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The ghost of Gregory Hines applauds that kind of extreme tapdancing

Shame on this!

I get that, but say we'd taken Herbert instead of Chase? He'd be gone already and probably wrecked. Gotta have the pieces around him or ya got nothin

Now I know I'm a naif here, but here's my take. Taking another young QB and throwing him into the fire without a team around him just guarantees we're right back here doing this again next year, and the year after. I'd deal that #2 hard, don't drop much, take some premier OL talent, keep adding more in the later rounds. Howell would have accomplished more with some protection, and if he's not the guy, the next one is going to need that too. OL and LB, quality picks, not just the "well we're hoping..." ones we've seen lately. Upgrade the whole organization, not just coaches, demo and rebuild, don't just keep patching the patched patches and throwing draft capital in a wishing well. I can take a couple years fixing this mess, it didn't happen overnight, but we gotta build it from the ground up.

Would have been more fun if when the EMTs went down to recover his body, the found gold on the side of the hole like 12 ft down

Very unexpectedly I got to spend the holidays in FL with my sister and I have to tell you, y'all had me freaked right the **** out worrying about what to expect. I hadn't flown anywhere in 30(?) yrs and all I had to go on were everyone's horror stories. Couldn't have gone easier, had zero complaints, maybe I was just lucky but I'll take it.

This is spot on. One of my many musings is to start a third party, but in a different vein. They don't fund or run candidates, but exist to support whichever options give the best answers to questions, have the sanest policies and to deny votes to the fringes, ALL the fringes. They can disseminate literature, talk to voters, garner support to reweave the center to resist the divisive elements of any ilk. You make sense? We'll vote for you. You're an asshole? We'll vote for the other guy. There are a lot of disaffected voters that have to hold their noses, it might help to have some other choices. I believe there might be a slice of the electorate that could benefit from some cohesion beyond the nebulous not of Independent. If nothing else it could be entertaining to try.

Yanno, I really wonder sometimes. I'm 65 and I look around at people my age, my cohort, the demographic I'm a part of and wonder what the actual **** happened to a bunch of you?? I see them raving outside the Capitol and punching stewardesses on planes and shooting the neighbors for walking in their yard and marvel at them. Y'all were right along side me in the 60s and 70s, I sold you weed and showed you how to use a bong, you were drunk dancing in the school parking lot at 2AM, you carried the same transistor radio as I did listening to Diana Ross and the Supremes, you hitchhiked to Pittsburgh with me to catch a concert, we laid side by side on the beach looking at the stars when we discovered LSD, we laughed and talked and grew up together in the same small towns and now you have morphed into the worst versions of humanity, bitter, small, mean and spiteful. What happened to you? I was there, don't try and bull**** me, I remember it all, I worked some of those same crappy jobs and worked on the beaters we drove there with extra oil and a jug of water in the trunk, a couple of wire coat hangers stashed in there just in case you needed to fix the exhaust. I lived through the 80s and 90s, got some of my share and screwed up other things, but somehow somewhere I missed out on a huge slice of experience that burned me to the bone and left nothing behind but scar tissue and trauma and pain. Yeah, we've been through economic crashes and inflation and divorces or whatever, and we lost a lot along the way, but where did you lose yourselves?!?

With any luck that **** comes back with a vengeance and around 30 million of the trogs cease to be a problem, kinda like a Spanish Flu reboot