Six of us. Started in 2014 when three of us worked at a place that does not exist any more, and it has run ever since with nobody deciding it should. Weddings, a funeral, a lot of arguing about the third quarterback.

In 2022 two of them stopped posting in it. No announcement. One said one thing about the trade and then stopped answering on Sundays, and after a while we stopped tagging him because it felt like we were making him say something.

Tonight at 4:38 the second one typed in it for the first time since March 2022. He wrote the score. 54-14. That is the whole message. The four of us who never left have put about two hundred messages under it and he has not typed again and none of us are asking him to.

I do not have a point. I have been sitting here since six.

Every Sunday for twenty six years I have watched this subreddit find a reason. Every one of them was real and every one of them was gone by Halloween. So, in order, before anybody prints a shirt.

1. Jacksonville are 0-2. Tampa Bay are 0-2. Our two opponents have not beaten anybody, including each other, and we have not played a team with a winning record.
2. Tampa have now allowed 86 points, most in football. Todd Bowles has refused to hire a defensive coordinator for five years and calls it himself. We hung fifty four on a defense that is currently the worst one in the league by its own numbers.
3. We were 5 for 13 on third down. Five. In a fifty four point game. It did not matter because we went 4 for 4 on fourth, and that is not something you get to keep.
4. 29 carries, 84 yards, 2.9 a pop. One man. Vea had ten tackles, six for loss, a sack and four hits on the quarterback while taking on two and three blockers. Johnson, Brailsford and Jenkins were beaten for the second straight week and Jenkins is paid like a solution.
5. Both of our tackles were left alone and both were fine, which is the one thing on this list I cannot argue with, and I have tried.
6. $117.6 million of dead money is on this cap, will be there in December, and is why the middle of that line looks the way it does.
7. Carolina beat Atlanta by a lot and comes to our building on Sunday. Then Pittsburgh on a Thursday. Ask me again on the second of October.

Before I typed any of this I opened a ticket site and looked up October 1. Upper corner, three seats together, and I sat there until the page timed out on me. I did not buy anything. I looked.

Edit: point five is being read as me being positive. It is not. It is the one thing I could not find a hole in.

Standing disclaimer. I am a guy with a laptop and the broadcast angle, and half of what I am about to say is me guessing at what people were told to do from where they ended up standing. If somebody who knows this comes in and takes it apart I will be pleased rather than annoyed.

First nine minutes. Savage is in man on the outside on basically every snap I can find and the safety help goes the other way twice. On the 36 yarder there is nobody within fifteen yards of him. On the 87 he loses inside and then misses the tackle at the thirty five, so a bad rep turns into all of it.

From Tampa's fourth possession on, three things look different. Savage is playing off, seven or eight yards, turning his hips to run instead of sitting on the route. The safeties stop rotating before the snap and start rotating after it, which is why Mayfield's eyes go to the wrong place on the first pick. And there are four or five snaps where everybody stands in the same spot and then two men walk out and a linebacker walks in.

Two sacks all day and I counted somewhere between eleven and fourteen real pressures, with Mayfield sliding the protection the wrong way about half the time. Schwesinger comes free twice from the same alignment on two different calls.

They made everything look the same and then made him wrong afterwards. I do not know the name for that and I would like to.

The Triple Option, six a.m. Four questions, a little over nine minutes. This is the part everybody is screenshotting:

"But that's not the job. Rob. That is not the job. That's three and a half hours. The job is the other hundred and sixty-four, and nothing in this man's life has put him near the other hundred and sixty-four."

And this is what is being cut off it:

"Outstanding. They quit playing man, they put people over the top of everything, and then they made him throw underneath it for two hours, and he did. That is elite in-game work. I'd love to know the name of the man who did that, and I'll bet you anything he's fifty-some years old and has had his family in five states and you have never heard of him. Somebody in Cleveland is a heck of a football coach."

He also said he hopes we get a football team and that he has never met the man. Both halves are on the same tape.

Eleven days. Pittsburgh, our building, national television, a Thursday night, and Denzel Ward comes out of that tunnel in the wrong colours having been paid for with two of their first round picks.

I have been doing this since 1979 and I have never had a game on my calendar this early. I did the shopping this morning and thought about it in the car park.

We have Carolina on Sunday first and they beat Atlanta badly and I have not thought about them once. That is a problem, I know it is a problem, and I am going to keep doing it.