Rob's House

On a rational level I wouldn't blame him as a person at all, but as a fan I'll hate him forever if he walks away from a competetive offer.

I don't know that I see him w/ the Pats*, but if he does I bet he doesn't pull any of that tough guy crap w/ Bellichick.

Stop cramping Captain Hinsight's style. If Troup doesn't develop a back injury AFTER being drafted who knows what we're saying about him. And if Gronk was drafted instead & spent the last 3 years on IR you guys would be cussing Buddy for drafting a guy w/ a history of health problems.

Clabo's a perfect example of fans overvaluing a player. There were people on this board adamant about paying him $10 mil/yr & he signed for half that. Not sure I agree w/ the WR theory, but that's a side issue. The main point is if you start overpaying for talent you end up with mediocre talent and little room to improve.

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/5325/louis-vasquez This is why Andy Cialis isn't worth $8+ mil/yr. Louis Vasquez is only looking for $6 mil. Now Andy may be marginally better, and the continuity has some value even if the line is about to learn a new system starting this year, but how much more production are you getting for the $2-4 million difference? $2-4 million could be the difference between Dwayne Bowe and Robert Meacham. Plus Vasquez could probably beat Levitre in a fight.

No doubt. If someone actually is getting screwed over I'm all about righting the wrong. Despite my avatar line I'm actually very moved by a sense of justice. That's what's guiding my chosen career path. A few places I part with the pop-culture mass is 1. if someone is treated wrongly I don't too much care if it was racially or ethnically motivated. If someone shot me to steal my car I'm not relieved to know it wasn't racially motivated, I'm just pissed I got shot. 2. I view people as individuals instead of groups.

I'd imagine you could get Bowe, Jennings, or Wallace for somewhere in that ballpark and not have to burn a pick. Whatever attributes Harvin may have on any of those guys he more than makes up for in injuries and attitude.

I'm sure I responded to this. Not sure if it was deleted or lost into the nether regions of cyberspace. Basically, my commentary is simply a reaction to the insane fixation that the culture has taken in regards to racism. I'm not so much offended as I am throwing their b.s. back in their faces. What offends me are the real world consequences that flow from this irrational fanatacism (not necessarily the Redskins, but generally speaking). I also get a kick out of pointing out how all the people who think they feel so strongly about this issue are really just emotionally programmed to feel the way they do. They think their values are deep seeded and meaningful, but they're really just a product of conditioning and association (associate feelings of atrocity with racism and voila) just like Pavlov's dogs, and have no rational basis for their feelings, yet they feel so passionately about it as though this bogus value is an integral part of their identities.

Netflix is great. I don't even subscribe to cable anymore. Between network TV and Netflix I'm set. And for $8/mo you can't beat it.

That's around what I was thinking. Giving him much more than that seems foolish to me. I get the concept of continuity on the line, but if you're going to replace a guy, year 1 of the new regime seems the time to do it. Also, $8-10 mil to me is the kind of money reserved for a difference maker. I value Levitre, but I don't know that I value him to that tune. Not when you consider what you could get in FA for that kind of money.

I don't normally take that long

This looks like your handwriting: What do you have to say for yourself?

I just read it again; I'm not sure how I missed the irony. Work must be giving me tunnel vision.

I could be wrong, but I think he's saying that people should buck up a bit and we shouldn't all **** our pants at the prospect of someone being offended over something that's not that big a deal in the first place.

All I see from you is heavy moralizing and holier-than-thou condescension with nothing to back it up. Do you have anything to refute my "sophomoric" commentary or just more empty rhetoric? Or maybe calling out a grammatical error after it's been corrected is all you got? Those people are dead

What is it with you people. Why do you take life so seriously?

You seem very negative. Perhaps now that your s/n is ripe for the changing you could switch to Nancy.

I remember when pizzaboy was cut there was an outpouring of admiration on the board for him. I don't know if he's a philanthropist off the field or something, but all I remember is he was an undersized LB who backed up Poz and was a significant drop off. When you're a significant drop-off from average you can't be very good.

Thanks for the reminder. Sometimes I forget.

:lol: OMFG!! It's like skit comedy and they're not even joking.

They called the **** poop!

What would I learn from these books that would change my stance? And I probably am more offended than anyone else because I'm the only person in this thread making a rational argument. The race crowd has cried wolf so many times that when I hear someone cry racism there is a strong presumption that the person making the claim is full of ****. And that's because during my lifetime the overwhelming majority of allegations of racism have either been overblown or outright bogus.

cry me a !@#$in river. And spare me the bull **** about how if we stop crying like a bunch of pansies everytime someone says something that might be vaguely construed as mildly offensive if looked at through a microscope and decoded, then it's going to lead to genocide. Somehow I think there's a happy medium. And no, it's not about being respectful. You guys want to worry about people getting offended, let me tell you what offends me: people throwing around "respect" like it's something you're given rather than earned. I don't have any respect for people who unthinkingly follow the leader - and that's most people. Our default isn't disrespect; the default is political correctness. The default is status quo. The default is whatever the TV tells me to think and whatever values the TV says I should have. The default is to be too stupid and unaware to realize it.

Why cut him? Why not get another TE and have 2 receiving TE's? (you are allowed to do that in the NFL). And why the hate for Lee Smith?

Sure, racism can be a problem. See Rwanda. The problem here is, people look to historical atrocities done on the basis of race or ethnicity and project the outrage they have toward that on simple everyday things that have little to no significance. When people are outraged over the audacity of having a white guy doing a Jamaican voice I think it's clear the anti-racism train has gone off the tracks. It's just a matter of perspective and our current culture has none. Edit: Also as to this part: You ever heard of viking raids? Should the people whose ancestors were brutalized by the Vikings just sit down and cheer for their glorified oppressors? See how stupid it sounds?