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As an American, I could care less. As a conspiracy theorist, it's a clever distraction to keep the heat off the royal family and the stable of pedophiles in its ranks. As Princess Diana, Julian Assange and Jeffrey Epstein found out, the British will go to absolutely any length to protect the monarchy.

I don't understand guys like Dante Fowler. I know..."money" but why leave a team and system where you had the most success in your career? Doesn't that mean anything?

I agree. I'd only add that cheerleaders are traditionally the community ambassadors for the team and that NFL cheerleading is a pinnacle of excellence in the dance profession, even to a higher degree than being in music videos and being selected as a dancer for musician tours. It's an industry in itself. To be selected for an NFL cheerleading spot, not only are you likely an excellent athlete but you also dance professionally. You can't sweat or look like you are huffing and puffing through routines. Teams have gotten away from squads that consist mostly of models because there's no guarantee they are going to be able to execute the more complex choreography. Models can look pretty but be completely out of shape. Dancers have dancer bodies and they are trained to dance.

While I understand her approach, I strongly doubt the Falcons will pick Paye at #4. That's like drafting Takarist McKinley all over again. I think they will draft Matt Ryan's successor. This draft is probably scaring NFL teams to death with so many players opting out from last season. Are they out of shape? Did they over-condition where they will tear an ACL in short order?

We are going to see a lot of teams cutting solid players this season as they penny pinch. However, there is opportunity for both players and new teams in signing incentive-laden deals or 1-year prove it deals and enter FA next season where there may be more money.

Props to the OP for the thorough work in writing the post.

I think the sexual harassment allegations gives him an easy out. It's little coincidence that started warming up as questions about the nursing homes gained a little traction. I don't think he knew about the cover up personally and he's refusing to go down for it. He's in self preservation mode. I'm sure the plan is to resign well before any in-depth investigation into the nursing homes begins and there will be a concerted effort to "move on" and get back to normal. Why? I think the fatalities at the nursing homes are significantly higher than what's been revealed to date, there were things done not in accord with the law, and somebody will need to go to jail for it.

The first question in the algorithm should be "Is he healthy? (Y/N)" This isn't the year to give out rich contracts to seriously injured players. I'd argue no year is great for that, but this is a penny-pinching year where the dollar will be stretched to breaking point.

There is no reason for the Bills to pursue him. For any team that would want him to be QB1, he's in Cam Newton territory. He will play at a very high level for games 1-4 before re-injuring the repaired body part. He would be an ideal QB2, for say Green Bay where the entire season rides or dies with the health of Aaron Rodgers, and Rodgers would not be intimidated with having a former #1 overall and long time starter hanging around.

Called that one. Time for a casino trip.

I feel for Hunter. Neck injuries take years off your career. (Chris Spielman, Eric Wood come to mind.) You can repair a herniated and ruptured discs. The surgery is absolutely incredible, light years from where it used to be. However, there is always the reality of chronic pain and re-injury for just regular people who don't happen to be DEs in the NFL. The human spine and back are like the frame of a car. Once you mess with it, it's never quite the same, nor quite as strong. I'm wary of signing players to hefty contracts who have had the unfortunate reality of being injured in such a way that it can be easily aggravated and generate the type of debilitating pain that makes you want to quit playing.

Still believe it's Arizona.

It'll be a 3.9 year study. If re-elected, an 8.1 year study.

This is a warning shot across the bow of the country when it comes to not freezing to death. Regardless of which camp you sit in on climate change, you always need reliable standby fuel sources and *a lot* of it. Coal and nuclear power continue to save the day in the northeast and people don't even notice. When demand goes up, guess what fires up? Whatever coal plants and nuclear plants we have left when the natural gas pipelines can't generate the pressure. Pennsylvania contributes a significant amount of production towards the grid on the eastern seaboard. With each coal plant that closes and each generating station that gets decommissioned (Three Mile Island just closed), you lose that crucial standby energy for your cold snaps and heat waves. Natural gas, wind and solar can't do it and probably won't, even if you go to great lengths to winterize the infrastructure. I don't agree with Bill Gates on 99% of his opinions and projects but I do agree that the United States needs to design next generation nuclear power plants so that they could take the place of some of the coal plants. The Texans are paying the price of complacency and being cheap. ERCOT got lazy, fat and happy and wasn't doing nearly enough worrying as they should have been. They didn't think Texas could ever, ever get snow?

