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I think that they should get rid of the black jerseys combo, but here's how I would re-shape the uni look: Burgundy Top/Yellow Pants (Home) White Top Burgundy Pants (Road + Home games against DAL, NYG, PHI) Alternate White Top Yellow Pants (Similar to Throwbacks). I'm a proponent for updating the look to more modern. You can still do White/Burgundy for the road games, but since the NFL wants to push more alternate jerseys (and the black ones suck), we can just do a white/yellow combo with the yellow helmets similar to what we wore for the 75th or 80th season.

No we don’t. Sam is not the guy. He’s too short and turnover prone. We need to draft a QB 100% with pick 2. We’re not going to get the opportunity to draft this high again with a legit GM and owner for a long time. Watching CJ Stroud last night and Jordan Love today cemented for me the fact that Sam ain’t the guy, and we need to do better than him. We’re a franchise that deserves better than average and mediocre.

You're 100% correct. Trump and Roe Vs. Wade are probably the best things to happen to the Democratic Party in years. No one sane/of sound mind would vote for Trump, and the Roe Vs. Wade decision was the one galvanizing issue that brings out the women vote like no other issue. If the SC Court had been smart last year, they should've never repealed Row Vs. Wade (or even heard the case for ruling). That pretty much made it a lock that women will never vote for the GOP in any capacity again, along with younger voters. If Roe Vs. Wade was never struck down, and Trump loses in 2016, the GOP would've been much better off, because younger voters would've most likely stayed at home, and there would've been no real push or issue to get them to vote in large numbers.

It is at the end of the day. That's literally what this is about 😄 For the GOP crowd, it's a choice between Biden & Trump. For Dems, it's a choice between Democracy & Fascism. If it was anyone other than Trump running, it would be a choice between Biden and {Insert GOP Candidate Here}.

I kind of agree with this. Turnout would be higher, just because of Trump. If nothing else, Democrats have more people that are willing to vote AGAINST Trump, than for Biden. I think that would be different if it were someone else other than Trump running for the GOP. It would probably be easier for those on the fence on supporting Biden to sit out the election, than sitting out for a potential racist, fascist dictator winning in Trump. DeSantis, Haley or Christie (even with their faults and warts) would beat Biden.

We know they're not equals. That's very clear. If they're not equals, then Biden should have no problems wiping Trump off the mat right? Except that that's not the case. I'm seeing the same mistakes being made and the same blasé attitude about Trump that I saw in 2016, and we know how that turned out. The same dismissiveness that you have about the Arab population in Michigan, is the same kind of dismissiveness that Hilary had about Mich/Wisc/Penn, and look how that turned out. This should be a layup for Biden and the Dems, but they're turning a layup into a halfcourt shot blindfolded, and that's not smart or strategic. By the way, Biden might actually be lucky that Trump is probably the frontrunner for the GOP. If GOP voters smartened up and nominated someone more sane like Haley or DeSantis, Biden probably loses to both. Trump is literally the ONLY candidate Biden can beat (barely).

There's that arrogance again by the moderate Dem wing. You can't just brush off people's frustrations, and tell them to piss off if they don't like what's going on. Instead of telling voters that they deserve what's coming to them with a possible Trump 2nd term, Dems should be out there telling voters why Biden is the best choice. Biden's campaign can't be "I'm less horrible and actually sane, compared to the other guy". He's got to give younger voters a reason to show up at the ballot box. This is why nobody likes Biden-Trump II. No one wants Trump back in office again (especially me). The Democratic Party shouldn't be focusing all its attention on Trump and how horrible he is. They should be focusing in on how great Biden is, and how better off we'd be if he gets a 2nd term.

