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5:50 a.m. Wake up on office couch
ok
6-8 Review opponent game tape
get someone else to do it
8-8:15 Call Ingrid (wife)
this isnt work
8:15-8:30 Breakfast with LS Morgan Cox, K Justin Tucker, P Sam Koch and QB Joe Flacco
ok breakfast isnt really working either
8:30-8:45 Meet with team president Dick Cass
alright
8:45-9:15 Meet with assistant GM Eric DeCosta
pointless, cancel this
9:15-9:45 Prep for team meeting
ok
9:45-10:15 Meet with senior offensive assistant Craig Ver Steeg
cancel this
10:15-11:15 Review opponent game tape
get someone else to do it
11:15-11:45 Meet with player leadership committee
this wont take more than 10 mins
11:45-12:15 p.m. Lunch with Ingrid and Alison (10-year-old daughter)
this isnt work
12:15-1 Sit in on special-teams meeting
LMAO special teams, get anyone else to do it
1:00-1:20 Team meeting
ok
1:20-2:45 Sit in on offense and defense meetings
ok but i'm going to be browsing 2+2 through most of it
2:45-3:35 Meet with GM/Executive VP Ozzie Newsome
ok
3:35-4 News conference prep with Kevin Byrne, senior VP of public and community relations
nah, tell them i'm busy working on the playbook or something
4-4:25 News conference, local TV interview, Ravens TV interview
alright
4:30-5:30 Work out
this isnt work
5:30-5:45 Call from John Madden
wat. pretend im going into a tunnel and hang up
5:45-6:20 Dinner with assistant coaches
more eating
6:20-6:30 Review last game's plays for submission to officials
forget it, they aren't changing their minds now
6:40-6:50 Meet with head athletic trainer Mark Smith
tell him i'm still eating
7-11:15 Watch upcoming opponent tape
get someone else to do it
11:30 Sleep on office couch
include provision for 5 min wank job if i cant nod off quickly

there i saved about 9 hours/day through various efficiencies

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5 star ⭐️ poast

If you can have that QB have a great coach like Andy Reid, sure. But imagine if Mahomes ended up with Fat Mike. Great QBs are rare, but great QBs that can't be ruined by bad coaches are even rarer, maybe just Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers. Actually maybe just Peyton Manning, Rodgers is clearly half-ruined by Fat Mike.

Gruden's schedule

9:00 wake up hung over in a pile of vomit behind a dumpster at the practice facility

9:01 go back to sleep

10:00 wake up to assistant coaches yelling "you gotta stop doing this"

10:30 breakfast with cardboard cutouts of Khalil Mack and Amari Cooper

11:00 visit analytics meeting, discuss optimal 4th down decision making.

11:30 drink enough Coors light to forget all that

12:00 Bible study

12:30 watch game tape of Brett Favre

1:00 Draw up route trees for 10 different versions of spider 2Y banana

1:30 Lunch with Al Davis' corpse

2:00 visit analytics department to study 4th quarter time management strategies. Instead of paying attention, just draw that "S" shape over and over in notebook

2:30 call Ron Jaworski. Ramble endlessly about establishing and playing physical.

5:00 practice. Just keep shouting phrases like "you gotta play like you mean it" and "We can't just play to not lose, boys. We gotta play AGGRESSIVELY and go for the win."

7:00 Sit in on QB meeting. Tell Carr that "You can't just play football. You gotta play FOOTBALL football like Brett Favre"

8:00 continue research on whether Mark Davis is just him from an alternate timeline

idk man. i still never want my team to have to go to foxboro in January. they always crank it up down the stretch.

i dont think the chiefs can win in NE.

eta- my feelings might be just because NE is the steelers boogeyman..

That's prob what Parcells should do after he signs 4 year deal

NE has handled KC with ease through most of the Andy Reid era, and they won this year, too.

Should be Goff but as you can see (like itt) people still don't believe. He's not going anywhere though. Elite throws every game.

Brees, but Mahomes will be hard to take away from just cause of his outrageous numbers

If Mahomes wins out, plays well, and we get HFA I think he deserves it.

MVP seems pretty close right now between Brees, Goff, Mahomes.


Right now I'd probably set it at like:

Brees 50%
Mahomes 30%
Goff 15%
Other 5%

I think writers will see that Brees has never won one before and give him one as a career achievement sort of award, as long as he keeps up his pace through the final 6 games.

