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To me the solution is to get rid of the slide protection for Q.B.'s. the only protection for them should be after the ball is out of their hands. if they want protection throw the ball away. We should take away intentional grounding so they can get protection except we should keep intentional grounding behind the line of scrimmage. All of this player protection stuff is horseshit in my book. Defenseless reciever, don't throw him the ball over the middle when a safety has him lined up. defenseless Q.B. they had the option to not run, if they made a bad decision to bad. Offensive players want no consequence for their bad decisions. I want there to be consequences.

There are always a few Vontez Burfict guys in the league, guys who don't get the league's messaging.

For me any season which concludes with successive victories over the Vikes, then Bears, then Cowboys, who I all hate, is a good season. if they could have sprinkled in the Seahawks and then the 49ers even better, but I am happy. And yes, if by some miracle they do get bye the 49ers without injury I would have them favored over the Lions or Bucs.

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Maybe we will get playoff Gary this weekend along with playoff Clark and Alexander Just maybe. I am already excited about next season with their salary cap cleaned up a bit and with the extra draft choices for rodgers and Douglas, but I am not quite ready to put this year to bed even though the odds are clearly stacked against us this weekend. A Puncher's chance is still a chance. I imagine you too will be hanging on that cahnce until the final whistle.

I believed they had their Q.B. in Love last year and hoped they would have traded Rodgers to Denver for that windfall. I thought they should have unloaded Bahktieri last year as well for pennies on the dollar. BTW, I am extemely bullish on Clifford and all of our pass catchers right down through Melton.

I believe not at all. I believe his supporters are so anxious to fight the last battle they are blind to what is ahead. This tit for tat politic battle has raged for three decades now and is destroying our country yet neither side is capable of letting the past go and moving boldly into the future. The children have taken the riegns and we adults have not ;put them back in their place. The politics for the last 30 years has been "oh yeah, well he started it!" I don't suffeer this berhavior from my own children but i have to suffer it from idiots because they have the vote. We are undr the tyranny of ninnys.

BTW, I do like your optimism.

I believe in their talent, but not their intelligence and discipline. They are getting better but even against Dallas we saw two dumb roughing penalties. Fortunately Dallas' lack of character superceded our lack of discipline. As I have stated, if they were remotely healthy which they have not been this year, and if they played disciplined football with good back end communication on the defense I think the sky is the limit, but thus far, though they have improved some, they still play stupid far too often for me. Against Dallas they began putting it together. Maybe this week they will. Frankly we owe the 49ers or the fates owe us. Hell, I am still bitter about the Jerry Rice non-fumble call leading to the T.O. touchdown on a year i thought we would take it all. Let's get some emotional payback.

I give the Packers maybe a 1 in six chance of winning outright and a 2 in six chance of beating the spread. The Packers would need to tackle more surely than they generally have this year. They would also need to control their stupid penalties as this year they have allowed teams lined up to punt the ball to convert the fourth down by penalty and have gotten teams in thirds and very long first downs not just by untimely pass interference penalties which happens to every team, but by really stupid and late unnecessary roughness penalties. Those are the equivilent of turnovers and they are prevengtable with some brains and discipline. Hopefully the youngest and through much of the year dumbest team will communicate on both offense and defense as when they do they are pretty good. Maybe, just maybe they have it figured out but the 49ers test even the best communicating teams so we shall see. I do note that the Packers with Jones, Watson, Reed, and Wicks on offense and Alexander and campbell in on defense are a lot different than the Packers without them which was often the case this year. Who knows, maybe they will even get Dillon out there.

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All I know is the 49ers seem to end my Packers season more often than not lately and it seems to be shaping up towards that outcome once again. Maybe this year will be the exception to that rule but I won't be putting my money on that unlikely outcome* * Unless the line moves to 10.5.

The only thing i like about the Cowboys is their dedicated reporter on the NFL network. I dig Jane Slater.

Indeed. Llike the time he called Rachel Maddow a tumb cund. His diction is very poor.

Packers did Detroit quite a favor by getting them a second home game.

Liker an even more simple-minded Chris Berman. Of course Chris Berman was popular enough to have made a lucrative career out of such childishness.

That would not be without precedent.

And I believe that to be a serious error. In his first term even those he alienated supported him through his impeachments as he was not a lame duck. their support was reluctant support for party over person. Were he to get a second term and be a lame duck those he insults would have no incentive to support him through the impeachments we know are to come. Once there is no future and very little present with him the knifes will come out.

No worries at all. Others read it just as you did so obviously my writing was not sharp. It was my poor writting which created the confusion.

We view him rather differently. As for how the former president was viewed on the world stage my direct exposure to the opinions of others was limited to trips to friends in the Netherlands, Germany, Scotland and Japan so my data base would be too limited to offer an opinion.

I was rerferring to legislative allies within the Republican party. I thought that clear from context as it was fellow Republicans he had tried to demean. Apparently it was not as clear as I imagined. My apologies.

The original Iron Chef. The Chinese Iron Chef was the best, followed by the french and then the japanese. The chinese cuisine iron Chef could take cow eyeballs and a few sea urchins and in a wok create a traditional three tiered frosted wedding cake in under ten minutes.

Let me get this straight, Trump acted juvenilely, again. Shocking. His supporters seem to love his juvenile behavior so of course he continues to display it prominently. Sadly for his supporters he alienates potential allies he will need as a lame duck president should he get so far, and he does damage to the Republican brand once he is gone which will be either in November of this year or if he wins in about April of next year as hated lame ducks prove to be rather ineffective leaders unless they have both houses and their party squarely behind them and it usualy only takes until april for that to be borne out.

I trust they will start simply summarizing what Karin Jean-Pierre meant to say rather than broadcasting what she did say when she says the administration never said or did what there is film of them saying and doing.

I for one appreciate MSNBC filtering what is happening so that I don't have to think too hard for myself. They may want to stop calling themselves "News" and go with the more truthful "Partisan Censored Information Feed" but otherwise I am good here.