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Richard Kimball

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  1. I have difficulty seeing Belichick make it to another Super Bowl. He's 68, and while he's a good X and O coach, he's also a horse's ass. Brady kept the Patriots together. Belichick, as a coach, needed someone to provide the heart for the team, cause he didn't have one. I almost felt sorry for Cam Newton trying to replace Brady. The fact that Belichick lowballed Brady and thought Newton would be an adequate replacement tells you he did not understand what Brady brought to the team. It also tells you he didn't realize how corrosive a personality he has, or didn't care. Without Brady to unify the locker room, Belichick will be the same guy everybody knew and loathed when he was with Cleveland.
  2. Exactly where I am. Part of it is the regime, and part of it is a product of my age. The 70s Cowboys were older than me, and seemed bigger than life. They probably still did a bunch jack wagon stuff, but without social media to amplify it and 24 hour news cycles, we didn't know. It's still hard for me to imagine Staubach, Pearson, Landry, Pugh, Lilly, Billy Jo Dupree, Bob Hayes or any of the others sitting up at a podium talking about glory hole days. Course, there was was Lance Rentzel. Seeing Drew get into the HOF is a throw back to a time when sports probably wasn't much cleaner, but I was more naive about how it really worked. Great to see him get there.
  3. Best possible outcome is the guy was talking out his ass with bad information. If he got actual medical info and released it, there was a HIPAA violation. The reporter has no legal obligation to maintain confidentiality once he knows the information. Whoever was the custodian of the information is the one legally responsible, and that could cause problems for the entire University.
  4. Lots of different thoughts on this. First, hope the kid comes out all right. You know all the NFL money guys are sitting around a table right now going, "Well, shit." Steer the teams through this insane season, get Super Bowl set up, great story lines on Brady-Mahomes, terrific publicity from giving away Super Bowl tickets to health care workers, and here comes BRITT REID. Seriously, could he have done anything to cause more damage a couple of days before the game?
  5. Damn. Reid had another son die of a heroin overdose. That family has some substance abuse problems.
  6. Bet she keeps bringing up penalties from two years ago.
  7. tampa and tom brady Trivia of the day. Bill Belichick has coached 26 years. Eighteen of those years, Tom. Brady was his quarterback. His winning percentage in those years was .760. In the eight years he coached and Brady wasn't his quarterback, his winning percentage was .460. Without Brady, Belichick has a worse record than Jeff Fischer.
  8. You kinda threw me off on a tangent about boxing. When I was a late teen/early twenties guy, Foreman, Norton, Frazier and Ali were all at or near their peaks, and there's never been an era where boxing was better.
  9. I dunno. Losing half the team to COVID was a winning strategy for Cleveland.
  10. Amended. IMHO, just about any undefeated P5 will get in. One loss teams, it really comes back to conference reputation, and, of course, long term team reputation.
  11. You could be right. I gave up on the Cowboys when Jerry hired Wade Phillips. I saw about ten minutes of them this year, as a game was on while I was at a party. Weirdly enough, it was the third quarter of the Giants game when Prescott broke his leg. I thought McCarthy took the job cause it was a big paycheck, and didn't have that much invested in the team. It's possible I'm wrong.
  12. College ball is different from the NFL, cause the Eagles winning the Super Bowl doesn't affect seeding the next year. Course, ESPN keeps their thumbs, both hands, their feet and their butts on the scale, so the SEC will always be over represented. For colleges, next year the PAC 12 will be in an almost impossible position, as far as getting teams in the playoffs (I mean, aside from the fact that none of the teams are good.) Their conference champion got smoked by the Big 12 runner up. Those five B12 victories will boost rankings at the start of next year. Back when I cared about the NFL (thanks Jerry, for freeing up my Sundays) I wanted the Eagles to lose every game they played, and wanted Andy Reid to get his butt stuck in the bathtub and have to call the fire department. Yesterday, if Dallas had won early, people who still give a flip about the Cowboys would have been rooting for the Eagles to win, cause it would have put Dallas in the playoffs. I don't like OU, BUT them beating Florida helped the Big 12 image, and it will help with bowl seeding next year.
  13. Doesn't matter who he hires. Switzer, Phillips, Garrett, fill in the blank. The requirement to be the Cowboys HC is to sit back while Jerry struts. Garrett hung on for so long because he was able to do that better than anyone else. The Cowboys have had two competent coaches while Jerry owned the team, Johnson and Parcells. Both left because of Jerry's interference. Expecting Jerry not to interfere is like expecting a dog to stay out of the cat food. It will be this way as long as Jerry lives. No idea what it will be like after he dies, but the Cowboys are doomed as long as he's the owner.
  14. You can say that again. The biggest tell to me that this is a good hire is that he's staying with Alabama for the title game. If he was irrelevant to Bama, Saban would tell him to head on down to Texas. In a lot of instances, guys who are moving on to other opportunities get politely told to GTFO because they're just being a distraction.
  15. Yeah, I've never negrepped anyone here, but this page has convinced me of what I've suspected forever, but tried not to see cause I stay out of the cloak room. You guys are fucked in the head. I have no business being here.
  16. OK, I'm doing the live stream thing, but what's the time left now?
  17. The mouse is getting nervous. RottenTomatoes started monkeying with results when "Want to see" dropped below 28%. When that didn't work, they changed the whole site, removing "Want to see" from all movie previews, and putting a prohibition on comments until the movie is released. They now only show the number of people who "Want to see" and don't have an option for "Not interested." http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/making-some-changes/
  18. I watched Brian's Song cause Shelly Fabares. Heard later there were some other actors in it, guys named Williams, Caan and Warden, IIRC.
  19. End of conference play for the top four teams: KState: Baylor, @TCU, Oklahoma Texas Tech: @TCU, Texas, @ISU Kansas: @OKState, @OU, Baylor Baylor: @KState, OKState, @KU The only games remaining between the top four are Baylor-KState and Baylor-KU. KState and Tech need to win out. Baylor needs win out and hope for Tech to lose one game. Kansas needs to win out and hope for Tech and KState to each get a loss. By tonight, it will be either a lot clearer or a lot muddier. And now back to Dickin Judy in the newsroom.
  20. Years ago, Dick Ellis and Judy Maggio were cohosts on one of the local news stations. I got interviewed by one of their "in the field" reporters. It was a taped interview for later broadcast. After we were finished, I told him there had been some complaints about all the cursing during the broadcasts. He said, "What are you talking about?" "Every time you finish a remote story, you say, 'And now back to Dickin Judy in the newsroom.'" He glares at me. Watched the news that night. Guy finishes his remote broadcast and says, "And now back... and now...Judy and Dick, back to you!"
  21. Can confirm. Also: "He's the bell cow" instead of just calling him the lead running back. During interviews, the questions that bug me because they're so stupid are the ones that go, "How big was it when you scored the winning touchdown?" It won the game! It was a big fuckin play!
  22. They tried to pull that shit in Waco, but we got it straightened out.
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