This Gaza-Israeli conflict is doing damage to his support with the under 30 crowd. They don't like the fact that our foreign policy is basically giving Israel a blank check to do as much damage as humanly possible to Gaza. Maybe the wine and cheese moderate version of the Democratic Party can hold their nose at what's going on, but younger people are definitely NOT. I don't know what Biden can do to turn his numbers around with the Muslim base/younger Gen-Z, but it's going to take more to get those people to vote than to just blindly hold their nose and "vote blue, no matter who" at the Ballot box in November. He's going to have to do more than "Orange Man bad, democracy is on the line". He should be actively trying to get his economic successes and policies to the forefront. He's actually been very good when it comes to job numbers, inflation and infrastructure. What he's been horrific at is actually promoting his wins. The Dem party is just horrific when it comes to tooting its own horn. Let me reiterate this one more time: I think that Biden is going to win if he runs against Trump. Trump can't beat Biden at this current state, because he's lost way more voters since 2016 than he's gained. The only way that Trump can keep it close with Biden, is if the vote is suppressed (especially the younger vote). If the younger crowd doesn't show up to vote like 2020, it's going to be closer than it should be. If Michigan is a toss-up, or goes to Trump, he has a legit shot at winning the EC. Trump will probably lose the popular vote by 8-10 million, but the EC is one way for him to keep it within striking distance. Those voters in Michigan (an area that has a large Arab population) is a lot more important than people realize. You can't just write off millions of Arabs in Michigan who are frustrated or take them for granted. Biden should be listening to their concerns (especially in an election year).

He was NOT better than Shanahan or Gruden. Both of those guys at least had a winning seasons here in their tenures. Rivera never won more than 8 games here, while having personnel control (something that Gruden never had). Rivera was a loser, and the only coach who could match his crippling incompetence is Jim Zorn, who wasn’t even supposed to be the HC in the first place.

This is obviously going to fail, when the SC votes against this with a 5-4 or 6-3 ruling. SC will argue that since he hasn’t been convicted YET of an attempted coup (only indicted so far), the argument is flimsy for him being left off of the ballot. Does anyone really expect the SC to make any other decision? This is an extremely partisan court, so I expect this ruling to go how you would like expect it to go. There’s literally no reason to believe that this court will uphold the CO decision. By the way, this ruling applies to ALL people running for office that might have been apart of the attempted coup on 1/6. The ruling has far greater reach than just Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Many republican politicians who were apart of the 1/6 attempted coup would also be left off the ballot nationwide theoretically, if the SC found Colorado’s argument valid. There’s NO WAY in my opinion, that the SC would uphold such a ruling, for the possibility of MAJOR ramifications across the GOP party for 2024 & beyond.

Listening to 106.7 or 980 will definitely screw up your opinion with regards to fan intelligence for sure. Those callers are of lower intelligence 100%. They're also repeat callers. I couldn't imagine calling up to talk to a radio host on almost a daily basis. If I had a radio show, I would see to it that it NOT be a show where fans could call in. I'd be that radio host screaming and cursing out the many stupid callers, and saying something that could get me kicked off of the radio permanently.

I don’t agree at all. There’s NO chance in my opinion that Belichick survives this season. He’s been a TERRIBLE Gm the last 10+ years, and now that they haven’t had Tom Brady the last 4 years, his deficiencies as a GM, and for the offense is really noticeable. When was the last All Pro or Pro Bowl type player they’ve drafted on offense? Gronkowski was drafted 13 years ago, and he’s the last pro-bowler that the Pats have drafted on offense. That’s atrocious. Tom Brady’s case for being the GOAT QB had gotten a LOT stronger in my opinion over the years. Brady covered up so much dysfunction and bad drafting by BB. They won 3 more SB’s, and went to 5 more with just Brady, Gronk & Edelman on offense. BB is still a GOAT tier defensive mind, so that hasn’t gone by the wayside at least. All you need to know about the current Pats team is that they drafted a freaking KICKER in the 4th Round this past draft, and apparently he leads the league in missed FG’s. If Kraft is still smart (or fully functional), he’s gotta realize that BB is completely over the hill now.

