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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 6 in ~sports.american_football
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 6 in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo LinkYour resident Carolina fan again with the weekly update: We... won? I had no delusion or homer-ism that we would win. I just wanted it to be competitive so I could say we tried and didn't look...Your resident Carolina fan again with the weekly update:
We... won? I had no delusion or homer-ism that we would win. I just wanted it to be competitive so I could say we tried and didn't look like complete ass and maybe start to shake the image that we are a team that you can beat because we are an easy team and the "get right" game for more popular big market teams.
..And then they went out and gave a solid, commanding performance. The offense was the star of the show, with Rico putting in another impressive performance on the ground, setting a franchise record for all-purpose yards. Bryce was a solid game manager, with his only INT being on the fault of TMac not holding on to the pass. TMac also finally found the endzone and got there twice!
This offense has finally found its identity as a possession first team, utilizing a solid run game and a deadly pass when the defense has to commit to trying to stop the run. It's a perfect combination for a grinding out a game to shut down high powered offenses and is downright destructive to bad ones. The weirdest part is that I was feeling confident we would just walk down the field and score some amount of points. It was a weird feeling.
The defense is vastly improved from last year's worst in the league unit, and thats largely because of Derrick Brown being back. Big DB has slowly grown more back to form every week and is now back to how good he was before he was injured. Every week has a highlight reel of him throwing grown men like rag dolls and making crazy athletic plays. Running on our team has effectively become impossible up the middle purely because of him. This is forcing teams to pass on us, which is more risky by nature and feeds back into our grindy offense in a feedback loop that is not great for the other team.
Looking ahead, we have an interesting challenge: the Jets are 0-6, but also everyone expects we will fuck up and give them their first win. Honestly, I've been tortured by this team enough to not be surprised if it happens. Realistically? If we play like we have been the last two weeks, we should comfortably win. The issue is that the Jets defense is actually decent, and we will have to rely on Fields to struggle and keep giving us chances while throwing away theirs.
I don't like this feeling of being generally favored for the first time in ages, even if it is slight. I haven't felt it in a long time and it makes me anxious... but I hope it happens often enough to get used to it again. 2015 was a decade ago, and feels like a dream.
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 5 in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo Link ParentHonestly, I've been trying to ask this question on what changes. One of the few subs I still visit on reddit is the Panthers sub, and there isn't one consistent answer. Bryce is a frequent...As someone who watches their games, what is the difference between Good Panthers and Bad Panthers?
Honestly, I've been trying to ask this question on what changes. One of the few subs I still visit on reddit is the Panthers sub, and there isn't one consistent answer.
Bryce is a frequent scapegoat, but he can't shoulder all the blame. It's every type of problem an offense can have, all rearing their heads at random moments. No one explanation covers these issues. Sometimes people complain about Bryce's size, but he rarely has his balls batted. Bryce can heave it down the field and throw with accuracy and anticipation. He will go from making you scratch your head in confusion to making you have to clean your jaw off the floor from some crazy play he made. This entire offensive unit is Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde and I really struggle to figure out what the true root cause is. Bryce's stats aren't great relative to his peers, but I struggle to put it all on him.
All I want is consistency, but this team will torture me by refusing to give it. I just hope we can win enough to beat last year's win total
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 5 in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo (edited )Link ParentThe football gods must have been drunk when it came to Titans @ Cardinals. The Titans had no business winning that game, the Cards just kept sabotaging themselves over and over and over, all in...The football gods must have been drunk when it came to Titans @ Cardinals. The Titans had no business winning that game, the Cards just kept sabotaging themselves over and over and over, all in the most comical ways.
Kyler getting hit in the face with the snap? CHECK
The RB going for 72 yards only to pull a Desean Jackson because he wanted to look casual across the line? CHECK (bonus points for being the score that would have shut away the game)
An INT that was immediately fumbled and batted into the endzone for an ultimate Titans TD? CHECK
Letting the Titans, who have struggled all game to be consistent, casually drive down the field and kick the game winning FG? CHECK
This is a legendary collapse of epic proportions. It WILL end up in a Jon Bois video at some point when they get a good reason to talk about it. Probably when he and Alex decide to do a "History of the Cardinals" series.
