Tuesday Night Open Thread: Justin Reid Doubles Down on His Pre-Game Remarks
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Well the radical right got shot down, mostly. Do they double down or actually do the business of governing (Hunter’s laptop does not count).
They don’t know HOW to take care of business, only to block it
TBF blocking is political practice when done on principle/policy, when done out of spite it’s simply obstruction for obstructions sake
Up to 2.5% gap.
It really wasn’t that close
Disregarding the DNC’s shortcomings regarding governance, the statistical evidence is quite clear; pro-Trump Republicans got spanked. Normal ones tended to win their races, which suggests that even on the actually registered level, Republicans didn’t like the association. So if they double down, they’ll lose the support of many loyal supporters.
It might happen, but if the Left is patient enough to let it happen, most of the radicals will implode via election. I doubt they’ll be patient, though, and if they make it look like they’re out to destroy the RNC, they’ll end up creating more radicals. Trump came to be because Hillary looked to be intending to do just that, and had the vocal support of the radicals, too. You tell me what’s most likely to happen.
I’ve no idea. Can we afford to wait out the wackos?
2 election cycles and start the craziness again?
that base will be courted by someone probably more competent and hence exponentially more dangerous
*desantis does not have the charisma imo
I’m out, say “hi” to the Mrs
peace
Jimmy G could be back in 7-8 weeks.
DIvisional round
https://sports.yahoo.com/report-49-ers-qb-jimmy-garoppolo-doesnt-need-foot-surgery-could-return-in-7-8-weeks-214343418.html
The difference as of now is 1.2%, and that’s going to climb. My guess is by the time it’s really over, Warnock wins by 2%
AP News has called it: now it’s “official”
But the margin of victory will continue to climb
most likely
Huge for the admin, power sharing goes away on Senate confirmations, seats that the votes for have been blocked can now be filled and agencies can do their jobs (esp judiciary, several seats have been vacant)
… and Kamala Harris might be able to squeeze in an afternoon nap on occasion
I love how any VP catches shit when their only real job is casting the deciding vote in a 50/50 senate vote.
congrats to Raphael Warnock
*and the narrow margin of sanity
the space between
*there be monsters.
where?
right there
Sanity, what is that
Warnock
definitely not a thing that the worlds governments understand
It and I have a passing relationship now, used to be tight.
The unhappiest man in America?
Joe Manchin. From Powerbroker to who fucking cares in one night
Will Brinson
@WillBrinson
Joe Burrow is 3-0 against Patrick Mahomes
Joe Burrow is 0-4 against the Cleveland Browns
Make it make sense
o-0
Everyone is gonna play the chiefs like it’s their super bowl. Look at the trail of dust behind them after.
agree
and we have done that every week so far with a 75 percent win percentage
better than everyone cept Buffalo and Philly, maybe the Vikings
Gotta make it to the dance first. 9-3 is nothing to be upset about.
yup, and Chiefs WILL make “the dance”
nope!!!
The Chiefs can win anywhere
I just still want a bye cause a game not played is a win
I agree, I’m not a fan of the way the playoffs are set now.
yeah, the “one team with a bye” is … I don’t like it much
Nor do I. Rather than adding another element of drama to the regular season, it lowered that and filled the void with controversy. Furthermore, I have started to conclude that it’s actually damaging the product, because it’s affected the decision-making of all the teams.
Take this new fad of doing a Dolphins tank. Is it a coincidence that this got started shortly after the new schedule was implemented? Perhaps, but it’s also produced examples of what the outcomes of those are. By sharpening the point on that pyramid, expectations changed, and now teams that are out of reach for the single bye, there’s nothing left to drive hard for, when the old way generated more competition to get the 2nd bye. Huge difference, even bigger than Fox’s ex.
