Patriots Injury News Christian Barmore placed on reserve/NFI again (recurring symptoms)

[Huckleberry1]

Good. The only thing that matters is his health. They should have let him sit for the season instead of bringing him back.

 

[maust]

I am an engineer so more of a performance guy. I have a Harley V-rod, I think it is the best bike ever built. The Japanese and German bikes are too light, I like a solid metal frame and lots of weight. The V-rod is a water cooled V-twin designed by Porsche and put in production by Harley. The bike comes out of 1st gear at 60mph and it is only a 1250. No other Harley or bike like it. A cruiser and racer in one. I bought it in 2008 and never have done any maintenance on it in 16 years other than brakes, tires, change the oil, etc. Amazing bike. The Harley guys would not buy it because it was quiet, cool, no vibrations, and screaming fast. I love it which proves I am outside the mainstream, I like things others don't. Go figure.

I too am an engineer. I'm a classics sorta guy though. In its day nothing screamed quite like a Commando and I formed a lifelong insensate Brit bike passion. The vibrations my body laments now were part of the package back in the day. To this day the Brit bike guys are the most passionate widely varied and 'out there' collection of riders you'd ever want to meet but to a man they're all good with a wrench and (often by neccesity) talented with primitive electrical troubleshooting. In addition to the Norton I've still got a BSA and have owned Triumphs and Enfields along the way.

The Wings came out of finding my long distance rides involving too much vibration and far too much wrenching. I wanted something affordable, quieter, comfortable and reliable on longer hauls. There weren't all that many distance oriented cruiser bikes that fit that bill in the 70's. The BMW's weren't affordable, were on the light side for cruising as well as a bit idiosyncratic and the Harleys of that era were anything but reliable. I bought an original GL in '76 and slapped a Vetter and some bags on it (2 decades later I bought it back and still have it). I've owned several incarnations of Wing since, for comfortable and reliable cruising they can be equaled but not beaten. I've got the Norton when I want to tear things up and its as old school cool and good at it as ever. It's also an undeniably beautiful machine in its own right.

Harleys have never been a particular passion of mine. For the longest time they just were not reliable enough, I spent enough time working on the Brit bikes as it was. You're V-Rod being a notable exception, their tech always lagged a bit behind as well. Still, they are handsome machines and from time to time the right deal (death, devastation and divorce) on the right shiny one would pop up and I couldn't resist the combo. I'd ride them a season or two and made money on every one of them but the one I was on when I got hit.

And yes, that you are somewhat outside the mainstream has occured to me.
Life would be dull if we were all the same

 

[Zuma]

I am an engineer so more of a performance guy. I have a Harley V-rod, I think it is the best bike ever built. The Japanese and German bikes are too light, I like a solid metal frame and lots of weight. The V-rod is a water cooled V-twin designed by Porsche and put in production by Harley. The bike comes out of 1st gear at 60mph and it is only a 1250. No other Harley or bike like it. A cruiser and racer in one. I bought it in 2008 and never have done any maintenance on it in 16 years other than brakes, tires, change the oil, etc. Amazing bike. The Harley guys would not buy it because it was quiet, cool, no vibrations, and screaming fast. I love it which proves I am outside the mainstream, I like things others don't. Go figure.

I still ride my 1700cc Yamaha Roadstar I bought in 2004. No issues with it really in that time. Probably lucky.

 

[Ring 6]

I'll be happy to that. I am aware that things aren't looking very good this last quarter of the season. It's just that I expected this kind of results even if they weren't hit with so many key injuries. No time now, but, I'll be happy to DM you and have that discussion

Why not have it here?

My first question would be did you expect this kind of season in January or after you saw what they did with hirings, the draft and the $100,000,000 of cap space because I’m sure you thought all those resources would result in some improvement.

I see no positives in the coaching staff of front office. I see one of the worst performances in league history.

On offense we have the QB. I am thrilled with Maye.
The only other players on offense that I would consider league average are Onwenu, Henry and possibly Douglass if you only consider him a WR3.
Stevenson is passable but there are definitely more starting RBs better than him than worse.

On defense Gonzalez is great. White has been a disappointment this year as have both Duggar and Peppers. All are being misused though so cleaning house could help them.
Barmore may never play again. Bentley is flawed but maybe overall league average.
No one else is league average.
Godchaux and Jennings are good run defenders and terrible pass rushers and the run d has been awful any way.

So, nothing positive outside of personnel and a couple of positive players and a few passable ones, way below the competition.

And our injury issues are not worse than league average.