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They were not high school boyfriend and girlfriend. Their families were friends and Britt danced at the same school as the eldest Allen girl so they knew each other, but Josh and Brittney didn't date until after Josh enrolled at Wyoming, and weren't close, either. Allen was busy being a multisport athlete and Brittney was dating someone else. How to tell us you're a misogynist without typing the words "I'm a misogynist". I don't care personally, as I don't personally know Britt Williams and what I do know doesn't seem like someone I'd have a thing in common with. But to speak that kind of insulting crap about any woman gives off serious Incel vibes. Not a good look. Dowhatcha like tho.

Someone on the Reddit group I linked up thread made the sardonic comment: "I hate when hackers post something unhinged enough to make me look bad but fully believeable based on how I conduct myself and then nothing more than that 🤪." There seems to be uncertainty as to whether it was a bartender, a UB soccer player, or Lydia Dominick Edit: or maybe it was all 3, IDK; I'm sure there's no shortage of women throwing themselves at Josh

I think some people (I might be one of them) were thinking "safety".

Exactly, it's not a situation like the "plastic chick", where she was essentially a "financial dingleberry" who was hanging off Josh's money and status, completely dependent on him. Hailee has her own mansion in Encino, California (she bought John Fogerty's former house), her own investment portfolio, her own celebrity status. Yes, Josh's net worth is higher right now, but I'm sure she also wants to protect her own assets from failure of the pistachio crop or over-investment in Bitcoin or whatever. A solid and fair prenup is never a mistake though.

No. Seriously, I have no idea what you're on about.

I mean, he's disagreeing with your disagreement. So can you collect some other evidence? I can think of, for example, horrible clock management by Dak Prescott to lose a game for the Cowboys; showboating instead of jumping up and handing the ball to the ref by Chase Claypool that cost the Steelers about 5 seconds during their final drive that would have tied the game; I agree with @JGMcD2 that botching the crucial throw or the crucial catch or the crucial kick causes teams to lose games in the final seconds all the time, so with 32 teams playing every week the chances that this has happened in two games in a weekend seems pretty high. What's different here is that both games were the only game being played at that time and both nationally televised.

once again the naughty word filter strikes - can't use s n a t c h But seriously - to anyone nurturing some conspiracy theory: look at Olympic athletes, these guys and gals are not only the best in their country, but the best in the world since for sports like diving, gymnastics, ice skating etc the countries that didn't have an athlete in the top 10 at the last Olympics need to place at world competitions to even qualify for an Olympic spot. These are athletes that can nail a triple back somersault with two twists and a Rip! entry all week in diving practice (or analogous) and Yet, when the pressure is on and it really counts, how often do we see them mess up? All the time.... it's one thing to have the elite athletic traits, and another to have the mental makeup that can handle the pressure flawlessly. I agree that there are symptoms of organizational incompetence or poor coaching (Caleb Williams may be indicative of that) but, there are also symptoms of humans making mental mistakes under pressure. Interesting book by Sian Beilock about it, called Choke (not to be confused with the novel by the same name): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Choke/Sian-Beilock/9781416596189

No. I think people really do commit boneheaded acts under immense pressure, and when a lesser team has the chance to tie or win against a superior team on national television, yeah, the pressure is immense.

Losing your two CBs is a significant loss. It's not quite "well, except for THAT Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?" level, but it's close. Chris Jones has been the heart and soul of the KC defense. Now age 30. I could be wrong but I do wonder if Cyborg successfully handles the Chris Jones of 2 years ago or even a year ago.

Just Win baby. They all count the same. What's the saying, between "lucky" and "good", take "lucky"? They do seem to get a lot of breaks with calls and no-calls (on DPI especially)

FWIW Britt Williams claims her accounts were hacked and she did not post this: As someone responded:

She was definitely into being a wealthy celebrity, except she wasn't.

I'm gonna go with "No".

I don't think she's taking it well.

This is kind of correct. It's true that their families are friends. They went to different high schools, Josh to Firebaugh and her to the "big school" nearby. According to an interview I heard with Brittany, she asked Josh to be her date for a Sadie Hawkins dance in high school....it went so "well" he blocked her for 2 years (they were on a party bus, she was evidently a bit wild and Josh was shy and put off by the goings on). They got back in contact after Josh got his growth spurt and started dating after Josh went to Wyoming. I don't know whether she was enthused about him before he had a high likelihood to become an NFL athlete, but she did seem to enjoy "being someone" by virtue of dating a celebrity.

for her, right? She is a wealthy woman and a celebrity in her own right Josh and his family seem to have put him on the right path as far as financial advisors and such, so I'm sure they both have good legal advice who will take care of all that.

In 2022, when the Giants won enough games to go to the playoffs and won a game there, they looked like a well-coached football team. There was no quit in them. Everyone was "doing their job", and Daboll seemed to provide a "spark" on the sidelines. I said at the beginning of last season 2023 that the Giants just did NOT look like a well-coached football team to me. Their opening game, they came out and got their asses handed to them by Dallas. Losing to a good team, and being on the losing end of a 40-0 drubbing, are two different things. There's this phenomenon we see all the time in the NFL where an assistant coach/assistant GM will move to a new team and seem to do well for a year, then regress. There are probably multiple reasons, including opponents not being quite sure what to expect the first year then having enough film to "solve" them while the coach doesn't continue to evolve. But I think part of it is that all these guys have egos. The assistants looking up at the head guy think they can do a better job if they're running the show. But maybe once they're in charge, they start to realize maybe their former boss "knew something" and they don't know as much as they think they know.

Thanks! Hope you have a merry feast with family when you're done working! We've had a wonderful Thanksgiving so far. Kid and her boyfriend were here, brought 92 yr old Mom over and muscled her up our neighbor's ATV ramps into our house, no other family this year but had a couple neighbors and friends join us. Earlier in the week, was able to make up and distribute 10 "Thanksgiving Dinner Bags" at our neighborhood walk-up food mini pantries. Always feels good when I'm able to spare the means to do that.

Remember Daniel Jones was a failure as the "Temu Josh Allen". He can use his legs, but he can't operate from a muddy pocket or buy time to make the throw. He's OK if you give him a short quick passing game well supported by a strong run game, and he can get you the first down on occasion, but he's far from a "Josh Allen style QB"

That surprises me, but OK, I'm wrong.

It's pretty clear the Manziel family lived in a very nice home and drove nice cars (maybe in part from the dealership?) But the representation has been that Johnny Football came from big Oil Money, and that isn't true - they weren't making so much money that profiting off their son's college football career and NFL wasn't an interest.

This has been debunked. There is money in the Manziel family, but "records showed "the cash doesn't appear to reach Johnny Football's branch of the family." " His father worked as the GM of a Honda dealership, and one reason they pushed Manziel in college as they did was because they were making money off him.

It's not the paycheck, it's the lack of stability and the job expectations of practice squad members. Good teams like the Bills do focus on developing practice squad members and getting them ready for that "next man up" mentality, but a big part of their job is still to help the starters prepare by mimicing the next opponent (including safety, heh). I don't think a team is allowed to pay a PS member that much money.

I think a practice squad signing is below Jones "dignity level" at this point. Just my opinion.