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Thank you. Appreciate it. I didn’t mean for it to sound like I was directing any anger at you or anything like that. I hope it didn’t come off that way. I really sympathize with anyone’s who’s struggled with suicidal thoughts/attempts. Being in such a dark place that suicide seems like the only answer must be a very difficult thing. I never knew until recently that suicide is like the #9 or 10 top cause of death in the US. It makes me so sad thinking about all those people and their families. Thank you. Appreciate it. Yes, he was young (30’s). And yes, totally unexpected. Nobody even knew he was struggling, not even his wife and they were very close. He even made plans with her for that day and was in communication with her and others that day. That’s one of the things that’s made it so hard. It really caught us all by surprise and it’s hard to make sense of. It also makes it hard knowing he never even attempted to get help. I’m doing ok though. A lot better than the first month or two. I know it’s going to take time. edit - my condolences for your losses as well.

I am so glad you both were able to find the help you needed! It warms my heart to hear that. As someone who just lost a close family member to suicide a few months ago, it is absolutely devastating. I can’t even put it into words besides to say It has destroyed our lives. Even just waking up in the morning, knowing we have to get through another day, feels overwhelming. It honestly feels like nothing will ever be the same. It’s like living in a nightmare. We are all in therapy, trying to recover and deal with the PTSD from the events of that day and finding him (it was gruesome, I’ll leave it at that…). Even some of his friends are in therapy. Suicide is a loss like I’ve never experienced before. Any loss is hard to deal with and I am not trying to compare, but it is just so different than any loss I’ve experienced. The questions you are left with that you will never be able to get answers to drive you insane, as does the guilt/remorse. The anger can be overwhelming at times too. I can confidently say that It is not a solution to any problem. It destroys your life and the lives of everyone you love.

so I guess the answer was ‘yes’ after all…

I just edited my post. I forgot I was behind in the game. Lol. I meant that (last?) Barkley TD drive with the TD pass to Patmon at the end. Allen came out and did that celebration with Barkley and it looked like he possibly had a call sheet in his hand. I also saw a radio on his waist line but I rewound and didn’t see him wearing a headset so I’m thinking maybe not.

Was Allen calling the plays on that last Barkley TD drive?

Proud of that kid! I give him a lot of credit for this comeback. It has to be kind of spooky playing again and he really didn’t seem to show fear or hesitation making tackles.

That’s exactly what it reminded me of too. 😂

There are still just as many excellent players today as back then, and I would argue they work even harder. Today’s players are in MUCH better shape compared to the 90’s players, where offseason workouts weren’t really a thing. You came to camp to get in shape. There were 90’s era players who even smoked. Today’s players have no real offseason. They train year round. So there’s no need to go back in time… I’d argue that NFL games today are about as exciting ad they’ve ever been, too.

I legitimately look forward to watching Hard Knocks every year. I tried to watch the first episode of this new season last night and ended up turning it off about 1/2 way through. It was just an Aaron Rodgers love fest. 🤮 I don’t know that I’ve ever seen any player get their ass kissed by hard knocks quite like that before. It was also a pretty boring episode from what I watched. I don’t know if I’m even going to be able to watch hard knocks this year if every episode is going to be like that.

NFL network reporting that he’s signing with Detroit.

Can someone post what they wrote about Allen going #1? I can’t read it. It’s behind a paywall.

Man, what a disaster that would’ve been if they had traded the Mahomes pick the year before, then missed out on Allen. Very thankful that didn’t happen! It still kind of hurts knowing we traded that Mahomes pick to Kansas City though. Had he gone to New Orleans at #11 i’m sure I’d feel different. But handing Andy Reid the final piece to his dynasty and knowing we have to go through them every year in the playoffs still stings if I’m being honest, at least until we are able to get past them (and Cincy too). But having Josh Allen sure makes up for it!

I worded my statement poorly but my point was that it smells like a BS front office leak to try and make Taylor look bad after he requested a trade, especially considering that just a couple days before that Jim Irsay said that the team and Taylor hadn’t even exchanged contract offers yet.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/aaron-rodgers-signed-a-seven-year-deal-with-no-voidable-years “Aaron Rodgers signed a 7 year deal with no voidable years”

This coming out right after the reports he requested a trade is very suspicious. makes it seem like a leak from the team/owner (assuming this tweet is even true) and I question it’s accuracy considering that it’s being reported (and more/less confirmed by Irsay) that the colts haven’t even discussed a new contract with him. Irsay just said a couple days ago (on July 27th) that “We haven’t exchanged any contract numbers with each other or anything like that. So, it's not like we're in the midst of that.” https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/38085290/running-back-comment-not-aimed-jonathan-taylor

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I guess if you pay the $8/mo you get to read 50% more tweets a day or something like that. The policy seems to keep changing. But I’ve read of subscribers still having similar issues hitting rate limits. No way am I paying $8/mo for Twitter, especially in its current form (not that I’d have paid for it previously either).

Yes! It’s a PITA. I hardly even go on Twitter yet I still hit my tweet “limit” long before the 600 tweets I’m supposed to be able to read. I can’t even go back more than a few dozen tweets on my own Twitter timeline. I wanted to find a Bills tweet I shared less than 2 weeks ago but couldn’t even do that.

I saw in the foment section of Astro’s article yesterday that he didn’t have tickets for today’s practice but was working on it. I’m guessing he never found a ticket.

I had the same thought but It seems like he did actually give up guaranteed money, at least according to the ESPN article. If this is accurate, it’s very unlike Rodgers. He squeezed Green Bay for every penny. I’d be kind of pissed if I were a packers fan.

https://www.nfl.com/news/justin-herbert-chargers-agree-to-five-year-262-5-million-extension

Yes, he could only sign a 1 year deal. Teams are very limited in what they can do with franchise tagged players once the deadline to negotiate a long term deal passes (Jul. 15th or 17th). They can’t even start to negotiate a new deal now until the regular season ends. I think they just added $900k in bonuses to his franchise tag and gave him $2M of it up front.

He was their #1 C and they have nobody to replace him. Definitely a big loss. No way they can replace his production either for anything close to what he signed for last year. I don’t think they have any cap space anyway. Wonder if Krejci is coming back? There was talk as of late June that he was leaning toward retirement. If he also retires, the bruins will have lost both of their top 6 centers.

https://twitter.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/1679180182316535808?s=61&t=mvFwLU5P2NuqNnOmVpYtwg

Weber and Peca replacements. Paetsch was already a development coach so that makes sense. Very intrigued by the Prospal hire. https://www.nhl.com/sabres/news/buffalo-sabres-rochester-americans-updates-hockey-operations-staff-promotions-nathan-paetsch-vinny-prospal-amerks-assistant-coaches/c-345283470?tid=281469158 There was also this buried in the press release: I guess Granato isn’t considering an assistant coach change after all.