Did you also just learn that a 2011 Ford truck gets better gas mileage than a 1978 Ford truck? Crazy what 30 years will do!

My favorite example of “what could have been.” Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and Keith Moon.

I didn’t really explain it well in my last post. Basically, when he was with the Seahawks and they were doing well, there were a lot of pieces in place that made it happen. Russ’s flaws (mostly his height) weren’t an issue because defenses had to defend against pass, rush and keeper on every play. Even his best pass plays were outside the pocket where he didn’t have to see over 6’5” lineman. He has been a decent pocket passer, but that’s not what he’s best at.

Fast forward to this season. He’s older, slower, less athletic. He doesn’t have a top tier RB. He can’t scramble like he could 7 or 8 years ago. His receiver core is relatively mediocre. And because of all of this, he’s forced to try to make things happen in the pocket. But because all those things that were a threat from the Seahawks just don’t exist anymore, he’s much easier to defend against. His height is now a problem, and we’re seeing he was always just a decent pocket passer.

Add all of this to the fact that he’s pissing off and embarrassing his teammates saying stupid shit like God is testing them. It’s really no wonder he’s not playing well. The flaws he’s always had are being magnified. And it’s obvious that the Seahawks success with Russ wasn’t a case of “Russ is amazing.” It was more a case of, “Right place, right time. Perfect storm of ability across the entire team, and Russ fit in perfectly there.”

Lifelong Seahawks fan here. During that time he was younger and more mobile. He also had one of the best RBs in the league at the time. The Seahawks were one of the hardest teams to defend against because they had one of the most athletic QBs in the league, top tier RB, and a solid receiver core. Russ’s height wasn’t a huge disadvantage because they were running mostly an option offense, and Russ was great at reading defenses.

Russ has been slowing down lately and the Seahawks haven’t had a really good season in a few years. The Broncos traded a good portion of their future and a quarter billion in total cap space for an aging, undersized QB who worked well in a very specific offense at a time when he was in his prime.

When I first heard of the trade I was disappointed but not surprised. The writing has been on the wall for a couple years. When I saw what we got in return, I knew who got the better end of the deal. Im friends with a few Broncos fans and they kept giving me shit and making fun of (now probowler) Geno Smith. I kept telling them they’d have a losing season and wouldn’t make the playoffs, citing the above.

Who’s a bitch now, Brendan!

911 dispatcher here. Most non-emergency lines go to 911 operators. The big difference being the priority at which calls get answered. As well as a few procedural differences in how you handle call hang ups and the need to put a line on hold.

Every center is different. But at ours, we have a “priority answer” button we push when answering a ringing line. If there are multiple lines ringing, it prioritizes first by type of line (911 > non- emergency > internal communication line > other agency “hot lines”). After that it prioritizes by which call was placed first.

And like anything else, every center is different and operates differently. Another local agency used to have call takers that would take all initial calls from the public (911 and non-emergency) and would figure out what was happening, triage the call and then forward to the appropriate dispatcher, but would handle non-emergency calls themselves. I think they recently stopped doing that and trained everyone to do everything.

And while on the OPs topic, yes it’s a good idea to know your local non-emergency number or have it programmed in your phone. But, as a dispatcher, I’d much rather someone call in a non-emergency on 911 than an emergency on the non-emergency lines. There are people that are so scared to dial 911 they’ll call a legit emergency on the non-emergency line and us dispatchers lose some critical information. We only get location information on 911. If you call non-emergency, all we get is regular caller ID. So when in doubt, just use 911.

> In super cold conditions (and I mean like -40°) it's actually recommended to not stop the engine while refueling as the engine oil could freeze in that time and the car not be able to start again.

Can confirm. I lived in Fairbanks,AK for a couple years. And when the thermometer dropped below about -10F, I kept the engine running.

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