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Enjoying the series so far - thoughts through ep 3: Never realized Mahomes is so fiery - it's cool to see more of the competitive side of his personality - definitely not just physical talent with him Loved the montage of Mahomes complimenting rushers every chance he could "If they like me maybe they won't hit me so hard" The mic'ed up on Cousins during the Bills game fighting through the pain was something else - a real inside look into guys fighting through injuries and pain (oh - and Cam Lewis wtf were you doing) Cousins comes off extremely geniune and true to his public personality - builds a special hidden room for his trophies lol Was interesting to see the levels they each go through in their own way to take care of their body - thought the Mahomes routine during the week to build up to game day readiness was fascinating How many players would love what Reid does to let players design and show off plays they've dreamed up a regular part of practice

This should be good

Dude just whacked the hornets nest - about to feel Thad Browns sting 😛

I got in queue when it opened to public at 1:00 and got tix

The cornhole sealed the deal

That's my QB

Always amazes me people bring up the Brady thing with Bellicheat but not the cheating

The Josh part was good but what a couple meat heads hosting. Always great when the interviewer says I can't think of a question and asks the interviewee to come up with something

My daughter works in corporate strategy for a major network/cable company - she recently was involved in a project assessing regional sports networks. Total mess. The biggest takeaway was that they would not be sustainable/viable with the rights currently being charged by the leagues. MLB was especially obscene

Yeah - one year we had that access and said screw it and went to the stands - then consider the regular fence is even behind that and gives an idea of what regular fan can see along the fence. The tent closest to the stands is sometimes corporate - I've was in there once and McD and Lorax came for Q&A For some years there was a VIP section in the far left stands (which sometimes included player's families - one year my son got Josh's family (and Britt ) to sign an 8x10 of the pic in my avatar) - and you could go to the VIP section down on the field in front of the stands which was good access. Last year they did away with the VIP section in the stands and all the stands were general admission

As others have noted, you go to one of two local HSs and take a bus. You would want to get there early to make sure you get a seat in the stands. As someone else mentioned, young kids are probably going to be bored as hell after 15 mins so be ready for that. After practice they have a group of players designated to sign at the main stadium - lines form for each. It may be possible to catch a player walking from the bldgs out to the fields before the tunnel under the stands before practice, also on the way out once practice ends. People also sometimes try to throw stuff down to players down in the tunnel from the stands- but there is the possibility you may never see that item again (and don't hit Josh!) One year my son got beane to sign his hat because he went to uncw, beans alma mater, and yelled 'UNCW Seahawks' and beane looked up and gave him a thumbs up and my son tossed his hat which beane signed and threw back. The truth is VIP holders have a much better chance of getting a casual encounter at the fence based on access/proximity - I think players also might be told to give some attention there. I've been lucky and have had VIP a number of times and have gotten pics with a number of players at the fence (my avatar is my dad and son from vip section fence, Josh's rookie year) For casual encounters at fence some players will only sign for kids exclusively. Josh esp I've never seen sign for anyone except a kid (he even blew off my dad recently who was holding an 8x10 of my avatar at the fence - and in a wheelchair! - we thought it would be a slam dunk but Josh went right by him 😛

Yes, the setup at SJF is much more rigid now. There are VIP and corporate areas closer to the field, the regular fans are relegated to main stands on near side and smaller stands on other side. The fence is set up pretty far away from the field - so it is not like the old days at Fredonia or even early days at SJF where the fence was close to the action and you could walk around along the fence and actually see stuff (one year early at SJF we walked over to where some RBs were running after practice and Willis McGahee came o er and signed my sons shirt bc we were right there - wouldn't be able to get a sniff of that today) One of McDs first camps I was talking to a guy who worked there who was a friend of a friend and he said at that time McD really was much more interested in it being set up for players than for fans

Yeah - they've done due diligence to fence off the whole main area

FWIW I don't recall any vantage points outside the gates/fences at SJF to see the practice. There may be some security 'holes' in the surrounding fence tho 😛 - although security may be beefed up now

Got 2 tix for weekday practices week of 7/31 no prob when public opened - tried for the Sun and 2000+ in front in queue lol BTW I imagine the limit is tied to ticketmaster acct - if you have another ticketmaster acct I believe you could use that for addl tickets

Is the link tied to a STH account - vs just a presale code?

I met his wife the morning after the preseason game against the Panthers, while having breakfast at the hotel. She saw us in Bills gear and came over to ask why there are so man Bills fans in every city when they play 😛 Was very nice. I also met Eli Ankou's parents at the same breakfast (and sat with Brandin Bryant's Dad in the councourse during the initial rain delay before the game the night before)

The 'SD' logo is pretty cool

The whole allegedly WR coach controversy is obviously b/c HE wanted to be WR coach

It's 11 o'clock - do you know where Stefon Diggs is?

I chuckle every post you make - it's honestly hilarious the 'o' on your keyboard is broken For old timers what was the hamster or gerbil or something that used to post in the old days - reminds me of that lol (edit: Was it Algernon?)

Diggs made it public when he didn't show up. Nothing McD was going to say in response to a direct question "Are you concerned?" was going to make the issue or media spotlight go away. If he said "No" the headline would be 'Coach doesn't care star player blows off team', if he gave some non-answer he'd be flogged for avoiding the questions and all the speculation would still exist. I don't understand why so many people are so upset over the words "Very concerned" - it's the truthful response. People concerned about Diggs' feelings - it's not necesarily a shot at Diggs - if anything it's telling Diggs we are taking your actions seriously (and probably also refers to the internal/organizational breakdown that led to the whole thing in the first place)

He was responding to a direct question of "How concerned are you about that?" (follow-up to "Stef is not here") - I feel like people were going run with something regardless, given the situation. If he said "Not concerned at all" then people would be screaming 'How can the coach be so out of touch with what is clearly an issue', if he said "No comment" then it just opens it up to wild speculation regardless

Maybe we can use this as a new minicamp thread instead of bumping a 3 month old OTA thread