Rockpile233
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I have low expectations for next year. I find it hard to believe they can fill all the glaring holes as well as improve depth to deal with the brutal season. DB positions aren't easy pickups for rookies either.
Luckily it projects to be a decent draft for some of the need positions. I'll try being patient.
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There are holes everywhere on this roster, but this was obviously the right thing.
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Not surprising at all. I always thought Woods was a solid, reliable option.
Just don't have a lot of space this year to pay all these guys.
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The only thing that is immoral is your belief that it is acceptable to take the justly earned dollars of one person at the point of a gun, and give them to another undeserving person.
Me, me, me, me, me. Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine.
The community is more important than you, every single time snowflake.
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I didn't think Gilmore was the top five corner he wanted me be paid like, but the Pats just got a very solid CB. This sucks to hear.
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Love the grand claims about the democratic party being obliterated beyond measure. Sounds a lot like the Republican party not so long ago.
Good to know all of you are also TV changers.
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Kellyanne has a bright future in marketing.
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Any NFL failure who goes to play in Canada I have a lot of respect for.
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anytime i go anywhere and they have cnn on i do about anything in my power to turn to fox news or telemundo to piss people off.
especially if they do not have the remotes easily accessible.
We used to do stuff like this in middle school too.
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Lol.
Standing ovations for making logical moves? Only bills fans.
I don't watch it on television, but go to both CNN and Fox's websites to see what each other is leaving out every day.
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Nearly every crime has been normalized in this day. Seeking to explain or normalize actions is far from a recent phenomenon, you can find it in all cultures/periods, and any attempt to present that as a main stream media technique of any kind is a weak one.
But to the actual topic...these topics are usually absurd and severely harm your arguments. Simply speaking strategically. I feel like even if you believe they are true it's easy to see why you wouldn't want to fight that fight.
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Jury is still out. I hated the Rex hire and the ridiculous chain of command, not even because of Rex, but because I questioned how they could really talk X's and O's. Then the fans are being told our top five defense lacked the personnel necessary to run Rex's system? Why did you hire him then?
The teams are safe though and they seem like nice people. I just question the football decisions.
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Fair to point out, but I just meant that we did eventually enter.
My point was, what if it had continued to prevail and we never had entered?
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Whaley has always said long term, sustained success is the franchise's goal/vision.
Yet they also push "win now" and have traded future assets for immidiete gains.
I don't hate keeping Taylor, but any criticism of if being a half-measure is probably fair.
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There is less communication, less cooperation, more abstract paranoia. That absolutely will halt technological progress. (Some may even desire this?)If you fear isolationism, why?
It also depends on how far you go with it. How much information sharing is shut down? How much commerce is halted? It it just stepping away from other's conflicts?
Where would we be if the philosophy prevailed domestically leading to WWII? Also, back when future leadership was warned against involvement in foreign conflicts the argumentation was that our experiences and concerns couldn't possibly be all that similar. Today with the entire world connected that line of argumentation fails.
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And I think he can. In fact, I was ok with just picking up his option. I honestly think he gives us the best chance to win now, and you don't flush away the last year's with high cost free agents by dropping in someone from a dubious QB draft class.
My worry is if we want to move on next year. It would have been pricy next year, but we could have done it. If we lock in, I am worried.
On the other hand, the Rapp report makes me feel better. If his sources are saying that the new coaches wanted him all along but at a lower price tag, then they have a plan of what to do with him.
Pretty much exactly how I feel. I'm a little concerned this is too much of a half-measure, but hard to ignore that the defense, not Taylor, was the weak link the past two years.
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You bitchiness resonates when it sounds realistic. Michael is the last thing that anyone should be worried about. He's more than good enough. He's not some Luck-like above average guy with a reputation.
I completely agree with what you've laid out here although I'm concerned with potential descents into isolationism. This is not conducive to progress."Us vs Them" is used by all sides all the time. It's not a unique weapon for any political sect imo.
