Big Blue Huddle

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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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

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.