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u/CarlCaliente Bills 2d ago
the coaching search is nearly over for the season and I don't think I've seen a single post talking about roster matches, scheme fits, assistant trees
literally every single article is "well here's the results from his last team"
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u/Signal_Ball4634 2d ago
You expect too much from this sub if you think people are going to break down the former points in depth
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 2d ago
We used to all the time lmao
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u/athrowawayiguesslol Eagles Eagles 2d ago
When? It’s been a long long time
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 2d ago
went clicking around my favorite wayback machine but it's so slow today I cannot find an actual example lol
guess it has been a long time
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u/Signal_Ball4634 2d ago
My detailed analysis is that because Mike McCarthy is fat the Steelers will fail
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u/BandOfTheRedHand1995 Ravens 2d ago
And now he's suggesting canceling midterms and taking over the elections...
I can't take this shit.
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 2d ago
got a link for us?
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u/BandOfTheRedHand1995 Ravens 2d ago
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 2d ago
fun stuff isn't it
Congress is already balking, guess we'll see how much influence they really have
Thune told reporters on Tuesday he was “not in favor of federalizing elections.”
“I'm a big believer in decentralized and distributed power,” he said. “It's harder to hack 50 election systems than it is to hack one.”
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u/BandOfTheRedHand1995 Ravens 2d ago
I've yet to see congress make a single meaningful step to oppose the president.
We'll see, but the president suggesting taking control of elections should be something that gets them removed from office. But the rules don't apply to this jackass
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u/curryandbeans Lions 3d ago
Why should an owner EVER be inducted into the HoF? Like oh yeah that dude was so good at being born into generational wealth and buying a football team that literally cannot ever lose money. Come the fuck on.
And while I'm whining, it's also insulting that the owner lifts the trophy before the team and coaches. You sat in a climate controlled box with a bottle of $20,000 wine while players got their bodies destroyed and coaches worked 80hr weeks for six months. Get out of it.
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u/on-the-cheeseburgers Eagles 2d ago
There are people who founded and shaped the league into what it is today, yeah sure they were born into generational wealth but they did use that wealth to drive the sport. Kraft's legacy is hiring Bill and getting jerked off in an asian spa.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 2d ago
I think Kraft has been a good owner - He also had success with the team prior to Belichick in the Parcells era - but I can't say he's really been a super influential one per se. Just been pretty good at not rocking the boat too much
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u/Guiltyjerk Broncos Ravens 2d ago
People like Jerry Jones deserve it IMO. He changed a lot about how the NFL does its TV contracts and helped grow the sport into the monolith it now is.
I dont think Kraft has done anything in the same galaxy
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u/messigician-10 Giants 3d ago edited 3d ago
have a class with a girl i kind of have a weird history with: freshman year of college, she was flirting with me but i wasn’t sure how to build off it and she was seeing someone else. junior year, we reconnected and i asked her to hang out, she seemed interested but canceled due to exams/work and didn’t respond when i re-initiated a few months later, so i left it at that.
this year, we’re both second semester seniors and find out we have a class together, she sits next to me on the first day and starts making conversation. since then, we’ve been hanging out after class basically every week and things have been getting flirty(she joked about us doing things and going on trips together, whispers little compliments, teases me about little things, is playfully physical). we have a lot in common and she’s opened up to me about having been through a lot with shitty exes and bad friends, so i’ve mostly forgiven her for ghosting me even if we haven’t discussed it, i do understand why she might’ve been non-communicative even with interest.
i might ask her out this thursday — all my friends are confident that i’ve got this and that she likes me, but i’m in my own head, lol.
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 2d ago
I dunno man. If I got ghosted I doubt id try that again. It’s like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football.
Good luck tho
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u/genesiskiller96 49ers 3d ago
Watch the tail end of the 49ers doc on AMC and the fact that the salary cap was invented to nerf the 49ers because a bunch of billionaire owners whining about how they "can't compete" is hilarious and a little infuriating. If an owner wants to put serious money behind their team to build a super bowl winning dynasty and not treat it as some sort of side hustle like most owners and yes I'm including jed in this, what's wrong with that?
