Mango

Country singers have been singing America the Beautiful at the opening pretty regularly. Luke Bryant, Carrie Underwood, and Faith Hill come to mind. Plus Kid Rock and Shania Twain have done the halftime show. Country is currently the 4th most popular genre in the US. Rock and Pop have been dominating all things music at the super bowl for some time, while rap and hip hop have been very much neglected considering they are the number one streamed music genre and number 2 in actual album sales. https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/nearly-a-third-of-all-streams-in-the-us-last-year-were-of-hip-hop-and-rb-music/

If they beat the Texans they are already at 28 losses. They would just be breaking their own record at that point. I know I listed 4 teams they "could" beat. But really I think it is probably just @Bengals coming off of a big Pittsburgh win and/or the Falcons. But I wouldn't bet my mortgage on either.

On any given Sunday I guess. But it doesn't look too hot. Urban Meyer is an easy guy to root against. Jags Remaining Schedule: @Bengals Titans Dolphins bye @Seahawks Bills @Colts 49ers Falcons @Rams @Titans Texans @Jets @Patriots Colts Best shot of ending the skid are @ Bengals, Dolphins, @ Colts, or Falcons. But I don't feel hugely confident. If they get to Buffalo, I am guessing they at least tie the record.

The only way I see Brown starting at either tackle position (assuming everybody is healthy) is if Dawkins or Williams kicks inside and Brown takes one of the tackle positions. I guess in theory you could do it. After this year Dawkins would be in the 5-10 range for top paid guards so it isn't totally wild to move a guy with that contract inside. Williams would be cheap in 2022 and has experience at guard in the NFL. Feels like a weird move you make in Madden because of ratings, etc.

I am not in this pool. I totally whiffed. But in my other one, I went Pitt>Cinci. Week 3 and I am out. Effin-A. I am still a little salty about that one.

And Derek Anderson. But main stream media won’t talk about what a terrible teammate JA17 is. 😂

Taking both of their best years, It will take Josh about a year and half to pass Baker, baring injury of course. If he has a huge game this week, he could pass Derek Anderson and will most certainly pass his other back up Mitch Trubisky. Similar news, Brady will pass Brees this week unless he goes full Justin Fields against NE. He just needs 67 yards.

For the most part these guesses are easy. It is the Buffalo v. KC games that are tough and/or just picking the spread.

I don't know anything anymore. Based on the start of the season and how we played last year, I thought WAS would give us a hard time. I could not have been more wrong. I think we should beat the Texans by 2+ possessions, so who knows...

We are using KC and TN back to back as being screwed by the schedule makers? Bills fans have really gotten greedy with a little bit of success. Not a huge deal. You have to beat the guys you play. To get to the SuperBowl, you have to beat the 2 or 3 best teams in the conference in a row. You can either do it or you can't. That said, if I had to play two teams on the schedule after a "mini-bye", I want them to be WAS and HOU. We get 7 days between WAS, HOU, and KC. Then 8 days between KC and TEN. This is a nothing-burger.

Good post. Letting the season play out before I commit to anything, we have seen a rollercoaster with this staff in the past, but the net result has been very good. Re: The Defense. I think you make a good point. I think the athleticism of Milano and Edmunds give Frasier and Co. a lot of options. But I think the defense has played better when I see Klein on the field. I have no data to back this up. Just the eye test, I seem to see him on the field a lot during some of the bigger plays and stops. If I were to guess, in those moments, Milano is playing more of the role of the big nickel safety, and Edmunds has some responsibility taken off of his plate so can play a lot faster with Klein owning the responsibility between the tackles.

Kind of, but only in season and around the draft. I have worked at home for a bit pre pandemic, it is just back ground noise in my office.

Disappointed in Peyton and Eli. Feels like ESPN is trying to get Eli to catch on so Peyton is sitting pretty quite and just letting Eli continue to talk over each play.

Washington needs a ton of help and could be a place. Honestly, I don’t see Carolina or New Orleans as a landing spot. Darnold has been OK and Winston is 7:2 TD:INT at the moment. Both will either ride them out and/or draft a guy. But it doesn’t make any sense to jump on the FA merry go round for those teams.

