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There is no better way to ensure that a young QB will fail than to put him on a team that goes through two coaches and three offensive coordinators in his first three years. Take any year and look at who the top 8-10 QBs were that year, and you'll find that maybe one or two guys had a career that started that way. It's a very difficult position to play, and QBs who find themselves on a team with a stable situation have a MUCH better chance of turning all of their talent into success at the NFL level. (And if Caleb Williams does end up being the clear #1 player in next year's draft, I would not hold it against him at all if he told a dysfunctional organization like the Cardinals that he'll never play for them.)

As I may have implied with my previous post, I'm not impressed with the Chiefs wide receiver room for 2023. Their lack of production, specifically dropping passes, last night was a BIG reason they lost that game. Keeping Kelce on the field will go a long way for this year's team, but they're going to need somebody to be reliable at WR to beat some of the better teams. I thought their defense played really well last night, even without Jones (who is just loosing a million dollars a game when he HAS to know the Chiefs aren't going to pay him.) I'm pretty comfortable with assuming the Chiefs will figure it out and win their division again like they do every year. They have a great Coach and a great QB; they'll figure out how to deal with the problem. The Lions can hang their hats on this win however. Like my Giants, they're a feisty bunch who will win close games when the other team makes more mistakes than they do.

My brother sent me this today. Heh.

The Lions were really fun to watch the second half of last year going 8-2 after the 1-6 start. They had a bunch of draft picks in the first two rounds this year, and look like they managed to improve their roster materially from where they ended the 2022 season. They had no reason to play hard against the Packers in their week 17 game, as opposed to the Packers who needed to win to get to the playoffs, and they won that game 20-16. Everything about the Lions at the end of last year made you think that the Lions were going to be a really good team this year. BUT last year was last year and there is no guarantee that teams will pick up where they left off.

Cleveland's track record should be used as a cautionary tale as opposed to an example of what normal results might look like. There are some quarterbacks where pretty much EVERYBODY agrees that the kid has everything you want to see and will be all that and a bag of chips. Elway, Peyton Manning (although some people liked Leaf better, oops), Andrew Luck and more recently Trevor Lawrence were all first overall picks that came with the evaluation of "It's all there." SO MANY other quarterbacks went first overall because they were very good prospects and the team drafting first needed a QB. Some turned into really good to great QBs, others were not good to bad. Here's what profootballnetwork.com currently says about Caleb Williams as a prospect: This isn't quite "he's one of the best prospects in the last 20 years" like people were saying about Trevor Lawrence, but it is a VERY positive profile that makes it sound like he's somebody who could immediately make a bad team better. And yeah, he could totally pull a John Elway and say "I'm never playing for your organization" to the Cardinals. They way they run things there, it's not an unreasonable thing to say.

Heh. Sabretts and kale. Two things VERY far apart on the should and shouldn't eat scale.

My Gen-Z daughter sent a text to the family group chat asking "What is all this ruckus outside this morning?" Which: It was the town tearing up the asphalt on our street at like 7:30 AM to prepare it for repaving, and I'm very proud of her for asking the question that way. Her Gen-X parent promptly responded to that text with, "Can you describe the ruckus?" Because, yeah, we've been a whatever kind of people since we were her age.

It bothers me as well. I'm a Spectrum customer, and while it's improved since they were Time Warner, it's still way too long of a waiting period to get through to an agent. (They do have a chat that works pretty well for simple stuff online, but some problems need to talk to an actual person.) I find it extra annoying when I compare it to the company I work with and know that our customers typically have wait times measured in seconds, not minutes. (Well, once they navigate the annoying phone tree.)

This is good advice in general. The equipment that comes with cable and/or internet service can break or simply get old. There's no reason to just put up with it like we might with something we might have to PAY to replace. Meaning, if your TV is getting a little wonky, you might put up with it for a while because you'll need to go down to Best Buy with your credit card to replace it. But if your modem or internet WiFi signal (assuming it's part of your service) or cable box is doing weird stuff, have the service provider check it out and/or replace it. They have new equipment just waiting for you. Also, especially in the case of a modem with integrated WiFi that you get from the internet provider, if that sucker is three years or more old just pack it up and bring it to their store to ask for a new one. If they ask what's wrong with it, just tell them you think it's broken. WiFi technology improves very rapidly. It might still work just fine after three years, but I'll guarantee you that there is a newer model available.

I bought a long parka type coat back when I was commuting to work. Standing on that damn train station and then walking from the train station to the office wouldn't seem like it was a reason to dress like I was climbing Mt. Everest, but it definitely was. Like you, I highly recommend making that investment.

Heh. I had one of those once. It was difficult to see coming, as she was engaged and interesting in the preliminary texting chit-chat. It's just one of the many things that make meeting online first such a crapshoot. When you somehow dumb luck strike up a conversation with a person at a store or some other public place that leads to a date, you already know whether or not there is a spark that may or may not start a fire. Online can be super fun and witty banter leading up to the meeting and then... fizzle.