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breesus for mvp

Also the writers don't want to admit how wrong they've been about Goff. They still give as little credit as possible to Goff himself. It's almost like McVay is throwing the ball too. Lol @ them.

Agree on Brees. Don't think Goff stands a chance as Gurley will get some of the Rams love, and I know some people would put Luck > Goff in MVP discussion.

Obviously not surprising, but Chiefsplanet is having a mini-meltdown about the officiating in last night's game.

It sure seemed weird that this "all star" crew was brought in who then proceeded to call ticky-tack fouls on the Chiefs the whole first half. This thread has some of the bad ones:



That **** and you miss the obvious offsides on the Goff TD run and Suh's flying punch.

Seemed like they backed off in the second half. So if there was any subtle riggage - the goal could have been to make sure the Chiefs didn't blow the Rams out and everyone go home. Or maybe just to call a super tight game because they know the Chiefs tend to skirt the line on defensive holding a lot more.

The NFL knows they have first and foremost an entertainment product, they know LA fans are fickle and they DESPERATELY want to keep them engaged.

It's hard not to think about Donaghy's allegations about "Stern's boys" rigging game 6 of the Lakers/Kings (which even a lot of sober pundits seem to think was legit rigged).

All these all star refs "Goodell's boys"? Would he even need to communicate what he wants to them? Probably not. But if they don't play along they might lose favor and lose their "all star" status.

Ok talk me down out of my unhinged tin-foil hat hysteria.

Goodell can **** off.

The Rams are who we thought they were and we let ‘em off the hook!

Now if you wanna crown ‘em then crown their asses! But we let ‘em off the hook!

Brees will 100% will a lifetime achievement MVP unless he suffers a season ending injury or his numbers fall off a cliff, a 2nd year QB will never get MVP award over GOAT who somehow never won one before

If Mahomes doesn't turn it over 5 times they would have blown the Rams out so I don't think the refs did a very good job of rigging it.

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Goff routinely misses throws, has a better overall receiver group than Brees, and Brees has the advantage in every meaningful statistical category (except some of the totals, because Goff has played one more game).

Brees has a full half-yard advantage in ANY/A, in part because he's taken 9 sacks to 20 and thrown 1 INT to 10. Completion % almost 10 points higher. Brees is far and away the leader in completion % above expectation based on factors like distance thrown and the window he's throwing into. He's also doing this even while throwing to guys like Tre'Quan Smith, Austin Carr, and Keith Kirkwood. (Also he beat the Rams and did not turn the ball over five times against them.)

Mahomes' big advantage is 37 TDs to 25 (in one more game) but he also turns the ball over a lot more often and gets sacked twice as often.

Anyway, compare the numbers for yourself.

a) I didn't say the Rams had to win, just that they didn't want a Chiefs blowout.

b) If Mahomes doesn't turn it over 5x, and the Chiefs get a 2 score lead, who's to say the refs don't keep up with phantom defensive holding and DPI calls? That first half was bull****. Like 6 or 7 huge high-leverage calls agains the Chiefs and none against the Rams. Some of the calls were declined too because the Rams got a big play anyway.

Come on man you're better than this

No YOU'RE better than this.

Oh wait

Anyway from what Donaghy said, and watching LA/Sac game 6, it seems more likely than not the NBA put their thumb on the scale on a huge game for LA. Seems pretty likely they rigged the lottery for the Knicks as well. I dunno on that but a lot of pundits seem to legitimately believe it happened.

So IMO it's not completely outside the realm of sanity to think the NFL might do the same thing. Like I said, it doesn't even have to be spoken. "Goodell's guys" would know why they were brought in - in an unprecedented move - and would know what is expected of them to stay in good favor. They sure seemed to want to make a statement early. I mean FFS they called a flag on almost every other Chiefs defensive snap that first drive - including a phantom DPI and the weakest targeting call I've ever seen.

Is there any transparency on this all-star selection process? Is it just that the commissioner's whim or is there some internal ranking system that presumably at least all the refs would have visibility to? How much input does the commissioner have on who's an all star? I'd be really curious about that. Because if he has any influence that's a huge cudgel he can use to get refs to lean one way or the other - again w/o ever saying anything.

Every workplace has the unspoken stuff that eventually you get clued into and you either go along with or no you might be in unofficial trouble. Right now - I'm a contractor but it's just expected I only bill 40 hours. My boss can't come out and say that, but I know it. So it's basically up to me if I want to work longer to get stuff done, which I should theoretically be rewarded for at some point in the future. But again, I'm just hoping because obviously she can't come out and say that.