Augie

Geez, I guess I’m glad I mostly avoid the news.

I was never disinterested, but there was a time in the 80’s into the early 90’s when it was hard to follow them. I wasn’t living locally, and the NFL had yet to take over the media world. I would go to Chili’s for lunch on Tuesdays because they had the USA Today at the bar and they had maybe two sentences on each NFL team. THAT was my weekly Bills fix. Imagine that today with the NFL being a 24/7 non-stop hype machine!

We will follow our son and his family to some degree. We all live in Atlanta now, but he hopes to move closer to his wife’s family on the west coast of FL (Sarasota) in the next couple years. My wife refuses to endure an entire summer in FL again, so it looks like we will need to have split living arrangements. I’ll never live thru winter again full-time, so going north is out. We like our house and immediate area outside of ATL, so I’m guessing we’ll have a small part-time house or condo that allows dogs in FL. My wife loves the mountains, but I think we’ll just have to save that for vacations. I always thought of The Villages as strictly a retirement community, but our sons played against them in HS football. Apparently there are young people there to look out for the old people there. STD’s for everyone! .

I’ve actually been a very big fish guy for decades after living in Hilton Head, SC and Sarasota, FL for 30 years. Nothing better than eating what you catch! We also do chicken fairly often, and red meat is rare. Not because we are trying to go to or away from anything, we just eat what we like. It’s usually with roasted or grilled veggies as well. We had to up our game when our son married a vegetarian, and I’m sure that’s good for all of us. .

I make almost exclusively fish at home, and order fish 90%+ when we go out to dinner. We mainly shop the perimeter at the grocery store, with a heavy emphasis on Produce. Not being terribly overweight disguises the terrible condition I am in, but we are actually working on it now!

So, did you have a date last night? How did it go? .

OK, give us the alphabet backward from Z to A. I’m sorry, you got me. 🤷‍♂️ Not on my best day could I do that, especially when nervous. I got pulled over at a New Year’s Eve checkpoint years ago. I was with my wife, her mother and uncle and I had had ZERO to drink all night. The cop asked where I was going. Home. What’s the address. I told him. He said OK, you can go. I said that was pretty easy. He pointed to an appliance store parking lot full with dozens of cars and said “those people couldn’t do what you just did.” YIKES!

Just add two guys let loose on the final cutdowns, and we had our starting OLine! It’s really incredible how poorly those rosters were constructed. Appreciate this team and the focused approach we have today! We deserve some good times, and a Lombardi would be the cherry on top.

Sadly, this actually seems high to me.

I’m with you here! Solomon has that quick bendy, twitchy edge rush we otherwise lack. I’ve been intrigued by the guy, and the stats in red above are eye opening. I hope with a full NFL offseason he can hold up against the run and earn more snaps to get after the QB.

They’ve pretty much forced my hand, I’ll have to try one.

How would you feel if I was technically on the sidewalk, but peeing on your lawn? 😊 That’s how I feel about most of the music being suggested. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

I’ll go with whatever @teef says on this one.

They save these lists for this time of year. They know we are so desperate we will click on anything!!! 😂 Then argue about it, of course.

Because we were often out of players on D come the playoffs, hence bringing guys like AJ Klein back from vacation to suit up again. We needed better depth when we got to the playoffs and the injuries piled up. .

As co-Super Bowl favorites, I would argue it hasn’t been as shabby as some people will lead you to believe.

There was a reason we drafted almost all defense and brought in defensive FA’s, we didn’t have the horses with sufficient depth in the past.

Joe Burrow ain’t chopped liver. You’re just a whiner.

Yes, let’s be the Bengals. Great idea.

You have mastered time travel? Do tell!!!

….and been grateful.

Maybe they will consolidate into a magnificent palace in LA when Josh insists upon a trade there to accommodate his wife’s career! Don’t blame me, I read it here first.

They have to account for him regardless, I appreciate having more flexibility. But I agree I want to get him the ball where he can use his vision and speed to make the BIG splash plays.

I’m not sure if the problem is the talent of players, or the quality of depth. When we get to the playoffs it seems our defense is decimated by injuries. Part of that may come from being fast but “smallish”, but we seem to run out of “guys”. We should not be interrupting AJ Klein’s vacations to help us in the playoffs. Maybe going so deep on defense in this year’s draft helps that, because I’m as sick of it as anyone.

I don’t want him blocking all the time, but he has to at least be adequate enough so as not to tip off the D regarding what we are running. If he’s a blocking liability he hurts us, and if the D knows he’s sneaking out into the flats it makes it easier on them. I don’t want any “tells” because he’s not competent at an important aspect of the game. He doesn’t have to be great, but at least adequate to keep the opponents honest.