OldSchoolSnapper

Walker too. His drafting wasn't all that bad. He was a sentimental guy though and signed players long-term based on them being good people and his relationships with them.

Not only were they winning under Sherman, they were not winning before he arrived. They went 8-8 under Rhodes and 9-7 in Sherman's first year. I remember very clearly at the time that they appeared to be a franchise in an obvious decline that was not going to be real competitive in the near future. The aforementioned demise of his career also isn't exactly accurate. -The Texans offense improved a lot with him as the OC -The Aggies won a division title and Tannehill was a pretty decent WR before making the switch -He went back to the NFL in Miami before going to coach a bad HS team, so his reputation hadn't really spiraled downward. -This all occurred over a very long period of time. I don't think Mike Sherman is a great NFL coach, but I have always felt and still feel that he got an extremely bad shake from the fans and continues to get one, solely because Brett Favre was blameless for most of his entire career and it reached a peak at right about that time. Their mistake was letting him be a GM. But he was not even close to their worst HC.

I just have not seen any level of dominance from anyone that would suggest one conference is clearly better than the other so I find the comment sort of odd. There is no '96 Packers in the league right now. Tampa, Green Bay, Arizona, Seattle, heck, the Bears and LAR have looked good. I don't think the 49ers are inconsistent. They have been struggling to stay afloat with a skeleton crew.

He is a workhorse that got as many as 40 attempts in a game at BC but they were routinely pushing him into the high 20s and 30s. He needs a lot of work. He's not the type of back you use to spell and give 5 random carries to, the problem is that's often what you have to be first to get a shot in the NFL.

Who are the top 3? The Steelers look good, but take a look at those wins. It doesn't get much worse. The Broncos, Giants, Texans, Eagles. They get the Bengals twice and the NFC East. They are a top team, but I don't think that 6-0 is representative of the gap between them and everyone else. The Chiefs have looked mortal already with the Raiders, and I assume the Titans are the other? I know their record doesn't say it, but hard for me to say SF isn't a top 3 NFC team and one that could beat any of those AFC teams. I don't think Tampa has the elite QB play to go far in the playoffs, despite drubbing the Packers. The defense is good. I'm still out on the Packers; I just can't tell if they're the same old version of themselves or not. I'm concerned too much offense runs through Adams, and the defense is so inconsistent. Seattle is the only one I think I have a good pulse on; they CAN beat anyone, but they're going to have to score near 40 to do it. They are also the most capable of giving up 40 to a crappy team and getting beat.

Atlanta is just unbelievable.

Offense is not their problem. That won't save his job when they go 3-13. Five games into this and players are leaking stories to the media about how inept the staff is.

They gave away the best WR in football for a washed up RB and that's just the easily visible mismanagement.

Mike McCarthy might be an OC for a mid-major in 2 years.

I forgot Dean Lowry was on the Packers until that play at the goal line.

The Packers signed a guy that punched his kid's mom in the face. They knew this when they signed him. Packer People meant what it always has. If you're a borderline player your off-field issues matter. If you clearly belong on an NFL roster, then they don't care.

I've seen this a lot and it just isn't quite right. The risks aren't the same for all people engaging in activity. A young, healthy couple in their 30s living alone on 5 acres in Mukwonago could probably fly to Disney World this weekend and endanger nobody. Once you get past the initial "OMG traveling" aspect and think about it there is just not much about it that's terribly risky. You could probably make the case that staying home and visiting 6 stores over the weekend is riskier. A high school teacher getting drunk with 3 friends at poker night is probably worse. The risk profile of every household is different. If you are just acting normally right now and diabetic grandpa lives in the spare bedroom then you are stupid. There are all kind of variables that make these "everyone should be doing this" policies ill-fitting. And they'll never be adhered to anyway. I have believed for some time that the problem isn't that nobody is taking this seriously. It's that there's huge imbalance among who should and shouldn't. You have low-risk profile people doing all the right stuff and people who really need to be following protocol following none of it.

The majority of cases would be contracted at home since that is where all the close contact is. I don't know many families that get flu/cold and not have it run through the house but I understand someone has to bring it in. But the other issue I have with that is figuring out how it got there. If I got sick tomorrow I would not know where to begin if forced to backtrack 2 weeks. I am highly skeptical of contact tracing data though. There are huge swaths of people not bothering with it at all who will never be accounted for, people lying to the tracers, people withholding information because they did something bad, people spreading it around at routine places without knowing they were sick. I have a hard time wrapping my head around how sloppy this entire effort has been but then putting stock into something so incredibly hard to reliably track like that. It's the single part of this that has most felt like busy ants to me, like an illusion that we're "doing something" without it really achieving much at all.

Not sure, but Washington/Dodge were ground zero for a little bit and nothing was closed. It has less to do with infection rates and more to do with who's in charge.

