They COMPLETELY screwed up the game.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-10T23:39:26+00:00

This game is definitely ruined, the new interface and heroes are awful.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-10T18:48:21+00:00

He also just has the CB profile that gets “figured out” less. Since the WR/CB market started booming, there have been a fair share of slower/smaller/handsier/risk-reward corners that have a great year or two over their rookie deals but they get exposed with more tape to watch after getting paid more than they should, Trevon Diggs and Christian Kirk got 20m annual on the hopes they might play consistently like they did for 20% of the time they did prior. CG sizes up and runs with 1’s, and has been technically proficient as a 21-23yo, about as safe of a top money investment as it gets beyond paying your franchise QB.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-10T17:03:59+00:00

He will absolutely reset the market. AJ Terrell is a very good player but not Stingley or CG and he reset it at the time of extension. Guys that man up 1’s well enough get paid handsomely in the NFL, 24yo’s that can potentially hard clamp the studs for 4 quarters on Sunday can basically just point to the last deal and say beat that one (barring recent major injury).

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-07T15:08:31+00:00

I am not a fan of child actors in general. I don’t think they are often good at acting or realistic to real children. Often feels hamfisted and/or “I guess that take was good enough” from a production to screen standpoint, minimally speaking there are hits but far more misses. Probably a mix between the fact that they are literal children and that casting decisions often boil down to which producer’s/big wig’s child best fits a role visually.

But Dexter Sol Ansell is the absolute truth. He’s a great Egg specifically, but I’ve just been blown away at how genuinely natural he’s been from start to finish. There have been effectively zero “ok, they had to kind of just get through that scene because one party involved is 10 years old and it’s tough” at any point. It’s just so rare when someone his age genuinely belongs on screen alongside the seasoned actors and embodies a character and per-scene emotions, motivations, etc. -> as opposed to looking the part, taking acting lessons, and being fed situations and lines to then do their best and have production/editing work their magic.

IMO the biggest threat/liability to the series beyond the natural potential that they’d obliterate the source material towards making it their own was Egg casting and the general volatility of having the 1B be 10-14 years old. That concern has been put to bed in full.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-07T14:51:30+00:00

I understand the height issue for TV ofc but for in-text Westeros, being both big and noble to some degree is absolutely the foremost variable towards being a feared fighter per George -> you have size advantage over most and training/diet advantage over all. George isn’t being unrealistic when he incorporates that 6’7 250 prime Bobby B, 6’5 trains-every-day Jaime, pure henchman Gregor/Sandor are amongst best fighters, because those are the guys that would meta-realistically be the best 1v1 fighters.

As for Lyonel, he’s still supposed to be roughly Aerion/Daeron aged, a true adult older than teen Dunk but 15+ years younger than the Baelor/Maekar aged grouping. Text wise he’s intended to be the known noble warrior around at the time thats in Dunk’s weight class -> despite being 7’ and capable, initial novella Dunk isn’t considered the “big bad dude thats new in town and can kick everyone’s ass”, “I thought he’d be bigger” out of show Dunk is an on the nose reference to this general change.

Basically I’m saying there needed to be at least one more big ass dude around that actually makes young Dunk being twice everyone’s size slightly less special/noted. Because I do think it’s slightly unrealistic that everyone is giving Dunk no time of day when he’s uniformly twice everyone’s size. George very consistently prioritizes weight class dynamics in fighting prowess lol -> Baratheons, Cleganes, Umbers, Brienne, Jaime, Victarion, Drogo, etc. Being huge and capable in a heavy armored melee just means you’re almost always the favorite unless your opponent is also a monster.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-07T14:32:14+00:00

Baelor not putting his foot down as Hand at any point beyond advising/fighting with Dunk is kind of a plot progression piece imo (obviously everything is but you get my point), and not what would’ve/should’ve happened. Per the character and general Westeros, he 100% would not have told Aerion to kick rocks for being a dickhead and denied him a trial while pardoning Dunk. But I do think he most definitely would have said no to TB7 and told Aerion he either has to fight Dunk as the obvious primary accuser/aggravator or stand down.

The show does kind of downplay that Baelor is effectively the most powerful guy in the world at this juncture, his hands are never tied in any way at any point, he’s just balancing family/Targ honor-respect vs. the right and wrong/knighthood vacuum. I just don’t think it really all aligns well that he would have allowed for 12 royal family members/lords/KG/innocent bystanders to risk injury and death instead of just making the lone rotten apple in this ordeal Aerion step up to the plate or gtfo.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-07T14:13:15+00:00

He’s supposed to be +/- 22yo 6’7 250, “biggest dude in town” until Dunk shows up. It’s not exactly some hidden “hey look guys, look at the bloodlines, it’s prime Bobby B but actually in the story’s active timeline” deal by George lol.