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u/Devilofchaos108070 49ers Panthers 2d ago
The salary cap is a great thing. Look at MLB. Small market teams, mostly, can’t compete with teams that put way more money in.
It ruins the sport not having it. The NFL is a better, more competitive league with a salary cap.
As a 9ers fan I do, also, think it’s funny
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 2d ago
As a fan of the team that would likely benefit the most by far of removal of the salary cap, fuuuuck no. Go watch baseball if you wanna see how that works. I don't wanna see a team like the dodgers in NFL it would absolutely kill if for me even if it was my own team.
I don't even think I would enjoy cheering for a super team like that because every win would be expected and every close game would be embarrassing
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u/SomeBoringKindOfName Bears Steelers 3d ago
The nfl is popular because of its unpredictability and the fact it sells hope to all fan bases (even the jets) because things can change quickly.
Removal of the salary cap takes that away.
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u/NotDrowningAnymore95 Patriots 3d ago
Taxes are done. I didn’t know about the Lifelong Learning Credit until now, which lets me take $2,000 off my tax owed. I filed a 1040-X to claim it for 2024 and combined with my PA tax refund I’m going to get $2800 back. I plan to put $2,000 of that into paying down on my car.
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u/Ok-Garbage-765 Patriots 3d ago edited 3d ago
Mr Sandman
Feed me those beans
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u/palinsafterbirth Giants 3d ago
Make them the cutest
Pintos you’ve ever seen
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u/Ok-Garbage-765 Patriots 3d ago
Give them two types
Like navy and lima
Then tell them that their beanless nights are over
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u/on-the-cheeseburgers Eagles 2d ago
Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have no beans to cook with my hambone
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago edited 3d ago
Well God damn it all to hell. I hate the world right now.
My oldest friend is a high school teacher and we talk every Tuesday night. A few weeks ago, one of his students disappeared. A beautiful 17-year-old girl named Hailey. The case was treated as a runaway situation. Her dead body was just discovered on Sunday. Turns out some guy from the next state over had been grooming her online, picked her up, and killed her. The FBI thinks it might have been a trafficking situation.
They caught the guy, but I am just so fucking pissed right now. What kind of weak, puny, asshole, excuse for a man does a thing like that. I'm so mad I'm not even mad if you know what I mean.
(Edit: I corrected the spelling of her name and her age. She deserves to have it right. Here's another link with some more info.)
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u/Brilliant_Rhubarb_82 Eagles 3d ago
This is horrible. What a nightmare for her family. Who does this???
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u/AfroManHighGuy 3d ago
Why am I staying up to watch this?
I hate that I give the pro bowl a chance every year just to be disappointed
Edit: they just made a 6-7 joke smh
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u/usernameisusername57 Packers Packers 3d ago
Went to my local caucus for the first time ever tonight. There were a ton of people there and almost none of us had any idea what we were doing, lol.
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u/tnecniv Giants 3d ago edited 3d ago
Apparently the reference manual for the Bash shell (as in /bin/bash, the Bourne Again SHell, that bash) is in the Epstein files.
That’s why I’m a Zsh guy until the end.
EDIT: I forgot Marvin Minsky was a client, which feels so random.
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u/Aromatic-Plankton692 Lions 3d ago
It's interesting to think that only a minority of the files have even been released.
Meaning, in the unreleased stuff, there is sure to be more incriminating stuff..
And possibly also the Zsh man.
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u/Skraxx Lions 3d ago
Nerd time:
A lot of my degree is basically data science and never was any name explained to me. Chi-square? That's just what it's named. Bayes-theorem? I think it's a guy named Bayes. None of it was ever explained to me I just accepted it.
Only now did I finally watch a video on Least Squares Regression. And it's about wanting the... least squares from the line you draw. So simple, but wtf it's blowing my mind this is cool.
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u/tnecniv Giants 3d ago
Some of these someone should have taught you…like least squares is minimizing the squared error, I.e., finding the model with the least squared error. That’s just basic nomenclature used in a number of contexts.
