Mikie2times

I'm not buying this mess is on one political party. It is never that simple. We collectively led ourselves down this path. If you want to push more blame to one vs the other so be it, but it's just not that simple. Immigration was a clear rallying cry for his MAGA base and one of the main "honest" issues he ran on as far as things he could actually fix. Most peoples view of the economy is not how the stock market is performing. It's what they pay for normal things. These tariffs ensure normal things will be more expensive. Jerking around our supply chains with this on and off again approach will just lead to instability within an already proven bad concept. If this was the plan nothing he sold during the election regarding paying less for normal people will play out and to think that maybe it will sometime down the road is a good ways past optimism. These are just unintelligent moves, no way around it. He can do a lot of things to push his agenda but this was never going to benefit anybody (unless you think all the leading economists in the world are just liberal COVID fan boys) which sadly, is an agenda he has promoted as well.

I never had a problem with immigration, I think it makes the country smarter and stronger. My lady is an immigrant. Super educated, just an incredible woman. But the dems never figured out a path that was logical or sustainable. Which sort of made it worse for those that tried to do it by the book. Ultimately it exposed them in the elections. Now we are paying the price for that mistake.

He might be a DT or he might be a DE. He might be 300+ pounds or he might be under 260. His motor might be high or his chess piece might be strong. Regardless of it all he most certainly is a Canadian so we must be cautious. He could be spying more than the QB.

After my initial roasting, the tape does look good. It will come down to how we use him.

Give Beane until the end of the night. I imagine we bag 4 or 5 of them.

I would have preferred to see him back for just what kind of edge he gave us. This team isn't the most physical or brash or confident and he seemed to give us a real edge. Palmer is most certainly an upgrade, but at that price, I'm surprised we didn't pay for the ST's and leadership TBH. Never thought I would say it but he will be missed. Thanks for your time and your Facebook tutorials.

He's got a really good body, physical but not slow. Sort of a poor mans Amari Cooper. I thought he would break out with the Chargers lack of WR talent it just never happened. It's a bit concerning that it didn't but not a bad signing. I'm just looking for the type of signing that gives us an edge in the divisional round or later and I haven't see anything yet. Hard not to be disappointed but still time left.

Him and AJ can talk about the trials and tribulations of losing weight and being average.

I don't think Beane really cares about system fit. Only that he's related to Chris Kelsey and provides depth. Seriously starting to loathe Beane's approach to building this roster. Which I know evokes strong distaste from those that think he walks on water. I will change my tune if we bring on a legit difference maker. The last one was 2022 and the one before that was 2020. You better be damn good at hitting your draft picks with high end talent if you don't want to use trades or FA.

Combined with one of the worst decisions to extend him early. He had the history and was showing the history before our eyes. We treated throwing money at him like a divorce ready couple having a kid. The conclusion sort of takes the appeal of the initial move (which I agree was good) but part of the game is recognizing when the deck is no longer in your favor and walking away. We doubled down and that was a mistake.

For as bad as immigration was, for as bad as government spending was, for as bad as the liberal polices were, they had a degree of economic sanity. They wouldn't consider using something that is universally dismissed as a horrible idea by the leading economists in the world and doing so like its a children's game. This is all on Trump. This party is going to be removed in a landslide when the economy is upside down and nobody has work.

Stable economy or secure borders? Not that difficult a choice.

He had 17 sacks in 24 games post injury before he got hurt with the Bills again. If tangible things existed to say he had a higher injury likelihood NFL teams would have baked this into his value when he hit FA's. If you had better intelligence than the NFL you should be working for them.

The Chargers seem too perfect for this. But as somebody called out, Harbaugh isn't a WR focused HC.

Honestly, I don't blame the guy (cold). If I had a choice I wouldn't pick cold either. Hopefully it's something we align on. That would be a huge bummer to miss on him for that reason.

How do we determine the hit for 25 and 26?

He will be in out top 5 players for cap hit no?

I think it’s more that you guys just don’t have anything to add. It’s basically limited to “see record” roster good. See record “coach good”. Poster doesn’t agree, “poster dumb”. You can’t offer anything specific on any of it past that. I wish I could be so simple. Life would probably be easier.

Keon tried to assault somebody once but they just walked away and he couldn’t catch him

Ever notice the how the pro McD posters are so intolerant of other opinions they go to personal insults? They can’t just talk about the subject. Not just you, several of you. It sort of speaks a little deeper to the quality of these posters and the opinions they have.

And he could blow out his knee next year or miss several games. Sometimes that extra year of information is worth waiting for. This is the pitfall of the extend early to save mantra we live and die by.

I don’t like locking up another B player in a critical position. MLB can be a monster in this system. He’s good, the value is good, but this is now the ceiling at MLB and I think B players being the ceiling are the heart of this teams issues.

Actual player recognition, via pro bowl and all pro voting doesn’t align with this. We don’t have another player in the top 100 as of last year. A few could crack it in 2025. Average winning %’s of teams with exceptional QB play supports our record independently of other variables. Those teams post +65% winning %’s historically. Claiming all of it is excellent is just as off base as all of it sucks. It can’t be all good and it can’t be all bad. If I had to actually be balanced here, I would discredit the roster more than McD at this point. B coach, with a C+ roster, and Josh easily lands us where we are in this deplorable division. We have had more talent in other years but last year it was league average at best outside of Allen. Our defensive data aligns with that and if you remove Allen with a replacement level QB what exactly do you think the offense would do? Would it rank in the top 15? Seems like a stretch….: McD does a great job developing turnover battle winning squads. He is a good leader. That’s enough to get him a B grade even if I’m not a fan of the rest of it. But even with McD, is he not a meddling .500 guy without Josh? (he is actually under .500 without Josh FYI) So while I know all of you try to separate Allen from this and give everybody flowers like these are 8 year olds needing a trophy, the reality is our success is very top heavy with Josh. Which is why it never lasts very long in the postseason. He covers so many warts it’s hard to fully compute.

I think it’s time to draft one. If Allen goes down for the year it’s over, but it would be a huge mistake to not get us a guy that can keep our playoff hopes protected for 8 games or so or if we needed him for a critical game. Allen’s durability has been all time good, but so was Brady’s, until that one year when it wasn’t.