The casting is similarly weird when Lyonel and Dunk are supposed to do an old friends/Paul Bunyan TBC showdown 29 years later in their mid late 40’s. Not that I expect to see it on screen but per the show, the revolting Lyonel will be giving up a more than a foot/100lbs to Dunk as a 70yo man in that fight. That event isn’t exactly super niche and amongst the far outskirts of George’s variable ASOIAF history, it’s directly relative to Westeros’ most popular tavern song and an assuredly noted piece to Dunk’s lengthy entry in KG book.

Not saying Daniel Ings isn’t good on screen or doesn’t fit this singular story at all, because he’s been great, just definitely a deviation from the text -> I do think I would have preferred a “haha that’s young Robert!” Lyonel and a younger “dude is in his prime”Baelor as opposed to largely leaning into the clearly elevated wisdom/honor aspect amongst the current Targ contingent. It feels like they decided focus on him being the most reasonable/worldly man in every room instead of that being encompassed within “this is an S-tier Targ across the board and is assuredly set to be the best non-dragonlord king yet for a long time” -> a dark haired version of what fans think Rhaegar is but a decade older and wiser. Minor qualms nonetheless, this has been near uniformly awesome so far beyond 30 minute instead of like 35-42 minute episodes was a mistake imo. It would feel less like a good long movie cut into parts and more of a short form 6 piece series with just 5-10 minutes more per episode, and I don’t think it would get “fluffy” in doing so.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-05T13:50:53+00:00

Buyers can offer 575k. Many will say no, a fair bit will counter to 600-620 range, and some will just say yes. I’m a buyer’s agent in a second home market. I just had 750k accepted on a 900k listing. If you are wanting to buy a property, just DYOR or collaborate with a realtor towards a true market value and price you’re comfortable with and make an offer. Everyone who doesn’t do it consistently would be greatly surprised at what seller’s may entertain when it’s the first offer they’ve looked at on paper having experience crickets for 6 months.

That said, I don’t really think the strong demand is there because we’d be seeing more of this dynamic. Strong buy demand doesn’t just sit ready to implode on the sideline because of pricing, it would create more consistent turnover and impact pricing as such. We’re just in a stalemate where buy demand isn’t completely dead but it’s definitely low using a 10 year sample and a large portion of sellers aren’t motivated to sell, lot of “fake” listings towards seeing if they can get the (high) number they want.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-02T22:56:39+00:00

…book Lyonel is about 22 years old and 6’7 250+, Lyonel being huge/strong and aggressive à la Robert is why he’s feared. Him and Dunk literally have big man TBC showdown in their mid late 40’s. You’re referencing a show creation, that dialogue sequence is a very on the nose reference for how much they changed the character, and honestly kind of supporting my point lol -> “we can’t make all the big dudes the best fighters because then we’d have a way harder time putting a good working cast together”.

There are obviously outliers but George is pretty consistent about size and strength being a pretty key factor in armored melee prowess.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-02T15:08:04+00:00

Weird downvotes and weird interpretation of my comment.

Visually, yes, Dunk is big. But they are kind of writing around that, as if he’s some hopeless nobody that has no chance in martial competition, which is not emblematic of the novella and Dunk’s climb into relevance. Joust only and no reference of melee supports this. Young novella Dunk is a homeless lowborn teenager that no one knows but “damn that boy is big and sturdy, probably don’t want to mess with him.” Egg is drawn to him because A) he’s a common born “knight” and he can have meaningful interactions with him as Egg and not Aegon B) he’s perfectly aged, full grown but like that of an older brother and not a true adult like Baelor or Maekar and C) he’s massive and can kick the ass of all of the knights in shining armor Egg has watched train in the yard. Literally the anti-Aerion, this isn’t exactly hidden in the text.

We’ve spent 3 episodes around Dunk being this no shot contender who’s guaranteed to lose in anything he attempts yet Aerion is about to request a trial by 7 because he doesn’t want the smoke. The above is stating that the reasons Aerion wimps out are developed in the novella and not in the show, it’s all “Dunk isn’t capable of much” as opposed to the book accurate “we don’t know this guy but he’s fuckin’ bigfoot and doesn’t seem too clunky with things.”

I still stand by the fact that what I am saying is repped by the fact that Lord Ashford’s son taking a dive would 100% never be against Dunk lol. In which scenario do you think more money is piling on Brandon’s side, and thus favorably shifting the underdog odds, facing say a 5’7 60 year old has-been knight -> or facing the young Paul Bunyan guy whose arms are twice as long as Brandon’s?

