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I think he came to camp at 305 lbs. He became just what you described and played at 275. memory alert Ken O’Brien still twitches.

Couldn’t they make calls that extend drives, keep chains moving, making every drive a scoring drive? What about pass interference? Should we all take the under every week, winning half and losing half of the unfixed games while cleaning up on the fixed “under” games? Hows it easier?

The most disappointing thing about that fourth, er first, down is Dorsey not believing that they could simply stuff it down Washington’s throat, expected or not.

The most disappointing thing about that fourth down is Dorsey not believing that they could simply stuff it down Washington’s throat, expected or not.

How do you know they didn’t take the over?

I’m with the Original Poster. We should be able to steal from the rich. Oh, and the wealthy. Affluent, too. Don’t forget the comfortable, the satisfied, the successful. The resourceful, the lucky, the hard working … the smart, the frugal … hell, everyone with more than me!

Way too early for an opinion on a review.

My thought without another angle.

I was there. 51 to 3, in a game not as close as the score would indicate. I call this Buffalo’s greatest victory, outside of AFL championships. The Raiders said all week that they’d seen many ‘no huddle, two minute” offenses. I believe Howie was signaling time out walking toward the wrong sideline.

Some funny stuff, here.

Um, you read about seventy five words into what I wrote. I asked the learned. Continue finding posts and creating non sequiturs. People keep looking for reasons to put cheese on cornflakes, sure.

To the learned … does Allen’s throwing motion look different?

Cook has looked outstanding?

Cook don’t impress me much …

2014. Not that I mind one bit.

You enter the draft. If you did anything else, they’d Wonderlic you seven times.

He was the best at what he did. He did something near and dear to all of us. Not many can be described like this, but some can. They’re few and far between. Rick, though, is in a category by himself. In addition to sharing thousands of evenings (thousands!) of competence, art and joy, he taught us lessons. The lessons are his greatest gift, and that’s saying something. 1) Love your work. You will feel it and so will those around you, making the experience better for everyone. 2) Love who you work with. Work becomes less “work”, and everyone’s grateful for that. 3) Be yourself. While the world changes from radio, to television, to inter-webs, to streaming, to 85” high definition, to game animation, remain the same comfortable and familiar voice. You will connect the simple memories of youth with the complicated reality of adulthood. One of the greatest lessons from Rick is that there are experiences that fathers, sons and daughters can share exactly the same way, but they’re rare. Rick was one. 4) Take your work seriously and yourself less so. What a humble man. 5) Love your family. Godspeed, RJ …. I’ll see you again soon.

Great documentary. No one looked good. No person, no organization. Watch it. Impressions. Enablers and profiteers everywhere. Father that participates, but bemoans no accountability. Agent that perpetuates the fraud - wonder who’d take a call from him after watching? Best wishes to kid in his second act.

Respectfully, I don’t think you’re close to what I did say. I also don’t think re-saying it will satisfy you. You’re speaking back and forth to several things and mixing them together and writing to me. The things are decisions, circumstances, judgement, outcomes and consequences. I spoke to one, narrow, issue or aspect of the situation. Go back and see if you can find it. Try this mishmash of sentences, independent and related at the same time. Young men have lapses in judgment. Ruggs exercised very bad judgement. There was a very bad outcome as a direct result of his exercise. He should be punished. The inter webs encourages, among other things, sanctimony, hypocrisy and manufactured disagreement. I’ve exercised bad judgement and no one’s been hurt. I hesitate self reflectively before I criticize people who exercise bad judgement. I feel for him and for her. Outcome is irrelevant to everything I wrote in my original post and everything of interest to me in this thread. That’s all I got.

I understand. I agree. Sentences in our legal system often rely on outcome, which I deliberately avoided. THERE’S a philosophical debate, to be sure. If they’re each your son, sentence notwithstanding, who do you judge more harshly? That’s my post. To me, they committed the same crime. The random trajectories of the bullets and random configuration of the audience determined the outcome. Adieu !!

Two men walk into an auditorium and approach the podium. Each picks up a loaded pistol, closes his eyes, and fires toward the crowd. One bullet kills a young woman. The other hits no one, and embeds itself into a wall. Who’s the worse man and why? My point … you are conflating the bad judgement and the outcome. I am addressing only the judgement. It was horrible, and there but for the grace of God go I. Prophylactic inter web post … i’ve never driven a car that fast or that drunk, not that that’s relevant either. The victim is the woman. I want justice and mercy for Ruggs.

To answer your question directly, despite its irrelevance to my post, no.

The NFL, as a business, sells only two things. Entertainment (it’s exciting) and competition (anyone can win). There would be no more stupid, twenty thousand posts per week across the web to the contrary, than that billion dollar industry jeopardizing one of the two things it sells. Coke Classic. Bud Light. Disney. The NFL fixing games.

First and foremost … second, after first … and in conclusion: An innocent woman died a terrible and premature death and left a family that will grieve until they’re no longer with us. Repeat that, for those who’d misconstrue what follows. I am amazed at the posts that show no consideration, or understanding, or empathy for the young man who was driving. It was his fault, period. If my life came down to the mistakes and errors in judgment I made, especially when i was a twenty something, I’d be in a pickle deeper than I can imagine. Bugger off, you hard justice warriors … and show me your life’s judgment resumes. If you’ve made no egregious errors, whether you got away with them or not, you’re a cat I’ve not met. There are victims, here. Some are the victims of others, and some are the victims of chance and fate. My heart goes out to both parties.

Recognizing there is no prophylactic for internet nincompoopery and the ubiquitous “so, you’re saying” something I’m clearly not, I’ll wade in. I work for a firm. In the NFL world, my job would be half GM, half head coach. I assemble talent, devise strategy and coach execution. Five roles report to me in multiple locations. I have CPAs, CFPs, Attorneys and other licensed specialists. We build teams around specific client circumstances. I have egos and personalities on the team and we work in a very competitive, pressure packed, environment. We’re not professional athletes. Good for me. Life’s taught me several lessons. Stefon Diggs is a great talent. He’s also a cancer. Thirty year olds don’t change or grow up. He’s a great singular talent in an industry that relies on teamwork. He either doesn’t understand, or care, about the implications for others. He’s calling someone a liar, publicly, in his smug, attention seeking, inter-webs game. We went all in on a contract structure with an unreliable human being. Sports contracts are risky. He needs to go. The cost of keeping him exceeds the cost of losing him. I’ve watched people try to manage cancers. I’ve tried to manage cancers. It doesn’t end well with any predictability.