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I get your point generally I think. But if going strictly by that logic, then Quenton Nelson and Luke Kueckly were bad draft picks. It's not about what position they play as much as it's about how much they are worth. Guys like Nelson and Kueckly are guys you pay. Period. Do I think Edmunds belongs in the NFL as a starting MLB? Absolutely. Do I think he's worth as much as he was paid? No, but I do think he's good enough to be worth ~$10mil per year. I would've loved to have him back at that price, but I'm also glad we are not paying him what Chicago is.

The Blues and the Greens from ancient Rome and medieval Byzantium could get so rowdy during events as to cause mass riots that might devastate whole cities or even dethrone emperors. Afaik, "fan" comes from the word fanatic, and that's no accident if so.

This turned out to be a brilliant, hilarious, and surprisingly applicable analogy lol.

That was literally me in backyard football. I feel attacked! 😄 But we got to the moon with rockets and 60s hardware. So if you're right, that means the moon is the limit for Allen (i.e., 1 step above the sky!).

No doofus! It's obviously "Muddle Lonebacker" 🤦‍♂️ Some posters around here, I tell ya... 😂

To one of his last points, the original vision of the Founding Fathers was not one where they believed that the common citizen could be trusted with self-governance. They believed that those with the greatest stake in the country were naturally the best ones to lead it, since they had the most to lose if the country was poorly governed. Governance certainly couldn't be left in the hands of the uneducated. Or the landless... or women... or blacks.... One of the most common lines you will hear on the right when defending a Republican-led Senate that represents far less than half of the population is "America is not a democracy; it is a federal republic." The flip-flop of that ideal goes against the grain of the Republican party and appeals directly to populist sentiment on the right. The unawareness of this hypocrisy is hilarious.

Manufacturing indictments of such magnitude against a former president is not a simple thing to get done. So yes, a task like that really is unthinkable if Democrats are pure simpletons who generally can't get anything done.

Kin-Cong? 🦍

I've always wondered if this were actually the case but I've never seen the analysis done. Interesting. EDIT: Ha. There's even a line on Wikipedia's "Play-action pass" entry about the running game being irrelevant, and this is what they cite in support of that statement: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2018/rushing-success-and-play-action-passing

I read a good article recently about the rising cost of attending college. One point they made was that today's students expect a certain kind of college "experience" outside of the classroom. This persuades universities into purchasing or upgrading a lot of big-ticket items, and most boards of trustees conduct very little oversight on spending. That spending then drives up tuition. The hyper-commodification of higher learning shields itself from scrutiny by hiding behind the pretense that more education is never a bad thing.

Of course. That's where discipline and coaching comes in. As a general mentality, an MLB should be one of the scariest guys on a defense. Defense is about being physical, and since MLBs are often the "QBs of the defense", a physical, nasty MLB sets the tone for the defense in the same way that Josh sets the tone for our offense.

I've always heard that you want your MLB to be a little "off" in the head. Borderline psychopath even.

I was initially going to include that one too, but Ike didn't make it past the final cuts 😂

As a bona fide armchair QB with over 70 seasons of Madden 2005 franchise mode under my belt, losing Edmunds this offseason was a big concern of mine. Athletic, rangy MLBs are one of the most critical components of my scheme, and my defense performs a lot worse when I don't have one. You see, I'm not an NFL-level defensive coach lol. If I don't have the right personnel for my system, I have a hard time adapting my scheme to fit my personnel. But the thing is... McD *is* an NFL-level defensive coach, and that means having the ability to adapt his scheme to fit his personnel. It's just a matter of shuffling responsibilities around a bit. You can't expect to win in this league if your system requires special/rare athletes to function properly. And since McD has a few wins under his belt, I tend to lean towards "trusting the process" as well.

I love the pronunciation guide on the depth chart lol. "BASS (like the fish)" "Gouraige (rhymes with garage)" 🤣

That is so weird seeing Wolf Blitzer blaming Democrats and Trump giving Democrats credit in the same interview.

In donuts and doritos, I take it? 😝

I'm surprised no one cracked a shot at this post from page 1.

Ironically, I was just thinking about this yesterday. Granted, the league wasn't as pass-friendly in the 80s and 90s as it is today, but Tyrod has a higher career passer rating (88.2) than Jim Kelly (84.4). His passer rating during his three years as a Bill was 92.5, and he only committed 21 turnovers (16 INTs, 5 lost fumbles). He almost broke the record for the highest single season passer rating by a Bills QB in his first year as a starter (99.6 vs Kelly's 101.2 in 1990), and I believe that season counts as the third-highest passer rating in team history (behind Kelly in 1990 and Allen in 2020).