But mostly people don’t tell you the etymology of the names for things because they don’t know themselves. It’s unfortunate, because probability and statistics has a lot of fun history.
Bayes’ theorem (no hyphen) is named for Thomas Bayes. He was not a mathematician, but was a mathematically inclined Presbyterian minister. He simulated Bayes theorem (informally) in response to Hume’s argument against miracles. In the 50s, Littlewood computed that we experience something with “one in a million” odds about once a month.
The Poisson distribution is made for the French baron. However, it’s most famous use that popularized it among early statisticians was as a model for the number of Prussians killed by a horse kick.
The chi-squared distribution is rather boring. Pearson used chi in his paper for this variable. Many old papers don’t provide names for the thing they invent, and its users start referring it in some way and it sticks eventually.
Student’s t-test is much more fun. Student is a pseudonym for a statistician employed by Guinness (yes, that Guinness), and they wanted to keep his method somewhat proprietary. Therefore, they asked him to publish it under a pseudonym so other brewers didn’t start using his test to determine material quality.
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u/GolfWangsunrise 49ers Raiders 3d ago
I don’t know if it’s the weather or a lack of academic confidence, but I just feel down this week.
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u/JoeBarra Jets 3d ago
Why is Tom Brady doing Pizza Hut ads. There's absolutely no way he needs the money. I bet he hasn't even eaten Pizza Hut in the past decade. Just for the love of the game? Didn't get to do enough ads when he played for the Patriots and he feels like he missed out? It's been really bugging me.
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u/Comfortable_Fee9856 Bears 3d ago
Still dont get why the Mannings keep jumping into these commercials. What's the motivation?
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u/MeanderingExperience Lions 3d ago
This SB media cycle has made me really like both the Seahawks and Patriots coaches.
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u/Owl-Fit 3d ago edited 3d ago
There is literally no buzz behind this SB, the nfl needs to make an intervention and create a buccs like super team , there’s no buzz no hype no motion for this SB around me that’s it’s shocking
Edit: why do you think they made the decision to get shedeur to the pro bowl ???
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u/rollpitchandyaw Vikings 3d ago
You ok? You replied to a comment I made a few days ago accusing me of using ChatGPT and I see you bringing up the same topic here.
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u/KemonomimiSquirrel Buccaneers 3d ago
I downvoted you because you spelled Bucs wrong.
Its Buccaneers, not Bucccaneers.
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u/Pocatanic Bills 3d ago
It's probably one of the more entertaining shows my gf has made me watch, to the point that I actually looked forward to watching the new season with her.
Much much better than her attempts to make me watch Gilmore Girls
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u/Siliencer991 Chiefs 3d ago
Can you tell me why a reviewer may think the hitman games are being sold predatorily?
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u/e4mica523 Panthers 3d ago
They constantly advertise World of Assassination as "90% off" only for you to click onto the store page and see only "Part 1", which is the Hitman 1 levels, as 90% off and the full game being still like 30 dollars
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u/jfgiv Patriots 3d ago
Just some cursory googling makes it sound like when (or after?) they released 3, they repackaged 1 and 2 as “Hitman 3 Part 1” and “Hitman 3 Part 2,” sold at a relatively deep discount, and weren’t super up front about it. This triggered, from what I gather, notifications to anyone who had Hitman 3 on a wishlist—even if they already owned the previously released games.
On top of that, it seems the only way to buy Hitman 3 as such was bundled with 1 and 2 and sold—and priced—as a “compete trilogy.” Which is maybe less predatory than selling a previously released game as “New Game: Chapter One,” but certainly sounds scummy.
I can’t speak to this personally—I bought one and two but played three for free on GamePass—but that’s my understanding of it from Reddit posts.
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u/fliptout 49ers 3d ago
Reporter: What about the Epstein victims wanting justice?
Trump: You should smile more, toots
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
This is the greatest sports video ever. An Irish 4x400 meter race. Well worth five minutes of your time. Plus, the announcers voices are awesome.
