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You’re making it worse

This post started strong but boy it fell off quickly.

No. Also, Pilut is hurt.

None of them have been healthy scratched, for clarification. Berglund was banged up, per Housley.

My feelings about this season have been significantly softened by the fact that I work at 3 a.m. so I haven't watched a second of the last two games.

Possibly. We’ll see if he can deliver a championship. Also, it’d be more like McDavid going to like Washington in five years.

Ignoring the lame shade LeBron’s play was a higher degree of difficulty (and then he went and finished and and-one with a lot of contact immediately after. McDavid really is on a LeBron trajectory in his own sport, though. Not sure McDavid can quite reach GOAT status.

I don’t think it was. Thought it was at first but I believe McDavid. This is like last year when LeBron dribbled begins his back between a player’s legs. He never intended for the move to go that far but it just happened

Mittelstadt has been playing well. He hit two posts in the Colorado game off high-flying plays where he blew by the defense. If he pots those his outlook, and maybe the entire team’s, is different. I am almost always production over everything, though, so if the drought goes on for a while it becomes a bigger concern. Okposo looks much better but still isn’t producing. Production over everything also means I feel good about the team sitting at 3-3-0.

To be clear, he said he won’t need surgery at this point. He also said he won’t prognosticate but only went as far as saying “there’s a chance” he returns this season. With how long it sounds like he’s out for they need to sign a second free agent and cut Peterman. No

I feel SO different about Botterill compared to Beane/McDermott. A lot of that probably has to do with the luck of Dahlin but overall he’s done a nice job transitioning from last year to this year. The added talent should eventually produce more. If it doesn’t it falls more on Housley for me because in no realm is Jeff Skinner not a damn good player. Same for Dahlin. Berglund and Sobotka are still definite improvements to the bottom six and, so far, Hutton looks like an upgrade. O’Reilly is the only useful subtracted talent. Thompson and Hutton failing could be knocks against Botterill as could the lack of changes on defense if it doesn’t improve some more/Pilut or others in Rochester don’t come in and help.

At this point I think this door has closed unfortunately. Across the league. He’s been out of it for a while. Not to mention what he’s said about Buffalo’s vile treatment of him (among other racist moments they had shirts with bullseyes on his head).

This team needs almost literally everything. Wherever you end up, sit there and take the best player available that isn’t a safety or running back. If it’s Ed Oliver or the like that’s fine. You mentioned trading down if they get a top three pick which I couldn’t disagree with more. This team is mostly talentless. Take the top talent when you get a chance to get it. Teams that trade out don’t often end up with much to show for it. I don’t think Bosa will be the BPA at that point.

This team probably just got slightly better from a talent standpoint. Might be a bigger mental challenge. The analysis of what this shows about them is what I’m interested in. They are lost.

Allen struggles with short throws but the deep ball might be his worst throw despite being led to believe otherwise predraft.

What’s debatable about the list (other than who the contenders are, I guess)? I think the list is a pretty factual and straightforward. The analysis of said list is certainly debatable.

Contending teams and their running backs: Kansas City Chiefs - Kareem Hunt (3rd round) Los Angeles Rams - Todd Gurley (1st round) New England Patriots - Sony Michel (1st round) Los Angeles Chargers - Melvin Gordon (1st rounder) New Orleans Saints - Alvin Kamari (3rd round) Jacksonville Jaguars - Leonard Fournette (1st round) Minnesota Vikings - Dalvin Cook (2nd round; Latavius Murray free agent/6th round) Green Bay Packers - RB by committee (none earlier than 4th round) Only real theme is first three rounds and a need for great production from RBs except for the two NFC North teams. The Packers have failed for years largely due to defense and their inability to get balance from their offense. My view is you need a damn good running back in today’s NFL but you can get them in rounds two and three as often as one. Offensive lines are more important and mostly a necessity. You only jump for one in the first if you’re confident they’re “elite.” It also seems as though running backs are having a revival.

I think this is something everyone would agree with and most said in the off-season. This roster isn’t a finished product. Certainly doesn’t mean the sky-is-falling-even-though-we-won posts are warranted. If they’re floating around a playoff spot at the deadline it could get very fun watching them potentially pursue more scorers. I don’t think they will spend a ton if that’s the case (nor should they) but the low-cost buys could be fun. If they do want to get heavily involved with someone, maybe with some term left, at the deadline then they can compete with anyone with the two extra firsts they’ve got. I also think once the defense has more time to gel and get used to finding guys in stride instead of hitting stationary spots the scoring will improve.

There are legit times he’s so smooth that I think he’s doing it wrong because I’ve seen bad skating in those jerseys for so long now.

I don’t think the culture in the NFL is all that bad when compared to other sports. There are WAY more players in the NFL compared to the other major leagues in this country so you’re bound to have more bad apples but the percentage likely isn’t that far off from the norm. There are also incredible role models in and around the NFL. JJ Watt, Colin Kaepernick, Larry Fitzgerald, Curtis Martin, Drew Brees, Warrick Dunn and others are borderline ideal role models. Those were named that came up just as I typed without stopping and I could list 20 more off the top of my head.

Please explain

Listened to McDermott’s presser this morning. He may not have known what the play call was but his reaction when Peterman got to the sideline after the first interception was apparently telling him that checkdowns and short out routes weren’t going to help in that situation with zero timeouts. There’s a few issues there. The game was tied so they just needed a field goal so those types of throws DO help if you’re not completely incompetent. Also... maybe if you didn’t mismanage the timeouts then you’d be fine. The fake fourth down where they burned a timeout was brutal. It’s a common move but everyone watching knew they weren’t going for it. Just take the five yard penalty and punt or just punt in the first place.

“Problem No. 2: NHL’s stats database currently features completely inaccurate/randomly generated numbers for team-level shot statistics.” this was the crux of what I was getting at but I recall multiple articles on the subject that expand on how bad this was. It appeared as though they legit came up with numbers that had zero hold on reality. Still drunk.