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My buddy lived downtown Cincinnati while playing for the Bengals, and he was pleasantly surprised by it

Weird discrepancy I just came across Kentucky's defensive EPA ranking: 14 Kentucky's defensive efficiency ranking per ESPN's FPI model: 45

His "next twenty" by position Drew Allar- QB- Penn State Quinn Ewers- QB- Texas TreVeyon Henderson- RB- Ohio State Quinshon Judkins- RB- Ohio State Tre Harris- WR- Ole Miss Elijah Arroyo- TE- Miami Harold Fannin Jr- TE- Bowling Green Charles Grant- OT- William and Mary Marcus Mbow- OT/G- Purdue Parker Brailsford- C- Alabama Donovan Ezieruaku- Edge- Boston College Princely Umanmielen- Edge- Ole Miss Jordan Burch- Edge- Oregon LT Overton- DT- Alabama Shemar Turner- DT- Texas A&M TJ Sanders- DT- South Carolina Danny Stutsman- LB- Oklahoma Harold Perkins- LB- LSU He also mentioned on the pod that he likes Alfred Collins

No Braxton

Nate Tice went on a rant about Stroud.. paraphrased- "He can lead his team on a drive with no run game where he makes five hero ball throws with pressure all around him and then end the drive with a bad throw while half the time he's getting hit and the fans/media will ask "what's wrong with CJ Stroud? has he regressed?""

I was wondering about this play after the broadcast didn't show a replay (they had a habit of not showing replays on major plays and penalties). Turns out Stroud just missed

I'm surprised by the Deone Walker fall. When I watched him early in the season he was a 6'6 athletic monster who they moved up and down the line to create matchup advantages, and he looked like a Chris Jones starter kit. I guess the tape has just been bad?

Some Arkansas statistical rankings in the FBS (lower is worse) #118 opponent yards per passing attempt #110 in penalty yards per game #107 opponent completion percentage #98 in field position #97 red zone scoring percentage #93 turnover margin per game This team loses at the margins and at defending the pass ** What are they good at? #39 on offensive 3rd down conversion rates, #7 in offensive rushing success rate, #13 in passing offensive success rate, and #38 in defensive yards per rushing attempt. So they move the ball really well on offense, and are solid against the run on defense, although they struggle to score once they get into the red zone

Brugler's updated top 50. No Ewers, no Beck. 1) Travis Hunter- CB- Colorado 2) Will Johnson- CB- Michigan 3) Abdul Carter- Edge- Penn State 4) Malaki Starks- S- Georgia 5) Tetairoa McMillan- WR- Arizona 6) Ashton Jeanty- RB- Boise State 7) Jalon Walker- LB- Georgia '8) Mykel Williams- Edge- Georgia 9) Mason Graham- DT- Michigan 10) Luther Burden III- WR- Missouri 11) Will Campbell- OT- LSU 12) James Pearce Jr- Edge- Tennessee 13) Colston Loveland- TE- Michigan 14) Derrick Harmon- DT- Oregon 15) Shemar Stewart- Edge- Texas A&M 16) Cam Ward- QB- Miami 17) Nic Scourton- Edge- Texas A&M 18) Kelvin Banks Jr- OT- Texas 19) Tyleik Williams- DT- Ohio State 20) Walter Nolen- DT- Ole Miss 21) Shavon Revel Jr- CB- East Carolina 22) Jalen Milroe- QB- Alabama 23) Shedeur Sanders- QB- Colorado 24) JT Tuimoloau- Edge- Ohio State 25) Kenneth Grant- DT- Michigan 26) Tyler Warren- TE- Penn State 27) Cameron Williams- OT- Texas 28) Eric Ayomanor- WR- Stanford 29) Josh Simmons- OT- Ohio State 30) Garrett Nussmeier- QB- LSU 31) Landon Jackson- Edge- Arkansas 32) Jonah Savaiinaea- IOL- Arizona 33) Josh Conerly Jr- OT- Oregon 34) Deone Walker- DT- Kentucky 35) Emeka Egbuka- WR- Ohio State 36) Evan Stewart- WR- Oregon 37) Mike Green- Edge- Marshall 38) Maxwell Hairston- CB- Kentucky 39) Kaleb Johnson- RB- Iowa 40) Omarion Hampton- RB- North Carolina 41) Nick Emmanwori- S- South Carolina 42) Wyatt Milum- IOL- West Virginia 43) Jack Swayer- Edge- Ohio State 44) Tyler Booker- IOL- Alabama 45) Isaiah Bond- WR- Texas 46) Aireontae Ersery- OT- Minnesota 47) Grey Zabel- IOL- North Dakota State 48) Kyle Kennard- Edge- South Carolina 49) Mason Taylor- TE- LSU 50) Jihaad Campbell- LB- Alabama https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5910260/2024/11/12/nfl-draft-2025-prospect-rankings-dane-brugler/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twhq&source=twitterhq

Spread dropped to -13.5, which I'm guessing is due to Green practicing this morning It don't make a shit tho

This is what I was looking for, thanks

What are their boards saying about Taylen Green?

Houston should win three in a row (Dak-less Dallas, Tennessee, Trevor-less Jacksonville) going into the bye week, where they can then hit the reset button and heal up for the stretch run

They lost by a field goal. That's not getting your face kicked in by any metric I'm aware of They've looked like an average team for most of the season, even in wins. They demonstrated in this game that they can actually play at a higher level. With the division essentially locked up, that's what matters

This game was much more promising than anything they've shown against real teams this year No Nico and no WAJ (and eventually no Lassiter and no Fatusaki) against arguably the best team in the league, and they arguably outplayed them You all can choose to be cunty bitches about this one, but I saw it in a different light

Yes I should Houston played toe to toe with arguably the best team in the league without Nico and WAJ, both of whom would have made a difference If Houston can hold up against Detroit without Nico and WAJ, they can potentially hold up against anyone with those two

A talking point all over twitter is "how do you lose to a team that has five interceptions" which ignores your own interceptions, and also that one was an end of half hail mary Whatever I feel better after this game than after any other game this year. We played with maybe the best team in the league without arguably 2/3 of our best players, and several other key players either missing the game or getting injured during the game Houston looked like a legitimately dangerous team

Tough to feel good about this game with who's out and the matchup, but the NFL can give you surprising results sometimes Feels like they gave Nico another week after Indy lost

So they worked out a bunch of potential interior OL, and ended up signing this guy Him playing for McVay means he should know most of the terminology in the offense and be available to play this season

I'm guessing they view the division as basically won at this point, so they don't want to rush Nico back. Wait until he's 100% with no risk of re-injury

Not Brugler/DJ, but a 7 round mock to read 7) Kelvin Banks 10) Cam Williams 21) Isaiah Banks 42) Quinn Ewers 93) Jahdae Barron 113) Gunnar Helm 153) Andrew Mukuba 171) Matthew Golden 180) Alfred Collins 240) Barryn Sorrell https://atozsports.com/nfl-draft/7-round-2025-nfl-mock-draft-shedeur-sanders-cam-ward-travis-hunter-go-top-three/

Houston might get Dallas without Dak

On a nice little run of good horror/horror adjacent movies this week; Strange Darling, MadS, Red Room (not really horror, but excellent movie), and Cuckoo, along with In a Violent Nature and Late Night With the Devil, were at worst solid My watchlist sorting worked this time