Pro Football Hall of Fame coach and legendary broadcaster John Madden died unexpectedly on Tuesday morning, the league announced. He was 85 years old.
"On behalf of the entire NFL family, we extend our condolences to Virginia, Mike, Joe and their families," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "We all know him as the Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders and broadcaster who worked for every major network, but more than anything, he was a devoted husband, father and grandfather.
He was legendary in 3 different fields: NFL HC, NFL broadcaster and NFL video game icon. Depending on your generation, some people grew up with him coaching games, others as an announcer and others as a guy with a video game. He might have been Mr. NFL.
Amazed at how all of these teams are suddenly being affected by Covid 19, and Cal was the only one affected during the season. Omicron may be more contagious, but something seems a bit strange.
Weren't a bunch of you "Cheer" fans? From today's NY Post:
"The hit cheerleading docuseries “Cheer” will make a surprise return to Netflix, with a Season 2 premiering on Jan. 12.
Season 1, which premiered in January of 2020, followed the nationally-ranked Navarro College Bulldogs Cheer team from Corsicana, Texas, as they prepared for the National Cheerleading Championship in Daytona Beach, Florida.
The series was a hit because it showcased the difficulty and athleticism of a sport that doesn’t get much mainstream spotlight.
It also had several breakout stars with intriguing life stories that captured audiences’ attention — including no-nonsense coach Monica Aldama; the talented but troubled Lexi Brumback; star cheerleader Gabi Butler who faced a lot of pressure from her parents; La’Darius Marshall, who faced homophobic bullying during his childhood and Morgan Simianer, who lived with her grandparents and faced a lot of personal tragedy.
The show’s breakout star Jerry Harris captured the world’s attention with his positive attitude and later worked the Oscars red carpet for Ellen DeGeneres. However, the series fell into scandal when Harris was arrested last year for sexual misconduct charges that included child pornography.
It seemed impossible that there would be a “Cheer” Season 2 after the dark shadow this development cast on the series, but it’s coming. According to Netflix, Season 2 will address Harris’ arrest and its impact on the team, as well as the difficulty of continuing cheer during the coronavirus pandemic.
The trailer shows coach Monica Aldama saying “I can’t even process it,” in reference to the news regarding Harris, while another teammate explains, “everyone just felt lost.”"
and I prefer 24-hour time...my computer, laptop, etc. are all 24 -hour time, but not because of the military. Just so I don't have to think "am or pm?"
I figured he was using the 24-hour time. I just think that it would be extra special to have the time and date completely match up but if you’re trying to get the most “2”s possible on a given date and time them clap doc is correct.
The current mortality rate in the US is about 1.6% of confirmed cases. That would lead to about 4,500,000 deaths in the US. Now I don't know how the mortality rate has changed over time, so this is likely a high prediction.
Enjoying the 3rd season of Sex Education, watched the penultimate episode of Insecure (will be sad when that's over) first episode of the second season of The Witcher was fun.
My wife and I started The Sex Lives of College Girls. I am enjoying it so far. It is obvious that it is a Mindy Kaling show, in terms of comedy and dialogue. It is basically a college and HBO version of Never Have I Ever.
Unfortunately not. It is based on a small liberal arts college and it makes me wonder what it would have been like to attend a smaller college/university rather than Berkeley.
Probably but my high school was relatively small. Student population of about 1,100 and my graduating class around 280.
Academically, I was a big fish in a small pond. I knew going to Cal would challenge me in all aspects of my life, not just academically and I would simply be a regular sized fish in a big sea.
My high school (in NJ) was similarly sized. My graduating class was 232.
By comparison, both my sons graduated from Berkeley High, which, in 2011 and 2014 was the 2nd largest high school in the state of California at around 3,600 enrollment. Both the Class of '11 and '14 was more than 850 graduates.
Had about 1,000 at my high school. After I got my acceptance letter with that gold sticker on it I kind of coasted through the second semester with as little effort as possible.
yup...had been wishing for that for a long time. even pre-Disney. they'd have to have recruited all new actors, tho, since it's only 5 years after RotJ.
Finished S2 of High Town on STARZ, of which I think I am one of about 11 people that have that channel on the West Coast....pretty solid. Makes me wanna go to Cape Cod, a spot I've never been to. Looks like it would be a lot of fun.
