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I still find it hard to believe that the same production crew that put together that amazing battle scene in the last episode also put together that ridiculous fight scene in Dorne.

I agree.

Yeah, I'd say that Jordy's TD drop offset the play he made to prevent Gilmore from a pick-6. I'm not so sure our offense gets the job done in the final minutes against your D, though. By that point in the season, I think Orton had just about mailed it in, and I had little confidence in his last-minute heroics. That said, it was a great game, and it was good to see the special teams and defense account for the win against a really good team.

Link?? As far as I recall, Rickon didn't go beyond the Wall, did he?

Guess he must be moving pretty good... Sal Capaccio @SalSports Harvin, McKelvin, Darby. Kick returners working with number one unit.

I think they'll end up with a good coach one way or another, but I'm still wondering what the heck they're going to do at goalie.

Hell, maybe they could ask me to be a consultant to provide a fan's perspective on some of those decisions. I wouldn't charge much.

Rebounded fairly well from last week's horrible episode. More odd gratuitous nudity, though...can't really see the reason the Sand Snake needed to bare it all (not complaining, mind you), but I also can't really see why she had any interest in saving Bronn. The writers have done a pretty shabby job with the whole Sand Snake/Myrcella storyline, it's really cringe-worthy, but the rest of the episode was pretty entertaining. I was hoping the capture of Cersei would have been a bit more...exciting, like in the books, but overall I thought they did a pretty good job of it.

It's really odd. I'm such a proponent of seat belts, I basically never go without it. But something about being in the back seat of a cab makes things different for me. No idea why, but I find that I just don't do it for some reason. I've been better at it lately (though admittedly I don't ride in cabs very often), but this will certainly change that for me.

Orton?

Thanks for the update.

Good Lord, man, and you're already closing in on 25,000 posts? I've been at this for well over a decade and I still can't top 10,000.

Are you allowed to do that in your own thread?

I agree, the Cleveland helmet looks pretty cool.

Wow, that is just bizarre.

Please don't make me give up this thread.

Great to hear! There are some pretty good treatments for CLL these days, but it does play havoc on the immune system.

Keep crossing those fingers, gents. We made it through the tank, we can make it through this.

I would have an aneurysm if that happens.

I think Aegon is a fake, but probably doesn't know it himself. I think he's the "mummer's dragon" as told to Daenerys, I believe. The three-headed dragon is likely Daenerys, Jon, and Tyrion. In fact, I think by leaving Aegon off the TV show, the producers are basically acknowledging he's not going to be part of the main story and ending.

Looks good on paper, but there are a number of things that have to fall the right way, including Miller actually being able to play in the NFL, Incognito getting back to form, and Henderson actually making some progress in his second year. Fingers crossed, but rarely do that many things work out optimally.

Point taken, although if he lives in a place like Gross Pointe, it doesn't get much grander. The real point is that it's often hard to convince family to uproot and move somewhere else, especially if the wife has lots of friends and he has school-age kids.

I'm guessing he wants to come to Buffalo, but he's having a hard time bringing his family around to the idea.

I need a visit to Ted's and one to John & Mary's. Aside from those, I need wings, a beef on weck, and a fish fry -- I'm not particular to where, since so many places in Buffalo do those so well. Amazing how once you get outside of Buffalo, people just can't seem to do those the same, yet there are dozens of places in Buffalo that just kill it.

Yeah, I don't disagree with any of that. The problem that the TV show is having is that they are struggling to condense the massive complexity of GRRM's world into a simplfied version. I don't mind that certain characters are repurposed for different story arcs (such as Jamie and Bronn), but what I do have a problem with is how really awful some of the scripting is, and how badly it's mangling the characterizations of the books. Littlefinger's plot, for instance, is very different now because of his different travels -- which is okay, but his plot is now convoluted and just plain dumb. If any one person had seen him with Sansa and reported it back to Cersei, his plot is foiled. Yet he makes no effort to conceal Sansa's identity, or the fact that they were together going to Moat Cailin and the Boltons. Ugh.