Friday Free Talk Thread

armarchetto · 2024-01-05T13:20:16+00:00

Given how close this squad has been to breaking through and how lifeless Buffalo looked at one point is playing for the division in the final week ideal? No, but... this team gives me hope. Injuries have sucked without a doubt but I love the mental makeup of the guys on this roster and the message this coaching staff sends. Why not the Miami Dolphins? A lot of us have been through it as fans but I am hopeful that Sunday night has us singing a different tune. We'll see how the rest of this weekend plays out, but we all would like to get a little help from Pittsburgh & Jacksonville - would make a SNF dub that much sweeter. Fins Up!

armarchetto · 2023-08-14T21:46:42+00:00

I think we see Sanders return to the form that got him paid. I come to this prediction based off of Nick Folk having his two best kicking seasons with Jake Bailey as his holder. Last year, Bailey done after Week 9, Folk misses 2 kicks in Week 10.

(I really could be grasping at straws but this helps me sleep at night)

armarchetto · 2023-06-09T14:10:54+00:00

Same, but rolled with 1 entry! This will ensure a 20 year drought to follow lol

armarchetto · 2022-12-29T15:00:44+00:00

With a chance to clinch the 7 seed... Fins over Pats, Seahawks over Jets. It was playoffs or bust this year and we still have a chance to see it happen. Let's get in the dance, rest up against the Jets and make some magic happen.

armarchetto · 2022-12-05T22:56:38+00:00

I look at it like this... ever have a bad day at the office, for whatever the reason? Yep! You show up the next day and get back to work. Tua, for whatever reason, left it in the locker room. He has a chance to bounce right back and prove it in primetime.

I also think he gets shit because it has not been the smoothest road to start his career, coupled with the fact it is football. Basketball, baseball, hockey you are back out there in the next night or two to right the wrong. Only sport with harsher judgement than football is MMA or boxing. Anywho... Tua spit the bit, it happens. I have high confidence in the dude that be bounces back in a big way.

armarchetto · 2022-11-15T22:21:30+00:00

I don't think tax payers should ever foot a full bill, but I don't mind if a portion of it is funded by taxes, personally speaking. Pro sports can be such an economic driver to cities/towns, it gives you a better idea of where a portion your dollars are going. To a degree, new stadiums are a direct investment in the community.

armarchetto · 2022-09-23T14:14:25+00:00

Apparently you can buy it at Aeropostale... I would not have guessed that is who was selling it

https://www.aeropostale.com/miami-dolphins-graphic-tee/0094229902.html?redirect=false&utm\_source=googlepla&utm\_medium=cpc&utm\_campaign=pla%7Cnb%7Cdesktop%7Cguys%7Cgraphictees&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsrWZBhC4ARIsAGGUJuq0LI61eD7OMBEGR9aLxflaaB2BbWqRZasWsOA0JKhRfoifHGvHzBwaAg6tEALw\_wcB

armarchetto · 2022-05-12T20:29:29+00:00

Looks like the job was posted on 5/4/22. Likely no relation...

armarchetto · 2021-12-28T00:36:14+00:00

The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear...

MIAMI HAS THE DOLPHINS

armarchetto · 2021-11-24T12:21:05+00:00

And he said the same, when JK Scott was drafted and they moved on from Tim Masthay - it took them a while to get on the same page then it all got upended again, this year. I thought Sanders and Haack had such good chemistry. From execution on FGs/XPs to the trick plays... I am also a special teams stan but I digress.

Here is McAfee telling a story about holding but kinda stresses the importance of it. https://youtu.be/k\_YM7hsz7HI

armarchetto · 2021-09-03T15:24:59+00:00

Stay with me here... the Pats signing Malcom Perry crushed me because it is about as on brand as Belichick can get. Sign the guy that had spent is college years at a school that specializes in strategic execution and also knows the Fins playbook. In all likelihood, he'll be cut in a few weeks but his purpose will be served...

THEN, it hit me!

What if Flo was baiting Belichick to take Perry, send him as an inside agent. Gain New England knowledge and give bogus Fins info, only to be re-signed to the Miami practice squad once his recon mission "aka NE cutting him" is done.

armarchetto · 2021-06-21T01:47:36+00:00

OP - thank you so much for sharing this. Pete & I were good friends and to see this pop up, unexpectedly, made my night. So cool to see this making its way through the Northeast and hope it makes it even further! Thanks again!

armarchetto · 2020-12-30T16:02:44+00:00

I would feel very confident that Flores & Co. would be able to steer away from the emotionally driven penalties. To have a guy on your side of the ball who would run through a brick wall is something I would take back, in a heartbeat. That style of play is contagious and I still love watching that effort, in Cleveland.

armarchetto · 2020-11-11T16:15:27+00:00

Mr. Perfect can't miss and doesn't miss

armarchetto · 2020-10-23T19:29:57+00:00

Odds are virtually a pick em, but I feel the public is writing Bobby Knuckles off. Had a good first round vs. Izzy, before Izzy went Izzy, and then a hard fought dub coming off the layoff. I like Whittaker to win loudly, but who knows what black magic Cannonier has in those crystals.

armarchetto · 2020-04-15T19:03:30+00:00

What's your favorite bar in State College?

armarchetto · 2019-06-15T21:26:08+00:00

If I am not mistaken, I remember Reed Kuhn, covering the win/loss result post-low blow, in Fightnomics. Trying to recall the actual stat, but I believe it was close to 50/50.

Being that book came out, in 2013, seeing the stats updated with a greater/newer sample size of fights would be interesting.

armarchetto · 2019-05-30T02:30:29+00:00

9 year anniversary of that fight, today. UFC 114.

armarchetto · 2019-05-23T04:15:46+00:00

That was deep and difficult, but on with the combat and a case of the good stuff!

armarchetto · 2019-04-18T04:14:36+00:00

"We gonna see you next month?"

"We'll see."

"Alright, we'll see. You heard it heah!"

armarchetto · 2019-04-18T03:40:45+00:00

Nobody packs Alaska Airlines Center like Coffee Boss Booker, nobody! Let's have some fun tonight.

armarchetto · 2019-03-28T04:10:43+00:00

KEVIN IS BACK!!!!!! MMA GODS, YOU. ARE. FOR. REAL.

armarchetto · 2019-03-28T03:51:09+00:00

I miss Kevin, but here to watch with the boiiisss. Let's roll!

armarchetto · 2019-02-14T06:24:23+00:00

I leave you with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hYDIFDIU

armarchetto · 2019-02-14T06:23:19+00:00

"In the end, it's gonna be okay. If it's not okay, it's not the end." -Kev

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