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Dan Campbell: Grizzled NFC North Vet lol

Of course they weren't in a hurry. They were in the catbird seat, playoffs almost entirely guaranteed. The only question was whether Carlson would send them to Cincinnati or not.

It was a weird call, but people are really underestimating the idea that LV would have still tried kicking that field goal. Especially with Carlson, who is a really good kicker. The risk of going to Cincinnati over KC is worth it IMO.

And if it ends in a tie, the Steelers missing will end up coming down to them choking against the Lions. Can't make that up.

Just when you thought you've seen it all lol

Trump says US will have 'substantially under' 100,000 deaths from coronavirus, lower than initial estimates "The minimum number was 100,000 lives and I think we'll be substantially under that number," Trump said during a White House press conference. "Hard to believe that if you had 60,000, you can never be happy, but that's a lot fewer than we were originally told and thinking." I swear, people just memory-hole this stuff...

Saget joins Betty White, Peter Bogdanovixh and Sidney Poitier. Seems like an unusual amount of celebrity deaths since the turn of 2021

And then there's this. I've seen a lot of bad football over the years, but rarely do you see the buy-in that these guys continually convey with respect to Campbell

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/16/913560563/cdc-director-says-covid-vaccine-likely-wont-be-widely-available-until-next-year In terms of why Trump doesnt get more credit, as well as some of the distrust sewed during his administration, I do think the article above details comments that have been sort of memory holed over time. Specifically tying vaccine distribution to the election (contradicting his own CDC Director) was a serious mistake made by Trump. For whatever reason, people just seem to gloss over it and forget about it.

I agree with you that the administration dropped the ball on testing, for what its worth. Doesn't "hurt my feelings" to say that, it's simply factual. But while it's easy to blame partisans in regards to the polarization bit (big surprise, thermostatic partisanship is bad for the country!), I honestly don't know how the administration is supposed to deal with that. That die has been cast for a long time and, like election fraud, has become a litmus test for a number of people. Obviously they will get blame in the court of public opinion because the buck stops with them, I just don't know in practice what they should be doing that would effectuate a different result.

You literally made it political in the rest of your post. Again, see my response to your initial post... I don't have any feelings one way or another, just sticking to the facts.

Totally forgot they had Dave Mlicki as well for a spell. Man, those years were such a dead-end for the franchise.

You should try practicing what you preach.

Trump's contradictory messaging is a big reason why his administration doesn't get the credit they may deserve on the vaccines. He just never embraced it as forcefully as he should have politically, and his latest pivot toward vaccine promotion is probably a recognition of it bring one of the more popular things accomplished during his term.

Regardless, I don't watch cable news and honestly don't give a flying F what Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow or other media commentators have say about any of this stuff.

But here's the thing. Archie appears to be blaming Joe Biden for not fixing the virus when we have learned that a highly transmissibile variant has arisen and has caused this latest surge. By extension, he's basically doing what you are complaining "people in media and in conversations" did with Trump. Yet you led off by saying "Archie is right". That seems contradictory to me.

Correct. And? I'm not sure why I have to answer for the claims of others.

I mean, I don't think Biden engineered the new variant and released it into the South African public.

Incredible

Exactly. The Democratic Party, compared to the GOP, is pretty diverse and ideologically factionalized. When you have that many groups under one tent, each group may have a different definition for "best candidate" Not sure why Archie doesn't get that... just because I think Jared Polis would be a great candidate doesn't mean other parts of the party think so. Hell, look at the debate over Sherrod Brown... maybe he would be a great candidate, but that's not unanimous here either. Much different dynamic than the GOP, where the majority polls out as supporting Trump being nominated again.

Joe Randa... I legit forgot he was a Tiger at one point.

I actually agree with you on this one... Brown is probably the one progressive candidate who can break through nationally imo.

Of course, with the "2024 is a long way away" caveat 😉

Assuming he scores a good reelection in a tough environment, Polis may be the best positioned. The added wrinkle is that relationships with the AA community are critical in the Democratic Party. I have no idea where Polis stands there. But all else equal, he's acquitted himself well lately imo

Isn't one half of the hypothetical that he might be facing Donald Trump again?