That's No Moon

So McDermott is displeased with the 2nd offensive coordinator he hired? And the defensive coordinator he hired? Leader of men just not chooser of generals apparently. And so we are clear zero points and the offense wasn't good enough. Thanks for clarifying.

Perhaps if their balls dropped it might help.

Yeah, it'd be much better if it were EY-nuhs

Suzy Kolber was...barely....

This might also help.

0-4 losing by FGs is a lot different than 1-3 getting your doors blown off 3 times.

If you predicted 0-4 and had the team looking at least halfway competitive in those 4 but are now 1-3, looking beyond inept in those 3, would you not expect there to be a different reaction?

"I felt we gave a strong effort out there."

So...just the tip then?

I don't give a damn if it helps Buffalo in theory or not. New England can lose every week.

Feel like I heard something about Bob being down with the gang scene in LA, sorta like DeSean Jackson or am I misrembering?

I haven't bought a jersey since Takeo Spikes.

He's still a clown.

I think that's insulting to plants. Even vegetables.

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Like I said, we should both be happy to live the lives we live. I get to visit that world every day for my work, I don't have to stay there. I gave you two examples from the same day with the same cop, if you want to dismiss them go ahead. Maybe I'm wrong, like I said. Maybe that 20 something black guy walking up the road had just robbed a house. Maybe the cop just didn't have his timing gear set up yet when i blew past him. Maybe, just maybe, I'm right though. Like I said, people say what they really think after a couple beers in a socially comfortable place. I've heard stories from the cops own mouths. That's not false narrative. Going back through what I said I believe I acknowledged that the vast majority of law enforcement are good people. They are. I firmly believe that. There are also some who very much aren't. They are people I wouldn't have in my home again and one is a member of my extended family. So I'm left with two choices, either they made up terrible stories that made themselves and a few of their compatriots look like awful people, or they were telling the truth. Working in the community I work in I'm left with 2 choices either ALL of the people I have heard complain about issues like this over the course of 15 years have been lying even though there was zero gain for them to do so or at least some of them have been telling me the truth. Now take the situations I've seen in person, not just the 2 relatively silly ones I presented you with. Have I misinterpreted ALL of those situations over the course of a lifetime? Maybe. I don't know you and I don't know how you live your life. My recommendation for anyone reading this is to go to the worst neighborhood you can find and do some work there. Find a place to volunteer. Do something to help out. Not as a high and mighty isn't your life terrible sort of thing, as an actual caring human being who wants to help a little without judgment. I make that distinction because I see people at my church who think they are great people because they volunteer when really the only reason they are there is say they did it and get an atta boy from their rich friends. The second they go back to their world nothing changes in their attitude or language about the people they went to "help". Not just once or twice either, really get involved and be there enough so you can learn the lay of the land. You will come away from it with a different perspective on things. I went into the hood in Camden, NJ for a job at age 22 thinking I knew something about the world and the way it was. I was very wrong. Again, none of this excuses people and their poor choices. Far from it. You at least gain some insight as to why people do what they do and gain a little empathy for their situation. You see things you will never see in the suburbs (or the countryside for that matter), as people get to know you you will hear things that you will never hear in the suburbs. It is a completely different world and it might be less than 10 miles from your house. It's really easy to minimize these things and blow them off as hype when it's not happening to you or to people you know or care about. Rather than jumping up and down saying it's not an issue, how about taking a step back for a second and just trying out the other perspective. What if it IS an issue for someone else? Like a real issue, not just a lie they tell themselves to feel better about the world or to assign blame to someone else for their problems. What if something like this did happen to someone you love. How would you feel about that? How would it change your outlook on the world?

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -Dylan Thomas

It ends up in a scrap heap if it's disposed of properly. If it's not it ends up the same place a plastic straw will end up, somewhere out in the environment where it takes a couple hundred years to break down. Only difference is those will sink to the bottom of the water source rather than float on top. Looking forward to the day where I'm walking barefoot in a body of water and impale myself on a 20 year old beverage straw buried in the mud.

