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Sorry about the Colts, kinda had a bad feeling about them before the year started but didn't want to tell you........

I haven't kept up with sports in a month, so I have no idea what all is happening in terms of news and stuff..... I haven't even really kept up with the Saints. All I know is the defense has sorta started to become a reincarnation of the Dome Patrol and it's like a gift from heaven to see a defense that can actually bully QB's, get fumbles, force interceptions. This defense makes me have faith in this team and believe in them again...

Now everyone can FINALLY witness how talented Cam Jordan is as a defense end now that he has some help with him...I hope he at least makes the pro bowl this year, he's been our best defensive player since 2011 and has mostly had scrubs to work with until now. 

I didn't mean to disappear. I guess I have went through what you would call a mid-life crisis over something.....Jules knows what I mean with my passion of music....Something just snapped in me last month and I figured I might as well do this while I still have the time with my body has some strength in my arms and shoulders....I live with a disability, more specifically, a health condition and major health problems that have really weakened my body with muscle deterioration..My body was once a lot stronger over 10 years ago...that's sadly not the case anymore, and it's only going to get worse as the years go passing by...

Long story short - the problems I suffer with my decline started to really kick into my adulthood in my late 20's....I used to be a really angry person over what I lived with (and still have the classic Gen X cynicism I can't outgrow due to just being Gen X alone), and it took me a long time to come to a subtle realization that it's nothing I can really do to fight this...It's just going to happen, and it's been a known fact since I was first diagnosed back when I was a kid....I have my good days where I can function normally, and then I have my bad days where I'm in a world of pain and mad at everything around me and I tend to have mood swings when I'm on a bad day. 

I've had an opportunity for a few years now to really do something musically with two young dudes I met who are incredibly talented...It's been my life dream. Before my health problems got really tough, I tried to fight this by still doing what I found as a passion (music)....I used to be able to practice for crazy lengths of hours with the guitar. I used to be able to play heavy guitars too, which went from being a trivial thing to a very important thing down the road (reason #1 why I don't own a bunch of guitars anymore, the weight specs are a huge necessity with my body)...I had a band that didn't go anywhere, but I was musically active in my social circles back then...before my health got bad and I had to take it easy....it's a wonder I can still play guitar at the skill I've acquired from years of hard work....I can still play for hours, but my days of being able to perform or even tour and do the tasks of a working musician are long gone....

I think I was a few years too late to form a band with these two musicians I found, but it was better than not trying at all....I should've done it a few years ago when they were begging me to. I refused cause Jazz is their real forte, and I am not a Jazz musician at all...I love listening to Jazz, but I know nothing of how it works on the guitar...Metal, Blues and New Wave/Indie are the forms of music I excel at...I didn't want to form a band with them back then cause they love Jazz so much and I was afraid I would become a burden to them down the road....These two musicians are uniquely talented....one is a drummer, who I can't brag enough about. He is the best drummer I've ever seen in my life. If he was in a city with a Jazz music scene like New Orleans, I think he would have a successful future down the road as a working musician, cause he really does have it in him...But I was a few years too late....Their musical styles have swayed quite a bit in the last two years, and they don't even really play together much anymore which is a real shame...

Whatever happens from here on out with the band, I've decided I'm going to record and post music online while my body can still handle playing an instrument, cause it's something I love and I need to enjoy it while I still can....I've got the time now, so I will probably upload some songs we wrote on Youtube. 

They looked good in their first two wins. I didn't watch the Green Bay game, but I did watch the Chicago game and they looked sluggish as hell....

I'm so out of the loop lately with sports and things....I've been managing a band and it's been a lot of fun and a lot of stress at the same time. 

It's based on the book covering the infamous movie 'The Room'. Tommy Wiseau personally picked James Franco to play himself. I have a hardback of the book and it was really interesting. 

This is what he's imitating...James Franco has the accent down perfectly. 

Hmmm, that might be a combination of issues come to think of it. This cat is less than a year old too. I didn't think a cat could go into heat at 7 months old, but it happened. 

