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I'm gonna start calling you the purple crumudgeon, lol No backup would ever be able to replace Lamar. And Josh Johnson is a veteran who can manage a game--and having Derrick Henry that's all you'd need for a game, imo

And another Jackson 5!!!!! And now he can sit down after a hard day's work

Brandon Stephens cannot play CB on the outside anymore. Dude can't find the dang ball to save his life! That's TWO PI's today, smh

And how about Tez Walker coming out of absolutely nowhere!!!!! Lol

Danny Devito out for the game...and I don't like that one bit. Giving me 2012 Kirk Couisins flashbacks, smh

Alright so he had a horrible game at an awful time. But dang y'all as many years as we wanted a great offense, now we have one and some of y'all can't even appreciate it.

I'm chuckling at how the fanbase is turning on Monken despite the offensive numbers this year, lol

"Rioting?" Lol So "Man riots at cloud?" Listen man...what else is there to do but just be grateful for what we get? We certainly don't control the weather...We don't know whether things will/can improve or not in this unknown era of climate whatever we're in. So when what what we expected becomes few and far between, we oughta become much more appreciative of what we do get. Because again...we can't control it. Does it suck that we haven't been getting what we used to? Absolutely. Are the snowfall numbers and the number of consecutive seasons where crap in the atmosphere doesn't work? Absolutely. But...keeping the "standards" high despite the current reality only brings more frustration. Better to adjust the standards to what is as opposed to what we wish it could be. Otherwise it's bad for the brain, lol I feel your frustration and I get it. I've blown up and whined and complained on this site plenty and driven folks crazy--so yeah I get it! But I know for me I've been working to get to a place where I don't dwell on it, and if something like a cold December is what we get, hey it's better than a torch. Just gotta be grateful

Now the question is...is this indicative of a larger change even beyond this season, or just a temporary one?

Well, you said the other analogs were cold in December and torched the rest of the way right? Lol And hey, this winter was already expected to be a ratter...if that happens it'll just be more of a shoulder shrug punt to the next (but still kinda annoying)

Ah so you do care if it snows

My question is why do people buy into it...particularly after the last 8 years? I mean at least before that you had just had that heater the Mid Atlantic and Norrheast went on between 2010 and 2016...but now isn't hype more of the boy who cried wolf?

That thumbnail isn't a good "no-hype" first impression, lol

Perhaps I read too much into it. When you said "so much for 'it's the pacific'" I thought you were speaking out of dread of the larger issue. My bad

Hey that'd be a nice backdrop for Ravens-Steelers

I feel like he gets more depressing by the year...lol I mean on one hand I get it--there's an existential dread over a future where there's no cold anywhere (hence the arguing with the "excuses" even when no one mentions them) On the other hand...dang man. At some point we're gonna have to be at peace with whatever happens and just track the season in front of us.

Wait what about the basketball courts? Lol

Good to know the context even though it's annoying, smh So we actually DON'T wanna see something wound up...don't bet against history! But I am curious...is there a particular reason WHY it happened like that during those years? (Something with the cold neutral enso state that favored that kind of storm track?). The usual NS interference or something else?

Verbatim that low develops further south than Boxing Day doesn't it? Lol

Was thinking about thos earlier...how likely are weak ninas to double dip?

Low/mid 50s is what is considered a "torch" for the winter time, though. But perhaps this time around we're looking at something in the 40s neighborhood or lower.

Things like that always weaken the resolve to not look, lol

So the CEO shooter was from Towson? Dang

Lol Hey could ya blame me? But nah not obsessively--but I have been hoping that one of these years it would finally start to cool off...and of course we're hoping that -PDO will finally relent! (I'm unclear on how the two are connected if someone could chime in on that. I just know that the warm pool has been a part of said pain in the butt).

That December didn't still average warm? I seem to remember just that one arctic Christmad weekend then warm again...