NoSaint

I will preface with hes a great football player, and this probably isn’t worth the ink already spent on it - so no hand wringing here…. But ultimately he decided to show up and be a whole dumpster with her. So he shouldn’t be shocked that he’s getting trashy headlines about his behavior.

im just shocked this hasn’t turned into a name the video thread

I mean, poor behavior will catch you some bad headlines and find you compensating the other party sounds like he should’ve acted better

thank you, sir. while an immediate short term need I can’t help but think that in 4 years when making a decision on this players second contract, tre white will be 31 and finishing his current contract. if you hit on a guy, having that 5 year cycle of a cb getting paid big bucks paired with a talented guy on a rookie deal isn’t terrible roster construction. im not stumping for a cb, or saying you reach for a guy deep on your board- but feels like draft value may likely intersect need, both short and long term, with a premium position

no link or summary. Well done.

i think the browns have accepted that there’s little risk of cutting a cornerstone player after 2-3 years. so they are guaranteeing a little deeper. I mean, what would it take for you to take 40% of the signing bonus as a dead hit to cut a tre white after 3 years? it’s rare that it bites you, and normally foreseeable - I use the Saints after a bitter negotiation with jimmy graham and also giving junior ‘totally crazy’ gallette guaranteed dollars and then moving on a year later as the counter argument to doing it. Also much more the issue they had with cap than Drew’s contract as everyone points to but that’s a different story for a different day.

well, they also had to deal with a full year suspension of their coach, loss of draft picks and quantifiably the most lopsided officiating in the league too….

Wouldn’t you like to know

You stretched really hard on several of those and still had big gaps considering you were looping in darn near any remote connections sure, if a friend he trusts stumps for a guy or gives a behind the scenes positive or negative review it will likely effect his opinion but that’s not noteworthy

I think you are nostalgic on old drafts where like 10 guys got invited and it was a story if you declined.

the only pause I have with Brandt is that (and grain of salt here, I don’t know him well yet alone his circle)… a claimed associate of his came out this weekend and said essentially that he’s been in a sharp mental decline and that it’s shameful to even have him on the air in the condition he is in…. And it did not come off as Monday morning quarterbacking this particular incident but a bit of a longer term power struggle over the last few years between those that care for the man vs those that profit from him

in an interesting twist, it feels like the race to be the most outraged about it has taken away more than the tweet itself did. it would’ve been much cooler if we saw a race to post the coolest human interest stories about Haskins as a “blow back” instead of just trying to be the angriest and loudest to condemn schefter

I am pretty ok with even a simple acknowledgment that it’s not a great tweet but of all the things to crusade about….

I think there’s a difference between giving up and not thinking you can reliably count on the guy. He could step up but if I told you singletary gets hurt in the playoffs, I doubt you are betting the house on moss carrying the load

The guy puts out metric tons of content live and on Twitter - often breaking the news and not just reframing someone else’s report. Some will be imperfect. It’s not like he trashed the guy in any type of over the top way. He acknowledged that the guy was a great collegiate player but still trying to catch on in the nfl. Is it really worth getting out the pitchforks and torches or is it a little bit less consequential? who among us has a history without some sort of ill executed but non malicious mistake

I think his age may be very relevant as I’ve seen commentary that he’s been in substantial mental decline. I can’t say I’ve listened to him meaningfully to have an opinion but it was striking comment to be shared. Just like granting Haskins some humanity, we may later think back similarly on Brandt.

because that’s what was happening here…

If that’s the goal there’s no reason to race - can base your message on whatever the story actually is.

while you don’t see common sense in his actions, my point was you could consider applying it to your own speculation with just slight changes in a basic story, you probably cover about 98% of the possibilities did he feel unsafe on the shoulder or did he worry he’d get in trouble for some reason if he stayed (impaired, weapon or drugs around, etc…) did he somehow mess up his crossing (trip, slip, poor timing) or did the driver have shared culpability (distracted, impaired, otherwise reckless) No I can’t rule out that he flew to Florida to work out with teammates and surprise them by running into a highway to commit suicide, but it’s such an unlikely possibility that it’s hardly worth mentioning unless or until something even remotely opens that door.

let me know what your investigation into this pressing matter reveals and what you’ve learned from it. If putting everything on the table, could be aliens dropping him there too in addition to the speculation around suicide or some high stakes thrilling game of frogger. in the meantime, I think we are safe with a bit of Occam’s razor and common sense out of the gate while letting the facts develop. If it goes an unexpected way, we will be bound to hear about it and get all kinds of grizzly details to learn from.

yup- surely there’s some investigation going on and the police and news agencies are going to be a bit conservative on what they release until things are firmed up. I’d venture within a couple days we will get most of the meaningful info and based on lack of sensational leaks coming out it’ll probably be a sad, but unspectacular, story of every day life sometimes going terribly awry.

Umm…

I think the articles are just parroting the verbiage of the initial police reports as there isn’t much color context in the official statements from the local PD that they are working off.

yea, I was picturing some highway stretches I’ve been on with terrible shoulders and walled off stretches where I can’t say staying put is safe… but can’t imagine crossing that either, hearing your description.

I mean, I think you can create some sort of simple narrative where sitting on the shoulder is also very unsafe, but you might not have a way to get off the shoulder nearby on your side so a guy might roll the dice to cross. It’s not so incredibly unbelievable someone might do the math that way (not that we know that’s what happened)