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    Josh Allen Keeps Dunking On Me (article)

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    I love the journalistic idea that players don't get better after they enter the NFL.  Anyone heard of Tom Brady?  Early in Brady's career, he struggled mightily to throw the ball down the field and especially deep outs to the boundary.

     

    There's plenty of credit to go around.  Allen isn't a finished product but he's well on his way and he's a worker.  The front office has evolved the roster, surrounding him with better players.  The coaching staff has been consistent in both staff and scheme, adjusting as necessary to give him the best chances of succeeding.  It's been a clinic on how to develop a young, talented QB.  The anti-Jets.

     

    If that draft was done over again, Allen CLEARLY goes first overall.  Well done Brandon Beane and company. 

    Exhaustive timeline with videos of Stefon Diggs the anti-diva

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    6 minutes ago, blacklabel said:

    I think Diggs would get frustrated in Minnesota because he knew he could help his team win and it seemed like there were weeks where he just wasn't involved in the offense. Whether that's the patented "let's draft a WR 4th overall and then use him as a decoy!" method created by Doug Whaley and Rex Ryan or they just didn't know how to get him in the mix then yeah, I'd see why he's frustrated. I also think he felt like certain teammates didn't match his passion for winning and the game in general. I'd also probably have a difficult time getting along with Kirk Cousins. Guy is a friggin' toolbag.

    I think all you have to do is watch what Daboll has done with Diggs versus the offense in Minnesota.  We're leading the league in 10 personnel usage and Diggs is lining up all over the place.

     

    JA clearly has supreme competence in Diggs because he keeps making small window throws in his direction and getting rewarded.  They are throws that maybe 5 other guys in the NFL even try and Cousins ain't one of 'em. 

     

    People use the term "Diva" because we've started marginalizing actual competitors.  It's a sad state of affairs.

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    WTF

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    Just now, Koko78 said:

     

    Yes, and who the ***** do you think you are, exactly, to come down here, to the PPP community, and demand the standards that have been in place for decades change?

    The smug runs deep in him. 

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    WTF

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    39 minutes ago, GOBUFFALO716 said:


    And you’re a moderator? No wonder people have no idea what is right and wrong here. 
     

    @SDS

    Yep.  For probably around 20 years.  My standards ain't high, which is why even the trolls barely get a sideways glance from me. 

     

    It's politics,  not kindergarten.   It's not supposed to be an echo chamber for the weak.  Historically,  it's always been messy.  But thanks for narcing.  You're clearly exactly what PPP needs more of.  LOL

     

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    The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    1 hour ago, WideNine said:

     

    Feigned ignorance about your finances is not innocence.

     

    One could argue (probably successfully) that the way Trump Org was setup to obfuscate finances was a premeditated and deliberate act.

     

    I will never understand the cult-like devotion people have for politicians and crooks. Like they have a genetic need to worship another human; To stand in crowds and chant or wave banners or yell Heil mein Fuhrer!

     

    Where nationalism starts down a slippery slope of thinking in terms of "real Americans" and the amorphous enemy.

     

    If they just can't help themselves they should look for their hero figures somewhere other than DC politics.

     

    Like when the Dems grandstand roasting some cancer drug company's CEO for arbitrary price gouging, yet the big political donors to both sides (JJ, Pfizer, Bayer, etc.) do the exact same thing on a grander scale costing tax payers billions in medical costs subsidizing their for-profit industries and nothing happens to them and business goes on as usual.

     

    It is a show to appease the ignorant masses using a less politically connected scape goat into thinking real change is happening...

     

    As far as I know Federal law still currently prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from negotiating prescription drug prices. Only Congress has the power to change this law. 

     

    So we have this big bag of tax money and rather than negotiate how much we are willing to pay these companies like the EU and everyone else does we just hand it over...

     

    Follow the money.

     

     

     

    We hang the petty thieves and elect the great ones to office.

     

    Aesop 

     

     

     

    I really don't disagree with anything you've posted here but I don't see much difference between the devotion and the blame.  There are at a minimum DOZENS if not hundreds of people responsible for the real crimes who actually know what they are doing is wrong.   Instead we (society) pretend that the guy at the very top is some kind of evil genius puppet- mastering the whole thing. 

     

    I doubt Trump, who has never run for anything knew much about campaign finance beyond basic numbers.  Call me crazy but he just doesn't seem like a big "minutia" guy.  

     

    I've worked in big organizations most of the last 2 decades.   In my experience,  there are a couple of people who run everything and the person at the very top has almost no idea what's really going on most of the time.   When ***** really hits the fan, they're almost totally surprised because they almost always get a very sanitized version until it's too late to keep covering it up. 

    The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    1 hour ago, WideNine said:

    I can only guess that they likely do not want the constitutional mess of criminally charging a sitting President.

    Right.  Because Donald Trump does his own campaign finance paperwork along with his own taxes. 

     

    Politicians don't really want campaign finance reform.  Taking away the "incumbent advantage" would level the playing field and the trash that has spent a lifetime in DC would likely be out in a single election.  So that's about as likely as HRC ever being elected President.

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    Obituaries

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    1 minute ago, The Frankish Reich said:

    Lou Brock and Bob Gibson back-to-back. Tough week for Cards fans.

    I was too young to catch Gibby's 1968 dominance -- that 1.12 ERA is burned into my neurons as an unbreakable record. 

    I did see him in his later years when the stuff wasn't there, but the intensity -- that scowl, that "I will drill you in the back if you try to lean over my plate" -- never left.

    RIP, Gibby.

    Not as tough as losing a 4-0 lead in a clinching game and then losing both that game AND the elimination game.

    If Trump loses and refuses to leave

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    8 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

    To wack off. Hello! 

    Hi?


    I mean it doesn't surprise me at all that you'd need to do that/need some kind of assistance because you have to do that chronically.  The likelihood that someone with your characteristics/charm would have a significant other parallels Hillary Clinton's chances of ever being President.

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