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It could have been the NBA All-Star game defense. But yeah, pretty much the same thing…

Disgusting.

Dang im going to miss that mass of concrete. A lot of history and memories there.

Thank you Buff I shall avail myself of your kind permission. People IMHO get way too excited by 40 times, especially now a days when a good number of players train specifically for the 40 yd dash. Some training that improves a 40 time is applicable to football, like sprints, plyo, deadlifts. But a good bit of it is "pajama olympics", like training for the best acceleration out of a 3 point stance. Josh Allen ran what? a 4.75 second 40? Pat McAfee said to him his rookie year "I think you play faster than that" to which Josh replied "Thank you, I think I do too". Allen's first couple years were notable for defenders taking bad angles to run him down because he was, in fact, faster (and more nimble) than he looked and than his 40 time led them to expect. Those days are gone. Explosion, cutting ability, and the ability to create deception with body cues are all at least equally relevant and while there is a correlation between fast 40 times and playing speed, it's just a correlation. I think you implied the problem fans have with Coleman in your last sentence there. "He has a lot of room to grow and become a really good football player". The problem fans have, is that being drafted with the Bills first pick, fans expected him to walk in and ALREADY BE a really good football player. Instead, Coleman fits Beane's "type" for drafting at the end of the 1st round exactly - an athletic, high ceiling, low floor guy with a world of potential but also a lot of growth needed to realize it.

So Americans "just won't do" those hotel/restaurant/agricultural jobs? Or those types of jobs shouldn't pay the minimum wage? What is it that made Trump back off on enforcement actions at those worksites?

There will definitely be an attempt. I see seats being liberated too. Maybe a trough or two as well.

Yesh. The intersting thing in this is, realistically there are 3 ways this can play out. The Iranian people seize this opportunity now that the mullahs are weakened and retake their country from them. The Iranians withstand this initial surge, either on their own or via help from Russia and China, Israel ends up significantly weakened and the whole ME ends up, somehow, even more volatile than it has been. Or, at the end of the day, the stalemate between Iran and Israel remains but Iran redoubles their efforts to get a nuke. Seriously high stake gambit Netanyahu took here. And absolutely no idea how it'll turn out. Really hoping it winds up the 1st option because the world get reset in a much better way if the Abraham Accords spread and Iran no longer is the key terror backer. But could easily see it going in a different direction. That the Iranians seem to be asking for the US to step back in and negotiate makes the "good" outcome seem at least plausible.

Yeah, but are they paying for water? That’s what I wanna know.

I'm really not looking at stats at all. And I am taking the supporting cast into account, that's why I have the most recent Super Bowl champion at #11 on my list. Mahomes just hasn't played at the highest level over the past two seasons. Allen, Jackson, and Burrow all got MVP hype last year. The QB of the 15-1 team got no MVP hype at all. That tells you where the national perception is at right now. Part of it is people recognizing that their defense and special teams was the primary engine to that record. And those parts of the team definitely gave him some leeway that the other top 3 QBs did not have, even accounting for his middling supporting cast. I hear you on the clutch factor. I just don't think you can weigh it so heavily that you ignore the QB's play for the other 58 minutes of a football game. If you were weighing playoff football heavier then Jackson might be #4 on the list, maybe even out of the top 4 entirely. But I'm just looking at their play on the whole over the entire season.

Exactly right. I texted a principal friend. Their response: "Yes we are paid by the pupil. The district sets our budget based on average and expected class size. Each Educator is expected to teach a minimum number of student hours per year and the salary is commensurate. This is an internal metric. Teachers do not keep track of these hours and most do not understand how it works... yada yada... If class sizes drop, teacher salaries drop." That is exactly the idea that some in this thread are positing.

If only 😆

And here we are arguing over a parade and protests. Yikes.

Can I blame the victim here?

NOT good humans or good capitalists.

Yeah ask the RB (can't recall the name ) who tore his ACL on a jet ski 2 summers ago. And if I remember right he wasn't even moving at the time?

Absolutely not.

The carrier you mentioned is Nimitz. Transited the Strait of Malacca, (Singapore), and into the Indian Ocean yesterday. That leaves G. Washington, which is docked in Yokosuka, Japan for the South China Sea if need be. Regarding the oil issue, while anything is possible for a couple days anyway, I can't see what's left of the IRCG having any significant impact on the Persian Gulf. They have been decimated, and they have no support in such an action. They have also failed miserably in past attempts to disrupt intl shipping.

Gotta keep the OL happy. Josh knows where his bread is buttered no pun intended

I think part of the reason that WR make so much more money is they can be great with an average offensive line whereas a RB needs a good offensive line. I honestly can only name one good RB in the past 40 years who did it with a poor offensive line, and that is Barry Sanders. I might be missing one but I know plenty of great receivers with poor lines and mediocre QBs.

Have been thinking about Brian today and reading about his life. Many don't know, he suffered from lifelong auditory hallucinations. He was eventually diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder. He suffered abuse at the hands of his father and later at the hands of his therapist, survived years of drug addiction and mental illness, and on-and-off estrangement from his former bandmates. Through all of it, he remained a singular genius. One need only read what OTHER musical geniuses (McCartney, Lennon, Dylan, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Roger Waters, Pete Townshend, Paul Simon, and on and on) have to say about him on his website to realize how truly brilliant he was. Pet Sounds was not only ahead of ITS time, it's probably also ahead of OUR time. It is surely one of the greatest -- if not THE greatest -- pop albums ever recorded. I'll always listen to songs like "In My Room" and "I Guess I just Wasn't Made for These Times" with great appreciation and wonderment and fondness in my heart for Brian. What an ear, what a mind, what a talent.

If thugs are going to attack you in numbers while you’re on the street in your car…… you have EVERY RIGHT to run those fvvvckers over n the name of self defense.

I’m sitting on a beach in the middle of the offseason. What does Ned want to talk about? 🤷🏼‍♂️

That I could get behind also, but ranking our OL would difficult because we have so many good ones.