Now .. . I don't really believe Madison Crawthorn's ex-wife is a Russian asset, but his story about how he met her is really weird. He's in Sweden on vacation with some friends, and they decide to "randomly" hop on a ferry to St. Peterburg. A ferry which runs 3 times a week and takes 9 hours.
Then he meets a US Army Captain in a casino (which may or may not exist legally in Russia) then a year later that US Army Captain sends Crawthorn an invite to a Crossfit competition in Miami that Crawford attends, but it ends up being fake and a ruse for the army captain to introduce this woman to Crawford? I mean come on. This is really weird shit.
One thing I keep in mind is this: let's say for the sake of argument that Rep Crawthorn isn't in any way a Russian asset, he's still an absolute clown who probably shouldn't be in Congress given his flirtations with the far right, his track record of inappropriate behavior with women, etc etc.
I heard that one's gonna be a go. I have tickets to see Flipper at Bottom of the Hill on 12/30. If I'm gonna catch COVID, it might as well be from Yow getting in my face. But I think I'm just gonna eat the tix. Gahhhh.
My son wants to go see Jack Harlow at the Fox Theater in a couple of weeks. He wants to get GA tickets. I'm debating whether this is a good idea or not.
I am getting together with a couple of colleagues tomorrow and since the weather is set to be mild, I just strongly suggested we go to a place with lots of outdoor seating and heat lamps. I don't much want to be in a restaurant until this spike drops off next month or thereabouts.
I met a friend for lunch yesterday in Marin and we ate indoors. I think that will be the last of that for 4-6 weeks or so, or until rates come down. It's something that's easy for me to give up for a while to reduce risks.
I hadn't really gone back to eating in restaurants anyway - just trying to figure out where I'm drawing the line. Like the 19 y.o. went out with her boyfriend last night & he took her to an actual restaurant, which is pretty low risk for them overall, but we hadn't hit a general household policy on this.
I'm honestly just in "f*** it" mode at this point. I will stay home if I test positive or show symptoms, but otherwise I'm going out and doing whatever (following mask rules wherever they exist). I'm vaxxed and boosted, so my personal risk seems to be pretty low, and given how contagious the new variant is and how high the local vaccination rates are (Bay Area) I'm not sure who I'd be protecting by staying home.
I definitely got in an argument with my parents yesterday because my dad wouldn't wear an N95 for when he appraises houses; my mom insisted that the surgical mask was "just as good" because she has trusted sources from YouTube. So, I took my bossy self home.
Yeah everyone around my neighborhood has it. Most of them have been vaccinated multiple times. It also seems like they won’t stay home unless they are bedridden. No one seems to care anymore. Wonder how this stops.
No 2's GF got it over Christmas. Don't know how careful her family is. She actually had a booster appt a day ago but obviously she can't do that now. She was going to come on NY for a week before they fly back to Vandy. I think if she tests negative over 2 days before her flight she'll still come out.
I think it's just that infectious that people who were sorted versus Delta are getting caught out. We know a few people who weren't doing anything out of the ordinary between November and December but got Omicron this month.
It's going around in the lady friends' circle of friends. We were both exposed at her friend's bday party the week before xmas but we have both tested negative since
That seems to be the way of it in my neck of the woods also. I'm probably going to be a little more cautious until the wave drops off next month, but I'm not freaked out about it the way I was before I got vaccinated.
Yup - I feel like my family has been pretty diligent, and a couple of us got it. But we're all vaccinated so we barely had symptoms.
I've arrived at the camp of thinking that everyone is eventually going to get it and most vaccinated people who do get it will be just fine. The unvaccinated made their choice and have to live or die with the consequences.
Going to the Warriors game tonight. No 1 wanted to see a game vs Jokić. Looks like Wiggins is back. Poole is back but isn't going to play due to conditioning. But would still rather have Draymond.
Going to get there after 530 to watch Steph's warmup routine.
Of course he is, why wouldn't he be...but is he really tho? ;-)
Garoppolo always seems to have suffered some phantom injury whenever he schitts the bed as the Niners seek to keep his trade value intact (v SEA with the calf, @ Tenn). He looked fine in the post-game news conference, including opening a water bottle with no apparent discomfort, which has twitter abuzz.
