It did - if memory serves it was an ice storm rather than snow, but I'm not at all sure of that.
When I worked with folks based in NOLA, they all fled the office because of 1/4" of snow, but when you live in an area with a ton of bridges / elevated roadways and no salting / plowing equipment, that's enough to bring things to chaos.
Ice is terrible, I'll take a foot of snow over a half inch, or maybe even a quarter of an inch, of ice any time. The trouble in this climate is the snow is rarely dry enough; snow inevitably leads to surface melting which refreezes, and we get a sheet of ice over snow.
I know it did on US26 in Beaverton a couple of years ago. Slowed to a crawl.
I'm hoping things open up in the fall. I'm thinking of taking the Miata up to Portland to visit some friends. Also would take the Miata down Hwy 1 to LA if No 3 ends up going to college in LA. More than likely it will be in Southern Ca.
I can't remember any flights until I moved to Anchorage about a year after I graduated. Of course, back in the olden days air travel wasn't quite so common.
My mom took me to Taiwan when I was 8 months old. We were living in Cleveland at the time, and I don't know which set of layovers was involved (sometimes, my family drove to Detroit to fly), but my parents still talk about how I cried so much that old ladies on the plane were scolding my mom, and she walked up and down the aisle with me the whole time. That sounds awful for everyone involved, but whenever this story gets told, there's some measure of blame placed on my head, and like...that seems really unfair.
the first time we took my older daughter to the west coast to see my folks, she was about 9 months old. She was an absolute angel on the flight to Oakland, to the extent that she left the plane with lipstick marks from the flight attendants on the way out.
HOWEVER
by the time we flew home, she had started cutting a tooth, so she spent the entire flight standing on my lap with her face about 4" from mine making a low whining noise.
Totally not her fault.
This was when I discovered that my wife has zero chill when flying (not because she's frightened to fly or whatever) and by default I had become the in-flight child entertainer. Which was fine, it was just a surprise.
15 to go to Canada for a family wedding. I think there was a mistake with the tickets because we all separated, so they put my middle sister and me together as the youngest kids. To this day, I'm surprised no one was willing to switch seats to at least let a few kids sit together.
New Jersey to England when I was 9, with a stop-over in Newfoundland to re-fuel. Frustratingly I don't remember which type of airplane it was for sure, but I think it was a DC-8.
we used to have to stop in Honolulu for trans-Pacific flights when they first started in the 80s. before that we used to always fly SFO>JFK>LHR>Delhi to get to India
part of me wants to go on one of those bonkers long flights (Newark - Singapore or London - Perth) just for the sake of it, but i would certainly be doing it alone.
Newcastle - Rotterdam - Newcastle when I was 11. We had already moved out of our house in the Netherlands & were on an extended visit with family in the UK prior to moving to California... then we had to make a last minute visit to the US consulate in Rotterdam to resolve some kind of visa issue. Otherwise my first flight would have been one way LHR - LAX.
For the longest time, we kind of dressed up when flying. We also dressed up for going out to live theater. Perhaps I am a curmudgeon, but I am not a fan of cargo shorts at a musical or pajamas on a plane.
before i can remember. i am sure i was less than 1. so were each of my kids ..
in a somewhat more interesting and memorable story. we went to London for 2 weeks in 2007 right after little one was born. she was 8 wks old and just had her first set of shots.
my wife was still on maternity leave so we figured it would be easier for me to work from London for 2 wks w/ the whole family instead of leaving her behind to deal w/ 2 kids.
it was a great experience because we stayed in a nice corporate 2 BR flat. after that we went on vacation for a week in northern Italy.
Down to LA with my sister when we were < 10 to go to Disneyland. My dad was down there for a business trip so we flew down. Not sure why my mom didn't come down with us.
Same thing, except the fried potatoes in my house were different than the ones in your house. I will note that what was common and what now is is very different, especially as it relates to vegetables.
well, both my parents are/were narcissists to some degree and when my mom passed, cleaning that house out...was something. Plus the co-dependent relationship she had with my brother. Both of them had some love/hate there. Ugh
Objectively, "The Birds" is not that scary, but when I first saw broadcast on TV, it freaked the fuck out of me - and actually low-def B&W TV viewing made the FX more convincing. Watched it recently after coming back form Carmel and watching giant flocks of birds at the estuary.
