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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Denver media are pouring it on. Denver Post: Broncos lose to Seahawks because rookie coach Nathaniel Hackett was clueless in Seattle Mile High Report: Denver Broncos HC Nathaniel Hackett’s late game management was inexcusable On PFT, Mike Florio made a point...that Hackett's been up in the booth. Today he's down on the field. It's quite different, it's noisier. It's harder to think straight. Obviously the end of the game...but he also noted all the delay of game flags. Wilson was apparently signaling for the play several times. Another point: the new owners didn't hire Hackett. The Broncos spent a ton on Their Guy at QB, in terms of $$ and draft picks. I don't think they're in as much of a win-now mode as the Rams of last year, particularly after the Miller trade, but they're close. And when the decision-making and overall performance are that sloppy...Hackett just landed himself on the hottest seat in the NFL, after one game.

And it wasn't like it was 4th and forever. Make it 4th and 12? Might be different. But 4th and 5 with a mobile, experienced QB.

Denver talk radio is gonna have a FIELD DAY tomorrow with the decisions on 4th and 5. Hackett will get an F--- from the fans. And I hate calling pointless TOs just to force another victory formation snap, so I'll join in. HACK OFF HACKETT!!!!

OH THE PAIN!!!! Speaking of Worst Uniforms Ever!!!!! The 'hawks are wearing their Day-Glo combo...fluorine green pants and jerseys. OWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww..................

Yeah, but this week is a Glory Days game, against Oklahoma, and the Scott Frost tenure has been the exact opposite. So I'm thinking that having him in place for that game, was perhaps too inflammatory. Rankings are still largely a guessing game. There's still just no real body of work, so there's also a great deal of "beauty contest" to them. The BAD losses for A&M and ND led to their hard falls...26 and 32 spots. NMSU is proudly ensconced at #128. With Wisconsin up next...and coming off a loss. And...oh dear. This is not a good sign. Wisconsin is -37.5; the over/under on the game is only 46.5. That puts a projected score of around 41-3. Aggies are +8000 if you want to put some longshot money on em.....? Didn't think so..... EDIT: from an article on CBS Sports, just below the rankings story, about the Nebraska situation: I think this is something the ADs don't consider. Colorado was inconsistent in the Big 8/12, and in the end the Dan Hawkins hire was a disaster to close out the time in the Big 12, but they've been a fish out of water in the Pac 12. OTOH, Missouri bailed and has done...OK...in the SEC. But the Big 8 was a near-perfect fit for Nebraska, and the Big 10 isn't. And I think they lost almost all access to the Texas recruiting pipeline. Yeah, this might be a tough sell coaching job.

I'm mildly surprised that there weren't more throwback unis picked as the worst.

I've been to Cleveland, so I can kind of understand an un-Cleveland sentiment....

That'll be corrected shortly. Cowboys are in the cellar by themselves. Completely flat on offense...and Dak has to exit late 4th, with a throwing hand injury. He heads off to the locker room, presumably for imaging. The defense gave up too many yards...yeah, ultimately forcing 4 FGs isn't bad, but way too many yards on the ground. Another massive concern...9 penalties. And Green Bay lost too. So overall, quite a nice first week.

Eh...I'm not. Or at least, not that much. The school doesn't pay this; it'll come from boosters. Going back a couple weeks, it was apparently a bit of a surprise they brought him back at all; every "hot seat" list had his name at or near the top as the season kicked off. And this is 2 *very bad* losses in 3 weeks...plus being tied with an FCS school with 4 minutes left in the 3rd. This is from a FanNation writeup before the Northwestern game: We know preseason opinions are useless, but fans do read them...and get an expectation of more. And CBS Sports dropped Nebraska 30 spots after this loss...down to #79. That's barely staying out of the bottom third. Come to think, given the Oklahoma game coming, that may be why. It's the rivalry aspect. It's also, I suspect, the fact that the line's moved *massively*...Friday, it was OU -6.5, IIRC, now it's -13.5 to -14.5, and I expect it to get a bit worse during the week.

Alcaraz beats Ruud in 4. Mark the date: this might be the start of the next era in tennis. He's 19, fer crissakes. First major, #1 in the world. AND he seems a likable person.

It also doesn't help that comics are a tiny part buried inside massive megacorps...there's the big thread about the issues with DC under the current regime, and Marvel's been a part of Disney for a while. That also *seriously* complicates the process; the lawyers AND the corporate-level marketers have to be appeased. And it doesn't help that I don't think there's a big market clamoring for superhero TTRPG material anyway...or by and large, anything not D&D. (Counting Pathfinder as D&D.)

Oh dear. Report is a torn pec on Watt; more tests probably tomorrow. Yeah, my memory says, those don't heal fast...and PFT notes it's usually season-ending. That does hurt, he's a cornerstone of that defense. In other news....yeah, Mahomes is really missing Tyreek Hill. His numbers are terrible. (Note to all DFS players...take Mahomes in the opening game next year. The heck with the price tag. 5th opening game. 17 TDs...at least 3 in every game...and 0 picks.)

