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Idk if you added this or I missed i but I do see a distinction its shocking to me you don’t see the similarities

Left out from. The NYT statement....."yeah, we aren't much better than a tabloid and haven't been in a long time. But we continue to be upset with Biden while we also help prop up our Cheeto Jesus, and attack the current President for the dumbest **** we can fit into print."

That was a great answer. I didn’t expect him to say that. Great sign. Some of my best friends in life I originally did not like at all until I got to know them better. I hope this is one of those cases! 😂

I want long term answers to both the starting lineup and the reserve cohort because both sucked last year, so I'm willing to wait on development for long term answers as such I'll take OT and IOL help. Guys I like: Paul Suamataia Fisher Amegadjie Rosengarten Coleman Beebe Haynes etc There's definitely guys I want, but I want to take advantage of the fact that a whole expletive load of OL's were taken by teams picking after we pick at 36. 9 different teams picking between 37 and the late 50's already took an OL in round 1. There are guys who are gonna fall. Is it Paul? Probably not. But at least 1 or 2 of the top 4 or 5 OL's on most of our boards are probably going to be available in the late 40s to mid 50's. Maybe more. I think we can afford to wait, and use the fact that other teams spent their draft capital. Hell, I looked through the list of team needs for teams picking in that zone and basically 4 teams have OL at all listed, and none of them are listed as a high priority, just a top 3-4 priority amongst many others. We can afford to wait, if we want, and run this day 2 with trade down(s), targeting the best player at 36, and then either snapping up the best OL in a trade down, or betting that a guy we have in our top 5 or 6 left falls to 67 (and maybe more than 1 of our top 6-7 OL's). There are a lot of ways we can play it and the worst to me is just forcing the need OL pick. The best, quick answer types, to me, are all gone, the bulk of the rest are guys that may bust and/or are developmental, we could get multiple OL's just moving down some. Instead of pinning on our hopes on just one guy. Consider our OL draft capital was used on one of the best center prospects last year, and we got nothing from him due to injury and he then got replaced in free agency. Better to own day 2 by taking advantage of teams priorities to maximize our own draft capital value...we aren't fixing this OL or OT problem with one OT pick in round 2, it requries multiple years and a lot of draft capital.

Will see. Also the more I've digested leading up to the draft and today too. Peters falls with most scouts and coaches on one issue but not another. Consistent with the masses of scouts-coaches A. Daniels >> Maye. I've seen and heard this nonstop anywhere and everywhere including McGinn's scouts. But reporter after reporter has said the same, not just Keim, Breer, Schefter. Mike Jones doubled down on it. Standig on and on. The large majority of them thought it was Daniels over Maye by a clear peg versus neck and neck Inconsistent with the masses of scouts-coaches B. McCarthy >> Maye. that's an outlier take. There were some other ourlier takes like that too from some of what other reporters heard -- but the majority of them thought Maye > McCarthy.

In theory Aiyuk makes sense to pair him with his best buddy Jayden, but it’s just not practical. That guy is going to need money in the Aj Brown/Amon Ra range. Probably not prudent for a rebuilding team that is getting younger and not doling out those types of contracts. 2 years, $30mm would be feasible but no way Aiyuk does that.

Long snapper. Normally.

Do we have any needs left?

This is misleading. We DID occupy Germany and Japan after WWII. Recovery efforts (in Germany) didn't start until the late 40s after we disarmed them. Japan later. The Israel-Palestine conflict hasn't had a chance to end yet, lol. I figured there would be some who actually see these protests as legit. Maybe for a very slim minority they are, but for the most part...nah. These protests are what happens when a generation is being raised by algorithms. Though I will say, Ryan McBeth in this video does make a great point showing it's probably a bit deeper. (side note - dude has some excellent videos. If you want info on spotting disinfo, or showing how you're being manipulated by social media, his analysis are pretty accurate. And all open/public - of course - which is *fist pump*.) Anyway, I've said it before - we have atrocities occurring, right now, that are scale and scope worse than anything Israel has ever done. If these protests were really about subjugated people, why the silence for all the others? Russia and Ukraine is an excellent example, and the absolutely foolish argument earlier in this thread that because we're already giving aid to Ukraine, we don't have to protest the atrocities Russia is committing is...mind-blowing.

