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For better or worse, the protest are causing disruption bringing further attention to the matter they are protesting. Not everyone is tuned into what's going on in Gaza the way some of us are. And protests are not meant to be convenient.

What was hilarious was hearing how many times the analyst who was talking about the pick had to say his name - it must have been like 15 times in two minutes... probably felt a little bit like a tongue twister by the end... howmuchwoodcouldawoodchuckchuck.

Agree but more so to DBs. Backers sub out quite a bit. Regardless any of those back 7 top draft picks barely able to get on the field yet should be full time players, are absolute disasters of a draft pick. Just like a top pick in the front 4 that barely sees the field, its simply not wise usage of draft capital. Defenders are being subbed out because the modern day defensive coordinator clearly likes complexity with multiple packages in confusing exotic schemes. Its no surprise we see blown coverages so often. Subs come at a price more than just taking your best players off the field.

This is fair. Ill add that I've seen an example of this every generation I've come across on my short time here on earth compared to others. We are the sum of our choices, for better or for worse. Your example concerning "everyone but me" when every job ends the same way I've also seen and called out in the dating world. Oh, all your relationships end the same way but it's nothing to do with you? Can't even start with who you pickin in the first place. Ok.

Thanks a lot you ****in' protestors... Now innocent people who had nothing to do with this are being affected.

Back 7 players don’t really rotate out of a game if they are great players. It speaks to Jamin’s limitations that he has not played 100% of snaps.

Well I wanted to ignore this thread but since you asked... I really don't care about the months/years, I really care about the reasons why they left and I look for patterns if there are any to be found. Sometimes people have had a few horses shot out from under them and their reasons are something like "they hired me but then they lost a few clients and couldn't afford to keep me anymore, so since I was the most recent one hired, I was the first to be let go," "we merged with another company and there were layoffs," "my company said I could work from home when Covid started, I moved, and then all of a sudden they said I had to be back in the office," etc. If it's line after line of "I didn't like my boss/my boss didn't like me" or "I had to stay late on a Friday because a server went down and that really upset me," I'm probably not interested in continuing the conversation.

@Spaceman Spiff question: how many months/years do you need to see at a job to remove any concern about it being a flag? like in your example you’ve got someone less than a year. Makes sense. what if it’s 18 months-2 years? I’m guessing the job title changes matter too - like someone just getting the same job every 12-14 months might be a flag as opposed to someone that’s “progrsssing” in some way….. also do you have any jobs open? Asking for a friend 😂

Ron largely did not draft for need IMO. He basically ignored QB, stockpiled defense with questionable top picks, and ignored the OL. I have PTSD from him drafting defenders as a priority (and the stacked defense failing in spectacular fashion) so was jaded at the pick but if Newton sees the field along side Allen and Payne and gets us immediate return on investment the pick will work out fine. All things equal I think its a mistake to draft a first round grade player on defense and at best them be rotational or "maybe a starter by year 2 or 3". Blame Jamin Mathis Forbes et al. Maybe even Quan. I get it; modern defense is all about shuttling your best players off the field to put in spackle backups - I am just old school and don't always like it. Give me Allen a supreme athlete arguably our best player full time vs Allen splitting time with Potatoe' or Mathis. Now, subbing him out for Newton I could sign off on (i like to see top rookies PLAY) but again, we are taking a TOTAL STUD off the field. The push back to folks like me? Allen NEEDS a breather he is really gassed. Oh really. Any proof to that? Food for thought: A 320 pound DL sprinting to the sideline (or back on the field) to avoid a 12th man may gas them more, than staying in the game actually does. Actual game time with players going full bore is a mere 11 minutes, all very liberally spread out over 3 hours. I really hope we have a package with our 3 stud DL in the game at the same time, A TON.

I’m a big time fan of Tress - one of the rare highlights of the team on the field and on top of that, he’s a genuinely kind, funny dude, and entertaining interviewer that owns a board game company. And yet, before the talk started about Daniels’ jersey number, I don’t think I could have told you Way wears #5… Even worse, my wife bought me his jersey for Xmas, lol.

