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Indeed. Maybe he even did think at first he'd be given the power he needed to get things done. But from the name change process, the management of leaks, lying about fan input and just some of his statements that suggest he is 1) not as talented as his recommendations suggest and 2) he is happy to collect a check and just cover his own ass as much as possible. Especially when it'll be his word against Snyder's anyway after all this is said and done.

RIP Dave. One of the best and very underrated.

There's been a lot of curious imagery and metaphors being thrown around the last couple of days.

You can't help but imagine this? Interesting.

You were like 15 when you joined right? How old are you now?

Snyder is like Gollum and I don't mean it in a cheap laugh sense. I mean in the spiritual and religious sense he looks like he is burdened and degraded by his sin. If he could but shed his identity as owner, give up his Precious, maybe there'd even be hope for his soul.

It's already gone. I'm here for the atmosphere and the attitude. I think personal and social things destroyed it, I got too busy and I also despised Jay Gruden and his forever-tenure was where I truly came to grasp the futility.

I saw this report then had to backtrack through this thread. Just like when I found out Trent Williams stuff. Does ES realize reddit has thriving communities that don't constrain conversations to gigantic omni-threads? It's not 2013 anymore its ok to have a little clutter. For some thread titles are how they find out the news.

Purdue's helmet, font and colors are superior to the Commanderps. In other news I had flashbacks to the Dallas vs. Miami playoff game in Any Given Sunday. Washington even has the W where they had that Illuminati freemason logo on the Dallas knights helmet.

It's hilarious to see the public perception of Snyder as impatient and trigger happy. But in reality he is patient to his detriment. If anything he was too early with his approach because now he's stuck with Rivera and Gruden for too long and never made the intelligent Shanahan, Jr. or McVay hire. He just can't seem to change course fast anymore when the rest of the league has actually adopted his early method. You don't need 5 years to build a winner in this league and you haven't in decades.

Gotta admit, I've never seen anyone call Hanson, the singers of MMMbop, "douchebags." You sure you weren't thinking of another boy band?

The way she laughs in the first couple of seconds reminds me of Russell Wilson's ex-wife on his draft day.

Oh, there's a reason they say stuff and it's not just to say stuff, don't get it twisted.

I recall him playing piano in a human interest piece on him. He was definitely fun to watch run the ball for awhile. 38 is too young no matter the cause. I didn't remember or didn't know that Domonique Barber, from Texans, was his brother. Or that all three of the Barber brothers played at Minnesota.

The guy clearly reads ES (and my posts specifically) seeing how he tweeted "deez" at someone. That's my move, Jack.

Rypien was one of those developmental guys the NFL used to have, he was on the 1987 SB roster. He was not great in 1988 in his starts but showed some talent. In 1989 he showed he was starter material but he was prone to dumb mistakes but threw for 3,700 yards (when that meant something) and had a 9-5 record. In 1990, the Skins made the playoffs and beat the Eagles with Rypien. But again, he had some baffling turnovers (including fumbles) against San Francisco. Then 1991. But yes, he had a very brief peak but he was not a bad QB at all during that time.

Mark Rypien says hello. Yes, his peak was brief and he made some boneheaded errors before the great 91 year but he was the closest we had, since...you know, we won a SB. In another era of playoffs we'd have gone from 89 through 92.

I know people will say "time and place" but Gil Brandt looking downright perspicacious now. Such a shame he went from predicting he'd star at Ohio State as a kid at a summer football camp there to making such terrible decisions that would wreck his dreams.

So, they slow-walked this to avoid the more intense reputation hit because the part about the woman just came from Slater initially and nowhere else. And even someone drunk who just got off the phone with their wife wouldn't have needed to "look" for gas, they would have called someone or had their wife call. As I said about Lance Briggs---this reminded me of that except instead of just leaving the car he was killed looking for gas. He was looking for gas instead of something else because he knew if he called police he'd be arrested and attention would be on the woman in the car. Getting a DUI could have interfered with his attempt to stay on an NFL roster. Instead of taking a reputation hit and getting a DUI, he's dead now.

I posted my view that he was cash poor some time back when people thought he might be forced out and to explain some of his behavior. He's cash poor in comparison to how he used to be for sure. Well that and he went from being a spendthrift on player bonuses to being miserly with everything.

Yeah what is Cooper Kupp's 40 time? Or Jerry Rice.

Receivers that move with the fluidity of an Olave rarely fail to produce as a solid contributor in the league even if they aren't superstars.

"Rest in peace" has nothing to do with the living but is a benediction issued with the hope that the departed's soul finds eternal peace in the embrace of God Almighty in Heaven. We could carry your view to its extreme and not try to figure out homicides (which often have salacious and unfortunate aspects to them), nor would we comment on or write the histories (including the untimely end) of notable personages. Nor would we find our souls stirred when we read about a poor boy who dies on a battlefield far from home in yet another of man's pointless killings and gain any insight into the cost of war. If someone used particular language that you take issue with, that's fine. But the concept of being curious about a person's end and circumstances that don't make sense---or that you don't understand that, deep down, people investigate these matters to make sense of, or grapple with, or prevent their own mortality is strange to me. Couldn't be me.

And who!?

But is this true? McVay went to the playoffs his first year after the previous coach was fired (Jeff Fisher lol). I can't recall the other examples anymore, but I'm positive we've had this discussion for about 15-20 years.