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#1 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 44 hours ago

Fucking arms race right now.  Jax might be the fav in the AFC right now .  Picked up the Eagles DT and a freaking ball hawk S in Bates.  As of now, they are a better balanced team than BUF.

Chargers play the Dolphins later on, epic toilet bowl matchup.

Pats ended up getting g totally destroyed.  I laughed.  They will get in but can’t see them advancing far. Against top 10 defenses,Mayre had a really bad record.  Don’t sleep on GB.  They won’t end up with the 7th seed . Don’t know if they have enough to win the division, but they will move up at the end of the year.  Sidenote: Vrabel and LaFleur fucking HATE each other . It all stems from that one year that LaFleur served as Titans OC. They didn’t get along . So they try to run up the score whenever they face one another (happened in 2022, when TEN destroyed GB).

I really wish the Bengals defense was better . They look like one of those run and gun teams that get beat in Jan by a better defensive teams

Chiefs are replacing Butker with Justin Tucker .  They were winning games by like FG the last few years.  It kind of highlights why he got benched.  Still dangerous with Mahomes and Reid but if you have a bad PK the entire house falls apart

I was going to say the Rams could sneak into the 7th spot but too many injuries .  Basically between Det/MIN /Seattle.  But even Seattle has injury issues at QB.  I think every team gets in the NFC  north assuming none of them go on a long ass losing streak.

WSH really should be competing with the Giants for the division but Daniels is a freaking moron in regards to game situation management . He always does this and it’s not even a Dan Quinn issue .  They have the ball on the Rams 30 yard line . 8 or 9 sec left .  He throws a pass to the middle of the field at the 10 yard line .  It luckily gets dropped . The last play is some lateral bs play (don’t blame him on that one)

Cowboys barely beat the Colts who weren’t really interested because of the many trade rumors .  That defense is still god awful. I laughed when they allowed some freaking WR screen to be a TD because of shoddy tackling .

The NFC south  .  Carolina looks like the best team .  I wouldn’t say they are a one and done though . Det can be really awful on defense.


The NFC seems deeper as a conference to me.  At least the top  teams. CHI, SF, GB seem more balanced and a cut above the rest.


I could see some (more ) WC upsets on the AFC side .  Denver, PIT/CINnseem like they could be upset.


Jax and Buffalo seem a cut above

#2 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 44 hours ago

James wrote:
AgesOfTheIce wrote:

As far as the Dem nomination goes, southern black voters tend to determine the nominee, so Kamala can't be counted out. She is still very popular in the AA community, and those southern states have massive delegate hauls. However, 2026 was the best Democrats have done with southern whites in recent memory, so maybe the 2028 primary electorate will be slightly different.

She was polling around 1% in the 2020 primaries before Biden chose her as Vice President.

She's unelectable...

If the DNC wants the GOP to get the presidency in 2028, all they have to do is choose her as the nominee.


Yeah , Harris isn’t even an option .  She only got selected in 2024.  I don’t know why she’s even brought up.  The nominee will be a white guy (BOTH parties) who not far whatever in either direction .

Ossoff, Kelly ,I don’t know much about Newspm (you’d have way more insight into him) seem way better bets than AOC or Harris.  Maybe Josh Shapiro since he’s not tainted anything in DC at all.

The GOP is easier anyone that wasn’t remotely connected to Trump.  You served in his admin , out.  Bye Vance and Rubio.  Served in the congress and supported him .  Bye.  If you supported him openly as a state GOV (Desantis) see ya.    That leaves the governors or senators that got elected this cycles .  I have zero idea who that would be.  But if you supported Trump , you are getting completely blasted with it .

#3 Re: Guns N' Roses » Aerosmith and Friends w/ GNR Hollywood Bowl Oct 29/Nov 1 » 6 days ago

Shacklermyrye wrote:

Ok i'm giving it a first listen now. Mama Kin sounded awful to me but he sounds pretty good (for these days) On S.O.S. I expect some of these songs will be drafted out at gnr shows to replace Sabbath songs.

Haven't heard any timing issues which is good. Wonder if this is the first time Zig Zag has seen Axl since 1993.  Rats In The Cellar performance had a lot of energy to it and Axl seemed to be really in to it. Wouldn't surprise me if we see Teddy go on tour with them again at some point.


Interesting.  I thought Mama Kin was the best one vocally.  Rats in the Cellar was ok
vocally .  A lot of the song is just  instrumental and I was mainly focusing on that .  Slash has still got it.

The worst one was Sick As A Dog.  Big Rocks fan .  That one would made me cringe listening to the vocals on that one .

