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Miami must be in the sweepstakes for somebody they want so they need to be open. My guess is that it's not Harbaugh, I think his alleged popularity in NFL circles is agent spin.

Can you imagine if they did this with the flu? All they are doing is greatly jeopardizing the response to the next great health crisis. Nobody is going to believe these guys after this COVID nonsense. Society will tune them out from the start, and perhaps that crisis will be more serious than COVID where you want people to pay attention.

He was a baffling pick by the Bills. The Bills selected him way too high in the draft and then asked him to do something he didn't show skill at while at Clemson - getting to/sacking the QB. The shoulder was a problem at Clemson too...and well, it remained a problem. He did not project to DE or LB nicely but probably could have developed as a linebacker if that was the intention from draft day.

This is excellent work and I enjoyed reading it. I appreciate your straightforward writing style.

I agree that most retired NFLers are terrible at this job. A lot of them lack charisma. Too many YouTube podcasters try to emulate Florio. That's not a positive. Most, not all, of the great sportscasters started in radio and doing minor league baseball, and I believe if you wanted to find promising talent, that's where it still lies.

He must have Juan Castillo's superstar agent. Does he check a box as a diversity hire? Is he asking to be paid in livestock or something other than money? It's baffling why there'd be interest. He's a terrible NFL HC. The only place he performed well was at Penn State, and his name is not to be spoken there.

Listened to the oral arguments at SCOTUS this morning. You need a big set of balls to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court. I can see how that could be so absolutely intimidating you'd lose your train of thought under the barrage of questions and being interrupted by a Justice mid-sentence and pivoting to their argument. It's a hard read for a layman to figure out where these judges stand. I thought they grilled the attorneys for the states and the retail federation hard but the same judges then launch into the government with the same aggressive questioning. I think both sides got into the weeds on COVID too much - it's fundamentally not about COVID at all - it's really a question of whether the executive branch can do what they've attempted to do here. I think if this mandate is upheld, there is not much stopping this President or any future President from using federal agencies to launch loosely held together mandates through ETS as a punitive action against an industry or start mandating all sorts of "protections" that benefit another industry like the health insurance lobby. They would absolutely love mandatory physicals, flu vaccinations, weight loss, non-smoking to keep their costs lower in the name of "workplace safety."

Out of curiosity, did you ever run your analysis on any other position? I'm curious whether it'd apply to say middle linebacker or center. I'm thinking of positions where you make the line calls and defensive calls. I tend to assume centers and defensive play callers *would* score highly.

If he's "back" and I doubt he is, it's one game. That'll get dinged. It'll hurt a lot. You need months to properly recover from foot surgery, and now that the bench physician can't just shoot you up with Toradol, it'll be a real deal pain.

If I was Daniel Snyder, it'd be the Washington L'Enfants and my mascot would be a guy dressed like an 18th Century aristocratic Frenchman who hurls spicy insults with a French accent like Sacha Baron Cohen did in Talladega Nights. He'd essentially have a WWE entrance to every home game.

I doubt a deal will be reached in an election year. This is an easy yes for us Bills fans but it's a hot potato for a candidate, especially in this unstable economy with inflation, and possibly a recession on the horizon.

By a 2019 definition, it's not crazy to say that COVID isn't the biggest story of 2021, but the failure to respond to COVID is. Despite the lockdowns, the masks, the social distancing, the vaccines, the mandates, you have more cases of COVID than ever before. And two years in, the governments of the world still don't know where it came from, or worse, unwilling to tell where it came from.

Steelers are due for a rebuild. That team is old and creaky. They'd be foolish spending a lot capital to rent a Russell Wilson who is also close to the end too.

This story is a nothing burger for me but the Ray Epps angle, however, interests me. The feds have imprisoned A LOT of people that walked into the Capitol that day but THIS guy, who's on camera front and center, seems to be ignored deliberately by the same federal government. It'd be "something" if the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer "plot" and the January 6th whateveryouwanttocallit were ginned up by federal agents and individuals protected by the federal government. To what end is the question. Wouldn't be the first time - other events like Waco and Ruby Ridge had a lot of inconvenient federal involvement too that got a lot of people killed unnecessarily.

A movie that absolutely deserved a sequel. An underrated Bruce Willis movie when he cared about acting.

Yet...Fauci prevails. (In your best John Hurt voice.) Both Trump and Biden are responsible for putting hack academics and pharmaceutical CEOs in charge of whatever "response" this continues to be.

McDermott delivered one of the biggest wins of his career. Team was ready and on point today.

They have to figure out what's going on with Jackson healthwise and what that future trajectory looks like. The "strange illness" that wasn't disclosed, the bouts of Covid. He's missed one game because of injury, but he often seems ailing to me.

I'd fire John Harbaugh. You have the best kicker in the whole league. The man kicks field goals from the moon. That's a second game Harbaugh has lost out of some misplaced sense of confidence or ego.

I'm impressed with her.

New Coke.

I wonder how many of you who voted "yes" think Ray Lewis is a stand up guy.

Weed is the next big government revenue cash engine across the United States. It just makes too much money to ignore in a time period of pensions and pretty much every state government flat broke and desperate for cash. With so many states either losing taxpayers or no longer generating replacement taxpayers, it's an attractive revenue source. After that, it'll be legalized prostitution. Sounds wild, but it'll find its way into conversation. Think about the billions you'd make from a casino that offers booze, gambling, weed, and prostitution for however much money you've got. You'll pave a lot roads with that revenue.

All fine and dandy but with four games left, they better come up with some run plays that work using the guys they have. This team rides and dies on essentially the run and shoot offense without any of the run. It's bold! That's squarely on the shoulders of Daboll. IMO, the lack of a cogent running plan that works by the end of the season is a fire-able offense.

He's ok. I've always thought that being responsible for calling the plays overwhelms him and diverts too much of his focus, and they should give that responsibility to someone else. He was a different player when Lorax was on the job. If the Bills would re-sign him, that'd be a change I'd make. Just let him play football, and let the strategy part come from someone else.