Augie

I almost hate to post this again, but if a guy can tell a stranger in an airport, who am I to hold back? I met a guy in the Chicago airport and we talked there and on the flight to Buffalo for the opener. He said he was Morse’s uncle and mentioned it would be his last year as a Bill. I said I thought he had one more year on his contract, and he just shrugged and said, “well, you know….:.” I don’t know who this guy was, or how good his info was, but we talked the whole flight about Mitch, his wife and kids. His wife seemed all about family as well. It could have been him taking comments out of context, jumping to conclusions, or speaking too soon before a real decision was made. But he believed it, that I’m sure of. It has more basis than a long hug. I am NOT saying it will come to pass, but it surprised me to hear, and I can’t ignore it. A LOT can change between one opener and the next. I’ll just hope he does what’s best for him and his family, and they live a long and healthy life together. .

Well, I’ll have what you and your birdie are having!

I think we have cause for another hypothetical trade thread! 😋

During the last housing boom/bust, the regulators would send people to investigate. I remember an interview where one guy said something like “if they sent anybody in who actually understood what was happening, we had to hire them”. It was too complicated for almost anyone to decipher, but at least there WERE regulators.

There are no guarantees in life. I like their chances. .

I hope you have an awesome trip! We love Nashville and the surrounding area. We used to have a condo there for family and spent a LOT of time there. If they had better weather and I could be sure they could manage their ridiculous growth I’d consider that as a retirement destination. (I’m already retired, but when the wife gives it up.) Most people hear “Nashville” and think country music. It is SO MUCH MORE than that! Amazing college town with Vanderbilt, Belmont, Lipscomb all just a few miles apart, plus others. It’s a medical hub with all kinds of technology investment, etc. You might know it better than I do, but if you want hints for restaurants, what to do, etc let me know. EDIT: My wife would probably consider Waco, TX as a vacation destination. She LOVES Joanna Gaines and her style. She actually looked into having her come to Atlanta to our house a few years ago. My wife reads a book, then reaches out to the author with amazing results! She's a dynamo, but Joanna has limits.

Enjoy! Where are you headed? We need some domestic vacation ideas. Cancelled a big trip coming up in a couple months. (I’m not paying YOU to quarantine me.) Don’t worry, there are plenty of people to piss us off in your absence! I’m NOT worried about a shortage! 😋

Draft (the right) one early, and let him play on the cheap for a while. Chasing expensive FA’s at every position is not the way to build a team. It worked with the Rams this year (good for them), but I’m not a fan of that style. The Rams were lucky we fell to the Chiefs in a classic game. The Bengals were lucky they didn’t have to play either of us on a good day. Luck matters. I want a lot of shots, not just one or two. I’m into winning long term more than “win now”. Be in the mix every season, and you will get one eventually. I’m not for rolling the dice on one shot at the cost of future seasons.

I know he wants to be a starter, and be paid like one, but if you can spend 10-15 years doing what he did last season, it’s a pretty good gig! Not a bad start in life! .

I just want to call in and see some guy get penalized for some quirky infraction I noticed. It makes me feel better about my foot wedge employed on every other hole. 😋

Besides, the existence of this thread precludes this from EVER happening. Hypothetical trade threads are NOT allowed to come to existence per Jim Facenda and the other Gods of football. …I’m pretty sure.

I used to review real estate appraisals from around the country, many from Mississippi and Alabama. They not only rejected paragraphs, THEY WOULD DO PAGES AT A TIME IN ALL CAPS! I’d ask “What are you doing? You’re killing me!”. They told me “I was taught to work for speed.” I suggested they throw a little quality in with their quantity. If you are going to make my life hard because you are lazy and barely literate, I’m not going to make YOUR life any easier than I have to. WE pay YOU, keep that in mind. One thing I know is you are not supposed to look directly into them. 😋

It will still be a path for him in a year or two, so why not take the bigger check and the easier life while you can? I respect his decision, and he’s still going to have the coaching option when his time comes. He didn’t reject the coaching option, he just delayed it.

When our kids were young my buddy a few doors up the road had an au pair from France who looked a little like that. She also had an aversion to wearing anything above the waist around the house. Leigh started getting a lot more company dropping by. He’s still married, but I think it was touch and go for a while.

I started, but figured I got the gist of it early on and gave up. It seemed a rather daunting task. There are no participation awards in the NFL. They are not in middle school. If they are afraid of consequences for their quality of play, maybe they need to find a new place to go to work.

I have to come clean here. When I first saw that clip, I misunderstood what was happening and why. I posted (since deleted) based upon what I thought I saw. I had no idea that she belonged there, or that she had been so seriously injured. (I’m not sure if the extent of her injury was known at the time.) It’s certainly a bad look for him, but I think his wife (?) appeared sufficiently horrified. I hope nobody judges me by my worst moments. That would not be pretty. I won’t do that to him. Tequila makes for strange events! You don’t win your first SB very often in life. Hope she gets well soon with no long term downside.

That takes a strong trunk!

I am a HUGE fan of diversity. However, I also believe in the open market. I’m wondering how this might work, and what it might look like. What might happen behind the scenes that we will never know of?

So, he’s a super hard worker? Is that process stuff? I think it almost qualifies as “wholesome” for an NFL player since he had two separate rooms. As the saying goes, “if I wanted to disappoint two people at once, I just would have invited my parents to dinner”. .

Obviously, that was a bit of hyperbole. We know a few specs of sand on the beach, for sure. What amazes me the most is how much more there is to learn! We have far more questions than answers, IMO. We really don’t know what dark matter is, and it apparently makes up most of the universe (I’ve read estimates of 85-95%+). What we DO know is far more than 100 years ago, but almost nothing compared to thousands of years from now, if we make it that long.

I’m the last guy you want math answers from! Ask my (math major) wife! What I DO know is……we don’t know squat. Think of what we “know” now that we didn’t know just a hundred years ago. Or a thousand years ago. Look at the acceleration of discovery and advancement, and then imagine what we might know a thousand years in the future. Heck, another decade will present us with what I now consider unimaginable! When I was a kid we had party line phones. Now? Elementary school kids walk around with cell phones and most of the knowledge of mankind at their fingertips. I have no idea what might be possible in the future! He may have said it, but you are leading the charge. I’m not getting up in anyone’s business, I’m just pointing out the obvious. I can’t “know” what is out there (or is not out there), and neither can you.

You have to blame the sitcoms, I think. (Not sure where that part came in.)

That sounds like you could make a nice song out of it…..… Have you bought a chicken wing lately? Some places the menu says “Market Price”, like it’s lobster or something! Everything is getting crazy expensive, and rates are about to rise for the first time in an amazingly long time.

But…..is it as small as the universe is big? 🤷‍♂️ I don’t pretend to know, so I feel pretty confident I’m not wrong.

…….and somehow they skim enough that Caesar’s Palace can have that lovely inlaid marble mosaic tile at the bottom of their various pools. It’s a sweet deal! I think it was $5k, and he didn’t mention it to his wife. There may be a reason we haven’t heard from him since. There may be an ongoing investigation. Police have no comment.