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If Love is for real and the Packers maintain some amount of their 2023 momentum, they will be a tough out in the North.

This is the nature of the election though. The right has nominated and rallied behind a misogynistic felon and the left has decided that standards matter to at least some extent (and then spent way too much time fighting with each other about to what extent).

Where will this debate rank amongst the top 25 football games from the past year? I think viewership will be incredibly high but the debate itself will mean incredibly little, barring an incredible gaffe on either side. I can't imagine aren't a lot of "undecided" voters so much as Biden supporters who are pissed at him about one thing or another. Both sides and their supporters will declare victory when the debate ends. The election will likely come down to turnout, which is decided in October and November, not June.

Bold of him to deny NFL rumors in... *checks notes*... June.

If they included the top 10 instead of stopping at 8, Iffy would have been #10.

Good on the NHL for doing their job instead of what would have been easy in front of the Florida crowd.

Sorry Kenny. You’re in Canada now.

They deserve it. But nahhhhhhhh

This is a damn good game seven.

Pretty good offseason for QB1. Hopefully the first of two rings he'll get in the next 365 days.

Talking heads still can't find a picture of Buggs in a Chiefs jersey.

We probably won't, but I hope Campbell and Johnson do.

I can't imagine Hooker has any value right now. He's never taken an NFL snap, or even dressed for a game outside of as an emergency 3rd option. If he was going to be traded like Matt Cassel, it would come in 2025 or 2026.

I'm skeptical he ever would have returned last year, even if there was a miraculous run. But the Jets did activate his practice window, and I don't think they would do that solely to appease him..... OK, maybe they would do that.... I do think he was pushing it though, and he did do that "speed bridge" procedure that was designed to have him return much quicker than normal. FWIW, Kirk Cousins did not get the speed bridge procedure done when he tore his Achilles. At the end of the day he's a 40-year-old dude. And 40-year-old dudes don't just jump back up from a catastrophic injury in the same way 20-year-old kids often can. The standard recovery time from an Achilles usually wouldn't even guarantee a week one return this year. He's an athlete, but he's not in the best shape of his life, and there were already signs that his best days were behind him in 2022. He threw for the fewest amount of yards in any complete season in his career and the most picks since his rookie year. If you're a believer in QBR, that was also a career low. Even healthy, I wouldn't be confident if I was a Jets fan that we were getting the 2021 MVP as opposed to 2022 mediocrity.

At the bar tonight I was approached by someone in a Nats hat who saw my Lions sweatshirt and asked me my thoughts on Hendon Hooker and whether the Lions should trade him. Rather bizarre given the timing of this thread. I’m sure Brad and Dan will think about backup QB and Hooker’s development. I just don’t intend to (because Goff is invincible and will never ever get hurt). Fans aren’t going to see enough from Hooker in the preseason to tell anything anyway. Even if he plays all 12 quarters, he’s too young in his NFL development, and the preseason is not a representative sample (good or bad). They still have good ole Nate Sudfeld on the roster. I expect them to keep him around as the emergency third QB.

Backup QB is not a position I intend to think about for the next three years. Unless Hooker is taking a knee or handing the ball off to Craig Reynolds up 31. At that point I’ll be enough beers in to have a good laugh at his name again.

I don't like him because of the anti-science self-righteous BS. I don't believe in him because of everything else you said. I also wouldn't be surprised if his rushing recovery last year to get back in time for the playoffs set him back in his recovery. A torn Achilles is effectively the worst injury you could possibly suffer as an athlete. You don't just rush recovery to come back four months later.

It just feels to me like he’s eschewed the steps that make any other aging QB great in favor of hot takes and pseudoscience. If it works for him, more power to him. But I don’t think it will.

I thought Inside Out 2 was well done. Speaking as someone who appreciates diversity in art and understands the significance of representation…. I think the diversity of a girls youth hockey team in Northern California may have been a bit overplayed. And the protagonist got totally jobbed on a penalty. For what? Interference? Roughing? She was shooting the puck! The sports realism is worse than Air Bud. Anyway, yes, it was a good movie.

I can’t wait for the Jets to go 7-10 this year.

In a vacuum, I think the decision to kick is correct in each of these situations. Obviously games aren’t played in vacuums, but I have a tough time criticizing the decision making. I know people here would have been very critical of Campbell had he has gone for it on 4th and 6+. And the decision would have been universally ridiculed in another universe where they don’t convert the 4th and then get within field goal range down 4 on their last drive. Criticizing their offense for not converting though? That’s fair.

The outside thing shouldn't be a huge deal, at least in 2024. Green Bay (11/3), Chicago (12/22), and San Francisco (12/30) are the only three outdoor stadiums we play in. Arizona and Houston have retractable roofs, but Arizona's will almost certainly be closed in the September heat and Houston almost never opens theirs (they claim it's to contain crowd noise). Speaking of crowd noise, that may be a factor. There are a few fewer people attending UFL games than NFL games.

In fairness, those weren’t obvious “go” situations. Monday Morning QB says, you lost by one you should have pushed it more. But without looking it up, they were all 4th and moderate or 4th and long situations where I think Campbell would have kicked it too. There weren’t any 4th and inches on the 2 where they kicked it. credit to Detroit’s defense for not breaking in the red zone. One of them I think Stafford was even hurt for and couldn’t have been in even if they wanted to go for it.

I think Brady may be the exception. But he's the exception to a lot of NFL "rules". We will never know, but I think Goff's recent success with Detroit undermines the notion that Stafford was the one thing they needed to win the Super Bowl. Not to say Stafford isn't really good and didn't lead his team to instant success. That did happen. But I'm not positive it wouldn't have happened with Goff; or rather, I'm not positive QB was the "problem" in LA. It was more complicated than that.

Consider it, sure. We don’t need three kickers, new rules or not. I don’t think Bates makes it past waivers to the practice squad though. Badgley probably would. Turner almost certainly would.