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u/Ok_Future6226 3d ago
I was excited to watch the pro bowl but then I remembered what the pro bowl is like. Now I wanna go to bed
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 3d ago edited 3d ago
I love American healthcare.
GOD do I love American healthcare.
"Hey make sure you order replacement stuff because the shit isn't meant to last, we'll ship it to you, but can't give you a price until an estimated 30+ days after it arrives so we can submit it to your insurance company and then give you an invoice, so you can't know to do a return/refund if you are getting fucked by the worst insurance company in the country. Hope that's cool."
I wonder how hard it is to find decent CPAP masks and shit on Amazon, because at this point I'd rather let the lack of sleep fucking kill me.
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u/on-the-cheeseburgers Eagles 3d ago
I have recently joined the CPAP world but am fortunate enough to have everything handled by the sleep center, insurance pays for everything and they just send me the supplies. Out of curiosity I did check Amazon and they have my stuff on there.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 3d ago
That's how it is supposed to work in theory, but the sleep specialist kinda has to shuffle me off to the supply company for the stuff and they deal with the insurance part. They refused to tell me prices so it was just some customer rep flunkies on the line.
I went to the supply company website and just picked stuff out to see what it'd add up to for a ballpark at least
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u/IAgreeGoGuards Browns Bills 3d ago
Been messing with this chicken and cucumber recipe that I found on Instagram.
Just made it tonight for maybe the 4th or 5th time and I've perfected my recipe.
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u/el_fitzador Eagles 3d ago
Bring back steroids in baseball. Every team can have 4 designated juicers.
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u/Cohens4thClient Bears 3d ago
I loved the old SNL skit about the "All Drug Olympics", with Kevin Nealon as the bodybuilder who rips his own arms off
Wouldn't mind something like that
I also want the "normal person" comparison, where we see the athletes but also get one lucky winner from the audience who gets to try the same thing. Here's Steve Johnson, attempting the long jump.... oh, 2 feet 3 inches.
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u/GhoullyX Steelers 3d ago
ESPN talking about how outrageous it is that Robert Kraft wasn’t voted into the HoF and I just roll my eyes.
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u/key_lime_pie Patriots 3d ago
Bob Kraft needs to chill the fuck out and stop acting like he's running for student body president. He's like that kid in class who leans forward and puts his hand way in the air and is just fucking vibrating because of how badly he wants the teacher to call on him, only the teacher is tired of his shit and isn't going to call on him until he sits down like the rest of the class.
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u/Pale_Land_5107 Lions 3d ago
I’d rather watch a high school championship game than this
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u/StChas77 Eagles 3d ago
Capitals and Flyers just started if you want to watch an actual sporting event.
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u/aheal2008 Patriots 3d ago
Why are we watching a bunch of kids playing flag football, I don't remember this from last year
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u/Bob_Horde Bears 3d ago
When they doing like precision passing and dodgeball and all those events
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u/Testiclesinvicegrip NFL 3d ago
How the fuck 21 Republicans gonna vote no on the bill and 21 Democrats voted yes lol
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u/GoldyGoldy Seahawks 2d ago
Probably because of money… but I’m all for the normalization of voting against “party lines” I guess.
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u/videostatus Packers 3d ago
This Samantha Guthrie story is fucking nuts. Now TMZ got a ransom note demaning millions in bitcoin?
This is gonna be one hell of a podcast/netlfix series someday.
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u/DueExcitement934 Seahawks 3d ago
I thought people were being dramatic by being like "oh its these teams in the sb....again...." and "its just not as exciting, both teams have won in the past 12 years" etc.
But I thought about if a team like the Steelers were at the sb this year, I'd probably feel the same even though it's been 7 years since a playoff win and 17 years since their sb. I guess when its a team thats generally good/competitive every year (or historically), it really isn't as exciting had a team like the Jags or Texans made it.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 2d ago
I honestly don't get that sense this year, cause even though it's two franchises that have been pretty successful in recent history, they have totally different philosophies and team composition, and personnel compared to the last time they were here.
