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Push or shove, Dorsey/Allen must start trusting players not named Diggs/Davis/Knox. The smart play is to start calling plays for guys like Morris, Gilliam, Hines. They've been open. Hell, start throwing to eligible linemen. I don't care.

The early parallels I see between what I understand of this situation and what transpired in San Antonio is that the player is radio silent. The head coach is giving increasingly awkward explanations. The team activates him. Player still doesn't play. There's no player/Coach presser. Weeks go by and the situation remains static and the disconnect between player and team becomes increasingly evident. I hope this all doesn't come to pass and he's out there for the Lions game and everything is a ok.

IMO, it has similar parallels of the Kawhi Leonard/Spurs disagreement.

The Republicans need to simultaneously walk away from Trump, abortion and the uniparty Washington Republicans (McConnell). Essentially burn the house down, excavate the foundation and start all over. You don't get much farther with DeSantis because he's beholden to the "so-called Republican" anti-American moneyed donors who love the foreign wars, open borders for the slave labor, and globalism. Globalism is anti-American. They will distract you with all the culture war crap while selling every American out to global corporate interests as jobs and wealth move out of this country. It started with NAFTA and it hasn't stopped. I truly wish there was a political party that truly put middle America first. A secure border puts lower-income Americans first. Not sending kids off to stupid wars puts Americans first. Safe cities puts Americans first. Cheap energy puts every American first.

Talented coordinator, bad head coach. The Raiders are a team full of athletes, but few real deal football players.

Bad decision. He has to take a deep breath, relax, and send that pass to Morris for the ten yards.

RSV has been worse in years past, and it's been around for decades upon decades, but the hysteria over RSV happens to directly coincide with new RSV vaccines coming to market for parents all ginned up to hysterics. Every time I see an article about RSV or previously COVID, there's a children's hospital attached to it that go figure, has significant investment in the vaccine to treat it.

Voted "Pretty confident." A loss here, and it *is* time for some panic/urgency, whatever you'd like to call it because that Vikings loss should have been a smelling salt to everyone at OBD this AM.

That's tolerated incompetence, which I loathe more than the incompetence itself. Probably highly paid incompetence that punches out at 5 on the dot every day. Is the 2024 election going to be based on 49 states since Arizona won't get their results in until after inauguration? This slow roll counting should piss off both parties.

It's an evaluation of the contingency plan for Allen if nothing else. The Bills are paying Case Keenum $3.5 million for the "break glass in case of emergency" spot performance. You get 1.1 million for holding the proverbial clipboard. (Barkley). If Keenum plays this weekend, I expect a rough first quarter from him but better performances in 2 through 4.

He's not going to hold up to the rigors of being a freshman senator in Washington. She's always been the brains behind the Fetterman operation. I give it 3-6 months, but she'll be in the seat by the end of 2023.

He's a linebacker. If the Bills picked him up, that's where I'd play him. He's good at run defense, and he may improve in coverage with less territory and responsibility.

Quite surprised at NY and MI governor races. Surprised Michigan demands another four years of Whitmer. Surprised the crime isn't yet bad enough in NY to try someone different. It'll be interesting to see if Caruso can win in LA. In hindsight, I shouldn't be surprised at the Fetterman win here because I strongly suspect he'll resign in short order come 2023 and Governor Shapiro will install his wife as the senator. I think that's "the" plan. This referenda on abortion carries an expensive cost. I don't think the majority of America that aren't millionaires realize that this time next year, you're not only going to continue getting strangled by high prices for food and energy, your 401s will be eaten alive simultaneously, and you may not have a job.

Out of all the races here in PA, I'd suspect they'd be primarily interested in the governor's race. On one hand, Mastriano is the conservative Republican. On the other hand, the Mennonites aren't fans of the Christian nationalist movement many feel Mastriano is aligned with.

An interesting detail in my neck of the woods is the greater number of Mennonites at the polls today. A lot more than I've seen in previous elections. You'll usually see a wagon or two, but the parking lot had many more wagons and bikes throughout the day today.

Super Bowl teams peak at just the right time. I felt the Bills did that last year. They turned it on late in the season, winning 4 straight to close it out. In 2020, they had six consecutive wins after the bye. My biggest concern is this mid-season malaise takes away something you want - like being home for the playoffs.

Raiders: You chose poorly with that head coach pick. Should have stuck with Bisaccia.

I agree with that. I think after eight years of Presidents with old Presidents with plane loads of baggage, I sense the fatigue. I think even the most ardent supporters of the two know that another term is just four more years of zero sum roadblocking of everything in Washington.

Took the Jets lightly. Paid the price for that.

The NFL could build a better coaching pipeline with a legit minor league NFL infrastructure where coaches and GMs could learn on the job. It's not revolutionary, it's how the MLB, NBA and NHL do it. Learn the ropes in the minors. I think a big component of coaching success is how a head coach works with a general manager. The Bills are a great example, but you can see it with the NYG. Schoen and Daboll are on the same page, all the time. San Francisco and Kansas City are other examples. In Detroit, the Lions hired GM Holmes and HC Campbell separately, and there's risk there for a lot of disconnect.

You don't say. Did EBOLA leak from a lab? Scientists claim accident at US-funded biofacility may have caused 2014 West Africa outbreak https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11383611/Ebola-leaked-biofacility-causing-2014-West-Africa-outbreak-scientists-claim.html Tell me if this sounds familiar: "Writing in the investigation, the authors said: ‘There is so far no evidence for an animal reservoir for Zaire Ebola in West Africa. 'The... strain’s sudden appearance in the region was thus unexpected and is still unexplained. Furthermore, the epidemiological investigations in Guinea and Sierra Leone were inconclusive and unconvincing." COVID wasn't the first lab accident. It was the latest.

That's my opinion of what happened. It's another one of Paul Pelosi's peccadillos getting out into the public eye.

Democrats for the most part make for terrible administrators. They are ok if their whole day is having lunch, discussing policy, and tweeting thoughts, but if the job requires running a government administration like a state or city, where you need the streets consistently safe and swept, you should always vote Republican. Republican-held cities don't descend into the level of chaos you see in Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, Portland or LA. Your local mayor can't appoint people to the Supreme Court or do anything about abortion. What they can do is fight the crime and decay.

Heat. Absolute masterpiece in filmmaking. It is legitimately one of the very best crime films ever made IMO, and one of the best movies of the 1990s (released in 1995). I've watched this movie so many times I could act out the coffee scene between Pacino/DeNiro on the street. While I've read Michael Mann's book (Heat 2), I don't want a sequel. I don't think you can make movies like that today without neutering the story.

Time has faded the fact that the the Indianapolis Colts had terrible drafting in the early 1990s. They have candidates for worst draft in history with their 1990 and 1992 drafts. In 1990, they picked Jeff George 1st overall, despite all his problems at Illinois, choosing him over guys like Cortez Kennedy, Junior Seau, Emmitt Smith. He was gone by 1993. In 1992, they were one of only 2 teams in NFL history to have both the #1 and #2 picks. They picked Steve Emtman (50 games) and Quentin Coryatt (82 games). That draft was arguably also one of the worst in NFL history. No HOF players.