The Frankish Reich

Particularly with no real FB (even Gilliam was out) and no block-first TE, not to mention no plus RB, we just aren't equipped to change offensive strategy to go with weather conditions. I guess that's fine because we play in temperate, sunny WNY.

Preferably one with a COVID vaccine card. A valid one.

Yep. On a night where the FG was basically out of the question when going against the wind, it was hard to see how that PAT, even if you didn't get it, would impact the game. Meanwhile you need to get that 8th point to keep things even.

That happens with 10 men in the box. You break through that first layer and you're gone. The question is why we needed 10 in the box to stop the run, and why 10 in the box didn't even get that done. Pathetic DL and interior linebacking play, and a ridiculous stubbornness on the part of Frazier not to change his personnel on the field in response to what the Pats were doing (running 100% of the time) or not doing (passing, ever, when going against the wind)

Much as I hate to admit it: Belichick and McDaniels won this one. McDermott/Frazier/Daboll lost it.

I love how Frazier and McD had Levi Wallace out there even when the Pats were going into the wind and McDaniels had made it abundantly clear that he was NEVER going to throw the ball. And we wonder why a team that threw 3 passes total was somehow able to run for 222 yards.

Back then it was 100% certain my parents would side with the principal/teacher no matter how much I protested. Even if I was in the right. Now? Mom texts the kid: LOL, get better at not getting caught. That sums it up for me.

Is that right? I was wondering where he landed. With a thud.

Who needs Ernie Adams? We got boater! 😁

Well, they show the Hollywood sign for LA games, they show people skiing 2 hours away for Denver games ....

Runners break tackles. Defenders slip and fall on a wet field. And then there's nobody left to bring a runner down and you get an 80 yard catch-and-run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP9GdzEofLM 9 or 10 in the box vs. Tebow, who we all know couldn't throw to save his life. And yet ...

You mean nobody's posted this yet? Weather? You want to see what "weather" really means? Josh knows weather! Just scroll to the 4:00 mark.

Who will run the Joe Webb Package tonight?

Short of moving to the tropics, for me it's a 300 watt dawn simulator in the morning and full spectrum light, light, light in the afternoon. And I still don't like winter.

I don't think you need to believe in a mega-conspiracy (NFL: "let's rig the calls to try to get the Pats and/or Bucs into the SB") to believe that there are subtle things that - in a league that's achieved maybe a bit more of that parity than they'd actually wanted - give certain teams or players a slight edge. And given that parity, a slight edge is often a difference maker. Officials are human. The Patriots are clever, even when they're not out and out cheating.

A decent man who did remarkable things. RIP, Bob Dole.

Thanks. This is informative, and in fact this kind of comment -- from someone who knows things that I don't -- is one of the reasons I still read comments from people that I know disagree with me on a lot of political issues. And this tells me that what traditional conservatives have always said remains true: start with the parents before blaming the school. The parents were informed that their kid was exhibiting, at the very least, troubling behavior. And as a parent, it's really hard to imagine that this kid's parents wouldn't have noticed signs in his behavior regarding his anxiety, anger, depression. A responsible parent might not be thrilled with how the school handled the ammo search/drawings incident, but she wouldn't have literally laughed it off. Maybe the school ought to be able to do more itself to protect the other students. I don't know, that's a question for debate. For me it's not debatable that these parents failed their kid and a bunch of other kids in the process.

I will give B Man a pass here. He was quoting a particularly stupid article from Red State - "there are no gun laws that could have prevented the parents giving their kid a gun" right alongside noting that it is illegal to give a handgun to a minor. So ... you're saying there IS a law? I guess it's being enforced right now, which is, unfortunately, a few days too late ... ... that's why the parents are being hit with everything in the books. The mom literally laughed at the law ("learn how to not get caught").

I am going to be an optimist here and say that the "every benefit of the doubt" refereeing has departed Foxboro and has landed in Tampa with TB12. Next week I am going to be a pessimist and say that TB12 is now getting every benefit of the doubt in Tampa.

And so SNF wraps up 2021 with (team names don't matter, except for one): Mahomes Rodgers Brady Cowboys Rodgers They get ratings ...

Yep. And utter inability to make a play when you need to make a play. If only they had Tyrod Taylor (at least the 2016 or even 2017 version). At least he could make a big play. And avoid stupid turnovers.

5 picks in the first 3 rounds. And a really disgruntled Aaron Rodgers threatening to do whatever it is he's threatening to do?

It is, at least on paper, a replay of the Peyton Manning - to - Denver deal. The other pieces seem to be in place.

Stats: Total yards: Broncos 356, KC 275 TOP: Broncos 31:57, KC 25:06 Penalties: Broncos 4-32, KC 7-60 Score: Broncos 9, KC 22

Is that quote for real? How did I miss that?? Karlos, all is forgiven. That is a true classic. Meanwhile ... is Collinsworth weirdly making sense with 4:00 left in the 4th?