let's do some covid fuzzy math? 1-2-21(week 17) CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Browns announced Saturday afternoon that offensive line coach Bill Callahan and his assistant OL coach Scott Peters will sit out Sunday’s game vs. the Steelers because of COVID-19 protocols. Earlier in the morning, the Browns announced that a second assistant coach had tested positive for the virus, and one of the aforementioned has. The other is a close contact. Callahan and Peters join receivers coach and passing game coordinator Chad O’Shea, who tested positive Wednesday and was ruled out for Sunday’s almost must-win game against the Steelers. Wildcard at Pitt. Next--- Any players or coaches classified as high-risk close contacts for exposure as recently as Monday would be eligible to participate in Sunday’s game. For exposure to the virus Monday, the quarantine would run Tuesday through Saturday. In that case, those players or coaches could not travel Saturday with the team, but the Browns could arrange for private travel for the short trip to Pittsburgh. Any chance we could get Bill Callahan back for Sunday night?  TE Coach Chad O'Shea should make it to Wildcard game? Edit--read he returned today to practice Any possible player returns besides D. Ward ?

They shouldn't have been in a bowl game.  What an embarrassment to the Big 10.  Maybe move them to a lower division.

@hoorta said: Look up the stats of Van Brocklin, Baugh, and Graham. They're pretty average (55% completions, 70-80 qbrs) compared to any of today's top quaterbacks. Jim Brown was great in his era, but he was running over runt defenders. IIRC, Geno Marchetti was the first DL to top 300 pounds.  For one thing the football of the early era was nowhere near the dart it is today... much "rounder" and harder to grip. Then there are the rules and the coverages to consider. @dutch-oven said: Not Marchetti, it was probably Big Daddy Liscomb from that DLine.  Pretty sure neither Big Daddy or Art Donovan, another famously rotund DT who played for the Colts, ever played at 300. I think Detroit's Roger Brown was the first DT to top 300 regularly and play at a high level. 300#-ers were around in the 50's (even Paul Brown had one, I forget the name), but were more of a novelty. Read an article once that as recently as 1970 there was only one player in the NFL to top 300. Reminds me of a Chuck Noll quote that filled the screen while the old PC game, NFL Head Coach, loaded. Went something like... "Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 270 pound Offensive Tackles... they'll make me seem wise."

Previous two, I meant the two before this last one. 

This bodes well 

@mjp28 said: The 2018 "can not touch the quarterbacks, wide recievers and almost anyone else" is vastly different than even the 1980s Bernie years or 1960s Jim Brown years and for sure the 1950+ original NFL Cleveland Browns years. Remember just a week ago the highest scoring MNF game ever from over 700 MNF games where the loser has 50+ points? And that's since the 1970s..... It's a freakin' video game now. And no wonder today's quarterbacks surpass the 35 year old mark and even 40, nobody is allowed to drive them into the ground now, so go wide open! Differences in the game not withstanding I'll take it.  

Nothing wrong with random... I'm thinking of starting Baker over Brady in the IDP league... and am inclined to pull the trigger. One thing I know for sure... Landry's FF value just jumped a couple notches. A precise route runner with great cuts and a timing QB... match made in FF heaven. @londonbrown said: Deshaun Watson seems to be struggling ? Some... Could be a bit of the old Sophomore Slump. Would not be the first... Could just be him coming back down to earth.

@the-gipper said: No, I know....I said that others said that.  I just wondered, since you saw it, if you found that to be the case as well.  And if so, how so? https://squawker.org/culture-wars/the-christmas-story-live-was-a-flop-and-political-correctness-is-to-blame/

@the-cysko-kid said:Plus I really hate shia leboef I have liked him ever since he did "Holes". You telling me you didn't like that movie?

@tiamat63 said: Not exactly. His base is old school, Bud Wilkinson 52/34 - still one gap principles the vast majority of the time. Coach Wade usually doesn't have a massive NT that you would traditionally see in your 'classic' 2 gapping 34 base with a 0tech and heads up on the tackles. The differences in scheme are negligible aside from how your OLB's align in your base defense (for the most part). Both Wade and Williams believe in blitzing especially early down 5 man pressures and heavy man coverage. I'd expect our draft targets to be similar for either coach. And I think therein lies a good deal of the barrier when we discuss 3-4 vs. 4-3 vs. ... When I speak of it I am referring to personnel, 3 DL - 4 LB, or vice versa, regardless of their distance from the neutral zone. When others do, e.g., you, they tend to refer to alignment irrespective of roster designation. I referred to Bum Phillips in another thread yesterday. There was no greater devotee to the 3-4 than Bum. Yet from an alignment standpoint he showed more 4 and 5 man fronts than he did three. Robert Brazile, probably the most physically imposing OLB to wear the Columbia Blue and the Oilers' version of Clay Mathews when it comes to HoF snubs, was a fixture on the LOS. @clevfan4life said:Look at Houston's defense this year. They run mostly 4 man fronts now and Clowneys becoming a beast. When they get Watt back omg. Watt and clowney on the edges? If watt comes back right this could be a historic defense next year. It's potential boggles the mind. But looking at their 2nd level it just doesn't quit. ILB Cushing when healthy flies to the ball. Mercilus is the best OLB the average fan has never heard of. And McKinney at the opposite ILB has developed into a more well-rounded player than I saw coming. And then there's the 2ndary... Romeo has a beast of a lineup to play with...

