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Baldy among the best in the biz. Thank you for always posting these.

I would also thoroughly enjoy that. On the other hand I’m not really scared of BB anymore.

Seriously…

Our two safeties are the best since Balt had Ed and his various partners back there though. Poyer/Hyde will go down in history as one of the best tandems of all time

Micah is not Ed…but he’s closer than most would say.

That’s very interesting and also not that surprising when you think about it.

I mean, troll threads are the new norm around here, so why not throw up an awesome one. Love it.

My birthday tomorrow so party a little then pick up more wood for the firepit before heading down there (we’re gonna need it.)

I pointed that out to you in hopes that you think before you pop in here next time to scold people. Just go and enjoy the game, is that so difficult?

Agree. The only other one you could make a case for is Hyde. And like others have pointed out, the way the voting works they are competing against each other for votes so highly unlikely both could get 1st team (maybe in a world where Byard doesn’t exist.)

Been to almost every home game since ‘07. People like you big-timing other fans and questioning their fandom almost makes me ashamed to be in the same stadium as you.

The Texans are a disgrace.

Don’t know about Muki - he very well could be credible. But Massare is a BS artist, a clout chaser, a nobody of the lowest order.

True, but some outlets are more trustworthy than others. Trainwreck are wannabe barstool clowns.

I trust PFF grades about as much as I trust QBR for evaluating QB performance.

very good unit stats, and yet still lost to the worst team in the NFL. Sorry, they’ll need to win a few more this year to convince me.

Nicknames are fun and cool if they come about organically. Campaigning and brainstorming nicknames is lame.

I never said i wouldn’t want to see it. I hate Goodell I would welcome a nationally televised embarrassment like that.

Lol yes. i think you hit the AM sports radio caller superfecta with those quotes. All meaningless BS.

Exactly. For all the high praise the Athletic has received for its business model over the last few years, especially towards its beginning, it doesn’t appear to be very groundbreaking or innovative. They stripped talent from everywhere using their giant well of VC cash to outbid everyone else, especially the local papers (Tim Graham brags all the time how well he’s paid to trolls on twitter.) Doing that of course burned through mountains of that cash, but it worked out for the founders and angel investors with this deal.

Oh I know - selective memory it seems. Another quote from the Defector article since I know most can’t read it: “Funded from the very beginning by hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital money, The Athletic never needed to be profitable (in 2018, The Athletic said it was profitable; in the beginning of 2020, it said it expected to be profitable in 2020; it was reported that the company lost $95 million in 2019 and 2020; now The Athletic says it expects to be profitable in 2023), it just needed to maintain the promise of future profitability in order to keep investors on the hook while a buyer was found. This is exactly what happened, and now The New York Times is set to buy the company for $550 million (a definite discount from its previous $800 million valuation, but a win nonetheless for the founders and investors who now get to cash out.”

True, but have 2 teams ever been in this particular situation before? If Jax wins and they really try to pull this, heads will roll.

NYT politics aside, this is pretty funny considering all the brash s**t talking the founders of the Athletic were doing just a few years ago: “We will wait out every local paper out and let them continuously bleed until we are the last ones standing,” Alex Mather, a co-founder of The Athletic, told The New York Times in 2017. “We will suck them dry of their best talent at every moment. We will make business extremely difficult for them.” Quote from this article over at Defector that also (surprise) says the employees knew next to nothing about this deal. (Note: paywall, but you may be able to view for free) The Athletic has yet to turn a profit. https://defector.com/no-one-knows-anything-staffers-at-the-athletic-wait-in-the-dark-following-nyt-deal/ edit: @Mr. WEO beat me to the quote 😄

Crafty. I wouldn’t put it past him.

you got me curious so I looked around a bit - NBA rulebook is ~68 pages (in pdf format.)