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Maaaan. 2 weeks before the season. What a tragedy for the guy. 

Best wishes for his recovery. 

4 hours ago, FootballZombie said:

So ignoring team strength, I think Jax might have the biggest advantage of the 3.

Definitely has trap game all over it. 

Pat McAfee and co laughing at our franchise:

11 hours ago, 86 Snyder said:

I mean, wtf.  I can’t conceive of a single way for them to couch this as anything other than blatant support of Russia.

 

Like seriously, what the ****.

You'd have to be part of their weird, dumb-ass, cult/conspiracy obsessed supporters to understand. 

Something about One World Order or child sex trafficking or the Clintons/Bidens or who the **** knows. 

And that's not even getting into whatever kick-backs from Putin. 

14 hours ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

Nobody gives a **** what we focus on...while there is hangwringing over us talking about the SUV story, the people who actually matter are focusing on everything needed to put Trump away, either literally or figuratively. 

No one's putting Trump away. He was already impeached for this and people hardly remember. He's not even disqualified from running for President. 

And if you think in 2022, in the 24 news cycles social media age that the politicians/government don't care what the public focuses on, then we'll never agree on anything that has to do with politics. 

13 hours ago, Sacks 'n' Stuff said:

POTUS trying to choke one of his secret service agents? That’s kind’ve newsworthy.

Even if its 100% true, and not a hearsay account, that means Trump didn't even touch the guy. 

The more you focus on this nothing of a story the worse it gets for the Jan 6th hearings actually accomplishing something. 

Even if it were 1000% true... who cares? 

Seriously, Trump lunged at his own protection agent? Who ****ing cares. The Secret Service agent I'm assuming is fine. Ya'll sound like Guliani having guy arrested for assault for touching his shoulder. 

Or maybe it says something about Trump's mental state or whatever? Pffft. We had 4+ years of listening to and watching Trumps deranged/retarded/word garbage/mind-numbingly dumb nonsense where every day and everything just got worse and worse and worse.  Him lunging at his own Secret Service or trying to grab the wheel would be like #4,786 on the list of stupid/illegal/asshole **** he does on the daily. 

Is this going to be one of those things where signing Beal to a max deal actually saves us cap room somehow? 

4 hours ago, Ball Security said:

Nine figures for Jalen Brunson?  I don’t know about that.  He was great last year on such a small contract.  But paying a guy 27.5M for a guy who’s never averaged 17 points a game?

NBA is ridiculous these days.

Trump lunging at his Secret Service in the car is a huge nothing-burger and is hearsay on top of it. 

Which is why conservative media is all over it. 

Hopefully they move on to something else really fast. 

12 minutes ago, PeterMP said:

The democrats need to make that clear and you do that by putting up laws and Amendments on that topic and others.

That only makes it clear to like 5 people in this country that actually pay attention and about 5 years too late. 

By the time anything like that gets near anything remotely close to law the right will have already controlled the narrative on any democrat legislation via media. Contraception will already be killing babies and if you take birth control you are already a baby killer. 

The left should've told everyone that abortion is already overturned 4-5 years ago so that they could've gotten more people to vote during the midterms. 

brobible: Hunter S. Thompson Warned The Football World About Dan Snyder In Unearthed Column From 2001

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Thompson accurately predicted the future of the franchise when he described Washington as “a gang of squabbling losers with no pride and no shame and no hope at all of anything but failure for the next 20 years” before turning his attention to the biggest problem: his belief Snyder is “a high-rolling businessman” intent on squeezing as much money as possible out of a team he describes as “a loss leader, a pawn in Snyder’s larger scheme” without any thoughts or cares for its longtime fans.

 

Some of the specific issues are fairly antiquated (I think most people would kill for the price of the “$4 hot dogs and $6 cups of beer” Thompson lamented were being sold at the team’s stadium), and Snyder’s attempts to lure in wealthier spectators at the expense of working-class fans with shiny new upgrades to the facilities is by no means unique to Washington.

1 hour ago, KDawg said:

If Dan doesn’t have dirt on the rest of the owners he will be forced out. Not for any of the despicable human interactions he’s had, but because he cooked the books (allegedly) and took money from other owners. They will force him out for that.

 

I see it completely opposite. 

The owners don't want to set a precedent by holding franchises accountable for cooking the books or hiding revenue streams or whatever. No way they want outside sources investigating anything related to this matter. (this isn't the only franchise to be shady with $$$) 

More likely they'll protect Snyder. 

20 minutes ago, Voice_of_Reason said:

The Marvin stuff was in his third year.  

 

Sorry, I lived through that whole thing, I remember it vividly. I remember the Kelli Johnson interview after a game where she pressed Gregg Williams REALLY hard about why Lavar wasn't playing, and he refused to give up the goods.  If it was injury, he would have just said so.   And I trust nothing that comes from Lavar's mouth.  

 

There's more to it.  A lot more.  

ESPN: Arrington: 'I could have handled things a bit better'

I lived it too and vividly remember this forum in 2005.  

I was one of of the very very few posters trying to tell everyone that Lavar was obviously still injured. 

Coaches didn't just talk about player injuries in those days like that during the season. 

Just now, Voice_of_Reason said:

That's actually not true.  He was benched.  He played sparingly behind .... H-somethingorother.  Gibbs finally got tired of asking about it and said, "I've talked to LaVar more than any other player I've ever coached." I could look that up but I'm too tired.  If not technically "benched" then his role was greatly reduced.  The only DC he really got along with was Kurt Schotty.  He butt heads with all of the others.  

