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Could be called a poor coaching decision.

I am disappointed as well. I think the guy has good enough hands. His feet are the problem. He just can't get open. He is just a little too slow in straight line speed and isn't a quick twitch guy who can get open because his movements are fast. Some guys can start, turn, stop on a dime. David is more like a guy who can do it on a large tractor tire.

Funny. Today when watching games, other than a select few I can't tell who the players are by number. I know many of the numbers by who wore the number. #13 is always Frank Ryan. RIP Dr. Frank Ryan. You accomplished much while on this journey.

Harrison Bryant has good hands. I think we can lean on him a bit more.

I went to the Owens induction ceremony here in Chattanooga. He played his college ball here. I saw him many times, so I am probably not the best person to seek agreement. Owens was pretty damn good.

Anybody know Howies E-mail? He was from the Cotswalds. He had a cool vid of the first time I gave him some real (good) Alabama Moonshine. His first shine for that matter.

I agree. I think Joel is HOF worthy. He just won't get in any time soon. How long did it take Gene Hickerson to get in? Not until he was drooling on his wheelchair. Seriously. Interior O linemen don't get a ton of love.

The Miami Sound Machine played here at the Riverbend Festival in maybe 1995. My wife was a board member and we had stage seats for the show....like 30 feet from the performance, side stage. It was a stormy, windy night. Several times the updrafts took her dress up above her head. Got to admit, she looked pretty darn good.

Maybe expand practice squads by a few. They have enough players. The roster is at 53, but only 48 are on the active gameday roster. Maybe expand the gameday roster to 50 players.

Good times for sure.

I think Stefanski coached one of his better games. He knew it was going to be a close game and coached accordingly. Somewhere I read, or maybe it was in a PC that earlier in the week AVP handed DTR a play sheet and told him to memorize those plays. DTR did. I think those plays were the plays we ran at games end. Pitt was afraid of a pass interference call late and played zone, something they didn't do much of prior to that last drive. When you talk about scripting plays, it is usually the opening drive. I think we scripted that final drive feeling it would be a close game and they would probably go to a zone, and might need as FG to win or tie the game with time running out. We used the script when we needed it most. Pretty brilliant.

I suppose it is possible some hairline fracture started to form. If so, ask your friend if it is easy to not detect such a fracture. Also, is it possible the bone wasn't even showing signs of a fracture but could somehow be weakened just the point it could fracture but hadn't?

I think we will be OK. We can win 4-5 games down the stretch. When in the playoffs, D usually rules the day. We have the D to go all the way.

I understand. That is why I said interred, not knowing if he was buried, placed in a wall, sitting on the mantel, or ashes spread out somewhere.

Stefanski isn't going anywhere, but if he did, I'd just promote Schwartz to HC.

I go up to most games and have often thought about paying my respect. Lay some flowers, maybe a baseball. Does anybody know where Stan is interred, if he is?

Maybe it's me, but that looks a bit like WSSteve.

Pretty much the usual spot.

I won't be tailgating. Plan on taking teh train out of brookpark around 9:30 and going in to the stadium when it opens. Great weather for a Nov game.

DPJ was a dime a dozen WR. He had some nice moments, but he is just a guy. We probably have 2-3 guys on the practice squad who can fill his shoes. We got a 2025 6th round pick for the guy. Low compensation for a guy not in high standing around the league. Good deal IMO. We got something for nothing. The Lions got a punt catcher.

I don't know. He strikes it pretty true. Something York struggled with though he will probably figure it out. For him, I hope he does. I don't hope for people to fail. That isn't to say DH isn't going to miss some kicks. All kickers do, even some shorter ones. All are going to make a bad strike. All are going to get a less than ideal holds and all are going to face some unpredictable wind conditions. To me kickers are like golfers who only have one club. Their distance is their distance. They can't pull out a 3 iron when all they have is a 4 iron. Even Ben Hogan, Jack, Tiger and Phil could hit bad shots, be it a bad strike, bad lie, or a screwy wind.

Two things on Hopkins. First: The knock on him was he had limited distance. Who the heck said that?. They were wrong unless they expect a kicker to nail 65-70 yard kicks. That 58 yard kick he made would have been good from 62-63 yards. No distance my ass. Second: My only question about DH is why was he even available?? He can kick for any team in the league.

Never been, but I always use google maps to check out areas before I go. I see mostly 1 and 2 star hotels near the stadium . Some going for $69 a night. My general impression is it pretty much a crappy area. Do what you want, but $69 a night pretty much borders on a flop house rate. I wouldn't stay anywhere near there. For that matter, i wouldn't go to LA for any reason.

When you look at it, the make it or break it number is probably pretty close to what it is for any position. The problem kickers face is that there is no back-up position for a kicker. You can't be kind of, sort of good. You need to be good.

I think it was late December, 63...was a very special time for me...Oh what a night