I really don't understand how there can continue to be a lack of understanding that this has far, far less about people going out and putting themselves at risk by choosing to go to bars as it does the fact that they go to those bars and then go to work, go to church, etc. and literally spread the virus to people who aren't choosing to engage in that risky behavior. That is literally nothing like someone choosing to drink themselves to death or over eating. It's astounding that 7+ months into this thing, there are still so many people who don't get that. I have sympathy for people who have no choice but to, I don't know the word, cross-pollinate with every group of people, like cashiers, teachers, etc. But for people not in those lines of work it would seem really easy to mitigate your risks if you're really that worried about it. If you have a bunch of health problems, are in a risk group, or are just a nervous person, a lot of the onus is on you. This is something that doesn't really get mentioned much, but how many of the dead made risky choices? There are an awful lot of weddings going on and a lot of questionable people attending them. Bars, restaurants, going to Ace without a mask, breathing on the help there, etc. I mean my own Dad is 70, a diabetic, and really has not come within 10 feet of a person for 8 months about 95% of the time. I see a lot of folks who are in the crosshairs of who this is killing just being really sloppy about things. I guess my point is that this whole campaign sort of implies that everyone who contracted this and died was due to someone else being irresponsible when in a bunch of cases it was them. If we are talking about something as mundane as wearing a mask, people need to just do it. But hypothetically, if the government announced tonight they've got a vaccine set for distribution on November 20, 2021, do we really expect people to avoid bars and airplanes for another year? I just can't get behind shaming people who want to go out for a burger or visiting a beach. Some people are naturally inclined toward more of a homebody lifestyle and those are the people, at least in my circle, doing most of the "shaming." Their lifestyle has been minimally disrupted so they can't comprehend why anybody would struggle with this. I'm kind of in the middle. 8 months into this with no end in sight, I just can't judge anybody for doing what they need to do to be happy. But I think you can do that without being reckless. And unfortunately a bunch of people ARE being reckless, even defiant in some cases to make some point about freedom.

What's really disturbing is that schmucks like me were saying this on page one days before the game. It was a very obvious thing. Now, they got 25 of those yards on one play and I think 20 on another. But there shouldn't have been any lateral runs on that defense.

I'm not necessarily afraid of the Bears but it has happened before where they beat us once (or zero times) and still beat us out for the division. That's all it takes to make a path to the Super Bowl a lot harder.

Not that just that, but we dropped a common game with the Bears.

I'm not sure what people expected to happen once the decision was made to open schools and and employers (many months ago) generally stopped telling people they didn't have to come in. If you need money and your kids aren't dying they are going to go to school in about 90% of circumstances. School should not have opened if that was a major concern. It's not like it's much better to have grandma come watch them. I doubt she wants to anyway. I think it's much more likely every school administrator knew this, and listened to the advice that more closures would have severe consequences and little benefit. I haven't read a lot of evidence that mass spread is occurring at school. I'm sure that some is, but there is spread going on all over the place and I don't think closing school would have us any better off right now. That doesn't do anything for parties and weddings and all the other problems. I needn't look beyond my own community for a high school history teacher that was humming along fine until contracting it at a wedding at the beginning of this month. Not a great look for him. This is all to say that at this point, after we failed the first line of defense way back in February, I think this thing is just going to do what it does. Spotty closing of this thing, but not this other thing, isn't going to do anything at all.

I am wondering how my son's first grade class hasn't been shut down when I know for a fact that one of the kids is out because both her parents tested positive after going to a wedding. The dad is a teacher at the local high school. I assume the child also has it but even if not, I don't know how the "cohort" hasn't been shut down. She must have tested negative? But there is no way the school doesn't know this. The blame for sick kids showing up at school rests with employers collectively and not parents. Nobody that can't afford it is going to tell their boss they're not coming in for at least 2 weeks and likely longer because their kid has COVID. Especially if that kid is coughing and otherwise fine. There is just no way that somebody one paycheck from the street is going to do that. We can easily say 'people should have some money saved' but it doesn't help us now, because they don't, whatever the reason may be. I think this is one of the reasons the US did much worse than other first-world countries.

In a different sport, yes, in the NBA, maybe, but very, very likely not. What it will most likely do is get you something good enough to go in purgatory and be a 7 seed or picking 12th overall. I know Giannis wasn't a top pick, but that isn't how it usually goes down. The NBA is structured in such a way that the worst thing to be is mediocre with established players. You either want to be a top 5 team or a bottom 5 team. The Cavs won a title by blowing it up when LeBron left and getting Kyrie for when he came back, and getting Love for Wiggins. I think what trading Giannis would achieve is this: Mediocrity and throwing crap at the wall and stretching that out for a decade of cap hell when the best thing to do would be to just absolutely suck and try to start over.

I think they miss Lazard, I think he is a big loss. I think they would have lost 38-10 with him on the field yesterday.

I don't think that's a mistake. I would rather have them try one more time and lose in the ECF again than trade him. They're not going to get comparable value in any trade. He is a once in a lifetime player. I'd keep him for his swan song 100/100 times. I accept the risk that he walks for zip, but that's me. I've got no interest in rebuilding to win 44 games.

Dude, no. Lol. Not at all. This isn't that serious. It really IS about a guy who spent 3 years talking about how he was done with the NFL, hates kneeling, Kap is stupid, keep politics out of sports...and then suddenly popped out of a hole to call himself a diehard fan since 1977. I don't actually believe for one second that you can't see why you look ridiculous here. You were loud and proud about being done with the NFL, as recently as last month. You just apparently have no ability to laugh at yourself. You keep saying this but always come back.

Just to be clear, though, even though this is 'where you are at', it doesn't mean that it's the correct/socially responsible place to be. Let's call a spade a spade- people are indeed sick of the restrictions, and a lot are making choices that are directly causing the spike we're seeing right now. Yes and no. If you are tossing your hat in the air and going out to the bar like the old days, sure. If you are holding and attending weddings where everyone dances and gets drunk, sure. Refuse to wear a mask just because you're sick of it? Yes. Trick or treat? Playing soccer at the park? Meh. There has to be some middle ground. Everyone lock down and watch Netflix isn't a feasible plan for 8 months. I don't have any numbers on this, but weddings seem to be an enormous culprit, which is frustrating because there is absolutely nothing urgent about holding a wedding. It can be done any time. But nearly everyone I know personally who got this has traced it back to a wedding.