lmao at the team reviewed the vaccination cards
you just got them and said all good and didn’t look and we all know it
Wasn’t Rodgers basically breaking every protocol required for unvaxxed players at every point?
Don’t worry about it. Now that I’m an owner, we’ve got that shit locked down.
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Rodgers was reported to be following every protocol within the Packers facility. They made him wear a wristband denoting unvaxxed status, so he couldn’t get away with anything in the places where the team was actively policing the unvaxxed.
I’m sending that old 22 post you made with the x-rated anime character to WaPo.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Jessica Garrapolo - water, oxygen 
They would all require at least the full case
To sleep with me
1/2 case for Roethlisberger
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Seems the era of Bills dominance came and passed pretty quickly. If they lose to Tampa next week NE is in a prime position to win the AFC east again after what? One year of absence?
Yeah has to be pretty deflating for bills fans. Seems like things were poised for a major power shift in that unwinnable division.
Patriots never went to 4 Super Bowls in a row though!
I am trying to come up with corporate sponsors for all the NFL TEAMS while keeping their mascot.
A few thoughts:
Budweiser Bears
United Van Line Packers
Michigan Militia Patriots
NFL Football Team
I probably posted this before but I watched the Bills 30 for 30 with Mrs Cooler. After the Wide Right Super Bowl scenes, she was like “oh wow, that sucks so much for them, they must feel awful” (or something similar). I couldn’t help but chuckle and go “but wait, there’s more”. I was very entertained watching her reactions to the next three losses.
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I actually attended the last two bills super bowl losses in person.
In fact we were trying to prank call the bills players the night before to throw them off their game.
I listened to the Athletic NFL podcast this morning, Robert Mays had former KC Right Tackle Mitchell Schwartz on, and Schwartz had an interesting little monologue on how some QBs set up their O Linemen to succeed, how sacks are a QB stat. I typed it up because I hadn’t really ever heard an OLineman talk about this before. The starting context was they asked Schwartz who his current best olineman was at each spot. He had Lane Johnson and Ramczyk as the top two RT and then talked about Wirfs:
Schwartz: Wirfs is doing an amazing job at RT for Tampa. I’m going to be a hater and be a little bit skeptical of what he looks like without Tom Brady. You know, I still think it’s All Pro level and I still think it’s great, but having that QB to help you out and get rid of the ball and pocket movement is very static and it’s predictable. And you don’t have to block for more than 8 yards for the most part.
Mays: Could you imagine having played with Tom Brady at any point in your career?
Schwartz: I remember when I was younger I would watch, I think it was Sebastien Vollmer was the RT at the time, he would take one pass set, he would turn 90 degrees to the right, and he would just push guys up the field. And I was like, “This doesn’t make any sense.” And then they like gave him an extension, and I was like “That’s getting rewarded? This looks terrible.” And he was a good player, he did the job, he blocked his guy, all that stuff. But I was like “Man that just looks so easy” and then they got Marcus Cannon and kind of the same thing, I think he was a little better version of it. It just seemed so obvious that it was easier to block for (Brady). It was the same for Peyton Manning as well, especially when he got to Denver they had guys playing RT that weren’t very good players but I remember watching - take two pass sets, or take two kicks in your pass set, and watch the guy run full speed into you and block him. It was as easy as that because the rushers knew they couldn’t rush up the field because it just wouldn’t matter. I remember thinking, the trust and the confidence that those tackles had taking their pass set and settling and knowing that was the right spot and knowing the guy had to run through them to get to the quarterback. I was just like “Man, I wish I could get that.”
I think every sack you can assign a % blame of QB vs. O-Line. Sometimes there’s a missed assignment and someone goes unblocked, or the tackle just gets his ankles broke by an elite move, and the QB has almost no chance.
On the QB side it’s not just getting the ball out quickly, but like he said, knowing how to position yourself in the pocket to give the line the best chance of holding their blocks. Watching Goff play this year has just been maddening. So often when he does have to move, instead of stepping up, he tries to backdoor his way out of the pocket. Despite Detroit having two great tackles in Taylor Decker (pro-bowl LT) and Penei Sewell (having a phenomenal rookie year at RT) Goff keeps moving in such a way that these guys either have to commit a hold or just let him get creamed. His pocket presence is really bad and it leads to a lot of sacks where a better QB is going to either step up or get rid of the ball.
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https://twitter.com/KurtBenkert/status/1460696483284533249
https://twitter.com/packers/status/1468324439045586947
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Being an NFL roster bubble/PS player has to be pretty brutal. Sure, you’re making a living wage, but it could disappear at any second, and it’s not like it’s not like the skills translate to other careers. And the career hit rate of guys who start off that way is pretty low. For every player who eventually signs a 7 to 8 figure deal, there’s probably 20 who maybe suit up for a game or 2, spend a couple years being kicked around the league in various capacities before ultimately being done.
Owner / Player is something that needed to come back.
The CTE makes you forget.
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