That Aud Smell

Heeeeyyyyyyy.

Gotta dig this bad boy out.

The more I've come to learn about advanced stats, the more I've come to realize that I don't really understand them. I also know enough to know that looking at a player's Corsi or Fenwick, in isolation, is not useful.

Same. I'll add my 2 to make that 4 -- everything there is everything I think on the subject. Days gone by, my beloved wife got me a home white Perreault while the current team was wearing ... either the goat head or the slug. The only place you could get the home whites was from the Players Alumni Association. I don't think the jersey is truly authentic, but it was created under license, etc. and designed to be very much identical to the originals. My wife reported to me later that the guy she had dealt with in buying it -- "Larry" (Playfair) -- was a very nice man.

Which makes what he's doing that much more impressive, insofar as the coach is concerned. Is he the guy who made Kirk Cousins look like a good NFL starter? That LAR owner is a repugnant goblin, but I think he may have made a smart, inventive choice in settling on that 31 year-old, whose name I should learn. McVay? McVeigh? I seem to recall reading an interview with Kroenke in which he specifically said that the guy impressed him.

Like Eichel said earlier this week: "We don't like them. They don't like us." Git some!

Color me impressed with the offences the 2 young coaches have put together, especially perhaps the guy from the LAR. We’ll see if they can keep it up (remember when Chip Kelly was a genius?), but, for now, I’d feel pretty good being an LAR fan, assuming they exist.

Love our guy.

Thanks kindly - good stuff. Are they really vegans? Huh. I'll tell ya, I have serious doubts over whether professional athletes could get the nutrition they need based on a vegan diet.

Close frickin' call.

Newton's an amazing talent, but he's not what I would consider a fantasy stud. He's been erratic over the past several seasons -- last year was a stinker (he might have finished outside the top-20 of FFB QBs), whereas the year before that he was amazing (he may have been #1). If I'd drafted Newton, I'd be playing him based on match-ups. Rivers is a better play this weekend.

This is all very encouraging. He's a player who's been a bit of a late bloomer. If he keeps growing and getting better -- as he has in this camp -- that portends very well for the Sabres.

Chrome.

Hahahaha - so good. Fookin' Stew. For sure. Every damn time. Every time.

That's how I've always done it. But it doesn't work for me anymore. The giphy-sourced .gifs seem to be the issue. EDIT: When I try to paste in one of those gifs into the Image option, that's the result I get. Ahh, but this .gif from a non-giphy source will post for me. Must be something about the giphy platform.

And asking the players for theirs. Which is cool.

^ I trust McCoy was your top pick. I stand by those core rules of FFB. One of them: Never sit your studs. Never. The other one I always try to keep in mind: No one cares about your FFB team.* *I mean that for situations other than ones like this one where you're posting a request for feedback, advice. What I work to avoid is telling tales that are ONLY of interest to me (and maybe people in my leagues) about how ... "holy cow, that one garbage time TD after 7:00 pm on a Sunday was HILARIOUS. My buddy Stewart lost his mind on that one because he thought he had the game won." No one cares. No one.

Unfortunately, I think that's the issue.

Fair. As I think you know, I don't care for the vision or vibe of much of what PSE does on the creative side of things. They just lack the things I enjoy about modern internet-based humour -- things like irony and self-awareness. Damn. Death by Curmudgeon-bludgeon. Seriously, though. I did this without incident for years. Now, it doesn't work for me.

^ Man. How'd that guy live so long? EDIT: I swear to God - that was intended for the Giants rant radio guy.

Been trying to post a confused face .gif for a few minutes, and can't. Anyone else noticed how most of the .gif's out there are now, suddenly it seems, giphy's and that they can't/won't post here?

All fair points. Again: How do you know that the current digital content editor was a friend of a friend? Fwiw, that's how a lot of hiring occurs everywhere. People often want to hire people that come endorsed and recommended as solid people, etc. I have seen some of those from time to time, and agree. Hall is quite lovely (and I mean more than "pretty" -- she has a warm and engaging manner about her) and does a good job. Where do those get posted? Twitter? I need to look out for them.

As always with mocks, I think there are too few QBs going early. I wonder: Are mocks what the writer thinks should happen or will happen? I mean: Are the the Browns really going to stand pat with Kizer?

Spot on. I actually thought the Vegas chirp of MTL was a little bit too ... something. There's a lot of imitation of the LAK Twitter going on -- much of it is quite derivative. DAMMIT. Right. And that's not a cheap knock-off of anything, as I recall. They are good. Report back when, in the midst of the season, you've eyeballed a month's worth of every team's TL. I'm only half kidding. I just went and looked at the STL Twitter. It seemed quite plain, straightforward.

Effing ow, man. Who's friend was/is he? As for the mediocre characterization, I won't disagree based on the content that is pushed. It is a big bucket of *meh*. However, that's not really the digital media editor's fault, per se. The creative people doing the hiring knew what and who they wanted -- and were either not interested in or ignorant to other, bigger, larger possibilities. Who knows. Maybe Kanalley is chomping at the bit to do some funky weird stuff. And maybe the people at PSE aren't having it. It's for reasons like this that I chirp PSE's devotion to sh1tty pop country music. The overall sense of art and creativity within that organization is unimpressive. They like stuff on the nose, not tongue in cheek.