#4 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 7 days ago

This is why competence matters . You don’t have to be an he smartest guy in the room but you do have to surround yourself with competent people who know how government is run.

His first term didn’t seem that bad because there were adults who basically stopped him from his worst impulses.

Look all people want  is economic and personal security in their lives .  What were the two things that were most prevalent in the last 2 years ?  ICE killing and causing chaos in cities and the tariffs and Iran basically making things super expensive .


He was basically elected on lower prices and COL and basically staying out of wars .  He did the exact opposite.

Notice he got destroyed so badly he didn’t even raise the election fraud bullshit he likes to parrot.


When you lose Senate seats in KS, TX, SC and maybe even in MS; the country is trying to tell you and tour your party something.  Democrats now have 250+ house seats .  When I went to bed , it was only at 235 and that was already in historic bad wipeout levels

#5 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 7 days ago

James wrote:

Ravens are FUCKED. Lamar out for the season now, Huntley went down...reducing them to an undrafted rookie emergency QB...defense played like trash... it's over.

Now it's a three way race between Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Cleveland.

Coffin nailed shut on my Bears-Ravens Super Bowl dreams.


Vikings finally lose. Packers won Thursday. Most interesting division in the league right now. If the playoffs started today, the entire division gets in. Insane.

Vikings are incompetent for dumping JJ...they really are. As we enter the second half of the season with Kyler unable to start the offensive engine with Carson Wentz waiting in the wings, it'll be obvious they weren't thinking clearly and KOC will probably lose his job over it.

I'm going to laugh when the Giants go deeper into the playoffs than the Vikings.




Pittsburgh whips Cleveland but with the Ravens done...the loss barely matters.

Jags destroyed the Colts. Colts have already given up mid-season and are in rebuild mode. Jags are quietly becoming a top team in the AFC... similar to the late 90s Jags.

Cowboys upset by Arizona.... drop to 3-5. Fire Schottenheimer.

Bengals almost lost to the Titans...my prayers weren't answered.


Bucs shutout the Falcons ..they're back in the division race. The game was historic and I wish I had watched it ..Bucs won without completing a single pass. Basically 1930s football.

The Chargers sink to new lows every week. They may really go 0-17.

Chiefs -Broncos game was like a playoff game. Came down to the last few seconds.

That statistic where the Chiefs are 2-10 against teams with a winning record for the past two seasons is insane.

Dynasty morphed into a paper tiger. Still...you won't want to play them in the playoffs....

It’s basically the Bears in that division.
With Simmons, beasting over there they and Johnson/Williams on offense, they probably should be favored for a NFC championship slot.

No clue who gets runner up in the division
. Id guess Detroit .  GB has a lot of variables , can’t tell.  MIN like you said has issues .  Murray has always faded in the second half.   

Yeah, it’s basically the Giants.  WSH would have been the other team if they didn’t fuck up those games.  I have to admit Dallas’s defense is comically so bad it’s in their own category (this is coming from a TEN fan whose team has a bottom five defense).  Watching Minshew shred them for 70 yards with zero time outs was glorious. 


The thing with PIT is that you have to see
If Rodgers falls off. If no,then contednder.  The arms falls off and it’s the same like the last few years—-first round elimination.

I loved that Ward finally played well and like a #1 pick .  But man the Bengals had horrific tackling .  IND might be worse than TEN.


I turned off the chiefs game and didn’t see the collapse .  Either way , I refuse to take the Broncos seriously.

Pretty obvious BUF, JAC at the top of the AFC.   After that KC, DEN, CIN and NE.  And PIT.  The only question there is whether or not the Raiders or Browns steal a WC spot from one of those group of five.

NFC is easier : SF, CHI.  The rest is 3 nfc Norht teams or one west team gets a WC spot.  Giants got the East.  Someone gotta win the Sorry South (guess TB here but any of the other two teams is valid too).


Seattle is done .  Defense isn’t as great and Darnold has regressed.  Looking at schedules alone , toughest ram games :  SF,  KC, GB, Seattle twice .  KC and GB are up and down and Seattle is a shell of last year .  I think they steal a spot from a NFC North team.

#6 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 8 days ago

I think it’s a miracle he’s still alive .  When he had organ issues in 2022 or 2023; I thought he was a goner then.

#7 Re: Guns N' Roses » Aerosmith and Friends w/ GNR Hollywood Bowl Oct 29/Nov 1 » 8 days ago

This hurt.   I saw this the other day .  Couldn’t make it through
two Aerosmith songs.  It was that bad and embarrassing.