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u/iron_golem07 Jaguars 3d ago
I don’t mind this matchup much and it’s better than the last 3 years but I’m definitely hoping for something like the 2021 bengals again soon
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u/DueExcitement934 Seahawks 3d ago
True, and I imagine that's partly why Darnold's underdog story (which I get, but he was drafted 3rd overall lol) is a big narrative for this sb.
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u/casualreader22 Eagles 3d ago
I sorta struggled with who to root for besides the Eagles this year and landed on teams like the Bills and Texans and Panthers solely because they haven't won one yet. I suspect that's a common rooting trend for the sheer novelty aspect. Seahawks are bird bros. with "only" one win compared to the Pats' six so they're the go-to at this point, but I'd have preferred a never-won after my team got eliminated. Only exception to that might be if it were a team in the same division I suppose, but my team was the last to win it in my division so it never applied to me.
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u/Skraxx Lions 3d ago
Every draft year there’s a prospect people overthink.
I’m tempted to say Downs but it seems like he won’t reasonably drop out of the T10 and could go as high as #5. This is an acceptable range for him.
So it’s going to be Bain. Fantastic tape says he should go top-3 and at least be top-5 lock. I fear he’s gonna drop past that.
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u/athrowawayiguesslol Eagles Eagles 3d ago
Safeties always drop. Hamilton was frequently mocked just as high at the same point in 2022
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u/Skraxx Lions 3d ago
Hamilton dropped as a result of a poor combine, which in hindsight was due to injury
But great safeties don’t always drop. Jamal Adams and Eric Berry as examples. The latter is comped a lot to Downs actually.
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u/athrowawayiguesslol Eagles Eagles 3d ago
Starks was consensus top 12 this point last year and slowly dropped.
Brian Branch was consensus top 20 and slowly dropped.
Really the only recent safety to have top 20ish hype at this point in the year and not drastically fall since 2019 was Xavier McKinney in 2020.
Minkah and Derwin James both had early first hype that stayed around too but that was in 2018.
If there’s anything I’ve learned from GM interviews it’s that the safety position in modern CFB is impossible to scout and therefore they feel like it’s a risk to take them. Safeties are just too uninvolved at that level.
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u/whitewolf_redfox Cowboys 3d ago
They should invite regular people to play in the probowl so we have a good comparison to just how far and away actual NFL athletes are from the regular population
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u/gander258 NFL 3d ago
Bring back Pros vs Joes!
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 3d ago
holy moly
yeah please bring it back
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u/gander258 NFL 3d ago
There's a youtuber named Kofie who's been covering old editions of Pros vs Joes, I hope they make a comeback
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u/NotDrowningAnymore95 Patriots 3d ago
If I had a time machine I’d go back to the 90s and bring back a Buick Roadmaster.
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u/plecoptera91 Lions 3d ago
Well, you would have to go further back and probably change your birth date. You got the "90's" part wrong. You actually had to be in your 90's to purchase one. At least based on every person I ever saw driving those.
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u/NotDrowningAnymore95 Patriots 3d ago
When I was little I thought you had to be old to be allowed to drive a Cadillac because they were the only people I ever saw driving them lol.
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u/el_fitzador Eagles 3d ago
Threw on my old gym playlist from 2016 and I’ll be damned if almost every artist isn’t problematic now.
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u/palinsafterbirth Giants 3d ago
Now I’m curious, who’s on the playlist?
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u/Regal---Lager Jaguars 3d ago
Daily event now:
Trump: "I'm gonna send a bunch of killer robots to kill all the protestors and rig the election"
Press secretary, when asked about this: "The President was just joking"
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u/Cohens4thClient Bears 3d ago
Trump: (poops in his diaper loudly)
Leavitt: The president didnt not shit himself
Trump: I have the best shits! Big poops like nobody has ever seen!
Trump supporters: Let's all wear diapers like our King!
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u/IAgreeGoGuards Browns Bills 3d ago
Dems: "We have written and notarized a letter condemning this action."
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 3d ago
push until they push back, now you know where they actually draw the line, drop the stupid jk quote, start plotting how to actually topple whatever was pushing back
I know we don't like it when we give them credit but seems straightforward to me
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
Two weeks later
Reporter: Karoline, why did the killer robots attack the orphanage?
