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Allen spent a lot of time throwing to the wrong team for the first few years. He had to grow into his role. I also think that Jackson wasn't first in this new generation of running QB. It seems like Mahomes came before him, and RG III certainly did. RG III was all that is right and wrong about running QBs, too. He was great his first year, then got hurt, and that was pretty much the end of him. He was a backup, last I heard, and might be out of the league this year.
I'm a little surprised that RG III didn't start out with the Browns. His career arc is a very Brown's style of arc: Start with a lot of promise, flame out fast.
Look at Colin Kaepernick too. For one season he was really good because he’d run around but had a cannon for an arm. The issue with him was that defenses started putting a nickel spy on him and his game was over because he had accuracy issues. Then all the politics put the nail in his coffin.
I don't put Mahomes in the same category as Jackson. KC's offense isn't designed around Mahomes running. He is a good runner, a smart runner. I've always considered him as a very mobile qb. I put Allen somewhere between Mahomes and Jackson. Hurts and Philly are very interesting this year. Both the offense and defense seem to be really good. Though they did just give up 41 to Dallas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
As long as Tampa Bay doesn't win the Super Bowl (not that I think that's likely) I'll have fun watching how this all unfolds. Brady winning another SB would just be too annoying. lol
Kaepernick also had trouble getting through his reads. If his first was covered, he'd tend to take off running.
Will Tampa Bay even make the playoffs?
Yeah, if they win out. If the Panthers win out then they will be division winners. They play each other this week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Tampa can barely beat weak teams, this year.
Dug the car out after it sat for 6 days through the winter storm. Started right up, so perhaps the battery doesn't need to be replaced yet after all.
Took a drive to put a little charge back on it, and midpoint went grocery shopping in the one-horse town. Short on some things like eggs and bread and prices pretty high but I'm sure they can use the business. Shocked to find that my "loyalty card" for the small local chain of stores is still good. Had to use it by giving my phone number, I haven't used the card in 20 years and probably don't have it in physical form any more.
They even gave me the "senior discount" which is the first time I've ever been offered that.
I can tell things are warming up, my round trip averaged a hair over 41 miles/gallon. So far my winter average is only 37.5 so I'll take the temporary improvement.
I got a senior discount at 21 or 22. I was hiking the AT and a hotel gave me the discount. It was basically that I was poor, but I like to think that I also looked pretty decrepit.
Decrepit? I'll have to hang onto that hat then after all.
Being old, feeble, and boring I'm not much of a tippler. But with New Year's Eve coming again I wonder how others go through the night imbibing.
Sure, lots of us have our reasons to abstain, but for the rest of you what's the game plan look like? Gradually soaking up beer? Toasting with wine? Champagne countdown(s)? Random punch? White bow tie and shaken but not stirred?
Is it a TV event, or a hall full of nostalgic crooners and swing dancers?
I don't drink, and I don't intend to increase my uptake of tea just because of a date on the calendar, but I'd also say that I am not going to stay up late to watch an arbitrary time on a clock.
Looking at the world so logically sounds awfully boring. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Though I'm not doing anything, I can remember some fun times on New Years eve. I'll be awake, I'm always awake at midnight. I'll probably have some wine after dinner, I usually do anyway. The explosions going off in the neighborhood will go on till @ 1.
This normally is a quiet evening at home for me these days as well, along with the pops and bangs of low-end pyrotechnics you described.
It came up because some of the neighbors here are looking at the abnormally high temperatures we expect a planning an outdoor event. They've since come to their senses and realized "warm" is only a relative thing and that most who go out for NYE at all already have plans.
We're left with the flyer that went out asking for preferences for music, whether to have a keg, and the possibility of going in on grilling brats and dogs.
I've never been a heavy NYE boozer, but beer seemed like an odd choice to me. In the past we mostly went with a little sparkling wine or even non-alcoholic sparking white grape juice. I'm told that's pretty dated now and people are more likely to go with completely artificial fruit-flavored grain alcohol concoctions.
Yeah, an outdoor NYE party this time of year doesn't sound very inviting. Burrrr
Though I did go to one at a camp up by Yosemite. It was in a large meeting hall indoors but no heat except a fireplace. To darn cold but still managed to have fun. But I was 25yrs old, it would kill me now a days. lol
We had our warm temperatures. A storm is moving in, currently. It likely won't be snowing or raining by midnight in the valley, though it might be.
I had forgotten about the fireworks. That'll likely wake me up, unless the storm dampens people's enthusiasm...or at least their wicks.
