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Yes, usually there is a some pass through out the back of the fridge - especially if there was a water line. But that might not be necessary. See how the kegs will fit first. You probably won’t get more than one 1/2 bbl keg or two 1/6 bbl kegs (or corny kegs if you’re a Homebrewers) in there. If it’s the latter, then there is likely room for the CO2 tank inside. Some tips: - VERY IMPORTANT! Use only good quality stainless steel and food grade tubing for anything that will touch the beer. I can’t over stress that. Also keep extra tubing on hand in case it gets too gross to clean. But try to clean the tubes every 1 to 3 beer rotations, depending on how much you use it. - Best places to get CO2 refilled are welding companies. It’s cheap and they have food grade. Some can even do nitro mixes required for Guinness or other nitro beers. If you already have a nice tank go to a place that will do a refill while you wait. Buying a used tank and doing exchanges will save you some money. The welding places will inspect and tag the tank so there is no risk of a faulty tank. - If you’re doing two or more kegs you can use a “Y” splitter (for 2), a gas manifold (2 or more) or a regulator that has multiple outputs (2 or more). The last is the most expensive and would allow for different pressures in each tank. That might be important to a Homebrewers. I have a two keg set up with a three way manifold. I used the extra port to purge tanks and kegs when I homebrewed. I later converted it to an extra Sanke connection. I’d run two Sankes and a corny so I would not have to take stuff apart when I swapped between keg styles. I also have a nitro set up just to keep things complicated. Whatever you chose, just make sure you can keep any unused line shut off. If you’re using Sanke connections then that will automatically shut off the gas when it is taken off. Home brew set ups can be wonkier. I was a homebrewer for over 20 years and worked as a professional brewer for about 3 so hit me up if you need anything. If you’re local to Buffalo I may even have stuff to sell or give you.

Yeah. Some good kits out there. Also some real garbage kegerators that are expensive. You can get better quality your way. Remember to punch your holes through the door as that’s the only place guaranteed to not have Freon tubing running through. IMO having the faucets attached directly to the door is a superior design as compared to kegerators with towers. The beer in the lines of the towers is always warm and causes excessive foaming on first pulls. Also I’d highly recommend paying a little more for things like Perlick spigots. They’re worth it. I assume you already have a fridge to dedicate to this. Chest freezers are also a good way to go, but take a little more work and require lifting kegs in an out. They can be made to look really nice though if that’s important. I knew a guy in Cleveland through a homebrew club there that did It with an enormous commercial one (14 corny kegs/sixtels fit in it IIRC) and boxed it out with nice woodwork. He bought the freezer from a fraternity and when he told the kid what it was for he said the kid looked devastated. PM me if you need any help.

Any team that signs him deserves what they get.

Beane has really focused on getting WRs that can separate for Allen. I think we will take a WR in this draft that excels at separation. Unless they think Gandy-Golden can improve there then I don’t see the fit. Or perhaps they’re thinking of lining him up as a big slot and that would help. Obviously some smoke there.

Thanks again to @Virgil for running the show!

KJ Hill has just been so productive, but he isn’t a big performer with his metrics. I see him as a guy that’ll likely go in the 4th or 5th round and wind up a quality #2 WR in the league. One caveat is that I think he’ll need to be paired with an accurate QB. I don’t think Haskins is that guy, but he would be a killer opposite Michael Thomas with Brees throwing to him. I also think Quintez Cephus, WR from Wisconsin, will be a steal in the 6th or 7th round and be a quality #3 possession receiver. Again, he isn’t testing that well, but he just gets open. If I’m looking to acquire WRs to play with Haskins, then I’m focusing on ones who get the best separation and have a big catch radius. Beane has done an excellent job of finding WRs how separate well for Allen. Diggs is literally the best in the NFL st that. Beasley and Ross both excel at it too. It will help Allen see the field and find his targets. I think Haskins could use that too.

KJ Hill, WR Ohio State

My very first thought upon reading Mike Lombardi’s Tweet was exactly that. Notable thing to consider here: - He has been an amoral, back stabbing liar his whole career in football. I’ve only known him to tell the truth when it suits him and he’s working an angle or trying to prop himself up. - He has recently (and maybe currently?) worked for BB as a consultant. - His son is currently on BB’s staff. So, yeah, Lombardi is putting out BS to help BB get his QB. Also I can say for a fact that the Patriots are actively trying to find a trade partner to move up into the top 10.

