Heretic

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On Dec 11, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "2018 NFL Season Chatter" at 03:22 pm
  • posted by BR1986FB

    I'm surprised the Redskins haven't kicked the tires on Kaepernick. He supposedly says he's "ready" to play for them but what kind of football shape is he in? Redskins have the worst QB situation in football right now.

    That'd be my main concern. He's a system QB, where if your offensive system doesn't involve a lot of out-of-the-pocket work, his effectiveness would be diminished if he was at his peak. And with not having played in a few years, I can't imagine him having the timing or instincts to jump in and help any team without a decent amount of time to re-learn the ropes.

  • Heretic replied to "Progressives, part 3..." at 12:34 pm
  • posted by O-Trap
    posted by Spock

    Maybe at that moment but he is also a puppet of lefty media.

    What did you think he said?

     

    We're talking CC. Using multi-syllable words in a sentence is probably enough to confuse him.

On Dec 10, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "2018 MLB Thread" at 05:56 pm
  • posted by Ironman92

    Nerds are going berserk

     

    Or anyone with a tangible amount of baseball knowledge. Unless the Hall of Fame has slightly shifted gears to "guys who were around a long time and weren't busted for PEDs".

  • Heretic replied to "2018 NFL Season Chatter" at 11:41 am
  • posted by Ironman92

    You can blow a game, sometimes two but Steelers have blown 3 straight and also game 1 of season. They’ve blown 3 1/2 games in standings and stole 1 from JVille.

    Win any of last 3 games and pretty much in playoffs...have blown all 3 and some crazy stuff in all 3.

     

    They've been really schizo this year. Early on, I thought they were a .500 team or so; then they started playing really well and I thought they'd at least have a chance to make some postseason noise; now, they're looking like a team that could completely collapse. Simply unable to finish games. Broncos and Raiders followed the same formula of falling apart defensively in the final moments and Chargers was like that, except for the whole second half.

    It's like...they COULD get their shit together again and take the division and make some noise, but it's just as likely that they'll continue free-falling and not even sniff the postseason. Either-or, they're looking like a second-tier team that'd get taken out quickly. That "clutch" factor that saved them in so many close games over the years does not seem to be there any more.

On Dec 9, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "2018 NFL Season Chatter" at 07:47 pm
  • posted by mhs95_06

    Boswell doesn't like natural grass!

    Or making kicks. Steelers turning into the Carolina of the AFC with this slump. Well, except for the "losing to Cleveland" part of being Carolina. At least it hasn't gotten that bad...

On Dec 8, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "NBA '18/'19 Season" at 02:31 pm

  • It's good to know that now that Melo is on his way out and Dwight Howard is this mediocre guy you hardly ever hear about anymore because he's stuck on shit teams, Jimmy B is stepping up to the plate as THE team-killing superstar.

On Dec 7, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "OSU Football 2018" at 12:32 pm
  • posted by superman

    Terrible idea.  

    Very stupid. And would blow up in their faces the second that, say, OSU is perfect in conference play, Michigan has one loss to OSU and the West champ also has one loss, either to a West team or to OSU, but didn't play Michigan. Hell, I'm not even really counting this season, when that did happen, because Northwestern had three non-conference losses and the West was pretty much trash as a division, although I could see that situation getting ugly for the B1G too, as NW played good down the stretch and Michigan got blasted by OSU in one of those "Ugh, don't want that match-up again, this time in prime-time..." ways. More thinking of years when one of their teams (usually Wisky) is legit good.

    Basically, all that would do would be to essentially end the two-division thing and have it be the top two teams in the standings, while ignoring details like unbalanced schedules (ie: the reason NW had the same 8-1 conference record as Michigan)

On Dec 6, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "Random TV Thread" at 02:58 pm
  • posted by O-Trap

    Well, A View to a Kill is my favorite, but I can admit that it's campy as hell and not that great a movie.

    For Your Eyes Only is good, though.  And LALD is hilarious.

    A View to a Kill is great solely because of (1) Christopher Walken being Christopher Walken (ie: auto-add 1-2 points to the overall rating) and (2) those scenes of Bond berating the old dude he was working with under the pretense that Bond was a fancy horse owner type and his partner was his servan

  • Heretic replied to "Random TV Thread" at 12:44 pm
  • posted by O-Trap

    I would definitely throw Dr. No in there, too.  Maybe Thunderball as well.  Good list, though.

    For Your Eyes Only is one of my personal favorites. A couple really fun chase scenes and that mountain climbing bit near the end was insane (probably in part because I don't like heights, but still...).

    Watched them all over the summer. While I generally agree with the top ones CoA listed, I put that one up with them. Maybe Live and Let Die, although that might have to do more with how I loved the campy-as-hell blaxploitation aspects. An island diplomat who moonlights as an inner city drug lord with a voodoo priest on staff? SIGN ME THE FUCK UP NOW!!!!

