Heretic

posted by justincredible

If you can't trust the Hawk Tuah girl, who can you trust?

I'm pretty sure I could trust her on one thing (or "thang")! Just not financial advice...

If I learned one thing this morning, it's that if you buy a, uh, ?memecoin, I guess? because it's endorsed by the chick who went viral for talking BJs in public, you probably deserve to be scammed.

posted by Ironman92

I doubt Arizona St liked their #15 ranking, but they are in control.

Interesting that Miami is that close to Bama.

What if Clemson gets some favorable calls and wins by one against SMU where SMU looked the better team. Does that give SMU a chance to knock Bama out? What if Georgia gets waxed by Texas…does that slightly add to that thought?

I say there’s no way SMU with a loss is above Bama but them putting Miami there makes me wonder.

I watched the ACC closer than any other conference. I believe SMU and Louisville are the 2 best teams.

To me, the thing that hurts Alabama (or Old Miss, for that matter) is who they lost to. It's one thing to talk about how great the SEC is when you have 3-4 great teams trading wins with each other and beating all the rest, but in competitive games where "the rest" looks like they'd be in contention in any other conference.

When it wins up looking like you have no great teams because Georgia got beat by Alabama and Old Miss, Alabama and Old Miss lost multiple times to mediocre-to-decent teams and Texas needed last week to get a win over anyone over .500 in SEC play, it kind of hurts them in pulling away from other teams with not-that-elite resumes like a Miami.

Also, with this being the first year of the expanding playoffs, I think you can expect future ranking decisions to be based somewhat in how this year's playoffs turn out. Kind of like how the Big 10 might get 9 teams into the NCAA BB tournament one year, but if 7 of them are gone after the first weekend, it'll be 6 or so the next year unless they're really dominant in the non-conference games.

If the SEC teams roll everyone and look like the best conference hands down, the Old Miss teams of the world will get the benefit of the doubt next year. If their at-large teams are all gone after the first round, the Miamis of the world will be in there and those three-loss SEC teams are fucked.

So, we have Miami pissed off because Alabama passed them with one more loss (ignoring how Alabama's wins are noticeably better than theirs considering they didn't play either of the two teams above them in the ACC and were 2-2 against the four that tied for fourth at 5-3) and we have Old Miss pissed off because they also didn't pass Miami meaning there's too much damn ACC Bias (ignoring how no one outside of them really gives a fuck about their good-but-not-great season that's balanced wins over Georgia and South Carolina with losses to Kentucky and Florida).

Anyone else big mad about how things are shaking out?

posted by Devils Advocate

It’s a good thing he’s dead. His own insurance claims would make him wanna die

Ah, he just would have been denied coverage. His pre-existing condition of being a CEO of a healthcare company would be a real detriment.

New avatar. What do you think?

posted by justincredible

posted by Laley23

Spinoff is just as good. If you like the characters and the pace of the show, you will like all 7 seasons plus spinoff. 

That's cool; I've really dug the first three seasons. Guess that shouldn't be a surprise, considering I think half the cast of The Wire has some sort of role in this show, whether it be major guys like J. Edgar or Chief Irving or minor ones like two of the gang of crooked cops in the second season. But it's been a fun ride.

Been going through Bosch. Through three of seven seasons and then might also watch its Legacy spinoff. Also started Peacock's Teacup, which seems like it might in the From class of horror where nothing makes sense, but bad shit is happening to people, so it's cool.

Good win by the Steelers, especially after losing last week. Seems the last few years, their M.O. has been to play in really close games and try to pull them out at the end and when that formula doesn't work, things can snowball a bit for them.

So, fortunate they had the Cincinnati defense to contend with any everyone got to look like world-beaters for at least one afternoon. With how overall tough their schedule is down the stretch, with Philly and KC to go with the division games, every damn win is super-meaningful. Also: Props to Philly for beating Baltimore and giving them some breathing room in the division race.

OSU has like 500 five star wide receivers, so...let's run it up the middle over and over and over and over again for 1 yard a pop! If Chip Kelly truly has the reins on the offense, send him out to pasture. If Day still has any control over it, well, he should be canned anyway for that debacle, so, uh, fire him more emphatically!

Just a shit showing by the entire offense. D did more than enough to win, but the offense made me think I was watching Purdue or some nonsense.

posted by friendfromlowry

Bears fired Eberflus. We had the game on in the background yesterday, and I loosely saw what happened. I went back and watched more closely last night, and his press conference. 

Total incompetence. He wanted to run the same play to try and get back into FG range but it obviously didn’t happen fast enough. Okay, why not call a timeout when you see the clock winding down? 

The Hail Mary against Washington was bad enough. He basically said hold my beer and watch me do it again. 

To successful pull the "There was nothing wrong with my decision; things just didn't work out" card, two things need to be truth.

1. A random person's eye test is not screaming, "WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON YOU DUMBASS; WHY IS THE CLOCK RUNNING OUT; YOU CAN STOP IT; WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!???!!!".

2. As a coach, you've had the success to build up enough good will to give people a reason to give you the benefit of the doubt because when they think about it, you're usually rock solid with your late game decisions.

Eberflus went 0-for-2 on that and did so emphatically enough that the Bears actually fired him. I'm actually a bit surprised at that. Sure, the fans hate him and the players seem to be starting the "Wasn't my idea" throwing under the bus, but the way they do things up there, I figured they'd let him hang on as a lame-duck.

I'm a big fan of specialized threads because we never know when one of the dozen of us will have a baby and relocate to Pakistan. Sure, it probably won't happen, but if it does, we got knowledge here!

In a league full of coaches who turn into total morons late in close games when it comes to clock management, Eberflus might be the worst.

And this comes just a couple weeks after the guy burnt the clock without running another play because he had a fairly long field goal lined up and apparently didn't want to do anything to risk that. And then it was blocked and he looked fucking stupid for not trying to swing a few more yards so the kicker could kick it higher.

posted by friendfromlowry

Hurley acting like a child on the sidelines is going to not be so cool if they start losing a bunch of games. 

But it makes it more entertaining for me!

posted by justincredible

Damn, they must've done something really bad to deserve this severe of a punishment.

posted by Ironman92

Bad as he’s been….the team stinks and players seem to be pretty ticked about it all. Organization is a mess….and now they can’t share their misery with the Commanders

But now they have Dallas and their senile trainwreck of an owner to share the misery with!

posted by Ironman92

Kinda crazy

Man, Giants must be determined to somehow get SOMETHING out of the contract they gave him, since they sure weren't getting it from his basically non-existent QBing ability.

It'll really suck for Kennedy to go from basically being blackballed by the Ds for not being D enough, or at least not being the D their higher-ups wanted, to then not making the cut list for Trump's administration because the hard-core Rs don't view him as being R enough for them.

Good enough to be in photo ops and to speak at rallies, not good enough for anything else.

Apparently Buckeyes down another offensive lineman with McLaughlin going down in practice. Going to start getting tough to patchwork one together, since that is their weakest link as far as units go on the team.