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 5 in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo LinkYour resident Carolina fan here This team struggles to inspire confidence. We trot out every week and promptly shoot ourselves in the foot on the first few drives by either doing nothing all or...Your resident Carolina fan here
This team struggles to inspire confidence. We trot out every week and promptly shoot ourselves in the foot on the first few drives by either doing nothing all or turning the ball over. Sloppy, boring, uninspired play that makes it difficult to watch when we go down 17-0 within the first quarter. But I guess I just keep watching to torture myself more like the masochist I am. At least we didn't abandon the run and... brought the score back to a reasonable deficit by halftime?? XL caught a TD in a way that makes him look competent?
Hold on, did someone issue the wrong script? This cant be right. We not only claw our way back in, but do so on Rico Dawdle's 206 yard rushing performance to take the lead in the 4th? No, no, something isn't right. We look too much like a normal football team.
Ahh... there it is. We give up a stupid number of yards on the kickoff. Then Tua throws a deep bomb for a TD to retake the lead. That sounds about right. There's the collapse I expected. The return to incompetence we all expect of this era's Panthers. We'll get the ball back and try but fail to get any momen-- wait, did we just convert 4th down? Moving the ball with relative confidence? Score the game winning TD?!?!
Okay, I have to ask: what even is this team? It's schrodinger's football team, where the are both acceptable and awful all over the course of the same game. One minute we are just a speed bump for actual teams and another we are accurate and deadly in some game changing aspect of our play.
We are likely going to lose to the Cowboys. No sane person should bet on the Panthers here, but the some crazy bullshit is going to happen and I'm going to believe again. Then they'll hit me in the nuts and remind me that they actually are bad and I should feel bad for having hope.
On to next week, I guess.
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Comment on What's a product or service that you use but don't want to pay for and why? in ~life
NonoAdomo Link ParentThe only thing I want is for ads to be non invasive. Midroll ads are disgusting and the default number they put in is only a net negative for the viewing experience. Turns out, if you give me the...The only thing I want is for ads to be non invasive. Midroll ads are disgusting and the default number they put in is only a net negative for the viewing experience.
Turns out, if you give me the choice between either a subscription that gives me no guarantees of a reasonable price or consistent features, OR a free plugin that just makes the ads go away... I'm taking the free plug in.
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Comment on A better way to watch YouTube in ~tech
NonoAdomo Link ParentIt's a very delicate balancing game with the YT algorithm. It seems to want to stereotype me as a user model that I am not. It clearly has some assumptions of me that made me have to aggressively...It's a very delicate balancing game with the YT algorithm. It seems to want to stereotype me as a user model that I am not. It clearly has some assumptions of me that made me have to aggressively cull the far right propaganda from my feed a few years ago. I was successful in that, but I have to be careful because if I watch a video thats somewhere in that middle ground the floodgates open again. I am terrified to click on a history video relating to religion because if I do, then YT wants to drown me in all the religious debate discourse that I really don't care about.
I've found a combination of blocking channels and disliking videos tends to work for cleaning these things out. It's a never ending battle but it has made it way better for me. Sometimes I end up on then global feed through a private browsing window and it looks like a completely different platform
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 4 in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo LinkSad panthers noises The game opened up great, with a methodical, competent march down the field. Then immediately forcing a 3-and-out filled me with so much optimism. Then the punt return for a TD...Sad panthers noises
The game opened up great, with a methodical, competent march down the field. Then immediately forcing a 3-and-out filled me with so much optimism.
Then the punt return for a TD happened and the wheels fell off the cart almost immediately.
There is no other way of saying it, we got our asses handed to us. After the punt return happened, its like like the team completely forgot how to play this sport in which they are paid well to compete. It's frustrating watching a team that was methodical and at least pretend competent the week before completely implode like this.
Ultimately this does start to beg the question on where do we have to start to fix this? I do know that I'm not impressed by our defensive performance. We have only 2 sacks for the year with an abysmal 7% pressure rate. QBs have an eternity to throw and RBs aren't getting stopped. We are not doing anything well on defense and that means our game managing offense is constantly having to play from behind and that never goes well.
