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Damn it. I was leery about his durability going forward because he is getting older. So now what? Not Nijman, he is like our Zavala of tackles.

I was hoping to see both. Oh well.

It wasn’t exactly like he got a top job in journalism. I mean, they are sportswriters. He is more like the redneck Ray Barone than Woodward and Bernstein.

Bon Jovi has a unique windup there he needs a football to sling.

The old people playin folk music and singing Perter Paul and Mary songs, with ukuleles, really get me going. Effective stuff.

Thank you man. I haven’t watched a game live this season. But I live a short block from three bars and am going to deal with Cowboys fans but with maybe we’ll piss them off And yeah the whole ESPN on air bunch, they can keep them and Newton too.

I didn’t remember it myself and would have to look it up. But he is supposed to be a pro. Not sure he is a graduate of any journalism school, not gonna bother looking. He should be better regardless, agree.

Have you watched mainstream media? They editorialize nowadays, they don’t impartially report anymore. I was a Journalism minor in school, the traditional role has been scuttled. They don’t teach that anymore as far as I can tell.

She seems like she would be a Bryce homer. She did a good job here but I am good with where she is.

That’s a great description of it. That is the luckiest mofo that ever threw up a prayer

Maybe re-assigned would do?

That is embarrassing to me, on Newton’s behalf. A true display of ignorance. Watch a game Newton, don’t just admire the tight uniforms.

I should say don’t take my post as defending Newton’s cluelessness. No fan of his and no fan of modern ESPN/Disney. Said it before but I think XL needs some advising on his media interaction. maybe the team ought to give him an interpreter lol. Speak through him like the Latinos do in baseball.

I don’t think enough people realize how deflating that is for the team. Seeing the same horror movie you saw two weeks ago and three weeks and 6 weeks ago. It wears you down fast. edit: to the defense’s credit, they are doing better at redoubling their resolve after the typical early poo show.

Just for another perspective….when people talk about my parents, both gone, I like talking about them. The hole never goes away but talking about them helps me. I know it isn’t the same for everyone. I liked XL saying ‘if I just play my game….” because that is exactly how he needs to approach it. Don’t try to be what he isn’t. I think he was caught up in that a little this season. PS Sunday is 4 years since my mom passed. She loved football and I will feel like she is watching with me. She told me when she was younger she danced with Johnny U one time. Lol. Wonder if my dad was there.

Wow hell of a pay day for a 50/50 jump ball specialist.

I see gametime chance around 30% increasing to 50-60% by 4th qtr. Typically these advance hourly predictions are early and the front arrives a little later. Like here on the SC coast today we had rain predicted at 1pm. By 1 it was 7pm, now at 4pm it is backed up to 10pm. That is extreme. And sometimes they arrive early but that is the exception IME.

Safe bet. It has happened before even in a win.

Don’t remember it happening. His little hands better get some stickum.

31 other teams also passed on him multiple times. Including the one that took him. Sheer luck.

Most of our success vs Dallas has come in big games. Playoffs and the destruction Luke brought down on them in that Thanksgiving game. Seems like in regular season stuff they own us. I don’t know if the past affects Sunday, just saying. And we haven’t laid an egg at home yet this year, this is an opportunity for that. I would love to see the opposite happen, and it could. It isn’t last year. I am stuck in the middle and have no clue what is going to transpire.

I picked up too turdpiles from the same poster for saying basically I liked both Jake and Cam. I tried to find where I had been negative and couldn’t see it. It was basically my most ‘fan’ posting in months, I thought. Innocuous approval of the guys behind our two best years. Could not make sense of it other to think that it was not okay with someone that I like both QBs.

They are not equal. But I didn’t believe either was worth that ridiculously desperate trade up. I agreed with you then and still believe that now. We got horrible value for those assets. Half the people here trashed the 2023 offense while overlooking that a coach they don’t think much of went 6-6 with them to finish 2022. You could have built on that. Think about the picks lost and DJ too, and the additional investment in 2024 and the 1st this year and imagine all that still being done and having Darnold running it. Then the 9th in 2023, the other 1st and two 2nds, you could have put them into the defense and still have had the massive offensive investment. Granted you would have altered the cap money you had for the guards by paying Darnold. And tell me we wouldn’t have been so far ahead of where we are now….

Caveat, in non garbage time. I am not saying he can’t do it but don’t think he will, outside of the defense not contesting 30 dumpoffs.

I looked at the passing charts and where the big cluster of throws was and it looks too easy for the defense to counter. Bait him and eat. I get that if you are forced out of the pocket because of a real threat you better respond, it just looks that that is his 1st impulse. Preseason I saw that and was just like…. oh man that looks just like 2023.