Her body suffered damage internally. She had 5 kittens and is real little, so it tore her insides up. She had difficulties with using the bathroom, which is hard to talk about without getting graphic and I don't want to gross anyone out. She lost most of her weight too, it's barely anything left to her weight-wise. 

5 kittens though out of a small cat, oh yeah, it's hard to believe cause that's such a large litter. 

All my cats are miniatures. Some of them are bob-tailed. The tail will be like a nub. I had some a few years ago with absolutely no tail at all. 

You pretty sum up my worst fears of it...Was your neighbor's cat a miniature, like really small? That's what I have. All miniatures. The biggest ones are about half the size of a natural cat. 

It's strange though cause it was only this one cat. i have a white one who is a miniature too and she had kittens and tended to them like any other cat (but sadly they didn't live). You mention another cat adopting the kittens as their own, and that is exactly what my white one did several months ago with a kitten that managed to survive to another cat (the mother died sadly) . 

This specific cat though, it's so strange and it's been giving me headaches for months. First off, it went into heat back around March when it was still somewhat cold. It had kittens, and I'll never forget it just having them and leaving them there...she didn't clean them or nothing. It was like she had them, and moved on...I have had to force that cat to tend to them. This last litter that got killed off, I was forcing her into a box to make her feed them. 

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I have to agree that Adrian Peterson is overrated. I wouldn't have him in any of my fantasy lineups because he would disappoint too often.

No one else wanted him...NE and NO had interest in him and that was it. Green Bay is literally starting a wide receiver as their running back, and yet even they had no interest in Peterson. 

Sean Payton has become 'Grandpa Sean' as some of us like to joke, but I'm still amazed he thought Peterson was a good idea. Not only is the child abuser slow and overrated, he's also full of himself...He's a media distraction who runs his mouth constantly in the NOLA media and complains non-stop after just one game. 

We could've resigned Tim Hightower and avoided all this all together..Peterson is slow and old, and Mark Ingram is the one who is getting screwed in this, cause Peterson getting carries to run 3 yards takes away from handing off to Ingram. 

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Another kitten was killed? That's too bad; I hope that other kittens and the mother cat are doing OK.

These cats are weird, and I don't know how to properly explain it to make sense....The mother cat was too small to have kittens. She is a miniature, tiny...and she had 5 kittens, and it's wrecked her body. She killed two of them by not allowing them feed, and it happened at a time I wasn't home to tend to them....

I don't know how to explain or talk about this...This is the most bizarre thing I've ever seen from an animal. I have never seen cats act like that. I don't think this specific cat had motherly instincts, cause when she gave birth, she just left them there at first. I had to force her to tend them, and had to do this for a whole month...the cat still didn't learn. I called my local vet twice today and explained this, and they don't understand this behavior either coming from female cats. 

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Atlanta will win the game but they let GB come back big in the game. Since that is what Atlanta does, not hold onto leads.  Pathetic.

They let them score 2 TD's in garbage time when the score was 31 to 10....no big deal...No where near as bad as some of their games last year like the Chargers and Saints who came back and nearly beat them, not counting NE in the Super Bowl.

Atlanta could've run that score up to 40+ if they wanted to last night and really did let their foot off the gas to run the ball, which was shocking.... Game was over the minute they went up 17-7...they knew as well as we do, Rodgers ain't gonna lead some comeback...

The Packers are the Doors of the NFL. 

You know, the Doors didn't have a real life bass player. That's Green Bay who don't have a real life running back, just using a wide receiver for that. 

This was a depressing weekend for football....

First off, I had another kitten get killed outside....never fun to deal with. 

Saints loss don't really hurt much, hard to believe...What hurts is knowing this is the end of the Brees era in N.O. You can feel it coming to an end, not just for Payton but for Brees too....and while on that note, MICKEY LOOMIS is who should've been fired years ago. 18 years as a GM and only produced 6 winning seasons...I have no idea how he's survived that long in New Orleans. Once Brees is gone, this is going to be a team that literally goes 1-15 to 3-13 at best...Those 7-9 records are largely to thank for having a Hall of Fame QB here. 

