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On to a new regime indeed. It’s all about the journey. At least that’s what I keep telling myself

While I think this is true, signing Cousins may be a double edged sword as anything less than a SB after reaching the conference championship will be viewed as no progress at best. And after signing what will probably a record deal, how will teammates and fans alike view that outcome?

Being a professional never hurts and Whaley has always enjoyed that reputation. I’d give him a job but I’d insist on intense media training as part of the deal. He simply cannot get all flustered by the Jerry Sullivans of the world, get pissed, and lose focus like he was prone to do under the glare of media scrutiny. That said, Sully and several others were less than professional on several occasions, in other venues like bars and restaurants over the years so I can see why he had such a short fuse when it came to them.

My golf bag.

Whaley was told two things after that season ended: You won’t be part of the search and hiring process for the new HC. You will be let go after the draft but we will make it worth your while to stay and complete the offseason evaluation processes already underway for both the college and free agent prospects. This incentive applied to everyone involved on both the college and pro personnel side. Whaley and Co. chose to see those processes through.

I connected the dots and if they don’t build the new stadium at Letchworth, they are dead to me. I have too much tied up in speculative land deals along the Rt. 36 corridor.

Good stuff. Reminds me of the old axiom: history isn’t about what happened, it’s about the telling of what happened. And that should prompt the intellectually curious among us to dig deeper for the accounts and records that aren’t popularly presented. Information is out there.

Per the bolded, if there are no other teams looking to snag him, sure, that may be enough for Denver and maybe even the Giants at two. But it boils down to how much competition there is from other teams seeking Rosen and how much they drive up the price. Personally, I feel he is the best QB prospect in the draft so I can’t see Cleveland or the Giants passing on him, anyway.

You may want to temper it a bit as I’m sure every team seeking to draft a QB is also salivating at the chance to get him; teams with top 5-10 picks to dangle as part of a package. If there’s a bidding war, I suspect we will have to jump up twice to get it done and that may involve a ton of future draft capital to invest. Not saying we shouldn’t do it, but Rosen’s talent just may require that commitment in order to acquire.

I suspect McD took one look at the game tapes from the final few games of the ‘16 season and told Whaley don’t bother. You can’t hide the kind of quit that going into self-preservation mode exposes. Can’t see Z Brown being a McD kind of player.

DOOMED!!!

Really? I admire his marketing skills, but I can't see the league allowing blatant advertising like that. Unless of course it's a multi-national firm offering them hundreds of millions for the privilege. What's next, accident attorneys?

Absolutely. As we've been saying, mariners and others had it figured out long before the Dark Ages. "Centricity" is an interesting concept to me. In my former life in my travels, I used to enjoy going to libraries in various countries around the world and looking at their maps. Quite a different orientation when looking at Asia-centric maps, etc.

Is he that insecure that he has to wear it on his uniform so everybody knows? I'm sure I'm in the minority here and I'll get flamed and I understand that, but why draw attention to your accomplishments in such a garish fashion? Seems self-centered and, well, insecure as I said. There have been other highly intelligent, accomplished players that just never saw the need to plaster their credentials this way. Now, if he officially changes his name to include the "MD" at the end of it, I fully understand.

Euro-centric indeed. Somebody mentioned up thread that vast knowledge was lost in the Middle Ages so much of what we've learned is only recent. I kept thinking, "Yeah, lost in Europe, maybe, but the rest of the world, particularly the Middle East and Asia, were advancing all sorts of scientific knowledge."

No. It makes you a willfully ignorant dumbass. This is the second time you've thrown out the idea that you've referenced "all information" when, if that really was the case, you couldn't possible believe what you've posted relative to the shape of the earth as all of the information relative to the subject refutes the notion that it is flat. You haven't studied basic information, let alone all information. That's why I suspect you're simply a troll.

What’s the NFL QB equivalent of winning the Oscar for best actor? Because until TT achieves that, he is rungs below Nicolas Cage.

Ah, it was a rhetorical jab at Reed83. Got it. I was looking at it from a more expanded definition of the word as I’ve long been struck by the seeming conflict of the pure religious commitment of the Jesuits vs their dedication and numerous contributions to science. Seeming conflict to those who feel science and religion are somehow intertwined, that is. I’ve never felt that way.

Wow. That NASA employee showed remarkable constraint. The store manager should have put that guy out on his ass for hassling his customers. That said, if that is emblematic of the level of intellect for the average flat earther, they’ve got bigger problems than their beliefs. Not sure why you ask that question, but would you consider Jesuit priests to be oblates?

Fortunately, science is skeptical and does just that. But, like questioning the shape of the earth in 2018, there are realms of settled science that are a simply a waste of time to question so the idea of questioning “everything” seems obtuse to me.

Not so much an interesting stat as it is indicative.

Since you can’t have pass interference until the ball is in the air and it has to be catchable anyway when it is in the air, the sack scenario and question of a poor pass or not don’t apply. Sure there is no guarantee that a ball will be caught, but it’s guaranteed it won’t be when a defender illegally interferes. That’s especially egregious when it’s done in the endzone and you’re robbed a potential TD otherwise. Anyway, if the rule is changed, defenders will be coached to intentionally interfere if they’ve been beaten deep. And if a team “picks on you” with a speedster, it’s on you to defend that. Cheap, intentional 15 yard penalties is not a defense. Find a DB that can cover or get beat. You almost make it sound like it’s not a good thing for an offense to have that kind of weapon.

Pro day is a different animal than the combine entirely. Makes sense he could hurt his stock when he didn’t perform well in a scripted, rehearsed performance with receivers he’s known forever. But if I had to put the most weight on something, it would be how he did at private team workouts and interviews subsequent to that.

Agree it’s not a good idea. Gonna be open season on every receiver who beats his man deep.

FFS, given the ever-changing face of the earth from outer space due to its continuous atmospheric changes, you should be MORE suspicious of two exactly alike images.