Huge difference, even bigger than Fox’s ex
you do have a way with words
to be honest, I’d just as soon see 8 teams in … 4 Division Winners + 4 Next Best Record in Conference and forget the 1st Round Bye
you do have a way with words
Hmm…could that have something to do with how I wound up editing this place? More seriously, thank you, I try to be expressive and visual in my turns of phrase. OK, that sounds pompous, but I can’t think of a better pair of words right now.
they had a perfect symmetry to the season/post season,
had to monkey with it
enefel
gotta figure the Bills will lose at LEAST one more … they have a tough sched rest of the way
and as they play both Cin and Mia, at least two of those three teams WILL have at LEAST one more loss anyway
Kinda funny how the homestretch was supposed to be a gauntlet we had to run. Also kinda ironic that homers like us actually predicted this outcome/record better than all the big-name analysts out there, and we all remember that noise.
Even I thought the predictions were a bit inflated at the time, but I can’t argue these results. There has to be a web of reasons why, but I think that the difference might come down to the analysts believing in their numbers, while we believe in our people, the men on the team along with the folks on the coaching side. As Andy once said, ‘in the end, this is a people business’, and numbers can’t process things like that, only people can. It takes more than stats to understand things involving people.
well said …
while I didn’t think KC would “not win the AFC West” sure didn’t imagine it would have been “this easy” … the Loyal Opposition imploded early and often this year
as for “the others” (Bills, Bengals, Fins etc) the cream rises to the top
Browns have defense
Browns sacked Burrow 5 times, caused Burrow to lose 1 fumble, plus 1 INT, and held Bengals to 36 yard rushing (including both Mixon and Perine playing). Maybe there’s more to it than the DL, but that just seems like a dominant performance by a DL to allow only 36 rushing yards in a game and to come up with 5 sacks and get the turnovers. I’m gonna just say the Browns defense is probably where to look for why they’ve been beating Burrow.
Isn’t it still true? Offense wins games. Defense wins championships. Seems like a winning formula to me…especially when you can get both.
I saw on the Twitter sidebar a tweet from a sports talker speculating that when facing that trio of WRs, Spags was caught in a dilemma, whether to protect his very young DB corps, or bring pressure. He balanced the two as best he could, and so did neither very well. If he committed either way, they’d break off big ones, so he played a bad hand to start with. To that I’ll add that when you blitz, Burrow can murder you with his mobility.
The good news is that this really depended on the fact that they’d never faced them as a trio before. Now, they have, and they and Spags will have film to study and things they can work on. This ain’t over, if we see them postseason.
not bad for a relatively inexpensive FA in his first season with the team … meant as a reply to the MVS thing (9 catches of 20+ yds)
https://www.nfl.com/stats/player-stats/category/receiving/2022/REG/all/receiving20plusyardseach/DESC
this says MVS has 11 … Kelce has 15 … lotta peeps on that list, MVS is lower than sixth
20+ yards FROM THE LOS , not 20+ yard catches. So when he got the ball, he was 20 yards away
oh, ok …
Just got back from the liquor store, and I found myself getting my mind into its winter reference points WRT weather. Specifically, on the way back, I was thinking to myself that with no wind, 5F isn’t all that bad. In fact, on the way back with my beer, I had to unzip my coat some – twice. Why? I felt myself starting to sweat, and in the cold, wind and wetness are your enemies.
Cold and wind are constants, you have to dress with them in mind, but you have to pay extra attention to the wind. Staying dry, however, is something you can control yourself, but you have to pay attention to your body’s cues. It matters a lot, too.
5F isn’t all that bad? right then! (yeah, wind DOES make a difference)
I loved San Francisco
just should have taken a coat on that trip, even did light rail to Oakland from silicon valley
cannot remember if I road the trolley cars in SF, but Chinatown was very interesting
SF is unbearable below 48°
depends on where you come from
Maybe if you’re from Maine, it’s not bad. It is so damp there
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” – Mark Twain
I have spent summers in SF. He wasn’t wrong
Well I agree
wind is the difference between cold and bitter cold
Walker or Warnock looking like Warnock now, we’ll see
it’ll come down to the wire
Which is disturbing
why?
in a mma match, how hard is it to get the submission?
should know late late tonight or early tomorrow … right now about 8/10 of 1% difference – Warnock ahead – 77% total votes in (still too close and too early to call it)
Georgia recounts: They aren’t mandatory, though the trailing candidate can request one if the margin is within 0.5 percentage points.
this one was triggered by state law when neither candidate gets +50%.
now a recount needs to be paid for by the requester, I believe
As usual, the heavily D counties (ie: the ones with people) will be slower reporting. Look at Fulton and around Savannah. If there’s 20%+ left on those, it’s over
Dekalb is at 65%
Fulton is at 70% and is going Warnock 4 to 1
If I was Walker, I’d be polishing that concession speech
ha
it was those vampires that done it…
now 26k lead for Warnock with 94% in
Done. Called. Walker out
annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd called for Warnock (by CNN anyway)
and called by Polito
NBC, too.