Jimmy makes the same poor decisions and awful throws when he's 100%, like in the 1Q tho, so blaming it on the thumb is a stretch. Tough to see any team giving anything but a Day 3 pick for him.
Phantom in that no one can recall how they were suffered. Internet sleuths are speculating where the thumb injury came from, tho he showed no indication of it. Plus, the Niners reported a minor sprain 4 days later, and then the Garoppolo camp claimed it was more serious. Plus, he spent the last quarter of the season watching games from the press box, despite more whispers that he was healthy enough to play...hell Kittle came back on a broken ankle to play.
The calf injury v SEA was minor, with team sources being "surprised" he didn't play through it @ ARI. Garoppolo was wildly ineffective before that injury, same as at Tennessee.
This could just as easily be more a case of damage control for a 49er team that have watched an overpaid, average quarterback start for them for the last time. Guy is garbage.
Dolphins become the first team in history to loose 7 games in a row then turn around and win 7 games in a row in the same season. Of course that was impossible before the expansion to 14 games, and nearly so until the expansion to 16 games.
Expansion to 14 games: when did that happen? It's been (at least) 14 my whole life, so that's 50+ years of opportunity. Still, an impressive turnaround!
Wikipedia says that the NFL went to a 14-game schedule in 1961.
1961 was also the year in which Congress passed the Sports Broadcasting Act in response to a court decision which ruled that the NFL's method of negotiating TV broadcast rights violated anti-trust laws.
Huge tip of the cap to Miami co-offensive coordinator’s George Godsey & Eric Studesville...against a tough (tho depleted) Saints D, they got very creative with Jaylen Waddle, lining him up all over the field in order to maximize his touches. He was in the backfield, in the slot, out wide, etc., and got receiving targets and rushing attempts.
I’ll never understand why more OCs don’t think outside the box in order to find creative ways to get the ball into the hands of their most dynamic playmakers.
One challenge with that is that some of the folks who could be dynamic playmakers struggle with change and learning new plays and timing without a lot of repetitions.
If the players struggle with change and learning new plays, then just how dynamic are they to begin with.... ;-)...I think another issue is a lot of these OCs are either not creative enough, or just too plain stubborn, to do it.
Also, there's something to be said for finding ways to get the ball in the hands of your 1st round skill position players from Alabama, at least the ones NOT named Jerry Jeudy. But guys that are explosive with the ball in their hands usually know what to do with it.
One game where this was evident was that garbage Cheez-It bowl and Jalen Reagor...with TCU's QBs scuffling in the passing game, their OC did the Bears a favor by not using him on jet sweeps, bubble screens, etc. Cal just couldn't make them pay.
Dynamic with the ball, doesn't mean dynamic off the ball, which you need in the nfl to be able to get the ball. I'm thinking of guys who would need multiple reps of each play they are expected to know, not just be told 'run this pattern from this formation position' once and be able to get it.
I feel bad for anyone who travelled for the game, especially from North Carolina. But you know they're all saying "at least we're in San Diego!" They could be in El Paso...Shreveport...Birmingham...
You may be walking back that El Paso slander when we're all dancin' in the street upon hearing the Bears landed that elusive Sun Bowl invite from the guys in the yellow blazers.....
Mississippi State and the Pirate embarrassed in Memphis...looked like they did not want to be there....
John Madden, legendary Hall of Fame coach, dies at age 85
https://www.nfl.com/news/john-madden-legendary-hall-of-fame-coach-dies-at-age-85
The game of football has lost a legendary figure.
Pro Football Hall of Fame coach and legendary broadcaster John Madden died unexpectedly on Tuesday morning, the league announced. He was 85 years old.
"On behalf of the entire NFL family, we extend our condolences to Virginia, Mike, Joe and their families," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "We all know him as the Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders and broadcaster who worked for every major network, but more than anything, he was a devoted husband, father and grandfather.
Wow. What a loss for all football fans.
He was legendary in 3 different fields: NFL HC, NFL broadcaster and NFL video game icon. Depending on your generation, some people grew up with him coaching games, others as an announcer and others as a guy with a video game. He might have been Mr. NFL.
Like Keith Jackson, his voice was synonymous with big games.
Amazed at how all of these teams are suddenly being affected by Covid 19, and Cal was the only one affected during the season. Omicron may be more contagious, but something seems a bit strange.