Kendrick is swinging on Drake like Mike Tyson in '87 and I am here for it.

This I’ll never understand. I see it a lot. The cost of recruiting, interviewing, the training time, and then you wind up paying more to bring someone in than to keep someone. You’ll get more money finding someone desperate to fill a seat for whatever role, than working with a person that already has the seat filled. It’s like they don’t have expect you to be able to get a new job or something

Doubt he’ll find nearly as many rubes on that side of the ledger.

this I definitely see a lot of always connected has had its drawbacks. I think in europe they have very specific rules about this exact thing. I recall it being explained to me once but I don’t remember the details That’s really bad management. there are lots of really bad managers/poorly run companies in that regard. A good manager wants to see their employees advance even when it means more work for the manager. I watch my wife do it all the time. But she works for someone that provides those opportunist and encourages that.

The best recruiting call I ever heard happened 8 or 9 years ago when I was working at a boutique IT recruiting agency. There were about 10 of us in the office and only one of us was on the phone. That was kind of rare, but it allowed us to listen in on one particular call. The recruiter that was on the phone was probably the greatest recruiter I've ever met. At the time he was about 30 years old, had been a former track star in college, had 3 DUIs under his belt and bragged about the chicks he picked up on the weekends in an effort to stay in the closet and truly just did not give a **** about anything or anyone and depending on the day could let you know exactly that. But he got more people hired at our clients than anyone. So he's on the phone with a candidate who wants a job at a client we're working with and he's asking question after question about why this candidate hasn't been able to hold a job for more than 6-8 months at a time for the past several years. "Okay, so in June through October of 2014 you were at this company, why'd you leave?" He stops asking questions and then repeats the candidates reasons back to him. "Okay, so you left this company because you had a problem with the manager. And you left the next one because you didn't like the boss. And you left this one because you had a disagreement with co-worker and couldn't stand working with them....You left this one because..." And then he summed it up. "I can't do anything for you. You have a 'you' problem. You're the problem in every reason you've left a job, you are the common denominator." So yeah, Ren, it's the responsibility for each generation to teach the next generation lessons but sometimes the truth hurts. A wise man once wrote, "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest," and that statement rings true in a lot of areas but it especially rings true in work environments. I've spoken with hundreds of clients over the past 15 years, and thousands upon thousands of candidates. Anywhere from three to ten calls a day listening to people explain why they want to leave their current job or why they feel like they deserve something or what they want out of their next career move or why they can't find a job, etc, etc, Monday through Friday for 15 years. To say I'm a bit jaded and cynical would be an understatement. And to be clear, I'm jaded and cynical just not with candidates but the clients, too, so I'm well aware about the bull**** that's on their end. But I do know one thing for sure; in the similar vein of how it never hurts to be the best dressed person in the room, it also never hurts to be the hardest working person in the room. These things said, I am still cynical and jaded and I really don't give much of a **** past this. So I'll let you have the final word and continue to ignore this thread.

This has not been my experience however it is what I hear a lot of people, that never advance, and justify why they do the minimum, say 🤷‍♂️

I paid very little attention to DT leading up to the draft. When I heard DT announced as our pick at 36 my initial thought was negative. Now every time I read or watch more on Newton I get more amped up and am more anxious to see him on the field than almost any other new acquisition.

I say 9 - 8 and will be a team nobody wants to play down the stretch the final weeks. Possibly a sneaky Wild Card team as well. There is no denying a vibe around this team we haven't seen in over a decade and the players are feeding off it.

I'm not trying to depend on an app in an emergency. AM has wider range then FM as well.

