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One fella's tantalizing is another's excruciating, apparently

That's how I see it as well. This would imply that there is no way we can trade up before Cleveland's pick at one unless they definitively declare they are taking Darnold prior to the draft.

It's just a joke, but thanks for ruining my lunch.

Not unless it will make you feel better

Sorry, philosophical theology and Christian theology are in my wheelhouse. I actually write articles on this stuff on a theoblog.

One has to hope that Beane and McD are sound football minds with good judgment. I presume the hype is for the entertainment of fans. If the GM gets caught up in that, he won't be good at his job.

You have five grouped together, but OBD might have separation where one or two are strongly preferred. If they have five grouped roughly in the same area, obviously, one does not need to trade up to 2.

What is eternal life? What is eternity? What is love? None of these questions are limited to easy, univocal answers. Differences in Christian theology give profoundly different responses to the matter of suffering, for instance. In some Protestant versions of soteriology, justification is forensic and God's heaven a reward extrinsic to a metaphysical state of being. The Cross is suffering taken on by Christ so that the believer does not suffer. (In vulgar terms, this is categorized as "cheap grace.") It is likely a caricature of many forms of Reformation-inspired theology. Regardless, for much of the Christian tradition, the Cross is not extrinsic, not part of a purely individualist understanding of salvation, and not separable from Resurrected life. Hence, suffering is indeed central to Christian praxis for much of the tradition.

Alright, let me rephrase. The last draft folks talk about as being rich with multiple qbs (and of course only some worked out) was 1983. That's 35 years ago. It is rare to have a draft with 4 or more qbs that might be considered for the first round. A normal draft has 1 or 2 or actually zero. We have the draft capital this year, not next year, etc.

Fine, you can wait another 25 years and hope when the perfect qb appears you have the first overall pick, because folks don't trade that player away. Rare to have a draft with multiple potential franchise qbs and we set ourselves up for it by acquiring draft capital.

Fixed it for you, Phil.

There are diverse forms of Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, any religion, for the most part. In my view, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon, not simply an older, atavistic cosmological model. Fundamentalists are anti-modern moderns, though unaware of it. One of my oldest friends is Buddhist. Went to see the Dalai Lama when he came to UCLA decades ago. Unfortunately, I had a few too many beers the night before and fell asleep. I think my pal has forgiven me that by now. It's obvious ethical behavior is achievable outside of a specifically religious affiliation, but Western monotheisms tend to make historical truth claims that are not simply separable from notions of person and love that are consequential upon forms of revelation. People who are following a path within a tradition will not see specific truth claims as arbitrary or discardable.

A completely privatized religion is part of the Post-Enlightenment project. Part of the impasse between Islam and the West is that sharia law rejects a purely secular public forum. There is an entire metaphysics with particular notions of what constitutes a person, freedom, the nature of the will and social bonds that underlies modernity and the West. I don't think Dreher actually thinks one can constitute a radically alternative society, though I haven't read the book. My surmise was that he wanted to put in question some of the complacent presuppositions that found the modern sensibility. I am sympathetic to Dreher's perspective, but I suspect it is largely a pipedream.

I think it's called The Benedict Option. Rod Dreher is Eastern Orthodox, not Catholic. He's an intellectual and the kind of Christian culture alternative he talks about is not synonymous with hard-line Traditionalism, imo, though it might seem so to those with progressive social values.

Everyone has their own tastes, but that kind of casual, populist store front church appalls my own sensibility. The old sci-fi writer, R.A. Lafferty has some very funny satire about the folk guitar, kumbaya mass of the sixties. This latter thing is a more Protestant variant, imo.

Well, good for you for persevering. I'm not really a baseball guy, but even I know there is a premium on left-handed pitching. To the OP, there will always be enclaves, albeit, increasingly miniscule, of a certain kind of reactionary traditionalism. I don't think the alternative is necessarily a kind of tolerant indifference. There are forms of tradition that are creative and synthetic, but the theologies of that kind generally get censure from both right and left, so to speak.

Really messed up. Should have encouraged you to be a pitcher.

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I am an UGA fan, so Roquon at 12 would not displease me, but I think this draft is first and foremost all about the qb and I just don't think Rudolph is that good. If we take him, I will hope that I am wrong and root for him to do well. I prefer Mark Andrews at TE. DJ Chark and Equanimeous St. Brown are WRs I like.

I don't see the reasoning here. Rosen and Mayfield are really the only fellas who could possibly start day one. You aren't drafting for day one; you're drafting for a franchise qb who might be leading your team for a decade or longer. You sign AJ because you don't want Peterman to be your primary backup, because AJ can conceivably start for a season or a substantial part of a season while the potential franchise guy develops. I'd be fine with Rosen or Mayfield, btw, but I am also fine with Darnold or Allen.

Articulate expression of a defensible view. Too bad you feel it necessary to paint the opposing view as a bunch of irrational, whiny immediate gratification dopes. One can just as easily make a plausible argument that this is an unusually rich draft for potential franchise qbs and that one should grab one when one has the draft capital to do so. Considering it has been a quarter century since this team had a top-flight qb, surely it is not simply a sign of impatience to opt for the qb. Future drafts and FA will undoubtedly offer opportunities to find players at other positions, while franchise qbs rarely become available.

Anger, of course, can be pathological, but it is the natural reaction to injustice.

I like Allen. I think he will go early. If Darnold, Allen, and one of Rosen or Mayfield go in the top five and we still don't have a qb, you better move up to six or seven to secure the last of the top four. Unless you're okay taking Jackson or Rudolph later, I don't think you can wait till 9 or 10 and gamble a team like the Cards won't jump up ahead of you.

Have you looked at Bandit's arguments for Allen? I think there's more positives there than you are seeing. I am not a Rudolph fan. I'd rather take Jackson at 22, but he might not fall that far. I absolutely would not take Rudolph before 22 and I won't be terribly happy if we do.

I get a Philip Rivers vibe, which turns a lot of folks off, but I don't mind it.