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1 minute ago, GoDeep81 said:

Don't look now, but Chase Young had a pretty good game! Hope he continues to be a factor and the D can get going before the 30 minute mark next time. Some good, some bad, 35 points and a dub, I'll take it! 

And he's probably not even in true game shape yet. 

He'll be convicted in two... but he'll never see a minute of prison time.

9 minutes ago, RandyHolt said:

You could see it in preseason and on Sunday. We can't run the ball.

 

Did we switch run schemes? It seems last year we ran a mix of power / zone but it seems more power now.

 

My complaint is that we didn't run it enough. I also don't think we have a "break one off" type RB on the roster. Robinson is tough and Gibson is crafty, but neither one of them are going to juke or escape defenders and take it to the house... or even for 30 yards. That's not going to happen. When we run the ball, we're trying to control clock and wear down defenses. You have to run the ball 35+ times to do that. 

Are we being too hard on the o-line and the entire offense? Here's my semi-worthless take:

It's a brand new scheme, folks. These things take time. We all know that in preseason teams go "vanilla," so it's not like we were running the exact plays that EB has installed. The season opener was literally the first live trial with a new coach, a virtual rookie QB, and some new offensive line pieces. It's a complete reboot on that side of the ball. 

Week one is always a wacky week in the NFL. Good teams can look bad and bad teams can look good. Does anyone think the Steelers or Giants will spend the whole season looking like they did on Sunday? I sure don't. The Buffalo Bills and Cincinnatti Bengals looked pretty anemic this week.

The Daniel Snyder era has turned us all into kneejerk panic people and that might be justified but what we saw at FedEx on Sunday is something I expected. To assume that we'd run up the score on Arizona just because of the perception of who they are and the inflated perception of what our offense should be ALREADY was just naive. 

The offensive line will get better. They won't be "great" but they do need time to gel, as does the whole offense while adjusting to a very different plan than Scott Turner had.  It's week one, Commanders fans. We could very well lose to Denver in week 2 but we can't panic. Makes perfect sense that the offense didn't come out with a perfect grasp on everything, including and especially the o-line.

Week 1 is always a wacky week. Bad teams look good, good teams look bad. It is what it is. I'll take a win.

1. New offensive scheme that they don't use much of in pre-season games, so this was our first real live action under EB's offense. The o-line will get better... but not a lot better.

2. Sam Howell is a work in progress but he did have the best stats of all the NFCE QBs. (Thus the week 1 wackiness.)

3. Antonio Gibson. Good guy, good athlete, GOOD BYE. 

So the horse is supposed to understand it did something dangerous and dumb because she clocked it in the jaw. Copy. 

Just now, Voice_of_Reason said:

Very cutting edge stuff from Mr. Sharp here.  It's like he just woke up and realized the Chief's former OC was the Commander's OC and therefore the offense would be different.  

 

His hatred of Rivera makes him actively bad at his analysis.  It's my big issue with Sharp: he has a lot of data, but then allows personal preferences cloud the actual analysis of the data.  

 

2 other things:

1. Dude needs to call up one of the OnlyFans girls and get a lesson on how to do a web cam show.  That was some pathetic using your phone and switching the camera, low tech nonsense.  

 

2. His stache makes him hard to take seriously.  

I actually had no idea who he is. Just thought the stuff about pace and passing was interesting.

19 hours ago, China said:

 

I'm not.  I don't think Jack Smith would've brought the case if he didn't think he could win the conviction with what he has.  I'm hoping those unindicted co-conspirators are indicted separately and pay for their crimes without getting any kind of a deal.

I think the key players are being charged in the Georgia case anyway. Although I think Steve Bannon, Gym Jordan, and a few others may be co-conspirators that were on that J6 "unindicted" list and are not charged in Georgia. 

17 minutes ago, tshile said:

what?

 

whos been charged in the Jan 6th stuff? As far as I know none of the co conspirators listed on the indictment have even be charged? And it’s only 5 other people and they’re the lawyers that were running around doing it. 
 

 

I'm expecting (hoping) that the Jan6 unindicted co-conspirators are currently unindicted because they have or will roll over like the rats that they are. 

9 hours ago, Mr. Sinister said:

I've started watching Yellowjackets. One hell of a ride, so far.

SO good! Cannot wait for season 3.

For those of you who subscribe to MAX (formerly HBO max), there's a show on there called "Full Circle" starring Timothy Olyphant, Claire Danes, and Dennis Quaid. REALLY good. It's about a botched kidnapping that involves some immigrant teens from Guyana and a wealthy family's past/secrets. 

It's only 4 episodes in and I'm hooked. Highly recommend.

57 minutes ago, tshile said:

I believe it’s been pointed out on these boards that such a plea bargain would likely not be legal. 

Interesting point and thanks. The news outlets are not touching on this. 

16 hours ago, Fan since a Fetus said:

I hope I’m wrong, but justice will not prevail here. Trump won’t see a second of prison time and will not be part of any harsher punishments that I would love to see happen. I have a feeling he gets away with it all with a slap on the wrist. He will still run for president which is beyond scary. 

 

I swore loudly for 2 years to everyone around me that this DoJ would never, ever, EVER indict a former POTUS. I think I even posted that opinion here on ES about 15-20 times. Obviously I was wrong but I agree with you that Trump will never see a minute of prison time. 

The slap on the wrist that you're referring to will most likely come in the form of a plea bargain where he drops out of the presidential race and agrees to never run for office again. 

The nightmare scenario is where he's able to run out the clock on these trials, gets elected back to the White House, and pardons himself before any trials come to a verdict. 

