Fadingpain

So is having a carb in 2018. The Daimler Benz DB601 series of engines (first made in 1935) in the Messerschmitt BF-109 fighter planes of WWII had evolved beyond carbs with mechanical fuel injection. That was 83 years ago. NASCAR might want to look into the technology.

Good call. I have admired many a posterior in those ads.

Well I do think they are going all out to get someone they believe can become a franchise guy this year in the draft. So for now, I remain hopeful.

So the result of this complex analysis is: you need to throw the ball to win these days, but you need a QB who can throw in order to throw. Seems like we should have already known that!

You mean by swapping out OCs. Let's hope so! McD made a number of strategic mistakes during the season however, assuming he has final say on that stuff, which I assume he must have.

Another point he mentions: When won the turnover battle, we were 8-1. When we tied or lost the turnover battle, we were 1-6. Historical Stats say 2 easiest ways to win a game are: 1) Win turnover battle or 2) Win return TD battle; this means any type of "return" on special teams for a TD (punt return, KO return, blocked FG returned for TD) or a turnover taken in for a TD (fumble recovery taken in or pick 6)....you win 75% of the time when you have more of these types of TDs than your opponent.

I'm listening now. The guy has his own stats website; he's all about analytics. Of note: Bills called a run play 82% of the time on 2nd and 10 last year, which was the 2nd most in the league. The league average was only 54%. The idea (of the Bills) was to run the ball on 2nd down and not get a first down, but get enough yards to make it 3rd and manageable. We were successful on only 13% of those 2nd down run plays. We averaged 3.4 yards per carry on those 2nd and 10 run plays. His analysis/model suggests we need to do more PASSING on 2nd and 10. Passing on 2nd and 10 is significantly more efficient and effective than running. Success rate league wide on 2nd down with a pass is over 50%, whereas a run is only successful 22% of the time(I believe he said). This is the sort of stuff he was talking about. He's basically saying that we had the wrong tendency and could have given ourselves a better chance of success had we understood the data as he has presented it. I.E., McD is a dummy.

Who else wants a pair of these Olympic sunglasses? Agreed. Regular season is now sort of a waste of time. Would love to see it reduced to something crazy like 30 games played only twice a week on designated times with everyone in the league playing on those dates. "Tired" would be obsolete; "3 games in 4 nights" would be obsolete; "returning from long western road trip" (or vice versa) would be obsolete...and so would floating through the regular season. With 30 games dictating the playoff picture, every game would be a war. Of course, you also reduce revenue by over 50% so this will never happen. What a shame.

Doubt the Holy Grail (if one ever existed at all) is buried in a pit on a small island in Nova Scotia, but you never know. I agree that their findings, if any, are likely to have more historical value than monetary value. It would be interesting to discover a historical link between medieval Europe and Nova Scotia.

It's funny how absolutely brutal violence like this is totally cool in American film, but a graphic scene of lovemaking will immediately earn an "X" rating. In America, violence in television and film substitutes for the sex we aren't allowed to show.

I don't have a Ph.D in marine biology and have never done any in-depth research on crustacean neurology, but I am pretty sure it is generally agreed that putting a lobster head first into boiling water is a very human way of killing it almost instantly.

You never go all in on anyone named Saquan!

I hope he coaches long enough for Indy to play in Buffalo. Would love to see him up on the jumbotron for a second with a mention of the greatest comeback game or something...the stadium would go nuts for that guy, even if he's coaching the "other" team now. A little way of saying "Thanks for the old times, brother! We haven't forgotten!"

So did we end up trading Shady on Saturday or not? And did we secure that 2017 first round pick?!

I started a thread on more or less this very point a couple days ago; not much response to it. Draft order does not dictate Draft Quality. For sure.

A factor to throw into the mix with all of these QBs is poor DB play at the NCAA level, even among elite programs. I see a lot of "highlight" QB throws in college that result in big chunk yardage or TDs, but the whole thing rides on the back of horrible DB play. In the NFL, those throws are quite poor and likely INTs. I say this all the time, but the quality gap of the average player on the field among TOP NCAA programs and the NFL is just huge.

Regarding your first paragraph, I think that level of organizational dysfunction is gone now. Guys like EJ got way more of a shot than they ever deserved and in fact were favored b/c the jobs of management/coaching rode on their success. My position is that it does not take long to see who has it or who is probably going to have it with a bit of work. It also doesn't take long to see who is never going to have it. I'd love to see us taking a big shot at a QB almost annually with an aggressive vetting process until one sticks.

Yes, make every player on the team exceptional at his position and hope he plays to his maximum every time we take the field in order to shelter the QB's deficiencies. Or just finally get a good QB. Decisions.

The human species is greatly overrated.

Last night they were showing the "Skeleton" event and the entire German female luge team showed up in civilian winter clothes to cheer on their Skeleton teammates. They were all giddy and cheerful and packed together...maybe four of them or so. One was as cute as the next. I'll see if I can dig up some photos.

Yeah, but I don't see him being cast in any movies at all.

The two brothers on the show started out funding this thing on their own; the younger one (I think it is) owns his own drilling company or some such and I guess is fairly wealthy. His brother is a retired postal worker. Now that it has been turned into a TV show, I doubt the brothers are paying a dime, but there is still a lot of money going into those holes. PS: I find the brothers' Canadian accents interesting, seeing as they are from Michigan.

It's not exactly written in English either.

So to review: some kid who is old enough to drive a car and about a year away from being old enough to be drafted and get his head blown off fighting a war gets lucky in the backseat of a car with his teacher who is still a young woman (27) and this is somehow a "crime"???? This country is so f-ing puritanical! Don't cops have legitimate police work to do anymore?

Hopefully Wegmans will put all grocery stores out of business eventually. They are the Ferrari of supermarkets.