The nationalist/populist backlash has been building for decades thanks to the many missteps of the globalist push. The wealth and jobs have been systematically stripped away from the lower and middle classes of not just America but Europe as well and a lot of the people are frankly tired of it.
In my view, globalism is a necessity if we are going to advance to the point of becoming an inter-planetary species (in the coming centuries that is). What's up for debate are the mechanisms under which that globalism functions.
The model for almost the past thirty years has been one of unipolar globalism -- meaning one super power controlling not only global security, but global culture -- which by its very nature puts diminishes the role and importance of culture and national identities in those countries not running the show. That's been a disaster, we've seen 16 years now of endless (expensive) war, the parring back of civil liberties and constitutional protections, and the global "culture" being pushed is vapid and mind numbing rather than enlightening and empowering. So, nationalists and populists -- who love their countries and cultures -- have been pushing back.
The globalists have deemed this push back to be racists and xenophobic (some of that criticism is justified) which has only accelerated their own decline into absolute authoritarianism and fascism as we see cropping up everywhere within our political discourse.
DC Tom said it best a few weeks ago when he compared the current state of the country as having direct parallels to the Wiemar Republic -- that's certainly true of the United States and I'd argue could be expanded to describe the state of the west at large.
There is room for compromise on nearly everything and, yes, that includes putting your individual or group identities in proper perspective amongst all individuals and groups.
People need to get over themselves, realize they aren't all that important, and be willing to give up an inch or a foot. There are too many snowflakes on all sides. I do feel it will take a major galvanizing event for that to happen.
Any attempts to engineer this cooperation are likely to fail, it needs to be organic.
I get it, I really do. The rejections all over the west speaks to the severe flaws in the systems.Global cooperation is one thing. Surrendering national sovereignty to a foreign, unelected ,appointed gang like the EU is another. Just another level of bureaucracy to skim money on a continental level. To social engineer on a continental level. Like letting in hordes of 7th century throwbacks to dilute and weaken the culture.
My problem is I already see the rejections moving towards overcompensation. Overcompensation in this direction leads to potentially more damaging consequences IMO.
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For all the constant, and somewhat justified, finger pointing towards leftists for misrepresenting issues to drive wedges between groups of people, the nationalistic rhetoric does the same damn thing.
I really think it's the nationalists that "snowflake" more aptly describes. Real progress will take more global cooperation, not less, and any leftist/centrist/right leaning group who wants to push "us v them" rhetoric has an absurd sense of their groups worth.
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I like him but that's a lot of money in the backfield. 2nd highest paid RB, highest paid FB, $2m backup.
My only concern with this, but can't knock the player in any way.
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"Team friendly deal" aka "Kraft pays me under the table to avoid salary cap penalties like he does Brady"
The GOAT cannot have a conflict of interest. I'm pretty sure, this is like, a rule.
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By "team friendly deal" does it mean they will hire a company AP has a direct stake in?
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Ya, holding out for a super majority is a sound stategy. Nothing could go wrong there...
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I hate the Flyers more than any other team in the league. Irrational I suppose but true none the less.
I used to as well, but it's fizzled out of late. I'd probably go with Toronto due to interactions with their fans at the arena.
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In business they are sometimes called mentors, advisors or consultants. Quite often organizations are too narrow minded to think someone outside of the organization could help, which generally involves ego. You speak of coaches, where is Rex now? Wasn't he referred to as bombastic, full of himself kind of personality? Whaley is like a paranoid rat scurrying about worrying someone will take his job. Whaley doesn't exude confidence or competence. Christie may not have been able to help in any way but it wouldn't surprise me if the door was slammed in his face.
I really don't think this should be made into a big thing, but Christie did apparently feel the need to take a swipe.
Don't worry guys. We are waiting for the second and third ti
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We don't have any money for the top tier guys. I'm a fierce critic of Whaley and the FO, but that was reality this year.