 

Marvin pulled him out of games when he wouldn't do his job, and he had a quote at one point which was something like, "LaVar didn't think he could be pulled, but he can, and he knows that now."

 

LaVar was the biggest disappointment of my Redskins fandom.  He was supposed to be our Ray Lewis.  And he just never lived up to what he was supposed to be. 

Again, all this happened after his knee injury and he was never the same player. That's definitely a fact. 

Lavar himself admitted he was still injured in 2005 after all the season drama. 

6 hours ago, Voice_of_Reason said:

Now, Gregg Williams just benched Lavar because he had had it.  Marvin Lewis did also, FWIW, for a few plays.  Are Jack/Ron going to try and let these guys play through it and learn from their mistakes?  You have to think Lavar got plenty of warnings.  Maybe there will come a time when you see less Young/Sweat if they don't perform. Time will tell. 

Not to rehash old history, but Lavar was never benched and his freelancing was mostly a media narrative. 

He had problems, but nothing so extreme an NFL coach would bench him for Warrick Holdman.

He injured his knee and never fully recovered. 

The coaches didn't want to go out there and say he was injured. This was 2004/2005, you didn't have to disclose injuries like you do today. 

1 minute ago, Llevron said:

That’s the rumor. Apparently one of them said it over the radio or something. 

No, they just announced very early that all victims were shot by the shooter.

.... kinda a wtf... who else ****ing shot them?

5 minutes ago, Forever A Redskin said:

 

Trump himself as a source stated he had national guard at the ready and recommended them. I believe he is telling the truth until something like this committee proves otherwise.

You honestly believe someone could override the President or the Secretary of Defense on the deployment of National Guard? Use some common sense. 

And you honestly believe Trump would send the National Guard against his own supporters? Of course you don't. 

The people on the Capitol Police board that could've requested National Guard before the 6th, as in the Sergeants Irving/Stenger were apponted by Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell. if you even had a small point, you'd be asking why they're not investigating Pelosi and Mitch McConnell. (and you'd have to believe Steve Sund word for word on this who obviously along with Irving/Stenger look real bad in hindsight) 

But obviously they're not being investigated because they weren't on those boards, they just appointed the Sergeants. 

But no one really cares about your point, its an afterthought. 

The mob showed up because Trump and Republican leaders lied about the election being stolen.

If they don't face any accountability for lying and inciting an insurrection, which is likely, then ultimately no one will care about these hearings. 

Would be stupid not to explore all trade options for Terry looking at what KC and GB got for Hill/Adams, both needing new contracts.

Unfortunately this franchise has been worse then stupid in the past and we can all imagine a scenario where Terry walks and we somehow get nothing. 

4 hours ago, Simmsy said:

Used the crock pot for the first time, cooked a chuck roast (I think). I used cream of mushroom soup, I'd rather have more of a soy sauce or teriyaki base to it. Can anyone recommend anything? Can I use actual soy sauce or some type of marinade. I'm pretty green at this.

I go 2 ways. 

One is the more traditional pot roast: mirepoix of veggies (Onion/Celery/Carrot), deglaze with red wine then add beef/chicken stock or water and whatever herbs you like, usually garlic too. 

Other is I rummage through the fridge and throw in anything and everything: Soy Sauce, Fish Sauce, Oyster Sauce, BBQ, Worcestershire, threw in some Cola, etc. 

On 5/28/2022 at 6:50 PM, petey hodge said:

weird thing is...

 

AG was a famously converted college WR to RB. 

 

But yet, when I think of AG's plays... I dont recall him catching any passes.  Not even screen passes or dump offs.  I dont know that I've ever seen him him catch a Deebo-like tough catch downfield.

 

Is AG really a WR?

 

 

Split out wide is different. 

Out of the backfield, on 3rd downs you have to block and pickup blitzers which he is pretty terrible at. 

1 hour ago, FLSkinz83 said:

Why would the NFL give Snyder a loan to buyout the minority owners and have full ownership if they hated him so much?     Maybe they think it will be easier for him to sell if it came to that?

Because the league exists to protect the owners and their interests; not the other way around.

The league already punished Snyder. 

That's it folks. 

Same exact thing I'm doing now.

Only difference is I'd own a house in this area and not have to pay the outrageous rent or win the affordable housing lottery. 

1 hour ago, purbeast said:

Yes, if you are an obese person, you are most likely lazy.  Not definitely, but most likely.

I know and work with some very big/obese whatever people that are putting in 60+ hrs a week and work multiple jobs. 

They generally are very unhealthy, bad diet, smoke cigarettes... but is it really fair to call them lazy? 

Poverty and costs of living seem to be the bigger cause.

They'd probably eat better if they had time to prepare a meal, wouldn't smoke if they weren't always stressed out, maybe would exercise if they weren't tired from work, etc. 

8 minutes ago, Spaceman Spiff said:

 

This is an interesting point and one I don't understand.  I can't imagine that the physical copies are flying off the market.  I didn't click on it because I'm not interested.  But how can SI generate any revenue by people simply just squawking about it on Twitter?

Not an expert so I don't know really what kind of relationship is between Sports Illustrated ---> Twitter --> People who advertise on twitter. 

However, if Sports Illustrated is selling **** online; pushing subscriptions or I don't know selling swimsuits, then advertising those products on a platform with millions/billions of users has to be on a different scale then something buying a physical magazine and looking at a printed advertisement. You're selling Sports Illustrated stuff to people clicking on Sports Illustrated stuff. 

And as T-Shile is saying, obvious brand recognition on platforms with billions of users vs a person seeing a physical magazine on a rack.