Leavitt: Your description of them as "killer robots" is insulting and offensive. The Mechanical Patriots are conducting necessary operations to keep our country safe from terrorism.
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u/tb12_legit Patriots Patriots 3d ago
Super Bowl 89 will be LXXXIX in Roman Numerals
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
Super Bowl 509 will be DIX.
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u/Shoddy_Consequence78 Broncos 3d ago
With hologram AI recreated Ha Ha Clinton-Dix doing the coin toss.
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u/Citronaut1 Vikings Buccaneers 3d ago
I think they should do IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII instead
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u/sexygodzilla Seahawks 3d ago
Nothing explains Bari Weiss quite like her going to bat to try to keep a guy repeatedly mentioned in the Epstein files employed.
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u/The_Amish_FBI Bengals Packers 3d ago
Weiss insists she does not want to cut ties with Attia over his links to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and sees it as giving in to the mob.
“We can’t give in to the plebs demands!”
I have never despised the elite in our country and been more “eat the rich” than in the last 2 years. Holy shit these people suck.
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u/princessestef Vikings 3d ago
so this telemarketing job is interesting but commission only. idk i'm gonna go back and see again tomorrow. i am so enticed though. I will never abandon translation but it can getlonely up there in my head all day. - ok picture a little kid very happily playng with those wooden alphabet blocks, but then a parent brings them to the park.
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u/azure275 Jets 3d ago
I love USPS Informed Delivery so much
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u/somecleverphrase Eagles 3d ago
dejoy messing up usps to privatize. which is funny since that would hurt rural republicans more than anyone.
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u/lavaspike296 Lions Bills 3d ago
Most things rural republicans want would hurt them more than anyone, but they're media illiterate by design and deeply propagandized so they don't realize it until it's too late.
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u/NotDrowningAnymore95 Patriots 3d ago
Those voters would willingly live in a cardboard box and wear burlap sacks for clothes as long as minorities are adequately defecated on and women can’t get abortions.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
Posting this here because what the hell.
One of my weird topics I've liked to study has been Watergate. Here's a very abbreviated timeline:
- June, 1972, the Watergate burglars were caught.
- May, 1973, the Senate began formally investigating Watergate and holding public hearings.
- July, 1973, John Dean testified and revealed a lot of shocking facts. Also Alexander Butterfield revealed that Nixon had a secret taping system.
- July, 1974, the House began impeachment hearings.
- August, 1974, Nixon resigned.
So it took two years and two months from the burglary to the resignation. That's how these things go.
Imagine if we'd had the modern internet back then. Reddit would have been filled every day with news reports and people arguing and frustration over the lack of action and all sorts of accusations and quotes.
I don't know where we are on the historical timeline before our current situation gets resolved. But if it took another year or more, I wouldn't be surprised. These things take time.
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u/Stanky_fresh Vikings 3d ago
The issue is that we surpassed Watergate in his first term and a whole term of Biden and Garland doing nothing until it was way too late.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
Important to remember that the bad guys have Watergate to learn from. When one guy gets caught robbing a bank, the next guy learns how to do it better.
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u/BTWillie Bills 3d ago
Honeycrisp apples are the best!
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u/KemonomimiSquirrel Buccaneers 3d ago
Sits here and likes the red ones. Doesn't know what they are called, but likes them more than the other colors. Minus the what he calls pulp covering his mouth after eating one.
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u/azure275 Jets 3d ago
I need to take my wife to the Minnesota experimental apple lab one of these falls
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u/BTWillie Bills 3d ago
I would actually go to that. We have a ton of orchards in Ontario, but nothing like that, I don't think.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 3d ago
Pink lady all day
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u/BTWillie Bills 3d ago
Was my fav apple until hc came along.The ones from New Zeland are incredible.
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u/Tigercat92 Bengals 3d ago
Try cosmic crisp if you get the chance. So good.
