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Soda Popinski

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  1. We gave up our 20s and 30s but hopefully our 40s and 50s will be worth it. We actually went to brunch the other day, 10 am bloody marys and Cheasapeake bennedict. Then we wento to a micro brewery around 1200 and had a pint. It was glorious. Got home, and did my best impression of a pool float for 2 hours. God forbid we have grandkids in the next few years. Not that I'll mind terribly but I'm nowhere ready.
  2. I imagine it's easier for you being older. I was 24 when the boy was born and I was 20 when my wife and I got together and my daughter was 2. We weren't ready, hell we were kids. But now, I'll be 43 and hopefully have both kids out of the house. I told the wife we're not going to know what to do with each other. no more football practice, games, no more anything. Hunting and fishing...sounds pretty ******** good to me!!!
  3. This is the kind of fun stuff that when the wife says " I miss the kids being little" I always reply NOT ME! She's out of the house in college, he's in high school playing football, we're on the back 9 of parenting why the hell would I want to go back to diapers and preschool? those were tough times.
  4. My daughter was MUCH easier. She wanted to wear big girl undies like mommy at a very early age. The boy, he didn't seem to mind sitting in a deuce.
  5. I was alone in my restaurant I had closed around 930 and stuck around to watch the debacle. I could have burned the place to the ground I was so pissed. Then had a 50 minute drive home too.
  6. you just have to keep asking them. Every 30 minutes. My boy would swear up and down he didn't have to go.....ok well let's go try just in case, and he would pee like a racehorse. or drop a full load. Yeah, sure you didn't have to go.. that's why you just had a blowout and destroyed the Carrabba's bathroom.
  7. Marv Levy used to say he always expected his 2nd year players to make the most strides because they have spent a year in the NFL and are finally getting their lives in order and can focus on football. WRs traditionally take 2-3 years to adjust to the NFL it's a difficult transition. Zay has the support group around him to keep him focused and the physical talent to be successful. His issues were all mental his rookie year he tried to do too much. He needs to continue to work but relax and let the game come to him. He does that he'll be fine.
  8. I agree about Dawkins, Incognito maybe helped with protections and audibles, but Dawkins still had to go out and block his man Usually the best edge rusher on the other team. Working with Hughes should only make him better in camp as well. Hopefully we ditch the ZBS that didn't work last year and go with power run, but regardless Dawkins was drafted because he's athletic and has quick feet. Hopefully we found a 10 year starting LT (again). Jones I expect to make the most significant jump of all the rookies. I expect him to be fully committed to his craft and go out there and justify the draft pick. If he doesn't, we've got some young guys who will kill for playing time in Proehl/Foster/McCloud. WR will be interesting to watch during camp.
  9. This is a tough game for tough people. I wish Nix/Whaley had done a little more evaluation on EJ before picking him. He didn't have the mental toughness to play QB in the NFL. said/did all the right things. Just couldn't process quickly enough to get the ball accurately where it needed to be.
  10. 2019 will be a fun offseason, coming off a super bowl victory, and sweeping the Pats. we will have a lot to look forward to
  11. as long as she's wearing a Hanibal leckter mask sure. just call it role play
  12. Well if we end up going 3-13 I may feel different after this year lol. All they offseason hype around Peterman possibly winning the starting job is a little disconcerting too. That's all it is hype. As far as the QB position is concerned the guy they drafted threw 5 picks in his first start, they got the one QB in free agency no one else wanted, and we moved up for Allen. Of all the QB situations in the NFL this has to be the most sketchy.
  13. I'll be honest I don't really know if he had any say in who they drafted at QB, they struggled with Kordell Stewart and then Tommy Maddox. But were those Cowher guys IDK. I honestly couldn't tell you who the GM was during that time or if one was fired and hired. I know they were in the playoffs just about every single year and they went to that super bowl with Neil O'Donnel so they were far from struggling they just didn't have that QB to compete with Aikman/Steve Young. But that defense was fearsome and they could run the ball. Just using that as an example because that franchise is still chugging along in the playoff hunt year after year and I would kill for that kind of sustained success over say a 25 year period, look at their record since 1993. I'd sign up for that. I know we did give up substantial resources for Allen, we moved on from Glenn, but not until after Dawkins proved he could be an NFL LT. We traded Darby and Watkins and part of tha capitol was used in part to get Allen and Edmunds. I just like the overall direction the franchise is going, getting rid of high priced players like Dareus and then guys who were going to demand a high salary like Watkins. Does it leave holes in the roster? Absolutely but their heads are in the right place, i.e. you don't go looking for Julio Jones until you have Matt Ryan already on the roster.
  14. I hope Allen is a proven starter by then but even if he is not I still want Beane and McDermott to remain with the franchise. All those years Cowher couldn't get over the hump of not having a franchise QB in the 90s and even til 2004. 11 years of making the playoffs and even making the super bowl but not having that QB to get you a ring. The Steelers stuck by him and eventually got a ring with Cowher, then another ring for Tomlin which I really don't think he earned but whatever. My point is you build your franchise up into a perennial playoff contender by sticking to one direction, and I like the direction Beane and McDermott have the team moving. If Allen busts, draft another, we still got a top 10 talent in Edmunds and a run stuffing DT in Phillips. And we have all our 2019 picks so really we aren't all in on Allen in any kind of way as draft capital is concerned. If we had mortgaged 2019 1st or 2nd round picks I'd be agreeing with you but Beane did it smart.
  15. my daughter did 2 years at CC and then transferred to FAU finishing her degree this December. Even then her grant funding was cut off and we're paying out of pocket, but at the end of all this, she will have a degree and less than $3000 in student loans if she has any at all. Not bad, but a ton of work and dedication.
  16. we have bicyclists down here who train for triathlons and they ride their bikes on 2 lane roads with 55MPH speed limits early in the morning, even after the city and county built 30 something miles of bike only trails out of old RR tracks. Their thinking behind not using the trails..."we don't want to be caught behind slow pokes "walkers" while we are trying to go. apparently the irony of that is lost on them.
  17. The new eco friendly Dukes of Hazzard looks terrible.
  18. He needs to get married, and start banging Perkins waitresses again. that'll get him right back on track.
  19. Maybe they gave you the good ones. The ones I got were not fit for human consumption.
  20. When Eric Dickerson walked into a recruiters office at another school than SMU there was $50,000 dollars sitting on the table, he looked at them and laughed "man you guys ain't even close".
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