Watched Death by Lightning.  Friends of mine disagree but I thought it wasn?t very good. Maybe it was just not much of a story, or maybe the story was not well told, but i found it to be mundane in general and the characters to be stereotypical and not well acted.  Essentially, a mentally ill man with delusions of grandeur decides to go from supporter to murderer overnight while a mild-mannered, unlikely president makes civil rights progress and finds a way to destroy corruption in NYC and the US Senate in a couple of months in office.  And this, even as his corrupt, drunken, incompetent, buffoon of a VP (Chester Arthur) works from the inside to maintain the corruption and undermine the president.  Arthur changes his ways after Garfield (the president, not the cat) refuses his resignation and gets shot.  Of course, after being shot, the on the scene doctor is a black man who warns the white doctor not to risk sepsis as the white doctor takes over and practices unsanitary medicine attempting to retrieve the bullet in Garfield?s body.  The scene provides obvious foreboding as Garfield dies a couple of months later of sepsis due to the white doctors malpractice.
The transformation of Chester Arthur occurs during Garfields unsuccessful convalescence when Garfield?s wife slaps the vice president in the face - and suddenly he is a new man, ethical and capable. IDK what is and isn?t accurate in the story, but I didn?t find it compelling and was grateful that it ended mercifully after 4 episodes.  I wouldn?t have stuck it out if it had been longer.

But my friends liked it.

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I think that's the dagger in the Chiefs season. They literally need to win out AND get some help to even have a chance at this point, and it doesn't help that BUF, JAX have the tiebreaker over them and even LAC does too. KC also plays Houston next. Good luck with that ferocious pass rush that lit up Josh Allen and will feast on KC's O-Line too. KC still has DEN + LAC as well on their schedule

Even the dynasty Patriots teams had rare seasons of suffering, like the 2002 season. That's it for KC

There is a big difference between the two situations.

Mahomes is 30 and in his prime. Brady was 25 and only in his second season as a starting QB.

In 2002, Bill Belichick was 50 years old. Andy Reid is currently 67, and may not have many seasons left as a head coach.

Another thing to factor in is that Mahomes is only 6-2. He is much more reliant on his speed than Brady. It will be difficult for Mahomes to age as gracefully as Brady did and keep up that elite production.

Probably correct as no one has ever done what Brady did.  That said, Mahomes is unusually gifted - physically and mentally.  He can transform himself as he ages and become more of a pocket passer - using his experience and intelligence and accuracy.  I doubt he can do it with anywhere near the success of Brady, but I wouldn?t rule out a successful second act.

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Quote from: Phantom255x on Yesterday at 08:03:17 PM

I think that's the dagger in the Chiefs season. They literally need to win out AND get some help to even have a chance at this point, and it doesn't help that BUF, JAX have the tiebreaker over them and even LAC does too. KC also plays Houston next. Good luck with that ferocious pass rush that lit up Josh Allen and will feast on KC's O-Line too. KC still has DEN + LAC as well on their schedule

Even the dynasty Patriots teams had rare seasons of suffering, like the 2002 season. That's it for KC

There is a big difference between the two situations.

Mahomes is 30 and in his prime. Brady was 25 and only in his second season as a starting QB.

In 2002, Bill Belichick was 50 years old. Andy Reid is currently 67, and may not have many seasons left as a head coach.

Another thing to factor in is that Mahomes is only 6-2. He is much more reliant on his speed than Brady. It will be difficult for Mahomes to age as gracefully as Brady did and keep up that elite production.

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I wonder if Horford now regrets leaving Boston (again). Warriors are 10-10, look discombobulated and Curry is likely gonna miss at least the next 1-2 weeks as well.

Horford would have easily been the best big man here and helped the C's, maybe even adding 2 wins to our total (maybe 12-6 instead of 10-8). Plus JT could come back in March-April but even if not, he still could have been a nice piece off the bench on our next championship core at low money

Hard to say, but in fairness it wasn't apples to apples.  The Celts offered him the minimum.

I never understood him choosing the Warriors, though.

I can't blame him for chasing the money, let's be honest a lot of us have changed jobs for the money. We're fans, so we expect loyalty from players to the team we love...but this is their job. And our loyalty to players only lasts until they start sucking. The it's "ship him out, trade this bum!" 

That said, I would be lying if I wasn't feeling some schadenfreude at poor Al's travails on the other side of the country...he's bricking it at 30% from the floor, he's been injured more often than not, and his team is struggling. Maybe Lucky the Leprechaun cursed him on his way out 

I can and I do. This guy has made 330 million dollars in his career. The difference between a vet min and the MLE for him is only like 2 million dollars a year.

If he thought GSW was a better place to chase another ring that's one thing, but if its just for money that's sort of insane to me.

Now I also think it was sort of stupid to join GSW if you're ring chasing, I'm not sure their chance of winning a title is actually a ny greater than the C's this year. Like I think there's a larger chance that Tatum comes back an the C's make a final run THIS YEAR than there is that the old guys in GSW get through the west.