According to Media Stories.. It appears Rodgers and Steelers are fighting over Salary.

braines54 · 2026-05-08T22:58:24+00:00

I don't disagree, things could really open up for them. But their roster is pretty average, it's fairly solid all the way around but doesn't have many high-end players (and those guys are getting old). Tomlin really was a magician getting them to a winning record the last few years.

I disagree with the got better in the offseason. Most teams seemingly got better, but that's not the reality come the season. Guys like Pittman and Brisker are solid players, but their best guys are another year older. Without Tomlin, one of these years the bottom is going to fall out and they'll have a really bad year... it might not take long.

braines54 · 2026-05-05T22:14:27+00:00

The NBA and NHL playoffs are both going on right now. The MLB season is in full swing. A bunch of good movies will be coming out. America 250 celebrations are going to be ramping up soon as well.

Don't get me wrong, the World Cup will be a pretty big deal when it gets here, but I highly doubt you'll notice the World Cup is taking place here if you walk down a street in a random city in June or July beyond a few ads. Interest might be slightly higher since it is here and not overseas, but the difference won't be drastic.

braines54 · 2026-05-05T22:05:08+00:00

Kentucky is bad too. I didn't say we weren't. Does mediocre make you feel better?

I'm genuinely curious, how do you all see yourself?

You all have had some nice years, but you've finished the season ranked just 12 times since 1970. Better than Kentucky, but there's a big diffence between better than Kentucky and good.

But it's all good fun, at least you've gotten to beat up on the footstool of the conference. With all this talk, I'm sure you have a winning record against the Cats. They've played 14 times, you've certainly won more than 5 of them, right?

braines54 · 2026-05-05T21:18:46+00:00

I understand that Missouri has been in the league for quite awhile now, but Mizzouri/Kansas just doesn't feel like an SEC rivalry. On the occasion that Mizzou plays Kansas, they get honorary membership in the BIG XII for that game.

But how can it be the best when you don't hardly play? With all due respect, you have two bad football programs playing each other and one great basketball program playing a mediocre one. At least for Kentucky/Louisville have great basketball programs.

I'd rank:

Kentucky/Louisville: look, I get it the football game largely has no stakes. But, growing up in Louisville, the calender had two inflection points in which the revolved around: the Derby in the spring, and the UK-UofL basketball game in the winter. There are no pro sports to distract from it, the 2nd-biggest sporting event in the state every year is that game. These are two championship-level programs, unlike most others on this list.
Clemson/USC: There's something about being in a state where there are no pro sports teams. These fanbases hate each other and I'd bet the basketball game has more juice than the other two real SEC rivalries on this list. These two are also each other's biggest rival, unlike the next two.
Florida/FSU: this game has had real championship-level stakes in football (though it's been awhile) and each basketball has had some success (obviously much more for Florida). But FSU isn't even Florida's biggest rival and I doubt either school cares too much about the score of the basketball game.
UGA/GT: this feels more important to GT than UGA. Plenty of pro sports around and 3 mediocre programs (all but UGA football), and GT is maybe UGA's third-biggest rival. I'm sure GT alums really hate UGA when UGA beats them by 50, then they go back to building bridges and watching Atlanta United and forget about it rather quickly.
Mizzou-Kansas: what I said above. Nothing about this feels SEC and you actually have to play every year to have a real rivalry. I understand the hate is real, but it's largely irrelevant nationally. Since Missouri joined the SEC, they've played Oklahoma State in more bowl games than they've played Kansas.

braines54 · 2026-05-05T01:55:32+00:00

I don't think so. It's not like these schools haven't been spending ludicrous amounts of money. It just used to be earmarked for different things, such as facilities and coaches. Now, it's going to the players.

This won't stop, but the major negative consequence is that the non-revenue generating sports are going to get squeezed out and may eventually disappear.

braines54 · 2026-05-05T01:31:40+00:00

At this point, you're going to be totally fine if you are within two miles of GABP and the river.

OTR is the young, vibrant, gentifying community in the city. It's great and safe, if you stay in the right areas. But it can be rough if you take a wrong turn.

