293 is a really weird bowling score.
Only way is to start with 11 strikes and then get a 3 on the last ball, right?
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So close to perfection - choke on the last ball. Kinda like going 14-2 and NFL MVP then one and done in the playoffs.
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Zach Wilson one is real I think.
Like Ivan Drago if Ivan was into woodworking and making react videos about drinking scotch.
Some years back one of my friends mentioned that he heard an announcer say that a certain football player was âa pro bowlerâ and he thought that was a weird combination of talents.
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Is Flores live for a head coaching spot? Seems like Dolphins did ok with him there. I remember even their 5-11 first season was better than many people expected given they were traidng everyone.
https://twitter.com/mlombardiNFL/status/1480624755837337601
This was always going to happen when a coach started going for it in all the spots the 4th down bots like. They could run great and win games, and it will be totally ignored until that bad run. Then the punditerati will descend like flies on shit.
Iâd be mad about it if the Chargers werenât in my division, with a great QB, and therefore I want to see their souls crushed.
I had the misfortune of hearing local SoCal sportsradio for fifteen minutes today.
I almost called in. I was frothing and I would have been dumped in thirty seconds when I call them out for how they are not competent enough to have an opinion because they havenât done the work. These pieces of shit are so lazy, they havenât done the bare minimum of investigation to examine any of this stuff. They were simultaneously blasting Staley for his 4th down adventures and also blasting McVay for running it three times leaving Jimmy G ninety seconds to go eighty yards-- I suspect McVay was correct too, though Iâm not sure. What I can tell you is that if the Rams had thrown an incompletion, McVay would be lampooned a la Staley.
Whatâs really upsetting is that the entire punditry class on any subject is like this. It doesnât really matter that these people are setting horrific opinions about sports. But theyâre also doing it about important subjects like capitalism, tax rates, incarceration. Just simple, stupid groupthink victims whose main virtue is their willingness to toe the company line.
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Lombardi is a fucking idiot and Staley didnât do anything wrong in the game. The Chargersâ run defense just canât stop anybody. They get a third-down stop instead of giving up a 10-yard carry in a situation where everyone whoâs ever even heard of football knows the Raiders are running, theyâre in the playoffs.
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Good time to remember some of Mike Lombardiâs greatest hits:
(Worth reading to see just how dumb his analysis is, but the short version is he blasts Cam Newton, Donovan McNabb, and Robert Griffin III, mostly either with the benefit of hindsight or in a completely inaccurate fashion, usually a combination of the two)
https://twitter.com/TrillBroDude/status/1480635703751065603
Starting to see a pattern! At least he has a more specific reason for why he didnât like Dwayne Haskins:
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I think it is fair to question this particular play call, running Ekeler in the B gap against this front. Iâm not smart enough to know if this is a good look for that play.
Some of that fault could lie with Herbert. Always wonder what else QBs can check to (if that is a not great look - again maybe itâs what LA wanted).
When the Chargers were on Hard Knocks, they did a brief bit about Austin Ekeler jumping over piles. Didnât really get a chance here, but I remember in the last Chiefs game, they didnât really give him an opportunity to do that.
Those are the only two in that class with Super Bowl rings. Chessmate!
(Edit: missed Tyrod Taylor)
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I guess we can give Lombardi some credit if his goal is to identify guys whose career peak will be âTom Bradyâs backup.â
Surprising to me - this is only the 5th time Gronkowski has gone above 800 yards receiving in a regular season. Kelceâs done it 8 times.
Yeah, surprised me too at first, but he did it in most of the seasons he was reasonably healthy. Heâs missed a ton of time over the years and played hurt a lot of the time otherwise. His four 1000-yard seasons with New England were, after his rookie year, the only four where he played at least 14 games.
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The craziest nfl stat ever is mike Lombardi working an nfl front office.
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Is there some rule where if your last name is Lombardi you are given a significant position by birthright? Itâs the only reason I can think of for Joe Lombardi being an offensive coordinator.
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Also thatâs more like 1.5 yards, which may make a big difference.
Giants GM is actually one of the better ones, they are patient, I mean four years before nudging gettleman out the door.
Oh sure youâre doomed in year 1 but maybe you can do something after that.
Pace lasted 7 in chicago, like all GMâs he had some nice hits (quinn/hicks/arob as FAâs), trading picks for mack, some late rounders hit) and some real wtfâs and some what the hell are you doing even at the time. Okay quite a few of those latter ones.
I wouldnât have kept Judge either but giants gonna giants.
or baalke in jax. or a lot of people who did not get fired
Flores getting fired a bit of a surprise since Miami did not lose to New England for once.
Also for a few years he shared playing time with another elite TE.
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