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Quote from: Jclayton92 on Today at 07:01:17 PMHe turns 25 before the season starts.

Ah ok.

To what extent will you be rooting for Saquon this season?

How is Creed Humphrey not on this list? Guy is the best or second best center in the league.

If a 25 year old rookie running back from an ivy league school and who nobody heard of until a month or two ago makes good in the NFL, it would be a hell of a story, and also one that I'm fairly sure has never happened before, or at least probably not any time in the last 60-70 years.

There's a first time for everything, and it's always fun to root for these underdog/longer shot type guys like Platzgummer, Bryce Ford-Wheaton, Elerson Smith, etc. We'll see what happens. It would be fun to see him somehow make an impact, but I'm not sure I view that as base case.

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Credit OG for doing his best to be available today, but he clearly was too hurt to play. Hart has also been playing hurt recently. The Knicks put up a valiant effort, but they were simply too depleted to win this series.

Very good season overall, and they're definitely headed on the right track as a franchise. Now they can focus on getting healthy.

Oh my. So sorry to hear this Rich. Hang in there - I'm sure you're in very good hands at the hospital.

The number of bad drivers out there is scary.

BC,

What are you expecting from Miller exactly? Just that he'll make the roster, or do you see him being significantly productive in our offense?

Quote from: LennG on May 19, 2024, 12:17:14 PMThat is ONE side of the story, I have not heard the police officer's side. Why do certain people always believe the one side that sort of suits their agenda?

Anyway, still doesn't answer why whoever didn't obey the command of the officer, no matter how silly, stupid, or irrelevant.
Great, you may be in the right, but you also could be injured or even shot dead because you have no idea what is going thru the officer's mind at that particular moment.

Do you look both ways crossing a street even if you have the right of way? Do you really believe every car will stop because you are in a crosswalk and the law says cars must stop? You could be 100% in the right, but you will also be injured or dead.

No matter how silly, stupid, or whatever a police officer's command may be, you, as a citizen, are required to obey it and THEN sort if out.

Lenn,

In a sense, we sort of have heard the police's side of the story. They released an official police report detailing their account of the incident, and they brought charges against Scheffler. To me that qualifies as their "side" of the story.

As far as people auto-assuming things that suit an agenda, I know where you're coming from there, and I try not to always auto-assume the worst about cops until I have enough information where I feel that view is firmly backed up by facts. What I would say though is Scheffler has a pretty pristine reputation and is universally considered a great guy, a family guy, a person of faith, etc. He is the last person anyone would consider a trouble maker. While none of that guarantees he did not step over the line in this incident, his reputation probably earns him the benefit of the doubt, which, quite frankly, everyone accused of a crime in this country is entitled to.

Quote from: Bill Brown on May 19, 2024, 09:09:52 AMI'm in the same boat as Lenn. A year ago I was diagnosed with bone on bone knees. Before that for a few years I was walking between 15 and 20 thousand steps a day. I'm taking collagen every day and over the last few months I feel that there may be some improvement. I currently get about 5k steps a day and hope I can work up to 10k.

Good luck with your walking program. I'm a believer that it's good for you.

Bill

Very impressive Bill, and I'm sorry to hear about your knees as well. I hope the collagen is providing some relief. And I would add that 5k/day is a hell of a lot better than nothing.

I respect the positive outlook Rich. It is pretty unique, and it is refreshing to read.

My personal thoughts, item by item:

1. I agree here. Too many people I felt were looking to run Daboll out of town because of one bad year. I was not one of them. Daboll won 2022 NFL COY as a rookie head coach for a reason: he is good, and for the most part I think the players like him. Does he have things to work on? Absolutely, as do most professionals in any field. I am still optimistic he is the right man for this job.

2. I tend to also agree here, with some caution around the view given the multiple unanswered question marks on the unit. Ie, is JMS going to get better? Who is our RT going to be? Can Thomas stay healthy? Who are our two starting OGs? I do think we brought in some solid players like Runyan and Eluemenor though, and I like Bricillo, so, like you, I tend to believe this line will improve into something closer to average than bad.

3. Since we have seen Jones do what he did in 2022, we know that he has it in him to at least be that level of QB. I wouldn't call that high level QB play, but "solid" is a fair enough way of putting it. I would also add that it's hard to imagine Jones not playing better than what we saw from him last year before he got hurt. I have said repeatedly that he is a better QB than that. I have never been overly impressed with Lock, but I'm not closed to the idea of him improving into something better than what he has been so far in his still relatively young career.

4. I hope this is true. I hate hearing Schoen say things like "we have a great training/medical staff" when the results have been so incredibly poor. Really makes me think Mara has drawn a line in the sand that Barnes is untouchable, and Schoen is choosing to fight the battles he thinks he can actually win. I'll need to see improved results before I can get comfortable believing this one, but I certainly hope you're right.

5. Firmly agree here. Burns is a stud, and Thibodeaux is a young, improving player coming off a double digit sack year.

6. I'm cautiously optimistic on this one but am unsure as to the extent. I would agree that this one is likely to improve from last season, given you basically have only one way to go from last season in this category. How much it improves remains to be seen. With better O line play and Nabers in the mix I feel like it has to unless our QB play (from either of our two main QBs) is so limited that it just isn't possible.

That's really peculiar.

I would prefer that every single NFL game played every week always be on Sunday. I am sure plenty disagree with me on that including the league and its ratings experts, but it would make things better for the players and coaches, and in many respects for the fans too. I appreciate that it means fans are going to watch fewer games in real time, but serious fans can still watch their team play plus two other games on Sunday if they choose to. I also like having the anticipation build up all week and then getting flooded with information/stimuli on Sundays.

With all of the above said I understand why the league does what it does with spreading these games out more. I'm not going to condemn them for it, but I wish it were just Sundays personally.

Quote from: LennG on May 18, 2024, 07:40:34 PMDave

Unless we are traveling somewhere and we do lots of walking/hiking I really don't believe I do that total in a week. I'm not proud of it but that's the way it is. I have two bad knees and whenever I tend to overdo things, they hurt for a while, so if I can get somewhere riding, that's the way I go. My wife always encourages me to get out and walk. Maybe if I lived in a different environment I would but I hate to ride to a place to walk and I really don't like walking on my town's streets all the time.

I hope you achieve your goal.

Lenn,

I am sorry about your knees. That's a drag. And it's understandable why you do not walk more.

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