Never saw it (I think) but I was aware that it existed. When I was a kid in England, I watched all the classic Universal monster movies that were late night either Friday or Saturday (can't remember which)
Something about the ending of The Blair Witch Project really got under my skin. I didn't want to go into the basement of my parents' house, had trouble sleeping that night.
Arachnophobia in the theater back when it was released. I remember seeing people sitting in front of me literally jumping out of their seats. Probably throw in Se7en and It: Chapter 1 for good measure.
I remember being genuinely terrified walking out of the theater after seeing The Ring. I also saw Aliens when I was 4 or 5, IT when I was ~6 and Jurassic Park when I was 7 and those all fucked me up for a bit.
I don't get scared at movies, but the most suspenseful, by far, was Dead Again with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. Really really good. Didn't see the twist coming at all.
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
“In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to colleagues that raised the 14th Amendment, “we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both.”
But ending Trump’s presidency under the 14th Amendment is probably impossible, scholars say, because there is no mechanism for removal in the provision. It could, however, be used to prevent Trump or other politicians who supported the insurrection from holding office again.
This impeached, one-term president refused to go to his successor’s inauguration. Now Trump will do the same.
Gerard N. Magliocca, an Indiana University law school professor who has studied Section Three, said a majority vote in Congress would express lawmakers’ opinion that Section Three applies. The courts would then have to make that legal declaration.
“It’s not just something that Congress can do,” he said in an interview.
Interesting angle. It seems like orange man's activities are definitely an insurrection, but the problem is the lack of a mechanism in this case to check the power of the executive branch. 9 days and counting.
Yes, every Republican who voted to challenge the electoral votes should be tossed out, but hard to see that happening - one good thing, a whole host of companies are saying they will no longer donate to anyone that voted to challenge.
The 7-foot wall was a standard obstacle when I did Spartan races. And there were even 8-foot walls. Both are totally doable by yourself if you're in shape. A seven-footer is child's play to go over if you have someone helping you.
Totally scalable, even for me and I'm shorter than your average bear.
But if the intent is just to keep out an angry mob of non-military insurgents during one event (i.e., with security monitoring anyone coming over), then it's probably good enough.
Parler CEO tweeting that he can't find a web host. Parler is backed by the Mercers, specifically Rebekah Mercer, a Stanford alum an billionaire heiress also behind Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica.
Someone was able to get administrative rights to Parler and is uploading all personal data to a cloud device for law enforcement. Sounds like “verified citizen” status on Parler required front/back photos of drivers licenses which is how the feds have been able to track and create no fly lists so quickly.
"Someone was able to get administrative rights" to a database containing confidential information. That's scary on a number of levels, but a not surprising indictment that this "spun up on the quick" system was not run by people competent to be doing it. (Not that competence has been a consideration for this crowd on any issue.)
I think that if you look at it as a data harvesting operation from the start, the lack of focus on preventing administrative access becomes easier to understand.
The only guy getting his name passed around on right-wing media as a left-wing activist arrested for the riot (though crucially, even they don't call him Antifa) is John Earle Sullivan:
However, as it turns out, this guy has already been identified by left-wing activist types as a suspected infiltrator who really supports right-wing causes and is trying to make the left look bad.
seeing lots of video online of people being arrested at airports and being kicked off planes for taking part of the capitol storming. They're all officially on the no-fly list
Nickelodeon broadcast the Bears-Saints game with some kid-friendly additions: simple rules explanations, amusing animations superimposed on players after big plays, a giant spongebob superimposed over the uprights on field goals. It was a pleasant alternative to the usual network broadcast.
University of California President Michael Drake announced today in this message that the University of California is planning for a return to primarily in-person instruction systemwide in fall 2021.
I also think McVey called a smart game. Didn't try to throw deep very much, kept everything short and midrange with lots of playaction.
Of course, it also helped that Seattle's D was getting blown off the line on running plays and that Russ threw a pick-six. Not sure what happened to that team.
That CB play on the pick-six was amazing. What a great read. I wonder how good they really were, kinda like how the Steelers finished 1-5 to end the season. I'm not sure how good they really were when they started 11-0.
