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Good news: I just saw him down at the Stud Pass Rusher store. He was pushing a shopping cart around. Bad news: Mike was with him, I heard him say we don’t need anything here, we have Myles Murphy at home.

No more training camp shots of guys walking in front of the concrete plant. This kind of ambiance doesn’t grow on trees.

Horrible news - they are going to demolish the concrete plant that sits directly to the south of our practice field.

Per Dehner - “Golden truly never left Cincinnati. When he coached linebackers in 2020-21 he bought a house on the same street as Taylor. They were neighbors, and his three children were in Cincinnati high schools. Golden took the job in South Bend after the Super Bowl, but he didn’t sell his house or move his family. He stayed neighbors and close friends with Taylor despite spending most of his time in-season at Notre Dame.”

Like extending Chase. They should be happy to get him on a long term deal. He should be happy to get a long extension here with Burrow et al. I think in a vacuum, both parties want it and would be happy with it. But instead, as it always seems to with this management team, it turns into an acrimonious shit show.

That was a really long DC search for it not to even be a search. Getting a new DC and a new O line coach should be kind of exciting. I don’t know what it is about them, but the Brown family sucks the fun out of everything.

Pam Landy? She’s standing right next to you. (Skrillex drop).

Signing Grandy was a lot of work. The Dark Triad will take a couple well-deserved weeks off.

Mark Andrews can walk home.

Man I can’t believe that PI call on the Ravens on that last drive. Terrible.

Death penalty for decided on thousands of airings for that charred duck at the Oregon tailgate ad. Also, the main character in that ad is wearing a bad wig.

Bad Lamar makes an appearance, throws a ridiculous pick.

Ravens right out of the gate. 7-0, first drive goes the distance. Lamar looks sharp.

So true. The Texans got robbed in that game.

Turns out the Rams Eagles game was actually good. Ready for this bills ravens divisional game. We won this exact game two years ago.

Yep, the team I most wanted to lose went out and won (helped by the officials), and the team I most wanted to win went out and lost. Not a great year for me and the NFL, from the Bengals on down. Maybe it’s the universe forcing a trade off, we get the buckeyes in the national title game, but we don’t get anything else.

They don’t need to play the 4th quarter, the league is giving it to the Chiefs. Just bring on the lions game.

Robbed on a crucial spot. Wake the fuck up.

Clip on the opening kickoff, hip drop tackle, holding on a scramble, just 3 of the penalties I’ve seen NOT called in the Chiefs. Something happens to these officials when they get off the plane in KC.

I really sold myself on Eberflus. Really wish they’d have given him a look. Al Davis was known to use coaching interviews as intelligence gathering exercises. He’d ask guys a ton of questions, learn their philosophy and what worked and didn’t work for them. Pretty smart. The Brown family - “That sounds like a lot of work.”

To me it’s obvious now that Golden has been the guy since probably before they fired Lou. They didn’t even bring Saleh or Eberflus in for an interview. Disappointing to me in the sense that you don’t know what you don’t know until you talk to people and learn something. Maybe Golden really is the best out there, but if you don’t compare him to the best, how do you even know?

Dude, come on now.

I know I should hate the rams after we lost to them (bad call on Logan Wilson PI robbed us). But they are so dull I don’t give them a second thought one way or the other.

Let’s break it down. The odds of a guy even being named Wink. Not great. One in a million. Now the odds of two guys being named wink. Even not greater. Now we find two guys named Wink, what are the odds they have the same last name? And it’s not a very common last name. Something is fishy going on here with all these Wink Martindales running around.

You often ask yourself, who does Wink Martindale look like? Answer - If you go to a hunting and fishing expo and one of the tables is a dude selling a book he wrote about noodling snapping turtles out of undercut muddy riverbanks, Wink Martindale looks like that dude.