The Frankish Reich

Is it really a conundrum? As in “an intricate and difficult problem; example: “He is faced with the conundrum of trying to find a job without having experience.” Perhaps more of a puzzle, or a riddle to be solved. A rebus if you will …

I know this is the every silver lining has a cloud thread, but on the optimistic side: - time for Shakir’s fans to pump the brakes a bit. It was his first real game action, and it showed. But it’s way too soon to write him off as a potential weapon this year. - Cook: same thing. Dorsey wouldn’t be trying to work him into the mix if he wasn’t showing some real skills in practice. They will find the plays that work for him, and he will have an impact before the season is over. - Moss: we are getting spoiled here. A good, hard runner. Probably not exactly the kind of complement to Singletary that would work best for us, but I’m confident he too will have his moments - Kumerow: I thought he filled in beautifully. Nice to have this guy on your bench as well as on special teams.

Yeah, if anyone can squeeze another productive season out of him it’s Brady. I’d like to see Cole end his career on a higher note. But unfortunately now I can’t take any joy in whatever success he might have.

That was the case historically. Not so much now (i do have some personal experience in this area). For example, from a newspaper catering to the U.S. Cuban community: https://havanatimes.org/features/tens-of-thousands-of-cubans-travel-to-the-usa-via-nicaragua/

Do you know that Cubans now typically: - fly to Nicaragua (commie buddies don’t require visas from Cubans) - fly (or travel overland) to the US border - enter through the Arizona desert, surrender, and claim asylum? Exactly what the Venezuelans do. Yet DeSantis handpicks Venezuelans to send to Martha’s Vineyard. I wonder why.

If taking his name off the wall makes him stop coming to Bills games, please, Mr and Mrs Pegula, make it happen. Now. I mean surely they’re not gonna put his name up there all over again in the new stadium?

Former athletes do some of the most embarrassing things. Favre shows up on late night TV hawking some kind of snake oil. But apparently that’s not enough. He also needs to screw over the people of his own state. There’s also a class of politicians and local businessmen (yes, they are all men) who will do anything to suck up to their old sports heroes. Including screwing over the people of their own state.

Oh, I agree. If DeSantis were to do this to CUBANS, there’d be an outcry in Florida and he just might lose votes. So he won’t. Q. Is there any reason newly arrived Cubans would have a better moral claim (not to mention legal) claim to stay than newly arrived Venezuelans? No. If Cuba is an 10 on the political oppression/economic basket case scale, Venezuela is surely an 11. But you also misunderstand the situation of Venezuelans. There’s a lot of Republican support among that much smaller community, and yes, some cross-affiliation between Cubans and Venezuelans. (This is not about Mexicans or Central Americans). So this isn’t necessarily a big win for DeSantis in Florida. Of course, he correctly assumes he’ll cruise to reelection in Florida. This is about out-Trumping Trump on the national scale.

I don’t get the Tua disparagement here. Let’s start with one premise absolutely everyone agrees with: 32 out of 32 NFL GMs would choose Josh Allen over Tua as their franchise-starting QB. So that’s not an issue. We’re then Left with (1) residual 1970s/80s Dolphin Hate - time to get over that; (2) “I told you so” know it alls who said Tua was too small, too whatever who hate to be proved wrong - get over that too. Maybe he’s getting it (last year) and now has a coach and fantastic athletes (this year) and those things are helping him to get the most out of his non-Josh/non-Mahomes talents. Good for him. I like watching that short pass/explosive YAC offense, just as long as we aren’t the opposing team. It may not be enough to get you to a Super Bowl but it’s fun to watch. Finally, admit it. If we hadn’t taken Josh and instead had taken Darnold, we’d be all over Beane for not finding a way to get Tua when he came out of Bama. He would’ve been our best QB prospect since Kelly.

I have been searching for the exact nationalities of the Martha’s Vineyard 50. It’s been reported that there are many Venezuelans. Why not Cubans, Ron? Why were they exempt? If you think Cubans aren’t coming across the southwest border in droves, you haven’t been paying attention. Could it be that the good governor doesn’t want to piss off a group that votes Republican? Oh, and by the way: once those (mostly) Venezuelans are processed in Cape Cod, where will they be headed? Migrant patterns suggest that 90+ percent will ask (and be allowed) to have their cases heard in (you guessed it) Florida.

Prediction: tonight will be Jake Kumerow’s big night. Somebody’s gotta get those Gabe targets.

The SNF wrap said it all. 8 completions last week. OK, so that was in heavy rain. So perfect evening tonight, 7 completions. I don't care who you have as targets, that's still awful. It's like Tebow is playing QB for the Bears, but without the running game.

WTF Raiders. You just need a few more yards for a 85% chance to make it FG. And you lose it just like that.

I’m 100% certain we are better than Miami, but … that speed does worry me. It’s not like Tyreek hasn’t burned us before. I have a hunch that this McDaniel is figuring out how to get the most out of Tua and his limitations. Actually, 6 TD passes suggests it’s more than a hunch.

True. And a couple unduly risky throws (for him, not Josh or Mahomes). There must be a better way given the receiving talent they have.

Tua comes out throwing ... downfield? Into tight windows? Oh, and gets picked off. Maybe we should go back to the checkdowns.

Also known to have a drink or two, every now and then ... and he's 74.

Wow. I bet tomorrow we find out Herbert is playing with cracked ribs.

Could've at least set up for the 75 yard FG

They solved the Kelce rebus but they're still gonna lose this one.

He's hurting.

Damn. I love watching the great young class of AFC QBs. Hope it was just the wind knocked out of him.

You know how you guys always mock the latest Trump investigations? "This time we really got him!" Well, this time you really didn't get Hillary. Again. You know how you also say "No one cares?" Well, this time really no one cares. It's over. "Hillary's emails" "Benghazi." Haha, nobody's listening (except Julie Kelly and her stay-at-home-mom army)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/durham-inquiry-trump-russia.amp.html What? Winding down? No Gitmo for the perps?? Where’s that Storm you promised us?? 😜

You mean the Diggs Rebus? It sounds so much more philosophical if you put it that way.