Weren't a bunch of you "Cheer" fans? From today's NY Post:
"The hit cheerleading docuseries “Cheer” will make a surprise return to Netflix, with a Season 2 premiering on Jan. 12.
Season 1, which premiered in January of 2020, followed the nationally-ranked Navarro College Bulldogs Cheer team from Corsicana, Texas, as they prepared for the National Cheerleading Championship in Daytona Beach, Florida.
The series was a hit because it showcased the difficulty and athleticism of a sport that doesn’t get much mainstream spotlight.
It also had several breakout stars with intriguing life stories that captured audiences’ attention — including no-nonsense coach Monica Aldama; the talented but troubled Lexi Brumback; star cheerleader Gabi Butler who faced a lot of pressure from her parents; La’Darius Marshall, who faced homophobic bullying during his childhood and Morgan Simianer, who lived with her grandparents and faced a lot of personal tragedy.
The show’s breakout star Jerry Harris captured the world’s attention with his positive attitude and later worked the Oscars red carpet for Ellen DeGeneres. However, the series fell into scandal when Harris was arrested last year for sexual misconduct charges that included child pornography.
It seemed impossible that there would be a “Cheer” Season 2 after the dark shadow this development cast on the series, but it’s coming. According to Netflix, Season 2 will address Harris’ arrest and its impact on the team, as well as the difficulty of continuing cheer during the coronavirus pandemic.
The trailer shows coach Monica Aldama saying “I can’t even process it,” in reference to the news regarding Harris, while another teammate explains, “everyone just felt lost.”"
Loved this show, but somehow missed the Harris controversy and fallout. Gross.
Also, I don't think the people who watched this show are what you would call "fans" exactly, the way one might be a fan of say "Fraiser".
did you pick Frasier because of the Cheer(s) connection?
Sort of, recently watched the first 3 seasons of Cheers, that show was really funny right at the start.
yeah, lost it after coach "left"
when I read the first line, I thought it said "CheerS" fans. I'd watch a doc on that show...
It was a compelling and weird look into a strange world.
this is right in Fire Starkey's wheelhouse
2022 - What are you looking forward to?
Lower House Rebuild
That's the replacement of the family cabin that was destroyed in the Glass Fire on September 28, 2020.
Going to Spain for a few weeks in May. But who knows anymore.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022.
Ok, why?
2sday, 2/22/22. extra special at 10:22:22 pm.
Wouldn’t it be even extra special at 02:22:22 am on 02/22/22?
he set you up on that one! :-)
and I prefer 24-hour time...my computer, laptop, etc. are all 24 -hour time, but not because of the military. Just so I don't have to think "am or pm?"
I figured he was using the 24-hour time. I just think that it would be extra special to have the time and date completely match up but if you’re trying to get the most “2”s possible on a given date and time them clap doc is correct.
10:22 pm is 22:22:22 in military time
honestly not much, I might need to lighten up a bit
Boy, do I hear that. One has only so much energy to expend on "important" issues.
Roadburn Fest in Tilburg, NL in April.
Hopefully
Three weeks in Europe!
Hopefully a vacation finally.
Honestly, I have no clue.
Going to see Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit play at Red Rocks in May...
Not getting Omicron or any other variant of the 'rona.
Hoping to achieve this too. Probably means a new booster being out sometime in the spring that an alarming number of people will not get.
The current mortality rate in the US is about 1.6% of confirmed cases. That would lead to about 4,500,000 deaths in the US. Now I don't know how the mortality rate has changed over time, so this is likely a high prediction.
Cal football in South Bend
Are you staying in South Bend or driving in from somewhere else?
Newllbany and I are still determining this
stay in Chicago, party bus to/from South Bend
The Metra takes you down to South Bend from downtown and you can party.
3 hour drive?
the googlymaps says just under 2 hours
this is what the SC alumni do.
Moving back to the US, buying a new car, playing golf, buying a new bike and camping are kind of my list right now. Also re-upping vaccination.
DBD Not Financial Advice
DBD Test Kitchen
DBD AV Club
Watched Georgetown last night. Had no idea what it was about and never looked it up to see. Christopher Waltz directed & leading role. Found it fascinating. Based on one Albrecht Muth. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/georgetown-movie-review-2021
Who played Patrick Ewing?
