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3 hours ago, Warhead36 said:

This has been addressed and refuted ad nauseum. 

Good to know, thanks.  

So, not be be a negative Nancy here but....  Josh Harris does not appear to have a great track record during his ownership tenures of the 76ers and Devils.  He purchased the 76ers in October 2011, the team squeaked into the playoffs in 2011-2012, then endured 5 straight dreadful seasons trying to "tank" to get top picks. I remember the national media harping on the teams inability to succeed despite having a boat load of top picks, including some colossal misses Jahilil Okafor/#3, Ben Simmons/#1, Markelle Fultz/#1. The team didn't turn a winning record until 2017-2018, but still hasn't made it past the second round of the playoffs. Also on their 4th coach (I know, NBA coaches come and go far more often than in the NFL, but still).

As far as the Devils, his group took them over in 2013, and they've generally been terrible, only making the playoffs twice. So I definitely understand the excitement with having Snyder gone and all, he burned this franchise to the ground.  But in a vacuum, Josh Harris is not what I'd describe as a successful sports franchise owner. 

3 hours ago, Curtisp5286 said:

No, no one else was fired (yet).  And, no, I don’t believe there was word of EB being interviewed.

Actually looks like Harris said he would consider EB.
 https://www.profootballrumors.com/2024/01/commanders-request-interview-with-mike-macdonald-team-to-consider-eric-bieniemy-for-hc-position

Of course, the interview will serve to satisfy the Rooney rule in case Harris wants to go after another coach quickly. No one is ever going to hire EB as an HC after this one.  Guilt by association.

So i did a quick search, and wasn't able to determine whether the front office guys (Wright, Mayhew, Herning) were also fired along with Ron.  I assume they were, being that Myers has been engaged to find their replacements.  But nothing confirmed yet.  Also saw a blip that they'll be interviewing EB for the head coaching job, for obvious reasons. Then they'll fire him too, I assume.

On 1/7/2024 at 11:23 AM, TrustTheProcessHTTR said:

First of all we already a laughing stock. Commanders in itself is a laughing stock and we obviously suck in recent memory.  Is there a narrative that thinks just bc we may win a few more games that people all of a sudden will want to buy commanders gear bc i hope not. Someone said its 90 -10 old to new gear.  They aren't making ANY money (outside of the nfl machine in the way the Arizona Cardinals are making money) off this brand after dropping 6B. Someone in sports business can correct me if i am wrong but a team relies or loves when their merchandise is sold or if they have a league wide marketable player. What I'm saying is even if they have a league wide marketable player people STILL wont buy the current gear.  They'll pay more for someone to personalize a redskins jersey. 

Actually, I'm in sport business.  Teams hate it when their merchandise sells well and they have a strong brand. That's precisely why Dan Snyder hired Jason Wright conduct a search and land on the name "Commanders."

On a serious note, it's just simply astounding how incompetent Jason Wright was. I cannot believe he was empowered to do this to a multi billion dollar franchise. The name change was his baby, and he doesn't even know how to properly refer to Super Bowl championship years (1983, 1988, 1992). And the name, oh god.  It's like he put together a focus group consisting of Canadian volleyball players, Mongolian line cooks, and Peruvian guitar players and asked them what to name the team. Institutional knowledge? Not important at all.  Common sense? Overrated.  Ask a reasonable person what they think? Complete waste of time!! 

I assume he was also fired today with Rivera.

On 12/31/2023 at 6:43 PM, FootballZombie said:

I was there. It was really lopsided.

 

Not just lower bowl either.

Attendance was actually pretty good, but it was due to a hurricane level assist from 9ers fans. Metric ton on em.

 

 

ahhhhhh.... that would explain the doosh bag 49ers fan that wanted to creep up on my TV during my tailgate with my kids and dad.  He mumbled something about fantasy football and wanted to know the score of the Lions/Vikings game.  I just thought he was lost so I told him to beat it.

54 minutes ago, justice98 said:

 

I remember when Brees passed 5000 the first time thinking that was cool.  Then he did it 4 more times.  lol

I remember when Jameis Winston did it about 4 years ago, and then the Bucs made no effort to re-sign him.

16 hours ago, justice98 said:

I'm totally over the 1000 yards being a milestone thing.  Especially in a 17 game season era where they throw it every down.  It's just not that impressive to me anymore.  

Anyone remember the 1000 Yard Club cards that Topps used to issue in the 1980s? It really meant much more as a receiver then.  

Funny stat...  As of the end of the 1983 Season, there had been only 5 quarterbacks that had thrown for 4,000 yards in a season.  Two are fairly obvious-- Joe Namath (1965) and Dan Fouts (1979, 1980, 1981).  The other three were Brian Sipe (1980), Lynn Dickey (1983), and Bill Kenney (1983).  4000 yards in 16 games was considered a monumental achievement until 1993-1994, when things started to get really crazy with the receiving numbers.

