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1 minute ago, HappyDays said:
What evidence are you referring to?
Evidence is a poor choice of words. You dismiss the report and says you see zero chance of it happening, yet you have no information to back that up except pure speculation. I am not even claiming he did say it, but there was a report filed on one end very soon after the zoom call, it was followed up weekly for months to 2 separate individuals, and then it was promptly ignored. People don't typically file complaints and put that much effort into it for it to be purely phony.
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9 minutes ago, HappyDays said:
I haven't followed this "news" at all. It didn't pass the initial smell test. Reading up on it in detail just now it appears that we're three degrees and three years away from the source. Some NFL media reporter claims Pegula said this to him back in 2020 (why would Pegula say anything this stupid to an NFL media reporter is the first question that comes to my mind). That reporter tells his story to a Zoom full of NFL employees. Jim Trotter was in that Zoom meeting and raised a complaint.
So the chain of communication here is: Pegula -> NFL media reporter -> Trotter in a Zoom meeting -> Trotter's attorneys; all over the course of three years.
It's laughable to take such an extended game of telephone even remotely seriously. I see exactly a zero percent chance that Pegula said to an NFL media reporter "let the black players go back to Africa" in any possible context. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It's also incredibly irresponsible of Trotter's attorneys to include such inflammatory and baseless accusations in a footnote, but no doubt they knew what they were doing to get attention on the lawsuit.
If I'm trying to be charitable to the initial NFL media reporter who quoted Pegula's alleged comment, perhaps Pegula did say something to the effect of "if these players hate their freedoms in America so much they should try living in 3rd world countries" which IMO is an irrational argument but it's a fairly common argument and not inherently racist in the slightest. I can see how such a statement could get twisted over the years to become a villainous caricature of itself, but that's about as much as I'd be willing to even entertain.
So your evidence that their evidence is phony is that you simply have no idea, but that it sounds funny? You even guessed at the end of your comment to try to make the supposed statement sound better.
I have no idea what was said, but to say that it couldn't have been said is very naïve. Also, if this was reported by Trotter pretty quickly after it happened, but then took 3 years to come out in the news, that isn't a story that floated around for 3 years. Part of the reason Trotter filed his complaint is because he said his reports were ignored. It claims he followed up weekly, so there SHOULD be a paper trail of sorts. No audio as far as I can tell, but a timely report, follow ups, and it looks like zero investigation. That is part of Trotter's entire suite. Reports of racism and discrimination were supposedly ignored.
5 minutes ago, gobills404 said:All Terry had to do was apologize and say he’ll do better to educate himself and all would be forgiven. Apparently that’s how this kind of stuff works.
Not that I agree with anything Jackson said or posted, but employers are under an entirely different set of rules. If one of my employees says something racist, I can fire him with cause but that's the extent of punishment. If I say the same thing, I can get sued into oblivion.
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23 hours ago, arcane said:
There were enough isolated things I saw to think this is still a good team. This was the Jets super bowl, and it looked just like this game did last year. Josh was beyond stupid, but he does that a few times a year. The schedule gives us a chance to put this game in the distant recesses of our memories, we don't see a defense remotely as good until we play the jets one last time
How was this their Super Bowl? They came in with big hopes for the year and then they were dashed almost instantly. But they had Super Bowl hopes for the season, and given the defense and the potential of Rodgers, it was probably legit hope.
Don't try to pin this game as less important to the Bills than the Jets.
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11 hours ago, warrior9 said:
When will people realize you do NOT win football games / Super Bowls by paying running backs? This board is OBSESSED with RBs.
No team who has won the Super Bowl in the last 15 years has paid a starting RB over 2.5M
You don't win by paying an RB, these are world class athletes. You win by putting an OL on the field .. the RB is irrelevant.
JT was GREAT his rookie year with the best OL in the NFL.. last year, they weren't as good and neither was he. As the OL goes, the RB goes.
Leonard Fournette in Tampa made way more than $2.5M
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1 minute ago, stevewin said:
Ball didn't go past LOS!!!
He was out of the pocket.
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Just now, starrymessenger said:
Maybe the worst pass i’ve ever seen.
It was tipped.
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20 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:
Cut by the Patriots. Zappe back to 53. May go back to Carolina's PS.
https://www.si.com/nfl/panthers/gm-report/patriots-release-former-panthers-qb-matt-corral
I had read he took a personal leave, not that he was cut. Zappe was elevated because Corral doesn't count towards the roster while gone.
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19 hours ago, Meatloaf63 said:
The nice thing is those owners are not supper rich and that guaranteed money has to be set aside. It will hamper them going forward with other players.
They don't have to set aside the full amount anymore. They "may" require it, but pretty well assumed at this point that they don't given that the NFL isn't going broke at this point.
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40 minutes ago, Chris farley said:
The war mongers are still trying to push the narrative Elon is some bad guy.
Just ignoring the fact that would have been a huge escalation.
Hill has journalistic integrity of buzzfeed BTW
Why are we worried about Ukrainian "escalation," but not at all worried about Russia killing ten of thousands of Ukrainian civilians, likely hundreds of thousands, and purposefully burning crops and the like? Attacking Russia's fleet is out of bounds escalation, but Russia literally murdering thousands and thousands isn't "escalation?"
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Just now, Johnnycage46 said:
Why can't the ground cause a fumble but it CAN cause an incompletion? Stupid rules.
The ground can cause a fumble, but not if he is down. He was down when his elbow touches.
