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But the Showtime version got too..... heavy? in its presentation. Fans tune in to watch the game recaps and some analysis. But it started to be 10m of opening banter, 5m for game of the week. Then 4 sets of 2m of highlights covering the rest of the games. And inserted inbrtween was (mostly useless) banter between the hosts often talking about newsy stuff. We were lucky if the Panthers made it in the first 45m of the show. Yes, there are serious off-field topics to discuss. But it got to the point where it was almost all off-field stuff. Made the concept of the show unwatchable.

Barry last season starts this week. Tons of good originals on HBOmax But can't see Warner/Discovery getting into the NFL game these days. While it is an inexpensive show to put together vs other productions... don't know if they'll feel it's time to bring it back. Could see Amazon making a play, to supplement TNF. Or maybe Peacock, because they could pair it back up with Collingsworth.

May or may not have the soundtrack MP3s in a drive somewhere. Good stuff. Lots are avail on the YouTube

No word yet on where is going. Could be YouTube, could be Amazon, could be Apple…. Who knows. but it was meh on Showtime (slowly declining in quality over the post-HBO years), and it was absolutely horrendous on P+.

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Stroud playing Madden '18 online last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

In the big picture -- aren't we going to be mostly happy with whomever we pick out of the top QB prospects?

I don't think anybody saw Luke's retirement as a player as being attributed to Tepper. There's a small chance that Luke retiring from his office job is slightly related, but there are plenty of stories about how that particular role wasn't the best fit for Luke, time-commitment-wise. I'd love to see Luke brought on as a specialty education coach -- doing tape reviews with individual players, to teach his preparation and analysis skills. Or even as a coach advisor, doing his own tape analysis and providing to the team.

Even taking into account that all fans in a stadium are local, not everybody is able to go to a mid-week night game that is scheduled 2 weeks in advance. Plus, the scheduling seems weird -- when a team has plans in place for a full week of practice/planning/recovery, and then the league pulls them aside and says, "yeah - about that.... just deal with another short week on your schedule" isn't very team-friendly, either. And doesn't that adversely favor those short-week teams by giving them a longer recovery timeframe the following week that their next opponents wouldn't have the benefit of? Late season, that could turn into a huge advantage.

Depends on what you define as a "smart home". Not everything "smart" is a good idea. If you're looking strictly at having improved WiFi, then there are decent mesh networks from Eero, Google Nest, and Netgear Orbi. Be sure that whatever mesh you pick up supports WiFi 6 or WiFi 6E, even if you have zero devices that can utilize those protocols yet. Improved wifi coverage will not improve your overall Internet speed. That's a limitation of whatever plan you're on with your ISP. Wired connections will (for now, at least) always be faster and better than wifi connections. Especially for work-related stuff like video calls or 4k (or 8k!!!) video streaming. If your issue is wifi coverage, then maybe it's the placement of your existing wifi router than the need to go mesh. Always something to consider if mesh is the right choice to fix your situation or not. As for smart-home devices, "Matter" is the catchword of the day (unless you're 100% Apple, in which case maybe all you need to do is focus on HomeKit) Be careful -- folks have been able to hack into home internet setups through unsecured smart lightbulbs (not YOUR fault, but the bulb company's implementations). And if the company behind the Smart devices go under, you're left with a bunch of non-working devices that don't have a server to connect to.

When Fitt came onboard, we were hoping to see the Panthers pull off some of the stunts that Seattle was able to figure out. All it took was dude to get out of the way for the FittMagic to start happening

As a music historian in the year 2500, you're tasked with identifying one singular song that identified music genres from this current timeframe (that timeframe could be from 1800 - today, if you need boundaries). With that in mind, while it might be easy to pick a single artist to best represent any particular style of music -- it gets harder when you're limited to a single song. So --- what ONE song would you pick to be the ideal representation in each (any?) of the following genres: Rock Rock and Roll Classical Punk Classic Rock Alternative New Wave Grunge Disco The 60's 80's Pop 90's Pop Country Rap Hip-Hop

I think the Panthers social/marketing team have done a terrific job in filming and sharing draft day activities in recent years Looking forward to what they do this year without the rumored handcuffs they may have been placed under in recent times

The Bucs change in logo and branding from "Bucco Bruce" to what they have now was fairly well executed. They kinda needed to do something. We do not. Sir Purr for the win

It's fixable on the helmet display. Just make the left-hand whiskers (which are the ones hidden on the right side of the graphic), black.

ROLLERBALL

Was at one of these dinners once. The candidate was being asked so many questions/responding that they could barely eat anything on the plate. One of the sr people at the table had to jump in and say, "hey everybody - let's let them grab a bit to eat, we're all finished with our meals - they haven't eaten a thing"

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer......

Japanese waygu > american waygu, if you have a choice.

Bring back Young Indiana Jones

Looks like Apple is doing something super-awesome for their MLB streams They're going to have the local radio announcer audio as an alternative audio source for viewers Now if YouTube did that for its NFL sunday ticket, that would be awesome

He’s STILL not old enough to get that call, darn it.

3 dozen eggs, probably.

I think he kept a low profile early in the season figuring out the best way to address it, plus the rock hill debacle probably took his attention away a bit. He may have just suffered from a bad sense of timing rather than reluctance in admitting the obvious.

*cough rock hill cough*

I doubt they'll force us to go to Europe this season, knowing we're doing Germany next year.