39 minutes ago, hail2skins said:

I haven't been in the upper level in 20 years. Obviously a lot of seats have been gone for a while. Were a lot of concession stands closed or something?

 

"Draft pick" is great, but we had the same one 4 years ago and now that guy is in SF and this team has been crap. Hopefully new ownership will do a better job. It'll be very hard to do worse.....

So a little history here.... My dad was from out of state, put himself on the season ticket list in 1973 at RFK when he finished college in DC.  He put my brother and I on the list when we were born (1978 and 1980).  We did not get season tickets until FedEx Field opened in 1999, and were originally in the upper deck with 4 tickets. So there was a waiting list of some sort, and my dad didn't get tickets until 26 years later.  We used to get tickets at RFK from a well-off family friend behind the goal posts, and were able to go to both 1991 playoff games with my Dad.  We saved our seat cushions from the Falcons game. We left early in the 4th quarter because it was raining and miserable, don't think my dad will forgive me for that one.

After getting our tickets in the upper deck, about 6 or 7 years later we moved down to the lower bowl "obstructed view" seats. Those seats sucked, so we decided to go back to the upper deck after a couple years.  The seats we had in the upper we removed in ~2013, so we moved to first row of the upper deck, corner of the endzone, and stayed there until about 2017. By that time my brother and i owned the 4 seats, he was out of town, I was too busy and the guy I had been selling half my season ticket plan to backed out. So I gave up the tickets.

I've found my way to maybe 5 games since then, all in the upper deck. I bought tickets in September for the Cowboys game for myself, my two kids, and my dad (who is now elderly) thinking it might be important.  My dad even brought 2 of the old yellow seat cushions from the Falcons game.  Tailgated in the Red Zone lot for 4 hours.

So to answer your question, things were just sort of shuttered, based on my recollection of the setup.  Right outside my section there were two concession counters, which didn't have what my kids wanted, so I continued to walk around the stadium for about 10 sections. Then I stopped and walked back because some counters were closed, and the ones that were open didn't even remotely resemble a normal snack bar. They were only selling like 3 kinds of beer (Bud Light was stacked to the brim in some self service fridges, who knows how old that was). They used to sell Coors Light (my dad's favorite) and others name brands too, but not anymore. I think you could get a craft beer somewhere maybe in the ****tail line.  The places that were open had shortages of everything, so it was like we don't have pretzels, and what you see on the rack is all we have left.  Sort of like how Radio Shack was when it liquidated.  Also, the upper deck concourse sort looked like it was in disrepair, an escalator wasn't working before the game (that's happened before), etc. 

And as far as the Chase Young pick 4 years ago and this year's draft, I don't recall anyone criticizing the pick in the moment.  He was a top tier talent, supposed to be the next Bruce Smith. Rookie of the year, but then his play mysteriously took a nose dive and he had a devastating injury.  Turns out he'll probably be the next Jadeveon Clowney (which is ok I guess, but a huge disappointment here).  I really wish him well though, and was sad to see him go. No one was yelling for Justin Herbert at that spot.  In this year's draft, there are 2 top tier "franchise level QB talents," Drake Maye and Caleb Williams, available this year and the team will be getting one of them unless something pretty dramatic happens during post season workouts. In the moment, both are no-brainer picks.  There's actually about 5 no-brainer picks this year, with Daniels, the PSU left tackle, and Harrison Jr.  "Reports" are that all are top tier talents, maybe each could have gone #1 overall in previous years with weaker draft classes.

So I was at the game today. Has to have been the strangest game day experience I ever had, there really were about 80% Dallas fans there. But I’ve been to two or three  games like that either the Steelers, and that Monday night massacre by the Eagles and Michael Vick, so I’m kinda used to that.  What was odd was the stripped down feeling the stadium had on the upper deck areas. It felt like a TJ Maxx that had just had its going out of business sale.

I get the feeling Harris is really going to clean house and tear some this **** out to the studs. Both the roster and the “amenities.” Granted will only be there for three or four years.  And all the obnoxious Dallas fans, whenever they scored or whatever I would look at them and cheer and yell “draft pick!!” which both confused them and shut them up.  For a few seconds at least.

Has Ron traded the #2 pick yet?  Heard he has his eye on a 158 lb. safety with awesome ball hawking skills that should be available at around #10 overall.  Hes still technicallly ths GM.

6 minutes ago, SemperFi Skins said:

We lose, we have #2. Simple as that

**** *IF WE LOSE WE GET THE #2 PICK ****

7 minutes ago, Warhead36 said:

So we just need a loss right? Im reading conflicting things about needing losses by Denver, Chicago etc.

not sure no one here wants to answer the question 

54 minutes ago, actorguy1 said:

 

 

What an extra kick in the ass it would be to the fanbase if Wentz goes out and lights it up against the 49ers while being coached by one of multiple guys that should have somehow ended up coaching the Redskins.  

