The Frankish Reich

Even if he's a decent player who may get better - and who may ultimately have a better career than Worthy - he simply isn't a game changer. Worthy was today. That kind of speed just opens up things that aren't there for us. I still don't get that trade.

Chiefs were almost 100% healthy. We weren't. That's the biggest difference. And getting the bye probably had a lot to do with it. That's why they play the regular season.

The contested Worthy/Bishop catch call was, to me, pretty clearly wrong. But they would've had the ball at the 30 or so and the way we were playing D probably would've scored. But still: wrong. The spot? Really, that's a total guess since no one could see exactly where the ball was and replay didn't help. I can't blame anyone for that.

This is what the Pats Ernie Adams used to do. Watch every play, find tendencies/tells, and then shut down the up-till-now nearly automatic play.

I agree. 1 yard, not 2. Josh could've just gone right over the top.

Josh likes Edwards, doesn't like Torrence. And that's generally wise.

Outcoached.

Really does. I'm not about to give up, but they look like the clearly better team. Just like Philly vs. Wash

Incomplete is the right call.

Bishop just had a 165 lb WR rip the ball away from him ...

Back in April at draft time we all somehow knew Worthy would wind up killing us, didn't we ...

Hate to say it, but that's the difference so far

Something about "all 3 phases"

Overthrow the fastest man in football?

So maybe you draft Worthy just to keep KC from getting Worthy.

seems like that's the type of play where if both players have Guardian helmets the force of the impact is greatly reduced ...

deep shot now!

Thank God for that. It was gonna be 14-3 in about 2 more plays.

I'm afraid that's right. Chiefs got the incredibly light schedule/bye to get everyone healthy. We didn't.

https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/trump-says-colombia-will-face-25-tariffs-amid-fight-over-deportation-flights-e32dc497?mod=hp_lead_pos1 Stock up on coffee! And, umm, coke? How do we tariff that? [I hate when other countries force me to agree with Trump]

Good point. There's also a good argument for tracing the whole "West Coast Offense" back to BYU and coach LaVell Edwards. Edwards was the Assistant at BYU who designed that offense for Virgil Carter. Paul Brown copied that when Carter took over for Greg Cook as Bengals QB. And Edwards' direct coaching tree includes Holmgren and Andy Reid.

On the couch in Denver A couple people asked if I wanted to watch at a bar. No. Too many distractions. This is serious. Gonna be locked in.

My experience: the vast majority of "nonviolent drug offenders" who are prosecuted at the federal level are not "nonviolent." Anything above the level of the college campus weed dealer type almost always involves the use or threatened use of violence. It is an illegal trade in contraband, and people will defend their "right" to deal in contraband with the use of threat of violence. There's a few truly minor offenses, like getting busted for having weed in a National Park or something like that. But those are rare and can be easily found. Federal prosecutions themselves are a small minority of drug prosecutions in general, and are almost always about drug distribution networks rather than small-time users/dealers.

A new world in which everything - even a benediction - is a grift.

Absolutely. I said before: I had no problem pardoning those who just kind of waltzed in, walked around, and took a few pics. The prosecution made the point: it was against the law, and people should remember that in the future. But these blanket pardons (and I include Biden's pardons of "nonviolent drug offenders") are a terrible idea. Every case is different. The facts should be looked at, at least for a few minutes.