Too bad NONE of that is going to happen, though. This 49ers team (coming off of a rare, humiliating loss to another powerhouse team and SB contender) is going to beat the piss out of this team something biblical today. We’re going to be on the receiving end of a beat down that could be legendary today. If we thought Howell was unplayable the last two weeks, imagine what the 49ers are going to make Howell look like today. Jake Fromm WILL be playing at some point during this game, either cause Howell will suck so bad and we’re down 40+ points in the 2nd half, or he gets hurt, and Fromm has to come in.

No offense, but SCREW Ron Rivera, and everyone in that brain-dead front office regime of his. I hope the dozens of Washington fans in the stands these next two weeks amongst the sea of 49ers fans and Cowboys fans chants “na-na-na-na, hey-hey-hey, GOODBYE! at that absolute clown Rivera and his whole coaching staff. They set us back something fierce with his stupid draft choices and signings. He deserves no respect or benefit of the doubt from any fans of this team. Next Sunday should be a celebration of the great things to come next for this org, as we flush out the last few remnants of the Snyder regime, especially the largest turd of them all, Ron Rivera. In about 9-10 days, the rebirth of this organization back to relevancy is going to begin. It might be a long, bumpy road back to respectability, but there is light is at the end of this dark tunnel we’ve been stuck in for the last 25-30 years.

This x100. We should’ve started Fromm for the last two games, and sat guys like Terry, Dotson, Allen & Payne. I don’t want ANY chance to fluke our way to a meaningless victory these last two games. I think Harris should’ve fired Ron after Sunday to be honest with you. Once Rivera benched Howell twice for Brissett, he lost any sensible reasoning to continue on as coach. I definitely think that you have to fire Rivera before the final game, to stop him from potentially screwing up our draft positioning. It’s organizational malpractice to let Rivera continue to coach to win games, and screw up our future.

He's been hurt for a majority of the season. His team can still win its division at 9-8 or 10-7. He's won a playoff game already in his career (coming back from 27-0). He might not have played like a Top 10 QB this year, but he certainly can still make a case to be one going forward. Look at that team. They whiffed HARD on their 1st Round pick in 2022 in drafting Walker. Kirk is a B+ receiver, and Ridley is not living up to that #1 receiver option this year at all. Etienne is a solid (but not exceptional) RB. That offense is not adequate enough to be dominating teams. Switch Lawrence's roster for Herbert's, and you'd see Lawrence put up excellent stats with that Chargers roster. I would still take Lawrence over any QB's not named Mahommes, Burrow, Allen or Lamar.

That era is dead and gone. It's the 2020's, not the 1980's and early 1990's. You don't win that way anymore. We need to get over the obsession with the "good ole days" and the Gibbs era. It's now over 30 years since that era. We need to zoom ahead into modern times, and model ourselves after the stable organizations of TODAY's league, not the league from 1985 or 1991. The GM matters, the HC sure as hell matters, and the QB position is the most important role in sports. We are 0/3 in that regard since 1991. It's time to move ahead to this current century, and find our own Kyle Shanahan, Howie Roseman and Patrick Mahommes/Lamar Jackson/Joe Burrow.

I don't chime in much when it comes to elections, but I don't think the polls will have that much of an affect on what the end result of the 2024 election will be. If it's Biden Vs. Trump, people might hate it and roll their eyes that these two are running against each other AGAIN, but I ultimately think that Trump will say things that are so crazy and authoritarian leading up to the election, that most people who are on the fence will ultimately hold their nose and vote for Biden. If this were a normal election cycle, and Biden was facing another candidate not named Trump, I definitely think that he'd lose. His numbers are not great AT ALL in key demographics and with young voters. His age probably has a lot to do with why voters are running away from supporting Biden, but it's is interesting that in an economy that is technically in a good place, and with unemployment near record lows, that Biden is underwater in the polls.