Oh yeah and Adrian Peterson sucks...Anyone want to debate this, I've got gifs from today's game to prove a point. He's old and slow and full of himself, and Sean Payton deserves to be fired just for bringing this jerk into New Orleans...

Carolina and Tampa Bay won big...The score to the Carolina game might not be impressive but they haven't given up a TD yet and have held both teams to just 3 points. Watch them shut out the Saints. Tampa Bay on the other hand took care of business with their dumpster fire opponent. 

Atlanta is really blowing Green Bay out, just as I suspected and have been saying all summer long. Green Bay is not that good and I am in shock that Vegas picked them to win the NFC...Atlanta usually rolls their opponents at home early in the season, and I seen this coming all summer long. Green Bay did not look impressive at all last week vs Seattle. If Seattle had an actual offense, they would've been blowing them out since it took mid way into the 3rd quarter for Green Bay to put any points on the board. No surprise Atlanta is handling them easily. The Packers are overhyped every year, and they always set their fans up for a huge disappointment once the season progresses and the playoffs. Watch them go 10-6 again thanks to their crap division and then get beat into the ground again in the playoffs. 

I had a bad, bad feeling after last week that GB was a joke and we needed to see them against a real offense to determine of they were truly improved over last year...Not a surprise that they're not improved at all. 

Speaking of Atlanta - they might actually be better this year on defense. Look how they're handling Rodgers...He can't do crap against them. Then again, he completely gives up once it's a 2 possession game. Atlanta could legitimately repeat the NFC if they are really this good on defense. 

Dallas lost, and Dak Prescott had 2 interceptions - cue all the "he's not that good/Romo is better/He's overrated" week long dumb arguments. Note here: Dak Prescott has only throw 6 interceptions total in over 500+ passes, and this is only his 4th career loss counting the playoffs...but yeah he sucks and is overrated. The haters always drown out logic. 

Crappy NFL week. 

Actually, I can see the Saints hiring Pagano.....

If you noticed this past off season, the Pelicans (who is also owned by Tom Benson and ran by GM Mickey Loomis) went absolutely dirt cheap on their team....Anthony Davis is their version of Drew Brees, and they don't care at all...give him scraps to work with. 

So from that alone, I can definitely see Benson and Loomis going cheap to replace Payton with some garbage like Pagano or even Rex Ryan. 

Kobe's dad is an interesting topic....

He played for the Clippers at one point when he was at the twilight of his career...

Kobe had some weird feud with his mom and dad some years back, I think you might remember it. Something about his memorabilia being taken??? And they weren't talking for years. 

His dad was coaching over there a few years ago, I wouldn't be surprised if Kobe wanted to get involved with something over there. 

Meanwhile, everyone else has to play for 2 teams to get 2 numbers retired. 

Congrats Kobe!! I hope OYO does an NBA Legends figure series like they do the NFL ones, I'd love to buy a Kobe figure, and a few others like Wilt and Kareem. 

And now the Minnesota hype train begins!! 

Here's my guarantee ahead of time...If the Vikings do make the playoffs, I promise that they will lose and either blame it all on the field goal kicker (1998 NFCCG vs Atlanta, vs Seattle a few years ago), or the refs (Drew Pearson hail mary!!!) or something stupid like 'Bountygate' (Saints NFCCG)....I hate this team and their whiny fans so much, cause nothing is ever their fault. They can never just take responsibility for losing. No, it's always someone else's fault or they make up a conspiracy like they did with Bountygate. They're the Hillary Clinton of NFL teams - they think they've automatically won in the playoffs before the game is even played, and then have a laundry list of people and things to blame when it don't go their way. 

GO PACK GO...WIN THAT EASY DIVISION AND SEND THEM HOME CRYING IN PURPLE RAIN. 

I can't see whatever that is at the bottom. I'm using Chrome, that might be why...