Enjoying the 3rd season of Sex Education, watched the penultimate episode of Insecure (will be sad when that's over) first episode of the second season of The Witcher was fun.
My wife and I started The Sex Lives of College Girls. I am enjoying it so far. It is obvious that it is a Mindy Kaling show, in terms of comedy and dialogue. It is basically a college and HBO version of Never Have I Ever.
that's a good enough review to get me to watch it. is there a college/HBO equivalent of John McEnroe? ;-)
Unfortunately not. It is based on a small liberal arts college and it makes me wonder what it would have been like to attend a smaller college/university rather than Berkeley.
Just like high school?
Probably but my high school was relatively small. Student population of about 1,100 and my graduating class around 280.
Academically, I was a big fish in a small pond. I knew going to Cal would challenge me in all aspects of my life, not just academically and I would simply be a regular sized fish in a big sea.
My high school (in NJ) was similarly sized. My graduating class was 232.
By comparison, both my sons graduated from Berkeley High, which, in 2011 and 2014 was the 2nd largest high school in the state of California at around 3,600 enrollment. Both the Class of '11 and '14 was more than 850 graduates.
Had about 1,000 at my high school. After I got my acceptance letter with that gold sticker on it I kind of coasted through the second semester with as little effort as possible.
1,000 students in HS is fairly large, isn't it? My HS was about that size.
I was curious so I just looked up avg student population in US HS it's 750.
For anyone who liked the Timothy Zahn "Heir to the Empire" Star Wars trilogy (which is amazing, btw):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC9fYUDQ6CM
Seems like it'd have to be six parts. No idea how long Disney will let this live on the webs...
Disney should have just made this series episodes 7-9.
yup...had been wishing for that for a long time. even pre-Disney. they'd have to have recruited all new actors, tho, since it's only 5 years after RotJ.
Finished S2 of High Town on STARZ, of which I think I am one of about 11 people that have that channel on the West Coast....pretty solid. Makes me wanna go to Cape Cod, a spot I've never been to. Looks like it would be a lot of fun.
Our Crumbling Democracy
Now .. . I don't really believe Madison Crawthorn's ex-wife is a Russian asset, but his story about how he met her is really weird. He's in Sweden on vacation with some friends, and they decide to "randomly" hop on a ferry to St. Peterburg. A ferry which runs 3 times a week and takes 9 hours.
Then he meets a US Army Captain in a casino (which may or may not exist legally in Russia) then a year later that US Army Captain sends Crawthorn an invite to a Crossfit competition in Miami that Crawford attends, but it ends up being fake and a ruse for the army captain to introduce this woman to Crawford? I mean come on. This is really weird shit.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1475583481778475012?s=20
The GQP is an arm of the Russian state security agencies, so yes, he is a Russian asset.
One thing I keep in mind is this: let's say for the sake of argument that Rep Crawthorn isn't in any way a Russian asset, he's still an absolute clown who probably shouldn't be in Congress given his flirtations with the far right, his track record of inappropriate behavior with women, etc etc.
Of all the clowns in congress, he is the clowniest.
and beating up defenseless trees
only approved when in Palo Alto, I hear
Today in Omicron
I have tickets to see High on Fire for NYE at the UC theater. I'm kinda hoping it gets canceled, but will probably still go if it doesn't
I heard that one's gonna be a go. I have tickets to see Flipper at Bottom of the Hill on 12/30. If I'm gonna catch COVID, it might as well be from Yow getting in my face. But I think I'm just gonna eat the tix. Gahhhh.
FLIPPER?!?!?! Nuke the Whales Flipper?
Still able to make a dirgey racket.
My son wants to go see Jack Harlow at the Fox Theater in a couple of weeks. He wants to get GA tickets. I'm debating whether this is a good idea or not.
The fox requires vaccinations and "encourages" masks indoors
Maybe an ok idea for him, slightly less ok idea for you, worse idea for your mom?
Yes.
I feel like my whole life right now is hoping that plans I have made get canceled.
I am getting together with a couple of colleagues tomorrow and since the weather is set to be mild, I just strongly suggested we go to a place with lots of outdoor seating and heat lamps. I don't much want to be in a restaurant until this spike drops off next month or thereabouts.
I met a friend for lunch yesterday in Marin and we ate indoors. I think that will be the last of that for 4-6 weeks or so, or until rates come down. It's something that's easy for me to give up for a while to reduce risks.
