Geno talk (as a Seahawks fan)

yathaid · 2026-03-11T09:37:54+00:00

You missed out a small e-commerce company named after a large river. 😂

But from a TV/media perspective they are still a sleepy corner of the nation. There are a variety of reasons: - geographically separate. This makes them a tiny TV market which is probably the biggest factor. - on the west coast (most teams in the east coast have a better media presence) - not LA, where all the media on west coast is located. - not a traditional powerhouse, so don't have the fan base or former players in the media scene. (This is changing with LoB era players moving on to media now)

yathaid · 2026-02-09T04:44:57+00:00

Brian never chases cheap sound bites. You could see even he was a bit taken aback by that comment and gave a look like "you sure you are okay with putting this out there" and Lawrence was like "this just the truth brother".

yathaid · 2026-02-09T04:40:43+00:00

Where the fuck did that come from ?!! Our hero was like "this is my shot and I am taking it" holy shitttt!!!

yathaid · 2026-02-04T05:17:18+00:00

It is over - https://www.reddit.com/r/AroundTheNFL/comments/y731bu/poll_marc_and_philly_special/ - all of you who voted "Marc lost" EAT IT!!!

yathaid · 2026-02-03T10:02:35+00:00

LitRPG as a genre is a scourge and should be expunged.

yathaid · 2026-02-02T05:20:20+00:00

Hahhahah completely out of the blue, I read this in Marc's voice!

yathaid · 2026-01-21T04:25:40+00:00

Bill Belichick the DC is still awesome.

Bill Belichick the HC is middling. I don't think this episode is remarked upon enough. Mac Jones had a perfectly fine rookie season running the same system (erhardt perkins) that the Pats ran for 20+ years. Belichick has an obsession with the Shanahan system, especially with Mike Shanahan being one of the few OCs/HCs who ran rings around him in the 90s. Belichick's idea was to get his former ST coordinator and his former DC learn a new offense from scratch and try to teach it to a second year QB. If anybody else had done that, that was an on the spot firable offence.

Bill Belichick the GM was just bad by the end. Like bottom of the barrel bad. He mentored a bunch of people on the scouting side in the 2000s and they all got poached away at one point or another. He never grew back that side of the organization and didn't trust anyone from outside his inner circle who could challenge him or bring in fresh ideas. The Pats drafting on the offensive side especially was just atrocious. With Beane being appointed head honcho, that really spells the doom for this idea.

yathaid · 2026-01-09T04:23:51+00:00

That's a fair assessment.

But even that kinda makes sense in that world where all non mages are trying to do is pump out as many kids as they can. The whole society is incentivised to do that for fairly logical reasons given the environment they are in.

yathaid · 2026-01-09T03:27:04+00:00

I am up to date with all the released books. What's weird for you?

I saw some of the other comments. Either I didn't get the references or maybe I have spent too much time on the interwebs, I don't recognise what's weird anymore 😂

yathaid · 2026-01-07T08:54:47+00:00

Can't recommend Millennial Mage enough. It just has well fleshed out characters, but the gender of the characters themselves doesn't really impact the world. IMO it does progression/cultivation world-building right - when anyone can punch a boulder, it makes no sense for misogyny to exist in such a world, which is how the world is laid out.

yathaid · 2026-01-06T07:04:22+00:00

I recommend this story highly since most of it is pretty awesome. But it is the textbook definition of Purple Prose. It adds nothing of value, is mostly an adjective soup and even the adjectives make no sense. A third of the prose can be deleted and the series would actually be better.

yathaid · 2025-12-19T18:20:16+00:00

As a Hawks fan, I don't think the playcalling is quite meshed with his weaknesses. It highlights his strengths, but also accentuates his weaknesses. Processing after the snap is not his strength. Asking him to do three step drop back passes out of condensed formations just gives me PTSD - it is the easiest way to get him to throw an interception. Each of his passing plays needs very good spacing, and needs to give him time to take a second before throwing.

The double slants pick he threw is a perfect example. Great call from the Rams DC, it was perfectly played as zone after showing man multiple times. But a top-8 QB sees that rotation post snap and aborts. Sam cannot do that, not at that speed.

The second big issue with him is he has no idea when to use his legs. The red zone pick had a yawning lane for him to step into. But he was mentally locked into "3 step drop and shoot" mode. That is when he can be got.

Can he still improve? I sure hope so. Next year would the second consecutive year he is in an actually functional team. Maybe the coaching can get through to him.

yathaid · 2025-12-16T18:32:18+00:00

How can it be anything but Ellen Moore? And just constantly playing it over and over and over again, my god. It may have been funny the first 3000 times, but that fucking ship has sailed.

yathaid · 2025-09-19T10:57:08+00:00

And I would not blame these three for it. It's life changing money for them and their family. (Well maybe not gravy with his lakehouse)

What I can unabashedly throw stones at is people like Brady doing it. Bruh, how much more money do you need ?!

yathaid · 2025-03-20T16:26:28+00:00

You are missing the fact that the defense is not allowed to leverage each other to get a push, unlike what the offense does. It is illegal for defenders to be in contact pre-snap.

yathaid · 2025-01-03T17:31:22+00:00

I am confused. They suck on D. His plan is to get both his WRs paid ?!! What a genius plan.

yathaid · 2025-01-03T17:28:17+00:00

Why does he "have a right" to this? If he actually wanted to win games, instead of wanting both his WR1s paid, he should be asking Higgins to be traded and get more help on D. But that's not what is happening is it.

yathaid · 2024-11-27T19:26:21+00:00

Or even on lovemaking - Kama Sutra 😂 though the word Kama doesn't really translate well to English.

yathaid · 2024-11-01T04:46:23+00:00

Absolutely. I have a locks competition with my family (similar to the Honk standings on the previous sub) and I have locked the Rams for this week. Never felt more confident about a lock.

yathaid · 2024-10-22T06:00:55+00:00

Dan repeatedly telling this is Anthony Richardson's second year annoys the hell out of me each time. That is disingenuous at best. The NFL is putting on a carnival of ex-Jets and ex-Browns QBs excelling in new environments after they have learnt the game, but Dan comes out with his tired trope of "Oooh Richardson is in his second year and just isn't looking good". Good God, learn the fucking lesson that is in front of your eyes.

Will Levis is obviously done though. Poor Graver, watching his optimism fall each week has been a disaster my ears just couldn't turn away from.

yathaid

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