Oops, I forgot what day it was. The storm will be over by New Years Eve. Maybe I should go skiing?
My neighbor hit the duty-free shop on the way back from Canada last weekend.
Among other things they picked up a gross of something called "BuzzBalls" and gave me a pair. One lime and one peach. They swear these aren't as awful as they may look and sound.
Probably the most drinking alcohol in this house for at least 4 years.
So far, we've done well on the snow in the latest round. Rain in the valley, though, which is also good. Safe walking conditions.
We're in a spell ranging from high 30s to low 50s with misty rain here and there for another week or so. No real record-breaking though. It'll turn cold again after that and probably stay cold.
I got super sick the past couple of days. Running a small fever of 100 and coughing up a lung, but I think I’m over the worst of it.
My son actually got his tonsils removed yesterday and I was dying on the ride home from NOLA, but it hurt me so bad because he woke up from anesthesia in so much pain.
Why'd he get them removed? I thought that was largely a thing of the past.
He was still wetting the bed even though he is about to turn 9, they think it was sleep apnea from his tonsils. Also they were always getting infected and he constantly got tonsil stones.
In fact, his surgeon said that when she squeezed his tonsils after they were removed it was like a millions ants (tonsil stones) running out of an ant hill (tonsil).
Never heard of a tonsil stone. Is that like a nose nugget?
Probably not.
I get tonsil stones all the time, but my parents decided not to take out my tonsils (which I have mixed feelings about).
Basically they are bacterial build up that get stuck in your tonsils. Usually they don’t hurt, but occasionally they do.
The alpacas are ready.
Great! Anyone wanna pet 'em?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonker Gudd
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So I tried one of the BuzzBallz. 15% alcohol by volume. Tastes like poison.
Not my cup o' tea, so I'm missing nothing.
That's a bit how I feel about most hard liquor. The taste would be better without the alcohol.
The CFP semi-finals were wild.
- I did not expect TCU to embarrass Michigan like that
- I did not expect Ohio State to keep the game close, let alone lead for the majority of the game
- That kick at the end of the game was embarrassing. I cannot kick 30 yards let alone 50 in a high stress environment, but there are some expectations on division 1 kickers. While 50 yarders aren’t automatic, they should be nail biting but that last kick was absolutely horrendous.
My childhood friend’s grandmother was from Columbus and was a huge fan of “The” Ohio State. Anytime they played we would always pick at each other. She passed away two weeks ago and so I didn’t get to rub the loss in her face.
Sounds like Four Loko. That stuff is just plain nasty.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
I find it highly amusing that all the haters are never willing to admit the Buckeyes are better than they want to believe. Remember it was only a 5-point spread in what was basically a home game for Georgia.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Think about this: At the exact moment sports gambling became legal in the state of Ohio the OSU kicker missed the most important kick of the year.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Outside of Michigan and Notre Dame, Ohio State didn’t play anyone worthwhile this year. It’s like Clemson (every year), I don’t know how to accurately gauge them until they play someone worthwhile. Michigan beat the ever living crap out of them and the Notre Dame win wasn’t very convincing.Quote:
Originally Posted by homer13j
That’s why I was surprised at not only how close the game was, but that also Michigan got creamed for most of that TCU game.
I'm not a big college football fan but I usually check out the bowl games at the end of the year. I can't remember ever seeing TCU playing for the championship. It's fun to see a new team in the mix. It would be even more fun if they won.
College football rankings are hopeless. They don't (and realistically can't) play enough games to really get a good picture of the whole field, and it is never a good idea for a reasonably good team to play other good teams. So long as record matters, you're better off playing against teams that are safely weaker than you are. That's especially true because any given game can turn on a fluke play, or two, and you only get one game against anybody in a season.
At least in the NFL, the rankings within a conference are reasonably correct.
Maybe the rankings in college are also reasonably correct. After all, truly figuring it out is unreasonable. You can't play a best of seven series. The rate of injury is so high that the last game would have both teams fielding different players from the first game, though hopefully not entirely different teams.
Meanwhile, it's a new year. There's a chance I might be leaving Idaho this year. I'll be figuring that out over the next few months. If that doesn't happen, I'll be taking a nice, long, bike ride in the late spring. About 1800 miles, is what I'm thinking about.
I think I've found the new Nostradamus,
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opini...p/10938362002/
Pretty funny.
Has Idaho run out of fish??? Moving anywhere interesting?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Not sure if I'm moving at all, let alone where. Retirement is looming in the not-quite-distant-enough future, and I am figuring out what I'm going to do with that. Changing jobs rather than totally retiring is one option, depending on it putting me doing something I want to do in a place I want to be.
