That's No Moon

Giving Howard more money should fix that right up

Allegedlys

And they are running Breida as a gunner and jammer, that's Taiwan's current role. If Breida can do it, AND play some actual RB Taiwan is expendable and opens a slot for Kumerow who also plays good ST.

This is true, except you are missing the key part of this particular play, Trubisky took the snap and downed the ball from under center. You are forcing the defense to sub off quickly if you end up with a mismatch you like or the defense isn't lined up properly, or if during the subbing one of the members of the offense just happens to stay on the field right next to the sideline (which is legal because they were already on - if they come in from the sideline they have to get to the numbers, if they are already on they can jog towards the sideline and just stop right before the get all the way off). What you saw was the set up for a fake FG, not a setup for a typical end of half FG. The likely outcome from doing something like this is the opposition calls a TO for you. Either that or you score a cheap TD. It's a variation of this play they pulled off successfully in 2008

So, if the NBA hadn't done what they did would you, or anyone else, have mentioned Terrence Clark or the manner in which he died today? Didn't think so.

Defining improvement as success isn't leading to mediocrity. It's leading to improvement. If you are doing that continually, and setting goals for yourself you will achieve the best version of yourself in that discipline. That version may never be world class. In fact, it probably won't, but it doesn't make it not worthwhile. Part of the problem our society has is that is tries to force people to define their success through others. Who has the biggest house, the nicest car, the newest phone, etc. We do it to people all the time. If we are going to tear down an Olympian for setting goals that got him to the Olympics how are we handling everyone else? Let me give you another example. I've coached interscholastic baseball before at a couple different programs. You get a wide variety of kids with different abilities coming in. Part of my job is to assess what the kids can and can't do and help them to address their weaknesses while building on their strengths. Making a ludicrous goal for a kid isn't going to help them get better. It's going to discourage them when they don't see themselves getting close or worse they are going to hurt themselves trying to get to a point they can't get to too quickly. If you have a freshman pitcher who throws 78mph you're not going to tell him "Well Timmy, you need to throw 96 or you're just not going to make it" He's not able to do that. He's not going to be able to do that soon and physiologically he might not do it ever. It's much more productive to set a goal with Timmy that says, OK Timmy, let's work on this this and this to get you stronger and clean up your delivery and if you can add 4 mph by the end of the year that's a big win. Then Timmy does the work and he sees himself getting incrementally better and he's more willing to do the work and he's now throwing 82 and you celebrate that win and set a new goal. At some point Timmy is going to top out. Everyone tops out which is why MLB pitchers don't throw 120mph no matter how bad they want to. If Timmy tops out at 88 and just can't throw any harder than that it doesn't mean Timmy failed. That's the hardest his body will allow him to throw. If Timmy set his goal right away at 96 then Timmy failed and all of that work was a waste of time. If Timmy set his goal to be "let's see how good at this I can become" then he can see it as a success which is better for everyone involved in the long run. The guy that Dressel was talking about set his goal to be "let's see how good I can be and be happy with that" rather than "win or it was a waste". If he'd done the latter he'd probably have bailed a long time before he made it to the Olympics at all. It has to be incredibly frustrating to be that good at something and still continually lose to the Michael Phelps' and Caleb Dressels'.

Maybe he and the Mrs got it done together before she went to Tokyo.

I get what you are saying, but let's say in a sport like swimming you are swimming against the clock. You really aren't even racing other people. You are racing yourself and your personal best time. IMO, this is why you see swimming records fall all the time, swimmers aren't racing the other people in the pool. They are racing to beat that time. They practice to beat that time, not any one individual. Let's say you swim a personal best in your last race and you come in fourth. That's the best you have ever done in your life. You are the fourth best in the world in that discipline. I think you're allowed to call that success. Granted there are other people better than you but you can't control that. You can only do the best that you can do. Most of the people who go to the Olympics don't win any medals. It doesn't mean that that simply going isn't a tremendous accomplishment in an athletic career and that those people shouldn't be able to define that as a success just because they weren't the single person on Earth who won. Even the people who get eliminated in the preliminary heats are often the best in their country at that discipline. I'm not the best in my country at anything. I'm not in the top 3 or 4 or 10 or 100. Are you? Now, if you go, and you don't perform up to your own standard, then that's a different thing. That happens too and it happens for a variety of reasons but if you're going to make it you either win the gold or you've failed then you've missed the point of what the Olympics are actually supposed to be about. I was annoyed with Biles initially, not because she didn't compete but because she was impacting other people. Those people won in her absence. She also withdrew from the individual competition so the argument that it was selfishness went away also. If she doesn't want to complete who am I to tell her to? The only people she has to answer to are herself and her sponsors (who I would imagine are privately pretty pissed off). Getting on Caleb Dressel because he got weepy during the National Anthem after he won the race is just out of line.

While we are discussing the downfall of civilization, I think it's worth noting that the other people on the team gutted it up and won without her.

He's got nothing to lose by seeing it through to the end of camp, the dead money is the same for the Eagles either way. Might as well see if anyone is interested. I think he gets cut at the end of camp but I might be wrong.

Maybe, maybe not. They could have a WC wrapped up and know they are going on the road for example. Also, if he misses 4 weeks and they know they are out of it the threshold goes from 70 - 75% at which point he'd sit the last two games.

He only hit 33% of the targets in that drill.

I love clauses like that. If the Colts are up big in a game you can bet Eason will be seeing the field. If it gets late in the season and the math is super close it will be interesting to see if the Colts will have snap count shenanigans to keep their 1st rounder. Based on last year's play count, and accounting for an additional regular season game, the Colts will run ~1,100 plays this year. Wentz needs to be in ~770 of them to hit the 70% threshold if the Colts are a playoff team, which they probably should be. Last year they ran 64.5 plays a game on average. At that rate, he can miss a little over 5 games. 4 should be ok, 5 starts to get dicey and 6 is probably an issue. If he misses 4 legitimately and week 17 has no meaning for them that gets to be a fun scenario. The Colts would surely sit Wentz to keep him healthy and want to run as many offensive plays as possible that day. It would also matter how many times they brought in Eason to mop up. For example, if they are kneeling out a clock, Eason should be doing that. Say they win 11 games and kneel it out all 11 times, that's 33 snaps. That's about half a game worth of snaps in total and could make a HUGE difference a the end of the year.

I'll take the opportunity to remind everyone that the Eagles have 4.2M dead money if they release or trade Ertz but gain 8.5M in cap space. I will also remind everyone that Ertz would not need to clear waivers and would immediately become an UFA if released. IMO it is EXTREMELY unlikely that Ertz remains an Eagle on week 1. FWIW, they are also rumored to be in on Deshaun Watson. I have no idea how they would make that work, but it's out there. The Eagles IIRC would be adding 10ishM to their cap with Watson on board. Moving Ertz in any fashion clears 8.5.

I dont think the commissioner would approve of his browser history.

It's def slippery when wet

Hopefully. They didn't win anything so there's no reason to be satisfied.

Yeah, probably. It wouldn't be my choice but he probably does.

He really should be number 76 just for the merch opportunities of Bass-o-matic '76 For the children on the board.

Taiwan Jones

The boys have been playing a lot of Tarkov in the off-season and decided to get themselves some SLAAP armor.

The pictures of abandoned softball venues from previous Olympics haven't been a good look. Granted, they play in Japan, but it's not a widely played sport in the grand scheme well, until very recently that wasn't the meaning of goat in sports. Maybe she's reclaiming the word.

I can't afford her.

It was part of the deal that baseball and softball made to get back into the games because they had been eliminated. No new venues for either.