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This is why I'm against it. You either want the most you can get, or you want long term security...but both typically don't play well in the sandbox together. Either Kirk Cousins your contracts, or you can "be the highest paid X in the league" your contracts. With 1st round rookies I can sort of have a different tune, as they are pretty much slotted, but then again, the team just made a MASSIVE investment in you, and likely liked you so much they locked in your 5th year option. End of the day, know what each party can, and cannot do before signing your name. That goes for military, mortgage, NFL, or your own job.

Not a fan. At all, you knew what you signed up for.

Won't know anything for a while now. Don't let it get ya too upset.

I use my yard every single day of the year. Grow blueberries, raspberries, tomatoes, herb garden. My son has a swingset, and he "mows" along side of me, or rides with me on my Deere. Have raised veggie garden as well. We have a huge deck with multiple seating and dining locations as well as a built in kitchen with flat top, Kamado, and bayou deep fryer. So...yea....there is a point to them, and they do get used by folks who don't like to be inside.

He's had good QB's, but they were so long in the tooth they couldn't overcome a lacking roster. Rivers and Ryan are edge HOF guys, but they both needed to be paired with strong defenses and great running games to succeed. Didn't work. Funny thing I heard the other day, and no clue where I heard it, but word was Shanny was going to pull Rivers in if SF made it to the Super Bowl last year. Would have been a WILD story.

Missed a sentence in your post. Edited.

I'm not going to dig all the way in, but that's not all that surprising. New QB's, new system, etc....almost every single year. I'd expect him to have some slow starts, especially with a rookie.

On the contrary, it's Friday, maybe a touch too little?

Our first 6 games, 4 are on the road, and of those 6, only two teams had losing records last season, and those two were New Orleans and Atlanta. The first part of the season could be brutal. Need to have some perspective heading into this one gents.

You can ask, but I wouldn't. It looks/seems like he did a good job for you. Were I in your shoes, I'd rather eat the 1k possible upside, and have a good builder/GC/handyman in my rolodex.

Ah, one of my favorites. Waking a buddy up in the middle of the night and telling him and his parents to grab as much as they could carry, and go get in the bucket of a front end loader out front. Water was 2' deep in his house while they slept, and it was rising 1' per hour. They were the lucky ones. Next morning I was running a jon boat down the highway in 8 feet of water, hit the top of a Ford Excursion that had been left during flooding. No idea if the owners made it. I still can't believe that Eastern NC looked the way it did.

LOL. Got a LONG list of memorable ones, but Floyd and Fran were the worst. Carnage. I've lived at the beach my entire life (other than college), and I've been here for all of them, never evacuated. Also was a firefighter, so never could evacuate if I wanted to. 4 feet of water in my house in Bertha, fixed it up, and 6 feet in Fran a few weeks later. Rescued families off their rooftops in boats during Floyd. Slept in a bank vault overnight at Wrightsville Beach during one of them. Knocking on every door for mandatory evacuation, fighting fire in the middle of the night during 100 mph winds, going 14 days with no power. Yea, I've got some memories of those GD things. This afternoon I'll fill up 30 gallons worth of gas cans, and change the oil in the generator. I usually do it every Aug 15, but got busy last week.

Will stop by on the way home, TY sir.

Not the end of the world. A mistake, yes, but it's not a talent thing, it's a reps thing. Just don't get BY killed.

If ya like these, and I do...start playing around with making your own. About all I do now, and I can tweak it depending on guests, and meat.

Tough to say. My guys are some of the best I've ever seen, and I've been in housing for 20 years....but they are expensive and slow. That sounds a bit high to me, but not out of bounds if they do a great job. Get the specs on the insulation as well. Is it wired yet? If not pull you some 20's.

Had Carr not signed in NO, I think this team had as good of a shot as any of the other 3 to make the playoffs....and immediately get embarrassed. Now, I think NO walks away with it if they can stay relatively healthy. Just show promise, and keep BY from getting killed. All I want.

Watched the offense with BY in there just now. OL isn't playing up to their standard, but not the end of the world either, this can be fixed with playing time. Young looked better, and you can see that we have some guys who can play at wideout, but no real play makers....maybe Chark can stay healthy and the OL can protect a little better...that could be some big plays waiting to happen. Maybe. I think the Offense will look better with Miles in there, and I bet we rely heavily on the screen game this year, could be why the OL looks so weird right now? Who knows. I think this can be a .500 team, and to be honest, I'd be happy with that, so long as we improve through the season. Our schedule looks tough to me, but you never really know what teams will look like until a few games in. I'm worried about the constant pressure on BY, that's the only thing that really concerns me at this point. The rest is just fluff.

Ah, now I get the pricing. Will be fine, not a big project at all. I bet you and a couple buddies could have knocked it out over 2 weekends. Pics later.

Hard to believe he had that bad high ankle just a couple years ago. Then sitting behind CMC, and to top it off, Fhules coaching. It's not too hard to imagine that Chubba could turn into a productive 1b in the right system. We certainly (hopefully) have a legit O Line, and now a QB that will make defenses respect the passing game (hopefully), I think he could be in for a decent role in this offense.

Top 12 or so unit by week 8ish.

Most of the greats, at least pure passers, have that trait, some better than other, Brady being one of the best, along with Montana. Brees, Rivers, Manning 1, Warner, hell even Stafford to a certain extent. Then you have the beasts who can make do, while being pretty bad at pocket management due to speed, size, arm strength, or any combo of those. Cam, Big Ben, Vick, Elway types. Give me the option of which I'd prefer, and I'm taking the pure passer 10 of 10. Hope we have one in BY.

If I were to do this all over, knowing what I know now. I would have gone to community college for HVAC tech, and business. If I enjoyed the biz side, transfer to University, if not, open HVAC company. By now, I'd be fishing everyday with 5-10 crews specializing in new construction and commercial. I'm very happy, and more than blessed to be in my niche industry, but that's what I'd do were I to rewind this clock a couple decades.

If young men aren't waking up to the "new high paying jobs" they need to. There is a reason it's so tough to find good work at decent prices. It's because there aren't enough trades. Electricians are making more than attorneys. Plumbers more than accountants. College is great, to learn business, then start one or pass one down to your sons. I wish I had kept up my Fathers electrical biz, I just don't like the work. A distant friend of mines son had a partial ride to Miami of OH to play QB for them, turned it down, went into the trades, and is making 6 figures at 23 years old. Learn a trade.

Let's kinda figure out what he actually is making to see if we are off or not? 2k for materials isn't All In. You will still need nails, screws, etc....so add another 300? Not sure, either way. So 2,300 for materials, so 3,700 or so. It will take the full 3 days, so that's about $150 per hour in labor, obviously he's paying taxes, insurance, etc. out of that, but to me that seems about 3X what it should be per hour. Sounds like Saturday pay to me?