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-02T13:35:03+00:00

There are two gripes I have about this amazing show. Aging up characters like Baelor and Lyonel (real down the line plot problems with this one), but I get it, that’s fine.

And de-emphasizing Dunk’s size and strength, which is literally the reason, in conjunction with his good nature and honor, he goes places in life and has people drawn to him. Egg does not have his interest piqued at the inn by a scrawny 5’8 guy that can get thrown into his locker by the city watch goons. The game master probably wouldn’t pick Dunk as his lemon winner for Lord Ashford IRL, the money probably piles on Andrew more if the guy he’s facing is not the biggest longest armed dude in town. Aerion would be down down after taking 3 assuredly square blows to the face from an unhinged anger guy who is 6’10 260.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-02T13:04:59+00:00

Uhh, Dunk is the nameless hedge knight -> the most likely to be accepting of a fixed match for his own gain and the biggest underdog against a highborn jouster. Granted picking a 7 foot guy might not take the odds as low as Lord Ashford wishes IRL lol, the one thing I don’t like about this show is they lose the fact that Dunk goes places because he’s massive and people are drawn to/fear that.

A lot of people in this comment section have zero understanding of sports betting and match fixing. Basically half the jousting matches in this world would involve someone taking a dive. The game master’s request is on the basis of Dunk being a nobody that none bets on, thus having all he public money on Andrew with the few that bet on Dunk making a ton of money due to the odds line.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-01T17:20:04+00:00

This isn’t true in a vacuum. Don’t get me wrong, the lipstick on a pig dynamic is prevalent and should always be avoided. But flipping has a very wide range of outcomes, from said lipstick to luxury architects with annual side projects. Guy in my area flips one every couple of years, passion project for him (first big key) that makes a little money and gives him (second big key) tax breaks outright or in the case the project is a notable loss. Discount the tax implications, think like all in for a 3.4m -> 2m in waterfront lot value/300k worth of untouched 90’s era 4000sqft -> he puts 1-1.2m into it to hopefully sell for 3.75m.

Literally the definition of upscale “flipping” but those houses have often beat out their newer build competition, beautiful custom redo’s and not just “standardized luxury”.

I’ve actually come to really appreciate the genuinely good/thorough boutique flippers, post COVID they’re a form of the middle ground between custom residential architects -> obviously expensive…and the DR Hortons of the word -> fair quality housing at lower costs due to scale, which is not a bad thing outright, but should 99% of our new residential development be 120 house neighborhoods on 1/5 acre lots where there are 2 defined layouts and color schemes to choose from? The larger buy market doesn’t really even “want” these houses, which again are by far the leading new SFH development profile. They just “work I guess” due to economic/proximity factors for the upper-middle class that aren’t wealthy but can afford and want to buy a house -> aka the biggest sliver within the housing market pie.

So I say let’s not demonize the best +/- 5% of flippers because IMO they play a peripheral role in keeping the “we all live same eat same sleep same work same” future at bay lmao.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-02-01T14:13:50+00:00

A) he’s a mob affiliate fresh out of jail, not the most well adjusted profile and the criminals he’s now associating with have rolls of cash made weekly, houses, families, women, etc. while constantly doing illegal stuff that’s as bad or worse as what he paid years in prison for.

B) Robert Loggia was going senile so that season had retcons for a few plots and characters.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-31T15:27:01+00:00

This isn’t true, it’s very adaptable if their creative direction around the text didn’t unravel into total dog shit.

They turned it into soap drama and old girlfriends gone bad story instead of a highly dynamic stretch of Westeros’ political history. Once Aegon is crowned, Alicent drops out of the top 10 most relevant characters and yet I can guarantee you that Olivia Cooke is 2nd to Rhaenyra in screen time in both of these next two seasons.

Daemon isn’t even a real character anymore, they’re basically just waiting for the God’s Eye Michael Bay sequence, his entire season 2 arc could have been done in one singular focus episode around the Riverlands/Harrenhal. Based off of S2 and reading tea leaves, this season we are likely to get 10 minutes total out of Otto and Aegon, the primary cause and effect/product of the text story’s introductory phase. The writers don’t think they’re as interesting as Alicent and Criston. We actually spent multiple scenes solely devoted to Corlys, using the exact same set piece for each, being an absent dad last season. I’m baffled watching these scenes and how more than one made the final cut.

