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#1 Re: Guns N' Roses » Tracks missing from the leaked CD's » 15 hours ago
Yes, but then where are all these superior songs. You would think they would be a priority for the stuff Slash and Duff worked on. The only songs I would call A-list from those are Hard School and the General. Stuff like Perhaps and Atlas feel more like b or c material. Scraping the bottom of the barrel type stuff.
The only outlier is Monsters.
If time has taught us anything with that saga, it’s that they were blowing smoke with all that stuff about 2 albums worth of stuff , unreleased big guns etc
The best songs made the album . The rest are b sides at best .
I barely listen to the reheated leftovers anymore . Once you get past the novelty of Slash and Duff being on them , they just aren’t very good or catchy .
#2 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 15 hours ago
Dear mother of God...the Chargers are so inept. It's an issue of top to bottom incompetence. No reason on Earth for Harbaugh to waste both their challenges in the first half.
Whatever mojo Herbert had is long gone. He's simply not an elite QB and his salary is unconscionable. He should donate it to charity in shame.
If the Chargers front office has a functioning brain, they move on from him. Hell...the entire offense is trash.
Time for a rebuild.
Lions scored a bunch of points...showing once again they'll only be able to compete in shootout games when they go against elite teams.
49ers- Seahawks literally goes down to the wire. Not sure it was the right call but there's no way to get that accurate without bringing lasers in there to measure.
Bears SUCKED today. Jesus. Bringing in Keenum just made it worse because he couldn't do anything. Thank God Caleb is coming back next week.
Giants -Redskins the first tie of the season. Redskins clock management in the final seconds of the game was abysmal.
Vikings.now 5-0. Everyone has laughed at this Vikings team since week 1 due to the QB situation but we're getting to the point where they have to be taken seriously.
Jags beat the Eagles at the last second. I forgot this game was starting at the crack of dawn here or I would've watched it.
Bengals won unfortunately. Dolphins now 0-5.
Patriots finally getting their groove back. Raiders now lost 2 straight.... Mendoza came in towards the end of the game.
Jets beat the Browns in an ugly game.
Steelers throttle the Colts. I knew that Colts team last year was a one year wonder.
Texans blowout the Titans. Titans now 0-5 while the Texans finally win their firat game. They also just acquired Marvin Harrison Jr. Now's the time to go on a run.
I caught the last INT (Herbert-LAC). The one that ended the game. Awful throw . I think he’s broken . They can’t really cut him so bye McDaniel. They have nothing behind him and there’s no benefit to benching him.
That WSH clock mismanagement was all time bad . Just spike it or fling it out of bounds . Giants got saved from criticism because of that . They should have taken a damn knee instead of handing off the ball.
Fantastic game (even w/the gazillion turnovers) between SF and Seattle. Brutal drop at the end that was the decider. The fact that these two teams HATE each other adds to it.
Carolina is winning that crappy South by default.
That DAL defense might be worse than Detroit . NFC North is brutal this year w/MIN , CHI and GB . They have to deal with the NFC west too. Some deserving team is getting left out.
Titans are the worst team to watch . I force myself to sit through these snoozers. Once they get down 14 pts , it’s really hard to not switch the channel . I only favor MIA in the first pick because they have a more difficult schedule . It’s clear that LAC, TEN, MIA are the worst teams. Tempted to also put ARZ there even though they have a win.
#3 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 3 days ago
Mike Ditka passed today at the age of 86. A sad sad day in the NFL. RIP, Iron Mike.
#4 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 3 days ago
PaSnow wrote:Smoking Guns wrote:Rubio is the only competent person in this Admin.
I agree about this. This cabinet is/was amateur hour. Hegseth, Bondi, Noem, Vance etc.
Not saying Rubio's great, but gosh he's the only one I trust to prevent chaos or a remarkably stupid move by trump
Rubio can’t control Trump. The guy is a disaster. Blows me away people still show up to his “rallies”.
this is all his doing . Trump’s that is. All he had to do was nothing . Instead he introduced those disasterous tarrifs AND went into Iran.
Every other previous president, Democrat and Republican, had the good sense to stay the hell away. Even Trump’s own NSA knew that it was a dumbass idea (and re-signed). Now every one is feeling the pain and he can’t blame anyone else.
Some idiot, may have been Vance, tried to blame Biden . Can’t wait to hear the excuses after next month.
