I’m not surprised at some of the results/happenings over the weekend.

Vrabel has this really habit of just coaching up his team and either beating teams or coming close on matchups that look like total mismatches on paper.  He did it again this week.

The Broncos have pulled off the Houdini dog shit luck act for the last year and I don’t think it’s gonna hold up anymore .  It’s basically like this , Nix plays like crap for 3 quarters and the defense keeps it close (or gets turnovers) and Nix turns it on and they come back and win.   They got good injury news when Surtain ankle injury wasn’t season ending (looked awful when I first saw it). Anyway back to Nix ; his total season stats are 600 yards and 4 tds.  That’s awful for a “star” qb.

Chargers are just fucking awful.  They really can’t dump Herbert  until after 2027 though .    They will probably that a WR with that high first rounder .

MIA and maybe TEN are in the lead for that.  HOU can’t comeback this year .  JAC is a top level AFC team and IND is at least average .  I wouldn’t be surprised if they lost to TEN.  Titans are at least competitive this year.

Yeah, the Vikings aren’t not wining long term through this year because that offense is mediocre and the competition  is gonna heat up ; IND,SF GB again in the coming weeks.

Detroit ain’t winning shit that secondary is awful.  Even with that offense, I can only see 6-8 wins.  They have stayed mainly healthy.  Unless they trade for a CB , they are gonna be in shootouts .

Early game of the year is this week’s NFC west clash between SF and Seattle.  The Rams are still behind those two even if they have higher star power.

Bengals lost again when Burrow couldn’t complete the comeback again on the last drive .  I still think they will get to the playoffs but it’s going to be tight.

Nice talking NFL with you again.  I’ll just respond to some of your points, instead of quoting it since this is kind of a long ass reply.

The Bears Bagnet I think is the backup.  Honestly, I think they are better off with him since he knows the offense and most of the guys available via FA aren’t that good.  They also have Keenum who has started and is a vet.  They be better sitting him vs Philly .  PHI has a great defense and you want that hamstring fully healed into Dec and beyond.

Unless WSH totally stinks and gets into the top 3 (and even then they might take that Ohio St WR), I think they bring him back and make him (Daniels ) prove he can stay healthy .  I think they look after 2027 for a qb if he just doesn’t progress.

Ouch .  I think they beat maybe the Broncos or Texans .  Harbaugh will survive for one basic reason.  The Chargers ownership are cheapskates .  Next to the Cardinals, they might be the second worse.  I know they paid up for him (Harbaugh)but I find it hard that they are going to eat the last two years of that contract (32 million) and pay a new coach and staff.  Coaching salaries even for first timers are fucking expensive now.  I think the defacto reason is the new OC (former MIA HC).  Think that guy is on the hot seat

I think the Saints win the crappy NFC south.  Bucs HC is on the hot seat he gets canned after they finish with 7-8 wins.

The bottoms of the playoffs (the six and seven seeds ) are the spots that are wide open .  Here are the locks right now barring major injury :

BUF, KC,BAL, CIN in the AFC.  PHI, the 3 NFC teams , the Bears .

In the AFC it’s a scrum btwn DEN, LV , JAX/HOU , NE and the Jets .  Indy behind both AFC south teams .  I’m kind of eliminating the Chargers because of that brutal schedule .  Speaking of which this where Jets and Vegas got the advantage.
Vegas has TEN, ARZ and KC to end the year .  jets have MIA twice, CLE , ARZ and the Chargers .

maye still didn’t look good for NE.  Denver has a brutal upcoming schedule .  The 3 NFC west teams + Chargers sandwiched in .  HOU should be able to make up ground they play a lot of suspect qbs in their upcoming games.

The last NFC spot probably comes down to DAL, GB ,Detroit .  The Dart injury is huge and knocks out the Giants .  They also had major defensive issues.  Oh on the last game of the year : Lions play the pack .  The NFL would LOVE for that one to be an elimination game for a playoff birth. Honestly I don’t trust any of these 3 teams and someone’s gotta get in and well these are the best candidates.  Detroits defense always bugs me . They should be better but always end up being subpar.

Here’s what I remember about that year : Seattle getting the 1 seed and CHOKING vs 8 seed Nuggets.  That one image at the end of Mutumbo holding the ball and being in pure joy won’t be forgetten.

I don’t think Orlando truly had it together yet.  They really should have been the contender to the throne after Jordan retired.  From what I recall, the east just had a lot of teams that were the same.  They all played “force basketball”.  Charlotte w/Johnson and Mourning and Orlando were exceptions and fell by the wayside eventually.

And that season for better or worse ended up getting defined…by OJ and the chase.

Turns out this affair has been going on for SIX years before they got caught.  She ( the reporter Russini) is finished .  Vrabel is still safe but there are still stories coming out daily .  He’s become a celebrity (in the worst way).  Oh , I think if it turns out that one of Russini kids was his , he’s finished.

On that series , Knicks could never get passed CHI.  Anyway, if you ever watched ,NBA on NBC in the 90s, they had a key play from this series in one of their intros . It was a Knicks home game (game 4 or 5) I think.  Knicks are down by 2, some guy Charles Smith #54 gets the ball under the hoop and gets blocked once by the Bulls .  Gets the ball back and get swatted from the back and blocked again. Think it was Jordan Or Pippen who blocked the second time

they will list whatever franchise films they were in first , outside of that they won’t mention much.

Think about it this way: if Duvall had never made (or got cast) in the Godfather movies , there’d still be a shit ton of significant and important movies he was in.

Can you say the same for most of these actors under 45 or so? 

I even went and looked at his IMDB just now.  Take out the Guardians of the Galaxy (and Marvel stuff) and the Jurassic films in his filmography.  What are you left with that is noteworthy and significant?

It’s just mind boggling how tied into franchise films these actors are now days.

I did laugh because the first google thing that came out on Pratt was some bomb film that he made that is getting released on video.