Paul the mauler. Go get him AP. I sure hope the NFL and ESPN abandon their pregame league embarrassment bull**** on stage clown show

I would prefer Maye to be a complete bust at this point. Worse than Zach Wilson. Patriots deserve some decades of turmoil. It’s the only proper outcome. Most obnoxious fans on the planet.

Man...somethings I agree with you on and somethings I dont... I can't co-sign with you in this one, this is so off-base it's not even in the ballpark anymore. Here we go ago settling back to debating how we got here...in the meantime there are now a growing number of campus with images going around the world of riot police breaking up protests of actions by their government. There's no nice way to spin this, at this scope and growing, it's becoming a bad look. Some may, for better or worse it as sadly family. Pro-Palestinian Encampments Spread, Leading to Hundreds of Arrests https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/pro-palestinian-encampments-protests.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Getting ready for a great draft night. Told my cat it had to play bingo with my grandmother tonight. My dogs and I will swig beer, be on extreme and watch the draft.

To someone who has, at least twice, proposed dealing with the national debt by "seeing if they would accept partial payments."

Just another reason to know we messed up.

I mean, I think the drug cartels have pretty significant sway over the Mexican government.

Yes, we installed a government we preferred. We also installed a government that is responsive to its people. Don't equate what we did in Europe and much of the world to what the Soviets did. We play global politics, but it isn't like many countries for the most party want us there. Even countries like Vietnam our essentially asking for our help. We (and much of the world) used to have a well established history of taking land far away from us (in our case, Hawaii, Guam, etc). The British in an era when the world was much less connected and distance was a much greater obstacle had a global empire. The British didn't break up their empire because things got too far apart. We stopped doing it because we realized it wrong and the benefits weren't worth the costs (to us or the native population). We could have easily claimed many of the islands in or around Japan as territories (i.e. colonies) and eventually states after WWII. We didn't. We could have claimed chunks of Afghanistan as territories. We didn't. (I'll point that we even transitioned the Philippines from territory (which we took control of in the late 1800s to its own country post-WWII). We could have easily left the Philippines a colony if we were interested in controlling territory.) We didn't help the Philippines establish a government and become a country because it got too far away. Distance doesn't have anything to do with it. Right/wrong beneficial/not beneficial is what drove the change.

If I could impart one phrase for JD to focus on when times are tough, when the path to victory looks impossible, when things are just going terribly, it would be… ”no pressure, no diamonds.” *ducks and runs*

At one time, the Redskins roster included a Kirk, a McCoy, and a Klingan.

Probably shouldnt have slept. Im more upset now than last night.....

It's the age cliff, prime years of elite level production for WR's are typically age 21-26, you still capture production at 28, but the best years are almost always, the really elite ones, age 23, 24, 25, 26, sometimes the tail end of it is 27. 28 is part of the decline. WR's don't have the fall off in elite level production after age 26 like RB's do, but there've been studies of when the most mega elite (top 5), excellent (top 10-12) and very good seasons (13 and below) take place in the age cohorts, and very, very few of them happen post age 27. It's why so many WR's switch teams after their rookie contracts and/or after they were franchised, you typically get 80% of the top years of a WR's career on their rookie deal. Admittedly Aiyuk is just 26, he's still in his prime, probably has at least 2 more great seasons left before he's probably more an 18th-36th in the league WR rather than a top 10-15, but I'm not interested in paying for that when I expect us to only win 4-7 games this year, and 6-9 in '25.

Thanks, I guess I don't remember that. Seemed like it would be an obvious move, and the team clearly thought so too.

After Paul and the BYU kid you have a large drop off. Somebody will move up for him if one of those teams do not take him.