That concern might dovetail nicely with The Madden Curse.

I like these quite a bit.

***Trade alert*** The Browns trade picks 97 & 151 (141.8 points) for picks 94 & 192 (137.4 points) from Green Bay. (I assume this trade is ok with you Virgil. Please let me know if it’s not for some reason.) With the 94th pick in the draft the Browns chose Willie Gay, LB Mississippi State. Browns make a small move up to fill a big need after two of their targets - Harrison and Trautman - are chosen.

I agree. If that’s accurate - and it’s reasonable to think that it is - then there is cause for concern. I don’t have a subscription, but there are people here who have discussed low energy prices and losses from the Sabres impacting the Bills. If the Bills organization is being stressed to make up for poor performance of other businesses in the Pegula portfolio, then that is also a major cause for concern. I can’t overstate that.

Maybe BB will put him on the same “vitamin” regimen that Brady was on.

I am totally with you there.

Pass. I’d like to see the Bills improve their depth at WR, but I don’t see an oft injured Marquise Lee doing that.

Excellent pick and value. DE isn’t the Browns biggest need, but I’d have taken Weaver if he made it to me.

Yeah. Ngakoe gets paid to play football, Khan gets paid to run a football team. Ngakoe has nothing to lose by getting into a Twitter pissing match, Khan does. He loses face simply by engaging at all. It’s his job to be smarter than that. You know, my first thought when I saw the Ngakoe Tweet was “where is his agent and why isn’t he telling him to stop?” I can only think of two good reasons: 1) the agent is afraid to lose his client and is keeping quiet or he did say something to Ngakoe and he didn’t listen, or 2) it’s intentional and coordinated with the agent’s involvement with the aim of further poisoning the relationship and thus forcing a trade. Number 2 kinda makes sense seeing as how it’s right before the draft.

I love that Kevin Klein won an Oscar (Best Supporting Actor) for Otto. It is, in fact, his only one. I looked that up to see if he’d won another and saw that he and Phoebe Cates married in 1989 and are still together. Interesting couple. To continue that tangent, my favorite Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress is Marisa Tomei for My Cousin Vinny. It is also her only one.

Seems like the Jest would have to sweeten that. Adams is an excellent box safety, but he’s still a box safety. Ngakoue is a stud edge player and that’s worth way more.

Yup. Not easy to run NFL legal screens when teams are playing the QB run/scramble/RPO.

Did you guys watch game film of Okwara? I have not. Just a few scUM games during the season and I wasn’t focusing on him. I just went by what I’ve read on him. If you have, what’d you see?

Voted Okwara, but think Bryce Hall (CB) might be the better pick in this case. Other than his omission there are good names to chose from. Edit: Just saw that names were pared down. He might’ve been one that was.

And it’s worth noting that Allen has progressed in a situation that was as bad as or worse than the others. The Bills have improved his supporting cast dramatically and it is in a great spot now, but it was really poor in his rookie season - especially the OL.

I always have thought that EJ was way over drafted. The expectations associated with that was what led to him starting so soon (injury to Kolb aside). He had tools, but was very underdeveloped as a QB coming into the league. He had a lot of bad habits. I think it was his second season, he started out looking like he’d kicked most of them. That was the only point where I was really encouraged. Then things got shaky around him and he reverted back to those bad habits and it was over. If he’d have been taken in the second or third round and been given a couple seasons to establish good habits and learn the game he might have been a good pro QB. He had the physical talent to do so.

I have a Tempur-Pedic mattress and I’ll never use a coil again. We swapped out the kids and guest room mattresses for medium density foam ones from Wayfair (their house brand). They aren’t quite as nice as the Tempur-Pedic mattress but they are a big step up from their old coil ones (which were old but expensive). Both kids barely moved off of them for a month. I’m sure we paid no more in total for the three of them ($300+ each) than we did for ours ($1k+) so there’s that factor too. I’m sure the adjustable ones are great too. The nice thing about ours was that we could really dial it in to exactly what we liked. The one issue we had with the Wayfair ones is that one didn’t fully expand to shape. They just sent us another one for free. I kept it around and in a month it finished expanding (usually takes a day at most). I didn’t have a use for it at that point so I gave it to a friend who loves it.