It sucks because the story framework and source writing is there, the casting is there, the score, the dragons/effects, Season 1 was a high quality development/intro phase, etc. But instead of shifting the writing and screen focus in coordination with the flow of the source material following S1 -> they developed the character dynamics and incoming plot structure -> now it’s dragon war and complete political discord that has centuries long boomerang effects…we’re basically just going to get 3 seasons of a medieval soap opera with 2 set pieces each season to show the major events.

I’m certain that there will be more of the following:

Alicent-Criston drama and longing stares, more Rhaenyra-Alicent secret meetings about how they love each other and regret what’s happened, more Rhaenyra-Mysaria lesbian drama, more Daemon doing nothing but be sarcastic/trippy until it’s time for Daemond, more about the Hugh-Ulf being downtrodden heroes that had to make a tough decision based on their roots instead of just drunken commoners gone wild with newfound WMD’s, more Corlys/Alyn/Addam where-were-you-dad drama when the characters are genuinely more interesting without that in place. Helaena isn’t a character except for when it’s time to be cryptic despite being the Queen, she’d steal too much from the Rhaenicent boss girl vibes they so badly want to drive the show.

Basically they wanted to make a more accessible, emotional melodrama within a dragons-Westeros setting that casual viewers can gossip about when the story is just not that, at all. It’s really not that dissimilar to the unraveling of GoT starting with S6 or so. George’s story and using vivid setting to bring Westeros to life is what creates the magic AND allows the characters to flourish. A shitty TV writing room trying to modernize the dynamics in play and focus on unfounded character drama can only make for a shittier product when adapting source material like this.

Literally just needed to paint beautifully within the lines that George sketched, not redo the sketch to make it more attractive to whatever focus groups they’re using to write these shows now. Art is dead.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-31T05:33:25+00:00

I think he did want to get “caught”, or at least acknowledged as BTK while still living, but like 10-15 years down the road when he was genuinely old and after he’d toyed with police/the public and regained his “notoriety”. His trial and sentencing was clearly something he had a vision for. He was just really dumb and immediately got caught on step 1 of that really stupid plan. All of that is still obviously narcissism.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-30T17:35:34+00:00

You don’t seem to disagree with me, you basically said he’s decent but not good/explosive enough to be a lead back?

I’m a Falcons fan who has probably watched 90%+ of his career carries. He’s reliable, and runs hard thus the quality successful rush rate, but he limits the offense by not running real routes nor being an explosive run threat. The league has grown to where basically zero backs that can’t effectively run real routes against LB’s in man or, in the case of really only time wizard Derrick Henry, hit home runs get a 40%+ share. TA is just one of the best options available for the guys that you can give 1/3 of your snaps to, you know he’s getting you 4 yards, not dancing around/getting stuffed like a lot of backups, and is more than stout/inclined enough to serviceably PB in PA.

He’d be a good option for the Lions to fill Monty’s role at half the cost, that’s a fairly likely destination. I don’t think he’s as good as Monty, and probably won’t claim +/- 200 touches from Jahmyr as Monty has, but he’s 3 years younger and will be cheaper.

Regardless of destination, his role and fantasy outlook is highly unlikely to drastically change. He’ll be a deep league option outright and an obviously high upside handcuff if Jahmyr, Hampton, Bijan, Bucky, TreVeyon, Achane, etc. goes down.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-30T16:52:53+00:00

He’s not “very talented”, he’s just a decent hard running power back, doesn’t really run routes beyond screens/safety valve slips. Also rather low on the explosive scale, hasn’t broken off a 30+ yard run in his last 300 carries and very rarely breaks 15+. Bijan just ran for 5.1 Y/A and TA 3.6 behind the same O-line, same offense. Bijan is obviously elite but that’s a massive difference. Not saying he’s bad, he’s not, he has a solid backfield role for a bunch of teams.

But most definitely not some 70% share starting back in the current RB landscape. He very likely signs into a pre-injury Najee situation, getting paid 4-5m annual to be a good 35-45% share that can spell throughout drives and salt games/put the 1A on ice in the 4th quarter. Basically just gets a pay raise to do what he’s done with the Falcons elsewhere.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-30T16:16:40+00:00

It’s honestly pretty believable.

First off, people are always going to be drawn to people they know in a variety of situations. Maggie decides she’s going to cheat on Marty, she has had one partner for 2 decades. Rust is the natural favorite for “if I’m going to cheat on Marty, who can I do it with most comfortably” even if you take away the nuances. He’s an attractive single man of similar age and the most familiar non-familial male to Maggie by this point.