Yeah, both those teams had hot starts that they couldn't keep up. But in Big Ben's case you can see that he's obviously getting old. Russell Wilson is supposed to be in the prime of his career and couldn't outplay Jared Goff with a broken thumb.
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Elsewhere in college
Snow. In Texas.
https://twitter.com/AggieFootball/status/1348378044130615296
we got a couple inches in Austin yesterday. SNOW DAY SNOW DAY
i saw lots of happy Austin friends making snowmen
Did traffic ground to a halt because there isn't any snow removal and Austin-ians don't know how to drive in the snow? In Portland it does.
Didn't that happen to us22 a few years back?
It did - if memory serves it was an ice storm rather than snow, but I'm not at all sure of that.
When I worked with folks based in NOLA, they all fled the office because of 1/4" of snow, but when you live in an area with a ton of bridges / elevated roadways and no salting / plowing equipment, that's enough to bring things to chaos.
Ice is terrible, I'll take a foot of snow over a half inch, or maybe even a quarter of an inch, of ice any time. The trouble in this climate is the snow is rarely dry enough; snow inevitably leads to surface melting which refreezes, and we get a sheet of ice over snow.
I know it did on US26 in Beaverton a couple of years ago. Slowed to a crawl.
I'm hoping things open up in the fall. I'm thinking of taking the Miata up to Portland to visit some friends. Also would take the Miata down Hwy 1 to LA if No 3 ends up going to college in LA. More than likely it will be in Southern Ca.
no idea, I refused to go outside. Shit was cold, yo
That's how I feel about snow in Taiwan
Your first airplane ride
predates my memory but i was born and was living in pittsburgh and then all of a sudden i was in hong kong from ages 3-4
I can't remember any flights until I moved to Anchorage about a year after I graduated. Of course, back in the olden days air travel wasn't quite so common.
SFO-HNL when I was 2, as far as I know. We got chocolate milk on the plane. It's possible there was something earlier, but I don't know.
My mom took me to Taiwan when I was 8 months old. We were living in Cleveland at the time, and I don't know which set of layovers was involved (sometimes, my family drove to Detroit to fly), but my parents still talk about how I cried so much that old ladies on the plane were scolding my mom, and she walked up and down the aisle with me the whole time. That sounds awful for everyone involved, but whenever this story gets told, there's some measure of blame placed on my head, and like...that seems really unfair.
the first time we took my older daughter to the west coast to see my folks, she was about 9 months old. She was an absolute angel on the flight to Oakland, to the extent that she left the plane with lipstick marks from the flight attendants on the way out.
HOWEVER
by the time we flew home, she had started cutting a tooth, so she spent the entire flight standing on my lap with her face about 4" from mine making a low whining noise.
Totally not her fault.
This was when I discovered that my wife has zero chill when flying (not because she's frightened to fly or whatever) and by default I had become the in-flight child entertainer. Which was fine, it was just a surprise.
totally unfair!
I think I was relatively old compared to others.
15 to go to Canada for a family wedding. I think there was a mistake with the tickets because we all separated, so they put my middle sister and me together as the youngest kids. To this day, I'm surprised no one was willing to switch seats to at least let a few kids sit together.
indeed, people are strange and the politeness level goes to nearly ZERO for strangers.
Middle school East Coast/DC trip in 8th grade.
I think it was to Hawaii when I was about 11.
8th grade for my class trip to Virginia/DC/New York.
New Jersey to England when I was 9, with a stop-over in Newfoundland to re-fuel. Frustratingly I don't remember which type of airplane it was for sure, but I think it was a DC-8.
I remember flying to Paris on ATA and we stopped over in Newfoundland to refuel as well. It was an L-1011 so I guess they don't have the same range.
i thought ATA was some sort of domestic low cost airline?
they used to be international low cost I guess. I flew out with my mom and sister and we had a whole 5 seat row to ourselves.
we used to have to stop in Honolulu for trans-Pacific flights when they first started in the 80s. before that we used to always fly SFO>JFK>LHR>Delhi to get to India
When we went to Taiwan in 85, we did SFO->Honolulu->Taipei. On the way back we stayed in Honolulu for maybe 4 days.
last time we went to India (1998) we flew non-stop from ORD to Hong Kong on a 16 hr affair.
part of me wants to go on one of those bonkers long flights (Newark - Singapore or London - Perth) just for the sake of it, but i would certainly be doing it alone.