I’m SURE “The Blaze” is holding out
I was thinking today how awesome I think it is to go from born in 1962 to today
the greatest age of enlightenment?
no space stations for all or hover cars, but the Internet, Cell Phones, almost anything we want we can get now 🙂 Wars have affected many but not all like WWII
I want my Jetson’s Hover Car!
Sorry. My mom (1928-present) has lived through the biggest changes in history. All the above plus, refrigeration, cars, tv, radio, a pretty big war, 50 states… I can’t think of another 94 year period that saw that kind of change
My Dad was born in 1906 … Three Years Before , The Wright Brothers Flew @ Kittyhawk … He watched a Man walk on the Moon … ; )
Tell me, what did Saber tooth cats sound like?
Just like foxes
*not scarey at all
The kids will love it!
well, IIRC they kinda sounded like …
Yep. These people went from horses dragging carts around to men on the moon, computers in your hand. instantly talkin with people around the world in moments instead of months
Also, my grandparents were all born in that era, just before the Technological Revolution. They saw a lot of changes, and their stories told me a lot about history.
On the flip side, my Eldest has probably gone through more changes than them, and he’s still under 30. I have probably seen nearly as much, and I’m under 60 – though with my thing for science, I kept up with the cutting edge, so I was extra immersed.
I’d venture, without hard examples atm, that your 30 year old son is experiencing the fastest rate of change in history (and will be surpassed by someones 15 year old), but not the greatest change. The leaps in the last 80-90 years are life changing. In the last 30, they have been more incremental changes. And, of course, a 90 year old has also seen the last 30, so there’s that overlap.
Fair enough, but for one thing: If their 90 years of developments were compressed down to the same time span, that would look just as incremental. And those changes themselves proceeded incrementally, so they could adapt at their leisure – and not all of them embraced much newer technology than TVs.
Our young folks have gone from the Internet being a hobby-type luxury to an almost-absolute necessity in 3 decades. Same with cell phones, and they remember when landlines were still the main phones, whereas now, it’s almost exclusively cell phones. All with little time to adjust to changes that are less incremental because they’re constant. Instead of having 50 years to adapt to the telephone, they had to transition to cells in under 20, and smartphones, less than that. Sorry, history-geek rant over.
*don’t call long distance before 7PM!
He remembers calling collect.
party lines
He’s not old enough, but I do. Non-remote TV to remote, then flat screens growing and improving, the near-death of actual broadcast stuff using antennas, and now on to cable cutting.
That’s more of a change than going from a Model T to an early-80s luxury model. Heck, you could toss in the era from then until data-driven driving experience started becoming a real thing, and still not close the gap. Not if you accept that the same amount of change is affected by the amount of time it takes. Frog, pot, fire. If the water got hot quick, it’d be out of there, alive. Only, our kids are in that pot, and can’t escape.
cat on a hot tin roof
What is this, Monty Python? “If we increase the size of the penguin until it is the same height as the man and then compare the relative brain size, we now find that the penguin’s brain is still smaller. But, and this is the point, it is larger than it was!”
What kind of argument is that? If you change the timeline? The timeline is the whole point. From where the world was in 1928 to today is a MUCH bigger change than where the world was 30 years ago to today.
Everybody alive and over 31 has gone through the last 3 decades, and experienced the same things. It will absolutely matter differently to the lives of those 30 than to those 84, but everyone went through it. Younger people, like kids learning language, simply absorbed it as it happened. They didn’t “adjust”. They just kept going with the latest and greatest.
In fact, it might be/probably is harder for those older, as they had to adapt to the change on the fly rather than just be handed it as if it’s always been like this. How many jobs were lost, careers derailed, because of the change in the last 30 years? Now, how many 30 year olds had to adjust to all that change? Where? In the classrooms? They watched TVs rather than grainy movies in class?
