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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.

The college of orthopedic surgeons has to be behind this......

you would pick a comp that hasn't won a title...

the month to month numbers are practically at target. The year to year can't come all the way down until last year's rent increases get to 12 months old. I'm a little PO'd at talk about the Fed wanting to squeeze until they see see wage increases drop though. For thirty years hourlies have been falling futher behind. If the cost of getting a little better income parity in the US is a % or so on the CPI for another year or two that's something I'm all in for.

I guess just because Brady doesn't get old doesn't mean other QB's don't.

IDK, Goff is still pretty much exactly what people said he was when he got here - a guy who throws well and makes good decisions given a good O-line giving him time and receivers that get open. I sort of think it's less that Goff was been any different either when they were losing or winning. It's the team around him and the perceptions of he and the team are what has changed. So if you are a GM, I guess the question is: How much can the incremental improvement that a QB with mobility and maybe more daring get you in terms of wins given that you have that good OLine and receivers that get open - as compared to using that draft capital somewhere else?

yeah - you really wanted to see his eFG% at a higher level before the end of this season - now that's pushed back. I've gotten progressively more pessimistic about Cade. Aside from not being able to get or stay on the court and despite being able to be the dominant player on a bad team, at least occasionally, I'm not sure I see the dominant player of a good team. Hope he proves otherwise.

funny thing, when we were growing up most, maybe all, the right handed kids I played pickup with shot RH. I guess somehow that had become the tribal wisdom in the neighborhood and it just got passed along as we taught each other how to play. Worked well for me because though I'm right handed I'm pretty much left legged. 🤷‍♂️

Sort of similar. I'd always think about getting a flu shot but just never got down to a place and time so it didn't happen. Then they started doing a shot clinic each fall literally 50 feet down the hall from my lab. Now it's a habit even if the clinic down the hall is put somewhere else in a given year..

I guess I would be happy enough to take the left shot center if we could land him and then just keep trying to pick up RH shots at Wing.

just goes to show what they say is true, crypto tech only protects you from a pretty limited number of the threats that are actually out there......

Has to be odd to lose a year from two athletes in the same town to shin issues in less than 10yrs.

Goalies are definitely odd ducks. Really didn't see Ned collapsing like he has this season.

As Rob had oft made pointed reference to, the Ilitch org had a lot of grand plans on the table when Little Caesar's went in and so far almost nothing has come to fruition. Apropos of your question though, there were announcements last week that some work in 'District Detroit' is now supposed to begin. Skepticism is warranted. OTOH, there has been a lot of residential development around the ball park going up John R, and to the east, they are going to fill in I-375, UM/Gilbert/Ilitch are going to develop one of the blocks on Cass, the city's first large new building in years is rising on the Hudson's site, and recently the Penobscot Bldg ownership finally changed hands. The point of mentioning this is that at its nadir, virtually every old Detroit landmark bldg was in disrepair and declining. But almost all have now been brough back, the last three big ones were Book Tower, which Gilbert has put a ton of $$ into and is close to reopening, Michigan Central, which of course was reduced to a hulk and that Ford is completely rennovating, and lastly the Penobscot, which never got to the point of closure but where the ownership disregard had left the building almost unrentable. Having these major buildings back in productive service is huge for the city, not only because they generate tax revenue, but because as each one is rehabbed it decreases the overhang of low quality/cost rental space and bids up the value of the whole business district. And of course no-one was going to build anything new downtown until the empty buildings were full again. Its the life of the buildings in the business district that is the ulitmate pull for downtown residential development. The latter can't continue without the former. Iif nothing bad happens (e.g. another pandemic) I would think the area around the ballpark could be peaking in another 10 yrs. We can fairly bag on Ilitch for the lack of development around Little Caesar's so far, but TBF, the old Man's (and Ford's) commitment to putting the sports venues back into mid town probably had a lot to do with giving other developers like Gilbert the confidence to take on the projects they have. It all goes together. My memories of downtown stretch back to the glory days of the Sheraton Cadillac hotel, the Christman Village on the 12th floor at Hudsons - right through to going to school downtown in the 70's after the riot burnouts and the following years of collapse. It hasn't recovered to where it was in the 50's/60's, because Detroit will never be the richest city in the country like it was then (pretty close anyway), but downtown has come back a looong way from where it was at bottom. Unfortunately, the recipe for downtown is actually simpler than for the thousands of residential blocks around the city with only one or two houses left on them.....

This is correct - and to follow the logic, if a team can make enough incremental moves that are all in the forward direction they can certainly get pretty good without making any individually splashy moves, but it's a lot more work to do it that way. Like most things, money and effort are always somewhat interchangeable in the results obtained. Do the Tigers now have that kind of high energy high productivity management? Beats me, but I'm pretty sure that is the approach they think - or hope - they can get better with.

Ironically enough, this statement is transcendantly false in baseball. In the first 6 yrs of his career, Aaron Judge put up 26 WAR for a total cost to the Yankee's of ~18M. What is true in baseball is that *old* talent costs you money - lots of money, while young talent is unbelievably cheap. Ergo, it is quite possible to win in Baseball at lower cost than the other guy by simply having a younger team than the other guy. That is certainly what Avila was aiming for and failed to accomplish, and what Harris is also undoubtedly aiming for, and has yet to accomplish. In fact, any baseball ownership not intent on that same objective is probably not very smart (I see you, Texas Rangers!), which is why it is hard to do in the face of the active competition of 29 orther clubs (OK, 28). Still, I don't think anyone is going to stop trying.

Ooops. So it looks to me like these were the stacks from utility boilers that were retrofitted with a tail gas scrubber, which is what the the fifth untapered column appears to be. Once the scrubber was in service the stacks would no longer be in use. So they managed to take out the scubber. If you have seen the Edison Monroe plant over the years it used to have two very tall stacks there were taken out of service via replacement with shorter cyllindrical srubber towers in a set up similar to what this appears to be.

I suppose there is risk in that Elmer is unfinished and will make mistakes, but he contributes to puck possession in a way Zadina, Suter....etc don't, so I would be willing to play him in front of them.

also a very good point. Though I am old enough to be at higher risk, my health and pulmonary fitness is such I probably was not. I also did the full routine of the 1st 4, then got COVID anyway (hanging around college students will do that....), but also very mild, so am also giving it 3-4 months before I go for the currently available booster.