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That’s not near as shocking as missing the playoffs so many times. Mediocre teams get in regularly

Not exactly going out on a limb there. Of course the missing link between he and the incident would be the actual person that did this, IF McCoy is involved.

Well, that and the company was doing terrible, right? If he was still making everyone in the room millions there’s a good chance that the comment never gets to social media and becomes weaponized

He’s also been doing that voodoo child encore for 20 years... he needs to find a few more ways to freshen his act up, as talented as he is.

It seemed like for a minute he was trying like hell to cross over — changed his image, music got a little more mainstream rock, but was probably his weakest era. Being a musician and being marketable are two different skill sets and he’s off the charts musically but meh on putting the package together. In music circles he will always have a large following but likely never get out of those large theatres as someone else mentioned

And costs schools nearly nothing to offer

Yup- front four rush and mlb is like a DT stuffing runs instead of lineman eating blockers for a second level blitzer.

Which part upsets you more? Not being able to use an epithet, or not being able to get upset?

Best advice there is.

Well, yea, which is why I made the distinction between different 43 schemes and did not say he would’ve been successful here. that said, for the low compensation we got- id say I’d keep him on a rookie deal as depth. But not losing sleep.

Or a schwartz style 43 scheme where mlb is a run stuffer instead of sideline to sideline

::eye roll::

I won’t pretend to be an expert in statistics, criminology or day to day life as a black man. but I think there’s compelling data out there that the war on drugs found us kicking down inner city doors while conversely finding a health epidemic in the suburbs.

Insightful

For some reason I suspect you’d still be pretty upset.

From enthusiastic first ballot to merely unquestioned first ballot?

Lets be real... if pics came out of Kaepernick kneeling in a concourse of a baseball stadium - the outrage would be still be enormous. Non-violent possession charges would generally be considered so by me. i haven’t read this specific article/slide deck closely but at a glance it appears to cover roughly what I was saying. Just among the first to pop up with a search of “drug arrest statistics by race” which gives a ton of content reflecting that usage tends to be similar but arrests widely disparate between races for non violent drug arrests. https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers

One might call “lining pockets” instead of using for public good a misuse.... but in full transparency I didn’t expect a consistent and coherent message beyond “activism, bad- merica good” based on our past interactions. Feel free to outline in any detail what you think the $3.5m in seed money for the project will end up going towards. I’ll contribute that unrelated to this specific fund - I’ve seen a variety of playgrounds and after school programs sponsored by the league the last few years in my own city. Which is more good than bad in my opinion. Saving the world? No. But for the modest funds in each city I think having some extra resources for you can help a little. I don’t know how so many inner city people are in jail over non violent petty drug offenses if police are scared to go into these communities over drugs. Do the wait for them to come out to the burbs to nab them?

Do I think most judges wake up thinking “can’t wait to imprison some black people?” No. Do i think judges, and juries and police are subject to biases that negatively impact that minorities more than middle class white guys? Probably in general. heck, I recently saw a study on sentencing the Monday following the local football teams wins and losses and by golly if the saints won you were probably going home to your family sooner across a variety of apples to apples charges being compared. I say that to point out that these are all humans that can and will make unfair decisions based on influences that they may not be conciously thinking about. Its a fair question. A hard one to quantify but absolutely a fair question. And if the crime rates are relatively similar early on, do you then see issues like once in the system you are more likely to see more issues with the law in the future contributing. like is suburban sally smoking weed at a party as likely to see criminal charges as her inner city counterpart dabbling after school? It’s hard to study and pull apart all the factors but there’s compelling data that the war on drugs has been much harder on one community while usage is not wildly different

They certainly accepted advertising dollars- like they would from most willing advertisers. Why should the nfl be the charitable recruiting arm of the military anyway?

How about you show us the misuse of funds that you insist is happening?

Assuming you don’t mean the 3 pointer in the playoffs our last 4 averaged a whopping 18.75 per game. We would’ve soared to 23rd in scoring. that cherry picking a good month is still solidly below average and our talent level short term is unlikely better... not great.

I’m sure you’ll find a way to credit saban even if he did ? As long as he’s working, I’m not too stressed about where and to be working is a base line, not a celebration.

But with skydiver heading it up, we have a chance at reasonable college football talk, no?

Cooks has a pretty dicey off field reputation. He was dealt by the saints due to attitude issues I suspect he might not have been their type of guy... the saints WRs definitely threw shade at the guy via twitter before and after he left