carpandean

People who have unusual nicknames generally don't just decide one day that they want everyone to call them that. More often, people start calling them that for some reason, and then they decide they're good with it. There have been plenty of people who have called him Chris on the show, and never once has he corrected them.

As discussed in another thread, with Ulmark in net, they have 5 wins and 6 losses. Not a winning record. They have 12 points in 11 GP, which is more than 1 pt/GP. However, that's an 89 pt per 82 GP pace, which is below playoff pace. Your starter should be notably above playoff pace to just make it in, since you expect your backup to perform a little worse. Linus has played well and might be an OK (not great) starter if the team in front of him improved.

The first first thing Kevyn needs to change: "It hasn't been good enough."

So, in games with their starting goaltender, they're below playoff pace (12 Pts in 11 GP = 89 Pts in 82 GP pace), and you think that's good enough? Wouldn't you expect your backup to be below your starter, so your starter would have to be well above playoff pace just to get in? Carter Hutton may be a problem, but that doesn't mean that he is the problem.

The bad mojo has to stem from losing on purpose for Eichel, right? So ... and hear me out on this ... we should try to win on purpose! Crazy, I know. At this point, winning would just hurt our inevitable lottery odds, so actually trying to do it should appease the Gods.

He's young in NHL years. 🙃

Actually, it might simplify it ... no chance is simpler than slim chance. 😶

At its peak, yes. Back of the end zone? Still probably out of reach, but not 15' up.

Catchable is a judgement call. It was a little high, but Evens is tall and can jump. Either way, it looked like contact was initiated before the ball came out and was more than 5-yards downfield, so it could have at least been defensive holding. That still would have given them first-and-goal (albeit at about the 7-yard-line, not the 1-yard-line.)

I was sort of in between on them. The Chiefs' defensive backs get away with a lot of clutching and grabbing, more of which should have been called in the Bills game. I was glad to see some of them get called in the SB. However, some were questionable. The one in the video, though, from where the back judge was, absolutely would have looked like Mathieu grabbed onto Evens. Someone from another angle might have disagreed.

If you knew that it would have meant losing to Brady, would you have still wanted to the Bills to go to the SB? That would have been the cruelest of ironies.

Will everyone get down on Andy Reid for settling for a field goal there like they did on McDermott? Edit: I know that the Bills were in the red zone, but I'm thinking more about the "down by 15 against an offense that you can't stop" part.

Off to a great (sarcastic) start with an overprocessed National Anthem. 😖

Daboll named AP NFL Assistant Coach of the Year. Still surprised that he will be back next year.

There were a lot of reasons that they moved on. Their running game was not that high on the list. We out-rushed them in that game. And, when KC needed to close out their game against the Browns, they did it with a Chad Henne 13-yard run and a 4th-down pass play to a wide receiver, both with formerly-undrafted-free-agent Williams in the backfield (CEH was out with injury.)

Yeah, the more likely TE option available is Pat "Baby Gronk" Freiermuth.

Sheesh. He didn't, by any chance, have a staph infection, did he?

And part of the reason that JA was mediocre was that at least three (Beasley, Davis and Brown) of his receivers were gimpy. I would have traded a minor case of turf toe for Josh to have those three running full speed.

And the Bills would be much more than just the top-tier tight end should they add one. Allen, Diggs, Beasley, even Davis when healthy are weapons that they have. It's above having that option that can get you 7, 8, 9 yards any time you need it, and some big plays when you really need it. Nobody is saying that all any team needs is an elite tight end to win. That would be a silly statement. What we're saying is that adding a dominant TE to what the Bills have would push the offense to the next level. We have a QB who is Elite (at least, he showed it at times this season) and two All Pro receivers. TE is big a threat that they don't have. Of course, there are other things that they need, including on defense. If I'm ranking them, though, TE is one that I have near the top (again, given what we already have in place.)

Offsetting?!! Wow, that rule is broken.

How do the announcers not understand that 16 is only "two scores" if you make two 2-point conversions?

I was actually thinking that they need to make acquiring a top-tier tight end a priority. They've got great wide receivers, but need that one more top-tier target. They don't need much of running game, then.

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