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On 4/24/2022 at 12:18 AM, Wildbunny said:

Which situation Bruce Allen hasn't effed? 😂

And who!?

53 minutes ago, Warhead36 said:

Yes. But everytime you hire a new coach you're basically starting over.

 

Look, everyone here is frustrated and wants to start winning, but you can't expect a Super Bowl contender overnight after years of dysfunction and chaos.

But is this true? McVay went to the playoffs his first year after the previous coach was fired (Jeff Fisher lol). I can't recall the other examples anymore, but I'm positive we've had this discussion for about 15-20 years.

On 4/22/2022 at 9:39 AM, BringMetheHeadofBruceAllen said:

 

 

I'm starting to think he was up to hanky-panky with the passed-out chick and possibly ran out of gas...was probably inebriated, and panicked and decided to flee on foot before he got arrested for DWI and his wife found out about the other woman. That would explain his misjudgement of the speed of the 

Yeah I laid a lot of this out earlier. 

Even without a woman in car, no sober, sane person who used a cell to call their wife would run across traffic on a FL highway (notorious) to get gas.

Was just in a similar situation with a bad tire but too far to drive slow on a donut and a timetable to meet. What I did not and would not do is go across traffic when I had a phone. 

1 hour ago, Ball Security said:

Saw today where his wife called 911 that he was walking to get gas and she couldn’t get in touch with him.  Horrible.

Yeah I heard some of the 911 calls. This still doesn't make total sense.

• His wife spoke to him. That means he had a phone.
• He did not use a phone to call any authorities, tow truck, the rental car company, or anyone else (other than his wife.) 
• Instead he decided to walk across the highway. He was not simply walking along a shoulder it appears.
• Due to the hour (630ish?) he may have felt it too early to call anyone or accomplish anything. But most tow and related service are close to 24/7.
• He's a backup QB but he still has a decent salary, missing a plane flight doesn't seem to be that big a deal. Was he on his way to the airport? Has that been confirmed? Why take the risk at all?
• Why would someone not want to involve anyone else and instead dart across a highway to get gas instead of call police or anyone?
• Considering that Kalabrya called the police not very long after, it would appear it was in her power and within Dwayne's to call for help for being stuck on the side of a busy highway. It may be that certain details were omitted because otherwise why not let Kalabrya call for help? Because if she calls police and you haven't already left, they may notice something.

You avoid involving anyone else not because you ran out of gas but because there is something specifically about how you will be seen by those intervening to help. Then there's the allegation of a "passed out" or inebriated woman in the car. 

Or maybe he was alone and ran out of gas and realized he was still recovering from some drinking and he didn't want to be arrested for DUI or abandon the vehicle entirely for a period of hours (and couldn't abandon it because someone was in the car.) 

To me, that is the only thing besides monumentally bad impulsive decision-making that would compel a man to call his wife but also then put himself at such serious risk on the highway when his wife is literally calling into 911 10-20 minutes later. That means he could have done the same and eventually gotten the help he needed.  

Does anyone remember Lance Briggs? He wrecked his car abandoned it (clearly because he was drunk and didn't want to get a charge) and I don't know that he faced any serious repercussions from that.  This has a bit of a feel of that, except Dwayne felt he had to keep moving in this case.

EDIT: Was his car on the shoulder adjacent to the lanes where he was struck or was he on the other shoulder? Maybe it doesn't really matter it still involves walking across what seems to be a busy highway. That only makes sense if one is impaired, suffered a head injury or other disruptive event, or wants to avoid scrutiny (whatever it may be.)  

On 4/17/2022 at 2:31 PM, KDawg said:

So the USFL is trying to get viewers, but as a coach myself… I hate the constant ability to hear the coaches. Maybe the typical fan enjoys that? Maybe? But I don’t enjoy hearing these guys yelling into their headsets. Having the mics live is a cool insight into headset convos but these guys also KNOW they are on comms and live broadcast. 
 

I don’t think it’s a compelling reason to tune in.

Yes, if you are modifying their behavior because they know they are on live, that changes the appeal of it. Makes it come off as more fake reality TV. 

Also, no, I prefer a lively broadcast booth with two really good announcers with chemistry and preferably great voices.  That has entirely shaped my memory of great sporting events.

55 minutes ago, LD0506 said:

Gotta wonder why the league hasn't gotten together to take all the old games and digitally remaster them and make them available in an archive. Could sell subscriptions or whatever but it would enhance their brand while bringing in a few more bucks. 

Never understood why the NFL network wasn't fulfilling that role. I don't want to hear morons yelling at each other (some NFLN shows are a bit better than ESPN but still) or endless analysis of a game with no meaning unless it achieves that meaning.  Many fans are people that have abandoned the game and only have memories---what better way to get those fans involved again by appealing to those memories.

Perhaps the NFL, like other entertainment, realizes its product is actually a shell of its former self and don't want too many reminders out there that there was a better way and pre-hyper commercial era. Like even looking at the players in that game, dudes looked like mature men. They were, on average, fairly in shape and even slender looking without being roid monsters or piles of adipose tissue. Even the celebrations were relatively contained. There's an earnestness in celebrations in movement and form, whereas today there's a lot of self-conscious playing to the crowd even in what I'd consider group celebrations/taunting.  There's room for that, to be sure, but it seems like that it's all about that.

In some ways, what the Last Boy Scout claimed was already a problem sport was not but was going to become what it is, except worse. Any Given Sunday was also getting there.  Now we're here.

Remember when the NFL Network (granted I haven't had cable in forever) used to occasionally play historic games and there was a promise of reliving these moments? Do they do that anymore?

