That Aud Smell

I’m at a point where I mostly feel bad for the guy. The tide started to turn when Tim Graham implied that Harrington is basically the fat kid on the playground among the region’s sportswriters - ostracized and mocked by his peers.

Perfect player for a good situational fit. And I like Z and Dahlin getting A’s.

I don’t, and agreed I wouldn’t.

At 9:30 local time!

In a neat irony: It makes for mediocre board content.

Some pedantic sh1thousery going on up in har. And somehow I haven’t involved myself. 🤪

They're gonna need a body or bodies, at a minimum. Is Kumerow playing? I dunno. I'm inferring (and trusting) that the coaches have watched Austin closely and concluded that he can't do much for them, for whatever reason. Is he a guy who lost a step after some lower body injuries? A shame, if so. OTOH, it makes my butthole pucker up to think about a rookie fielding punts.

I saw a Canes blogger describe their roster last night as populated by "fringe roster players."

dang - for $300 you could forego the uppers and buy a good quality 8-ball.

Whither Hodgins? (Sp?)

I enjoyed and respect this post, even though I don't agree much with it. In bygone days and just by way of example, players reported to camp out of shape and Mogilny chain smoked filterless Camels at the bar of the old Macaroni Company. They were just such different times. It seems to me that the professionalization of the game, and especially of the players' bodies/health/fitness, is a function of market forces. As the amount of money at stake went up and up, the approach to getting that money responded in kind.

I think that a lot too ... OTOH Agree with this. When Mahomes threw that one TD last night, early in the game (before I fell asleep) - I just laughed out loud. That guy is unreal. They are both phenomenal, as is Lamar. Great report - Go Bills!

This Bills team has guts. Go Bills.

I’m gonna honk this song here. Incredible piece of art based on the real life last words of a fascinating guy:

Ha. I appreciate this separate reply. I bat about 50/50 with getting your jokes. They’re so meta. I’m not sure I follow here, and that’s okay. Go Bills. @PASabreFan : HA! Yes!! Got it now.

And as a fan of the Bills and, ugh, of the NFL, I’m a party to it. It’s essentially a blood sport. And I’m there in the coliseum.

The NFL’s concussion protocol has long struck me as a joke and a sham — Tua’s situation being an extreme example. It is SOP for a concussed player to be discussed as being in a race of sorts to play the following week. In the NFL, recovery from a concussion is uniformly treated as something that occurs in a matter of days. It’s a farce. But the NFL is such a juggernaut of a business that no one, afaik, is saying the emperor has no clothes (or that he still has headaches). OTOH, there’s a slight possibility that NFL players are in such phenomenal shape and get such phenomenal care (like, drugs normies can’t get) that they routinely bounce back from concussions in a few days. E.g., Ryan Bates this week. But colour me skeptical. NFL players typically return to normal football activities 2-3 days after being concussed. In settings where there aren’t billions of dollars at stake, players are generally held out of competitive play for at least a week after having been concussed. As Roger Ebert said with his dying words: It’s all an elaborate hoax.

Stellar was probably too strong. OTOH: Eh.

It's all that other window dressing that seemed to suggest (imply) McDaniel would be different when it came that sort of stuff.

In his short and so far stellar career as an NFL HC, Mike McDaniel seemed to be blazing a brand new trail -- he's quirky, weirdly funny, candid in a rare and peculiar way, intensely brilliant, a vanguard of analytics. And then, with his role in this Tua concussion debacle, he reveals himself to be of a piece with the oldest of old school dinosaurs - ready and willing to treat his players like livestock.

I swear I've seen that movie 10+ times - but I do not remember that scene. And yikes - the "outcast" section of the party is a bit that ... did not age particularly well? Or maybe it can be spun in such a way that the butt of the joke is Marmalard and Omega, not the ethnic minorities and the disabled guy. Anyway. Most comedy - even a lot of great comedy - has a shelf life.

Case in point as to why this board is capable of providing better analysis than most media outlets that cover the team.

It seems like you're likening the two announcers based on more than the fact that they both have/had straightforward approaches to calling the action. I can't get down with that. Ted was iconic. He's in the HHOF. Dan thus far has been serviceable.

I appreciate PA’s kindness toward Dan, but let’s pump the brakes on the Ted Darling comparisons. Unless the only point is that neither Ted nor Dan are standalone entertainers, which, fine. That’s true. Also, as for trademark calls, the joke in middle school was that the best Sabres player was some guy named Shootsie — seemed like he was always scoring.

It's not true, imo. It's truthy, maybe. I find it misleading. "Narrative" is suffering from overuse. But it's often the best word for the job.