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Anyone know what happened to the condensed game on Gamepass? I'm a geezer, so I like to go to bed and watch the night games in the morning. It's great to watch the 40 minute version. But either I am not able to find it with the new layout, or they still don't have it up.

Yeah, as I said it's USUALLY a good predictor in baseball...but not always.

Sure...last year he played bad games to start, but you can only play the teams the schedule deals you. But look at the year before. He played the Patriots (a good defense) in week 1 and look what he did to them: https://www.espn.com/nfl/game/_/gameId/401127860

I think that people talk about point differential because in sports like basketball and baseball it is extremely predictive. If a team is leading the division at the all star game, but has a narrow or even negative point differential, they are probably going to regress in the second half. It seems there was a team that bucked the odds a few years ago and continued with a strong record despite a poor run differential, but it's really rare. However, at the mid-point of the season those sports have 40 or 80 games on which to base an avg. The NFL has 8. The problem is, as you pointed out with the Bills, a few games can complete skew the average...There just isn't a large enough sample size.

"Less likely" is not the same as "prevent." Six seeds have won the Super Bowl, so getting the six seed does not prevent you from winning the Super Bowl. But a one seed is more likely to win a Super Bowl. So, you would much rather have the one seed than the six, and you would much rather have everyone vaccinated to decrease (but not eliminate) the chance of exposure and/or contagion.

By "ask again" does it mean "start a thread"? I'll get right on it.

Well, Gilliam wasn't....but I otherwise agree.

Well, and Hollister tomorrow.

The more I hear the media talk about Cam and the Patriots, the more I think that Belichick is doing the same thing we are doing with Hollister with the added bonus of f-ing with the media and the public. Has he said anything publicly about the cut yet?

Vet...one year deal....doubt anyone else wants him. Any chance they'll be re-signing him in a couple of days?

Does this mean we're trading for Ertz? (Asking for a friend.)

Did Trubisky get cut? Or did something happen to the Bills cuts thread?

I saw him make similar throws a few times last year. He learned how to swing his hips around to get into throwing position in a really quick and effortless motion that is amazing.

That's 3D chess, right there.

What I liked about Stevenson is not only that he is sure handed but that, because of that, he almost seems to be running as he catches and gets up field in top speed very quickly. To me, that is what made Roberts such a good returner. He wasn't overly shifty but he would get 10-15 yards up field very quickly. I think it is the reason he would run the ball out of the end zone so often. He thought he could get to the 25 before being caught and then he would have a chance to make a man miss and get better field position. He was often wrong, and it seemed like a Roberts special to get tackled at the 22, but because he kept doing it, I suspect that the coaches were okay with it. Sacrifice the 3 yards for the chance to gain an occasional 15 or 20. I noticed Stevenson mastering the same "get tackled at the 22" move, and he just reminds me of Roberts in a lot of ways. If that is a skill set the coaches value, I suspect they keep him.

He was SEC player of the year (as Chris Jackson) in 88-89 and 89-90 and then went pro opening the door for his lesser teammate (a guy named Shaquille O'Neal) to win the award the next two years. He was the third pick in the draft and was 2nd team NBA All Rookie, but never quite lived up to the promise as a pro...was not great, but was very good. Although not official, it was pretty clear he was blackballed after the sitting for the anthem incident. So, yeah, a big deal was made of it and there are a lot of parallels to Kaepernick.

One of my favorite plays that does not show up on a stat line was early in the game. Dalton felt the rush coming and bailed out to his right. Rousseau saw Dalton and also peeled out and took a position directly in front of Dalton. He's so big that his presence clearly bothered Dalton. I know that Mahomes is just a TAD more mobile than Dalton, but still. I think if we need someone to just disrupt Mahomes enough to help the secondary...with his size and instincts, I think Rousseau could do that.

You too, we are not too worried about flooding but we live in Saybrook...essentially on a peninsula which becomes and island in big storms. I have had some health issues, so we don't like getting cut off from the rest of the world. But Glastonbury is lovely this time of year.

There are some. This one had really been looking forward to laying around watching the game this afternoon....but will, instead, be fleeing the coast.

Seems it was a night game...maybe even one of the re-scheduled ones.

Agreed. And if we open a game dinking and dunking but never missing a pass, OTHER defenses are going to get frustrated, too. What happens when defenses get frustrated? They start cheating and trying to jump routes. So, if it is Beasley they are hitting and they jump it, Beasley turns up field and Josh hits him with that pass that wowed Sanders at the start of camp, and BAM...6 points.

"Basham nearly had another JA INT. Jumped up and ball hit him in chest" That's gonna leave a mark.

Sorry if this was answered elsewhere in the thread, but does anyone know how they verify college students? Is it just an edu email? I have a staff position, so I have an edu email...but didn't know if they verified student status somehow.

My wife had it over a year ago and is entering a respiratory rehab program next week because her lungs never got back to normal. Yeah, many do have long term effects so lets hope Snowman is not one of those.

Has been since Brady blew out his knee...diving at the QBs legs.