COB

Lamar hasn’t been practicing, hadn’t been throwing with the receivers. If he jumps into practice this week, that’ll help some, but timing and rust will be a factor. Still he’s their best option.

Random fact from rummaging around our o-line pickups (sadly we’re missing two of them, Kappa and La’el Collins are out). For you old-timers, our other pickup, Ted Karras, has a well known great uncle. I’ve kept you in suspense long enough. His great uncle is longtime Detroit Lion Alex Karras.

And that year was accomplished with that statistical outlier game in week one against the Steelers. He threw 4 picks and lost one fumble in that game. So in a 17 game season, in one game he threw a third of his season’s total interceptions and had half his fumbles for turnover.

“The window is my whole career… The window is always open.” I say this with all seriousness; psychologists could study this dude as having one of the greatest examples of the unwavering confidence needed to be the best at something. It’s pretty remarkable. I can’t really recall a QB who had it to this level, and was willing to vocalize it. Maybe Joe Namath?

Odd stat - Brady played all 4 AFC North teams this year and lost to them all. Heh.

A lot of cheap stuff from the ravens. I assume the officials next week will be waiting for that and we’ll benefit from a personal foul in the first half.

Trent Green and Kevin Harlan calling the game on cbs. Not exactly the A team but I get it.

Supposedly Lamar is coming back next week for the playoffs. We’ll beat them today, then embarrass them next week. My feeling is Lamar is gone. He wants top 5 money and the Ravens are over it. Too many injuries. He’d be great at a mid level price.

If you’re watching the titans jags game, titans qb just gave up a fumble, same type of thing as the Mac Jones “incomplete pass” against us a couple weeks ago. This jags qb was way more of a pass than Jones’ and they called this one a fumble.

Go trash talk ‘em! Unrelated story about trash talk - my son’s junior year of basketball was winter 20/21. Pretty much Covid lockdown year, masks in school all day. No one allowed at the basketball games except parents of players and cheerleaders. First home game and it’s like a tomb in that gym. You could literally hear the players breathing. Game heats up and the shit talking starts. Normally the noise in the gym covers it all, but now it’s so quiet the moms are treated to their sons saying (and these are the ones I remember) “you fucking faggot,” “weak ass shit outa here,” “same as your brother,” several “motherfucker”s, several “you suck,” and the word “fuck” just being constantly thrown out as an all purpose expletive. It kind of overshadowed the game itself. The refs and the coaches didn’t seem surprised or bothered. I talked to my son, told him all the mom’s didn’t need to hear him run through his whole vocabulary. Other parents must have as well. The rest of the season was better, with the exception of one kid.

If KC loses to the raiders, we won’t need a neutral field to beat them. Nothing would shock me more right now than the raiders beating KC.

If we can’t beat the Ravens we seriously don’t deserve a home playoff game. They’re without Lamar, and his backup can’t throw worth shit. I’m not joking and it’s not hyperbole to say he has one of the worst arms on a starting quarterback I’ve ever seen. Beat the Ravens then see where the chips fall. We got fucked over for sure but it could be a lot worse.

I didn’t need good news back in 1974, guess I just had that dog in me.

Lakewood, Utica, and Northridge.

Granville. And I recall you went to either Watkins or LH, I can’t recall for certain which.

You mean they won’t be ready because of seeing Damar get CPR and shocked? Listen up, the year is 1974, I’m on the bus going to our 7th grade basketball game against Licking Valley. Ron Mathias, our starting center, (dude went through puberty in like 4th grade), barfs all over the place, mostly the aisle, really. The smell, the noise, all a complete shit show. Like a champion I am unaffected, went and balled out (4 points and fouled out in the 3rd quarter), we won by 8 points. If required, I will tell that story of epic mental toughness to the Bengals in person.

Jay Morrison is like a detective.

That field at Paycor is racking up some injuries. Tua got a brain injury there this year, I think I recall him getting carted off. Ryan Shazier received a pretty serious injury to his spine there, glad he recovered enough to walk. Now this youngster has a heart event that almost ended his life. Maybe every nfl field has this macabre history, I don’t pay attention to the other fields enough to know.

Ok so we’re on to the Ravens.

The league would probably love to seize another weekend of tv. Imagine the profits. I wonder though if the union will let them. My belief is the union will not allow the players to play in a rescheduled game. The game is likely gone for good, they’ll have to come up with some artificial fix that is as fair as they can make it, then just move forward with the schedule as is.

The league should have made a decision last night. They were too busy seizing the moral high ground, didn’t want to appear callous, cold hearted, or greedy. All this “all we care about now is this young man’s health,” bullshit from the league does not change the reality that this 18 billion dollar industry absolutely wrecks the bodies and neurological health of its young employees.

That sure looks like it fits. I wonder if they needed a defibrillator. Probably had one in the ambulance.

But it also means we can’t pas the chiefs to get home field.

If they call this game a tie, we’ve got the division.

I love Suzie Kolber, Booger, and Schefty. But they were so woefully inadequate trying to fill time. Great at delivering prepared remarks, but having to create dialogue, deliver off the cuff remarks - no. Not an easy situation.