#5 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 5 days ago
I can’t figure out the Pats . I’d say the Raiders win but it wouldn’t suprise me if NE pulled it out.
Saints are kind of a pretender to me. Gotta wait till MIN hits the murderers row part of their schedule starting next week : IND, Det, BUF, GB and SF. Also I don’t think you can win with pure defense anymore . You HAVE to be able to put up 20 ppg on offense at least . It’s just so tilted towards the offense now.
Packers are another team I can’t figure . The genius’ there finally realized they had an OL problem and signed a bunch of vet OL guys . I personally thought they should have fired LaFleur after last season. He gets a rep as an offensive HC but he likes to dial it down in the second half (like a defensive HC) and that’s why they blow a bunch of second half leads. I favor them this week only because no Williams and GB is more desperate.
Bills and Rams ought to be fun . Rams probably need the game more since the NFC West is brutal .
The Chargers it just feels like one of those guys won’t be there at the end of 2027 (Herbert can be cut real easily). They have the convieninet excuse of blaming McDaniel for this year. Herbert has been around for a while but there still a bit of hype vs actual performance . He’s also sucked badly in the playoff games.
Detroit and Goff are in a weird spot. That offense is pretty much plug in a qb and go. The backup is Dobbs and he’s not very good. They can’t get rid of him till after 2027 at the earliest . That and I think he’s joined with Campbell at the hip . If he gets benched it’s a bad sign for Campbell.
Oh yeah , also agree they fucked up big time 2-3 years ago when they were leading in SF at the NFC championship game . That was their chance. Sometimes you get a lightning in a bottle season and you have to take advantage.
#6 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl is in the Studio but what for? » 5 days ago
I’ll keep my post semi short because it echoes a lot of what has been written.
I find the “what was said back then” vs what actually happened interesting.
This was never a re-imagining or a new era of Guns N Roses (the CD era). It was basically just Axl Rose doing a solo record or project . His end game was always reunion. I suspect they had just gotten tired of one another and just needed a break. Slash for his part fucked it up by leaving.
I forgot who it was but someone complained (pretty sure it was Buckethead or Finck) who complained that they were doing way too many classic GNR songs and not enough CD material.
Axl just fucked up the A to B step . Which is get the album out of your system and then reunite. Personally I think he underrated the power that the name still had on different counts . I don’t think he knew the power of the Slash-Axl partnership and how that was set in stone. I think he knew Slash would be difficult to replace ; just don’t think he expected the backlash.
The other part is that the public wanted new Guns N’ Roses (or were receptive to it) and that well even if it failed , it wouldn’t really effect the reunion status and the ticket sales for that. Bands routinely survived bad new albums (Van Halen, Motley Crue) and got the reunion train and bag anyway.
A real manager would have gotten this thing started way earlier . We probably lost maybe another album worth of tunes. This part is really important for them because their freaking back catalog is thin as fuck and well it’s always to play stuff from another album instead of what they usually do.
No one can tell me that the manager aspect there isn’t Team Brazil’s fault .
#7 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 6 days ago
I’m not surprised at some of the results/happenings over the weekend.
Vrabel has this really habit of just coaching up his team and either beating teams or coming close on matchups that look like total mismatches on paper. He did it again this week.
The Broncos have pulled off the Houdini dog shit luck act for the last year and I don’t think it’s gonna hold up anymore . It’s basically like this , Nix plays like crap for 3 quarters and the defense keeps it close (or gets turnovers) and Nix turns it on and they come back and win. They got good injury news when Surtain ankle injury wasn’t season ending (looked awful when I first saw it). Anyway back to Nix ; his total season stats are 600 yards and 4 tds. That’s awful for a “star” qb.
Chargers are just fucking awful. They really can’t dump Herbert until after 2027 though . They will probably that a WR with that high first rounder .
MIA and maybe TEN are in the lead for that. HOU can’t comeback this year . JAC is a top level AFC team and IND is at least average . I wouldn’t be surprised if they lost to TEN. Titans are at least competitive this year.
Yeah, the Vikings aren’t not wining long term through this year because that offense is mediocre and the competition is gonna heat up ; IND,SF GB again in the coming weeks.
Detroit ain’t winning shit that secondary is awful. Even with that offense, I can only see 6-8 wins. They have stayed mainly healthy. Unless they trade for a CB , they are gonna be in shootouts .