Hi Mr. Pegula, Welcome to TBD. I appreciate your efforts to fear-monger the City of Buffalo, however futile. I understand that you want to add PSL's for your own bottom line, but they are not good for the fanbase. The bolded is most certainly wrong. Off the top of my head the Rams and Indianapolis have also won Super Bowls play in domes and have won in the last 20 years. Sincerely, Mango

Josh was lights out. Super glad I NBC an put my ptsd to bed.

Championship athletes in pretty large numbers across a ton of disciplines use cupping. Rallying against it like it is some feng shui is silly. I get the sense that people mocking cupping are the type of people that pour vodka on a cut at home, even though the have neosporin in the bathroom...because tough guy.

I fully agree with all of this. The psychosomatic/anxiety diagnosis is particularly frustrating. I had one doctor call it “lazy doctoring”, along the lines of, “sometimes the body does things and we don’t know why, something like half the time. Most psychosomatic symptoms don’t start in the head, they start because something is wrong. “I don’t know why this is happening to you” is better than you can’t trust your brain”

I have my thoughts on chiropractics in general. I generally think their are a lot better ways to manage the spine than forcefully adjusting. But part of the reason people rely on them is because medicine pretty much fails at addressing the spine for daily issues with aches and mobility. Your MD deals with precisely that. Medicine. Greater access to quality and affordable physio would really ease the reliance on chiropractics. That isn’t my point though. Cupping isn’t just some weird pseudo science. I know a number of olympic people physios on staff and athletes who swear by it for not just pain relief, but recovery as well. And honestly, let’s just say it’s a pseudo science, it isn’t harmful in any way, shape, or form. So if cupping makes somebody’s neck feel better, who cares. Sage makes me feel less anxious. My doctor isn’t prescribing sage either.

Most people don’t realize what a bad doctor is until something non-traditional or scary happens to them or a loved one. I was just at the Albany Med ER a few weeks ago with some chest pains. A woman came in, she was there the night before after a car accident. They gave her a once over, scanned her noggin, etc. told her everything was normal and sent her home. They called her and told her to come back over a day later because she had a brain bleed on her CT. But because she didn’t have any symptoms when she came in post accident nobody actually waited for the radiologist to read the CT. Similar story, my father in law was diagnosed with cancer after a car accident. But not at the hospital. A month later when he follow up with his GP. The hospital took some imaging of his back. The doctor found a 2 or 3 tumors on his kidneys, but didn’t mention it to him because he thought he probably already knew about it. I trust medicine and science, but doctors miss stuff sometimes.

PFF has Allen as 28th heading into week 3. I don’t have the subscription so I can’t see the notes. Seems low. But not wildly low if you just look at those two games aside from 2020. I think he’ll be fine. He’s pressing too hard at the moment. But I also think he deserves honest criticism for how bad he’s been. It’s part of the territory for a franchise QB.

I think ticket sales will be fine. It is about 1% of total capacity. I do not know how stadiums split season vs. single game tickets, but google tells me it could be as low as 60%) and as high as 90%. Either way it seems maybe 2-3% of ticket holders are kicking back to the org. That said, I am sure there will be some late season games with sub-max attendance, people will shout "VaCcInE mAnDaTeS" and ignore the fact that the Bills didn't even sell out playoff games after going to the previous two Super Bowls.

I am just hear to drop my second Vlad Ducasse reference of the week.

Right. I am an idiot and was typing a response, half reading the article, while also pretending to listen to my better half. Unsure if makes it any better, but at least I got something out of the article. I have zero idea what she said.

To play devils advocate here. I found 3rd down conversion rates for 3rd and 9 or 10 to be 31.4%. I couldn’t dig up 4th and x distance rates since I am out of pocket. But in general 4th down conversions are about 48%. I’d imagine the last DSS get better as distance shortens. But I don’t have the exact numbers. By those numbers Culley didn’t make an wild decisions by declining the penalty and taking his chances on 4 and 2.