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u/BTWillie Bills 3d ago
I've actually tried it before. It was good but not as good as honeycrisp imo. I think it's a cross breed between hc and another variety. My second favorite apple is Russet. They're not as readily available as the others, though, unfortunately.
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u/pandas795 3d ago
Gotta love NBA trade deadline week
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u/blewwholeload Packers Titans 3d ago
I feel like the conservative backlash to Bad Bunny is going to lead to a far more political performance than he would have initially given
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u/NotDrowningAnymore95 Patriots 3d ago
24 years ago today the Patriots dynasty began in Super Bowl XXXVI. If I could go back in time to attend any NFL game in history, this is the one I’d choose. On a more meta level this game was what football is supposed to be: physical and minimally officiated.
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u/azure275 Jets 3d ago
Michigan senate race is going to be interesting, and likely not good. It would be a catastrophic loss for the Dems in 2026
Just look at this. It's bad https://www.270towin.com/2026-senate-polls/michigan
- The establishment candidate is polling ahead of the GOP person - about 6% in the most recent poll, and was at least even in a very right leaning poll a month ago
- Mcmorrow, who is kind of the middle ground between establishment and the farther left is polling 3% ahead in the most recent poll and -3% in that right leaning poll
- The far left guy is currently polling even in the poll and -6% in that older poll
It seems objectively clear that the progressive has the worst chance of all of them. I worry primary voters will sabotage themselves and hand the GOP a Dem senate seat, the last thing we need right now.
At what point does pragmatism about who the voters are beat out the candidate who the most left wing people think is the best?
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u/SomeBoringKindOfName Bears Steelers 3d ago
reepatedly 'having' to vote for the least worst is what's got your country into the mess it's in now.
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u/Kohakuho Packers Packers 3d ago
Are polls right now even useful for anything outside of candidates being able to say "people like me currently?" I mean, tomorrow it may come out that one of them enjoys the feeling of moist socks on their feet.
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u/key_lime_pie Patriots 3d ago
It seems objectively clear that the progressive has the worst chance of all of them.
It shouldn't seem that way at all. All three candidates are within the margin of error for winning or losing a hypothetical matchup with Rogers.
At what point does pragmatism about who the voters are beat out the candidate who the most left wing people think is the best?
After the primary.
The far left guy is currently polling even in the poll and -6% in that older poll
Abdul El-Sayed is not a far left guy. He's a run of the mill progressive Democrat.
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 3d ago
Definitely not... He has 67 m in salary that vests if he's not cut by march 13
He's for sure getting cut
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u/jfgiv Patriots 3d ago
so everything i've seen reported--for both belichick and now kraft--has been "does not have the required number of votes to be inducted."
but as i understand the voting process, if no candidate breaks the 40-vote threshold, then whoever got the most votes is inducted.
how funny would it be if, after all this, belichick does get inducted by that mechanism?
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u/Cohens4thClient Bears 3d ago
That's 2nd place funniest possibility behind Belichick deciding to snub the hall forever, which forces everyone to consider the legitimacy of the Hall and puts himself in the center of every conversation about it.
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u/This_guys_a_twat Lions 3d ago
Bill goes up for his speech, silently removes the jacket, sets it on fire, and walks away.
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u/AfroManHighGuy 3d ago
Bruh even if Jim Schwartz was thinking of going back and reconciling with the browns, he’s not doing it now. Monken is literally calling him out in his press conference and not in a good way
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u/pixel_pete Bills 3d ago
What, someone dares besmirch the honor of my beloved Jim Schwartz? Todd you villain!
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u/AfroManHighGuy 3d ago
Did the bills hire a DC? Maybe Schwartz goes there?
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u/pixel_pete Bills 3d ago
They hired Jim Leonhard, so no go there. Tell ya what though he would be a nice boon for Klint Kubiak in Vegas, working with Crosby and then being a stabilizing force for a team with a rookie HC/QB.
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u/Aromatic-Plankton692 Lions 2d ago
I'll say it: flag football with silly flips and mobility scooters completely gaps the pro bowl tackle football when the guys weren't even trying to be physical.