The Patriots apparently didn’t waste any time in hiring Jerad Mayo as their new head coach.
There is no reason to believe that Jerad Mayo is not a good coach. He has been with the team for half a decade and has done his job well. As a defensive coach his side of the ball has been the bright side all season. There have been indications for a while that Mayo was the heir apparent and as a defensive coach. By any measurable standard he would be a solid coach in the NFL.
All that being said with the Patriots instantly elevating Mayo there is an obvious question:
If you decide that Bill Belichick:
The winningest active coach in the league
the winningest coach in the franchise’s history
and the guy who has brought more
division
conference
and super bowl titles
to any team in the Superbowl era
Is the wrong person to coach your team at this time and you decide it’s time to go in a different direction.
Why would a person who:
Was drafted by Belichick
Played exclusively for Belichick during his career
Was hired as a coach by Belichick
Learned how to coach under Belichick
Has served continuously as a coach under Belichick
Be the right man to take your NFL franchise in a different direction that Bill Belichick?
For the sake this basic Question I’ll stipulate that Joe Biden won the last election cleanly and is not the figurehead of a foreign or domestic enemy whose was worried about the success of the US and set a goal to bring US down.
So my question: “If you were a foreign and/or domestic enemy of the United States whose goal was to bring down the country that was prospering under Trump and to that end stole election 2020 to put a puppet regime in place to enact that goal, how would your actions and agenda differ from the Biden Administrations over the last four years?”
Speaking of people trying to bring down the country apparently Dr. Anthony Fauci must not have taken his medication yesterday as he had quite a series of memory lapses.
So the question: How is it that being under oath tends to undermine the memory of people who are supposedly competent intelligent and in charge?
Unexpectedly of courseTM
As I was tying this post a tweet from Rapoport & Pelissero tweeted and the NFL reported that Bill Belichick is out in New England. A news conference has been called for Noon.
I question the wisdom here as Mike Vrabel not withstanding it’s unlikely they will find a better coach but be that as it may.
While Bill might enjoy the first days off he had over the last quarter century the next question is obvious:
How many days off is he going to get before he is snatched up by a team?
If I owned a team I wouldn’t wait and let someone else get him. He’ll need time to evaluate prior to the April draft.
Apparently the number of white recruits in the US army has practically been halved since 2018.
How much longer can the US avoid bringing back the draft?
I’m thinking even with a Trump or DeSantis admin not very long because unless you completely purge the woke you aren’t getting men.
Finally we now have learned that the story concerning Bill Ackman’s wife was shopped to multiple press outlets who rejected it out of hand before Business Insider decided to run with it and then have it blow up in their faces to the point where the owner of the company is rather worried:
Ackman seems to be on the warpath and the folks who green lighted this must be feeling like Admiral Yamamoto at the end of the movie Tora Tora Tora
All of this is interesting and amusing but nobody seems to have the answer to the obvious question:
Who were the people shopping this story?
We need to know their names because if the DEI state falls ironically we will have them to thank for it
I’m old enough to remember when, just a few years ago, our friends in the left absolutely and positively insisted that anyone like me who claims the last election was stolen was some kind of conspiracy theorist? And yet now we have not only the story of Colorado by legal decision and Maine by practically a Royal Fiat banning Trump from the ballot.
If things are clean wouldn’t you want to make it a point to note under oath just how clean they are?
I still can’t get over the idea of how much would have been different if the left/democrats simply treated Donald Trump as a normal Presidential candidate and as a normal president and had not bothered all that was done in 2020.
He would be in the final year of his second term and riding off into the sunset. Russia would not be in Ukraine, Hamas would have been kept in check, the US economy would have been booming, the border secure and our strategic petroleum reserve still full
I strongly suspect those who did all they could to steal the last election consider those things as bugs rather than features, less opportunity for graft you see.
Older and wiser heads alas didn’t prevail
Speaking of being old enough to remember I was going through an old backup hard drive I found which had all sorts of goodies from 2015 from me guest hosing Conservatively speaking on WCRN to old podcasts and coverage of all kinds of stuff from all over the country.
One thing I noticed was from a GOP event in NH that included Donald Trump before he had announced. He was leaving the hotel where the potential candidates were and I filmed his departure in passing thinking nothing of it.
Not a single person had a clue what was coming at the time.
