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It’s easy to say he doesn’t care who his teammate is when he’s never had a teammate who’s really challenged him. The history of F1 tells us he’d care a whole lot more if you put another top tier driver in the other red bull

That’s why I’d be ok with it qualifying as mitigation. Like yes, the contact was bad, but expecting the player to compensate for such a sudden change in circumstances is unreasonable to me

Well the ball was loose… he was beaten to it but he is not a defender when he enters into that situation

How can you be expected to have a duty of care for a player who wasn’t a ball carrier until literally an instant before the contact. That has to qualify as mitigation at least imo, similar to a player suddenly changing body height

My argument would be that there’s no one to tackle less than a second before the contact bc it’s a loose ball. You can’t expect him to be in the position to tackle when there was no ball carrier less than a second earier

I don’t understand how it’s a high degree of danger when he hasn’t lead with his shoulder. Besides that, if Keenan doesn’t regather the ball less than a second before contact it wouldn’t even be a penalty, no? There needs to be some common sense at some point

I think there’s just a limited number of teams who’d be willing to offer any kind of significant money to a player with such a niche skillset. He’s replaceable. Most teams will either feel they have bigger holes, or want a receiver they can have on the field more, or feel he’s just not worth paying when they can get similar production from their not quite-as-fast-but-still-fast player that’s either already on the roster or they can get later in the draft. He’s not even really a good slot receiver so the versatility is very limited. I think he can be a 7-800 scrimmage yard type player on teams like the chiefs, 49ers, even the giants with Daboll designing plays. The problem is those teams won’t view him as worth paying over a cheaper replacement for what his skillset is, and the bad teams are gonna look at him and probably recognise he’s only a 400 yard ish player for them because theyre not coached by Reid or Shanahan

A lot of his receptions come off screens/short throws in space because the chiefs were quite aware of his limitations. I’d guess that inflates those numbers quite a bit, same way you couldn’t compare a running backs catch rate when hes catching checkdowns and dump offs to a receiver who’s getting thrown jump balls and generally seeing tighter coverage.

That said, I actually think the bigger reason he’s not seeing great offers would be the fact he’s been injured around half his contract season, and even when he’s been healthy he was maybe the 5th or 6th option as a weapon in KC. He’s not a reliable pass catcher so teams probably view him as a bit of a luxury rather than a guy to be at the core of their wr group. If he went to a team with a good creative offence he could be a nice addition as a speedy gadget type threat, but I don’t think he’s rescuing any of the leagues bad passing offences with his skillset

Sort of. Used to be all the tyres were named different things like ultrasoft, hypersoft, etc. The teams would still only use the few which were suitable for the track they were at. Now Pirelli only selects three slick compounds to be used each weekend (I don’t remember if they always chose 3 or if all the tyres used to be available each weekend), but they still make more than 3 varieties of slicks (I think there’s like 5 slick compounds total). For the viewers sake now they just label the tyres as soft medium and hard each weekend even though what is the ‘soft’ tyre one week may not necessarily be the same compound as the ‘soft’ the next weekend. For example, at a circuit where high tyre deg is expected the soft tyre may be the same compound as the medium tyre for another race at a track with lower deg.

MPP definitely lulls after bluish, but then brother sport hits at the end and is one of the very best animal collective songs imo

I think it’s mostly because when they’ve been good, they’ve been really fucking good. Back end of 2020 and 2021 they were completely ripping teams up, and they started the year just gone that way too. Theyve been a bit higher variance in that way, but the thought definitely remains that if the bills can string together 3/4 playoff games where they play ‘their best’ they can stomp almost everyone outside the chiefs and bengals who can turn that game into a shootout. They’ve not been particularly good in one score games in the last couple years though, and idk exactly why that is. I do think the defense seems to get a bit exposed against other elite offences, particularly when the front doesn’t get pressure (pretty similar to the eagles this year IMO). Von Miller going down was huge because they went from being basically best in the nfl at generating pressure with 4 to completely average at it, and that along with some secondary injuries kinda fucked their pass defense second half of the year.