There is a lot to consider for sure. I had plans that never panned out because the 2008-era economic woes pretty much wiped out the town I was planning to retire to. I suppose I should be thankful I hadn't committed to any real estate there. I'd been eyeballing it for years.
Back then, I considered buying a sizable tract of land in northern Idaho. Eventually, though, I checked Google Maps and realized that I could drive to Seattle, Salt Lake City, Yellowstone, Bozeman, and Reno in less time than it would take to get to northern Idaho. This is a long state...and the one highway that goes the length of the state is not always fast and not anywhere near straight.
It seems the media has feel in love with a new phrase. "Atmospheric River" We've been getting hit with a lot of rain here lately and that is the most popular term to describe the weather. A week ago I had never heard that term. It's like a totally rad phrase man!!!! lol
AR, pineapple express - all terms in the weather before...media loves a good tag line
Pineapple express roll across lower Canada and hit New England all the time - we hate it here, lol!
I remember hearing it a lot 3 years ago or so. Not much if it all before that though.
This isn't a media thing. Atmospheric rivers were discovered only quite recently, and it has been only in the last few years that categorizing them has become a thing in meteorology. Without a name, it was just rain. Now that satellites can show the size, extent, and motion of them, it's possible to do real forecasting with them. Therefore, expect to hear about them a whole lot more, now. It's not because of a change in how media is reporting things, it's a change in how the science is describing them.
I sure never heard the term before. Maybe because this is the first significant rain storm in our area in a long time. Though other parts of the country have had significant storms and I never saw that term. One of life's mysteries.
So it's the scientist fault. Figures.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
We've had satellites tracking the weather patterns for a lone time, I wonder what's new/changed.
Never mind, just read the term has been around since 1994. Just took a long time for it to catch on. lol
I don't think it's so much a matter of 'catching on', as being measured. There are several things, like hurricanes, tornadoes, burritos, and the like, where the item was around for a long time, but until we had a rating system...it didn't do all that much good for most people. For example, a hurricane is just a storm. A category 1 storm might be fairly narrow and insignificant, whereas a category 3 storm could result in serious flooding along with wind damage. By being able to classify them, the impact of the thing can be better understood, and people can plan for them more effectively.
I was a bit surprised to hear that atmospheric rivers have been described for so long, but I've certainly been hearing about them for at least a decade. What has really changed is that there is now a categorization scale that might become as commonly used as the scale for hurricanes. It might not, too, because it's a two-axis scale. One axis has to do with volume of water, while the second axis has to do with speed of movement. A high-volume, but fast moving, atmospheric river might not do all that much. Similarly, a slow moving, but low volume, atmospheric river might not do much, either. A slow moving, high volume, atmospheric river will certainly mean extensive mudslides in this part of the country, and flooding in places where the hills are more likely to stay appropriately upright.
I was reading about that scale in just the last couple years. I have yet to hear it used in a weather forecast, though, so we'll see whether or not it catches on. At least the weather service offices are likely aware of it.
I know this guy has been using it for years in his vlogs: https://www.mrmbb333.com/
He's a bit "out there" though, mixing weather phenomena with wackier stuff like UFOs and crazy talk about "frequencies" in the new age fringe science sense.
Well, some of weather IS a bit out there. Lightning strikes may be associated with cosmic rays. Some drugs can be associated with cosmic thinking. So, perhaps it's all related?
We're getting a 'warming trend' over the next few days. The problem with our warming trends is that we require some fairly strong winds to scour the cold air out of the valleys. We won't be getting much wind, though, so we may end up with the oddly perverse conditions that seem to arise every winter: It can be bitterly cold in the valley, while the snow is melting off the ski areas 4,000 feet higher.
In the worst case, it's not just cold in the valley, but overcast and foggy. The fog will then freeze on everything, which looks quite nice. If one then drives up to go skiing in the cold weather, they will break out of the clouds into a sunny, near cloudless, day, with temperatures warm enough to make the skiing less than wonderful.
I say "near cloudless", because there IS a cloud, and it's a big one, but it's below you.
We're suppose to get a series of rain storms over the next several days. Sacramento could be in trouble, they already have some flooding from the last storm. All the rivers are very high. Luckily most of them have a dam system on them. I'm a little south of Sac so probably not going to be to much problems here, except for the usual street flooding.
No salmon swimming across the roads?
Salmon walk in Ca.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Salmon chant, in Idaho.
Though only in the evening, I should add.