Early game of the year is this week’s NFC west clash between SF and Seattle. The Rams are still behind those two even if they have higher star power.
Bengals lost again when Burrow couldn’t complete the comeback again on the last drive . I still think they will get to the playoffs but it’s going to be tight.
#8 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 2 weeks ago
Funny, the first team that came to mind as getting the championship hopes back on track was DAL. Two division foes getting crippled by qb injuries. They play ARZ and the AFC South. Big game this week vs the Ravens.
Speaking of which , I was thinking about which of the B AFC teams had more of an urgency to get to the Super Bowl. And it’s Baltimore. Lot of their players are older (Hendrickson, Stanley , Henry , Humphrey) and they don’t have the luxury like Buffalo does . A lot of the Bills key players are under 30.
These qb injuries are crazy. Makes you appreciate guys like Brady and Manning they churned out those 16 games seasons like nothing.
I think another thing along with the (non) preseason work is that teams just don’t practice that much anymore . It got put in the CBA the last time around . It’s been the last few years where you can see the dip in early season play. It never used to be this way in the past.
#9 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 2 weeks ago
Nice talking NFL with you again. I’ll just respond to some of your points, instead of quoting it since this is kind of a long ass reply.
The Bears Bagnet I think is the backup. Honestly, I think they are better off with him since he knows the offense and most of the guys available via FA aren’t that good. They also have Keenum who has started and is a vet. They be better sitting him vs Philly . PHI has a great defense and you want that hamstring fully healed into Dec and beyond.
Unless WSH totally stinks and gets into the top 3 (and even then they might take that Ohio St WR), I think they bring him back and make him (Daniels ) prove he can stay healthy . I think they look after 2027 for a qb if he just doesn’t progress.
Ouch . I think they beat maybe the Broncos or Texans . Harbaugh will survive for one basic reason. The Chargers ownership are cheapskates . Next to the Cardinals, they might be the second worse. I know they paid up for him (Harbaugh)but I find it hard that they are going to eat the last two years of that contract (32 million) and pay a new coach and staff. Coaching salaries even for first timers are fucking expensive now. I think the defacto reason is the new OC (former MIA HC). Think that guy is on the hot seat
I think the Saints win the crappy NFC south. Bucs HC is on the hot seat he gets canned after they finish with 7-8 wins.
The bottoms of the playoffs (the six and seven seeds ) are the spots that are wide open . Here are the locks right now barring major injury :
BUF, KC,BAL, CIN in the AFC. PHI, the 3 NFC teams , the Bears .
In the AFC it’s a scrum btwn DEN, LV , JAX/HOU , NE and the Jets . Indy behind both AFC south teams . I’m kind of eliminating the Chargers because of that brutal schedule . Speaking of which this where Jets and Vegas got the advantage.
Vegas has TEN, ARZ and KC to end the year . jets have MIA twice, CLE , ARZ and the Chargers .
maye still didn’t look good for NE. Denver has a brutal upcoming schedule . The 3 NFC west teams + Chargers sandwiched in . HOU should be able to make up ground they play a lot of suspect qbs in their upcoming games.
The last NFC spot probably comes down to DAL, GB ,Detroit . The Dart injury is huge and knocks out the Giants . They also had major defensive issues. Oh on the last game of the year : Lions play the pack . The NFL would LOVE for that one to be an elimination game for a playoff birth. Honestly I don’t trust any of these 3 teams and someone’s gotta get in and well these are the best candidates. Detroits defense always bugs me . They should be better but always end up being subpar.
#10 Re: The Garden » NFL 2026 » 3 weeks ago
Looks like another Chiefs/Bills AFC Championship game with the AFC North teams (Bengals and Ravens) maybe playing spoiler .
The Bengals are a threat as long as Burrow stays healthy and they play some defense.
Brutal elbow injury by WSH and Daniels they might be looking at drafting a qb again.
No idea how the NFC is gonna shake out . Looks like Sea/SF/LA R bloodbath and I’m not totally sold on any of the other teams.
Both South Divisions look like effing shit.
Williams injury just complicates things. I think PHI probably still wins the east .
I’d guess if the Bears can weather it and he’s not out too long they will probably win it otherwise Det or GB (counting on Parsons return to help their defense) could sneak in and take it .
No one is catching MIA for worst record and that #1 pick. They stink and have a brutal schedule. Hello whichever qb they are going to draft to replace Marino . Over 25 years now.
