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Except at x. Or, at least not as much as the other two WR positions. An x-receiver can just fly. Their primary function is to stretch the defense. That's not ONLY it, but it is the primary. Add in blocking... if you have a good rookie x who is also a good blocker... they may not get every nuance down their rookie year, but blocking and stretching the defense covers 2/3's of what they would be asked to do... maybe more... You can go with rookie + Reynolds + Cephus... Easily IMO, if you select the right guy in the draft...

Unless they actually SEE him (on TV or at-the-game, doesn't matter...).

"With last night's loss, Detroit is assured of finishing no lower than tied for 3rd with Charlotte..." Detroit has 8 games left. They'd have to go 8-0 to do this and Charlotte would have to lose every single game for even this to happen. Essentially, Detroit cannot finish lower than the top 3 and I don't even count Charlotte. Detroit would have to win 2 games or 3 games and Houston/ SA lose every single game for a position swap to happen. I think Houston is the one and only team realistically within that range. I think we are stuck in the top two, and only if we beat Houston is there a chance to finish 2, instead of 1. Just my 'pinion.

I'd rather just draft a new WR. Maybe one who could stay on the field.

Simon now has the goal. They correctly switched it.

Luff didn't touch that. It went off the Blues' defender's skate. And then ricocheted twice off the goalie (right skate left knee) before sliding in for the score... Simon is a Pinball Wizard!!!

Of course they do. But I'm not a player, I'm a fan. I'm giving MY perspective... as a fan.

I see this as simply an additional venue/ event to celebrate the winner of Super Bowl LVIII.

There is also one thing I agree with Hongbit on: We are not playing for 2023, we are playing for 2024. Miggy doesn't matter in that regard, nor do wins/ losses this year. What matters is we fix all our broken players and try to identify who can be a part of a competitive/ playoff team next year. Fix Mize, Skubal and Torkenson. Fix Baez (if he sticks with us next year), Meadows and E-Rod (same as Baez, see if he sticks for the remainder of his contract). If Baez and E-Rod are hot at the deadline, and adamant about opting out, trade them for other futures. Help Greene & Manning to improve their games/ reach higher levels. See what kind of players Vierling/ Maton/ Carpenter/ Parker/ Wentz/ Brieske are... are they pieces of the team? As is? Or does Brieske get pushed to the BP? Same with Faedo... is he a starter/ reliever/ or someone to move on from? How high this year do Madden and Flores rise? Is Wenceel a part of the future? Schoop surely isn't. These and many other questions are the important issues this year. Not wins & losses. To me.

On this part (all of it, not just the bolded part) I agree with. The only way to "early retire" Miggy is if would agree to it. Oh how I wish Miggy would take a buyout (100% pay out of course, but I mean the roster spot) to become a Bench Coach/ Goodwill Ambassador. But he wants to play, so he will. As much as his body allows... even if he goes 0 for 100. All I can do is bitch about it... and be glad when it's over and done with.

There's our inside pass rush. I like the idea...

Or is it better to have a utility player that allows certain players to take a day off or be substituted for properly (including game injury); rather than forcing a starting player to play through an injury because instead of having a proper backup to cover for the guy... we have a Corpse Formerly Known as Miggy Cabrera on the roster? Asking for a friend.

I have no complaints whatsoever... With paying off his final year and telling him he's off the roster. And he can still stay with the team as a Bench (cheerleader) Coach and wave to the fans every game. And hobnob with all the other players (both teams) in all the day's downtime... No complaints whatsoever. PS: this is not an old man yells at cloud situation, btw...

PS: 6 + 1 = 7. btw.

They could also drop Schoop and add a multi-tooled IF'er... which might help some... I still think Haase and maybe Carpenter/ or Meadows needs to learn 1B.

Obviously Lee was just joking... But I gave you some love for this post anyways because... It just all makes so much sense...

Even better: I'm pushing the IGNORE button:

Missing a third button there... "He's a guilty Mo-Fo so lock him up and throw away the key" That's the button I'm pushing.

Case in point: "Trump betrayed us": https://www.yahoo.com/news/betrayed-us-why-trumps-call-205747693.html

China is literally pushing Russia out of Central Asia. Another embarrassment for Putin & Russia. They (Putin/ Russia) are losing face/ political influence/ soft-power hard-power... by the minute. They are a severely diminished country. With nukes. https://www.yahoo.com/news/xi-snubbed-putin-summit-calling-123050319.html

PS: Russia's military stocks that are "comparatively deep"... Means they are using tanks from the 1950's against Leopard, Abrams, and Challenger tanks, broomsticks and shovels to attack machine guns, and Ladas to carry generals to the front... to be killed (again). Your cute little article is badly outdated, patently false, and entirely misleading and a misrepresentation of battlefield truths.

Except that a million Russian men have ditched Russia for other countries due to Putin's Infamous Foolhardy Folly. No one wants to fight for Russia because they know that they will be fighting with broomsticks and shovels against, effectively, a NATO force. The Ukrainians have converted themselves from a ragtag Soviet relic to a NATO mimic using an amalgam/ hodgepodge of donated drones, helmets, artillery, and other mishmashed weaponry donated by countries who didn't want to see the Ukrainians exterminated in a Russian Nazi Genocide against them. With training in western technology and fighting methods, every Ukrainian man, woman, and child is willing to fight to the death in order to save themselves from extermination from Putin's murderous genocidal thugs. Sort of like Israel's 5+ million Jews protecting themselves from 400 million Muslims surrounding them. Most hostile. Successfully. But you don't understand these things... correct? Go ahead and find an article that says otherwise, and post it here. I'm certain many will be influenced by all these wonderful articles that you post to change their minds to your way of thinking. Not.

My mistake... it's in Amur Oblast, near the border with China and not in Kamchatka. I don't know why Kamchatka stuck in my head... probably Risk (hah!). Vostochny Cosmodrome... has actually been in service and had 10 of 11 successful launches there, since 2016. I guess I haven't been paying attention lately... Something must have distracted me since about, oh, say... 2016. (Can't think of what that would be...). Last I remember Putin was firing everyone there because of corruption and construction delays... but that must have been quite awhile ago and, as I said... I lost track...

I wouldn't want to make any judgement calls at this point because you know Fetter will tinker in season and all along (from start to finish... pardon the double entendre...). I think Turnbull was well above average when he left off (to TJ) and appears tp have gotten back to that. So I'm hoping well above average for the year (like maybe a decent #2 starter?). I always viewed Boyd as a 5th starter guy but with his added pitch/ experience maybe he can be a plus #3, which I also would consider well above average. Manning is an unknown to me simply because i don't know if he gets better/ stronger as the season goes along... if Fetter tinkers with him and he starts reaching higher heights... or this is as good as it gets. No clue how this will turn out. Lorenzen...? Just hoping he can keep us in some games as a 5th. Barely average or even less than. I like where eRod is right now. As usual... health is a huge thing for this team and for each of these starters...

I'm on board with Bridgewater... if he'd want to come here. Wentz and Ryan would be fallbacks to me...