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From what I have seen it will be about like Coke or Pepsi. Pick one. Wait, maybe not. I liked both of those at one time.

That start vs Seattle in Bryce’s 1st year immediately and decisively shattered any illusions that non delusional people may have had.

And this place probably offers the best opportunity to outshine the starter

Well who doesn’t is an easier question. You should have helped me out over there lol.

Sphincter dome lol.

poo I just conceded to LG in another thread that Picket may be inferior to Bryce. His argument was strong but now I doubt it, and maybe should have held fast to my position. Lol.

Well if you are gonna put it like that I probably would have to agree with you. We’ll see how it goes. I am kind of rooting for seeing some Picket this year just for a change up. I root for a change up every year though lately.

OK honestly I don’t identify like that but if I did I would think about being the first raised on TV generation (bad), we were probably latch key/before the term was invented - because I was raised by a single working parent, stuff like that. No baby sitters until after dark. Afternoons you just waited for an adult to show up. We were the bussing generation where they tried out their social engineering and forcing the races together in school (good and bad in that), and definitely the first bunch to have to deal with the threat of the big bomb going off. I, like everybody else was taken out in the hallway at school and taught how to and where to sit and receive my radiation dose if someone nuked us. And then they killed our president right in front of us. That is probably the most destabilizing thing that gets the least attention. The atomic bomb and the potus killing. Around t(e same time we had the Beatles and music becoming a youth thing, with the youth gaining economic power they still have today, and top it off with a good memory of childhood - all tne Coke bottle caps had pictures of NFL players in them. We collected them. I particularly remember Mick Tinglehoff Minnesota Vikings lol. Complete with flattop haircut. We had pro football before there was ever a super bowl and in those days baseball was the king of sports in the US.But football was coming for them. And soccer was what weird funny talking foreigners did lol.

You shouldn’t care. Personally as an out of the mainstream late boomer (1954) I don’t carry the baggage people put on boomers. I carry my personal baggage. And I wish it were lighter, lol. It’s a thing where people assign traits to entire population groups. As if there is no variance inside those groups. They are the people you probably should just ignore.

Yeah. What we have been trying to tell people for over three years now.

I guessed Andy Reid too on that Price is Right.As if I had any idea….

Yet I bet you he still is able to pressure him. I guess it depends on your bottom line evaluation of what Bryce is. In my opinion he is low hanging fruit for anyone with even a D game.

Narrative still is different for some. That view it like you just laid out. Getting off the glass half full wagon and realizing that is kind of a nice sounding way of saying you are a half short of a full glass, produces a different take.

I just felt like his rankings in general were kind of just dumped out of a bag and however they landed was where he was ranking them. After the top obvious choices. As people have said, Dan’s finals are coming up. Everything he is doing at least on offense is trying to cover a wart. He will have to deal with it in the next 12 months.

We were in the middle last year. Way up from what we were. I think we will see it is easier to go from bad to sort of decent than it will be from sort of decent to excellent and highly ranked. Just like drafting for starters gets harder when you have some decent starters. People pay a ton , in all kinds of pursuits, trying to get that last 5%.

Lol same here. I have too many email accounts I don’t know how to access any more.

Rico was huge for about three or four games. But not necessarily in a way that can’t be replicated. I still think it was a combination of motivation on his part plus excellent OL play. It wasn’t Just Him. We have put a ton on the Brooks proposition and will just have to see what happens. I could have put that into a single reply if it wasn’t a holiday lol.

They are all different. If attitude and that sort of thing make a difference I have to put Murray in the trail position. But he has the most raw talent. Funny how that works

It shouldn’t be asking too much for a player to step up and make the most of an opportunity. Like a Cherilus or Wallace. Or someone we aren’t even thinking about. The positive is that we have minimized the number of positions open to a no name type. Most are pretty solidly filled.

Was too dumb to block anybody I couldn’t figure it out lol. I think I realized how yesterday when looking in my settings for the email settings. It is sort of clumsily implemented in the software, not intuitive I guess I would say.

Certain teams can be beaten that way and others higher in the pecking order can’t. The ability to beat the lessers at least keeps your floor to a certain level, which you try to build from.

That’s a good point. At the same time if you do go what you see will likely influence your sports interaction experience. Like Pamdora’s box. If you go for personal freedom or liberty above (almost) all, and I guess I would land there, you keep it. I wouldn’t miss it though.

And Bryce is a long way from prime Jake. So it needs to be some really good Fox ball.

Phillips is a huge gamble. No doubt. I am hoping that he hit a streak of bad breaks and has come clear out on the other side of all that. If he is right he has to be an upgrade on Burns. At just about the same money. He sets an edge too which we weren’t getting before.

Smack Central is in the realm of sports smack talk though. Which yeah can be fun and funny. This political and cultural stuff divides the people here that would otherwise be on the same side. In the narrow focus of sports fanning. It isn’t my decision or call, and I can do either. Do have opinions on it though. And agreed this may be one of a dying breed of communities but it is still the best format for people interested in one particular pursuit. I haven’t seen better formats. Can find something you said five years ago. To me even lol. This other stuff is so much stream of consciousness in the moment focused. And this can do that, but a lot more.