velocet

Yes, as the thread title says, a new start!   

velocet

For some reason I'm getting an error message from foxsportsgo that I'm not subscribed even though I am and streaming has worked up till now.

Ok I know it is against board rules to yell in a post but I feel I must:

THANK YOU FS#21 YOU SAVED THE DAY!

One episode of Peaky Blinders in and thanks for the heads up, Duckus.   

22 hours ago, Califan007 said:

 

 I do get the logic behind the coaches' decisions and actions.

Right, because...

3 hours ago, ThomasTomasz said:

That is why they drafted Corey Coleman with a first rounder this year and people thought it was a reach......they wanted to establish the deep pass threat. 

which in turn answers the question...

On 8/13/2016 at 8:34 AM, justice98 said:

  They dont watch the film? 

Must have been when examining tape before the Browns even signed him they were all "that arm tho'".   

Teams run vanilla plays during the preseason as we all know for reasons we understand but I think coach and coordinator wanted that awesome 49 yard pass against the Packers in the first preseason game on film for the benefit of this season's opponents.   If there is any credible deep passing game it means defenses have that much more real estate to account for, and they hate when the O gets something behind them.   This obviously benefits the running game when the opposition's D can't regularly commit more numbers in the box.  

 If Rob, Pep and Hue can all get on the same page with each other about the system they run,  Rob can get functional about reading blitzes and stay healthy  I'd be tempted to say they have a shot to make some noise this season.  I can't really try to say that until  I learn more about their defense.

1 hour ago, Califan007 said:

 

And one set of coaches apparently thinks he CAN play.

Yeah, about that... it's been a while since watching RGIII play but doesn't he have a top quality throwing arm?  Of the stretch-the-field variety?  I'm thinking Hue Jackson and Pep Hamilton realize the pass-happy nature of the league, hence the 142 receivers and a cannon arm to get it to 'em are what they're going for.

And a settled starter at QB means desperately needed reps  are regularly apportioned properly.   I say "desperately" because the team needs to build chemistry and they're way behind their division rivals in that regard. 

What can I say?  I'm amped!

 Hue Jackson as the new head coach has a lot on his plate.   He had to make this move.  RGIII is still a name and at this point the benefit of doubt given him as a result of change of scenery is in play.   He'll get people watching, which is kind of one of the goals of the league and its partners.   Not much else to say  about a rebuilding org.   

 Coach Jackson may actually get something done in Cleveland.   I didn't make a study of his one year stint as head coach of the Raiders but I did see a couple-few games and my eye-test impression was that his team had some more competitive fight and fire than comparable Raiders teams of that immediate era.

No, just that we would be more menacing without them.

Be as in the ontological state or we talking appearance here? I"m sure I was clear.   And yes, school bus safety coloring detracts from that.  

But like I said, I'm not generally that pressed about the damn rags.   I'm fine with most of the combos we've seen over the years.  White and burgundy either in some jersey/pants ordering or all white or all burgundy.  I'm fine with a lot. 

Including

Yeah I know. The Packers and the Steelers have never done anything in them.

 

 

Never made a claim that the banana-fabulous pants directly translates to wins or losses.  

I'm sure we'll have our McDonald's uniform as usual this year.

I hear you.  Wasn't there a story last year where some players and even Mr. Snyder were looking for a break from the eyesore clown get-up and Allen was all "NO!"

For the longest time I gave very little thought to the uniform.  What I did consider was stuff like the fact that our team wore a white jersey at home,  and because most opponents had home jerseys that were not white our team may have had some nice psychological continuity because they wore the same arrangement nearly every game. At least during Gibbs I.  

Frankly I'd rather not give sartorial matters more thought than that.  But like you say Ronald McDonald owns Bruce Allen's "mind" and more to the point there is a "we're badass and we're gonna kick YOUR ass"  element to the game of NFL football and who the **** is brutal and menacing in bright yellow pants?

Extremeskins Rules + Moderator Discretion are of utmost importance and as such I'll just encapsulate anything I have to say further about Allen by way of characterizing it as just pure refined absolute invective, and not actually type it. 

This show called Stranger Things on Netflix is decent so far.  Takes place in 83, seems to be an homage to 80's thriller movies and creepy stuff.  

I still have to get around to Peaky Blinders but thanks for  a heads up on what I could follow up with.  Netflix has a first month free deal and that flew by but frankly I've gotten my money's worth (one month charge so far)  from Orange is the New Black and Trailer Park Boys.   Eight bucks and two awesome binges.   How much did Blockbuster et al use to charge for one movie for like two nights?

Get out and get some fresh air dammit.

You're right of course but TV is so much better these days.   Say in the '80s and '90s I would have never sat around and watched as much as I have in the last few years.   Right around the turn of the century, partly caused by and certainly coinciding with the Sopranos, TV offerings have gotten REAL good.  There was a time when this video:

was relevant.   What is different is that now a good show will get you thinking.   The medium is starting to realize a potential I never envisioned.

