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Its a big ol country with lots lots of rural states without a city on the coast... if you think it’s a pressing issue

What’s tricky in these is whether they are throwing out points for games in a total vacuum or trying to craft a full season record. id venture if asked to pick individual games scores I’d likely land at a lower total but think that a lot of those would be 60-40 splits where we end up almost .500 despite picking losses across a lot of them (if that kind of makes sense) when projecting the win-loss record I tend to do odds and total that up (40% chance of winning a game being 0.4 wins in my total prediction). Some years the gap between the two methods can be pretty wide for me.

For an average team, no he’s not. When you add him, a couple WRs and a rb and he’s replacing a train wreck... well... it’s not hard to imagine they could be relatively average instead of downright terrible. It’s practically small new offense, so YOY comparisons only go so far.

After 20 years of each... and with them fielding a HOF qb and us with our group... it’s not like they are being mean girls or super lazy. They have been batting a pretty good average with that set of predictions

Nashville has gotten very hot as a destination- it’s replaced New Orleans for a lot of people looking to hit the southeast without doing a beach

Its good to check the boxes that can be checked in practice but certainly doesn’t mean you will succeed. I like to think that the odds of the guy that aces a test like this are a bit better than a dude that fails it though

Im just worried that if he’s watching here that closely that his twitter monitoring might be slipping. Someone could’ve slipped in with a fresh thread while he was busy defending a win from a month ago

I cant see it. Can someone please explain what’s in the photo?

Impressively quick recall and reply

I think a few people may be taking two bills drive a bit too seriously. A well intentioned dude made an accidental post. im not sure which is sillier - people that genuinely were upset enough to try to teach him a lesson, or him for thinking that type of person mattered. Give him a good natured joke and move on. I know I’m looking forward to the use of the homer drooling responses in future threads

Can we get a ruling on whether this needed a new thread, and if so what board it should be on ?

See @Foxx — they can never steal your identity. We get you here.

Fair question. Until given reason otherwise I tend to start at “probably just happened to find it when playing in the database for something else” on timing for stuff like this. Then follow to “reporter probably thought he’d get clicks” before jumping to ideas like hit piece. But there definitely could be more underlying the motivation. I just don’t give a ton of credit to local sports reporters having grand plans in most cases.

It feels like you went pretty far out of your way to misrepresent the stats. To go so far as to note wentz sat some 4th quarters in order to create the impression of being genuine.... while at the same time neglecting to mention that wentz threw a total of 48 passes across the first two full seasons that you baked into his total games number... well... that’s the kind of move that brings down the quality of the board and if I were a moderator would get you a conversation on the side Yup- when a guy is crushingit like that but its not showing in either the win total or yardage you have to wonder what the hell is going on... playing really safe, and efficient football from behind isn’t a great situation. He had the stat line of a guy protecting leads not a guy leading comebacks... and unfortunately didn’t have the leads. It’s being unwilling to take a shot to win the game.

The problem is that may actually qualify as a starter on our WR depth chart.

Thats kind of why I was leaning towards “not all news demands action” this is one of those where your own lens about how society handles he said-she said will likely determine what you think of this guy and case. Because of that I encourage both sides to ask some questions, remain open minded, and likely be ready to move on without toooo much noise unless we get a surprise and lots of details come out

Why even post it if you aren’t going to actually share

Just because you don’t know the evidence doesn’t mean the allegations without merit

When you look at top ten picks for the last decade it would be a surprise to see him sit at all and a shock if he sat for any noteworthy stretch

I get why the company makes the choice. But why as fans we pressure it for some offenses is interesting. Obviously if this is a horrific gang rape it’s not the case I’m making this point on behalf of - just waxing a bit hypothetical about the idea of running guys out of the league for off field conduct. On the other bit- yea, we escalate quickly in how we categorize things. 3 annoyed tweets from god knows who and suddenly you see headlines about twitter being on fire with outrage. Media loves to stir people up and we eat it up as a society. It’s easy to say the media sucks but they are just playing to their audiences.

Or he was on twitter, saw the video, and has notoriously poor impulse control.

Not if you win! But you better win.

He shows up and we cut him and eat the dead money? On that note— Ritchie went from nonstop 24 hour a day twitter bender to radio silence. Truly I wonder if something happened, and he’s now trying to put things back together. I’d be interested if a reporter could get any update from him, or his friends/family about what’s been going on with him this offseason

I suppose my take goes a bit like this.... this story is news, or at least on the edge of newsworthy, and fair to report but not all news needs a reaction. Not every story needs an action item from the viewer. We can note that he was accused, indicted, and as much associated story as possible - and simply as individuals decide if that effects our own opinions of him. It’s a 22 year old accusation without a ton of information from the article I read. I don’t think that disqualifies him from coaching 30 year old men to play a game at the situations current state. I think it’s fair for reporters to dig at and question and see where it goes. Ill admit, while I like watching good guys succeed instead of jerks.... at its core I sometimes wonder, how many crimes should disqualify someone from playing or coaching football? If you are too far outside the bounds of society to be in a locker room or on the field- what job are you able to have?

$3 a month is pretty micro. It’s essentially the same concept but choose your paper instead of choose your article.