The #Rams inherit the two years, $43 million remaining on Matthew Stafford's contract. The #Lions will carry a $17.8 million dead cap hit in 2021.

The #Lions inherit four years, $106.6M remaining on Jared Goff's contract. The #Rams will carry a $22.2M dead cap hit in 2021.

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) January 31, 2021

Holy Shit.

Geez, I like Stafford but not for two no1 picks.

Omg.

I’m somewhere between Startled and Astonished.

I got nuthin. Other to say, Wolford did not
‘beat out’ Goff. I dunno how anyone could
arrive at that conclusion after watching
Wolford play. And i love that he can move.
Love it. You guys know, i love mobile-QBs.
But i dont see Wolford as a starting NFL QB.
He’s crafty, and game, but he’s no Russell Wilson.
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I guess,in 2020, I’d rank Goff, about 13th,
behind these guys: Goff 20 TD /13 INT

Lots of really good years for QBs,
as per usual. These are my own rankings, fwiw.
The only one that i dunno what to do with
is Lamar Jackson. He’s an odd one.

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Mahommes 38/6
Aaron Rogers 48/5
Josh Allen 37/10
Tom Brady 40/12
Russell Wilson 40/13
Deshaun Jackson 33/7
Drew Brees 24/6
Ben Rothlisberger 33/10
Baker Mayfield 26/8
Matt Ryan 26/11
Philip Rivers 24/11
Lamar Jackson 26/9

Shoplift. Excellent.

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I think Mahommes is the best quarterback Ive ever seen,
and the Chiefs have so much speed on offense,
I think its their game to lose.

Chiefs 31
Bucs 24

Billy_T wrote:

As I’ve gotten older — and hopefully wiser — I’ve changed my mind a bit about the relative importance of coaching. Used to weight it far behind player talent. Not so anymore. I still think you win with superior athletic talent, and that it’s the most important factor, but that coaching talent is close.
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Andy Reid’s career is interesting. For so long he was “the good coach who couldnt win the big one.” Kinda like Shottenheimer or maybe Robinson for the Rams.

Enter Mahommes.

Now Reid is Mr Hall of fame coach.

I think it will interesting to see what Belichick
can do over the next few years, without Brady.

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Cal wrote:

Maybe people were wrong about Biden–he seems like he is proposing some interesting ideas. He seems serious about climate change.

And the child tax credit sounds impressive. Would this be the most important program to help poor people in the last 25 years?

From the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/01/22/biden-childtaxcredit-stimulus/

Under one draft of the plan being discussed, the IRS would be tasked with depositing checks worth $300 every month per child younger than 6, as well as $250 every month per child age 6 to 17. That would amount to $3,600 over the course of the year for young children, as well as $3,000 a year for older children, the officials said.

Unlike with the stimulus checks, the Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers are hoping to make these child benefits a permanent government program that would continue in future years, according to three senior Democratic officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning. The current proposal calls only for the expanded benefit to be enacted for one year, after which Democrats widely hope political pressure will force Congress to extend them. The benefit would be phased out for affluent Americans, though the precise income level has not been determined.

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Seems like just another corporate-DNC-democrat
to me, Cal. Looks like Obama/Clinton to me.

Massive, massive, massive, massive spending on
the Military-Weapons-CIA-Empire.

Very very little on the poor
and vulnerable.

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Interesting long thread by one of my favorite commie tweeters.
On Putin, Navalny, etc.
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this is cringey & made me uncomfortable bc i see that there’s a new effort to make young ppl pour out into the streets to protest navalny’s incarceration & larger extent of oppression under putin but no one questions what will happen when kids are arrestedhttps://t.co/sLYtwPmNXO

— katya (@kazbek) January 22, 2021

i actually read this entire thread
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marx: …so, revolution

batman: sounds criminal

foucault: sounds normie

marx: no it's not normie, it's the way one class overthrows another, and thus its regime of exploitation

gandalf: is this not to become just as bad as the enemy?

marx: god dammit gandalf

— Tom Frome (@TomFrome) December 29, 2020

I follow this guy, fwiw.

Klobuchar is speaking now . Earlier this summer I sent her documents about voter intimidation and asked for comment. She never acknowledged them and then raised them in Congress and ruined my story while taking credit for our work. Cool

— james stout (@jamesstout) January 20, 2021

Animals interrupting wildlife photographers. A thread:

1. 📸 Dan Dinu pic.twitter.com/FYfohHAucq

— Joaquim Campa (@JoaquimCampa) January 17, 2021

I didnt think he’d be back.

McVay needs to hire some bad
coaches, so they’ll stick around.

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I only saw the hi-lites, but it looked like a
well-rested team against a tired team without the
Real-Aaron-Donald. The packers just looked
like they had a little jump in their steps,
and the Rams missed a ton of tackles in the hi-lites.

We’ve seen that a million times in playoff-games
played after one team has a bye.

Not sayin the packers wouldnt have won anyway,
but the bye-difference was clear.

Looked like Goff coulda used Kupp a few
times too.

La Fleur has been a great match for A.Rogers,
i guess. Two 13-win season in a row. Even Dick
Vermeil didnt accomplish that.

11 wins, 7 losses. A wild-card team.
With the No.1 Defense.

I dunno, I think they under-achieved.
The 49 flops, Miami, The Jets.

Not a ‘bad’ year, but i think they under-achieved.

It’ll be interesting to see what the Rams
think they need. Bring on the draft.
Do they need a deep threat? A DE?
One of everything? A QB?

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Kaepernick: *Kneels to protest police brutality*

Republicans: "HE HATES THE TROOPS!"

Insurrectionists: *Beat police officers and murder one with a fire extenguisher*

Republicans: "Now's the time for unity and for cooler heads to prevail."

— Corey Richardson (@vexedinthecity) January 11, 2021