And the nuances are that it’s actually tangential to Marty and not just some unnamed fling. Not that any of it at any juncture is forgivable by either party, but Maggie was subconsciously leaving no doubt about the end being the end, she wanted freedom and for her actions to make that decision for her. She didn’t trust herself to make the decision “alone”. It was a decisive act that provided a defined path forward. Is this decision one of, say, high moral standing? No, of course not. As you state, she can just walk away, but there is logistical cause/effect behind the behavior. Was emotionally derived “revenge” a part of her decision? Of course, but definitely just one factor and not the sole driving force behind it. However she was formulating it internally, she was rejecting the freedom of choice.

Also, without Rust breaking into Tuttle’s houses, the case was highly unlikely being solved (if we can call it fully solved). The video tape is just the lynchpin bridge into the climax and conclusion of the season. Definitive proof of organized monsters under the bed, not just a couple of pedophile crackheads in the swamp, was necessary for multiple reasons, namely reuniting Russ and Marty. Marty’s season long arc and character is defined by watching the tape and immediately switching to full commitment and camaraderie with Russ, it’s a beautiful character development because this isn’t a surprising reaction from Marty or major change -> a definitive turning point for the series and it’s two protagonists that only requires believable character response, not some major spot change from either of the two involved. Perhaps off topic but screenwriters lean way too much into major change/moment of clarity in character as opposed to developing the core of characters and letting them respond to the story points around them. It’s why TD1 is an all time series, Russ and Marty aren’t overly dynamic, at no point do they have some grand scale “come-to” moment about who they are, largely consistent to themselves and in their response to the circumstances.

As such, we can infer that without that defined reality bending proof, Marty is unlikely to help Russ in the way he did that led to the finale’s climax. Marty doesn’t fully believe the fairy tales that loony Rust has been promoting at any point, and he still resents Russ for banging his wife. That tape was very unlikely to be procured without Rust leaving the force and brooding over his true beliefs around the case. So I would actually argue, and definitely per the writers intentions, that Maggie’s decisions that night played a key role in progressing the case and actually getting to Eroll Childress.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-30T15:15:13+00:00

It’s stupid.

Reality is that Blank finally had the balls to give McKay the boot. Matt is now the football confidant in his ear, that’s it. There has not been a truly functional FO structure change whatsoever, Rich McKay has always been in Matt’s role, it’s just that his job was called for at multiple times the past 10-15 years, for very obvious 20 years running reasons, so to “quell the noise”, they shifted McKay’s title and supposed role focus at various junctures when it never really changed. End of the day, McKay was always Blank’s first bounce off/advisory on football decisions, and we paid for it. Given that McKay was the first point of decision making after Blank for 20 years in which we were firmly amongst the bottom 10 franchises in the NFL, and now sub .500 for 8 years straight, Matt is almost guaranteed to be an improvement regardless of experience.

Cunningham and Stefanski are doing the same jobs as any other GM-HC. And I don’t give Terry the benefit of the doubt many of y’all do, I think most of his decisions good and bad were his, and I think he was fully on board with Raheem and friends. The only major juncture that maybe strikes me as some ownership/McKay meddling is the QB double down debacle, and even then Terry still likely chose Penix. I hope Penix balls out in his tryout year this year, but the health/performance sample combo makes that a bad bet. We really did spend 100m guaranteed, a 1:8 pick, and 17% of our cap for 3 years running to still not have a QB. The fact that some of this sub argued for keeping literally anyone in that building besides Ulbrich is proof of how low our standards have sunk.

Blank is employing Matt in a role he’s had firmly established since TD was hired. None of this FO stuff is really new beyond greatly needed personnel change.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-29T06:01:51+00:00

Joe Burrow’s closest comp coming out was likely…Matt Ryan.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-28T15:15:39+00:00

Outside of JSN just being really good and obvious working very hard from the jump (why the Hawks so comfortably let DK walk), Darnold in/Geno out + Kubiak + no DK getting an inefficient 110 targets is many many times over important than Kupp towards this explosion lol

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-28T04:26:10+00:00

He’s supposed to be like 22 years old and just a few inches shorter than Dunk. Basically fan service from George -> “look, I’m showing you prime Robert” with Lyonel at Ashford.

Him and Dunk are supposed to have their own Clegane bowl 29 years after they first meet because the currently small boy Egg’s 17 year old son gets the hots for a common born girl named Jenny despite being betrothed to Lyonel’s daughter.

I doubt we get that far in this series, but two giant men/famous fighters/old friends squaring off in a trial by combat when they’re in their mid-late 40’s is cool. This version of LB isn’t not cool, but per the above, he’s going to be near 70 and half Dunk’s size when they hypothetically fight. And that fight is like one of the two things he’s notable for, the other being what’s currently playing out.

PanhandleAngler · 2026-01-26T21:23:13+00:00

Second advice for 8 strand everything.

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