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#1
Big Blue Huddle / NGT - Hip Drop Tackle MUST go
November 18, 2023, 08:48:52 PM
I will stop watching football if the NFL and NCAA does not penalize the hip drop tackle. Ravens lost Andrews on Thursday and the Florida State QB had his knee destroyed today.

It's such a dirty play with full intent to injure. I can't understand how all the leagues are waffling on this. As more and more tacklers use it, devastating ankle and knee injuries will mount.

It's ridiculous it's been allowed to go on for so long.

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#2
Big Blue Huddle / DJ contract disaster
November 06, 2023, 12:49:18 PM
DJ will have been paid $84,750,000 through 2024

CMP   ATT   CMP%   YDS   AVG   TD   INT   LNG   RTG
108   160   67.5   909   5.7   2   6   58   70.5

That's over $42 mil for each TD, and over 93,234 per yard
#3
Big Blue Huddle / The opposite of "Iron Sharpens Iron"
September 11, 2023, 09:42:00 AM
It appears the OL and DL looked good in camp because they went up against each other and neither is actually good.

I am disappointed that Neal hasn't taken any step up and JMS isn't any better than the jamoke they had at center last season.

I am especially disappointed at the DL that looked like they were on the verge of being dominant last season. Maybe they just got soft feasting on the OL in practice.
#4
Big Blue Huddle / Greg Cosell comp for Waller
September 02, 2023, 01:39:28 PM
On the Ross Tucker podcast, Cossel pointed out that Waller is filling the Travis Kelce role in Kafka's offense, having been wirh the Chiefs before coming over to the Giants.

As much as it's been said that Daboll and Schoen are building a Bills lite team in the Meadowlands, it's starting to look like they're emulating the Andy Reid Chiefs offense in their heyday:

Waller = Kelce
Hyatt = Hill
Barkley = Hunt
Jones = Mahomes

Not saying any of these players are as good as their Chiefs counterparts, but the kinds of roles they have in the offense mirror each other

It's also a credit to Mahomes and Kelce that they won a Super Bowl without a true #1 WR or a truly stud RB

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#5
Back before the BCS, there would be a game in week one like Miami-Florida State that would basically mean the loser had little shot at winning the National Championship. It was all the marbles before the season even got going.

Cowboys-Giants at Metlife feels like that kind of game for the Giants -- if they win, it means the second year of Schoen/Daboll is the real deal and were looking at 10-11 wins and a second year of playoffs. If they lose, it's a sign they're still not where they need to be and probably means an 8 win season and already looking towards the 2024 draft.

How bad a loss/great a win would the week one game be for the Giants?

#6
The Front Porch / My new OLED TV
August 15, 2022, 04:30:05 PM
I got a new 77" LG C1 OLED TV last month, and this thing is absolutely bonkers amazing. The color reproduction is fantastic, but what really sets OLED apart from LCD/LED TVs are the black levels. Having true black gives the picture more contrast and makes it look like it's almost 3D. No blooming and halos around white elements against a dark background also makes the picture cleaner and gives it more pop. Starry skies are rendered as white dots on a pure black background instead of a grayish background. I know the tendency is to shop for high peak brightness, but picture quality is affected most by how well the TV reproduces true black, and no LCD/LED set is able to manage that.

If you are in the market for a new TV, I highly recommend getting an OLED, although they are pricey in comparison. The price break for getting last year's model still put it $1000 over my typical TV budget, so the sticker shock is real. But it was totally worth it for me. I rationalized it as $200 as year for a giant leap in picture quality.

BTW, the terminology is a bit confusing due to marketing. All non-OLED TVs today are LCD panels. The "LED" is a reference to the backlight, not the display tech. So an "LED" TV is really an LCD TV with LED lighting. Some TVs are branded "QLED", where a quantum dot layer helps with color and light. But the panel itself is LCD.

The newest tech is QD-OLED, which is an actual OLED panel with a quantum dot layer to increase brightness. There are only two sets in the market using QD-OLED, a Samsung and a Sony. The Sony model bested all 4K TVs for picture quality, but both max out at 65", which is a deal breaker for me.