#8 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 3 weeks ago

James wrote:

He reminds me of those crappy qb who get carried by the defense/st and the first thing people mention is the w-l record.  Grossman on the Bears (esp the Super Bowl year ) and Vince Young comes to mind.

I'll say it til my dying day ...

If Kyle Orton starts the Super Bowl....Bears win.

Grossman was a mistake....a collosal one.


Bears should've went to and won the prior Super Bowl as well. For a two year period...that team was red hot with nothing to show for it.

Greatest defense to never win a Super Bowl.

Flutie....yeah his career started off on the wrong track and could never fully recover.

Reminds me ....on NFL2k5 (or 4) you could have Flutie start for the Patriots and go undefeated. Amazing game.... shameful how they allowed Madden to have the exclusive rights.

On this , a couple of things I remember .  This was like prime Devin Hester .  He just returned those damn kicks like crazy and was on another level .  That and their defense scored a ton .

The other guy I remembered (and I think he should have gotten a little more due ) was Thomas Jones , the Rb.  He washed out as a high pick in AZ.  But man he was great with the Bears . Had 1000 yds while he was splitting time with Benson. They gave Jones the carries when the games were competitive and in doubt .  Benson was just a blow out the clock and short yardage guy .  He eventually became an effective RB with the Bengals later on.


yeah the qb thing will always sting with those Bears teams .  All you needed was a guy that knew how to properly manage the game and convert some 3rd down throws and not fuck it up like Grossman.  You needed to avoid turnovers and get some points on offense in the passing game to supplement the D/ST and the running game . Orton was fine when he started those games with Grossman out.

#9 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 3 weeks ago

Speaking of which… the Rams are in deep fucking shit with Adams out for most of the year and they put two other DL on IR and Myles Garrett is still injured. Oh, for all the acclaim McVay gets he blew another game on coaching management.  Idiots scored too early .  Read this somewhere else but the defensive influenced HC understand
this point and coach that part way better .  Basically you want to wait till the last second to score and bleed out most of the clock and not give the opponent a chance .  Rams controlled the clock yet they left 40+ secs on the clock for ARZ to beat them.

Is it me or is there a stark division between the good teams and the bad ones ?  There are a lot of sorry ones this season .  At least 14 I saw or counted .


Idk about the Texans .  The problem is that they are behind a bunch of teams and the entire AFC North is competitive. Their best bet is for that division to beat each other up and they feast . Also Denver has to go inthe toilet,

Think NE has a leg up because they play the Dolphins and Jets.  That means that one more spot probably goes to the AFC north runner up .  I’m not totally sold on PIT because if Rodgers shows his age later it’s not gonna end well.

Jackson needs to come back quickly .  They can’t afford to have Huntley play vs CIN , gotta match points.

Easy as hell in the NFC.  NFC north and whether or not Seattle can start playing better .    The east and south are one team rep in the playoffs .  Guess NYG could sneak in there . That tie helps them a little.

#10 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 3 weeks ago

James wrote:

The Cowboys are a dumpster fire. That game was AWFUL. Not a single positive thing happened in the game. How in the hell is Schottenheimer even a coach with his dad no longer around?!?

I really can't stand the smiling and laughing on the sidelines when you're losing. The players don't care...only there for a paycheck.

This team will never win anything...not even the division when it's as weak as it is. The team simply doesn't care.

Teams like this really make you wish to see one of the old iconic coaches come in and clean house.

Imagine a Parcells, Walsh, Gibbs, Ditka, etc taking this team over.

In the early 80s, Parcells had to cut almost half the roster to build them into an elite team.

Ditka did pretty much the same thing. When he was hired, he told the team most of them wouldn't even be there when they win a Super Bowl. He was right.

The league is in desperate need of this style of leadership.

It was an insanely bad performance all around . Look the offense here is supposedly to do the heavy lifting here , but Prescott acted like he had never seen a blitz before from the Packers .  I’m not sure what this tells me about GB.  I was like maybe their defense is better than I thought but then TB looked good against Dallas too. This week vs the Lions will tells us more. 

Dallas defense was awful against 3rd down too. That isn’t getting any better they can’t rush the passer from the edges .

Even with all that said , the incredible part:  they can still win the damn division because the schedule is easy and the division is the drizzling shits.

This should’ve been set up for WSH to take advantage but they are being lead by dumbass inc.  in Daniels and Quinn .  Defense sucks but it held SF and gave them two chances to win .  In excusable last two plays by Daniels again.  They are toast .


PHI is toast too . Can’t see them coming back from the Hurts injury news

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