@one-post said:I would like to throw a joke in here but I kinda always liked "father figure". It's just well arranged and far from the teeny bop bs he put out before. The wife's fav... Not much of a fan here, but I have to say that the man knew a hook when he heard one. @one-post said:I never cared for Wham but ya I enjoyed him after that. Deadpool disagrees...

@beretaair83 said:There are many mouses out there but it all depends on the gamer getting a grip on the one that suites him the best doesnt matter which mouse is it. Since this is a food subject can I assume you are talking about Rattatouille?

I first became aware of Jon Favreau in the movie PCU where he played a burnout who uttered the line "Blow me where the pampers is". I certainly would not have believed he would go on to be a successful director with a string of hit movies like "Iron man" and his latest "The Jungle book" I'm guessing we're all familiar with the plot of Disney's The Jungle Book but if you're not I'll recap it for you. A little boy, Mowgli, gets lost in the jungle and ends up being raised by a wolf pack. The baddest ass in the Jungle, Tiger Shere Khan gets a bug up his ass about the kid being there because he's a dick and he's racist against Humans, and also because Humans have the power of fire. Khan wants him dead and so he has to flee back to the village of men. He leaves his wolf family and in the company of Bagheera the Panther makes his way out of the jungle to safety. However Khan won't let him go that easily and so he kills Mowgli's adopted father the alpha of the wolf pack to force a confrontation so he can kill Mowgli himself because, as I mentioned, he's a dick. Along the way Mowgli meets some new friends such as Baloo the bear and some new enemies such as Kaa the python and Louie, king of the apes. This movie doesn't stray far from the Animated classic at all. The story is exactly the same as I remember from the movie I watched as a child. Where it really shines is the CGI with realistic looking animals that look even more realisitc than the fantastic "Life of Pi" and some terrific voice acting from Bill Murray as Baloo (likable as ever) Ben Kingsley as Bagheera, Idris Elba as Khan and a standout performance from Christopher Walken as King Louie (Who looked like the stuff of nightmares. I was actually kind of terrified of King Louie) A couple of well done musical numbers including Bill Murray doing "Bear Necessities" and Walken doing "I wanna be like you" The Kid that played Mowgli acted ably considering the entire movie was done on a green screen and he was basically just interacting with nothing the whole time. A notable improvement from the animated classic was that Mowgli seemed to be in much more peril based on the pretty scary cgi representation of some of the animals especially Louie and Khan. All in all it was not a groundbreaking story, nor was it an instant classic but It was very cool. Perhaps the best endorsement I can give it is that my four year old son wore a big, goofy, lopsided grin throughout the whole movie and insisted on staying to watch the credits which featured cgi as cool as anything in the film itself. Whether you're nostalgic for the original or approaching this story for the first time, kid or adult this was worth a watch. B+

Without electrical engineers like apple founder steve Wozniak creating you'd still be hand drawing logos and cutting and splicing film manually. So, you know, curb the no creativity bit.

@westside-steve said: Another guy who's really good is Joe Lynn Turner. WSS This!

@westside-steve said: Why did you need Bob Martin then?

Greatest guitarist humm... What genre? I mean there's so much it's so vast to make a choice. I guess it's favorite guitarist. But if I were to say best guitarist I would have to factor in some things.. Like Malmsteen a great guitar player but no radio play won't get my vote. I mean you can be really good to only a group of peeps that appreciate it. Like Kerry King with great rhythm but his soloing sucks but put out good tunes. Like Motley Crüe' s Mick Mars has all the attributes but again with the soloing just not there. It's just too much but if I had to pick one... Joe Satriani. He's a musician with knowledge and teaches. His albums are awesome to me. Whenever I did any home recording I would have an idea and build on it then explain where someone like Satch can have an idea and build on it through thought out planning before even touching the guitar.

Very good game by the Cavs, still 3rd best.