unclevlad

Doesn't count. Texans are inept across the board. They're pretty clearly a strong contender for the #1 pick...altho Detroit has the inside track right now. Well they should; it's been their DNA, despite a burst of respectability from 11-17. 7 seasons of 4 wins or less in this millenium. Texans, Panthers, Lions, I'll throw the Broncos in there because I think the defense won't hold up and have no reason to believe the offense can step up, not 7 games in. Oh, and just to make Mr. P's day...at least 2 sites are suggesting Denver as a big-time seller before the trade deadline, particularly as they've got a lot of UFAs, including Bradley Chubb...and I wouldn't hold out hope they'll stick. In part because the org traded Miller last year. They have 18 total UFAs from the current active roster...that projects to be a lot of turnover.

And Harper in the 8th. Didn't much care between em, but I'd rather have had the Padres, if only for virtually no weather risk. Rain in Philly for much of the game, and the game in NY's been delayed over an hour already. I'm basically assuming the Yankees are gone...as are the NY fans. Report was, tickets that went for $200 on the secondary market, dropped to $28 since they're down 3-0. That was before the weather issues.

To a degree...yes, probably so. Refocused, at least. But one has to be somewhat careful...they've beaten the incompetent Broncos and no-defense Lions in a shootout. Broncos...when are people gonna start ranking them properly? They're BAD, but CBS had em as high as 23. Lions, OTOH, were 31 this week. They've beaten a Cards team that may be weeks away from a coaching change, and were #24 this week. They do get credit for this one today. But they've also lost to the Falcons and Saints. So.....who knows? Bills. Chiefs, altho their defense is somewhat suspect at times. Eagles. These are the 3 front-runners, and IMO better than even money one of em will win the SB, barring injuries. Giants have grit, I don't think they'll be an easy out. Dallas, good gosh, who really knows? Jets...I don't think they're there yet. Vikes? I cannot trust Cousins. And THEIR wins are VERY suspect...Detroit, Saints, Bears, and Miami w/o Tua. The opening win against GB is looking shakier all the time too.

Not surprisingly, the Bronco offense was nonexistent after a bit of early activity. In 7 games, they've now gone over 16 points *once*.

Side note #2. Every team in the NFC South is below .500.

Or the Broncos. Amusing side note on the ESPN scoreboard. McCaffrey is the leading rusher for the Niners right now, 2 carries for 19 yards. His pic is in a BLUE uniform. OOPS!!!

Giants are playing old school. 79 yards mostly on the ground...Daniel Jones had a couple NICE scrambles, Barkley hammered for a bunch...to take the lead. Shut down the Jags. Get the ball with 4 1/2 minutes, run, run, run, run, run...moving the ball 50 yards, burn the clock and the Jags' time outs. They burn it all the way down to a minute...the refs said Barkley didn't go down in bounds quite right, he went OB before giving himself up. Debatable, and meaningful...gave Jags an extra 40 seconds on the clock before going for the FG. Bucs? Brady has no running game. At all. They had 2 running plays for 9 and 11...but otherwise, the backs had 12 carries for 23 yards. 16 total rushes, 50 pass plays. Toooooo many big plays...Carolina had 343 yards but only 14 first downs, which means chunk plays. Is it Brady and age, or poor line, or poor receivers? Dunno. Oh my, there's #2. WASHINGTON (!!!) over Green Bay. Story here looks to be the GB defense...Washington ran 72 plays to GB's 46. Wash went 7-16 on 3rd down. ToP was 37-23. Yardage was 364-220. Oh...there's another reason. GB 0-6 on 3rd downs. One of the GB scores was defensive, a pick-6. So issues across the board for the Pack. The last minute of Giants-Jags is taking FOREVER. Giants are getting called for flag after flag after flag, extending the Jags' drive...to the point where they've made it to the red zone with 20 seconds left. Giants kinda ESCAPE!!! at the end...pass complete to a receiver at the 1....but he's hit by multiple defenders and held out. Clock runs out. Giants win 23-17. Not terribly clean or pretty, especially at the end, but they're 6-1.....

Pretty good game, it's the one I'm getting from Fox. Infinitely better than the CBS game. PANTHERS (!!!) are up 14 in the Bucs, end of 3. Bucs are in the red zone, but they're showing nothing on the ground, so...who knows. Bucs have NO balance whatsoever, 41 passes to 14 rushes. Some other potential upsets teasing me..... EDIT: oh my. I shoulda bought lottery tickets... Bucs get down to 1st and goal at the 8. 3 short passes all fall incomplete; they settle for a semi-pointless field goal at 14-3, but I'd argue the play calls before this. THEN, the Bucs' defense gives up 75 yards in 7 plays, including 2 of 20+. THAT has been the story, along with the Bucs' terrible offense. Carolina has 3 TDs, all based on gouge plays...21, 23, and 20 yards on the first drive, 60 then 17 for the TD on consecutive plays, then this one. It's 21-3, and Carolina has the ball. Just running clock. Got it close to midfield, they'll have to punt, but they burned about 4 minutes. Pretty much over...

NMSU was scheduled to play tonight but the game was postponed. They were to play San Jose State here, but a freshman running back at SJSU was hit and killed in a traffic accident Friday morning. He was 18.

If TCU can't come back against K-State...down 11 at halftime at home...that'll mean the #7, #8, and #9 teams lose. Oregon was #10, they'll clearly rise to #7...but that still suggests the big separation is between the top 6 (OSU, MIch, Tenn, Clemson, Georgia, Bama) and the rest is potentially...pretty big. I put Bama with the top group because a) they're Bama, and b) if they can win out, they reach the SEC title game. Win that, and we'll have both Georgia and Bama in the playoffs. We can't have that in the Big 10. Michigan and OSU are in the same division...so they'll play each other, and only one of em can make the conference title game. OK, so TCU came back...I left this hanging. Oops. But again, I think they need help, beyond winning out. Elsewhere, Colorado returned to title form, getting chewed up by the Beavers 42-9.

