BullBuchanan

More people just means the same amount of resources split between more people. Sustainable Population studies hypothesize we're already over-populated by 2.5-3X of the optimal number.

When your goal is to win 9 or 10 games to back into the playoffs there's a lot more to talk about than when your goal is to win a Super Bowl by using the same strategy every year (that hasn't shown results in 5 years of trying). When you're just trying to make it, every game matters, you can dissect your own roster, other team's rosters, the schedule,etc and try to find a way to steal a big game here and there to make the dream come true. We worry endlessly about how we'll do in the division. Journalists have all these things to talk about too, so there's more offseason content talking about all these things. Instead, we know we're favorites to make the playoffs, so nothing that happens from March-December is that interesting. The entirety of the season boils down to 3-4 games in late January and February.

How could I not be dead serious? Bringing any amount of kids into the world is already an extremely selfish exercise. When you decide that you aren't satisfied with 1,2 or 3 but need 10+ what does that say about you and what does it say to your other kids? There's no physical means for you to give them the time they need each day or week. If you have 6 hours a day when you aren't working, they aren't in school, and awake that's ~30m a day per kid if you spend 100% of your free time hanging out with them.There's no possible way to raise that many people at the same time giving each one of them your best effort for setting them up to achieve their maximum potential and be well adjusted. That isn't even taking into account bringing 10 new human into a world that can't physically support them or ignoring the 3 million kids in foster care/orphanages who need a good home because you want to breed your own designer kids. It's just not well adjusted, sane behavior, regardless of wealth.

he's not playing for a vet minimum deal, and i wouldn't want to pay him anything significant and then have Miller steal his reps.

nah Rivers is a whackjob too. If you need a convoy to travel with your kids, you have a problem. No one's DNA is that special.

He's got 10 kids at age 30 including 4 in the last year. I'm doubting he slows down any time soon. Dude will need every cent he can get.

Well, at the end of last season both Dell and Collins were hurt. Collins has a robust injury history. They're going all in trying to win this year, and they have as good a shot as anyone given how well they played last year and how young they are. Stroud has a chance to show the league he's a top 3 QB this year.

It'll be the same as it always is. A lot of mental weakness with undisciplined play during critical situations. They'll beat the snot out of bad-mid QBs in the regular season and likely do decent against the good ones for a top 5-10 aggregate score. Then we'll all be shocked at how they give up the big plays in January.

Why do you think they cared about fans 30 years ago? They're a corporation. All they've ever cared about was money. Sometimes they way to that money was through an appeal to fans, but the money was always the primary goal.

DE or depth CB are the only things that I think meaningfully help us here. We're currently on pace to lose the sack production that Floyd generated with no real replacement, and if either Douglas or Benford miss a snap, the dropoff will be significant if Elam hasn't improved.

I've thought this is the problem. There have been times we punted or called weak plays instead of giving Bass a 50 yarder and that's gotta hurt your self-esteem and confidence as a kicker.

Really rooting for the kid. I thought he made some good plays while filling in a couple years ago and had more upside - maybe not enough to be a long term starter on this team, but possibly enough to have a full NFL career with starting reps somewhere.

looks to be $10M/4

Is $90 a bargain for that?

Rome Odunze goes 5 picks later and loses $13M on his deal. Crazy.

But was Stefon Diggs there?

Yea, i think it's just a different terminology thing. I usually refer to proofing once it's been shaped. I guess in the case of a cold ferment this could take place during or after the the fridge ferment. I've been letting my dough sit at room temp 4-6 hours once balled and in that time it'll rise a decent bit - I consider that proofing, but I guess some may not if it isn't stretched. Once it's stretched though, it just sits long enough to wait for its turn in the oven. That place is a godsend.

Tossing it high in the air is mostly for show. You can achieve the same effect rotating it quickly on the tops of your hands or a variety of other methods. Not very mainly styles roll it out flat from what I've seen.

You proof all those kinds of dough too, just that most people do it in the fridge for a couple days. When you take it out of the fridge you then let it come up to room temp for 4-6 hours and it rises again in that stage.

I glossed over that part. The one in East Aurora has definitely been a top 3-4 place for me every time I've gone. @hondo in seattle definitely give the East Aurora location a go if you can.

Desi's Pizzeria is criminally underrated, and they have some of the best subs and calzones in the country. Maybe you went on a bad day, which does happen there. From my experience living in seattle, nothing came remotely close to wings from Buffalo, but then again, I haven't been to those places in Bellingham. Nine-eleven tavern is the gold standard for me. If I'm going to a pizza shop for wings, I actually love La Nova, as touristy as that may seem.

Hope this helps.

I brought this up in my postalready. McDermott really had very little hand in us reaching the playoffs in 2017. In the two years before he got here, Taylor went 7-6 and 7-8. In 2017 Taylor went 8-6. We finished 9-7 which wasn't any better than Marrone did with Kyle Orton. Cincinnati deserves more credit for getting us into the playoffs. If you want to celebrate the second 9-7 season in 4 years as evidence that McDermott is great, go ahead, but I won't. This is my plan for us to win a Super Bowl. Ideally Burrow is out of the picture too in whatever way possible. Also not sure we'd match up to SF, but at least that isn't proven.

Except when the things that almost happened later do in fact happen. Just because you don't get burned every single time, doesn't mean you aren't screwing up. We had the Hail Murray, and then allowed the exact same situation the very next week against San Diego that just happened to not burn them. They collapsed against Tampa Bay last year and were a pass interference call away from being knocked out of playoff contention. We get annual reminders ever year when we play KC or Cincinnati exactly who Sean McDermott is, and some people insist on ignoring all of his miscues because of regular season win totals and just throw on a surprised face when we melt in the game's biggest moments.

It's only head scratching if you absolutely must find the rosiest possible result in the worst of situations. There are 20 year olds who are never the same after an ACL tear and he was already on the last leg of his career. I think there's a very realistic chance he never even plays again. If he comes into camp looking like he did last season, he should just hang it up, because he wasn't a practice-squad level talent last year. It would be an historic comeback that people would talk about for years if he put up 10 sacks this year, considering he wasn't putting up that many more in his long lost prime.