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On 12/2/2024 at 11:52 AM, psuhoffman said:

I am shocked and confused (but interested and willing to listen with an open mind) by the perspective of Ravens fans here.  As a neutral outsider (I neither particularly love but definitely do not hate the Ravens) I view them as a team with a good but not great roster that typically overperforms their talent level over the past 10 years.  This year, they are about where the talent level says they should be.  The talk about firing the coach is crazy to me. 

I did think maybe I was simply missing something and off on my evaluation so I looked at all the pre-season roster rankings I could find from the major publications like PFF, ESPN, Fox sports.  I looked at 8 roster rankings in all and the Ravens were between 3 and 9 with an average of 6.5.  I guess you could argue they are slightly under performing their talent this season since at the moment they have the 9th best record and by talent they should be 6 or 7 but that seems pretty minor, and I think they've had a harder schedule are are playing better in reality than a few of those teams with better records.  

I will admit I don't watch them closely enough and maybe this is due to boneheaded decisions that I just don't notice...but I didn't see anything in the game yesterday that he did that I found egregious or harmful to the team.  They lost because the kicker missed a few important kicks but mostly because the Eagles defense did to them exactly what they've done to everyone all year and the Eagles offense ground them down late which is also what they've done to everyone all year.  And the game ended about exactly how you would expect given the talent on both squads, the Eagles have the slightly better roster and they won a close game.  

What am I missing? 

Only item I would add to this is, this is the first season that Jackson's jumbo contract is in place which affected their ability to adequately fill the holes left by the departures of Clowney and Queen. This will only get worse as his salary expands even further in the years ahead. Unfortunately we may have seen the peak of what the team can do. Honestly, the Commanders are potentially in a much better position in the next few years compared to the Ravens in that they have a terrific quarterback on a rookie contract. That could prove to be a winning combination for teams in the coming years unless rules are changed to bring down the importance of the QB position which have driven up the salaries for QBs on their second contracts to astronomical heights. 

Nothing is sticking, but witnessing the fattest flakes I've seen in the past 4 years in Towson.

Had my first coffee on the back patio without slapping mosquitos morning of the season.

On 10/6/2024 at 9:44 AM, Bob Chill said:

Either way produces actual winter precip and personally, I'd just like to see frozen stuff in general and not get bogged down in the "if only and what if" thought loops. Not to mention how fun this place is when a 3" snowfall produces unhappy bitter posts 4x1 over those who are just happy it snowed. I'm starting to think that an entire cohort of people only feel good when they are deeply unhappy surrounded by lots of company. Time alive is the most valuable commodity we have. I don't waste those minutes focusing on the negative and my appetite for seeing/hearing it has vanished lol

If you told me up front the number will be 16" for the season, count me in the group that would rather have 8 events of 2" snowfall rather that 2 events of 8" snowfall.

If you're in the I95 corridor watch for slowing of the storm correct? The more it slows the more it will be pushed east and the more it speeds up the more it pushes west?

Next question, is the line behind it going to fizzle after sundown? I suppose that at least the cooler temps will allow for some watering in the early morning without fear of it instantly evaporating.

Looks like a dry slot is forming near Germantown that will go right over Columbia and Baltimore. Man I needed some rain in my yard and looking like almost nil.

I'm not overly concerned about the daytime heat, but the evening heat is killing me. In years past you could always count on being able to enjoy the evenings even when it was oppressively hot that day. This year seems different. 85 degrees at 10pm is unnatural.

With my project management background I try to look at the big picture, and to me it seems like there are micro and a macro trends going on here. The micro trend that the mid Atlantic is warming meaning so called marginal events are more likely to be rain rather than snow is completely plausible to anyone who follows science. That however doesn't explain why places much colder and north of us are having horrible snow winters as well, that seems to be a macro trend that doesn't necessarily have to do with whether it was 28 or 35 degrees here. Seems like when the macro trend resolves itself we'll get our snow here as well as other places, just maybe with a lower baseline to account for the various marginal events per season we'll start to lose out on because of local micro trends in temperatures.

Hence my view that it will still snow here, eventually.

Winter Storm Warning for Baltimore just came through on my phone! First to cave will be Giant, then Weis, then.....

Are the school districts going to catch up here or are we going to be getting 4am texts?

Remember when we complained about how Roman running the ball cost us the playoffs? Those were the days!

Live view of my front yard.

4 minutes ago, Fozz said:

Here here! 

Looks like it’s finally wrapping up but it was awesome while it lasted.

Picked up a quick 0.4” which leaves me with the same exact total as the previous event - 4.4”

Yeah I spoke too soon. Street out front caved in a nanosecond of this. Might get .25 out of this if it lasts another half hour.

10 minutes ago, ThePhotoGuy said:

Any reports from the snow streamer in Baltimore County? Hopefully it holds up for Northern Anne Arundel. 

Coming down hard in Towson with the first fatties of the day. Looks like it's going to come and go to fast to do anything more than provide another coating.

2 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

Watching the local news, and they were covering kids sledding at Rodger's Forge. One parent said when the flakes started falling, her son was outside in shorts and a t-shirt saying "I'VE MISSED THIS" She said the kid had been out there all day and half the night and said "I've been deprived...I'm not stopping! It may never happen again" 

This kid GETS IT 

Apparently my kid was one of them, which station was it, she didn't know?

Getting texts about everything shutting down for the weekend. No rec bball, no travel bball, no music lessons, and nothing to get between me and football!

Just now, SomeguyfromTakomaPark said:

It looks like they’ve already cleared the mountains 

Will they curve or continue SE....

13 minutes ago, WeatherQ said:

University of MD Medical System 

Bel Air MD

Warm and Dry feels like 87F

Heat Index 105F

oh … moderate snow outside 

ambulances getting covered 

 

Being from Texas, I still can't understand why buildings in colder climates are warmed to 80+ degrees. Inside should always be 65-70 tops no matter the season.

Completely overperforming in my Towson micro-climate. That table is snow on snow from Tuesday, such a beautiful sight not seen here for years. 

Just under 3" so far in Towson and really good snow rate coming down right now. 

Baltimore County just called it, no school tomorrow.

Still no word from BCPS, my guess is they're frantically trying to get the union to agree to make the teachers come up with some BS asynchronous content for tomorrow so they don't have to call it a snow day when it's already a 3 hour early dismissal for the end of the marking period. 

19 minutes ago, Interstate said:

Also, the NAM is on a island by itself with the 12Z run with the amount of snowfall.

The NAM obviously knows about this new thread, maybe word hasn't gotten to the others.

26 minutes ago, Interstate said:

They will make it asynchronous learning day I bet.  They do not want to burn through another snow day on a half day.

The official BCPS policy is 4 snow days then asynchronous, not sure they will be able to get around that. They've used 1 day so far.