That's a TALL order. That team seems to have used the Cleveland Indians roster building technique from the movie Major League. The starting QB right now is a guy who just got there like a week ago.

The Jets, Chargers, and Cowboys all have plenty of good teams to face on their schedules. There's ample reason to be optimistic that they'll lose just enough of those tough games to find themselves on the outside looking in. Chargers have their own division games, AFC East, NFC North, and Dallas, Tennessee, and Baltimore Jets have their own division games, NFC East, AFC West, and Atlanta, Houston, Cleveland Cowboys have their own division games, AFC East, NFC West, and Chargers, Carolina, Detroit The Jets defense was pretty damn good last year. I think Rogers falling on his face will be directly tied to whether or not that unit plays like that again this year. If they do, all he has to do is not be directly responsible for losing games and the Jets will probably win quite a few of those tough games on their schedule. The only time Rogers won a championship in 2010, the Packers had the #2 ranked scoring defense in the league. This Jets team could put him in that area code again.

The third host thing was just a setup for their "audition" promo video. It's pretty silly. Like you said, it's a lot of them just joking around with random guests, but when they stop and focus on the football game, it's pretty interesting. The two of them just immediately recognize what is about to happen and point it out. Then if it's a bad idea, Peyton gets incredulous and Eli both agrees and kind of eggs on Peyton to rant and rave about it. I most likely won't be watching ANY Manningcast broadcasts this year, as I'm a Spectrum customer with no current plans to find an alternative way to watch live ESPN stuff. I'm assuming that the local broadcasts of the home team games will still get broadcasted on an over the air channel (although if that ends up being ABC, I'm still hosed), and I can survive without MNF games generally speaking.

Spectrum collects $2.2 Billion dollars annually for Disney from it's customers. Disney was most likely looking to increase that by around 10%. This is not a small spat. I was reading some investor takes on it this morning, and that community was analyzing it as "permanent". Mostly because not caving into Disney's demands increases Charter's (Spectrum's) value as a company going forward.

That's a bummer. I know you can get their steak sauce in supermarkets, but I had never seen anything like what you found. (And now I know not to bother if I do.) I think their porterhouse steak is totally worth the trip once in a blue moon when the urge hits me.

Spectrum isn't going to cave into to Disney's demands this time. I've got a Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ subscription through my Verizon Wireless account. Hulu has all Archer seasons including the current one available to stream, which is where I'll be watching this show going forward.

There is a clip of Smoltz talking to some guy (maybe a podcast?) about Gwynn. Guy: How did you do against Gwynn? JS: Not good! He hit like .445 lifetime against me. Amazing stat?: Maddox, Glavine, Pedro Marinez, and me struck out 12,000 batters between us. We faced Gwynn 330 times and struck him out a total of THREE TIMES. Heh. Gwynn was awesome.

Technically, Disney pulled its channels from Spectrum, not the other way around. This is not a normal dispute like the DirecTV CBS one. Spectrum told Disney that they feel that the Spectrum customers should get access to the streaming Disney stuff as opposed to paying for it twice. Disney said no, you will pay us higher fees and force more of your customers to have our channels in their non-negotiable bundles (so that Spectrum has to pay for them every month.) Spectrum declined to cave in to Disney’s strong arm negotiating tactics, for like the first time ever, and here we are. There are probably ways to get a lot of the missing content through Hulu/ESPN+. I saw someone in the tennis topic say a streaming service had a two week free trial that would give them ESPN.

Disney is run by a bunch of thugs. They don't negotiate, they just tell you what they want and wait until you give in. It's the same people who have just been firing people left and right for the last year. It sounds like the big ask of Disney is that when a Spectrum customer is forced to buy Disney programming per Disney's contract demands, that the Spectrum customer will also be given access to the streaming version (Disney+, Hulu, etc.) for no additional cost. Spectrum says that it's not fair to their customers that they are paying Disney once every month as part of their Spectrum package and then a second time for the streaming version. Disney said, No. You will not only pay us higher rates for the Disney channels, but you will also now pay us for a higher percentage of your video customers than we asked for last time. Fucking thugs.

Like all of the AFC East teams, they don't exactly have an easy schedule and the sooner he gets back, the better. Their first four games that he'll definitely miss are At Jets Raiders At Commanders Dolphins After that they've got Jaguars Giants At Patriots Bucs (Everybody in the AFC East gets one game against the NFC South, which is nice.) At which point the schedule goes from challenging to oof with a second half of At Bengals Broncos Jets At Eagles At Chiefs Cowboys At Chargers Patriots At Dolphins.

I just saw a graphic that says that Scheffler's 68.63 scoring average this year was the 7th lowest in history; top 6 are Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods and some guy named Tiger Woods. He had two years at 67.79 (2007 and 2000) and then years of 68.05, 68.41, 68.43, 68.56 and 68.66 which is now bumped back to 8th best. (I love stats like this.)

Oof. Me and #5 have a history.

I've been all of these three. As a matter of fact, I'm frequently more than one of them at the same time.