Coach Tuesday

Gailey gets his waterbug.

Turns out he lacks speed.

Guess they decided he’s worth the $40 million.

Bills mentioned as a landing spot per Rotoworld.

Believe it or not I think Herndon their TE is going to be the focal point of their offense.

Maybe wait for dessert to spring that one on him?

Probably @BillfromNYC I think he's still mad at me. I probably owe him a burger and beer.

Thanks for doing it!

Um, don’t hold your breath brah, the world has had “issues” since, like, the Snake and the Apple...

Thank you for your service and courage (seriously). TBH, if I had fought for this country I’d be even more dismayed with the current state of affairs. This country is a MESS. It’s a mess on all sides. The cities and infrastructure are crumbling. The national debt is skyrocketing. We have under-educated our population for decades, resulting in tens of millions of adult-aged morons who lack meaningful job skills, let alone critical thinking skills. We chose pensions over progress in the 70s and many parts of the country (Buffalo is a prime example) are still suffering the consequences. We no longer create wealth at the rate we once did. Something as simple as fixing a school or a subway requires greasing so many politicians and unions that it’s financially impossible. We reject science on all sides of the political spectrum. We are obese as hell, we subsidize corn products to fatten people up and then subsidize fixing the resulting health problems. And we have an unqualified morally and financially bankrupt leadership class that cannot respond productively to the challenges of our times. We are third-world. Honestly at this rate we are a decade or two away from being Lebanon. This country is TRASH right now and it’s a damn shame because we should be the best country in the world. We got fat and lazy and stupid and we paid into pension plans for government employees instead of investing in our kids’ future. Yeah I’d be damned furious if I fought for this crap.

And part of the reason for this is that we are OBSESSED with race in this country. It dominates other things (on both ends of the political spectrum). There are millions of folks - some in this thread - who work crappy jobs with no prospect of advancement, are routinely lied to by the politicians they support, and are utterly laughed at and disposed of by corporate America - and yet they cannot get their minds off of anything other than racial grievances and the idea that somehow, in some way, they are being held back because of someone with different-color skin. And in the case of the far right, no matter how much their politicians lie, steal and cheat, at least it’s better than a brown-skinned person getting to do and say what they want, take their jobs, compete for their women, etc. These thoughts dominate the American mind.

I’m anti-union (I view unions as the single biggest impediment to progress as a society and believe unions for govt employees should be outlawed), pro-corporate, and completely against economic safety nets. But yet according to some of the zombies in this thread I’m a left-wing zealot. Go figure!

The problem is that they DON'T talk to each other online. They talk AT each other online, and TO like-minded sub-communities.

And yet you joined this thread specifically to respond to me ?

It’s not idleness, it’s lack of personal connection. What liberal professors and right-wing internet tough guys like Joe have in common is that neither group lives in the real world, neither group interacts with real people from diverse backgrounds. Instead, they congregate virtually and/or in self-selected groups of like-minded thinkers. And the lack of connectivity has been exacerbated by COVID, which has made it that much harder to connect. There are few things worse than the tyranny of a closed mind.

So long as Canada and your mom’s basement have internet access, we will still be in touch, though.

And there’s our resident fascist, on cue! Don’t worry Joe, I may indeed be moving abroad.

Oh I believe you’re the majority. I have little doubt that The Great Divider will win again. He’s the President this country deserves. That’s because this country is trash. As for you - you don’t seem like someone who is disengaged. For someone who claims to be phasing out football, you spend a lot of time here. For someone who claims to be against mixing politics and football, we sure hear a lot about your politics.

You have!? You’re still here, talking about leaving. BYE!

Fiction. And you’ve never met an actual Marxist. They are basically a myth.

The inability of people over 55 to apply critical thinking skills to content they encounter on Facebook is a huge reason for the mess we find ourselves in. That generation came of age with the dawn of mass-produced television and they learned at an early age to believe whatever the box told them. It has not translated well. Facebook + Baby Boomers = Chaos And if you don’t believe me I will show you my mom’s Facebook feed.

Yet here you still are, on a football message board, yammering endlessly about how disengaged you are...

I’m the snowflake!?!? You can’t watch your favorite team play your favorite sport because the players’ politics upsets you ?

I mainly don’t watch NASCAR, bull riding, or hunting shows because I despise the politics of the “athletes” and their fans and I can’t stand the pseudo-fascist “YOO ESS AY!” nonsense they blast at full tilt. But I don’t feel the need to go to NASCAR forums to announce my displeasure and threaten to boycott, nor do I yell “stick to sports” when some hick race car driver says yet another stupid thing to a microphone. NOBODY CARES IF YOU LEAVE, JUST DO IT ALREADY.

Horrible response.