If youre not watching Mr. Robot you're doing TV wrong

Thanks for the reminder.  Seriously I've been bingeing a lot & haven't watched any live tv in a while plus outside of Mr. Robot I don't watch USA.

Peaky Blinders - Netflix original. There are 3 seasons,  6 episodes a season, 1 hr each. My wife and I have crushed the first two in a week.

 

The Wire but 1920s British industrial gangsters. Good sound track. 

aaaaaaaaaand the hits just keep coming.   I signed up for Netflix because of Taze's thread about Orange is the New Black,  looked around for just a little for what else might be there and got no further  than Trailer Park Boys.   In the middle of season 7 of that now so thanks for the heads up about what sounds good for the next thing.   

Look y'all, the football jonesing has really been miserable this off season because I'm so damn anxious to see how the 'Skins are gonna follow up  a little success in the midst of a division where all three division foes are shaky at best going in.

So when I'm too bleary eyed to keep reading these diversions y'all have been dropping knowledge about have hit the spot.

Also watched The Night Of. First episode was thoroughly riveting and made me want to come back again.

Yeah I enjoyed the first episode, though I wish there was more John Torturro.

The promos for that looked intriguing.  Thanks for the micro-reviews y'all.  I'll check it out.

Here's a random thought related to football:

With the current roster that we have now (draft picks/free agents included), would we have been able to beat the packers in the wild card game, and if so, how far would we have made it? Or would our current roster not have made much of a difference in the outcome of the playoff game?

I'd like to have seen what would have happened in the Wild Card game if the 'Skins had been healthy going in.    Let's just imagine the team composed of all or close to all of the roster on paper we began the season with.   And they played together all season and got chemistry with each other and the coaches.  Our team started that game off strong.  Full strength 'Skins could very well have finished it that way.

I'll never forget this from Real Time with Bill Maher:

Anyways, as for something to watch, trailer park boys is amazing and my favorite comedy show ever. Ricky and bubbles own my soul.

Yeah I just binged my way through the first 3 seasons.  

Ricky for President!   

Football withdrawal at it's peak right now, which is usual for this time of year.  What is different about this year's jonesing is THAT THE 'SKINS WON THE DIVISION LAST YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our team is going to take the field in September as reigning Division Champs and the team got improved over the offseason and ...

 sorry had to let it out.   DAMN this is agonizing and yet awesome at the same time, cuz see I'm dying for my fix but this time I KNOW the upcoming dose is gonna be GOOOOOOOD.

I cannot believe I'm agreeing with conservatives (again), but it sounds like the EU is totally undemocratic. Hard to blame the Brits for insisting on their sovereignty.

You may have majored in philosophy.  

Side effects include but are not limited to having thoughts beyond narrow ideologically constricted programming.

>you seem a fan of the fella you're named after  though it looks to me that you disagree with Socrates and his trusty stenographer Aristocles about democracy... and yet you cannot believe...?   True justified belief?  You should know your own head better'n most, navel gazer  

I think you're doing just fine.  Sure you're mostly biased in favor of the self-interests (not all of 'em YOUR precise self-interests)  you champion, but there is a good measure of sub specie aeternitatis that I discern in your writing overall that is only possible where a solid  practiced objectivity obtains. 

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The first I heard of this referendum was a tangential reference in an article about some fights between Russian and UK soccer fans in France recently.    

Hey maybe the fallout from it all can be chronicled in a new reality tv series.   Working title:  Boris'll Brexit.

Nerd!

Well then they are checking the finds of the mine and excavating or some **** and the lightsaber is part of the material they dig up.

It can happen

NO he just said after that that the tibanna merely effervesces from the planet and the Cloud city just passively collects it thru shafts.

Codeorama said there's a quiz on Tuesday so get it straight and no, you can't copy just because you like to imitate the guy in your av the night before tests while cramming.

 Lobot, speaking of Cloud city:

is always online thanks to that implant.  Dude would be fun at  parties what with the ability to do google searches  with his mind instantly.   An  "Ask Lobot" drinking game would have everyone sloshed but quick.

gr.hq.of.bS, 

Since you're so interested in mining and probably other forms of harvesting and dredging perhaps this Bespin career recruitment video is the thing for you!

Hat tip to youngchew for the penny dreadful recommendation earlier in the thread.  Recently finished the binge and got caught up (going for the double entendre there).

velocet

There are a bunch of space ship comparison charts on the interwebz for those who haven't seen 'em, like this:

 :

Dunno if this is all good and to scale, but here's one of those whole charts superimposed on the Death Star

Seriously, this movie looks like it could be spectacular. 

I'm psyched.   This Star Wars iteration has the potential to be the true  fourth film of the series.

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