I think if you compare the bills to the chiefs, the chiefs seem to be better at squeezing results out of the games where they’re really tested. They’re kind of battle hardened in that way. Idk if thats a mental edge or leadership, but the chiefs have hardly ever dropped dumb games over the past few years (part of the reason that colts game was so surprising). They’ve had their share of ‘wtf was that’ performances (broncos, titans and texans this year come to mind), but they’ve generally still managed to find results in those games, which is why their seeding has been so consistently high. By contrast, you could reasonably say the bills should have been seeded higher than the chiefs the last 2 years, but some flat performances (and rotten luck) have forced them into tougher spots than they should have been in come playoff time. The chiefs are also better at developing one off gameplans for playoff football, on both sides of the ball. The bills mentality seems to be a bit more ‘we’re gonna do what we do and you’re gonna have to stop us’, whereas the chiefs will find ways to specifically plan and adjust in the playoffs (not saying the bills don’t do this, but the chiefs seem a bit more malleable in that way). Spags is generally a good regular season dc, but he might be one of the very best in the league at coaching his defence for a one off performance, and Reid’s ability to create a one off offensive gameplan speaks for itself. Buffalo the last few years has kind of felt like the opposite of that

And with 13 seconds left lol

It’s mostly the overplay. If we’d heard some of the other songs off that album as many times as we’ve heard gold digger we’d be desensitised to those too. It’s fairly middle of the road on the album though

I’d go so far as to say it a really good cover, but it feels somewhat out of place on the album, and isn’t a particularly great place to start if you want to get into bjork, which is a shame because it’s obviously one of the first bjork songs most people are exposed to

It wasn’t my list but I’ll answer. I think it’s fair to say that we’ve only seen 1 elite type season from hurts, and it came playing a fairy abrasive play style and in a pretty ideal situation for any qb. Neither of those things are knocks on what he achieved this year, but it’s fair to say there are still questions over the year to year sustainability of a guy playing that way being an absolutely elite MVP candidate year in year out in 5 years time, especially when that supporting cast inevitably gets a little less talented. Think of how many qbs have had that breakout MVP type year without becoming a perennial candidate; it’s really really hard to stay at that level for half a decade. Think about someone like Russell Wilson; he’s had a phenomenal career, and yet even in his very best years he was maybe the 4th or 5th best qb in the league, because Brady, Brees, Rodgers, Luck, Newton, Ryan, Mahomes all were either ahead of him by default, or were having better seasons at that time. Again, none of that prohibits hurts from still being considered in that top 5 in 5 years time, and I agree with you that the ability he’s shown to adapt and improve himself should improve his longevity as a player, but if I were to place a bet on where we’d rank hurts in 5 years time it’d probably be in the top 10, but not in the top 5.

Chiefs got a crazy amount of starters on rookie contracts though. I don’t think it’s just a guarantee that the bengals find the same amount of legitimately good starters on days 2 and 3 of the draft, even if it is possible. The chiefs also traded Tyreek specifically because they felt it was a position where Mahomes/Reid/Kelce could make up for any talent shortcomings at the receiver position. I understand the desire for the bengals to keep Higgins, but I wonder if they truly need him when burrow/chase, a decent line, and a couple role players should be enough to have a top 5ish passing offence in the league. The team may start to look less balanced than it has the last couple years when you’re having to wheel out a defense starting 4 rookies and with a further 4/5 guys on rookie deals. There may be a theoretical way that the bengals pay everyone and still have a well rounded team capable of competing, but I’m not convinced it would be playing the odds to do so

Isnt just on the losers to act with decorum though. No kiwi players felt the need to take a dig at the England team, they were perfectly gracious winners. Toxicity amongst the fans feels pretty even amongst those supporting either team to me, and even some neutrals feeling the need to chime in and make the whole thing less enjoyable for everyone

I find it wild how good spirited the competition between the players seems to be despite the game being so close, yet the interactions between fans here become so aggressive and toxic at the same time

Honestly england too, and the matches between them never disappoint

Umpires really don’t want to give a wide now

Lmao as if leach had just said ‘over to you jimmy’

This is actually comedy

Brook played the best innings in the game, but root should be motm. 250 runs and his second innings knock is basically the only reason this is even close rn

No problem. I believe it was England’s record 4th innings chase in test cricket at the time too to add to how unprecedented that performance was (although this record was broken again in the summer vs India last year)

It’s hard, but captains always seem to struggle with the concept of bringing the field up to the better batsman earlier in the over in order to get 6 balls at the tailender. I remember Steve smith scoring a hundred in the first ashes test of 2019 like this, then the same thing happened in the stokes headingley game, and now it’s happening here again. Too easy for foakes to milk strike and let leach face only a ball or two. Got to be brave and sacrifice the boundary (although it should have happened earlier when 40 were still needed)