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LOL - classic strawman spin rhetoric though. Set up a non-relevant or marginally relevant piece you can shoot down and call it a day.

I'm hoping Lipcius turns out the be a late bloomer/sleeper out of that draft. At the end of '21 he was probably off any list anyone wanted to make, but got better instead of disappearing - so maybe he can keep finding more untapped upside.

I suppose you could call a coffin a small cell. 🤔

I'm sure in Trump's inflated self-image religious grifting is too far down the Grift Hierachy for someone who's had so much prior success with the more upscale political girft.

Tiger stadium was basically a square field, when the Lions played there it was pretty much a mile to the the seats along either sideline. Hard to imagine that in its early days the the NFL was such a poor sister that a lot of teams played a lot years in terrible venues.

Aren't there some consent decress attached to Twitters conduct? Given his increasingly illogical behavior, the other possibiliby that I suppose has to be broached is that Twitter, now being both private, which means much less financial disclosure, and under serious financial pressure, that you have exactly the kind of situation that the Russians might have decided to drop a few billion into in order buy some Western social chaos.

reality bites.

It's a different coaching philosophy. I don't know if there is a right or wrong to it, McVay won his SB but what if he could not have dealt for Stafford? If you only want guys for your system then that is one more hurdle you've created for yourself before you can win. But if you do find those guys you might also end up looking like a genius.

It'a also not like Stafford never had a decent offensive cast around him in any of his good Det years either. In 2011 he had a HOF receiver, TE with more than 80 catches, they could run it a little (1500 yds as team) and maybe most notable for the Lions, that year the O-line more or less held together - between the 5 starters there was only one one missed start all season I think anyone would stipulate that Stafford has more arm talent than Goff, in fact more than most QBs playing, but there is more to playing QB that just that, though granted it's the most important for "wow" factor.

but no trading cards? Bah!

The last reel was mostly the light show, and light shows were a very in thing then - there was no IMAX, CGI, there were no wall sized HDTVs. That all seems quaint now, but you probably had literally never seen any of that kind of visual before if you were watching the movie in 1968. And of course, Clark and Kubrick had very different ideas about that the 'story' was, so Clark released his novella and Kubrick made his movie and any resemblance between them thematically is purely coincidental....

A football program always exists somewhere on a contiuum between two theoretical poles: one where teams draft and trade for the best general overall talent they can find and then design around the strengths of the players they have; and at the other extreme coaches who have a particular system they want to play who draft and trade for the players they think fit that system. It can be harder to get the talent you want in the second case, but *if* your system is good enough -esp if it's new and the rest of the league hasn't figured it out, it can certainly work. McVay got his QB and he did win. I suppose you could say Bill Walsh had particular system and it certainly won. Of course Patricia drafted to some kind of defensive theory and it was an abysmal failure, so it can go either way! But it would seem a natural corollary that there will be guys who end up leaving one place to have more success in another. Of course the flip side of coin is that if Goff does continue to be successful this year and through next, the Lions may not want to pay what will be needed to keep him!

'Contextualizing' should at least rate a change in lustre, or maybe even lumenescence

Nice to see you stop by!

fastball spin probably sealed the deal...

Of course we know 1st hand how bad some of the teams Stafford had to front were.

you're trading yards after 1st contact for big play potential. So it's going to depend on M's O-line push. If they can't move TCU's D-line, then the one or two yards after contact will be mucho missed trying to keep the chains moving; if they are making holes, Edwards will do as much or more damage - again, if he has both hands by then. M is pushing their luck when they have to give 25 carries to a one handed back. You wonder how TCU will try to defend, will they bring everyone up and risk the big play like OSU did or will they play straight up and hope they can still force a few punts?

With Mullins for short yardage and a healthy Edwards they won't miss Corum too much. But does Edwards have both hands back by then?

punt.

yeah - that was not a good response. You have feel for anyone in that job - you go up there never knowing what kind of land mines are out there, but she could have just said - "yes that is interesting and we are going to look into it". 20/20 hindsight of course

the thing is you have to have a theory to make sense of the data or it's just all chance correlation. If a guy plays well, then plays poorly under a new condition 'x' (McVay?) and then plays better later when condition 'x' is absent, you can't build a very persuasive case that his skills somehow degraded and then miraculously came back. I would say that with a QB you need to watch his film knowing what the play was and what his options were, did he make the right play or not. We don't have much access to that info. Then you can rate some things directly, like does he throw the ball accurately, touch, zip etc. So I would say his coaches are in a good position to rate a QB, and that position is way better than a fan can get from looking at game outcome stats, where 21 other guys on the field plus coaches all had input to what happened. If an OC says he has a QB that an do everything he needs to make his offense go, that is what you have to care about - a lot more than QBR. That said, Goff's skillset clearly wasn't a match for what McVay wanted to run. Does that matter if the Lions aren't interested in McVay's offense? Sure you'd love to have a QB that can do everything and anything on the field, but are you going to wait another 50yr for that one in a million guys to fall in your lap or find a guy you can actually get who is skilled enough to do what you think you need to do to win? You can do a lot of losing trying to find the perfect QB. Bottom line is that Eli Manning has more SB rings than Aaron Rogers or Dan Marino.

makes sense. With instant replay improving it's getting to where home field advantage isn't what it used to be. Overall home winning % used to tend around 55-60% but has almost disappeared (as low as 51%) in some years more recently. https://boardroom.tv/nfl-home-field-advantage-betting-value/#:~:text=Since 2010%2C home teams during,home win percentage was 55.6%.

Not impossible. Roger Staubach played his first NFL game at 27. Made it to the HOF. Just unlikely.

should be fun to see a guy turning the DP with one hand holding onto his walker.

In a smal to mid-sized city you can find that combination in a college town. Otherwise something bigger. If you go bigger then the question is urban or sub-urban.