Khyber53

Kinda like saying that after those three semi-trucks smashed into his car, it was all his fault for not being able to hold it onto the road. No QB could have made it through that beating.

There isn't a QB in the league that could have worked behind that line with those play calls today. We had one receiving threat and a bunch of bad choices out there. We had designed plays where our great hope was freaking Ian Thomas. Ian "Catch three balls a year and two are my own" Thomas. They blanketed DJ and put a waterboy on Robby. Terrace Marshall, Jr. stood around looking tall most of the day.

Next week's the Vikings. Darnold is going to get killed behind this line if CMC isn't there for an outlet pass (or some decent blocking). Anderson will run around the field holding hands with a defender all day and not really trying. Our defense will play lights out for half the game, but be completely lost without Shaq Thompson. Our special teams will continue to be only able to get one thing right ... which thing that will be is to be randomly decided at the coin toss. Joe Brady will completely forget about screen passes, unless CMC is here and then it's 85% of the plays called. Fitterer will trade for another DB, setting a new NFL record.

Those pockets were collapsing faster than they did last year. And I thought we had a terrible O-line then. This one, boy it stinks. It takes more time to run around those sides of beef than it does just to run right at them and destroy their blocks. Darnold, had he had any clean pockets today, would be deserving of more ire. He was at his safest during a naked bootleg... far, far away from his own line. And did anyone see even one friggin screen pass? Was that Brady up in the booth calling plays or was it take your kid to work day and he was letting Jr. pick plays based on the pretty pictures. Said it last year and into this one, the guy got famous for one frikkin' season in college. That never plays out well in the NFL.

Funny, if our non-Temple guys get injured, we're fugged.

And that's when he's motivated. Dude is a total knucklehead. Don't get morons as WRs.

Oh go rattle your jewelry somewhere.

Sideshow Bob needs to be traded to Jacksonville. Maybe we can get Arnold back, or maybe Norwell if we're good negotiators. I said it last year, the guy just completely disappeared after week 5. He still hasn't shown back up except to pick up a check. And of course we extended him. The weight of his wallet most be what is slowing him down. The guy couldn't outrun a referee anymore, much less get open vs. Sister Mary's School for the Blind.

Yeah, he's definitely not Shaq.

But there it is in an e-mail. Still, we've got to enact some idea of a statute of limitations on what we've said or written. Hopefully we grow a little every day and become better human beings over time. Surely we're all a bit wiser than we were 10 years ago. Our society, though, doesn't want someone to culp to it and be forgiven, it wants blood, or at least some kind of advantage. We've grown petty and self righteous. We hunt for little transgressions like this and stay fearfully away from actually fixing the problems.

This guy's one of the greats, give his a try. (Also, just grab a box of Bisquick, the recipe is on the box and works great).

Making cheese steaks here for lunch, followed by chicken and dumplings for dinner (using a rotisserie chicken for the meat).

Get well soon!

Nah, the real question is flat dumplings or fluffy dumplings? There's a whole Alton Brown thing about you can tell where your ancestors came from by whether the dumplings your family makes are flat or fluffy. Fluffy dumplings rule. You can take that in many ways and the statement is still true.

Panthers will come out angry, stay angry and just beat down the Eagles. We lost a lot of pride last week, here's where we get it back. The great Jalen Hurts debate continues as he gets shut down quickly, making people wonder if he really is the longtime plan for the Iggles. Panthers 24 Eagles 9 Hubbard scores a running TD, Darnold gets another rushing TD. Zane Gonzalez survives another week after nailing a 52 yarder.

We're gonna be fine. Will be interesting to see Luvu in on more plays. He's not Shaq, but he could have a really good day out there.

Even if he did use that phrase in the e-mail, and for the racist purpose alleged, it has been an entire decade since it happened. There has to be some possibility of repentance and growth in a human being. None of us need to be living with the possibility of total, irrevocable retaliation for something we said a decade ago, or even longer in some cases. Perhaps a simple apology from the man and we all move on?

Give out the full-size candy bars, be the hero of the neighborhood.

We all miss him, we all do, but we go on and wait for his gold jacket and enshrinement in the Hall of Fame.

Wish we'd have kept him and let Robby go. It's not a popular opinion, but there it is.

We're going to learn a lot about our team's depth this week. And our coaching. Honestly, I can sympathize with the OP that this game can look pretty daunting from the outside. With last year's team, I'd say we were goners. This year, I think Darnold makes a difference. He's got that spark that makes winning possible, he doesn't give up. I like that. You can believe in someone who has that. So, I think we'll win this one, but it's going to be a gutty, tough win rather than the dominant wins we saw at the beginning of the season.

Yeah, there's actually a lot of truth in saying week 5 separates the pack. We're a bit ahead of the curve, but if we don't pull out a win here, then we're going to have tough sledding ahead. Same goes for a lot of teams that are 3-1. And if you're 2-2 this is a make or break weekend. 1-3 teams, well, this weekend starts determining if your coach is on a hot seat or not. 0-4 teams it's deadman walking time if you can't make any progress (and yes, even for both of the teams with brand new head coaches.) And Urban, I'd advise you to ride home with the team this weekend, even though it is a home game. You need chaperones and a curfew man, the ice gets mighty thin in Florida...

Recession hooliganism causing AA batteries this year.

Or hit you with a thrown AA battery.

True, but sometimes the absence of something makes for a big whistling void. Someone who makes the decisions has at least an idea of how they will perform. Look, I've loved watching our recent games and the wins have me feeling a lot more confident about the direction the franchise is headed, but one area that hasn't been showing us any progress is that offensive line. And that's been a problem for near on a decade now. We all know it was a systemic problem before Rhule. I'm just saying that I'm not sure there's a lot of new light being shed on the problem by Fitterer yet. Perhaps it wasn't his top priority. Maybe it was, there certainly was a lot of activity early on there. Most likely it's one of those phase three things. But as for our bench sitting rookie linemen, I'm going to have to see them out there before I can give them any sort of passing grade.