gehringer_2

Hopefully he'll get in some games.

So lots of hats being tossed into the ring but the calculus still doesn't add up. The MAGA want a true believer, won't support anyone they think will be weak kneed and make a budget settlement with the Dems before the Nov 17 deadline. The 'sanity' caucus ( I won't call them moderate, there really aren't any of those left) have exactly the opposite imperative, they see their seats flipping blue if the GOP engineers another shutdown crisis. There really isn't any middle ground. So either the sanity caucus folds and votes for someone in Jordan's orbit but maybe without his personal baggage, or the conservatives fold and accept an old guard guy and re-orient their fight toward primary-ing their opponents. Or...a deal gets made across the aisle.

And now Pete Sessions.

I can't believe the DBs just hung it up and went home. Well I can, but I wish I still couldn't.

The problem is that it's too easy to believe a loose screw like Stalions was lining up his own network of amateur spotters at away games and harvesting their iphone pictures, then using that to make the rest of the staff at Schembechler Hall think he was a genius. In which case Harbaugh's program still goes down for it even *if* JH was telling the truth that he didn't know anything about it. Or it could all be nonsense, but the fact that they've already fired Stalions means not likely. I guess they'll learn that when you have a 'civilian' that obsessed with being involved in your program, you should probably run, not walk, away.

sounds like he's trying to build an appeal defense around incompetent counsel.

the plot thickens.

Good move. Dems get to hammer them on all the weekend shows for being AWOL.

Hern has thrown his hat in the ring. Another Trump guy AFAIK.

If you play it single set back with the RB, but you don't have to do that either. I don't think it's ever anything you would do all the time, but it just seems having direct snap being a regular part of your offensive toolbox is something that should be an easy add - at least worth the effort of regularly practising your #1 RB to receive snaps. Obviously coaches don't think so!

LOL - I just wrote this as you did!

So this is the moment of truth (again...). The Jordan/Gaetz group will block whoever is put up that isn't there own, but so the sanity caucus has to again chose to go along because 'X' is not as bad as Jordan, or cross the aisle (Rubicon?) and ask for help to elect someone else.

how do we feel about Lynn Cheney?

it would be fun if the GOP lost track of their count and got Jeffries elected, Of course nearly immediately the GOP would vote him back out because 'no' is the one thing the GOP can always coalesce around.

NYT ticker

he lost his previous 22 and they are only at 'R'. Going to be 25 or more.

60 votes in and he's already lost 4. Hope this gets ugly.

and the vote is on!...........again.

!!!

I get that the RB can do better if he is back far enough to pick a hole. What I've always wondered is why they don't drill RBs to take snaps so short yardage plays could all be direct snap. I can see the point of letting the RB start a couple yds back, I don't see any point to the QB handling the ball. RB are expect to take hand-offs, pitches, laterals, and catch passes,\; you can't persuade me that you couldn't bring RBs to equal security taking snaps as a QB.

Anybody has the right to demand it, ownership has the right to deny it. Don't think it would likely to happen. There are not many owners who would ever want one player enough to offer them a cut of the team and as a group the owners could never bargain it away because there would be enough owners completely and adamantly opposed it could never become a league bargaining position. A rare end of career deal to a HOF player looking to move into management long term maybe, but that's different situation from a rookie contract.

Near as I can read this, the radicals don't want McHenry, they want Jordan. Hopefully they are pushing the 'moderates', OK, correct that, there may no 'moderates', lets just call them the 'sane' caucus, closer to the embrace of Mr Jeffries.

LOLOLOL Deal for McHenry is apparently dead in the GOP caucus and Jordan is going to go for another vote.

that's a pretty sobering list to be found in the company of.

I would guess with Jordan's chances of winning the Chair directly evaporating, the Nihilism caucus has realized that it McHenry gets a bipartisan mandate they lose their leverage, so now they need to get out ahead of it - give him the gavel with just GOP votes and nothing will have changed, their leverage remains intact. Of course they may find McHenry to be a less feckless foil than McCarthy was -- maybe. In fact McHeny's power might inhere exactly in the fact he may not care if he loses the job - and thus be less willing to kowtow to keep it.