things. I don’t think it’s there yet though.

Seems like that information should be accessible to those with the proper privileges. But I am only guessing. A new gmail account couldn’t cover this?

Go your profile and poke around you will be able to find what email you use and change it to you latest greatest one as long you are signed in.

I wasn’t real happy with Canales about that entire last series. I can’t think of which game it was but I could swear we had the same thing happen in the regular season where we were up against it with a chance but little time left and we saw four plays just about like those. Same result. Everything was done in panic mode it seemed to me.

And his success in Buffalo came very late in his career. I hadn’t realized until I looked up his 1999 stats how many years he was on NFL teams before he ever went to the CFL. Where he was massively successful. Gray Cups and individual honors. And took a big pay cut to get back in the NFL. Unlike Bryce, who will expect top dollar or close Point being it took him many years to find relative success in the NFL and even then it was fleeting and incomplete, never reached the summit. Maybe Bryce can eventually learn enough tricks of the trade too but who the hell has ten - twelve years to wait? And Flutie had more to work with physically too.

I forgot about that. That did go pretty poorly. Even if it wasn’t his idea, you know he signed off on it.

The NFC E seemed like a good division for his style. I wasn’t even thinking about minority guys in TB (but you are right), it was driven by their history of team makeup and defensive focus and success. Outside of a couple of Brady years. And Gruden. Forgot about him.

Well I am - at least for now - glad we don’t have three daughters that inherited the team, running it like they are in Indy. Maybe they’ll be great but I am pretty skeptical.

I never thought Jim Irsay was that bad. Yes he hired Saturday to coach, and yes he liked to party probably too much (and knew how, he kept some top pro musicians employed for a lot of shows and parties, and had a massive and great guitar collection) but that team was good for years at a time. Yes he had top QBs I know, but he made the right pick when the time came to pick one.

I think you are on point with the throwing to spots. It is the only way it could work if you can’t see your target. And to backtrack just a little, these incompatibilities seem to show up more with Bryce at QB than I remember seeing with other QBs in the past. Not really user friendly for all users. I don’t know why and don’t expect an answer, just observing. Maybe my perception is not in line with reality.