You know, contrary to what we were promised, very little has been preserved from that era at high quality (maybe NFL films has better copies for some of it) and much will be lost. A great deal of history, text, documents will be lost not due to not being digitized but only being available via digital means which will be paywalled or will actually be destroyed at some point (accidentally or otherwise.) 

23 minutes ago, slinky said:

Hopefully they move on from the terrible Commanders name also.

For me, this is the key. I mean, I'll never be that little kid crying over the SB loss to Oakland or trash talking Philly fans in the late 80s-early 90s but if a more fitting name were chosen, I'd feel a lot better.

Also, I'm beginning to think Commanders was not even done for the military tie-in but as an actual middle finger which references both Handmaid's Tale and Jay and Silent Bob and that evil little man just chuckled his ass off about it. If someone else comes in, the best possible thing they could do besides pulling an Augean Stables is to change the ****ing name and uniforms.

If true, I'd say some of this is about character, sure, but it's also someone who doesn't appear to have any means of dealing with setbacks financially.

In other words, he is franchise-rich and cash poor, relative to other owners in the league (like a Bezos) and is overly leveraged. People in this situations, especially if they think they're still entitled to live large, will cut corners on the most trivial things to save money because over time it does sort of ease some of the pain.  But not being particularly liquid, a team with millions committed to liabilities and expenses every year is not an enviable position.

If I were the league, I would seek a forced sale if only for that reason.  

I would not say it as a criticism but you can't totally rule out something more tragic and terrible. I hope it is just a terrible accident but I don't know. 

On 3/29/2022 at 7:26 AM, Skinsinparadise said:

 

 

2 hours ago, Warhead36 said:

Wentz wasn't the only big name player on the Colts to not get the vax.

 

But as usual the QB gets scapegoated.

Absolutely confident there is something else at work with that issue besides position played, I'll leave it at that (well, I will add that some of it is Irsay himself, for a variety of reasons.)

As for Wentz, it is very true he's the best since Kirk Cousins. I think he can be better because he's capable of being more dynamic, off-schedule, running, etc.  But that really remains to be seen.

Used to be you could experiment with usernames, change it anytime you wanted. I had a number of quality sobriquets on here. 

Now you're locked in until you get permission from the state, just like real life.  Truly this is the Metaverse.

Maybe there's a reason they declined to indict (since you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, as the saying goes.) 

17 hours ago, CobraCommander said:

 

 

Cobra Commander with that half cape was boss. Too bad the show had to depict him as GI Joe's version of Starscream (but in charge! sort of) and yes, I know he was voiced by the same guy.

Deez

4 hours ago, London Kev said:

I did a quick google search, the results were not that inspiring.

 

  

  

 

This one is odd. That looks to me to be Admiral Ackbar. 

11 hours ago, Simmsy said:

Tom Brady isn't in his prime, he's just jerking everyone off for attention. If you want to stay, stay. If you want to go, go. I'm sick of this Favre/Rodgers bull****.

By 98 Mike was not in his prime, he was just starting from a much higher position and so could still dominate. Like Brady.

He probably met with Glazers to actually ask if he could go to his childhood team and when they said no they said give us one more year and we'll re-tool.

Imagine telling Michael Jordan to go away in 97 or 98. Football fans are weird man. 

32 minutes ago, skinzplay said:

On Watson, the grand jury saw it for exactly what it has been: a play-it-in-the-media shakedown, just as I said here from the outset. People in Texas are well aware of Buzbee's antics. He was his own worst enemy here, and Hardin doesn't play around.

will this cause people to rethink another case (or this one) of "oh it's too many for it not to be true" case that was fairly well known in the last few years?

Unlikely.

14 minutes ago, PlayAction said:

BPA in the draft is probably not another QB.  There is no need to use a first-round pick on the available QBs if the QBs would be 3rd round picks in any other draft year.  I don't think the Skins/Team/Commanders have been one QB away from a Superbowl in Snyder's entire tenure.  Except the first year when he inherited the roster!  They should continue to build the roster using BPA and wise trades of excess until they can find the elusive franchise QB. 

 

The Commander's roster IMO isn't as good as the most competitive teams - and I mean almost across the board not just at the QB position.  It's important to upgrade the OL, both in free agency for immediate benefit, and in the draft for the long-term.  We don't want Wentz to be taking a lot of hits and he has an injury history (some his own fault). It seems every vet QB suffers a career ending injury here.      

We would have at least gone to SB in 2005 if Gibbs stopped playing Brunell whose knee was injured late in season. Or if Brunell were healthy (as in we were a qb away) 

11 minutes ago, Hitman#21 said:

???

sorry, when I started typing the last post was about Malik Willis so I didn't quote it in my reply to SoCalSkins.

Also, a bit distracted but my point is---I don't want some fake and I don't trust the situation and SCS is correct to worry about an RG3 type ego.

Yeah, run don't walk away from him. Last thing we need is another phony. At least when a guy puts in time at a soup kitchen he actually has to spend time there. A lot of people are much more fake than you'd want to contemplate but this is too far.

what a wasted pick. Could have had Adrian Peterson (I know we had Portis, so what, Peterson was a truly great back with more years ahead.)

20 hours ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said:

My experience is the opposite.

Not only is this your experience, this is the experience of just about every human being alive. Time speeds by. However, I will say---that is if you don't have children.

What I've noted is that with children, the new memories, growth, repetition, and fatigue (at least early) your weeks pass by at breakneck speed but your months are so filled that reflecting back on when he first crawled or walked seems like an age ago.  So you're both right but Dark Acre better have kids or something is wrong with his perception. Or he got that Ben Button disease or sumthin.

and unrelated (to this post)

Chase Dung. Heh.

Man,  I totally forgot Hankerson existed.  Good for him.