The Frankish Reich

Looks like he's a running QB whose injuries from that style have caught up with him before he ever developed the ability to play as a more traditional pocket passer. So now you have a guy who isn't a huge running threat and is still very poor at making the timing throws/reading defenses. I think this was his last chance. Too bad because I thought he was fun to watch when he flashed that athleticism.

I think Arch Manning makes it known that he will never play for the Jets, the Jets trade the #1 overall pick, and they draft a few defensive players and sign Kirk Cousins.

Am I crazy to be more concerned about Andy Dalton than Bryce Young? Dalton is almost 38, but this is the year of the old man QB, right?

We'll let Elon continue to manage what's left of your brain. By the way, I am neither a Twitter nor a Blue sky subscriber. I don't want some algorithm telling me what I want to see. I know most people here don't read, so when I see a headline like this one I look for tweet or whatever that I can paste here.

Ten percent for the big guy? Only ten percent? How about the company partners and officers all share in the proceeds!

Comey's lawyers raise a real legal issue, not just a filing made for publicity purposes. Please try to pay attention instead of being mesmerized by Anna Bower. Like me.

Just for the sake of argument since it's probably unlikely that they admit that they were deliberately juicing ... ... PED effects last a whole lot longer than a six-week suspension, or even six months (the time of signing, when their suspensions became known). https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/effects-performance-enhancing-drugs-may-last-decades/ https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/scientific-research/long-term-changes-human-skeletal-muscles-after-anabolic-steroid The world anti-doping administration suggests 2 year suspensions may therefore be too short if the goal is to take away any advantage gained from prior PED use. I was only half kidding when I said that Beane is trying to exploit a market inefficiency in signing players recently busted for PEDs ...

Seems to me that Mac Jones and Brock Purdy are pretty much equal. Part of that is the plug and play Shanahan offense of course.

Yes. In a second.

I watch what people do and say. And I stand corrected about Glen Greenwald. He's a self-hating foot fetishist. He could learn a thing or two from Sexy Rexy. By the way, Boots (the series) is getting more into the gay thing and unfortunately is getting less interesting and less plausible. Too bad. Remember, JD served honorably in the same manner as Al Gore - as a military news man and body man for the brass.

I blame mostly the Supreme Court for this state of affairs, as they are fundamentally changing the long-understood relationship between Congress and the White House.

I know almost nobody here seems to care about the political process. But I'm gonna put my faith in @sherpa and @Homelander in this particular discussion. Q. Why is this shutdown/continuing resolution different and more difficult to resolve? A. Because no matter what Senate Republicans and Democrats agree to, Trump has decided that he has the power to unilaterally ignore the parts of any spending agreement that he doesn't like. And these are, of course, the Democratic priorities. So let's say Thune and Schumer agree to a partial restoration of Obamacare subsidies that does include some partial reimbursement to hospitals providing ER services to aliens in exchange for reopening the government at otherwise current spending levels. Then Trump decides to to send those reimbursements to the hospitals ("impoundment" in government nomenclature). The Anti-Impoundment Act says he can't do that; White House lawyers say that may not be enforceable as an improper restraint on presidential powers, and the Supreme Court seems ready to agree. So you cut a deal where each side gives up something in exchange for something else, but you're left with a totally one-sided deal. How can you bargain like this? It's like making a bet where one guy reserves the right to not pay up if he loses. This was the Supreme Court's logic when they shot down the line item veto. A bill is the result of political compromise, and a president lining out the things his party doesn't like and keeping in the stuff they do totally destroys the bargaining process.

Well, if you think it's wonderful watching "student athletes" play AAA football for the highest bidder a year or two at a time, then I guess you're right.

This one may get interesting. Jets, Saints, Dolphins, dark horse Raiders ... anyone else I'm forgetting?

For me, the difference is games I want to watch on a random Sunday in early December. I think we forget how bad the bad old days were. After Thanksgiving I lost a lot of interest in the Bills and the NFL in general. We're spoiled now.