carpandean

Given the rules of the lottery at the time, tanking for last got you two things: 1) The highest chance of drafting the truly generational player, McD, at 20% (i.e., 4:1 against getting him.) 2) Worst-case scenario of a likely elite-level talent center in Jack. If the only worthwhile prize was McDavid, then they were setting yourself up for disappointment, as it was still very unlikely to happen, even finishing last. Either player should have been a major benefit, which along with the acquired draft capital if properly managed, should have put them in a good position. As others have said, there needed to be a patient and effective drafting and development process, later supplemented by key trades, to see that through. They got none of that.

I thought that was going to be the Titans game this year. Clearly, it did not have that effect. Hope you're right about this one.

Watched the game on delay. Damn, that was the most frustrating loss that I've ever seen. The defense was more than fine against a pretty poor opposing offense. Still should have been able win it despite a terrible offensive performance. They just needed one single drive like they've put up four or five of almost every game to win it outright, or even just a halfway decent one to tie it, but between penalties, poor o-line protection and Josh brain-fart storm, sadly that was too much to ask for.

And how could they? The next time the two teams make a deal, they show what the deal would have been without the 'future considerations' part? Unless there's a line on the fax form for what those amounted to in the deal, it's just a theoretical concept.

Who? 😝

I haven't seen that much wagging since ...

Anyone else having issues watching the game? I have Hulu and can go to the game about four different ways therein. However, as soon as I click it to start, it boots me out to the Roku home page. Even tried the ol' system reboot trick. No joy.

Yeah, I always had too (and still loosely do), but technically it seems that's incorrect. Like I said, "western New York State" and "Western New York" are two different things. We certainly are in the western 1/3 (1/4?) of the state, so it's hard to argue with the former as a characterization of where we live.

I generally consider myself to be from western NY, as in the portion of the state that is near its western end. However, the Western NY region officially ends west of Rochester. We fall in the Finger Lakes region. There is inconsistency about which people are using - wNY or WNY - so it's hardly set in stone. For example, try using BC/BS of WNY in Rochester; it will just lead to confusion and errors.

I answered 'WNY Outside of Buffalo' even though Rochester is technically not in WNY. Didn't want to get lumped in with places like Albany and NYC.

Good game. Crap ending.

So, wait, we're not trading for Zach Ertz?

Couldn't we put their good halves together and make one healthy player?

Undefeated so far ... keep it going!

One thing that made watching the game more difficult and the win more satisfying was that Mahomes was literally in 3/4 of the commercials.

Just bumped in to 11:00, at the earliest.

Yeah, I didn't see it as showboating as it happened or upon review. To me, is wasn't a perfect in-stride reception (as you said, either under-thrown or bad angle), and he was trying to figure out where the DB was.

Wait ... no flag? 🙄 Nice throw Josh.

I was watching a show about some very fancy (and expensive) trains in Europe that can handle all of the countries' different electrical systems. There was an error on the brakes, so the operator literally did just that. The narrator/host even said something like, "just like you would with your home computer."

Even if they are in that division, it becomes a question of do we mean literally a team that in on the bubble to make it into the playoffs, regardless of the way, or more of on the bubble of being a true "playoff caliber" team? Someone in that division has to be the former, by definition, but nobody in that division is the latter.

After losing to Pittsburgh, I never would have guessed that we'd be a game up on KC after three.

Maybe he meant Quinn ...

I was at an event for a lot of the game, so I mostly watched the scoreboard. Got home and read how Josh wasn't great. My first thought was exactly this ^^.

-Axl Rose, November 7, 1991

😁 Serious side note: when did the ER become the ED? I had started hearing other people using that recently. Then, when I had reason to go to urgent care and then the ER/ED, both the doc at urgent care and the NP at my PCP's office said "go to the ED." I looked down at my zipper and then said, "oh, the Emergency Department!" BTW, searching for "Strong ED" did not give me what I was looking either. (For those not in Rochester, Strong Memorial is a local hospital.)