Khyber53

I feel for ya man. I get boils time and again. They are no fun. A few years ago, I didn't think much of them until I got one on my abdomen that ended me up in the hospital for three days on an IV drip. MRSA and to this day there's still a scab that won't go away. People die from those things, had no idea until then.

Okay, I spent most of my life in WNC, in the Boone/West Jefferson area. Family full of real estate agents, brokers, contractors and carpenters. It's a tough area to make a living in, the real estate prices are out of reach of most folks or the plots are out of reach of most services. Here's my advice. If you're hell bent on doing this, you need to look for land south of Avery County and north of Buncombe County. Mitchell, Madison and Yancey. Everything else is priced based on tourists, second homers or college town rates. All three of those have difficult terrain, but you may find some plots and lots that could fit your bill. A lot of those places have no road access and you'd have to negotiate/buy access, then build a road to them. Grading and gravel alone are going to be massive costs. And then running electricity to them can be prohibitive since you will probably be some distance from a main line. And well-digging is going to require some kind off roadway to get the big truck in. Find you a good well-witcher before buying the property because there's no guarantee of water resources, especially on the size lots you are talking about. You may have some luck by asking about recently cut timber lands. They usually have rudimentary roads at least, but you're going to have some non-plus scenery for quite a while. Also check to make sure that the properties don't have restrictive covenants about hunting, etc. Those are more common than you think as families will sometimes sell of small plots to cover taxes that border on their own hunting properties. They'll do the restrictive covenants to create kind of a poaching barrier and protect their own wildlife for later harvesting. And believe me, your sites will be easier to sell to hunters than to RV'ers in the near future. Check the surrounding land records for covenants and walk the property to make sure it isn't posted. Check with neighboring land owners if they are open to leasing hunting rights. Good luck with this. It's going to be a hard dime to turn, but if you're smart and sweat equity it, you can do it. If there is a good road and room enough for a septic system on site, you might be able to market the lots to tiny house owners who want a more back to nature lifestyle.

Dallas Cowboys W @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers Philadelphia Eagles @ Atlanta Falcons W Pittsburgh Steelers @ Buffalo Bills W W Minnesota Vikings @ Cincinnati Bengals W San Francisco 49ers @ Detroit Lions Arizona Cardinals @ Tennessee Titans W W Seattle Seahawks @ Indianapolis Colts Los Angeles Chargers @ Washington Football Team W New York Jets @ Carolina Panthers W W Jacksonville Jaguars @ Houston Texans W Cleveland Browns @ Kansas City Chiefs Miami Dolphins @ New England W W Green Bay Packers @ New Orleans Saints Denver Broncos @ New York Giants W Chicago Bears @ Los Angeles Rams W W Baltimore Ravens @ Las Vegas Raiders

Historically, that's when we do our best work. So, let's get to workin' guys!

In truth, yeah. We are who they say we are until proven otherwise.

I'm hoping for a Pyrrhic victory for the Cowboys -- they bust the Bucs in the mouth and expose as tired and worn out like most Super Bowl winners are the next season, but in the process, the Herculean effort to win the game leaves the Cowboys spent and in shambles.

Slick man, slick.

I get the feeling Darnold is going to be fine here. I'm more worried about the line in front of him than his abilities on display. We had another guy once who was all but a washout in the league when he got here, but he turned out to be one of the greatest Panthers ever. QB'ed us to our first Super Bowl in his first season and damn near won it. I'm not sure Darnold has the same amount of moxie that Jake Delhomme had, but if he can find at least half that in him, we can go far. Good luck kid, we'll be rooting for ya!

The worst? Really???? https://www.nfl.com/news/qb-index-week-1-ranking-all-32-starters-entering-2021-nfl-season

Yeah, he will. And I'm going to point out I suggested we take him in the draft with our first pick. Of all the rookie QBs, he's leaving a pro program and going right into the best place a rookie QB could hope to ever land in the first round. I really wish we'd have gone that way instead.

We're going to learn a lot about our team on Sunday.

I wouldn't make the deal. Faust, man, Faust. Never sell your soul, eternity is a long time and bought glories tarnish quickly. As to Tepper, Rhule and Fitterer... honestly, I'm going to need some proof before I crown any of them as being "the" guys to get it done. Any old time now would be nice. I'm buying into the "we're building" thing for right now, but by the end of the season we will know what and who we have. We may well know by 4 pm Sunday. Hope it's good news. As someone over 50 (52) I'm getting tired of waiting.