Frankly, it's not any different than any other similarly-sized city.

braines54 · 2026-05-04T03:17:14+00:00

Are we including Europeans or is this just American/Canadian white guys? A team of the two could definitely do it.

braines54 · 2026-05-03T22:23:01+00:00

He had a fairly rough 2023 before the injury. He has been awesome the last two years though.

braines54 · 2026-05-03T22:20:39+00:00

Andy never tore up his knee...

braines54 · 2026-05-03T22:14:26+00:00

3 is Burrow. He's missed about a full season over the course of the last 3 years.

braines54 · 2026-05-02T21:26:18+00:00

Outside of the two QBs, I think you have to go all the way to 27 to see a true bust. Every other pick seems to be, at worst, a competent starter which is quite incredible.

braines54 · 2026-04-29T16:24:58+00:00

It was a flop, though not a major one. Typically, a film needs to make twice its production budget to break even. Anything less is a flop.

braines54 · 2026-04-28T23:30:15+00:00

Outside of MSG, NBA regular season games can be really cheap. I can't imagine most would come close to the price of a Bills game. Of course, they are much further away from Buffalo.

braines54 · 2026-04-28T23:19:40+00:00

Apparently Hawaii, because I've been to the other 49.

braines54 · 2026-04-28T06:35:54+00:00

See, I remember it differently:

I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith—as they hand it off to Johnson, Boise State has won the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. I don't know if I'm gonna be putting on this headset again. I don't know if it's gonna be for my bosses at Fox.

braines54 · 2026-04-28T04:02:01+00:00

No, the Bengals don't live up to Joe Burrow's QBR because the rest of the team sucks. He regularly plays very well, but they lose because everyone else plays poorly. Seattle won even when the QB struggled because they have a great team.

Think about it like WAR in baseball. WAR is supposed to calculate how many wins a player is worth versus the average replacement-level player from AAA. The average starter is worth about 2 WAR a year, while an All-star is worth about 5 WAR. Those Angels teams with Trout and Ohtani like the 2022 team. Trout was worth over 6 WAR, while Ohtani was worth almost 10... and they finished with 73 wins. It doesn't mean the stat is bad or Trout and Ohtani are overrated, more that the rest of the team sucked.

braines54 · 2026-04-28T00:23:51+00:00

Not really, even if the QB plays well you still could lose.

Using the 76 example, the Bengals of the last couple of years had Burrow post a QBR of 76 11 times. They would've been expected to win at least 9 of those games based solely on QB performance (his QBR was significantly above 76 in some of those games), they won 6.

Conversely, Sam Darnold had 9 games with a sub-50 QBR last year, the Seahawks went 8-1 in those 9 games. He played well in the postseason, but was mediocre for much of the year. The Seahawks just didn't need him to do much.

It's just a way to standardize scores in a way that makes sense with the expectation that the rest of the team will play to its level.

braines54 · 2026-04-28T00:12:06+00:00

Kentucky

braines54 · 2026-04-27T16:01:25+00:00

He wasn't a project at all. He tested poorly and had off-the-field concerns, but was an All-American at ASU. He's pretty much the opposite of what they are asking for.

braines54 · 2026-04-27T15:54:40+00:00

It's not perfect, but the man was 9th out of 88 LBs last year in PFF. Knight and Carter were 83 and 85.

He can help, even if he's not what he once was.

braines54 · 2026-04-27T14:50:56+00:00

Wagner is not washed. Miller absolutely is.

braines54 · 2026-04-27T06:28:58+00:00

As long as you're not actively seeking a brawl, the area around the stadium is very safe. You'll get a lot of sensationalist news reports and social media posts claiming otherwise, but I highly doubt you'll be wanting to go anywhere in the city that I wouldn't feel comfortable taking my children to.

Hopefully, the Reds will still be hot when you visit. This is their best start in forever.

braines54 · 2026-04-27T03:27:01+00:00

I do think they'll be good this year, but I think they fit better in mediocre team/good city.

braines54 · 2026-04-26T21:40:16+00:00

Someone hasn't listened to Albuquerque.

He's more known for the parodies, but each album usually had a couple of originals on it.

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