I don't remember, but I'm guessing it was Oakland to Ontario on Southwest to visit my grandparents.
Newcastle - Rotterdam - Newcastle when I was 11. We had already moved out of our house in the Netherlands & were on an extended visit with family in the UK prior to moving to California... then we had to make a last minute visit to the US consulate in Rotterdam to resolve some kind of visa issue. Otherwise my first flight would have been one way LHR - LAX.
LA to Chicago when I was around 5. We flew out there to visit my great grandmother not too long before she passed.
Ten years old, flight to Hawaii
Down to LA for a family vacation to Disneyland.
For the longest time, we kind of dressed up when flying. We also dressed up for going out to live theater. Perhaps I am a curmudgeon, but I am not a fan of cargo shorts at a musical or pajamas on a plane.
I was raised to dress up for both of those situations too.
before i can remember. i am sure i was less than 1. so were each of my kids ..
in a somewhat more interesting and memorable story. we went to London for 2 weeks in 2007 right after little one was born. she was 8 wks old and just had her first set of shots.
my wife was still on maternity leave so we figured it would be easier for me to work from London for 2 wks w/ the whole family instead of leaving her behind to deal w/ 2 kids.
it was a great experience because we stayed in a nice corporate 2 BR flat. after that we went on vacation for a week in northern Italy.
Down to LA with my sister when we were < 10 to go to Disneyland. My dad was down there for a business trip so we flew down. Not sure why my mom didn't come down with us.
Something you grew up with that you found out later was not common or normal
Mayo with asparagus and artichokes
I grew up with this also. Asparagus and Artichokes are pretty much the only things I like to put Mayo on.
artichokes, yes; asparagus never.
what about aioli?
Mayo with a better agent. 😄
I was mayo with artichokes and broccoli. Still eat it that way to the disgust of the Missus
Eating rice with everything (I mean, it's not common among white people).
home made fries with dinner most nights
Same thing, except the fried potatoes in my house were different than the ones in your house. I will note that what was common and what now is is very different, especially as it relates to vegetables.
Broccoli and ketchup (or catsup as my grandpa would say)
my parents
isnt that everyone? My parents are effing WEIRD
yes, but some years of therapy have uncovered just how unusual they were.
i was a little surprised when my therapist used the word "psychotic'
well, both my parents are/were narcissists to some degree and when my mom passed, cleaning that house out...was something. Plus the co-dependent relationship she had with my brother. Both of them had some love/hate there. Ugh
Mrs FS frequently comments that she doesn't understand how I turned out so relatively normal
TIL: The "green birdflower" literally looks like green hummingbirds
https://www.audubon.org/news/did-plant-evolve-look-bunch-hummingbirds
What is the scariest movie you ever saw?
candyman
The Exorcist when I was babysitting and had put the kids to bed.
Pet Semetary
That scarred many for life!
Objectively, "The Birds" is not that scary, but when I first saw broadcast on TV, it freaked the fuck out of me - and actually low-def B&W TV viewing made the FX more convincing. Watched it recently after coming back form Carmel and watching giant flocks of birds at the estuary.
Batwing. Scared the shit out of 5 year old me (or however old I was). Orca sucked too
wait, it was called Nightwing...1979. Fuck that movie
Willard. (We;ll see if anyone remembers that.)
Sequel: "Ben" with famous MIchael Jackson song.
Yep. Ben would have been even scarier had one not been pre-shocked by Willard.
Something about rats? TV movie?
Yes, about rats. Both were in theaters, but were also CBS Friday Night movies (which was a HUGE thing at the time).
Full disclaimer, I hate rats. More than almost anything.
Never saw it (I think) but I was aware that it existed. When I was a kid in England, I watched all the classic Universal monster movies that were late night either Friday or Saturday (can't remember which)
Late Saturday night monster movies. Godzilla, Mothra, the Monster from the Swamp, and on and on.
Something about the ending of The Blair Witch Project really got under my skin. I didn't want to go into the basement of my parents' house, had trouble sleeping that night.
