nickg0205

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You voted for an old white man with a history of making questionable comments regarding race

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Pretty sure this would have been the case in the previous election regardless of the candidate no?

The problem is when they don’t settle in to a style of play and end up doing too much. It’s the playoffs... there’s no reason Humphrey should see the field. Kamara shouldn’t be off the field in a 3rd down passing situation.

Payton needs to stop outsmarting himself in big games.

The Saints are still the 3rd team in the pecking order here after the Cowboys, but part of it just luck of scheduling (unless the NFL has quietly done it intentionally).

They've managed to avoid overlapping time slots with those other 2 teams for the most part this year on Sundays, in addition to the Game of the Week / primetime games.

Unfortunately the people with the power to change it are those that benefit from it and have no incentive to do so...

Where has he been that would be considered being a "working man"? Pretty sure he doesn't know what being in lower-to-middle income brackets--working his arse off to get by--looks like.

Neither political leaning has a monopoly on doing terrible things (both by followers and elected officials), as much as people like to pretend.

Extremism (and this race by both to those extremes) is bound to continue to make things worse by giving those on the fringe more and more of a push with every passing day.

Everyone doing political commentary make things fit their narrative -- neither liberals or conservatives have a monopoly on that.

Hell, the Fox News link (and OP's commentary) in this post is doing exactly that, since that part of the interview talks about confirmation bias and the impacts of social media algorithms' tendency to surface only those ideas and beliefs that are like our own. No one called anyone "deplorable" or was derogatory toward anyone else (although the liberal audience had their own opinions, I'm sure).

Didn't think that scenario through all the way -- but no, don't there would be anywhere that you'd be pay more if itemization doesn't come into play.

I don't get the "superteam" accusations -- the only difference is that now it's players putting it together through their own decisions and actions instead of management. Any sustained success has relied on having several great players and coaches.

If LeBron averaged the same stats as Jordan's best finals year... the Cavs would still have lost all 3 games so far.

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How much do we give to Israel?

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Way too much for a country that needs to be able to survive on its own at some point...

So what around here would be considered "unbiased" news?

I don't think Peterson blitzing is so bad, but I would much rather him be out in coverage when the offense is down by a lot and has the throw the ball. I think Mathieu showed that we have other fast defensive backs who can run a blitz.

For passing, I think that it can be too crowded in the endzone, because you're also drawing too many defenders into the same space.

I agree that 4 WR and a back would be better. Same number of receiving options, but with the back coming out of the backfield, you have a bit more space, and also have the option of a HB draw, or motioning him out for a QB draw.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of the QB draw on short yardage with Jefferson though. He doesn't seem to be confident enough sometimes to just lower his shoulder when he needs to. That perception could just be more of a matter of his indecisiveness on the option though.

I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm satisfied, but I am definitely feeling more confident about the team, because of the earlier point about the will to win that the team is showing. That's something that didn't seem to be there last year. They may not be pretty, but a win in the SEC is a good win, no matter how you get it.

This is the same team that went 3-5 in the SEC last year, now starting 3-0 with 2 road wins. That sort of experience with winning will also help their confidence, which was really deflated last year after the blow out loss the Florida. I think it'll be an even bigger confidence boost that the game was won with a play on offense, since the offense has really struggled with putting teams away when given the opportunities. They'll need all of that confidence going up against the Gators next week. Hopefully they can keep it going.

I think that as long as they compete well with Florida, win or lose, this team will be able to beat the 8-4 predictions from the beginning of the year. We'll just have to see if they can capitalize and keep up the effort.