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.680 winning percentage as a starter overall, .723 since his rookie year. Yeah, he can’t win consistently as a passer.

You totally misunderstand my post. I mean that nothing is more American than voicing dissent and advocating for change while others voice their dissent against that, thus there is nothing non-patriotic in rooting against a team whose stars are advocating for something you disagree with. That’s as American as can be, especially in today’s 24/7, mass dissemination of of opinion age. Patriotism has nothing to do with any of it in my view. People exercising their 1st amendment rights to voice their opinions is foundational to our democracy. Again, as American as it gets.

The idea that the NBA/WNBA pay imbalance is at all analogous to the USMNT/USWNT is beyond absurd and demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the economics involved.

They made mention of Diggs’s drop precisely because it’s so rare.

Oh the humanity!

There’s a line between complaining and seeking change for what you believe in. How thin that line is depends entirely on your viewpoint. Regardless, whatever a woman’s soccer team does or doesn’t do is no skin off my ass or yours. There are countless issues for us to be indignant about. Sorry, but women playing a kid’s game just doesn’t rise to that level for me. Your mileage may vary though.

Sounds like “just shut up and dribble” to me. I never got the feeling they hate America in the least. I get the feeling that a few of their stars have used their platform over the years to sound off on certain issues and those opposed to their politics just can’t tolerate that. Ironically, nothing is more American than that. Especially in today’s public discourse.

Just shut up and dribble, right?

It’s nice if a CB is able to turn a running play into the pursuit or come up and make a tackle or two when needed, but if you’re relying on your CB to set the edge you have big problems with your defense.

I’m a glutton for punishment.

Yep. Some of us were engaging in the D&C Bills forum, including Scott, before TBD was even a gleam in his eye.

Has ran?

Not with those 32 inch arms.

Open field blocking skill is a must have for all receivers. It is critical in establishing a dominant run game and screen game, particularly.

Nice to see Josh building their confidence.

I seldom get caught up in stats, but you made the declaration that they wouldn’t be a top 10 defense, which is a stat based argument. How else do you quantify a ranking? I’d be interested in that. That said, while we’ve been a top tier defense statistically under McD, I’ve never thought of us as a dominant defense that can dictate games on the field. Then again, few teams can do that nowadays, if any, really.

We were a top 6 defense last year and that was without our starting secondary playing a single game together. 2nd in points per game 5th in rushing yards per game 6th in total yards per game

Yep. I see Leonard as a pass rush specialist with Groot sliding down next to Oliver on those downs.

Same here and I would have bet money on it. He had a difficult enough time coming back from the less severe injuries like high ankle sprains, but the ruptured achilles early in the 2020 season proved to be too much. He was just never the same athlete after that. I give him credit for trying though.

I get that we live in a super saturated information age, but sometimes I really miss the slower roll of the news from training camp when you’d get the TV reports in the evening and the beat reporters’ and columnists’ stories the next day and in much greater depth. Now it’s an endless flood of stream of consciousness twitter blips and endless pearl clutching by the multitudes, some of whom actually believe you can discern much of anything meaningful in open practices at this stage of the preseason.

We had a budget surplus, but there was still trillions of dollars in government debt back then.

Looking at the series of pics, I’m not convinced Brown got beat by Groot in the least. The entire sequence took place within five yards and Brown looks to be engaged from beginning to end. If he was beat by move in the first pic, he had recovered nicely by the time the second pic occurred and was still locked up with Groot in the last pic.

Wasn’t exactly unexpected as it was a rematch of the 2019 final when we beat Netherlands 2-0. The Dutch are always a legit contender.