Agree,
Arachnophobia in the theater back when it was released. I remember seeing people sitting in front of me literally jumping out of their seats. Probably throw in Se7en and It: Chapter 1 for good measure.
The Deer Hunter. On psy. mushrooms.
I have never tried Psilocybins. Maybe I will when the Bears go to the Rose Bowl.
☠️
I remember being genuinely terrified walking out of the theater after seeing The Ring. I also saw Aliens when I was 4 or 5, IT when I was ~6 and Jurassic Park when I was 7 and those all fucked me up for a bit.
I don't get scared at movies, but the most suspenseful, by far, was Dead Again with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson. Really really good. Didn't see the twist coming at all.
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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
https://twitter.com/i/status/1348360474178449408
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/11/14th-amendment-trump-insurrection-impeachment/
Now THIS is interesting: (14th Amendment)
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
“In protecting our Constitution and our Democracy,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to colleagues that raised the 14th Amendment, “we will act with urgency, because this President represents an imminent threat to both.”
But ending Trump’s presidency under the 14th Amendment is probably impossible, scholars say, because there is no mechanism for removal in the provision. It could, however, be used to prevent Trump or other politicians who supported the insurrection from holding office again.
This impeached, one-term president refused to go to his successor’s inauguration. Now Trump will do the same.
Gerard N. Magliocca, an Indiana University law school professor who has studied Section Three, said a majority vote in Congress would express lawmakers’ opinion that Section Three applies. The courts would then have to make that legal declaration.
“It’s not just something that Congress can do,” he said in an interview.
What about the Congress men and women? Could they be booted out?
Interesting angle. It seems like orange man's activities are definitely an insurrection, but the problem is the lack of a mechanism in this case to check the power of the executive branch. 9 days and counting.
Eff McCarthy, he should be thrown out of Congress.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1348668986133721088
And Dallas as well...
Yes, every Republican who voted to challenge the electoral votes should be tossed out, but hard to see that happening - one good thing, a whole host of companies are saying they will no longer donate to anyone that voted to challenge.
A clear majority now supports impeachment.
https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1348667624285155331
Sadly, I don't even consider 56% to be a clear majority.
After seeing what happened on Wednesday, I'm disappointed it's only 56%.
56% is a clear majority, I’m just sad it isn’t an overwhelming majority.
Anything over 50% is a clear majority in my book. And as is noted in the article, that's much higher than any previous impeachment support, pre-trial.
Just in time, the Army erects a 7-foot tall fence around the Capitol Building
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/scalable-fencing-erected-capitol-security-ramped-mob-attack/story?id=75133610
It looks tricky to climb, but "non-scalable"? That sounds like a challenge...
The 7-foot wall was a standard obstacle when I did Spartan races. And there were even 8-foot walls. Both are totally doable by yourself if you're in shape. A seven-footer is child's play to go over if you have someone helping you.
Totally scalable, even for me and I'm shorter than your average bear.
But if the intent is just to keep out an angry mob of non-military insurgents during one event (i.e., with security monitoring anyone coming over), then it's probably good enough.
How will Trump get his message out without social media???
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-communication-explainer/explainer-how-will-trump-get-his-message-out-without-social-media-idUSKBN29G138
Parler CEO tweeting that he can't find a web host. Parler is backed by the Mercers, specifically Rebekah Mercer, a Stanford alum an billionaire heiress also behind Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica.
On Parler someone posted a message requesting people that took park in the insurrection to post name, address, details so Trump can pardon them.
https://twitter.com/loisbeans/status/1348034815111561216?s=21
and they were dumb enough to do it
pltm at "WH Office of Pardon Attorney"
Hahahaha; as if
Someone was able to get administrative rights to Parler and is uploading all personal data to a cloud device for law enforcement. Sounds like “verified citizen” status on Parler required front/back photos of drivers licenses which is how the feds have been able to track and create no fly lists so quickly.
https://twitter.com/birdrespecter/status/1348557067351519234?s=21
"Someone was able to get administrative rights" to a database containing confidential information. That's scary on a number of levels, but a not surprising indictment that this "spun up on the quick" system was not run by people competent to be doing it. (Not that competence has been a consideration for this crowd on any issue.)
