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I don't know how much difference it would make in the end when you don't have a QB that can make basic throws. On one play late in the game, Warren looked at Loveland, who was breaking open, looked away, got pressured and tried to go back to him once he was covered. If he'd just make the initial throw it's 1st down. Not really his fault - he just doesn't see the field.

LOL - they get the ball back with all the momentum and the O lays an egg with Warren missing a wide open throw to cap a three and out.

at least in '84 they started with a QB and only ended up in a bad situation because of injury.

should have just run the TD play again for the conversion. Throwing the ball with this offense has to be your last option.

He made such a poor throw on the last screen that it cost the receiver a step and half having to reach for it and the play got very little. All Warren has is an arm (hardware), the vision, anticipation, processing are not there (no software).

and Loveland was wide open on the flea flicker but Warren didn't get the ball off until the Defense had had time to close and then didn't make a very good throw anyway.

Warren it terrible, Orji is terrible. M has had some marginal QB play over the years but this is about the lowest point I can remember since maybe Ricky Leach with a broken wing.

and such bad use of the portal. At the least they should have sent Orji into it.....

well, this game against IU is certainly generating intense interest........ The scoring opens with Michgan settling for 3 after being 1st and goal on the 6 and then fumbling the ball for 20yd loss. Indiana quickly drives the field to go 7-3.

They might be able to work something out where the Rays play in the Tarpons stadium and the Tarpons play some at USF (3K capacity) to resolve conflicts. My guess is that MLB will exhaust every possibility to keep the games somewhere in the Tampa area.

energy - got to more loose pucks. I didn't see the 1st, but by the 2nd the Wings were pretty out of sync. The whole team was having trouble finding the touch on their passing -- a lot of missed passes and passes jumping sticks. Maybe they were keyed up to play Toronto, or as as noted previously, maybe some help from a poor ice sheet last night. Leafs generally had more energy - got to more loose pucks -- but that said giving up two goals to the Leafs is not a bad defensive effort, they just couldn't do anything with the puck themselves. Not to mention they gave up the game winner on a TMMOTI penalty - which is always inexcusable.

You can certainly engineer a structure with various levels of fault tolerance, but I think it would have been unusual for them to have designed interior drainage into a covered stadium. There are good questions out there for the failure analysis though: Did the roof fail at less than the design performance? If not, is FLA going to institute higher wind tolerance stds? If it did, what did they get wrong in the materials or construction?

well that was absurd. Wings don't pull Talbot when they had control, then give up the empty netter before Talbot even gets to the bench on on sloppy play by Seider. Wings were a step behind the leafs the whole 3rd.

IDK, nobody can make a pass tonight - but the Leafs aren't doing much better. Pretty choppy play

puck bouncing all over the place - bad ice maybe?

IDK, but at a minimum the CSA army wasn't defending their home turf at Gettysburg.

At one point there was a report that Parker still talks to him everyday. I hope that's true. "I developed a condition that prevents me from playing baseball but allows me an otherwise fairly normal life" is a lot better than "I developed a condition that continues to get worse and will destroy my normal life." I don't know that anyone has ever said which he's dealing with, which is their right of course......

And the Met have a zillion bucks coming off the books this off-season.

Petry is just sad to watch. He knows what to do but just fails. He sets up on a guy, the guy goes right past him, he goes into the corner, the other player comes out with the puck, he tries to pass, it doesn't get there, he's near the man in front of the net, the man makes the play anyway. I can understand why a coach likes him, the instincts are there, but at some point execution has to matter.

Yield curve sill looks goofy.

Haven't focused that much on Gus's individual play, but so far he and Johansson look to me to be doing better than Petry and Chairot. I am liking the way Edvinsson can just smother rushing wingers.

LOL - I had one employer once where you had to navigate a fairly arcane website to get to your paycheck statement and once you got there it was a locked PDF you could look at but not download! This was back in the day when there was no "print to PDF" option in any browser. if you didn't have a license to the full version of Adobe Acrobat with Distiller ($$$) on your computer you just had to print and file a hard copy.

Maybe not so high tech. I'd start with the Dems finding a left handed version of Rush LImbaugh to sit on low tech afternoon AM radio and pull tradesman away from RW talk radio.

The one perfectly valid tactical criticism of the Biden admin is that they could have revised the criteria for asylum from the get go and that would have cut down the flow a great deal - maybe defused the issue by 2024, but they would not do it because it's a hot bottom for the left side of the party. A choice was made to keep the party together on the issue if possible. That is another reason the GOP was willing to see the bill go down to defeat and the Dems wanted the bill so badly - it would have given the admin cover with the left for tightening the asylum process - which they eventually had to do anyway. Those are just some reality checks for how policy evolved. Did any of it make a difference Tuesday? Who knows? The exit polls I saw weren't rating immigration as that high on the list, but it's possible R voters who were willing to believe illegal crossings were down believed if the Dems won they'd relax it again. But again, looking at the numbers the problem wasn't that the Dems didn't reach GOP voters, it's that they didn't reach their own, so I don't know if spending a lot of time post morteming about how the Dems didn't reach GOP voters answers the most important of the Dem's problems. Or you take an alternate line and say that to win the Dems need to jettison a portion of the Obama/Biden electorate that is too unreliable or too sexist and recruit ex-repubs to replace them. That would mean trying to become more a center than center left party. The party was in that space once under Bill Clinton, but whether today's Dems have a positive or negative view of Bill, most Dems reject his GOP-lite policy approaches, so not so easy.

If immigration numbers drop way off or they start deporting people in an already tight labor market where workers have leverage, attempting that should be interesting. OTOH, if Trump's tariffs cause a recession and unemployment, employers will be golden.....