One of those years? Colts-Texans end in a 20-20 tie. Browns kick a LATE FG to win. Falcons blow a 16 point 4th quarter lead, letting the Saints move 47 yards in about 30 seconds to kick a 50 yarder for the game winner. But not 2 ties. Boswell BOOMS a long one...high and straight and gorgeous. EDIT: I just noted that Houston blew a 17 point 4th quarter lead....

I didn't know about the buyout issues; with that in place, yeah, that surprises me. But hey, yeah, it's only $7.5M. Pocket change. Figure they'd probably lose that much booster money on the path they were on.

OK, but can't the same argument be made for at least Superman and Batman? But they often repeat those origins. I think the bigger edge in the MCU is they kept one ongoing storyline for so long, so they tell the origins once, and it still holds 15 movies later. And since it seemed every reboot was a complete re-interpretation, well, gotta go back over the origins again....

...and Highlander 2.

Browns lead the Panthers 7-0. Not preferable, but the amusing part: Mayfield is 6/13 for 27 yards...with 2 sacks for -17. Panthers can't run, either, or maybe not trying; 4 attempts for 11 yards.

Speaking of wake-up call...Steelers 17, Bengals 3, halfway through the 2nd. Bengals have 3 TOs already, leading to 17 Steeler points on barely 100 yards of offense. The Super Bowl hangover may be a real thing, eh?

Good luck to us all. Reports for the last couple years have indicated hard-right, nationalistic, authoritarian parties on the upswing in many places.

I think it's pressure from the playoff committee, and perhaps more broadly, to schedule better. It's not like an A&M needs non-conference SoS...but they had a petit fours game...a TINY cupcake...with Sam Houston. (Check their schedule. Barely a crumb.) So when you've got one of those, doing 2 will be criticized. Plus, there's the broader push, I think, to get more Group of Five vs. Power 5, rather than those total mismatches. That also offers an explanation for Nebraska vs. Georgia Southern, who's also Sun Belt.

Yeah, that one ran REAL late. BYU kicker missed not 1, but 2 game-winning kicks; Baylor's kicker also missed in the first OT, but that was with the first possession. Still, it set BYU up for the "ok, all we gotta do......" Famous last words. Robert Griffin III commented that probably both coaches would say, OK, scrap the kicking game, because both teams had multiple problems. Turned out to not matter...in part because they changed the OT rules a bit. You have to go for 2 after a touchdown, starting with the 2nd OT, not the 3rd. BYU converted an out route on 3rd and long, IIRC, to get the ball to the 5, then punched it in, with the first possession of the second OT...and that was it, the kickers could leave the building. A few teams had kicking woes. Kentucky had some severe snap issues. On a punt, one snap was catapulted way over the punter's head. By the time he could retrieve it, it was in the end zone. He kicked it out of the end zone...safety. Then a bit later, the snap on an extra point was bad. Down here...ohh boy, I wasn't watching it, but NMSU probably advanced their quest to be #1. First half possessions: INT, punt, punt, fumble, punt, punt. Aggies first drive maybe said it all. Couple first downs, then a nice 35 yard completion...but then a 15 yard penalty, presumably unsportsmanlike conduct, to make it 1st and 25 at the UTEP 40, instead of the 25. INT shortly thereafter, and that's about it. Aggies actually have negative yards the rest of the half. UTEP wasn't exactly great...the running commentary about the game from one of the El Paso papers was pretty critical...but didn't need to be. Score ended up 20-13, but it was worse. 2 of the TDs were gifts...fumbles leading to very short drives. Both teams lose 2 fumbles. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Ryan McGee makes some sort of group entries...one for Aggieland (throwing A&M under the bus along with USU and NMSU, who both deserve to be in the bottom 10), and one for the Front Range. He likes to do that from time to time.

Saw it. It has potential...more than the Rams showed, especially.

And good things (and bad things) come in 3s. In this case, for the Sun Belt. Marshall, then App State...and now Georgia Southern. I was kinda watching the score on this, as GaSo was leading in the 4th, but then Nebraska scored to take the lead back. OK, well, it was nice while it lasted...until GaSo drives 75 yards in 2:30 to take the lead back with less than 40 seconds. Nebraska gets a 52 yard FG to try to tie, but not surprisingly, it misses. Scott Frost's seat is getting much, much warmer. Another blown lead. Offense, fine, but defense, awful. GaSo piles up well over 600 yards...in less than 30 minutes ToP. About 7.5 yards per play. And no offense to the Sun Belt...but if they're losing to one of those teams, what's gonna happen when they hit the conference schedule? The Big 10's overrated in my book, but there are quite a few good to very good teams, at the least. Next up is Iuz' team...and methinks Oklahoma will love to put it to their old rivals. The line has been moving to Oklahoma, and after today, I suspect it'll move a lot more that way. Then it's Indiana and Rutgers. Lose either of those 2 and I think he's getting the boot; last season, Indiana was 0-9 in conference, and Rutgers 2-7.