The person (i believe it was a she) was hired or volunteered as a moderator or content monitor
I think that if you look at it as a data harvesting operation from the start, the lack of focus on preventing administrative access becomes easier to understand.
Did those gullible buffoons submit SSNs and credit card numbers too?
I think I saw somewhere that they were supposed to submit pictures of their social security card. Idiots.
photos, video, both private and deleted were scraped including geolocation
Interesting.
There was a decent amount of insurgents who were identified and canceled over the weekend. Interestingly, zero Antifa identified.
The only guy getting his name passed around on right-wing media as a left-wing activist arrested for the riot (though crucially, even they don't call him Antifa) is John Earle Sullivan:
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1347318930138918930
However, as it turns out, this guy has already been identified by left-wing activist types as a suspected infiltrator who really supports right-wing causes and is trying to make the left look bad.
https://twitter.com/RebellionBaby/status/1331902008765206528
And that's their best case for Antifa's involvement.
seeing lots of video online of people being arrested at airports and being kicked off planes for taking part of the capitol storming. They're all officially on the no-fly list
Here is a compilation of the domestic terrorists being arrested to “Layla”
https://twitter.com/BL0NDAMBITION/status/1348415203092951043
Their meltdowns are epic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CapitolConsequences/
In a twist of cruel irony, one was Emily Rainey, who resigned her military commission as a PsyOps captain.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emily-rainey-fort-bragg-captain-resigngs-washington-rally-army-investigating/
is irony even a strong enough concept for her actions?
PRO
Nickelodeon broadcast the Bears-Saints game with some kid-friendly additions: simple rules explanations, amusing animations superimposed on players after big plays, a giant spongebob superimposed over the uprights on field goals. It was a pleasant alternative to the usual network broadcast.
https://twitter.com/johnbreech/status/1348398180552081408
https://twitter.com/johnbreech/status/1348390735096270849
It was interesting. We watched for a little bit. No 2 was too lazy to change the channel.
It seemed to have fewer commercials too, which was the biggest benefit.
We did laugh at some of the announcers comments. They had Young Sheldon explain the penalties. That was a bit annoying.
Rather good Wild-Card weekend in the NFL overall.
CAL
Won our first MBB game this weekend.
Oops, our first Pac-12 win, not our first win. My bad.
Drayden officially coming back too
https://twitter.com/TWOZER0_/status/1348747417714257920?s=20
WBB: Cal falls at home to Ducks by 59 points
https://www.dailycal.org/2021/01/10/cal-falls-to-0-10-on-season-after-tough-loss-to-no-11-oregon/
Why is our women's team so terrible?
not that I follow them closely but I think almost literally, every player on the team is injured and they were young to begin with
Goode returning for another year?!?!?
So his twitter says...
https://twitter.com/camgoode19?lang=en
University of California President Michael Drake announced today in this message that the University of California is planning for a return to primarily in-person instruction systemwide in fall 2021.
Goff vs. Rodgers in next weekend's playoff game.
Who to root for?....Looks like Mitchell Schwartz is still on injured reserve.
Rodgers obviously
That's my preference too. But I also want to see Goff play well. Even if the Rams lose.
Win-win in my book. I hope just both teams have a good time out there.
I've been critical of him, but all credit to Goff for playing well under very difficult conditions.
Agreed, he was a bit rusty at the start but slowly improved throughout the game.
I also think McVey called a smart game. Didn't try to throw deep very much, kept everything short and midrange with lots of playaction.
Of course, it also helped that Seattle's D was getting blown off the line on running plays and that Russ threw a pick-six. Not sure what happened to that team.
That CB play on the pick-six was amazing. What a great read. I wonder how good they really were, kinda like how the Steelers finished 1-5 to end the season. I'm not sure how good they really were when they started 11-0.
Yeah, both those teams had hot starts that they couldn't keep up. But in Big Ben's case you can see that he's obviously getting old. Russell Wilson is supposed to be in the prime of his career and couldn't outplay Jared Goff with a broken thumb.
the Steelers definitely had issues. but they were also probably not as bad as their 0-28 start in the game vs the Browns.
will really be a matchup of Rams defense vs GB offense, me thinks
Hilarious!