Alll-in-all though, you're right. I just don't see true justice being done for the two most egregious crimes in presidential history. Stealing/possibly selling secret govt documents and literal, planned, open insurrection. I know the wheels of justice turn slowly but I'm still in utter shock that it's taken this long to even press charges for Jan6.

Change of ownership and look at me! Back in the Stadium forum. A little bit of hope making me see reasons to post here again.

On 7/22/2023 at 12:45 AM, The Evil Genius said:

 

St Elsewhere says hi. 

 

  Reveal hidden contents

Imagine spending 6 seasons watching a show and finding out at the very last scene that it's all in the head of an autistic child looking at a snowglobe. 

 

I was not a St. Elsewhere watcher but yeah, that's the same vibe. Total cop-out.

On 7/20/2023 at 1:21 PM, purbeast said:

Oh I watched the American Gladiators documentary on Netflix.  I liked it.  It's got a huge 90's vibe to it.  It was very interesting hearing these guys talk about the show back in the day and the things that happened.  It's only 5 episodes and the episodes are like 35-50 mins each so it goes by pretty quick.  If you liked the show, chances are you will like the documentary.

I got a little bored after the first 2 (3?) episodes so I bailed but it was cool at first to hear the actual gladiators recall their time.

21 hours ago, purbeast said:

I was pissed that they flat out said the island was not purgatory after like season 4, then it basically is in the end.

IMHO that was THE greatest betrayal of fans in TV history. The numbers? The Smoke Monster? The hidden stations? All BS because ... PURGATORY. You just can't keep an audience going like that for 5 seasons and in the final episode say, "Purgatory, folks."

On 7/12/2023 at 5:28 PM, Die Hard said:

If you like Mrs Davis…. you’d probably dig Preacher. That was pretty cool/amazing until the last 3 episodes that filled me with regret/disappointment.

Preacher was absolutely right up my alley when I started it... and for some reason I fell off of it about half way through the first season. I can't even tell you exactly why. It just didn't keep me dialed in. 

I have not heard anyone mention Mrs. Davis on Pea**** and I'm here to tell you guys that it's not only great but hilarious. It's about a nun who sets out to destroy an AI entity that's taking over the world. 

Highly recommend.

Regarding J6- Does anyone here expect to see indictments of people like Bannon or republican congressfolk like Jim Jordan? In addition to my obsession with making DJT pay for his crimes, I'd REALLY love to see some high level co-conspirators stand trial.

On 6/6/2023 at 12:34 PM, FootballZombie said:

 

You must have been on the bender to end all benders cuz that is a dangerous amount of time to lose to a blackout.

 

 

 

He did try to put up a fight tho

 

 

He couldn't avoid getting arrested tho...

 

 

 

 

OK, one of those pics is fake... the others happened a while ago.

I'm a freaking IDIOT.

27 minutes ago, Ball Security said:

Uhh, you don’t think he’ll be indicted for the Daniels hush money? 
 

I think he will. Probably 34 counts. It’ll probably happen late March/early April of 2023.

Are you being sarcastic or is that a typo? 🙂 

On 5/11/2023 at 1:03 PM, Die Hard said:

I’d recommend Station Eleven. 1 season only (miniseries) and 10 episodes. Another pandemic post-apocalyptic story… a little artsy fartsy at times…. but the story is actually pretty interesting and told well.

 

It helps if you’re familiar with Shakespeare and specifically Hamlet. But it isn’t necessary.

Station Eleven was sneaky FANTASTIC. Man, that ending tore me up. It's not for everyone but it sure was for me and I only tried it because I wanted something to nap in front of.

Admittedly, I didn't think he'd ever be arrested/indicted for anything ever and probably posted that prediction here a few times. I was wrong, obviously. However, that was a civil trial (E. Jean Carroll) so there was never any risk for him as far as being convicted or imprisoned.

I think he'll be arrested/indicted for the classified documents case and I only say that because the meeting his layers had with the DoJ makes it seem imminent. That's the "once" I voted for in the poll.

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The Stormy Daniels payment will never result in an arrest or indictment IMHO. Too long ago, too minor, too many stumbles in the progress of this case. Cohen took the hit and in the long run that's what history will settle for.

I'd say it's 50/50 regarding the Georgia election interference case but I'm skeptical. The recorded phone call with the GA Sec. of State used to make me think "slam dunk" but it's simply taken too long for Fani Willis to get this one sealed up. That call should have yielded an almost immediate arrest and would have done so for any office-holding politician that's not a POTUS. Alas, it was a POTUS and I just don't think Willis has the clout to get this one to fruition.

I don't think he'll ever be charged for January 6, 2021. It's not easy to prove that he knew the election results were legit. I also think that his Secret Service driver's refusal to take him to the Capitol that day actually saved him from future prosecution. If he'd been able to show up on those steps it would have changed everything. He'd have been in cuffs a week later.

Regarding all these cases, they'd better get moving. Once he's the candidate (and he WILL be the candidate) all prosecutorial bets will most likely dissipate like farts in the wind.

But hey- If I was wrong about the Carroll case, I'm willing (hoping) to be wrong about anything else. Even if he's charged in all these cases, MAYBE even if he's convicted in all of them, I still say this country will never, ever, ever imprison a former POTUS. Not gonna happen. 

15 minutes ago, China said:

 

He's got a Secret Service detail.  He's not going anywhere without their knowing, plus as a former president, all his international travel has to be known for security reasons.

 

You mean those guys that wiped their work phones to protect him from Jan 6 implication? Gotcha. 🙃