Recent content by akillesheel

We had something around the 40th-most talented roster in the country this year and about the 100th best team. Now we're paying for the 5th-best recruiting class, getting the 25th-best, and expecting what, the 75th-best team? Does that seem kosher to you? And I also don't appreciate whitewashing...

Rest and Relaxation is an eerie book. I think it's the only successful Covid book we have exactly because it can't be literally about Covid, but it's still contemporary enough to feel relatable to the 2020s unlike the other great plague/pandemic fiction out there. Moshfegh's Eileen is also very...

that it is the opposite of the advantage bill was supposed to provide. he was supposed to be a football genuis who, given equal resources to peers near the top of the sport, could build a team to his liking, find diamonds in the rough based on traits that others might overlook, and get a result...

Lombardo, probably. but should media be judging who is the best pro prospect or who had the best season?

a) you can't assume that every blocked kick would have been good otherwise, though tbf I had forgotten that Verhoff's 38-yarder was clean blocked rather than missed. b) you're accounting for Verhoff's kicks that were blocked but not mentioning the kicks that the others may have had blocked...

tough to argue with at least 2 the 3 that were picked imo Birr (GT, 1st team): 25/28 FG (89.3%), 8/11 from 40+ including 1/3 from 50+ Butkowski (Pitt, 2nd team): 19/22 FG (86.4%), 6/9 from 40+, 0 attempts from 50+ Ranvier (Louisville, 3rd team): 21/24 FG (87.5%), 8/11 from 40+ including 2/4...

Syracuse and Stanford should have looked like last year's FSU and UVA games. all four teams were horrifically bad in the trenches, all but FSU were playing at a serious talent deficit, and all but UVA had pretty much given up on the season. instead, Bill couldn't muster a halftime lead against...

The Athletic's playoff scenario generator agrees with you: How the Carolina Panthers can make the playoffs through Week 13 - The Athletic Sweep the Bucs and the other two games almost don't matter - over a 99% chance to win the division. Go 3-1 with one of the losses to the Bucs and it's...

this year's UNC defense ranked 91st in FEI. that's worse than 4 out of 6 of Mack's teams (the 2023 team ranked 94th, the 2022 team ranked 119th). So I don't have to think the defense wouldn't have been absolutely putrid to imagine that a less stubborn approach at QB and a college-fit OC would be...

As I've said multiple times, Gio made a perfectly serviceable OL look much much worse because of his bad pocket movement, slow processing, and, until the last month of the season, inability to get the ball out quickly even when he knew where to go with it. Under Mack, one of the two freshmen who...

if that's what they're doing, then they picked an awful pivot vehicle, because schnapp is blown off the screen in every scene he shares with the other kids. maybe being evil stunts one's creative abilities.

If we hadn't fired Mack, I don't think he would have fared any better. The roster would probably have been even worse because the underwhelming results had eliminated his recruiting ability, and he completely lost the locker room with his post-JMU antics. He'd probably have had a ceiling of 4...

you'd think regularly treating victims of gun violence would make you eager to reduce its incidence, not eager to perpetrate it.

Carolina On My Mind and Neighbors are probably the J Cole songs that are most directly about NC, but he pops in a reference to UNC, NC, or Fayetteville pretty often. most famously on his first mainstream hit, Work Out, where he starts the second verse going "Carolina Blue kicks fresh on the scene"

fantasy players will remember the saga of Jonas Gray... this type of RB handling isn't new for Belichick