I didn’t see this posted anywhere, so I thought it would be best to drop this here: Apparently the Cowboys-Bills game got a higher TV rating locally in DC than Commanders-Rams (by almost 100K viewers). This ownership group really has it work cut out for them. The renewed interest the team had after the team was sold in July has drastically dropped. I don’t think the goodwill has completely disappeared of course (seeing that the new ownership group hasn’t made any major moves yet), but I do think this is another blinking red light to how far this franchise and fan base has fallen, and what it will take to bring fans back. I think we might see a VERY active offseason, with several free agent signings and a new 1st Round QB selected.

It’s the exact opposite for me. I LOVED So-Fi, and it pained me to realize how dilapidated and garbage Fed-Ex Field is. We’ve GOT to have an announcement soon on location and stadium design. I think that would get the fans excited about a light at the end of the tunnel for a soon to be exit from that dump. So-Fi was so spacious and modern, I was in awe of its appearance. The scoreboard was fantastic too, and it had advanced stats like pass per play that we don’t have at Fed-Ex.

This. It’s rare that we get to see teams quit on their HC in real time, but that’s what happened on Thursday night. That team quit on Brandon Staley. It was embarrassing watching the Chargers D give up the plays that they did to Aidan O’Connell and the Raiders (a team that couldn’t even score a point 4 days earlier). Staley was probably the worst coach in the NFL, and Thursday night provided a deep dive into why he was the worst.

I understand, but I think that this job will be harder to fill. All we really have as an advantage over other teams is cap space. We don’t have the #1 pick to draft Caleb Williams (plus another Top 10 pick), and we don’t have a franchise QB/LT like the Chargers have. Add in the fact that our facilities are garbage tier, and that we play in a garbage heap called Fed-Ex Field, I’m having a hard time seeing how we’re more attractive of a job than Chicago or LA. Maybe we get lucky.

Herbert just signed his extension before the season, so he isn’t going anywhere for at least the next 4-5 years. I forgot to mention this, but the Chargers also have a cornerstone LT, which is another gigantic piece that we’re missing. If you already have your franchise QB (along with a cornerstone LT), your franchise is almost set. It wouldn’t matter who they had at WR or RB, a franchise QB elevates the team around him and makes those players better. The Chargers have two crucial spots solved that 90-95% of teams don’t. Their rebuild will be infinitely quicker (provided that they hire the right offensive minded coach).

Sorry, but I disagree with this. Having a QB like Herbert, is like having the answers to a test before the test is administered. All you have to do, is fill out the correct answers, and your job is done. We don’t have a franchise QB, so our path to relevancy gets a lot more complicated. The roster we had going into this season that we thought was so talented, turned out to be severely overrated with LOTS of holes. Our situation isn’t an ideal one. We also have low quality facilities and a terrible reputation that can’t all be fixed over night. The Chargers have top tier facilities and the best stadium in the NFL (I’m heading out there to see it for the first time ever later today, can’t wait). We’re at least 3rd or 4th in the pecking order when it comes to job attractiveness. We have a long road ahead of us to start retooling this team, and trying to find a franchise QB.

Having a Top 5 QB is something that 90-95% of teams don’t have. When you have a Top 5 QB, you don’t need to rebuild, that guy is going to be talented enough (with good coaching) to always get you to contention in your division and in the conference. The Chargers floor will always be 9-10 wins, with someone like Herbert. If they get a good offensive minded coach, their ceiling could be higher, even with their cap situation. We don’t have that luxury at the moment. Our floor is going to be significantly lower, because we lack quality talent across the board AND we don’t have our franchise QB. The road for us to become a contender is much narrower and complicated, until we get our franchise QB, and address the other holes we have on our roster. At the end of the day, as yourselves this: Would you rather be the Chargers, with a Top 5 QB and over the salary cap, or would you rather be the Commanders, with cap space at $100 million, but no franchise QB, and an overrated roster that needs a TON of retooling? I’d rather be the Chargers. You already have a cheat code to becoming a contender, all you need now is a smart, talented offensive minded coach, and the turnaround will be quick and easy.