The very first PC was sold in 1971. So, if you are 50 years old or younger, you have never lived a day when someone didn’t have a personal computer.
The first cell phone was 1973. So 47 year olds have never lived without cell phones.
If you’ve never lived without it, there isn’t any adjusting to do.
R might have run away with it with a legit candidate.
Then again w/o the maga vote Hersch goes down by 20+
the libertarian votes from last time are being split between them
2-1 Republican as I saw it … : (
more or less, they want a split senate it seems
soooooooo close right now 50.2 – 49.8 w/93% in
diff of 14k with 3.2M votes in
Thursday Night Football … Raiders @ Rams (oh boy!) … which team makes the fewest mistakes? (neither???)
and Rams picked up The Baker Mayfield show just in time
and Sunday … HOU @ DAL … that could be brutal
Titans fire general manager Jon Robinson, who traded AJ Brown to the Eagles, after losing to AJ Brown and the Eagles
and FWIW: Brown caught 8 Passes for 119 YDs & 2 TDs and now has almost more receiving yards and touchdowns by himself this season than the entire Titans receiver room
so is Vrabel in total charge?
I guess … I know he was VERY unhappy that Robinson traded Brown back in the Spring
Maybe Vrabel would be an excellent GM
he seems to be a pretty good HC
I am devious make him GM and hire a bad HC
You know Mayfield has been through a lot of adversity with the coaching situations in Cleveland and the OBJ throw under the bus. I hope he does good in LA
yeah, the guy deserves better than all that
At least in LA he may be able to do some commercials.
touche
Rip Christine McVie
3rd & Long should do “You Make Football Fun” someday
do you beliieevvee in the ways of majic, and we no longer wonder why…
Elephants and Mac
like a circle
you win
Can’t wait for my ebay package to come in the mail later this week. Been on a vintage Chiefs jersey kick the last couple of years and finally found a certain non-Kelce 87’s jersey that wasn’t through the roof expensive.
wtg!
Steve Maneri?
Fast Eddie???
Yep
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetness!
Kennison?
dat be Da One
my next guess was gonna be Aaron Brown
My first guess
The one and only.
I have a few more jersey’s to knock off my list. I don’t own a DT, JC, or a Tony G jersey.
I have two 🙁
When it comes to jerseys I am looking for ones during the era they played.
I know
I have a memory like an elephant
and just what, exactly, does an elephant need to remember?
What he left in the trunk ???
where he parked the car?
Sadness
you … don’t you go there
reliable watering holes, to start
I have a “Not A Real Jersey” but close enough for gummint work “t-shirt” DT #58 from way way way WAYYYYYYYYY back when
would do bets on the games with another teacher in Denver for coupla yrs … if KC won he’d put Chiefs shirt on his wall for a month, if Broncos won I put whatever shiny glossy butt-ugly blue n orange whoever on mine for a month (truly degraded my classroom, but hey: whatcha gonna do, and the kids thought it was all hilarious)
TG.
What size do you wear?
24 hour rule, forget about Cincinnati
Denver is a get right game
Let’s Ride!!!!
just don’t count your milk til you’ve spilled it under the bridge in one basket
IOW … as a wise man once said: if the Chiefs don’t beat themselves
Never heard that one but cheers
40 to zip would be a good break out game
Let’s do it !!
no chiefs turnovers would get us there!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who?
Justin Reid is becoming a distraction. I want our guys focused on winning a championship, not on twitter trash talk.
Isn’t that all Twitter is?
and funny pet vids.
I will wait for Youtube
pretty sure Reid told him to “knock it off” vis-a-vis comments (something to the effect of “we don’t do that”)
Reid is a newbie, but Honey Badger never stopped ?
and HB is now gone (shrug) he is, but still …
Yeah, save the yappin’ for gameday.
save the yappin’ for gameday
save it for after you win the Super Bowl
Trash talking on Twitter had no baring whether or not someone is focused on winning. Am I a fan of it, no, but it’s harmless.
then there was the short-lived “Lingerie League” … that definitely had “some baring”
Elon Musk should have bought that