That's OK, we'll just let you watch the UCLA-Oregon game again..........

Yankee bats turn to sawdust again. 8th inning says it. Reliever starting the inning walks the 7 and 8 hitters...gets the #9 hitter. Rizzo comes up, tho, 2 on, 1 out, down 5. Line drive to 2nd...easy. COULD have been dropped to try for a double play, it was close, but that'd be risky. 2 outs, Judge up. Swings at a ball well inside, squibs one to 3rd. Easy out. Threat over. Flip side: top 2nd, 2 out. Lazy fly ball in right-center. Bader in center, Judge in right converge. Bader's calling for it. They don't quite collide, but in football...Judge woulda been flagged for pass interference. Ball clanks of Bader's glove. Next guy up...homer. 2-0. Yankee stadium homer...JUST into the short porch in right. Top 6th, Astros load bases, then get a sac fly and a single that, with good base running, gives em 2 more runs. Yankees get 2 empty singles in the 9th, or they'd have been 1-hit. 5-0 Astros. And 3-0 in the series. Factoid: the Yankees have not led at the end of a single inning in this series.

I wouldn't call them pro-spam. They don't believe anything they send can be spam, because, well, it's from them!!! Spam is in the eye of the recipient, tho. That's something they will never understand. This is likely just another angle to their election-steal BS, and fodder for their whole, long-term anti-tech, anti-lib, anti....so many things...rants.

Oh, I get it. There was method to Oregon's madness. That color combination is bear-repelling.... Working quite well, I'd say...

Hades is Lawful Evil. That color combo is Chaotic Evil.

Please. We HAD that discussion, not all that long ago. Let's not repeat it.

Yeah, I saw the score, decided there wasn't much point in looking at the drives/possessions. Brewing QB controversy at Clemson? Uiagelelei (hereinafter referred to as DJU) was leading them nowhere. 21-10 midway through the 3rd, Syracuse, and Clemson had 4 TOs...some of which were QB mistakes. Backup comes in and moves them for 2 TDs, plus a nice throw for the 2 point conversion on the 2nd, after a 5 yard penalty set it back. Suddenly it's 24-21 Clemson, trying to keep their playoff hopes alive.

Mmm...is Kansas returning to form? Baylor 28-10 end of 3, altho Kansas has the ball and nearing the red zone. Mismatch of the year, perhaps? Tennessee led UT-Martin 52-7. At halftime.

There's a chance this'll be a trap game for the Jets. Another bad team...they've beaten Cleveland, Pitt, and Miami w/o Tua, all damaged teams. Yes, they beat the Pack too, last week...but with the Pats *next* week too, this is just setting up as a big time trap game. FiveThirtyEight gives them < 40% chance to make the playoffs...lower than either NE or Miami.

OK, yeah, Tunneling would work for the "pass through overgrown areas" aspect...but it would likely be expensive. You need Fill In, and IPE. FIll In is +10. How much of a movement rate do you want? Tunneling is its own movement rate. Vegetative barriers aren't that likely to have high PD, but wood suggests, what, 3-4? So... Tunneling --base 3 points --+5 meters (gets you to 6 meters, half normal rate): 5 --+3 PD: 6 --Fill in: +10 24 so far. IPE...Tunneling is Obvious. Do we want Inobvious, or Invisible? I think we can just say Sight is the only sense we need to address. If Invis, then it's +1/2, and we're at 36. So that ain't cheap any more. Wanna move at full speed? Raising to 12m would add 6 more, so now we're at 30 before IPE. Oh, and here's the kicker. I remember we went over this before, but per RAW, 6E1 310, Tunneling cannot be used to escape an Entangle.

The one aspect of this that may be positive is that they're exposing their goals and objectives openly. Makes it somewhat easier to counter. The negative is, he thinks there's enough support so he can say it openly.....

Just noted on the ESPN news crawl... WIlson's ruled out for tomorrow. Now I gotta root for the Broncos to win.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

But this wasn't a criminal proceeding, it was an evidentiary hearing. Standards of evidence are less; opportunities for rebuttal/refutation are more limited, I believe. The converse of "less likely" would put heavy brakes onto the proceedings. I think this is generally analogous to getting a temporary restraining order...if you can't even get one of those, then you've got NOOOO chance in a trial, even a civil one.

That would be an interesting question: most touches by a RB over the last, say, 3 years combined. If we just say 20 touches would be pretty high use, and certainly heavily involved in the offense, then 3 full years would be 980. Single-season? Last year, 3 backs topped that mark. Najee Harris (Steelers), Jonathan Taylor (Colts), and Joe Mixon (Bengals). (from StatMuse) Derrick Henry had that level in '19 and '20...and them played in only 8 games in '21. That's the point of the 3 year span: wear and tear. The current active rushing yards leader is Mark Ingram, with just over 8000 in 12 seasons. He's played in 153 games, and missed 30...so, 1 out of every 6. And his workload only approached 20 touches per game in 2014; for the last several years, it's been about 12-15. And here's McCaffrey: https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/player/christian-mccaffrey-26328/career-stats 2018, just over 20 touches. 2019, a bit over 25 touches. 2020...first 3 games, 25 touches, then BOOM. '21, 19 touches a game for 7 games, then BOOM. Running backs aren't valued because they don't last, because it's likely *relatively* easier to teach, and because there's a decent stream of em in most draft years. So, yes, the question of how much McCaffrey can actually contribute is definitely wide open.