Wrongs are done every single day. You and I are fortunate that we do not live in that world where we have to endure it. To pretend that this is all from distant past is a joke. Asking whose "side" one is on is also a strawman argument. I'm on the side of the person doing the right thing. Often. In fact, most times, that is the member of law enforcement. Sometimes, whether we as a society like to admit it or not, it isn't law enforcement. I know several police officers in my life. Some I consider to be good people who I trust do the right thing. Some, I'm not so sure about because I hear how they speak when they are in a "safe" environment of people who they think agree with them. I've heard some vile, repugnant things come out of the mouths of our boys in blue and I'd be very surprised if that didn't follow them to their job. You are correct that there is an existing legal procedure. Do I think that having cops investigate themselves is necessarily the best practice? No, no I don't. It's sort of like having a college investigate themselves for an NCAA violation. There is no incentive to to a good job or to come to a negative conclusion. People in certain communities believe that also and it's because of what they see. They see cops roust dealers on the corner and steal their money. Should you be dealing? No. Should a cop be able to rob you because you're a drug dealer and he's a cop? No. Should a cop be able to shoot you and have no repercussions because they "made an error"? That's often what happens. They make an error and even if they are an honest cop who doesn't try to plant evidence or lie about the circumstances they testify that they felt in danger and they skate. Try shooting a cop in error and see how that works out for you. They have been pulled over for no reason and been harassed for being black in the wrong neighborhood. It happens. It's a real thing. In fact I watched it happen myself twice this summer and it was the same cop both times. I was on the way to a hockey game at 7:30am and I drove past a young black man walking down the road. I stopped at a light just past the guy. Main road, busy even at that hour, guy was minding his own business. I saw a cop do a U-turn behind me and pull up behind the guy and before the light changed he had him up against the car. Now, could there have been a call out for a guy fleeing a crime? It's possible, but if the guy was fleeing a crime by slowly walking down the busiest road in town, passing several bus stops and a train station I think that would be a first. He was poor and black and that made him suspicious at 7:30 on a Sunday morning in that town. On the way back from the same game I drove through that same town. I was speeding. I sped past the same cop (same squad car number) who was sitting in a driveway clocking traffic. I was going 15 over the limit past a church on a Sunday AM. Nothing. The car behind me which was a beat up older car with 2 Hispanic guys inside (I saw them at the previous light) and going slower than I was (I was pulling away from them since said light), cop stopped them. Why? Speeding was probably the reason, but I was speeding more than they were right in front of them. More likely, they looked out of place in that lily white town. The cop probably feels like he's doing his job. Other people would see that as stopping a guy just for walking down the road and bypassing a ticket for a white guy in a nice car to write one for 2 poor Hispanic guys to send them a message to stay out of his town. You can scoff at this, you can call BS. I know what I saw and it felt immediately wrong to see both times. I called the local PD. I'm sure they conducted a thorough investigation into the matter. I'm not going to convince you. I know this. What I would say is this. Given the places I have worked and the things that I have seen and continued to see these concerns are real and it doesn't matter if it's a statistically small number. The statistics only tell part of the story and there are plenty of places in our country where these things don't happen, or happen very infrequently. There are also places and neighborhoods where these things happen a lot more frequently. Taken in the aggregate the number is small but for the people who live on the blocks patrolled by the crooked cops the stats don't matter. Police have a dangerous job and I am thankful that they do it. However, that does not give them carte blanche to act however they want in the name of enforcing the law. We can hold criminals accountable for their actions without treating everyone like a criminal. I'm tired of being asked whether I support law enforcement or not. It's a ridiculous statement. Of course I do. All good citizens do. What we brush under the carpet with that question is the fact that some of our law enforcement agents are criminals themselves and they have an inordinate amount of power to get away with their crimes compared to most people. They, I don't support at all. They need to be rooted out with all of our might because they do more damage to the fabric and well-being of our society than 1,000 good cops can fix. Our inability to have that conversation as a society and our craven need for there to be only good guys and bad guys is beyond frustrating. Good guys wear blue and carry badges, bad guys also wear blue and carry badges. We have no problem drawing this distinction with other jobs. We have no trouble at all saying there are bad teachers or bad politicians or even bad doctors. When it comes to police and military our society wants to put its blinders on and call them all heroes. With regard to businesses existing to make money. You are exactly correct. There are. However, businesses and business owners are confronted with choices every day about how to conduct their business. Is is right for Wal-Mart to cut the hours of every associate in a store below 28.5 so they can legally cut their benefits? Is it right that on the day they did that they gave every associate a pamphlet with directions to the local food cupboard and instructions on how to apply for food stamps? That's not a rumor, that's not fake news. That happened. My wife volunteers in our local food cupboard. I've seen the pamphlet. Profitable for Wal-Mart sure. Morally correct? Using Asian child labor to make electronic components is pretty profitable too. Certainly saves on labor compared to paying adults and that improves margins. Morally correct? How about purchasing the patents to old drugs then jacking up the price thousands of percent? Incredibly profitable. Morally correct? Same deal with insulin. People need insulin to survive, they are a captive market. You CAN charge them whatever you want because they NEED your product. Is it morally right to do that? This issue wasn't going to bankrupt the NFL, not even close. It's a weak argument to hide behind profit motive when you are talking about 32 incredibly wealthy and powerful people who aren't running their football teams as a business. Every one of the owners made their money doing something else and the football team is an expensive toy. The decline in ratings and attendance at the NFL level has little to do with this issue and everything to do with the decline of their product quality and the gradual erosion of their fanbase from youth up. Millions fewer kids play, hence millions fewer kids watch, millions fewer kids want to go to a game, millions fewer kids want a jersey for Christmas, millions more families are busy with other activities on a Sunday and are hence not watching. I grew up living and dying football. Now? If I see half of an NFL game that's a lot. My kids? One will watch part of an Eagles game or if the Bills are winning, the other couldn't be bothered at all. You think they will be consumers of the product in 10 years when they are adults? How about their kids? None of that has anything to do with kneeling for the anthem.

Even better. let's make something that still takes a tremendous amount of energy to create, and takes a tremendously long time to decompose so we can sip our beverages more comfortably. I mean how did man ever exist pre-straws?

Reasonable levels of competence come with a cap hit, yeah. Peterman is cheap, and it shows.

The Big10 Network is now on TV in the NY market, guaranteed, every year. Just like it is in the DC Market with the addition of Maryland. More money for everyone.

You are correct it's not. The owners are well within their legal rights to do what they are doing. That doesn't make it the morally and ethically correct decision, however. When profitability trumps morality the world becomes a darker place for everyone.

Significantly better than Nathan Peterman. Significantly.