Miyagi-Do Karate

was nervous when he started the song so high. But he had the range!

I don’t know if I should admire you for your dedication, or worry about your patients! 😄

I think the hotel capacity would be more of a driver. But they have held the Super Bowl multiple times in Detroit, so I am not sure the weather would necessarily drive the decision. But maybe.

No doubt. But that is a result of recent mass inflation. The spike in those construction costs from 2020 to now is massive. My hope is that inflation overall comes down. But even if it doesn’t, that means the $1.3B for the Bills current stadium is going to be a lot higher too. I still think there is a design comparable to Lucas that will be cheaper than what the Bills are currently building now. (If they wanted something nicer, Minnesota is the model). If they don’t want a roof, that is fine. But I don’t think they can blame the higher costs on that decision. I just don’t get the decision. Outside of Met Life (considered one of the worst stadiums in the NFL), no one is really building open air stadiums anymore. Vegas, Atlanta, Indy, Minn, now Chicago— all closed stadiums. Open air is a thing of the past. It’s an absurd decision from a basic ROI.

I am sort of stressed about this game. Lions on a 3-game winning streak. They have very close losses to Vikings and Dolphins. Seems like they are scrappy. We are going to have to play with some fire.

agreed. I will like look at the clock at 3:30, and the stress of not knowing will be killer.

Going to be rough for me. Have people coming to eat around 2 PM. I think I am going to watch the first half, and then DVR the second half. I just get so stressed out when I know the game is occurring and I am not watching it.

yeah, I am talking about just time value of money. That said, cost wise, I have to think even with increased construction costs, Lucas would have to be in the ballpark of the price tag the Bills are paying for their open air stadium. (Also, the PPI seems to reflect the recent radical inflation— would have to think those numbers decrease as the unnatural spike in inflation settles down).

He’s better than one might think given he is more of a thumper— and is a lot better than Dodson (or Bernard, who was even worse than Dodson).

Dodson was horrendous in coverage last week. Just looked like he was stuck in mud. We really need Klein out there.

Lucas oil cost $720M in 2008. In today’s dollars, that comes out to about $996M. The open air stadium the bills are building is like $1.4B!!

Seems like they don’t even look his way. Would love to see him used on some screens, at least.

Setting aside the obvious reason of a dome giving our team a major advantage, I just don’t understand the ROI of an open-air stadium. they could build a stadium similar to Lucas Oil for not much more than they are spending now, and could be in the running for all sorts of other major sporting events (even the Super Bowl), and use it for a host of other events.

I would be overly cautious on this one, and wait until next year.

Re the end of the game and OT, these guys need to move on offense. They let Judah get pressured to death, and no one is cutting or setting screens off the ball. They were all standing around and watching him.

I eat a lot of Chinese food, and never eat the fortune cookie.

Lions always play the early game. I believe that has been the case for the last approx 75 years.

Kugler was solid for us and then with the Steelers. I think his sons went onto play oline for some big division 1 programs.

Weirdly enough, he seems to have regressed as a receiver and route runner. Not sure what has happened.

when was the last time the Bills ran a successful RB screen? I would argue it has been more than 20 years ago. I don’t get it.

I don’t know. I went back and watched it again, and the defender is on McK so fast and at such a tight angle that he has no chance to cut it up. He also really had no chance to even extend the ball, given the other defender coming in. I think the play was probably designed to be a race to the corner, and it would have worked easily if Gilliam had tried to engage on his block.

Kirk Gibson HR in the World Series!

Great win. Really loved Bell looking for his shot. As much as JG Had a great game, ball needs to be in Judah’s hands down the stretch. I’d rather see him go to the rim than JG taking off balance contested 3’s. Had some bad shots down the stretch that almost burned us.