I’m also old enough to remember when Swatting was confined to folks like Stacy McCain and the like.
You might forget that during the Kimberlin years Stacy and others involved in exposing that crowd were swatted. At the time I even went to my local police to warn them of that tactic since I was writing on the subject at the time. People didn’t seem to take it all that seriously.
But now we have members of congress and prominent folks like Johnathan Turley now targets
This is BLATANT political intimidation and harassment
Earlier today, @JonathanTurley spoke out bc 3 GOP lawmakers were victims of “swatting” incidents this week
It would have been nice if this stuff was nipped in the bud early but like the banning of conservatives on twitter and youtube it wasn’t considered important enough to tackle so thus you get more of it
Finally yesterday my wife was working and my sons were engaged elsewhere so I went to my local Longhorn restaurant, sat at the bar, order the Spicy Bites (the single best appetizer value/taste combo that exists at any national chain) opened up Volume 3 of Shelby Foote’s epic Civil War trilogy to Hood defeat at Nashville by Thomas and watched the Boston Celtics play the Toronto Raptors at home.
It was the 2nd day of a back to back and stars Jason Tatum and Kristas Porzingis were not dressed and vet Al Horford were all unavailable so we saw a lot of reserves getting serious playing time. It was an exciting game with an odd finish where the Celtics blew a 20 point lead and had to eek out a win that wasn’t decided till the final second of the game, but two things jumped out at me that I hadn’t seen much of if at all in years
At one point in the 2nd quarter when the Celtics lead was seemingly comfortable I looked up at the screen and was shocked to see an NBA team with practically an all white team on the floor, technically you could call it an all “white” five because the only player of color on the floor was ironically Derrick White (who has really come into his own this season) who frankly is light enough to as they used to say in the old days “pass”.
I suspect it’s been more than half a century since that has been the case but there was something that was even more shocking to me that NBA fans haven’t seen much of these days and that was the play of Center Luke Kornet who instead of launching 3 point shots from the outside was actually hustling to be under the basket to retrieve rebounds and be in a position to be fed for easy layups by a charging White or Brown.
Just a decade or two ago a center playing, well like a Center would not be much of a story but in today’s game it’s practically headline news. I’d like to see more of it because in the end, that tends to pay off.
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It’s Thanksgiving day and because the Turkey is cooking and my wife is on full blast I did a quick Dunkin & McDonalds run so as not to dirty stuff for DaWife’s coffee or my breakfast.
I passed by St. Bernard’s football field and remembered the phony hate crime hoax from years ago that got national attention of the FBI & the Obama admin and caused the Lunenburg St. Bernard’s game to be cancelled that year. I covered the story here:
As I recall the town never got an apology from all those who called them a bunch of racists nor did the players who missed their Turkey game that year.
They never do.
Thanksgiving is a traditional day for football (as mentioned above). When I was young the TV would be filled with college games. Now the NFL has gone in a big way, not only just the Cowboys and the Lions who both host home games on Thanksgiving (and will therefore never face the other on Thanksgiving day) but a late game that is an A list matchup between the 49ers and the Seahawks. They have even added a black Friday game Dolphins at the Jets.
I guess they’re all in on Thanksgiving weekend and taking the business from the colleges and I guess it’s the right move. Make the money while you can now because nothing lasts forever.
As for me, well I guess it a good way to pass the time waiting for spring training
In a recent speech Tucker Carlson talked about trusting your gut. My gut says that the deal with Hamas that Israel has made for hostages is a bad idea.
But since it’s the Jews of Israel who are doing the fighting and dying and it’s the Jews of Israel whose woman and children are hostages and I’m just sitting at a keyboard in safety I think I’ll defer to the judgement of their leadership vs my own.
I’m old enough to remember when I could make a joke in public or online without worry that it wouldn’t give supporters of terror groups that want to kill jews idea.
Alas those days are gone so my excellent joke shall have to remain in house.
Finally today is going to be my last day off before Black Friday. During the Trump years this was flat out time for me. We ended up working 14 days in a row after Thanksgiving and six days a week all though Christmas and carried a ton of temps all thought that time.
Last year we had one busy week and it was so quiet that the Friday after black Friday was optional and all the extra temps were laid off within two weeks.
We had a busy week this week as one of our retailers had a pre-black friday sale but this week will say more about the truth of Biden economy than any talking head can.
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