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Also, I'll admit to another cheat that I do. Everyone who's done much smoking at all knows about the "Texas crutch". Wrapping with aluminum foil at the stall to reduce cooking time. Okay. But here's the thing, as soon as you wrap you're done smoking. You're roasting at that point. So fug it. Pull it and put it in the oven at that point. Don't tie yourself to tending the smoker unnecessarily and wasting good wood. The end result is the same.

Yep. Anyone that complains about brisket being hard, I just ask them if they've ever tried smoking a prime brisket. The answer is always no. Yeah if you're smoking those lean choice briskets there's zero room for error. You better be on point. But good prime briskets are almost as forgiving as pork butt.

LOL! Yet another example of "starting" not meaning poo. Byron Bell started 56 games at OT for the Panthers, 15 at LT. Amino Silatolu started 31 games for us. Nate Chandler started 19. Our OL struggles this season have somehow made fans forget that honestly this is our norm.

I'm flexin'! LOL! Nah, bought the briskets on sale for 98 cents per pound and Sam's Club has USDA prime brisket for $5.38 per pound. So it's about $125 on meat. Not bad considering there's close to 50 pounds in the smoker.

Nah, we'll git 'er done in 10-11 keeping the temps between 250-275. USDA prime brisket let's you get away with higher temps. So much moister with the fat content. Pork butt is so friendly to smoke you can get away with just about any temp. You could probably broil it to smoke it. Okay, that's an exaggeration but as long as you keep the temps south of 325 or so you're gonna end up fine.

I'll bump this because it's going DOWN today. Three 9-10 pound pork butts and an 18 pound brisket going on the smoker.

If I was a player's agent, the #1 piece of advice I'd give them about social media is just don't. Hire a firm to handle your social media accounts and just stay away. Don't even have them give you the password.

Yeah, I'm sure fan chatter gets annoying for players when the team isn't playing well but if everyone just shuts up that's not a good thing. That means they don't care. Fans caring enough to watch and (GASP!) maybe even formulating and sharing an opinion is what allows the NFL to drive massive revenue and ultimately support player salaries.

No. I would've taken Fields. I'm still not sold on Jones being a great NFL QB. I just think his ceiling is fairly limited. He's playing well for a rookie, but he's also in the perfect offense for his skill set. I said predraft that I thought Kirk Cousins/Jared Goff type is basically his ceiling and I haven't seen anything yet to make me change my mind on that.

One year wonder. He didn't turn down big money long-term deals to sign here for a year. All he was getting was one year prove it offers so he went with his old college HC and DC. Makes sense.

When we signed Wahle and Lucas we had a very recent SB appearance. Big difference between then and now.

The only guy you mentioned who is relevant is Reddick. FAs from years and regimes past aren't relevant to the conversation. Reddick's contract reflects the reality that he didn't have much of a market which is surprising given his stats last season but a one year fairly small money contract was his best bet.

Why would we be right now?

I feel bad for Sam, but the reality is that he just isn't a starting caliber NFL QB and he's made a metric poo ton of money. Good for him. It's time for us to be figuring out what's next. Hopefully not yet another reclamation project.

$120k a year in SoCal isn't poo. That's why so many are leaving.

To all the posters that reported my "race baiting post" to this guy... there's a trend with this particular poster. Pay attention.

It's not a coincidence. The guy is every bit as bad as Gase. Quite possibly worse.

The part so many overlook is that Cam was constantly tasked to throw the hardest passes a QB has to make - downfield throws to well covered receivers. We never had great receivers and our OC didn't understand the concept of a checkdown.

I could see Darnold being a good backup. Teddy too. Both looked good for us early on until opposing DCs got some tape of them in our offense then they fell off hard. Both went just as I predicted. That's what separates the legit starters from the backups. Lots of guys can look good in fill in duty when there's no relevant take to study. We saw it yesterday. Numerous backup QBs played well. The legit starters can keep it up. The backups fall off.,

Agreed.

Will Grier sighting. LOL!

Damn. Cooper Rush was pretty damn decent tonight. Probably just threw the game winner.

Wow. What terribly soft tackling from the Vikings. There's no way Elliott should've gotten to the sticks there. Seemed like they all assumed that someone else would tackle him.

Holy poo. What a circus catch that was.