It's nor clear why they did that, imo, possibly a warning as it's becoming clear US is saying one thing in public and another in private to Israel. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/05/politics/war-israel-palestine-gaza-biden-weapons/index.html

Was somewhat pessimistic before last season, predicted 8-9 but clearly it went even worse than that. I thought the last off season was a borderline disaster. Feel almost the opposite extreme this off season. I think they pulled 6 starters in that draft with the other three likely rotational guys and at least one rotational guy from the UDFAs. Also it was a poorly coached team last year, i expect the opposite. Feels 9-8, 10-7. All depending on Daniels of course. Only weaknesses on this team now IMO are the left side of the O line and Outside corner are question marks. But as pessimistic as I was last time about the O line I feel better about it this time albiet they need another off season to fix it. I think the only thing I am more pessimistic on than the typical optimist about this team is a Forbes rebound. I've heard enogh hints from Keim that the brass both the past and I gather the current one (even though he hasn't flat out said it) don't think his issues are mostly about scheme but are more centered on him as a player. So I get the vibe that this regime might not see Forbes as an easy fix. Plus is that dude built to play press man in this scheme? This isn't Del Rio's zone scheme. Wouldn't shock me if something wild happens like the UDFA from Colorado State beats him for the job. Not saying am out on Forbes but he feels like a wildcard. Conversely, Quan Martin who really came on towards the end of the season last year I think will thrive. Overall though that 2023 draft looks like it might age just like it feels today as a disaster. But overall I am uber impressed with then job Peters already did. I said on another thread, with the power of hindsight in the sea of bad personnel people we've had, Ron IMO was the worst of the bunch. Yes worse that Cerrato and Bruce and Shanny. Peters has to had to do a lot of work to fix this. Also Peters seems so self aware -- something that all the previous GMs weren't. We were used to delusional and incompetent GMs. And that feels like its finally changed and big time. An underrrated thing Peters accomplished is really adding some depth on defense. Rivera didn't seem to care if name that extremeskins member was a backup on his teams. He was OK with just having guys as backups. And what was frustrating about it is he could have had so many dudes on the cheap on that front with decent reps but he didn't seem to give a rats behind about spending a million or two on a guy like Risner or a slew of guys like that who were available during his reign. Then when he would have his customarily late season collapses he would blame injuries. In short, I think the GM is light years better and the coaching likely will be light years better too. I am expecting they will be considered a real contender team as soon as 2025. But I do think they will surprise this year. Some breaks and they can make the playoffs.

Congress voted against funding a cure for cancer just to block a win for Biden As a hospital doctor, I’ve gotten pretty good at delivering bad news. Still, it never gets any easier. It certainly was not easy the day I told my 53-year-old patient, a devoted father of two, that his stomach pains were not from gallstones as everyone had assumed. Whenever a doctor says “bad news,” our minds often jump to that terrible “C”-word we fear: cancer. Unfortunately for my patient, I diagnosed him with a deadly form of cancer: cholangiocarcinoma. Over the next year, I would watch him deteriorate as he was readmitted with complication after complication. Cancer affects everyone in some way, shape or form. Whether personally or through a family member or friend, the stress and heartbreak of a cancer diagnosis is immeasurable. Which is why I was so surprised when I read that Congress would not be renewing investments in the “Cancer Moonshot” initiative dedicated to curing cancer. While there are many different forms of cancer and likely as many different research endeavors to treat them, the Moonshot program was the largest, organized effort by the U.S. government to find cures. Formed in 2016 by then-Vice President Joe Biden, after his own son was killed by brain cancer, the program has enjoyed bipartisan support and praise. Initially funded in 2016 at $1.8 billion for seven years, with the aim to reduce cancer deaths by half by 2047, the program has made strides in expanding access to cancer detection screenings, especially to veterans, increased support for programs aimed at preventing cancer in the first place and provided funding to groundbreaking cancer cure research. Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative is Congress' latest partisan casualty However, with the ever-present dysfunction of Congress, maybe predictably, the program has been stalled. Some Republicans, refusing to give Biden a “win,” voted against the renewal of funding. https://www.yahoo.com/news/congress-voted-against-funding-cure-090938329.html