  • Heretic replied to "2018 MLB Thread" at 11:57 am

  • On the Pirates blog I go to, I saw a comment along the lines of "Meh, the Pirates got a total of 23 HRs from 1st and 3rd base last year; who needs him?"  (with much sarcasm, of course) and I thought for a minute and then nearly lost it over the concept of a team being so bad at power hitting that they got so little production from those two positions AND apparently not feeling they need to do much about it while a division rival is dealing prospects left and right to bring in a legit stud.

  • Heretic replied to "Death of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi" at 11:51 am
  • posted by Spock

    the amount doesnt matter, its people that want to stand on a persons grave to make a political point.....its disgusting and the left does it 100% of the time and nobody calls them out on it.  

     

    posted by QuakerOats

     

    The assassination of Seth Rich, for cover up purposes, has me a tad outraged.


    LOL!

     

     

On Dec 5, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "2018 NFL Season Chatter" at 02:25 pm
  • posted by friendfromlowry

    I get the joke and if it were up to me Lewis would have been fired a long time ago, but he's also presumably a huge kiss-ass yes man to the Brown family which is probably what they want most out of a coach. 

    I just got mildly annoyed by the "trying too hard; thinking too little" nature of the meme where in mocking THE MARV, they actually tried to make McCarthy look like an actual quality coach when I think the general consensus has been that Rodgers carried him to his coaching success and, if anything, McCarthy's dumbass coaching is what kept the team from more playoff wins and possibly more SBs.

    Both coaches are under-performers to where I'd say the biggest difference is that one had a generational talent at QB and the other hasn't had anything close to that. Marv should have had at least a couple playoff wins, but when you consider that McCarthy has had Rodgers, averaging fewer than 1 playoff win per year isn't anything to brag about.

    Or, tl;dr: STOP HAVING FUN GUYZ!!!!

  • Heretic replied to "Urban Meyer to step down after Rose Bowl" at 12:49 pm
  • posted by vball10set

    meh....going to happen regardless, so might as well be now

    Yeah; you have a coaching change and some recruits are gonna back off because Day wasn't the integral guy in the recruiting process and Urban was THE MAN and now won't be there. If they're interested in OSU and not just Urban AND Day is as interested in them as Urban was, they'll be meeting and the Bucks will still have a legit shot at landing them.

On Dec 4, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "Urban Meyer to step down after Rose Bowl" at 11:47 am
  • posted by SportsAndLady

    Listening to cris Carter, sounds like he was told by everyone to quit a month ago. Urban wanted to finish the season so he wouldn’t quit on the players. Sounds like a lot of people thought he would die on the field if he kept going out there. 

    Hope he gets right and can live a happy life. 

    None of which is a surprise to me. He constantly looked to be in discomfort and in that one game, he even briefly collapsed. The way something looks isn't necessarily the way it is, but if you just go from the eye test watching games, hell, I might not have thought he'd die out there, but I could definitely imagine him getting carted off the field during a game.

    He and his accomplishments will be missed. One fuck of a lot of winning during his tenure and you knew coming into every season (with the exception of the first, where they were ineligible for the postseason) they'd be a contender for a title. It's easy to get spoiled with that sort of success and be pissed because they didn't make the final four one year or lost in the playoffs another, but when you can say the team is a perennial contender, that's all you can realistically ask for. He had a great run; now it's time to rest up and get back to a position where it consistently looks like he's actually enjoying being alive.

  • Heretic replied to "2018 NFL Season Chatter" at 11:34 am
  • posted by BR1986FB

    Element of surprise? Superfly Snuka?

    Bobo Brazil might not have started fights with a headbutt, but he finished them that way!

On Dec 2, 2018:

  • Heretic replied to "2018 College Football Thread" at 12:52 pm

  • Can't say I'm surprised it was Oklahoma. Higher ranked coming in to this week and OSU didn't do enough yesterday to pass them. Being behind Georgia, on the other hand, I don't get. Two losses and a shit non-conference schedule (when Middle Tennessee State is your marquee out-of-conference opponent, you only deserve ridicule) don't say #5 to me, but SEC! SEC! SEC! nut-hugging never goes out of style, it seems.

    The depressing thing to me is that, because of tradition, OSU gets relegated to playing a shit PAC-12 team in the Rose Bowl instead of real competition. Kirby Smart can babble about how Georgia is the team no one wants to face, but I'd rather go against them than Washington, where it's either "meh, you won because you were easily supposed to" or "you lost to THAT?!?!?!" Winding up playing them is like waking up hoping for a steak dinner and getting a McDonald's burger instead.

  • Heretic replied to "2018 NFL Season Chatter" at 12:06 pm
  • posted by wildcats20

    Soooo the Bengals signed Marvin to a 1 year extension last night. 

    BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

    Cincy can enjoy a couple more 7-9 to 8-8 seasons with their lord and savior!