I hadn't really gone back to eating in restaurants anyway - just trying to figure out where I'm drawing the line. Like the 19 y.o. went out with her boyfriend last night & he took her to an actual restaurant, which is pretty low risk for them overall, but we hadn't hit a general household policy on this.
I'm honestly just in "f*** it" mode at this point. I will stay home if I test positive or show symptoms, but otherwise I'm going out and doing whatever (following mask rules wherever they exist). I'm vaxxed and boosted, so my personal risk seems to be pretty low, and given how contagious the new variant is and how high the local vaccination rates are (Bay Area) I'm not sure who I'd be protecting by staying home.
I definitely got in an argument with my parents yesterday because my dad wouldn't wear an N95 for when he appraises houses; my mom insisted that the surgical mask was "just as good" because she has trusted sources from YouTube. So, I took my bossy self home.
some plans more than others
Sigh.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/587434-fauci-says-cdc-cut-isolation-time-so-people-return-to-work-faster
Isolation guidelines will be revised if the omicron spike does not abate.
dolla dolla bills y'all
Just anecdotally, it really seems like a ton of friends who had been careful, masking, vaccinated, not going out much - are catching the 'Cron.
Yeah everyone around my neighborhood has it. Most of them have been vaccinated multiple times. It also seems like they won’t stay home unless they are bedridden. No one seems to care anymore. Wonder how this stops.
No 2's GF got it over Christmas. Don't know how careful her family is. She actually had a booster appt a day ago but obviously she can't do that now. She was going to come on NY for a week before they fly back to Vandy. I think if she tests negative over 2 days before her flight she'll still come out.
Very much the same. My circle has been largely unimpacted by previous waves. This one, tons of positives, especially among the 20-somethings.
I think it's just that infectious that people who were sorted versus Delta are getting caught out. We know a few people who weren't doing anything out of the ordinary between November and December but got Omicron this month.
It's going around in the lady friends' circle of friends. We were both exposed at her friend's bday party the week before xmas but we have both tested negative since
That seems to be the way of it in my neck of the woods also. I'm probably going to be a little more cautious until the wave drops off next month, but I'm not freaked out about it the way I was before I got vaccinated.
Yup - I feel like my family has been pretty diligent, and a couple of us got it. But we're all vaccinated so we barely had symptoms.
I've arrived at the camp of thinking that everyone is eventually going to get it and most vaccinated people who do get it will be just fine. The unvaccinated made their choice and have to live or die with the consequences.
In this line.
And a Yup to you as well.
Pro
John Madden died. He was fun to listen to.
Going to the Warriors game tonight. No 1 wanted to see a game vs Jokić. Looks like Wiggins is back. Poole is back but isn't going to play due to conditioning. But would still rather have Draymond.
Going to get there after 530 to watch Steph's warmup routine.
And I can't believe the Chase Center doesn't allow outside food.
Not terribly surprising. Although it is kinda nitpicky.
Stop me if you've heard this one: Jimmy Garoppolo is injured again.
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1475610164489244672
Of course he is, why wouldn't he be...but is he really tho? ;-)
Garoppolo always seems to have suffered some phantom injury whenever he schitts the bed as the Niners seek to keep his trade value intact (v SEA with the calf, @ Tenn). He looked fine in the post-game news conference, including opening a water bottle with no apparent discomfort, which has twitter abuzz.
Jimmy makes the same poor decisions and awful throws when he's 100%, like in the 1Q tho, so blaming it on the thumb is a stretch. Tough to see any team giving anything but a Day 3 pick for him.
I . . . don't think his previous injuries that caused him to miss time were phantom ones.
Phantom in that no one can recall how they were suffered. Internet sleuths are speculating where the thumb injury came from, tho he showed no indication of it. Plus, the Niners reported a minor sprain 4 days later, and then the Garoppolo camp claimed it was more serious. Plus, he spent the last quarter of the season watching games from the press box, despite more whispers that he was healthy enough to play...hell Kittle came back on a broken ankle to play.
The calf injury v SEA was minor, with team sources being "surprised" he didn't play through it @ ARI. Garoppolo was wildly ineffective before that injury, same as at Tennessee.
This could just as easily be more a case of damage control for a 49er team that have watched an overpaid, average quarterback start for them for the last time. Guy is garbage.
