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dpberr

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  1. Great season. No ifs ands or buts. Was amazing to experience it again. Look forward to doing it again.
  2. "News" died on 9/11. Similar to the downfall of ESPN, cable news is now just a menagerie of echo chambers of talking heads "personalities" spewing opinion. Americans tunes into the echo chamber that validates their personal beliefs and opinions.
  3. As for your sewer system, I'd video it first to see if you're ok or not. I'll add a preventative maintenance tip - have your water tested. If you do not soften your water, and your water happens to be acidic, the acid in your water is doing a slow, incremental job corroding your copper pipes if you have them. At some point, pinhole leaks can develop, usually on the horizontal pipes, and the soldered joints can get weak. Once you start with those leaks, the paranoia of a more catastrophic failure grows. You know those failures only occur when the house is unoccupied, usually for several hours. 😃
  4. The Color of Money was an excellent movie sequel. For most people who enjoyed that film, they probably didn't realize it was even a sequel. I swear pool as a game exploded in popularity by 300% because of that movie. Goldeneye would also be in my Top 10 great sequels because in the early 90s, the Bond franchise was dead and forgotten. Before Sunset was probably "better" than Before Sunrise because it has such a deep feeling of finality. Since I crapped on Die Hard 5, I'd say Die Hard 3 (Die Hard with a Vengeance) is not only the best sequel in that franchise but an overall above average sequel. Would have been an amazing sequel if they would have kept the original darker ending. A sequel that will never be made but I wish it would be: True Lies 2.
  5. Die Hard 5: No redeeming qualities whatsoever and the start of Bruce Willis's lazy "I'm here for the paycheck" acting.
  6. Urban Meyer is going to pull a Bobby Petrino on Jacksonville if they are foolish enough to hire him. I don't know what Chicago sees in keeping Nagy/Pace.
  7. I voted for "none."Perhaps a wild take but i don't get the impression he's a guy who has a burning passion to be an NFL head coach. He's been part of extremely successful programs prior to Buffalo and could have been in the interview circuit a lot sooner than 2021. Plus, when push comes to shove, the Pegulas will find a wheelbarrow and fill it with cash if necessary. I don't see Bieniemy leaving KC. He's Andy Reid's heir apparent there and KC is a model franchise for stability.
  8. Pederson's decisions in this game were fireable offenses.
  9. I wonder if this thread is the longest in TBD history.
  10. A great X factor for the playoffs, with or without Beasley being 100%. I expect teams to prioritize shutting down Diggs come playoff time but no team has enough quality CBs to cover Beasley/Brown/Davis/Stills/Knox/McKenzie. That's part of the magic.
  11. A team's life cycle is a big circle. Rebuilding is part of the cycle. I think they will need to draft better because I forsee Kraft pinching pennies for the next year or two. Cam Newton's 2020 performance didn't surprise me. He was done and is done. The foot injury is chronic and it appears he's now got a shoulder problem to boot. He can give you a good September until the foot gets dinged.
  12. I don't know. A bomb leaves a ton of evidence that can be traced pretty easily. Why would someone bomb an empty street filled with solid brick buildings with no one around? That just doesn't make a lot of sense off the top of my head. Happy holidays to everyone regardless of the news we are commenting on.
  13. My guess is it is probably a meth lab. Probably something spilled in transit and driver panicked. Best time to move a lab is when no one is out on the road. The "shots fired" is probably the initial ignition of the precursor.
  14. Brian Billick. 80-64, Super Bowl winner. I don't know what happened with his career. He never coached again after the Ravens. It's amazing the Ravens have only had three coaches in their history - Marchibroda, Billick and Harbaugh.
  15. Josh Allen had high marks for being a coachable person. Josh Rosen and Sam Darnold did not. Rosen had a lousy attitude and a lot of quit. Darnold is still the same QB he was at USC. Absolutely no evolution. Coachability is a wonderful skill set to have as a person. As you explore the greats and busts at that position you'll often find that as one of the common denominators.
  16. One of the many shortcomings, and potential for shenanigans, of the response was the federal government's lack of requiring labs to have one consistent PCR testing cycle range and showing the quantitative result of the test to establish the patient's viral load at the time the specimen is retrieved. Everyone is walking around not knowing what a negative or positive test truly means in terms of viral load, and I think that means a lot. A positive and negative can be separated by a single cycle but you can remain quite infectious. On the flip, you may be asymptomatic and think you've got a weak strain of it but your viral load, in reality, may be completely off the charts. I think if people knew conclusively how infectious they were, they'd be more careful not to spread it around. Many other viral tests for EBV, HIV, etc. all test for viral load but when it came to COV-2, nope, it just had to be positive or negative. When you had mono as a kid, the reason you stayed home from school for a week is that your viral load would generally decrease to a non-infectious level over that course of time. You could conclusively know that via test. With HIV, viral load IS the gold standard, it's an absolute need to know metric.
  17. A lot of break-ins and robberies serve dual purposes: paying off debts and recouping the losses via filing an insurance claim. I'm always amused at all the brilliant burglars who know precisely where all the firearms and rare coins are in homes.
  18. Of the three, Feliciano would be my top priority. He's really solid at two positions on the line, and in my opinion, the most consistent lineman the Bills have. I'd want to keep that versatility and consistency.
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