Pittsburgh is the last place he is going to go. He's not going to steal his brother's limelight. My guess is he will sign with the Arizona Cardinals.

This all has happened before in 1976. All of it. The lockdowns are a new wrinkle in 2020 but otherwise, the big vaccine push feels familiar. The government's 1976 swine flu immunization program even had it's own Dr. Fauci "personality." The government, healthcare infrastructure (and media) don't care about the couple broken eggs in making the omelet. They know there will be broken eggs. They expect deaths and disabilities as a result of vaccine administration. It just sucks if you end up being one of those broken eggs. Nobody is coming to rescue you. They learned from that experience and that's why you have blanket immunity, vaccine "court" and the all to routine 100% denial that a vaccine could ever possibly harm you past a sore arm.

A team might get one solid year out of a 30 year old TE that's had some pretty serious injuries. This is a young man's position, Gronkowski SB glory aside. The Eagles are overvaluing both he and Wentz at the moment.

I don't know what NY has in regards to recall or "impeachment" of governors, but I'd offer what Cuomo did is a really good reason to do it. That's a serious dereliction of duty to your citizens IMO. I understand that any public servant that finds time to write a book during a crisis is no great public servant to begin with. I doubt he's the only one that did it. In PA, the governor did the same thing by pushing COVID+ patients into nursing homes and PA's coronavirus data is a complete disaster and the state fights tooth and nail on FOIA requests. The state's former health secretary, the one the media can't heap enough praise upon, pulled her own mother out of a nursing home before that policy she recommended, was enacted. The problem in PA is that she's now working in the Biden administration and the term-limited governor is serving out the last two years of his term. I think when the dust settles, that decision to send those COVID+ patients into nursing homes is going to be considered one of the worst, or perhaps the worst, action the government took in response to the pandemic, even more egregious than the arbitrary use of lockdowns and business restrictions.

It is a big psychology experiment on persuasion and control. I think there's a large segment of the American public that will wear however many masks they are told to wear and take however many vaccines simply because Dr. Fauci thinks it's a good idea and they "feel" he's a stand up guy. The media has propped this guy up as the beacon of all that is honest and truthful when in fact he's a lifelong government bureaucrat. It will be interesting to see how people react when everyone is told their two-shot vaccine that they fought for, drove out of their way for, waited in a long line for, is no longer good enough, and you need to go back out there and do it all over again. So a year from now, you're wearing three masks and have four immunizations of experimental mRNA technology swimming around your body.

It's a buyers market this year and probably next year. I think teams are going to be very conservative until the league is confident fans can resume attending games in person. 3/4 of the league may be in yard sale mode.

That truly borders on satire. "Should we see if they will do it, just for fun?" -conversations inside the CDC Multiple masks....multiple vaccines....

Don't think for a minute teams always hire the "best" candidate or GM. They don't. They are often manipulated and steered to certain candidates by consultants and coaching agents. In no universe, including all of the parallel ones where strange things happen, has any NFL team said they were lucky to pick Adam Gase because he was the best choice. Juan Castillo's agent is the greatest agent of all time in any sport. There is absolutely no one better at accomplishing the mission of getting their client a job. That man has been a nightmare of a coach at so many professional stops yet gets jobs with ease, sometimes the very next year after being fired.

Yet "we" don't seem to be as interested on fixing those. Spend anytime in any store and you're right - 6 out of the 10 people you'd first see upon entering are probably going to be obese. The parents are going to obese and their kids likely are too. You'd think with how COVID preys on the vitamin deficient obese body, you'd see a push not only for checking vitamin levels, healthier eating and getting out and getting a little exercise, but a push to get folks into medical/bariatric weight management programs. There is help out there.

He's a priority to resign.

I don't get why you'd leave a job in a successful NFL franchise for a job in a college football purgatory.