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  1. One time..... just once..... following a meaningless win during a lost season.... I think it was late 2018..... the dude in charge of music played this song as everyone was exiting the stadium. I sincerely wish they would play it after every win. Welcome To The Jungle Richard Cheese, from "Aperitif for Destruction"
  2. Tomorrow, we Reds fans get to say those three magic words that will only be true on Opening Day. "We're in First"
  3. Updating: Wembley: Jets at Jaguars Spurs: Rams at Bears / Texans at Vikings Allianz (Munich): Bengals at Panthers Sau Paulo Brazil: Current Browns at Eagles (Week 1 Friday, seemingly confirmed)
  4. Hold the presses! I just stumbled across this! Linky: https://sports.yahoo.com/either-packers-browns-play-eagles-175114816.html "Either Packers or Browns will play Eagles in Brazil for Week 1 of 2024 season Zach Kruse Tue, Mar 26, 2024" So, PHI is opening their season in Brazil, and based on the earlier tweet they're playing CFT. And since it's Week One, no "loss of rest" issues since neither have a game before and both will have 2 extra days after. So CFT-PHI looks close to a lock if the leak is accurate.
  5. Of course the term "Season Opener" here could mean the first Friday Night game of the season, not necessarily the first game of the entire season. But even if that were the case and this game were mid-season, I doubt the league would make teams fly to Brazil for a Friday game, taking two days' rest off the table in a game the NFL wants to use to showcase their product and expand into a new market. The only way I see CFT-PHI as still being Brazil is if both got a bye the week prior.... long but not impossible odds. In spite of all of that, I view this announcement as taking CFT-PHI out of Brazil and will find new International pairings as a result.
  6. CFT-PHI will not be in Brazil. This makes GBP-PHI the leading candidate for Brazil, assuming no intra-divisional game and no team traveling in consecutive seasons. I'll redo the full analysis today, and I expect there will be some impact to the other International pairings, but I don't think this affects the likelihood of CIN-CAR significantly.
  7. Current "acknowledged" processing time from the State Department for issuance of new Passports is 6-8 weeks. Experience has shown that they under-estimate fairly regularly to avoid looking like total schmucks, and to generate extra revenue when people freak out and pay for last-minute "expedited" service. Realisitically, once your application is completed, your photo taken, and everything is double-checked and paid-for at your local full-service Post Office, you should get your Passport within 9-12 weeks. Possibly sooner, but generally not. Nerdwallet recommends applying no less than 6 months before you need it, as they're reporting that State is "warning of massive delays". State is recommending submitting the paperwork three months before you need the Passport, which by the +50% rule, means 4-1/2 months, minimum. If the game is in late October and you believe State, with the +50%, then you should apply by early June. If you don't believe State, you should apply by mid April..... or, to put it another way.... immediately.
  8. Only three more days until Reds fans get to say those words we never get to say any other day of the year: "First Place Reds"
  9. If not for his lack of academic eligibility, he would be perfect for UK or any of the SEC schools - could really help them when they play juggernauts like Oakland or Yale.
  10. Thanks for posting this. The NFL has made this VERY WORDY AND CONFUSING but it is very similar - I'd say nearly identical - to the kickoff rule used in the XFL. Here's a video explaining the XFL kickoff rule - if you understand this, you'll pretty much understand the NFL version. (This video explains ALL of the major XFL/NFL rule changes, kickoff was explained first so you only need to watch the first 40-50 seconds to get it.) It dramatically cut down on injuries, and turned the return basically into something similar to the old schoolyard game "Red Rover" that we used to play when I was a kid. If the returner can find a hole and bust thru, he'll have only the kicker to beat to get to paydirt. The first KO TD was scored - of course - by the St Louis BattleHawks. Ka-Kaw!! In 2023, the XFL modified the rules, adding stuff like "landing zones" and such, and it ended up making the kickoffs LESS exciting, as it resulted in the returner getting posession signficantly further behind the faceoff line, allowing the defense time to collapse and penetrate the returning team's line, limiting the opportunities for the returner to find the "Red Rover" hole and punch through. I always thought that if the teams lined up five or ten yards closer to the returning team's end zone, the returner would have a better chance of busting through the line even though the defenders are all closer to him at the start. We'll see if the NFL's tweaks will improve this back to the "cool" level that the 2020 XFL set of return rules had.
  11. Let's bow our heads and thank the Jets for taking Zach Wilson in 2021 1 - JAX - Trevor Lawrence (Pro Bowler) 2 - NYJ - Zach Wilson (Jets can't even give him away) 3 - SFF - Trey Lance (2nd or 3rd string in DAL) 4 - ATL - Kyle Pitts (Pro Bowler) 5 - CIN - Ja'Marr Chase (Pro Bowler) 6 - MIA - Jaylen Waddle (was really good on my fantasy team when Hill was down this year) 7 - DET - Penei Sewell (Pro Bowler) 8 - CAR - Jaycee Horn (played all of 4 games last year and 20 in the three seasons since drafted) 9 - DEN - Patrick Surtain II (Pro Bowler) 10 - PHI - DeVonta Smith (kicked my butt in the Fantasy Bowl this year - lost by a TD because of that fucker) If NYJ had passed on Wilson and taken another QB, Lance, FIelds, and Mac Jones were the next three taken. One washed up, one now a backup in PIT, and the last is a headcase. And, as mentioned above, if Chase had gone before our pick, Sewell was our man. He dosen't catch as well as Ja'Marr, but we might have been okay with him otherwise.
  12. In case anyone cares, here's the # of picks on Days 1 & 2 for each team - including compensatory selections and trades -as of all of the announced trades by midnight Saturday 3/16 (Ties broken in favor of more earlier round picks - AFC-N teams in bold) 6 (1-1-2-3-3-3) ARI 6 (1-2-2-3-3-3) WAS 5 (1-2-2-3-3) GBP 4 (1-2-3-3) ATL CIN LAR PIT TBB 3 (1-1-3) CHI 3 (1-2-2) PHI 3 (1-2-3) BAL DAL DET IND JAX KCC LAC LVR NEP NYG SFF 3 (2-2-3) CAR HOU 2 (1-1) MIN 2 (1-2) BUF DEN MIA NOS TEN 2 (1-3) NYJ SEA 2 (2-3) CFT
  13. Denver spent way too much cash and capital and we're in a bind. They were stuck paying his ridonkulous salary whether he played for them on not, so PIT swooped in to exploit their mistake and got Wilson for nothing. In other words, DEN got drunk and was backed into a corner bathroom stall where PIT took advantage of them. The rape analogy still fits.
  14. PIT gets Justin Fields CHI gets 6th round pick that could become a conditional 4th if he actually plays Even though Jerry Sandusky and Ben Roethlisberger are gone, Pennsylvania is still quite comfortable raping others to get what they want.
  15. Russ is much better at QB than I am - maybe 100x better - so I'm willing to cut Denver a deal. They could pay me $250K, less than 1% of Russ' salary, for me to not play for them.
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