My hope: Darnold proves to be the guy he was supposed to be coming out of college. Return of CMC changes entire timbre of the games and converting third downs becomes easy. Offensive line gels and becomes decent as pass protectors, capable of clearing holes for CMC. On defense the little old ladies of 2020 are replaced by the new Monsters of the Midway -- Burns and Chinn both contend for DPOY and Horn is in the talks for DROY. New kicker means fewer desperation field goals but even greater number of extra points. Returners learn to just fair catch and let the offense do its work. My fear: Darnold is the guy he was with the 2020 Jets, left broken by bad coaching. CMC withers under heavy workload as we lean on him to make up for QB deficiencies. Injuries and just bad play by offensive line creates a feast table for opposing defenses. Snow goes timid again and calls the games like he was worried about the team's laundry bills. Brian Burns and Jeremy Chinn look at another year wasted on a going nowhere team. Bad third down conversion rates mean we have to lean on new kicker for 50+ yarders again and we end up trying to get Joey Slye back. DJ Moore gets injured on punt return and CMC tells coaches no when asked to go in after making a quick business decision. Rhule and Co. return to college coaching carousel. What will probably happen: We'll show some more incremental growth, Darnold will perform decently (like top 16 QB in the league levels), CMC will get close to 2000 combined yards and do most of our scoring. Defense will improve a bit, but still be weak as dishwater against the run. Offensive line will need complete overhaul by year's end, with Moton going R,L,R,L,R again in an attempt to get something solid. I'm feeling 8-9 here or 9-8, with a lot of talk about Rhule either continuing to build a team or that he might not be the guy. Snow will probably be the sacrificial coaching fire. I sure hope I am wrong.

If he warms up his arm, he might have a shot at starting QB before it's all said and done.

Not sure any other team has ever had NBC do them this honor:

When a veteran like him sucks, it's really easy to spot and to decide that he just hasn't got it anymore (if he ever had it). When a rookie sucks, is he really bad or is he still trying to figure out the game and his place in it? There's the problem. A drafted player on the bench might be a bit timid out there, or it could be the coach that's actually the timid one. Rhule seems methodical, perhaps to a fault, in developing players. His penchant for taking guys from his time at Temple (and maybe a bit from Baylor) kind of speaks to it.

Good for her!

This is going to be a lot like last year's Detroit game, except with more competent QB play and a monster day for CMC (180 combined yards, 2 TDs). Jets show that they are one game into a complete rebuild season. We're going to pick up a lot of hope off of this one, but won't know if it's false or real hope until next week. Short fields make for a quick day for us, defense gets to feast on depleted Jets line. 31-3 with the Jets grabbing their lone score at the end of the first half.

I know next to nothing about this iteration of the Jets, but neither do the experts. This is really a "Let's see what's behind door number 3" kinda moment.

Or, these guys could gel. We may have a better offensive line than we think. And it may have a lot to do with a guy not on the line. CMC on the field changes everything, including how the defensive front 7 lines up and attacks. The guy is the definition of game changer and he has the potential to be put to use on every snap of the ball. That could, should, make things easier for our O-line and might be enough to let them dictate the game to their opponents. Sheesh, wouldn't it be nice to see our O-line actually bully and push around the defense?

And honestly, it wasn't bad. It was quick, gave Wight a chance to reinforce his image just a bit (there's going to be some kind of storyline with him putting together a stable, I just know it) and in a night of "return of the old guys" it was nice to see him get out there are work a bit. But yeah, that was the perfect "take a breather break" match.

That was one of the best PPVs in a couple of decades. The cage match was awesome. And they debuted three big name wrestlers by the end of the night. Great all around. And dangit, it was great to see Ruby Soho get those cheers from the crowd. She's always been massively underappreciated. You could tell it about overwhelmed her. A grades across the board -- great action, great storytelling and it didn't seem like the repetitive crap that WWE has been fosting off on the crowds for the last few years.

Smith and Pennington had football smarts and an understanding of the game that was better than the coaches of the teams they had left. Darnold fits the pattern, but we're going to have to see if the football IQ and processing speed is there. In his one pre-season performance, it looked kinda promising.

Kinda worried that they haven't already, yanno?

100%. It's the difference between last year's results and a playoff team. Converting first downs, when you really boil it down, is the key. We convert more and we keep them from converting as many. We could have been an 11 or 12 win team last year with just a handful of third down stops by our defense. This year, we have CMC back and if he can stay healthy and perform as before, then we will convert again and again. Our defense... on paper it should be stouter, but we need Snow to call the defense like he knows it is stout -- aggressive, not passive like last year.