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Walman looks OK. Team looked like it slept through most of the 2nd period.

yeah - LA is full of people from all over and MI is well represented. My sister has been in SoCal for a long time. The neighbors are all close, they all transplants.

I hope Edwards gets healthy because I'd like to see them just start him in the I, put him in motion wide and then send him straight down the field as a WR as a regular part of the offense.

I get an email from my washer when it's time for that.... (no kidding. Had the old washer 25 yrs. Nothing prepared me for a laundry appliance that spams me!)

Perez. Lipcius. Very low K guys. P Meadows, moderately low K guy. Trend here.

LOL - well, OK, they did reduce the capacity from 100K to 91K on a recent renovation, but I'm still going to laugh at closing 20% of the seating, selling the other 80% and calling it a sell-out.

here we go

isn't there some kind of deadline in 35 min?

has M run a single screen play this season? Has to be in the play book for use against some team with more vigorous pursuit.....? The one thing they have underutilized IMO is JJ's ability to throw on the run. He is pretty fabulous delivering the ball at a flat out run. Given that it's also hard to believe all those QB R/P options into the end zone corner, which I haven't seen them run either, are not waiting in the playbook. Of course that can also be a TE play and they are down there..... On the one hand, I get the idea of sitting on stuff you don't want to show the opposition. OTOH, I don't like the idea that the first time you try to run a play is under the pressure level of on the road in your biggest rivalry game with downs at an absolute premium.

I'd agree the game plans have only tried to stretch the field just enough to keep the coverage honest, but I also think that they'd going deep more if their guys were getting open. JJ has gotten the message this season not force things and I tend to belief some of those throws are on the long side because the play is covered. It's easy for guys in the booth to say 'he should throw it short and let his receiver come back to it' because the potential INT isn't going on their stat sheet.

New hitting braintrust: Michael Brdar - from Padres James Rowson - from Marlins Keith Beauregard - from Dodgers https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2022/11/15/detroit-tigers-hire-michael-brdar-james-rowson-keith-beauregard/69626486007/

Russians just have no clue. If Poland were to do no more than send its troops into Ukraine just to man the non-combatant borders to free more Ukrainian troops for the front, Russia's already weak battlefield position would likely become completely untenable. At the other end NATO could simple close Ukrainian air space, include that over Crimea, to Russian aircraft. Game over for Russians in Sevastopol.

IDK, you don't see the film of the guys on the other side of the field to know if they were open, but in general the guys JJ was trying to hit long were not achieving separation, so if Anthony was, JJ would have been pretty remiss not to throw it his way.

I will admit his OF play improved from where it started the season, and his IF arm does buy him some saber love as an OF. But he's still a 631 OPS against RH starters. As a 6 position utility guy you could sell me, but not so much as strictly a 4th OF.

He's decent fit for long relief if they need someone there when all else is said and done. 1st time through the order in relief last season his OPS against was 639. That's looks like his best use case if they keep him.

Boo!

If the game ends with Philly inside FG range the decision to decline the penalty before Wash make the field goal won't look too good. EDIT: and a dumb roughing the passer insures it won't. LOL - and anyone with the under at 50 is PO'd!

yeah - I don't like the rule requiring teams to put all guys out long term back on the roster. I understand the abuse it's meant to stop but there are other ways just as effective and less punative to real injuries. For instance they could have said a guy who was on the 60 for 60 or more before the end of the season could stay on it. That would cover a guy like pitcher out on an unquestionably long stay like TJ (i.e. Mize). You aren't going to stash a guy that's worth anything more a few few weeks during a season just to save your 40th roster spot.

not getting much out of Suter IMHO, but he's probably too big an investment to cut his ice time .....yet.

I liked JV mostly because he was such a throwback; mostly FB/curve (esp early in his career) instead of sliders and he could challenge guys high in the zone before it was even fashionble. So all in all very old school even for 2006.

I could see Sinema. I get the impression that Dems in AZ want to primary her anyway. Manchin is a different beast. Even he switches parties, there would still be a strong chance he gets primaried by a MAGA Repub. Dem programs do help W.Va, so in a sense, being a contrary Dems gives him the potential to get the best of both worlds so to speak, and he seems to be skilled at navigating that space. I haven't followed him to any degree but he also seems like too stubborn a cus to change parties.

The exact count will be key I think. At one seat there may some kind of consensus effort. 2 seats and I would think the party in control (seems pretty sure the GOP now) probably will just try to power through.

Yeah - Detroit Sports Fan likely has more trouble 'moving on' than ex-detroit athlete originally not from here anyway.

So I had an open reel tape deck back in the day and my friends and I went through the whole deal playing everything backward and track by track. It's been so many years the memory fades but I think a big hook was that played backward you heard "Turn me on, dead man." But the air sort of went out the balloon when we played around some more and found out that any one of us could record ourselves saying "Number Nine" (I think?) and it would always sound like "Turn me on Dead man" played backwards. So that was the end of that for us......

He's just seen that George Blaha is in the next 30 yrs of his future.