matt8204

His wife is starting to get on my nerves too.

I'm rooting for the Bengals hard on Sunday but I have a feeling that the Chiefs are going to roll.

So sorry, Bills fans. I don't know what else to say. With Allen, you should get plenty of chances at a Super Bowl run. He's absolutely incredible. Hang in there from Giants nation.

Agreed. Cold, grey and dry is depressing.

Left for work a bit early. Roads are mostly wet. Temp was going back and forth from 32 to 33 in the West Essex/Passaic county area.

December of '15 was a complete torch. I remember it being something in the neighborhood of 65 on Christmas Eve.

If it's that much of a miss, I don't even feel bad about it. Wasn't meant to be. Onto the next. At least I can enjoy the playoff games and not have to worry about shoveling/salting.

Really puts into perspective how much things have changed around here. Above normal is the new normal this time of year.

During Ida, the only local network that offered continuous coverage that evening was News 12 New Jersey. The local CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates only covered it on their scheduled newscasts.

The mainstream outlets are sometimes a little behind the curve in terms of updating their forecasts. I'm sure they'll reflect the changes by this evening.

Going to be a ton of damage if those wind projections come to fruition. Yikes.

Agreed. That's just a tease...and if it won't stick around anyway, what's the point? I've got some things to do on my day off Monday anyway, so a big snowstorm would have put a wrinkle in those plans.

Bills all the way. I'm a Giants fan, so I don't think my team will be in the playoffs for awhile. I'd love to see Buffalo's fan base celebrate a championship. Beating the Pats in the playoffs would mean a lot for them as well. If not the Bills, I wouldn't mind seeing the Bengals make a run. I like Joe Burrow and t's been a long time for those fans also.

Shame if it's wasted on a cold rain but it is what it is. Hopefully we get more opportunities down the line.

Agreed. Football is the ultimate team game, so it's not fair to lay this all at his feet. You especially need the line play to be there on both sides of the ball. If you can't rush the passer and protect your quarterback or create holes for your backs, you're in trouble.

They picked Jones way too high. I want to like him but yeah...I just don't think he has what it takes. Turnover machine and he is going to get popped one day given how much he runs. I still prefer a dropback type passer like Brady or Rodgers. I know that makes me a football dinosaur lol.

For what it's worth, 1/17 is the anniversary of a pretty big snowstorm in the NYC metro area, also an MLK Day storm. That one occurred in 1994. It was the same day as the big Northridge earthquake in California.

I'd definitely kick the tires on Flores...but someone else is probably going to swoop in and hire him. He'll land on his feet. No question about that. My uncle is a Steelers fan for that very reason. He's 57 and always saw the Steelers playing in big games in the 70's while he was growing up. The Giants and Jets were so hideous, they were a complete afterthought. When you're young, it's embarrassing to root for a bad team also. I remember a lot of kids my age (I'm 39) being huge Cowboys and 49ers fans in the 90's. Everyone had their Starter jackets. You need to give people a reason to care, a reason to watch. Your real diehards will always be there but you're going to lose a lot of other people. How can you get excited about a team that's out of contention for all intents and purposes by Halloween every season? Nobody expects a Super Bowl or conference championship every season but at least be interesting and competitive. The worst thing for a sports franchise is to be bad, boring and irrelevant.

Horrendous. Two winning seasons the entire decade. Neither the Giants or Jets made the playoffs in the 70's. That's one reason why you see so many middle-aged Cowboys, Dolphins, Steelers and Raiders fans around here. My uncle latched onto the Steelers because the local teams were so awful and he always saw the Steelers playing a big, nationally televised game on Sunday afternoon or Monday night. Not only were the Giants bad, they were basically unwatchable to boot. The worst thing a sports team can be is bad and boring.

That's a possibility. You have to tell the GM that he won't get to pick his own coach if he wants the job, at least not right away. It's probably just as well because I don't think the Giants will be good next year regardless...but to me, it's pretty clear that Judge doesn't have the chops. They'll start 0-6 or 1-5 and he'll get the ax. I just think the organization needs to clean house and get a fresh start. They've lost their way as a franchise and clearly need new voices in there. They're in a tough division also. Dallas is usually good (even though they haven't won the whole thing in a long time), Philly's rebuild seems ahead of schedule and Washington even looked decent at times this season. This isn't going to be easy.

Got down to 12 on my drive into work. The heated seats came in handy this morning. Haven't felt that cold in awhile.

Tua better get out of there before they ruin him. I can't understand how you fire a coach who almost got you to the playoffs after a 1-7 start. Would have been only the second time that a team starting off that poorly got to the postseason. The 1970 Bengals won the AFC Central after opening the season 1-6. Meanwhile, Joe Bleeping Judge keeps his job after a 4-13 season where the Giants looked worse with each passing week. The NFL can be a strange business.

Yeah, I think the lowest maximum average temp in NYC is 38. This isn't exactly Minneapolis or Fargo. Yes, we get extreme cold but it's not as common as some people might think.

You'll love this...my girlfriend and I kept our artificial tree up all year after Christmas 2020. We were so bummed out over the virus (especially pre-vaccine) that we needed something to make us smile when things got really heavy. She's a nurse at a hospital, so she was also going through some major stress for obvious reasons. I recall some people putting their holiday lights up in the early days of the pandemic to lift people's spirits.

Road crews seemed to do a nice job in my area. Decent-sized snowfall but the main thoroughfares were down to the blacktop by the time I left home. Just wet. They pre-treated the streets yesterday and they must have been out all night.