Khyber53

Might as well, we're going to be paying for him next season anyway. And giving up that draft pick next season.

Well, let's hope it works out. It never does with any other team, but what the hey. If it's a necessity then we have to. If it continues because they want to get cute, well, it's his career I guess.

Cam's had a season and an offseason learning to read defenses and understand plays under the tutelage of Bill Belichick and Josh McDaniels, probably two of the best coaches a QB could have, definitely the best ones Cam has had. Cam is an experienced and successful NFL QB with a real box of tools at his disposal, but those two coaches have given him something he couldn't have had before. Cam has matured, but hasn't lost all of his fun, but he's going to show he's wiser and more learned out there. His arm might have lost a bit (might not, too -- considering the extended rest) but I think he's going to make up for it in a big way. I never thought we'd see Cam back here, didn't even want anyone to talk about such a crazy thing, it just caused disappointment. Now, he's here and I'm a whole lot happier than I thought I could be with this season. Hope it holds out!

The guy is going to run afoul of the SEC again or the IRS or some other entity before too long. Too much money, too much smarts and too much THC for it not to end up in an accident. As soon as he comes out and says crypto currency is just imaginary money, the game is up. A lot of folks will lose their shirts and everything else they have but he'll still have more money squirreled away than anyone could ever imagine dealing with. Dude just needs to pay his fair share of taxes.

Happy birthday! Hope there's a win in it for you, too!

We've just got to win and things will settle in our favor. It's been a while since we've been at this point in the season and had real optimism.

Nah.

Let it go, man, let it go. We've moved on, he's moved on.

Smitty's stats sucked on those seasons where he was injured, too. He just kicks people when they are down. Loved him when he was on the field, this stuff since then really shows the quality of the man.

To many variables out there, we're just going to have to win out and hope that's good enough. Injuries and COVID have more to do with how this plays out across the NFL than anything else.

Glad to hear your brother is improving and let's hope that keeps happening! Yeah, I held onto hope that the Darnold move would somehow work out. It was a headscratcher when they made the trade, but as we went into the season I'd made up my mind to cheer him on. I even came out with big support for him after the Minnesota game. But truth be told, he's just not been rehabbed and the old gun shy Sam came back. I wrote the season off and our coaching staff. The Cam comes back and it feels like a shot in the arm to the whole organization. I hope he can follow up the magic of "I'm Baaaaaaaack" with the continued chant of "Keep Pounding" as we move on. I want to see us get there, climb the hill and maybe write one helluva story. Certainly makes tuning in each week a lot more interesting.

Donte has become a willing tackler, even an aggressive one, which is a major change from previous years. Could it be he's just become more comfortable with contact, has bought into his defensive coach's attitude or is it the weight of a future contract? Who knows? Who cares? It's working. We're going to have some expensive decisions to make on defense next year. Donte can only keep making his case stronger (here or elsewhere) by continuing on this trajectory.

Heinicke may not be great or even very good, but a handful of teams have gone into games saying this and just got embarrassed by him. He's a strange one -- he beats teams he has no right competing with and gets beaten by teams he should easily handle. One thing about him, though, the kid is impossible to scare. He's got moxie like crazy.

There was a bright spot or two before Cam as well.

He's a gentleman and a first class person all around. Sadly, things just wore down here and it was time for both to move on. I hope he has great success there, just not when he's coaching against us.

Always a big concern, but our 12 year-old is free of it and the bloodlines for the 18-month old should be clean as well. Still, you can never been 100 percent certain no matter how you try. Sadly, the breed has an average lifespan of 10 years. Big ol' dogs with big ol' hearts just don't live as long.

Oh and here's some info on the breed: https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/the-greater-swiss-mountain-dog/

Our show quality Greater Swiss Mountain Dog ran $3k last year for a female. We've picked up four best of breed ribbons and four first place owner/handler ribbons so far this autumn. The dog has excellent conformation and we knew the quality of her parents and breeder before the purchase. Ours is a rare breed so the gene pool isn't too large, making any genetic problems a real danger. (The breed was thought extinct at the turn of the 1900s but two males and two females were found on a farm in the backwaters of Switzerland about that time and they were able to rebuild the stock). With only about 3600 or so of the breed in the US, it's both easy and darned important to know where their breeding stock came from. Temperament is an important part of the breed, as it is in any breed. Swissies are farmer's dogs, big, strong (they were bred to pull carts for farmers who couldn't afford draft horses or mules) with a deep, rolling barooooooo bark. The breed dates back to the Roman legionnaire war dogs and are the parent stock of the Bernese and the Rottweiler. Though imposing, they're very friendly and non-aggressive, more of a sentry dog than a guard dog. They have a mild herding instinct and naturally lay across thresholds, probably as a corraling or stalling measure to assist farmers in animal handling. And on instinct, before buying a pitbull, if you've never owned one: Please consider what the breed was bred for. Those are fighting dogs, pure and simple. If they are purebred then that is very strong in their bloodlines and if this is a reputable breeder then you can be sure that the parents were well trained. The puppies don't come trained at all, so you will really need to be committed to working on curbing that fight/kill instinct in the dog. This isn't for the casual owner. Before anyone starts on the "pits have a bad, undeserved reputation" you have to realize that breeds breed true and traits were built into them selectively. Greyhounds run, coon hounds chase, beagles bark, border collies herd, terriers will chase rats and tear up toys -- this is in the very fibers of their beings. To curb those instincts takes a lot of hard work and diligence, and you'll never know for sure you've got it under your control. Please think before getting a pit bull.

The schedule ahead is tougher than the schedule behind. There's a lot of hope and optimism, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

And do we know this is a direct quote? Sorry, just don't know Sheena Quick. Is she a sideline reporter or just a Twitter entity? Just trying to establish her credibility. Also, if he was saying it as "say no more coach, I've got ya" then why is this even a thing?

This 100%.

Gonna say the jury is out on that one.

It was also said that before any decisions were made Rhule and Cam had a lengthy conversation by telephone to hash things out.

Yep. But he probably still has the brains to cash some serious paychecks next year, ones like you and I will never see the likes of. He gets those whether he's sitting on a couch or a bench. We might as well see if we can get something out of him because we sure won't get anything for him without it costing us even more. And we aren't getting that draft pick back either. I kept saying we should have taken Mac Jones instead but nobody was wanting to hear any of that. So now I've been trying to be the good guy and spent the season polishing this turd Fitterer and Rhule were so proud of.

You're right, but Fitterer and Rhule signed on for next season, too with $18.8 million that isn't going away, so we better be about finding a fix.