1of10Charnatives

It was a GOT reference, not Civil War.

Not a lawyer but guessing that courts might be more inclined to let schools and essential businesses get away with vaccine mandates vs non essential entertainment businesses like a pro sports league. We have to make the food and distribute it, likewise the medicine etc. We don't *have* to have football. But personally I'd get pretty twitchy without it. JUST STICK IT IN MY ARM ALREADY! YEAH RIGHT IN THE VEIN! ahhhh yeah that play action feels good.

This is all your fault.

I... wait... What? You've just shaken my faith in humanity.

It works that way. If you claim them off waivers you have to assume their existing contract. If they clear waivers then any team can sign them and they are a FA.

You're dead to me.

Any bank that writes a 30 year mortgage in these areas right now should have it's FDIC coverage revoked by the Fed. There is almost zero chance these areas will be habitable in 25 years. The small chance that does exist is if human beings drastically alter their existing behavior starting no later than immediately, or someone figures out how to control weather within that time frame, otherwise good luck.

As long as your wait for him to clear waivers. A lot of fans miss that if you claim a player off waivers, you have to assume his existing contract. While I agree that decent players get cut, they usually do so because their contract is to expensive relative to their performance. If you wait til they clear waivers, then you're just bidding on a FA like at any other time during the year. You'll have to convince the player to play for you based on the pay you offer him etc. Will their be decent players cut from their teams before start of the season? Sure. Am I holding out much hope that many of these players will be at premium hard to fill postions like LT or DE? No, and if such a player does clear waivers, we'd be in a bidding war with other teams for their services. It's not like most of the NFL couldn't use an upgrade at those spots. One of the few things the old regime tended to do right imo was fill the safety spot this way regularly. Perfectly adequate safety help can often be picked up after preseason cuts. When was the last time you recall a team making a meaningful upgrade to it's roster by signing a FA LT or DE who was cut from their team during preseason?

Because lots of teams waive OT's worth keeping and young promising DE's?

*Goes crazy with the block of salt instead.* Nope. Nope. Doesn't work with the salt either. Does not improve my Cheerwine one bit.

Ah. The classic 4Corners move of pooing a post not because there is anything wrong with the post itself (seriously, who poos a post asking for injury updates?), but because you just don't like the person posting. Experience tells me he's also completely clueless that doing so basically broadcasts to everyone that he has the emotional maturity of a 4 year old. Some people just never get it.

Be careful with the deciding everything is racist just because you are looking for racism everywhere. Racism is too strong a label to throw around at something that isn't obviously so because if you start calling everything racist you'll end up being the boy who cried wolf.

To be fair, if Darnold is a reclaimable player, it's likely gonna take some time to coach the bad things out of him. Maybe our grand scheme is to put him with an OL nearly as bad as the one he's used to playing behind, give him far better skill position players and then gradually make his OL better. You know, so he doesn't get freaked out by everyone around him not totally sucking all the time and forget what he's supposed to do. Wouldn't be my plan, but then again I would have put more emphasis on the OL all along, since we've sucked there for about... *looks at his watch* ...a decade.

FIFY

Sorry but my immediate reaction to any game tape breakdown of football where the voice of the person doing the breakdown is british is about the same as my reaction to listening to a redneck do opera reviews: It's probably gonna be entertaining, but I'm skeptical about his expertise.

I completely understand and get all of this, but I have a question: Does it really matter if your qb gets sacked because the rookie didn't completely understand the scheme or because the vet just flat out couldn't get it done? Isn't the result pretty much the same? On the other hand isn't the rookie likely to get where he needs to be faster by being out there than by watching from the sidelines? Can anyone actually make a compelling fact based argument not just a purely subjective one, that playing a rookie who doesn't fully grasp the scheme results in more bad outcomes than playing a veteran whom NFL caliber DC's and DL's figure out from film or by the end of the first quarter at worst can be beaten one on one? I am starting to become increasingly of the opinion that coaches do this not because it's actually the best thing to do for the team overall, but because it's the conventional thinking (which NFL coaches are horrible at following even when the conventional thinking is flat wrong), and because of the perception issue: If a rookie gives up a sack, fans tend to blame the coach for playing an inexperienced player, wheras if a veteran gives up a sack, fans tend to blame the player for playing poorly, or even the GM for not giving the coach a better option, but are far less likely to blame the coach. I think this tendency in coaches is actually blame shifting on the part of HC's and OC's and arguably not in the best interest of the team overall.

"...but it is an indication your offense has failed, perhaps from a total lack of imagination and a HC who ignores it in favor of his defense. Maybe that HC should reexamine the basics of the game til he gains an understanding that winning football games requires outscoring your opponent, not just having a better defense than he does." -Me

I'm with you. Anyone who can't put sports aside and show concern for their fellow americans needs to have a long talk with a therapist who will probably boil it down to just grow the hell up. I have cousins who lived in NO when Katrina hit. They permanently relocated to Dallas then, but those that remain may need more than our thoughts and prayers after the storm. Let's hope it doesn't get that bad, but if it does, they will need more than just prayers. Having said all that, given that the Army Corps of Engineers said BEFORE Katrina that NO would be underwater in 100 years no matter what we do without absolutely massive investments, when are people going to wake up to the fact that this isn't a good place to locate a city and relocate it elsewhere? It is no longer necessary as a major port given Houston's proximity, so the need for it to sit where it does doesn't exist anymore. It would be safer and better for everyone concerned long term if the city was relocated to a less exposed and precarious location. But given the way homo sapiens tend to operate, doing the smart thing with a long term view seems unlikely. That's just my two cents.

You know me so well.

No you're just my official spokesman. Now go and tell all my subjects they will be required to work overtime this year on St Swibbons Day. And make them thank me for it.

No I don't. You just did it for me.

Not only that, but Luke's brilliance still blinds a lot of Panther fans to the fact that MLB just is not as important a position as it once was. LT and QB both have far more impact on the game.

Realistically suckitude in the middle of the OL is the only thing that could prevent it. Our skill positions are stacked, QB and OL are the question marks. Put the two best ever at those positions...and we would hardly need the nasty D it looks like we're gonna have to win games. This roster with Cam and Gross blows a whole lotta teams out of the water.

The real question is, how did he stay employed at something he so obviously sucked donkey balls at for so long? I mean, his commentary wasn't just bad, it was painful. That a supposedly professional organization could overlook this for so long does not speak well of their quality control.

Way to cherry pick irrelevant data.