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1 minute ago, Scott7975 said:
No way Goff is winning this game. Too bad because the defense is there.
Mostly Hutchinson being an absolute wrecking ball.
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1 minute ago, Johnnycage46 said:
Garbage flag. He was going for the ball.
But he pushed the WR past the ball. That's an easy call.
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2 hours ago, JaCrispy said:
Good!
Maybe it will help end the war sooner…
A good way to end a home invasion sooner is to let the invader do as they please.
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54 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
What always fascinates me about the Ashlii Babbitt shooting is that it's one of the few times you see liberal politicians (and by extension, liberal voters) side with the police in a fatal shooting, or general discharge of a weapon.
We know with certainty that she didn't have a weapon, didn't wave around a handgun, didn't attack the officer with a knife, or even physically attack him. Contrast that treatment by dems/liberals when a guy like Michael Brown was shot after attempting to beat an officer and steal his weapon.
It's weird...no calls for warning shots or shooting her in the leg here.
You understand that your point is 2 sided, right? This is one of the few times the right doesn't "back the blue" and turned on the officer immediately.
You have to take these situations case to case. Police shoot an unarmed woman through a wall in her apartment while looking for her boyfriend? Bad policing, and murder. Woman entering a window of a barricaded door while being ordered not to, and with tons of people behind. To me, that's more understandable, especially when they're was no way to tell if she was armed or not.
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3 minutes ago, BillsFanNC said:
Quack MD.
Doors were opened in some cases from the inside at the Capitol on J6. People streamed in, single file right past Capitol police officers and continued between the velvet ropes.
We have a guy blaring from a megaphone at the top of scaffolding exhorting people to first "move forward" and then "we're in, cmon, we need your help, let's fill up the Capitol!"
Strangely enough the FBI has no interest in this character whatsoever. I wonder why?
Don't tell us...Qanon!
Ray Epps himself used the defense that he thought the Capitol was open on J6 as to why he was encouraging people to go INTO the Capitol that day.
Curious why he told hundreds of others that WE need to go into the Capitol, that he thought was open, but then he never did?
If the I thought the Capitol was open defense is good enough for Epps, why not for others?
Officers standing by letting people in might give one the impression that the Capitol was indeed open, no?
So you're ok with the Ashlii Babbit shooting then? Because that area was locked and people still tried pushing through and broke the window that she then climbed through all while being ordered not to.
I honestly don't know what the policies are involving the Capitol being open to the public day to day, but I'd assume that normally during the certification of an election, it is closed. I may be wrong. But even if people were let in, the actions by some of the people after that caused problems. if I have a party, and have people inside, and 3 of the 15 people invited start causing problems and breaking things in my house, everyone is out. And those that then refuse are now there illegally, whether they came in invited or not.
And I'm not agreeing if people were "let it" or not. I have no idea as I wasn't there. Just showing that even if they were "let in", that doesn't give them free reign, or establish that they continued to be peaceful once inside.
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14 hours ago, T master said:
And a S**T ton that have & will keep coming across the boarder freely from the other side .
I have a friend who has a "boarder" rule. The more strongly a person pushes extreme border control, the more likely they are to have trouble spelling border. And it is very accurate.
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1 hour ago, Virgil said:
How’s he supposed to feed his family?
Well at this point.
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Myles Garrett at $25M per year is basically free at this point.
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50 minutes ago, AuntieEm said:
That will happen when you stick your foot in your mouth talking about your teammates contract situation.
Did anyone actually watch the podcast where Kelce talked about it? He was joking. People are acting like he was bad mouthing Jones and he wasn't, at all. He was laughing, and then said he should get what he can get because he deserves it.
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16 hours ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:
I was surprised there wasn’t more of Hernandez in this…but I guess they didn’t want to pull from the focus of the teamNetflix also has a separate series on Hernandez from 2020, so I'm guessing that is part of it too.
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4 minutes ago, The Wiz said:
He has to sign by week 8 I believe to keep half of his salary for the year. So it will be by week 8 or it may not happen.
And if he doesn't report by week 8, his contract would just extend to next year under the same terms as this season.
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Wiggle room, and if it's not used, they can roll over to next year. Cleveland opened up like $20-$25M in the last couple weeks, and the only logical reason would be to roll it over for next year and offset the huge Watson number a bit.
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5 minutes ago, BuffaninSarasota said:
So are you suggesting the burden is on Allen to elevate those around him because of a lack of talent?
Yes and no. Allen has to elevate those around him. Mahomes lost Hill and won a SB. His leading tailback was a rookie 7th rounder. Yes, he has Kelce. Allen has Diggs.
With the huge QB contacts, no team can be loaded offensively unless their QB is elite on a rookie deal. Burrow will very soon have the same issues. He has 2 top tier WR, and another good WR in Boyd. No way the keep them all. He'll have to start elevating those around him. Help develop average WRs into capable NFL WRs.
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3 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:
What these morons simply don’t understand is that Biden was doing it BEFORE Trump even ran for President. As is often said….useful idiots!
And tons here claim Trump is different. He's fighting the establishment. He's for the People. He's for the working class. And instead, he was more of the same.
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**2023 degenerative gamblers thread **
in Off the Wall
Posted · Edited by cle23
So I know it's not exact, but if you hit 70% on -350, you're losing money. In your own example, you'd have to win 4-5 games to make up for 1 loss. That's way more than 70%.