Yeah, Goff is going to come back down to earth too. Your team made him look like Kurt Warner, that was as shameful as the Saints making SAM BRADFORD look like Dan Marino. 

The only positive of today is that Coby Fleener actually looked good and caught some tightly contested passes. 

When Fleener is your only positive, that's not good. 

Rex Ryan is commentating that Denver game too...I figure he won't be that bad on there since Rex does have charisma and is likable (and hilarious, weather that's intentional or not). 

Minnesota started out like 5-0 last year and then went 8-8. 

Green Bay isn't an amazing team, but they're still the only team in that division with an elite QB to run things....Minnesota ain't winning that division. 

The Vikings are in for a rude awakening next week when they realize that it's only the Saints who make your QB look like Steve Young 2.0 and have the best game of their career...we are GOOD at doing this! We have been doing it for years now, so at least we're good at something on defense.  Want to look like a Hall of Fame QB? Just play the Saints defense. 

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What worries me about the Pats is they spent an entire week hearing "you guys are soooo done."  

 

I know this is the first SB opener the Pats lost, maybe they were due? I mean it was the 5th one.

 

Well if Brady really is declining at 40 we will see soon.........

if Sam Bradford can get a TD off in just 4 plays going down the field and we leave guys wide open all day, I can already see Brandin Cooks going off on us. The Pats receivers are speedy and fast, and our defense is terrible.

I won't be shocked if NE drops 50 on us....Our defense is that bad. It's the same story every year. If it's a shoot out, then NE will have to run the score up to 50 on us. 

Half of Twitter tonight is saying Peterson needs more carries....

This game didn't upset me. I kinda expected it...have had a bad feeling for weeks. But to see Saints fans defend this guy for child abuse, it just makes me so mad and then they say he needs more carries. 

It's a hard pill to swallow, but it's the truth - "nothing has changed" defense is still making QB's look like Steve Young or Peyton Manning. You can be a crappy washed up backup like Sam Bradford, and have the best game of your career against the Saints. 

I am soooooooooo looking forward to next week when our defense makes Tom Brady look like he's 30 years old again, and hell, given how much we give up pass interference calls and don't cover receivers, Brandin Cooks might actually look like Randy Moss against us....

Peterson can F off and so can all the * fans who have spent all summer DEFENDING HIM to the point they were defending child abuse...I hate my fan base so much sometimes...We have spent YEARS making fun of Adrian Peterson for being a fumble machine in the NFCCG, and then all it took was signing him and they turned into devote defenders of him...they talk about him like he was wrongfully convicted of murder, it's absolutely mind numbing and headache inducing listening to our fans defend child abuse just cause he plays for the Saints now....

This is the same damn fan base who hated Kenny Stills cause he had tattoos, and used to say every week "he looks like a thug" but they've been defending Peterson who wasn't even a guarantee to work out for us. Kenny Stills at least was good with us and has turned into an awesome wide receiver in Miami. 

Wow, Twitter and Saints forums are bad today. 

Screw Peterson. I didn't like that signing the minute it happened cause it just spelled doom with him playing his former team. 

But I hope we release him or trade him just so I don't have to hear Saints fans every week defend him...Omg, they went from making fun of this guy for years, to turning around and defending child abuse. Screw this team and our fans...

Don't feel sorry for us, cause with our fans defending a child abuser, yeah, we deserved this...I'd rather have Colin Kaepernick as a backup than Peterson...I'm not a big fan, but he didn't arrested for beating the crap out of children. 

It's not worth even getting mad over...I'm not paying close attention anymore. Might go play Doom for an hour for stress relief. 

https://twitter.com/BnGreview/status/907410902915452928

I love this 

I hate losing to Minnesota though...god, I hate this team so much...If they went 0-16, I'd never feel any sympathy for them. 

Losers...whiny losers...can't even lose in the playoffs without some excuse. Always the refs, or a kicker, or Bountygate or steroids or something. They've been babies about losing since the 70's...I'd feel better if it was Dallas or GB mopping the floor with us to be honest...Losing to the purple babies is degrading...