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And what job is that? I thought he was supposed to be looking at laws and streamlining processes. I have done this kind of work (streamlining processes) and even for the government. We never got access to classified systems without the proper security clearances. Does he have those? Being a past or present drug user usually nixes that. If he needs to look at the system to see how it works he could look at anonymized test servers. You don't access to these systems to review laws to find places to save money. I'm all for the government saving money but him and his underlings having access to classified treasury systems doesn't sound right.

Why does he need access to the classified systems? And treasury classified systems? Does he have the proper security clearance for said systems?

Thats pretty much what it's gonna take.

Gas prices have not moved where I live. Still hovering around $4.

Why do you think the NFL hasn't done anything about this? I think they have a reason. They're happy with it as is. Gives them wiggle room on ball placement in case they need help a team when needed. Have we ever seen that happen? Unless you think its an honest mistake. Do you? And goes for the overly complicated subjective rules (football move, process of the catch etc.). What's your reason? The technology is there, why are they not using it? PS I couldn't care less about gamblers and gambling.

I'm cool. I don't like the result and the referees. But whatya gonna do. It is what it is. I've seen it all before. The NFL gonna do what the NFL gonna do. I watch football for fun so if it makes me mad and depressed, I would need to find a new way to have fun. But I don't wanna do that cuz it's fun. So I just try to watch the game and enjoy the stress and drama and consciously move on from it shortly after it's over. We'll get 'em next year. But man we got screwed. Wasn't the 1st time and probably won't be the last knowing how they NFL operates. If my Dad didn't get me addicted to football, I'd hate the NFL.

I was watching Super Bowl XII highlights today. 15 years after what we're talking about. Almost every Doomsday Defense sack or near sack would be roughing the passer today. Josh would be sacked and landed on even after he threw the ball. Defenses were playing bump 'n run and holding past 5 yards was OK. Warren Wells was playing. All of this would play havoc on his accuracy and completion percentages. When he ran with the ball they'd take his head off which is why Roger Staubach invented the slide after it happened to him a few times. And, Josh wouldn't have all the nutritional and training methods players have today. And he'd probably be eating doughnuts and smoking cigarettes at 1/2 time. It was a different game back then.

Why change anything? They're raking it in. As I once heard Steve Young say (paraphrasing), when you have a product with an inelastic demand, you can do whatever you want.

Send them into the arms of Russia and China.

What technology? Can you be specific?

Define elderly. Walt Coleman etc retired a long time ago. The average age of an NFL official is 51. I don't see "elderly" officials. Maybe you could name 1? Would young inexperienced officials be better?

Gross Besides that, How much is it gonna cost to give a drug test to over 1,000,000 people? Not to mention all the law suits etc that the DOJ will have to defend. Then they'll probably have to send the failures to rehab. Government jobs have rules about this kind of stuff. I thought we were trying to save money. They think they can fire these people and they'll just go away. As far as the trying to get government employees to quit,it shows a total misunderstanding of government employees. They stay in their jobs so they can retire in 20 or so years and get nice pension. They're not gonna quit just cuz they don't like Trump, they'll just knuckle under until he's gone to keep their pension. (8 months pay < life Lont pension) I once worked with a guy on a computer project that had 2 pensions from 2 different government jobs.

Fitz the Harvard grad has the best idea I've heard so far. This is brilliant.

This story breaks my heart.

Ok. I stand corrected if you're right. Here is a clip of Josh talking about what he does in the off season. Not saying you're wrong. Can you provide one of these published articles?

If someone was nutty enough to take a shot at Musk I doubt very seriously Musk having his son on his shoulders would slow them down. Probably view it as a 2 for 1.

This irritates me about Josh. Mahomes and others get together in the off season with tgeir WRs and practice on their own. Not sure, but I don't think I've read of Josh doing this. Maybe he does. If not, he should. Joe Burrow goes to bed at 8:00 every night during the season. This is who we are competing against. After you retire there will be plenty if time for golf.

That's cool. My real point is that a simple easy to verify rule in real time and on replay would be very easy to do if they were so inclined. Evidently they're not for some unknown reason.

I think these rules about a catch and others are intentional to give them wiggle room when they need it. If you and I got together I'd bet we could wrote a new catch rule for the NFL that was easy to understand and enforce in about 10 minutes. Something like " catch the football and run 3 steps. For sideline catches player must have possession of the football with 2 feet in bounds." This could be easily verified on replay. But instead they get experts together to write a new rule that is even more convoluted. They put in even more nebulous subjective language like "football move" and "process of the catch". This is by design IMHO.

Ah, The Doors.. Now you're talkin'. I like them a lot more than The Beatles. The MVP of that band was Ray Manzarek IMHO. They didn't even need a bass player cuz Ray could play the bass parts with his left hand and everything else with his right hand.

Josh broke both of his hands this year running the football. That's how he gets injured. Every year he's got an injured hand or elbow or something from running the football. Its time to start transitioning Wonder Boy into a pocket passer. He can throw well enough for that. keep him healthy. He's not getting any younger. We have been fortunate that he has never had an injury costing him to miss games since 2018 but it could certainly happen. And, I believe our offense could score MORE points with a better defense. One that can actually get stops and get the ball back to the offense. And when we did have the ball we wouldn't have to have long drives to keep our defense off the field. I believe that was our whole offensive strategy in the playoffs. Keep the defense off the field. We could be a lot more aggressive down field without having to worry about giving ball back to the other team so as to keep our defense off the field. I was in Buffalo on bidness one time and listened to Steve Tasker on the radio. He was talking about Hot Rod running the football. He said it can be effective but what happens is the QB while getting tackled will jam his thumb or twist his ankle so he gets bunged up. That's what we're seeing now with Wonder Boy. Knock it off. That's my prescription. Improve the D so they can actually get stops. Have Josh run A LOT less and shelve the Brotherly Shnow Plow Push so Josh doesn't break any more hands.

I listened to a little bit of it of it. I'm not a Beatles fan at all but it sounds like there are no drums. It's kind of a drummer's conspiracy theory that Bernard Purdie (Motown drummer, played with Aretha and everyone else) played on some Beatles tracks.

Did Ringo Starr play drums on this one or was it Bernard Purdie?

Washington Football Team stopped Philly a couple of times in the NFC Championship game. I have seen many unstoppable plays in football over the years that were then figured out. Starting with the wishbone. 10 years ago the play where you put the football on the RBs belly and then pull it out if the DE crashes in was considered unstoppable. Now the Brotherly Shove. I think its close to being solved as well. I'm not a fan of the play and hope we never run it again.

On the last one they had Shakir pushing. Little ole Shakir. All 190 pounds. Puzzling to me. Where was Gilliam or somebody big?