The thing I hate the most is that this soured my ability to enjoy games for Week 4. Now I know we truly suck, I can watch other games easier as I no longer have expectations at all. The bar is low, my only request is that I want to not turn off the game at halftime in disgust. Give me a belief that we might actually compete until the end, even if we do lose. I just dont want to get blown out week after week.
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Comment on What game is your personal "Silksong"? in ~games
NonoAdomo LinkArmored Core 6 was my "I've waited so long" game. Oh boy did it deliver, its the only game in memory that I stopped playing only because I literally have done everything there was to do, got the...Armored Core 6 was my "I've waited so long" game. Oh boy did it deliver, its the only game in memory that I stopped playing only because I literally have done everything there was to do, got the plat trophy and said "I am satisfied" and was done. I'm hopingn I can get the same level of enjoyment out of the next Ace Combat game.
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Comment on EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia in ~games
NonoAdomo Link ParentYup, I am an EA "boycotter" as well. I haven't given them a cent of my money for years. This guarantees that I'm not going to be spending money on their products ever again. Private Equity is a...Yup, I am an EA "boycotter" as well. I haven't given them a cent of my money for years. This guarantees that I'm not going to be spending money on their products ever again.
Private Equity is a cancer and I am terrified to see what this PE investment will do to their products.
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Comment on Grape glut: Too much wine across the world leaves tons of US grapes rotting this crush season in ~food
NonoAdomo Link ParentYeah, wine grapes are super specialized. They aren't as pleasant to eat compared to the snacking grapes you find in the store because they are smaller and more concentrated. You can make wine from...Yeah, wine grapes are super specialized. They aren't as pleasant to eat compared to the snacking grapes you find in the store because they are smaller and more concentrated. You can make wine from most grapes, but its best to make wine from the specialized wine grapes.
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 3 in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo LinkI've been looking over the highlights of the Lions/Ravens last night. I have a hard time staying up after halftime, especially if I am going into the office. When I left, I felt the Lions were...I've been looking over the highlights of the Lions/Ravens last night. I have a hard time staying up after halftime, especially if I am going into the office. When I left, I felt the Lions were generally playing better. Looking at the whole picture now? It was a beating. The score is closer than the rest of the stats say. The Ravens have now lost two big time games where they need to win if they want to win the Super Bowl. They will make it to the playoffs, no problem. The issue is, can they figure out how to get out of their own way and close the game off when it matters?
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 3 in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo LinkYour resident Carolina fan here, and Sunday was a great day! And absolute beating from all three phases and then, when the Falcons could have scored, they found a way to screw it up. If they kept...Your resident Carolina fan here, and Sunday was a great day! And absolute beating from all three phases and then, when the Falcons could have scored, they found a way to screw it up. If they kept Koo, they would have 3-6 points and not straight goose-egged
I was very happy with the defensive growth over the last two weeks. They have transitioned to a team that can rally to the ball and secure tackles. They got 3 turnovers against a floundering Falcons offense! That's a great sign and I hope they can keep this momentum over the next few weeks.
The offense was okay, but they didn't need to do much. I was happy to see that they were focusing on establishing the run, as that was a strength last year. They didn't turn the ball over and kept grinding it out to minimize the chance of a comeback. I really appreciate keeping the starters in despite the Falcons throwing in the towel in the 4th. This team needed more reps to better gain the timing with one another, and also good practice for maintaining a lead.
Looking ahead to the Pats, I feel we have a good chance. We are evenly matched and this could go either way. I'm hoping we can move to 2-2 and have one of our better starts in recent years.
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Comment on Give us your hot takes on the latest Nintendo Direct in ~games
NonoAdomo Link ParentI'm getting really strong Dragon Quest Builders vibes from the trailer. I know my wife is going to love itI'm getting really strong Dragon Quest Builders vibes from the trailer. I know my wife is going to love it
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Comment on Give us your hot takes on the latest Nintendo Direct in ~games
NonoAdomo Link ParentThree Houses is a great game. I would recommend it as an introduction to the series, but do know that it is more focused on socializing with the NPCs than games in the past. I have not played...Three Houses is a great game. I would recommend it as an introduction to the series, but do know that it is more focused on socializing with the NPCs than games in the past. I have not played Engage, but its supposed to be more of a focus on the traditional play style of the series at the (apparent) expense of the story. Fire Emblem has always had great turn based tactics, but I did find Three Houses to be on the easy side in the late game.
