NoSaint

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

Id imagine that the team would be obligated to tell the league of a possible rape situation.

I’ll throw in doomtree, Aesop, Noname, and lyrics born as a couple others that slip in my playlists lately along side yours and the post you quoted

I get it and even if Rosen thrives in AZ and Rosen struggles here doesn’t mean the same would happen flipped.... fit is huge. but in this huge hypothetical in the OP, it was concussion plus family money causing early retirement- and that personality didn’t bother them and the thought Rosen was a better player.

Its likewise my hope that they took the player they preferred on the field based on skill.

I would be fine on a tie breaker but if the OP claim that Rosen was otherwise rated higher is true how would you feel?

Great week on this front. That Eddie George painting was almost is excellent

I don’t disagree widely. But think it’s innaccurate to frame it like it was just shuffling picks. I even neglected tyrod in my list of resources given up. Your starting QB, WR1, CB1, and LT is a pretty hefty chunk to obtain draft capital. If you listed the top 5 important positions, add DE in there, and we dealt starters at 4 out of 5 in 6(?) months. I’d guess that’s realitively unheard of... not crazy over the top costs but not nothing either. i also agree that they liked Tre but don’t think they were banking on a historic type of season from him.

if true, and a huge if, it would be a big gut shot to hear the bills passed on a qb that they rated higher as a player, given how rare it is to find one skilled enoughto succeed. that it was his fathers finances in a substantial part seems particularly silly when any guy they draft is getting like $20m guaranteed.