28 minutes ago, Jumbo said:

I would find it extremely disturbing if the new regime were showing any interest in fields in our current draft situation. Major no.

 

He's not just become a more horrible disappointment than even his critics, like me, predicted, he lately comes off like a football moron and someone who doesn't care to even try to do his job.

Yes, this situation sort of reminds me of the Stork in Animal House when Bluto accuses everyone of just layin' around.  Or maybe I'm completely off and I just love this quote.

1 hour ago, Voice_of_Reason said:

I don't know.  But I'm going to build one and sell it to some website for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!!! (Dr. Evil Voice)

Ok, I speak for everybody when I say, literally NOBODY wants to see that.  

 Better go for $1 Billion, this isn't 1968 buddy.

So....  Any else remember the hype surrounding Bryce Young?  Remind you a bit of Caleb Williams?  Not saying that Bryce Young is a flop, he's in a terrible situation somewhat like how Lawrence was his first year.  But I'm crossing my fingers that the Bears decide to stay with Justin Fields (and don't trade the #1 pick to someone that needs a QB), and that New England takes Williams.  Drake Maye is the choice here.  If both are gone, go for the big LT from Penn State.

Yeah, so none of these streams work.

First shot at a bat:

33.5 inches, weighs a  ton, hopefully I can get it down to 35 ounces once I cut the spindle ends off

Just now, Warhead36 said:

Still think we could have kept Trent. The death knell was Rivera telling him "you have to prove it to me." All he had to do was sit down and tell him "Listen, I know the organization effed you. I'm here to turn things around and I want you to help me do it. What's it gonna take for you to stay? You're too good and you're gonna be instrumental to turning things around here."

 

Just tell guys they'll be loved and appreciated. A guy like Trent Williams doesn't have to "prove it" to anybody.

 

But Ron is an awful communicator with a boomer mindset.

That may be true, I've heard that he didn't want to come back under any scenario, and that Ron had some sort of initial conversation with him but wasn't willing to kiss his ass, beg him to return, give him the benefit of the doubt.  I suspect that Snyder had his fingers in that one. Apparently Dan was a big supporter to Trent, but then felt that Trent had more or less disparaged him by suggesting that the team had downplayed his condition, and that part of that was leverage for a re-negotiation. So Snyder flipped his view on that one, was was no longer a jock sniffer for once.

15 minutes ago, Warhead36 said:

Ron inherited an OL of Trent Williams, Brandon Scherff, and Morgan Moses. Two All Pros and one rock solid starter.

 

He let them all go for a grand total of one mid round pick which turned into Ben St. Juste.

 

What a joke. That alone should result in his firing. Complete dismantling of a top 10 OL into the league's worst.

 

 

"You've gotta prove it to me" Eff you Ron. Loser.

To be fair, Trent Williams hated the organization and was not going to come back. Schreff was top notch when healthy, but was 30 and had missed way too much time to be paid like an all-pro.  And Moses, maybe we should have found a way to keep him.  On the whole, the effort to replace those guys was simply insufficient (drafting 2 DBs in the first two rounds last April??), or missed the mark (Wylie, Leno, and the guys they did draft from 2020 to present).  There's not a single starter right now that is above average, and that's on Ron.

There’s literally trash dumpsters, rolling by behind Brian Mitchell, D

hall, and the other guy as a doing post game live. It’s like a war zone. The franchise has  completely given up on anything respectable for the rest of the year, so let’s go ahead and get rid of that dumbass coach too

Man, you know your franchise is scraping the bottom of the barrel when your post game live show is being done from an exit ramp at Dallas stadium. Not on news desk, three guys standing iat the corner of an exit ramp talking about the game. This is pathetic. 

Ummm…. We all know that the Washington Post is a liberal newspaper, and so is the NewYork Times.  Not sure why the author of this article tries to suggest that the times is a conservative/Republican newspaper. I like to know how many stories on the front page of the Times and the Post leading up to the 2020 presidential election related to something negative about Donald Trump. That doesn’t necessarily make them liberal newspapers, but that’s not focusing on policy issues either.

So the lathe is supposed to have 4 speeds, 1100/1600/2300/3400 rpms.  Its cheap, so have to manually adjust the belt on the engine drive....

I was able to get the band onto the largest diameter setting of the lower wheel, which connects directly to the drive. So problem is that i cannot pull the belt beyond the second largest setting on the upper wheel to get to the 3400 rpm setting.   I actually got the band up there once, and it locked up the motor.  Adjusting this is all a huge pain, so i hooked it up to an oscillator i had bought a few years back, which allows to me control the level of current going into the machine with a dial.  Anyone see any potential problems with that?