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That's a young Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits. Perhaps too arcane a reference to those not of a certain age.

Noone accounting for the QB?

I appreciate that, but I don’t think it’s relevant to the question of the number of fountains, which is around 2,000 in total if one is to believe Marvin Pulvers who authored a book on the subject of fountains in Rome (don’t ask how I know that, lets just say I was obsessed with the subject 20 years ago). If even half of them are not functional, that still leaves them far, far ahead of any other city. But a 2,000 year head start is hard to overcome. 😄

I heard the voice of John Facenda when I read that.

Rome says, “Hold my beer.”

Several of us cited his back and other health issues along with his lack of experience as reasons to get a better look when he was 100% healthy.

Two things have gotten into him: being fully healthy and, more importantly, gained experience as he was as raw as could be coming into the league. Tip of the hat to Kromer in that regard.

My last game at the Rockpile was against the Steelers in ‘72. OJ with a 94 yard scamper on his way to a huge day. Of course we lost, but we served notice of better days to come with Saban at the helm.

Personally, I’d like to see us do a 99 yard drive with nothing but tush pushes all the way down the field.

Outstanding!

Can’t believe he didn’t take the Jets job.

That reminds me of one of my favorite plays from the Daboll era. I think it was vs the Rams in 2020. Similar situation with goal to go inside the five, Josh in shotgun takes the snap, takes two steps forward like he’s gonna keep, and then stops and finds a wide open receiver in the endzone. I think it went to either Kroft or Lee Smith.

I don’t disagree that it was a Josh keeper all the way, but Brady always designs options down there. But again, I don’t disagree with the play call as we had great success earlier in the game in similar situations. As we’ve had all year.

I think the All 22 will show that Josh had passing options on that play and made the wrong choice to run it instead. I can’t blame him for being confident as had already scored to TDs on the ground, but the Ravens were hellbent on not letting that happen. I think there were a couple guys open post snap, but I need the All 22 to confirm.

I think the play-calling was more geared to controlling possession and keeping Henry off the field. Not a totally wrong strategy, especially on a day like yesterday, given the stat I heard this morning: in their five losses this season, all by seven points or less, Henry had less than 20 carries and less than 90 yards. That said, yeah, I would like to see Josh throw it more, too. But unless Cooper is involved, he has limited options as we’ve seen at times this season.