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BTW, I'm surprised that the Johnson didn't go into concussion protocol, himself, after his own player slammed him head-first into the selfie-cam screen. 🤪

I'm renaming my RetroBowl DB to "Taron Johnson" effective immediately. It's looking like it's going to be 10-10, but not only does he intercept it, he decides not to take the easy knee, instead running it 101 yards to the house! Boom! 17-3! NFL Play of the year candidate!!

Defense has looked better than expected (after the first few plays and before the one-minute drill, anyway), but the offense has been bad. If the former holds and the offense wakes up, we win; if the latter holds and the defense falters, we're toast. Watch, both of those will change, leading to a 31-27 final. 🤪

Two thoughts ... On Hutton: Hasn't his MO been to play very well at the start of the season and then fizzle out? If so, playing him in the first game doesn't seem like it was that bad of an idea. Keeping him on the roster, though .... On RK: Maybe the team didn't listen to him enough last year, so to prove a point he basically said, "do it your way tonight." Now he can say, "How did that work out for you? Tonight, we do it my way!" I'm mostly kidding on that second one. Really, though, with 10 months off, no preseason games and lots of new faces, there was a good chance that it was going to be ugly no matter what he said. Washington actually played pretty ugly hockey, too, but their big line (Ovie, Backstrom, Oshie), who've all been on the Caps for a long time, actually showed up (plus, Staal gift-wrapped a goal in a one-goal game in the third.) It's unfortunate that this is a shortened season, because it could take a little bit for them to gel.

🤪 I need more sleep ... or less work ... or something ... I mixed the two up in my head. Was thinking Williams had the return for TD (play shown at 12:09) in addition to two TDs, not MacKenzie. That makes more sense, now. It was an odd thing to say to a practice squad player.

Dean Marlowe certainly likes Williams MacKenzie ... Edit: I have no idea how he feels about Williams. 😶

Technically, they do have multiple distribution channels, as you get MSG/MSG+ with Fubo. Unfortunately, it's only available packaged with a lot of other channels and their prices have gone up: You do get your local networks (ABC, etc), NHL Network, NFL Network, MLB Network, ESPN (several), NBCSN, some college sports networks, etc, as well channels that may or may not interest you or your family: Disney (multiple), History, FX, National Geographic, TLC, SYFY and so on. It's like cable was a while back. Not cheap anymore, but not ridiculous yet. Side note: I learned too late that they lost Turner channels, including TNT, this summer . Had to break out the DVD of "A Christmas Story" on Christmas Eve. It wasn't the same not having the snow coming down at night to end one run blending right into the starting town/shop scene of the next one. It was available to purchase on Roku for a couple of $'s, but I passed on principle.

Started a new season of Retro Bowl and look who's my first opponent ...

FIFM

Steelers' first four drives: Fumble - Browns recovered for touchdown Interception - Browns scored touchdown on resulting drive Punt - Browns scored touchdown on subsequent drive Interception - Browns scored touchdown on resulting drive Really is impressive ... -ly bad.

So .... Ravens?

A real barn burner in New Orleans. 😒

So, it looks like we get the Steelers if they win or the Ravens if the Browns somehow pull the upset.

Yeah, I'm not going to fault anyone for blowing a call in real time that took frame-by-frame analysis to show what actually happened. I will blame them for not acting on that frame-by-frame when it conclusively shows that they were wrong.

3:38-3:58. Watch at 0.25x speed. Still glad it didn't matter. Edit: ESPN wants it played in YouTube.

Ugly win, especially that super-sack (runner up was giving up outside runs for huge yardage.) Game should have ended on the fumble, though. The first angle wasn't conclusive about the timing of Poyer's hand, but the second one was. Three frames: (1) knee on ground, (2) knee off ground without hand touching, and (3) hand on back. They went forward and backward a couple of times on it; there was no doubt. Glad it ended up not mattering, but I think the ref didn't want to decide the game.

I'd take Taysom Hill for a backup QB. Not because he's a starter-quality backup (he's decent), but because of everything else he could bring when Josh is still in the lineup. One of my favorite players in the league. (Note: Not saying he would be available. Just dreaming.)

Doink! Doink! And the Jaguars make it a game.

Already 17-0 and the Colts have the ball. Probably ... and I'm just guessing here ... not feeling too hopeful right now. 😁

When they had Barkley warming up and then put Josh back in, one of the commentators said, "why not?" Me: Uhhh ... 🤕 ... that's why not!

Yeesh, remind me to never do stats when I'm in a hurry. Tweaks the numbers slightly, but the point still holds: Josh has put up better passing and rushing numbers, despite having faced better defenses.

May I recommend amending the thread title to include the new "SS Thirds" theme. Otherwise, someone who came into the thread early might not know that there is a third choice.

Good catch. ESPN just has "Los Angeles" with little team logos. My bad. Here's the adjusted table. Bills still faced harder pass defenses (left), but they also faced harder run defenses (right), at least on average: . In addition to having more yards passing, Allen has 3x as many rushing yards, and his 8:4 TD's:fumbles ratio is better than Rodger's 3:3. Certainly, Allen should at least be in all of the Rodgers vs Mahomes MVP headlines.

Yes. That's what "here" referred to. As I said, I don't think my issue with the Away (white) skin is actually contrast, but rather brightness of the white. The light blue background fixed that, but the resulting reduced contrast made the text less sharp and harder to read. By adjusting the fourth argument in the hsla() function from 0.7 to 0.8, the contrast went back up (actually higher than the original), making the text easier to read.

That's almost identical to #eef2f5, so it works for me. I just searched for "light blue hex" and "blue gray hex" for mine. I like the colors, but I'm starting to think that contrast isn't the problem with the light theme. Rather, it's simply about how bright the white is. I say this because the text does seem a little washed out with the light blue here and on the Contrast Ratio screen. However, when I change the text color from hsla(200,0%,0%,.7) to hsla(200,0%,0%,.8), the text stands out more due to the higher contrast (11.71!), which I find easier to read. 🤪 Never thought about all of this before. I just knew that I couldn't read websites that use white text on black backgrounds (or any other similar combination) for more than a few seconds. Thanks for doing this.