Clockwork Orange, sort of.

The book is all about building up to the last chapter.

The movie does an astonishingly brilliant and brutal job with everything else. And I don’t blame Kubrik for the ending. It fit better for a movie.

But the last chapter is the best part of the book. It was left out entirely.

So it’s an odd situation.

Note: For those who don’t know, the first section of the book is about the MC being a deeply horrible human being because he was basically taught “that’s what life is”.

The second part of the book is where he’s conditioned to be incapable of violence.

The movie is basically the same thing.

But in the last chapter of the book, the character experiences genuine free will. He can choose to be violent or not. It’s genuinely the point of the whole book.

Yet, somehow, the movie is brilliant (and better) without this.

Seems like a good place for the Einstein quote about insanity…

Anyway, since we’re probably losing him after this year, I’ll just say I look forward to the Mahomes to Evans pairing in 2024. (sigh)

I can’t remember what rabbit hole lead me to this, but for QB’s who played at least… I think it was 16(?) games against another team, the most yards per game was Brees vs the Falcons.

Second most was Ryan vs the Saints.

Amazingly enough, of the top 10 such scenarios (passing yards per game against a single team with at least 16(?) games played)…

6 of the top 8 are Brees and Ryan vs the NFC South.

They were dangerous teams on offense for a long time.

I tend to agree… and I’m a little jealous.

Oh, well. At least we’ve had Evans and Lattimore.

It’s not a team rivalry, but those dudes genuinely seem to hate each other.

Bucs lose: I feel bad

Bucs win: coaching staff more likely to stay. So, I… also feel bad