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Comment on Nova Launcher discontinued in ~tech
NonoAdomo LinkOkay. Fine. I'll finally stop being lazy and replace my nova launcher. Thanks everyone for your suggestions of alternatives!Okay. Fine. I'll finally stop being lazy and replace my nova launcher. Thanks everyone for your suggestions of alternatives!
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 1 in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo Link ParentWe aren't getting a game that good again until playoffs happen. Even then, there's a good chance that we saw the game of the year in week one. This loss is going to haunt the Ravens when it comes...We aren't getting a game that good again until playoffs happen. Even then, there's a good chance that we saw the game of the year in week one.
This loss is going to haunt the Ravens when it comes to seeding at the end of the year. I can't wait to see how this pans out
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Comment on 2025 NFL Season 🏈 Weekly Discussion Thread – Week 1 in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo LinkYour resident Panthers fan here... I'm not sure what to expect from this team going forward. The first game of the season in most eyes appeared to be a disaster, but I think it was just bipolar as...Your resident Panthers fan here... I'm not sure what to expect from this team going forward. The first game of the season in most eyes appeared to be a disaster, but I think it was just bipolar as hell with things showing bad more often than not.
On offense, Tmac is going to be great. Bryce was flip flopping from "Hell yeah" to "wtf" all game where he would shine greatly and then just have the switch turn off and make a boneheaded decision that was, imo, uncharacteristic of his play at the end of last year. I think they can put it together, I'm just thinking this is related to the projected offense changing drastically over the week leading up to this game. Thielen gets traded (for a respectable deal) and Coker gets hurt meaning we had to go pull Renfrow back onto the team after cutting him, making the WR corps look completely different from the training camp projections. Then our LT gets appendicitis a week ago and the new center kept snapping the ball too high, throwing every plays timing off greatly. I think this is all fixable though, and I still like our chances of beating last year's win total.
...but they are going to have to carry the team hard because the defense WAS a disaster. Our linebackers are non existent meaning that even the great Derrick Brown being back cant plug the hole for the run game. The edge rushing rookies need to figure things out fast, because its going to be stressful watching this team on defense all year. I think its a safe prediction that our DC does not survive the season if this continues.
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Comment on Do we have enough NFL fans to warrant weekly discussions? in ~sports.american_football
NonoAdomo LinkI'm down for it. I can use it as some of my venting from the disparity of my team's skill and capabilities to the actual good teams in the league.I'm down for it. I can use it as some of my venting from the disparity of my team's skill and capabilities to the actual good teams in the league.
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Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters in ~food
NonoAdomo LinkFirst, I'm reminded of a joke: Then I'm saddled with the sad reminder that we, the public, are the QA testers now. QA is one of the first things to go when companies want to "get lean" and,...First, I'm reminded of a joke:
A QA engineer walks into a bar and orders a beer.
She orders 2 beers.
She orders 0 beers.
She orders -1 beers.
She orders a lizard.
She orders a NULLPTR.
She tries to leave without paying.
Satisfied, she declares the bar ready for business. The first customer comes in an orders a beer. They finish their drink, and then ask where the bathroom is.
The bar explodes.
Then I'm saddled with the sad reminder that we, the public, are the QA testers now. QA is one of the first things to go when companies want to "get lean" and, unsurprisingly, management with too much faith in AI just sent it out into the world without doing anything resembling a reasonable QA test. Likely just enough to show that it works in their perfect scenario. Of course, it immediately failed and they have to go back to the drawing board. I'm honestly surprised that nobody figured out how to get the AI to give them free food, but if they try pushing this out again I'm certain people will try.
It's not just that, they found a coach that isn't going to completely screw it up and ruin Caleb for them long run. The list of Bears QBs that just crashed and burned because of coaching ineptitude is only beaten by the Browns.