Saints vs. Dolphins score: Miami wins seventh straight as defense throttles Ian Book; Jaylen Waddle dominates
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saints-vs-dolphins-score-miami-wins-seventh-straight-as-defense-throttles-ian-book-jaylen-waddle-dominates/live/
Dolphins become the first team in history to loose 7 games in a row then turn around and win 7 games in a row in the same season. Of course that was impossible before the expansion to 14 games, and nearly so until the expansion to 16 games.
Expansion to 14 games: when did that happen? It's been (at least) 14 my whole life, so that's 50+ years of opportunity. Still, an impressive turnaround!
Wikipedia says that the NFL went to a 14-game schedule in 1961.
1961 was also the year in which Congress passed the Sports Broadcasting Act in response to a court decision which ruled that the NFL's method of negotiating TV broadcast rights violated anti-trust laws.
I think it may have happened in 1970 or 1971. 1970 was the year of the NFL-AFL merger.
this would line up with me being 4 or 5 year's old, so my life has been at least 14 games. I just found out recently that it's now 17, yeah?
The NFL schedule went to 17 regular season games this year.
If you were born after 1960, the NFL was using a 14 game regular season schedule until 1977. In 1978 the regular season schedule expanded to 16 games.
Huge tip of the cap to Miami co-offensive coordinator’s George Godsey & Eric Studesville...against a tough (tho depleted) Saints D, they got very creative with Jaylen Waddle, lining him up all over the field in order to maximize his touches. He was in the backfield, in the slot, out wide, etc., and got receiving targets and rushing attempts.
I’ll never understand why more OCs don’t think outside the box in order to find creative ways to get the ball into the hands of their most dynamic playmakers.
One challenge with that is that some of the folks who could be dynamic playmakers struggle with change and learning new plays and timing without a lot of repetitions.
If the players struggle with change and learning new plays, then just how dynamic are they to begin with.... ;-)...I think another issue is a lot of these OCs are either not creative enough, or just too plain stubborn, to do it.
Also, there's something to be said for finding ways to get the ball in the hands of your 1st round skill position players from Alabama, at least the ones NOT named Jerry Jeudy. But guys that are explosive with the ball in their hands usually know what to do with it.
One game where this was evident was that garbage Cheez-It bowl and Jalen Reagor...with TCU's QBs scuffling in the passing game, their OC did the Bears a favor by not using him on jet sweeps, bubble screens, etc. Cal just couldn't make them pay.
Dynamic with the ball, doesn't mean dynamic off the ball, which you need in the nfl to be able to get the ball. I'm thinking of guys who would need multiple reps of each play they are expected to know, not just be told 'run this pattern from this formation position' once and be able to get it.
Other College
Today's Bowls:
#20 Houston v Auburn noon ET
Air Force v Louisville 3:15 ET
Miss St v Texas Tech 6:45 ET
U.C. Los Angeles v #18 NC State 8:00 ET
WVU v Minnesota 10:15 ET
Holiday bowl was just canceled.
I feel bad for anyone who travelled for the game, especially from North Carolina. But you know they're all saying "at least we're in San Diego!" They could be in El Paso...Shreveport...Birmingham...
You may be walking back that El Paso slander when we're all dancin' in the street upon hearing the Bears landed that elusive Sun Bowl invite from the guys in the yellow blazers.....
JFC SMH
SEC falls to 0-3 this bowl season
Go Bears.
Probably will DVR the UCLA game and watch it later tonight
Update: Holiday bowl canceled due to the decimation of UCLA's D-line (COVID).
Wow, talk about a late cancellation. It is too bad because Cal could have probably filled in for this bowl game since it is California.
The human indicator known as Jimmy Chitwood bet Air Force...FYI...proceed accordingly...
soooo....go all in on Louisville, then. Got it.
Oh please do...the only thing more frigid than the former Mrs. Jimmy C's heart is Newellbany at the betting window....;-)
Yeah, I'm terrible at the window, but New York is about to legalize online sports wagering and I expect I'm gonna CRUSH it on the phone!
Crush what? Your bank account? Have you been reading too much of Jon Wilner's 5 star (loser) bets?
YES! Getting it done!
Cal
GO! BEARS!
Go Bears!
Go Bears!!!