Into The Afternight: Our 3rd Shift O/T
36 repliesIf you’re still up and want to talk Chiefs, or just hang with fellow citizens of the Kingdom, this is the place.
I’ll be honest, I don’t have it in me to vet an hour and a half of video, but this guy got my attention when he said he’d raced Hill once, in track, so he knew the dude was fast.
He also seems to be familiar with football, though he doesn’t seem to follow it closely, but what the heck, it’s content, right?
With that, time’s yours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfHPlLDeMLI
Trying this:
I wish I had his tandoor.
This is educational, since it might at least give you an idea of how much physical cover you can find on the average street scene, if Ma Deuce comes a’calling. tl;dr is…good luck finding it. Not really practical, but it can help you see the exaggerations of movies in that regard.
There’s a reason it’s an anti-materiel rifle round. Cinder block walls might stop a pistol round but not much higher than that. 7.62 will go through a cinder block wall and might get stopped by an armored vest with no SAPI plates.
Whereas I once read that a .50 BMG round would go through a car the long way, by doing it the hard way, through the engine block. Go lower to be sure to involve the transmission (RWD) and I doubt that much changes. There’s a reason that St. John M. Browning’s brainchild has stayed in service since WWII, and that should be obvious to the casual observer. Good designs endure.
I finished the carving for my spoon this morning. Well I wouldn’t say it’s finished, but I’ve got some sanding and smoothing to do. I made a spoon and it’s actually functional.
Wow, second night in a row that the Wild staged a 3-1 deficit going into the 3rd comeback, complete with another last-minute goal in OT for the W. Don’t see that often.
A Miracle on Ice?
Nice Showing by Baltimore’s Lamar ” The Fraud ” Jackson … Hunley at least looked Invested / Interested in Playing / Not Overwhelmed by the Bright Lights … : )
On the ravens first drive, they took a timeout ahead of a 2nd and 3 play. Lamar looked irate and really frustrated. It really wasn’t a good look. The whole drive was going very well too start for them and his reaction to the timeout just sorta stuck in my craw.
I don’t get it. Off the field he seems like a pretty good kid: level headed, humble, almost stoic even. But in the game he can sometimes get into this funk where he’s either super reactive like that time out or seems to dissociate. While I’ve been critical of his play style and don’t think it’s long term sustainable and capable of winning a super bowl, I think he’s got the ability to grow into more of a pocket passer while still keeping his dangerous wheels (think Vick with Andy in 2010). But he needs to work on the in game leadership/temperament. It seems like he’s pressing too much and is easily flustered. I do hope he can work it out as he matures and begin to adopt what Alex Smith called the “fuck it” attitude. He’s a good story and electric to watch.
“Josh Allen was overthrowing tonight because of the wind in his own stadium… Patrick, do you have anything to say about that?”
The Bills will need to score a few more than 17 if they want to win next weekend.
Not sure if it’s an absolute going back, but yeah, basically the rule of thumb is that if you want to beat us, you have to score more than 24.
I’ll add that a lot of losing teams do score more than that, but garbage time scores don’t enter into it.
I honestly don’t think 17 would beat the Browns next week. Let alone the Chiefs.
To be fair, I hope Baker Mayfield is thinking the same thing about the bills right now. Obviously fans can look ahead, but I sure the chiefs aren’t. I’m pretty concerned about tomorrow. The browns match up well and the recent history of 2 weeks rest is not promising
Byes are what you make of them, and I think our guys stayed pretty locked in. Reid’s also one of the best at getting the most out of a bye week, so the record of other teams with extra rest doesn’t really apply all that much. The past can be useful for predicting the future, but it doesn’t control that future.
Edited to add that while I am of course concerned, since 24 & 27 are both legit, high-end #1 RBs, but I think that the run D has surged late, and with recovery time we might not be as vulnerable as the main narrative says. But the deciding factor, absent the unexpected, is that we have a Mahomes, and they do not. Things might be said about their college shootout – but Patrick gave Baker all he could handle in that game, and Baker’s team was significantly better.
The Browns are not significantly better than the Chiefs, so they’re shooting for an any given Sunday, because they have nothing to lost by laying it all out there.
Ya I know Andy’s post bye record. But worth keeping in mind that after a one week bye last year the team came out flat as can be. I’d rather not take our chances with another 21-0 first quarter deficit
There’s that, but Mahomes had mentioned that not repeating that was a point of his emphasis going into the bye. He doesn’t make the same mistakes very often, so I’ll take him at his word rather than expecting a repeat of last year.
The slow start against the Texans last year wasn’t really on Mahomes though. Kelce and DRob dropped passes, there was a blown coverage, Tyreek muffed a punt. I worry more about the overall team execution than just Patrick. He’s gonna do what he’s gonna do and that will always put us in position to win a game. It’s going to be the execution on the rest of the roster that makes the difference between winning super bowl or not for the rest of Mahomes career here.
Oh, no doubt, but I was thinking in terms of his leadership during the bye, his ability to motivate his teammates to stay sharp. There’s more than one way to make the players around you better, and lord knows I’ve harped enough on that about Alex Smith’s ability to infuse confidence into the whole team when he’s playing.
Not just Reid. Mahomes is the best at getting the most out of the bye too. He’s been drawing up plays and studying everything about the Browns even before he knew the opponent.
And while they’re friends, on the field I expect Patrick understands Baker more than the reverse.
You mean the Bills offense needs to score more than 10
A lot of people are going to rag on LamaRB for yet another one and done playoffs. But it’s worth noting he threw the same number of TDs as Josh Allen.
I wonder how many bird-brains will be whining that they could’ve won, had not Jackson got hurt. Thing is, Jackson getting hurt had a lot more to do with the Ravens than the Bills, and neither bad officiating nor simply bad luck, like Parker’s femur fracture, had anything to do with it. .
It’s also a risk inherent to his style of play. I didn’t see the play he got injured on but I think it was a passing play so people will counter signal me. But a lot of football injuries are the result not of a single play by an accumulation of contact.
Hard to say, concussions are hard to predict, because they can go from shy and timid to angry and violent without any seeming change in the impact.
That said, the play call’s impossible to determine, the snap went well over LJ’s head, and he was just trying to throw it away to save the yardage loss. He failed, but he had the right idea. Still, his passing game’s a long ways for what he needs it at to be a pass-first QB.