MichiganCardinal

Eagles are exercising some of the dumbest play calling I’ve ever seen

Eagles should win. Lions back in the pole position for the home stretch.

Eagles have the Packers calling a timeout under 2:30 and then throw two consecutive incomplete passes. The Eagles coaching isn’t good. They’re talented enough to win a Super Bowl. But they’re not well coached.

Lions should really beat the Packers on Thanksgiving. If the offense has their woes figured out, whether by choice or force, there’s no reason they can’t put up 20+ on that defense, which should be more than enough against Jordan Love as long as they take care of the ball.

These teams suck.

Good time for a pick six

These teams suck.

The rise (and fall!) of MAGAism will be studied for generations to come. Personally, I think a great deal has to do with FOX News coverage of Obama's presidency. You had who was really a moderate liberal in office, who couldn't capitalize in any meaningful way from 2008-2010 and who didn't do much of note from 2010-2016.* But he was black and his middle name was Hussein. And you had a news station, watched by millions who may not have liked his policies to begin with, who told you 24/7 that the WORLD WAS ENDING under his regime. He was coming for your guns! He was secretly a Muslim! He wasn't even born here! It was all utter nonsense flavored with a solid dose of racism, but for eight years, that nonsense got a platform. It's all that was fed to a lot of boomers and those who subscribed to those channels (in addition to the others that cropped up, be they InfoWars, Breitbart, etc.), who already lacked a great deal of creative thinking skills. So in 2012, and the 2016 primaries, when the GOP tried to then pivot and use traditional real-world conservatism, with the Mitt Romneys, John McCains, and John Kasichs of the world (and to a lesser extent even Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio pre-2016), it wasn't going to work. Haven't you heard? The WORLD IS ENDING! Then Trump came along and said "YES! The WORLD IS ENDING! And I'm the only one who can save you all. MAGA." A cult isn't built in a day. Trump is but a weak, insecure man who was born into swindling the poor and uneducated. It's the infrastructure that built the following he inherited that is really to blame, IMO. *To be clear, I'm not diminishing Obama's tenure in relation to post-2016, but rather highlighting that he wasn't actually the Antichrist to conservatism.

Of course it won't. You said it yourself, nothing has changed for ten years, why would it change overnight? The best to be hoped for is the status quo, which is still a bandaid over a bullet hole. And the status quo seems unlikely in the current political climate. There probably is a reckoning coming for the GOP. Trump's name will (hopefully) never appear on a ballot again. Notwithstanding 2020, they haven't been seriously successful on a ballot his name isn't on since what, 2014? Can they secure the level of crazy vote he brings without him at the helm? To what extent will someone saying they're a MAGA Republican matter as he fades into the sunset? I won't underestimate that contingent again after 2024, but I don't think it's a given that Trump voters are automatically Vance voters, no more than it was a given that Sanders voters were automatically Clinton voters. A large number are voting for the person, not the party.

I think the dead weight will necessarily ultimately over-inflate the new model, at least initially. Do Florida, Georgia, and Alabama really want Mississippi State, Missouri, and Arkansas? Probably not. But it's easier to bring them aboard than have it never happen because they all join up to destroy the whole thing. That's why I ultimately kept the entire current B1G and SEC. UNC and Duke are probably marginally more profitable than Northwestern and Illinois, for starters. Maybe there's a way to structure the revenue sharing to compensate for it. It would be a bit unprecedented to not have the Yankees keeping the Marlins afloat. Wouldn't that be something though, if a new model forms and instead of teams clamoring to jump on board, five years pass and the Arizona States and Purdues are seeking to get out because they aren't competitive enough to make a profit?

I don't know. As one of the people who isn't getting paid right now, it's hard not to see that the lesson learned from these 40 days is that Rs just need to outlast Ds. Rs don't care about collateral consequences. Who cares if the country is starving, or whatever humanitarian crisis results from the next shut down? They just return to their talking points and blame the other side. Likewise, Rs surely don't care that not paying governmental workers, many of whom could make much more in the private sector (but chose federal government for its supposed "mission," "benefits," and "security"), is causing long-term ripple effects in having a significantly worse workforce. The January shut down might very well go on for even longer. And then what?

The year is 2029. The new Coalition of Collegiate Football Institutions (CCFI) kicks off its inaugural season after coming to a settlement with the NCAA, Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12, and a number of excluded schools, the culmination of more than three years of litigation. The NCAA and its conferences keep basketball and all non-revenue sports under the purview of the NCAA, as well as football for non-member schools, and agree to a complicated form of revenue sharing with the member institutions. The CCFI also agrees to not poach additional schools from the NCAA for the next 50 years. CCFI North: Penn State, Maryland, Rutgers, Northwestern, Illinois, Clemson CCFI East: Florida, Florida State, Miami, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina CCFI Midwest: Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Indiana, Purdue CCFI Plains: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kentucky CCFI South: Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi State CCFI Rockies: Utah, BYU, Colorado, TCU, Arizona, Arizona State CCFI Texoma: Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Arkansas CCFI West: Washington, Oregon, USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal

Rule says the receiving team gets it 25 yards from where the kicking team kicked off. So normally, that's the 40. After a defensive penalty, that's the 25. After an offensive penalty, it would be the +45, basically field goal range.

I think it looks at who brings money. I agree that it won't be just the top ten programs of all time. I don't think being a founding member of the Big Ten will guarantee you a seat though.

Lions could use this get right game. Big one next Sunday night.

That's close but I bet in a blowout the call stands.

I agree. This could be the beginning of the end. Depending on your definitions of the beginning and the end. Ten more years of sharing revenues with Purdue, Rutgers, Maryland, and Northwestern? Might be okay if it's on the big dogs terms. But if they're going to try to throw their non-existent weight around? I'm curious where Ohio State sits with this. It would be really easy for a small group of powerhouses to eschew the rest.

Now where the **** (!!!) was this last January!!!!!!

It's not just Bates. Special teams top to bottom has been sloppy.

ASB and Gibbs both got held on that 3rd down.

Need to get out of this game without any more injuries.

Another offensive line injury! Great.

I know their job is hard but WTF did that official see to rule that incomplete?

That sure looked complete on TV.

I think it’s probably speculation. But he’ll be asked postgame and he’s a truth teller to the media. I wouldn’t be surprised if he took a more active role on the offense this week, but I doubt he’s unilaterally taken over play calling.