1984Echoes

If the question is: Can he win a game or two if necessary to keep us in the playoff picture or even win a playoff game... There's no way to answer that until this team has better talent. If we have a defense that can keep playoff-level teams to less than 20 points, and Boyle can score 21+ points against a playoff caliber defense, even if it doesn't look pretty, then yes. But, we're not at that point yet, where we can actually answer that question.... Everyone else above covered the other issues surrounding the backup QB...

On Jupiter? I'm good with that.

You're speaking to a real He-Man... so you need to speak in the same language. Otherwise, He-Man is not capable of understanding advanced language. I find speaking in Neanderthal usually does the trick: "Me big man. Me tough man. Me throw 60-pound rocks all day. Me tough man. You woman crybaby from stitch wound? Not tough man. Crybaby woman. Boohoo. Stitch wound and cry. Not tough man like me."

San Jose Sharks, 17-15-1, 8-8-0 AWAY ESPN+ 1/4 7:30 PM Detroit Red Wings, 15-15-3, 11-5-2 HOME

So.... Archie Bunker is full of shit? Yet again?

Actually it was right wing terrorists (Boogaloo and Proud Boys) DISGUISED as BLM that caused the violence. Again... White Trash Bigots causing murder and mayhem in the U.S. and you are COMPLETELY SILENT on that...

The only terrorists in the United States are White Trash Bigots who like to gun down kids and Democracy with their AR-15's.

On a related note... New Orleans rumor is that they'd trade their 1st rounder this year for a 3rd guy to pair up with Zion & Brandon Ingram... A) Would they take Grant and have Ingram-Grant-Williamson at SG-SF-PF? B) Grant to New Orleans for Satoransky-Jaxson Hayes and their 2022 1st rounder... who says no? Lastly, if they did say yes... and we end up with #2 and #6 (just as an example)... we're talking one of Banchero/ Jabari Smith paired with Kendall Brown or Jalen Duren. 2022 = Hayes-Cunningham-Bey-J Smith-J Duren with Stewart off the bench as 1st big man. OR: 2022 = Hayes-Cunningham-K Brown-J Smith-Stewart with Bey coming off the bench as 6th man. Is this better than 2021 lineup? Anyone interested in either of these 2022 lineups? Wanna trade Grant for NO's 2022 1st rounder? Most Importantly... Does N.O. say yes?

Yeah... Worst case scenario... I get it... With the biggest possible percent... But I know you take the pessimistic angle on all things so I'm going to go my usual opposite: Super-Duper Sunny-side Optimistic take and hope we can get a Top-2 pick (prefer #1) out of this year, with Banchero at the top of the list and the #2 option Jabari Smith. Holmgren is the Booby Prize. Please no Holmgren...

What are draft parameters? Finish worst = can fall no further than 4th? And 2nd worst finish = can fall no further than 5th? On that basis... yeah, they're on that track... (#5 pick or better... not going to stick to buddha's "worst-case scenario" plan...)

Empty netter seals the deal... Red Wings lose... no need to check the box score any more...

Complacent from watching Michigan complete and total futility?

MF'ing CRIMINALS. FASCISTS. BENEDICT ARNOLD MF'ing TRAITORS to the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES, to AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, and to the UNITED STATES of AMERICA. And there's a LONG LIST of those who fit that definition.

They look futile (UM). Maybe I'll look at their game too during commercials but... There's a desperate need for a quick turnaround in the 2nd half; otherwise nothing but futility is showing up in this game so... Like another dropped pass.

Yeah... I'm going to watch Midway at 10 PM instead. I don't have ESPN+ yet so I'll just check the Wings boxscore every now and then... The Wolverines got... nothing. Another sack against 'em...

I'm watching Georgia-Michigan and... the Wolverines again look like they don't belong on the same field... Wings are leading 1-0 in the middle of the 2nd period...

Didn't Michigan AVERAGE a temperature of -40 wind chill factor for the entire month of January... in 1981 or 1982 I think? Or am I misremembering my youth...?

And both Brown and Hockenson have more yards than Golladay this year...

Nor stressing out about it either. Let the team grow. Let the kids make their way. Let them go through their growing pains. Let Miggy walk into the sunset. Let Avila find a big bat to replace him... Like a fine wine... the team will get better and better over the next several seasons...

And they don't have to all be HOF'ers. I'm not certain if ATF wants All-Stars at every position... But we're not the Yankees or Dodgers. We won in 1984 with Lance Parrish, Tom Brookens, Howard Johnson, Larry Herndon, Dave Bergman & Darrell Evans, with a collective OPS+ of about 100. About 5 out of 9 offensive positions. Our 4 top offensive players that year were Trammell & Whitaker, Gibson & Lemon. Average 135 OPS+. Replace our 3 weakest positions in 2021 with Baez, Tork & Greene, and you have almost the same dynamic. Although I feel more comfortable with that in 2023 than in 2022... And there may still be more bats added, although I don't think Avila is in a rush to do so this year, we can always add more next offseason, and... Avila did say it might be a multi-year process... Yeah, I believe him. In 2023 we get Jake Rogers back, maybe Dingler is breaking into MLB, I think Miggy will be "retired" and replaced with a nice bat.... If ATF wants another top-tier bat, 2022 off-season is the place to be... I think 2022 will be a "making strides" and "growing pains" year (for all the kids), and 2023 coalesces much more around a highly competitive chase after the World Series. If we make the playoffs in 2022 I will count us as being lucky and everything falling into place like we hope it will... But I'm not counting on it just yet...

Is H Diallo turning into something? He has the opportunity and minutes right now... If so: 1) What is he turning into exactly? 2) When do we trade Josh Jackson.? Err... how soon can we get him out of Detroit? That's what I meant... 3) For that matter, same with Cory Joseph? I know we get nothing for either one of those guys... just asking for a friend...

Washington Capitals, 19-6-7, 9-3-3 AWAY ESPN+ 12/31 7:30 PM Detroit Red Wings, 15-13-3, 11-3-2 HOME

Nobody thinks he's the QB of the future. Find a quote ANYWHERE that says he's the QB of the future. The only quotes you will find, and I'm ready to guarantee this, is that he can "hold the fort" for the next year or two until we find our QB of the future, or similar. "He's a stopgap", "He can hold the fort for another year or two", "We can wait until 2023 to draft a QB since this year's class sucks and Goff can get us by until then...". Find me something different than the above. I don't think you can.

I prefer Kansas City's method of building a team and then drafting Patrick Mahomes rather than the... Cleveland Browns method of drafting: 2005, 3-67 Charlie Frye 2007, 1-22 Brady Quinn 2010, 3-85 Colt McCoy 2012, 1-22 Brandon Weeden 2014, 1-22 Johnny Manziel 2017, 2-52 DeShone Kizer 2018, 1-1 Baker Mayfield I have a better idea: Let's pick the CORRECT QB rather than taking a QB just for the fuck of it.

What he said...