I thought JP Losman was gonna be our franchise QB. I even bought his jersey lmao.

Exactly. You can't just stop fossil fuel usage overnight. The other thing that always gets me about the energy discussion is the reluctance to accept nuclear energy more broadly in this country. There's a documentary from about 10 years ago called Pandora's Promise that goes over the numbers on nuclear energy, and it is (or was 10 years ago) the cleanest form of electricity generation per kilowatt generated by a significant degree. Breeder reactors in particular make storing nuclear waste much more efficient since they generate more fissile material than they consume and they reduce the volume of nuclear waste produced by a factor of 100. Electricity would be so cheap that electric cars could more easily become the norm. I tend to agree with you a bit here as well. I know several trans people and they are all good people with good hearts to a person; I am definitely pro-LGBTQ, but I'm not for abandoning biological reality, either. Allowing trans women to compete in all-woman's sports is not really a very pro-woman thing to do when you think about it. But there more might be a solution by requiring trans-athletes to have the same hormone levels as is biologically typical before allowing them to compete. With regards to things like drag and children, I think it's fine as long as it's not racy. In my school, the drama club that did the school plays was predominantly made up of girls, so it was very common to see things like females playing male roles and no one batted an eye. Cancel culture really worries me on college and university campuses. These are places where radical new ideas are supposed to be given a chance to be heard, and then put up for scrutiny by academic peers. Filling a lecture hall and screaming at the top of your lungs to prevent another from even speaking is a remarkably disturbing shift from this decorum, and I find that trend abhorrent. Military bloat is a fantastic example of how quickly people can be divided when there tends to be a lot of agreement. The military is probably the most liked of all government institutions atm. It's also the backbone of our clout in foreign affairs. Unfortunately, any discussions about making the military "leaner" are instantly cast as anti-American. Overall, I think most Americans would still like to see us as the strongest military in the world by far, but without the exorbitant price-gouging during procurement by defense contractors. I saw a PBS Special about this not too long ago where some basic medical device that goes for $15 on the open market costs the military $600 to purchase.

Ideally, I'd like to be a politician that lives up to what that should mean. I want to be a leader that constituents can look up to as a person that champions the just causes of our communities. But that basically makes me dead in the water as a legitimate candidate lol. With respect to getting acknowledgement from both sides, the funny thing is that it's the norm for me. When you sit down and actually talk with people, and most importantly LISTEN to them, it's amazing how much agreement is eventually found. There definitely is an appetite in the American electorate for these types of candidates, and yet they never do well in elections. So until that dynamic changes, I will simply continue to have real, honest conversations with people from all walks of life in the hopes that we can rejoice at the amazing range of views in this country that can still get together and get things done.

That is an editorial written by Andy Puzder, Trump's former nominee for Labor Secretary. About the only political view I agree with him on is his support for comprehensive immigration reform in 2013. And as might be expected, the picture he painted is incomplete. His numbers only reflect wages. While most of us plebs earn our money through actual labor for pay, the wealthiest people earn most of their money through assets, not wages, and assets are taxed differently (e.g., capital gains). It also neglected to address the corporate tax rate reduction. Fixing the tax system isn't so much about raising income tax brackets for wages (although it should still be done imo) as much as it is about closing loopholes for large businesses/corporations and raising taxes on assets. I just finished a class in law school called "Future Interests" and it's insane how easy it is for the ultra wealthy to avoid huge amounts of taxes through things like "charitable" trusts that pay enormous sums to their board of directors who are conveniently made up exclusively of family members with appointments for life that can be inherited. https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/extending-trump-tax-cuts-would-add-35-trillion-to-the-deficit-according-to-cbo The whole tax-burden approach also leaves out another important detail. By lowering the total amount of taxes levied, the difference in revenue had to be made up through borrowing. When 57% of the increase in debt-to-GDP ratio since 2001 can be traced to two pieces of legislation, that counts as extreme in my book--especially when it's from the supposed party of fiscal responsibility. I think I read earlier this week that every dollar spent on the IRS produces $7 in revenue. If we want to address the debt-to-GDP ratio and be more fiscally responsible, gutting the IRS seems like a terrible approach.

Two come to mind right off the bat: his massive tax cut for corporations and the wealthy, and his appointments for SCOTUS and the federal judiciary. Those are his two greatest accomplishments in office, and both are politically extreme in my view. The tax cuts did not benefit the lowest brackets of taxpayers while adding trillions to the deficit, and the judges he picked could not have been further on the right of the political spectrum.