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It's a double edged sword. Tough games but good opportunities for quality wins. We either catch on fire again or we don't. Hubert isn't going to start actually coaching. Hubert is a red hot deep tourney run away from going into next year on the hot seat.

Pains me to admit it but I think Jim Larranaga could take our roster and beat his 9 out of 10 times. The guy can coach.

Yeah, I gave him a pass last year buying that we just didn't have the depth of talent to play much bench but that's not the case this year. There's talent on that bench. He just wants to ride or die with his five. That just seems to be who he is as a coach.

It frustrates me watching other teams call timeouts to stop runs or regroup when we never did it. Roy Williams was a great college basketball coach but that's one thing I wish Hubert hadn't taken from him.

We badly need a true PG. Nance has been a pretty big disappointment. He was supposed to be the Manek replacement but he's not even in the same universe as Manek.

We looked worse than this at this point last year. We'll see if we find a spark again or not.

Oh good grief, there's still a ton of basketball to be played. All this who's in or out right now is just talking heads needing something to yap about.

I just don't understand our offensive plan at all. I honestly don't think we have one. We just rely on tough shots falling and that's why we're so streaky. Nothing comes easy because we don't have a natural PG on the roster to create for others and the offensive system creates absolutely nothing itself. It's like Shula ball but we have no Cam Newton.

Well, he's picking up about a foul a minute right now so that plan is out.

This is probably over. Once again, we can't hit water from a fuging boat. Recurring theme for several years now.

If they're gonna hit threes like this we're just gonna lose. You can't beat a team shooting like this.

The overall effort is up significantly. They shot 44% from three. We shot 9%. Crazy it's a one point game at half given that differential.

This. All the best young QBs currently in the league all had warts. None were considered slam dunk prospects. Mahomes came from an offensive system that exaggerated stats. Allen couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. Burrow was old and a one year wonder. Herbert came from a one read offense and didn't deliver in the clutch. Hurts looked like a guy who needed a position change while at Bama.

Different era of football. They've tweaked the rules a bunch since to benefit offense and all indications are that they'll continue to do that. So you can try to buck the trend and try to build a team built to win in the '80s and '90s or you can see where the NFL is trying to take the sport and build a team built to score.

I couldn't possibly care less about the halftime performance. Honestly, I think Prince was probably the last one I actually watched and I honestly can't name many other halftime performers. I can't tell you off the top of my head who was last year's performer and this time next year I won't be able to tell you this year's was Rianna's. I'm here for a football game, not the show. The show is for all the folks watching who don't watch football otherwise and are just tuning in for the spectacle of the event.

Another clear sign you're getting old. Super Bowl halftime performers who have had a career that's relevant during your lifetime.

It didn't decide the game but it did guarantee that Philly would have no time to potentially answer which they would have minus the penalty. They were going to get the ball back down three with about 1:45 to go.

Yeah, no Lamar is a former MVP but there's no getting around the reality that he has been a bad playoff QB. It's not that his team is losing despite a heroic effort from him. His team has lost those games in large part to him being bad in those games.

Gotta love intra-divisional fan trolling.

Yeah, he's not a good bridge option. If you want to make things work with Carr you're going to have to commit to him. If you sign Carr then turn around and draft a QB in the 1st he's gonna go fuging ballistic. I think Tepper is likely feeling similarly to the fanbase right now - sick and tired of the retread vet carousel. We're actually in a situation now where that approach might be setup for success but the willingness might be gone from having been burnt by bringing in the wrong guys at the wrong time. We haven't tried a Carr level vet in a situation where we've had a good roster and a good staff but trying lower level vets with worse rosters and worse staffs has left us all weary and just looking for a different approach altogether.

Call the game in the last two minutes like you've been calling it for the previous 58 minutes. They'd been letting those types of plays go all night so continue to let them go. The refs kinda set the tone for how a game is going to be played early on with how they officiate the close judgement calls. Is it being called tight or are they letting them play? The players get a feel for that tone and adjust accordingly. When the refs suddenly change the tone mid-game or even worse in crunch time at the end everyone feels cheated. There was one defensive holding penalty called all night long and it came in the final two minutes on crucial third down and it was ticky tack. The same type of stuff they'd been letting go all night. That's just not fair officiating from the perspective of a player. You've set the tone for how you're going to officiate this game and in the biggest moment you completely break from that norm and throw the type of flag you haven't been throwing all game.

It's not like anyone would notice someone slipping in a soccer game anyway with all the flopping going on.

When he pulled that very obvious dick swinging ego move that's went from being a big Gettleman fan to basically saying fug this guy.

I think they had this guy managing the turf for the field they played on tonight

If you wanna relive it you can watch the opening night of the 2016 season too. The NFL is quite obviously very okay with looking the other way on trash officiating as long as it goes the way they'd prefer.