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Here’s my own list of highlights from Project 2025. It’s hard to pick just a few.

Project 2025 plans to:

• Cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid
• Legislate that ‘life begins at conception’ and ban all emergency contraception.
• Eliminate the Department of Education
• Put Christianity at the center of government and society; remake federal laws based on a biblical worldview as interpreted by Christian nationalists
• Reinstate Schedule F, a Trump executive order which removed protections for civil service employees against firing for partisan reasons; then replace tens of 1000s of civil service employees with MAGA loyalists.
• Remove legal restraints from large corporations; dismantle safety and environmental regulations
• Cause public schools to fail through changes in funding and laws such as forcing students at public schools to take a military entrance exam. Private school students don’t have to take the test.
• Repeal a lot of healthcare legislation, decommision the CDC and the National Institute of Health.
• Give the president dictator-like powers. Place the federal government’s entire executive branch under direct presidential control, eliminating the independence of the DOJ, the FBI, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and other agencies. Eliminate protections that prevent abuse of power by the president.
• Reverse policies that address climate change; prohibit regulations on greenhouse gases; eliminate regulations on the fossil-fuel industry; abolish the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• Remove LGBTQ+ protections
• Eliminate any programs or projects in federal agencies that are deemed pro-abortion, including at the VA.
• Reverse protections against discrimination in housing.
• Wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; repeal the Corporate Transparency Act.
• Arrest, detain, and remove immigration violators anywhere in the United States. Deputize the National Guard in red states as immigration enforcement officers under Trump’s command; these forces would then be deployed in blue states. Arrestees would be taken to “large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas” to be held in internment camps before deportation. Trump has also spoken of rounding up homeless people in blue cities and detaining them in camps.
• Sources:

A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration (Media Matters)

The Facts About Project 2025: The Pro-Trump Proposal To ‘Reshape America’ (Snopes)

Project 2025 – Wikipedia

‘Moms for Liberty on steroids’: Project 2025’s brutal plan to blow up public schools (MSNBC)

Also, thank you to Dr. Jo. I started with her post and borrowed a few phrases.

Dr Jo’s answer to Why did Trump tweet that he knows nothing about Project 2025?

You can download the whole file from the Heritage Foundation’s website. I wouldn’t be surprised if they took it down soon.

InvaderRam wrote:

i don’t think i’m going on a limb when i say avila goes into this season with the most potential of any center the rams have had in the past 30 years.

Since Doug Smith retired after 1991. And Avila is both more athletic than Smith and weighs in at 73 pounds more. 😲

from https://www.lafbnetwork.com/matthew-stafford-named-best-over-30-qb/

the 33rd Team’s and former general manager of the Minnesota Vikings, Jeff Diamond isn’t worried about Stafford this year. He named him to his recent ranking of the best NFL players over 30.

Diamond ranked Stafford as the 10th best over 30 player in the league overall and the best quarterback hands-down. Only two quarterbacks were listed, Stafford and Dak Prescott, who came in just behind Stafford at 11th. Prescott turned 30 just under one year ago.

This means he beat out the 40 year old former back to back MVP, Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins. At 36, Stafford is the oldest of all members of this ranking. The next closest in age is San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle, Trent Williams at 35. The list of 20 was made up of seven 30 year olds, two 31 year olds, three 32 year olds, two 33 year olds, and four 34 year olds.

Four starting quarterbacks have won a Super Bowl after the age of 36; Tom Brady (x4), Peyton Manning, Johnny Unitas, and John Elway (x2)

Here is Diamond’s case;

The Super Bowl victory led by Matthew Stafford for the Rams in 2021 is what puts him ahead of Prescott.

Stafford was the first overall pick by the Detroit Lions in 2009. He’s their career passing leader in numerous categories including career passing yards (45,109) and TD passes (282). He led the Lions to the playoffs three times in his 12 seasons in Detroit (without a postseason victory). Stafford broke through with his Super Bowl run in the first year after being traded to the Rams.

After an injury-filled season in 2022, Stafford led the Rams to a wild card berth last season as he threw for 3,965 yards and 24 TDs in his second Pro Bowl season.

Sam Monson@PFF_Sam
Even in his final year, Aaron Donald was just on a different level.

Overall pass-rush win rate on 3rd and 4th down:

Donald: 28.6%
Nick Bosa: 28.1%
Myles Garrett: 28.0%

28% is a crazy number. For an INTERIOR player to lead the league is even crazier.

Shoutout to Dexter Lawrence who was 4th as a freaking nose tackle.

From https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2024/7/8/24194460/nfc-west-rank-among-nfl-divisions-going-into-2024?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=turfshowtimes

The NFC West has run the gamut of quality in the past 15 years, perhaps more than any other division. Because while the AFC and NFC South divisions have been terrible, they’ve rarely if ever been stacked since 2010. Whereas the AFC North is stacked, and has had some softer years than others, that division has been difficult for anyone to win without a lot of luck. And while the AFC West has weak teams like the Raiders, it is so hard to get a division title if you’re not the Kansas City Chiefs.

But the NFC West has had every identity in the last 10-15 years.

In 2010, the Seahawks won the division with a 7-9 record. Then in 2011, the 49ers became a short-term powerhouse under Jim Harbaugh, followed by Seattle becoming one of the league’s most consistently successful team beginning in 2012 and that probably lasted until 2021. Then of course, the Rams made the Super Bowl in 2018 and 2021, winning the latter and making the playoffs again in 2023. Even the Arizona Cardinals enjoyed some success when they had Bruce Arians and Carson Palmer.

What is the NFC West right now?

This list ranking divisions by Canada’s TPS station, the NFC West ranked third overall and was noted that the division has sent at least two teams to the playoffs in each of the past six seasons.

Some stuff on the Fangio defense that Shula got from Morris/Staley

from https://theeagleswire.usatoday.com/lists/philadelphia-eagles-vic-fangio-scheme-structure-culture-linebackers/

Cornerback Chris Harris, Jr, who played for Fangio in Denver in 2019, said this about his defensive philosophy: “It’s versatile. He has a wide variety of defenses. … You have to be smart to know how to play your spot, your zone, and your position. I think that’s why I’ve always liked it. It has so much. He has a lot of different looks he can bring.”

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Fangio employs two high structures, a base 3-4 defensive front, light boxes, and modern defense….The “Fangio Defense” will always employ a two-high shells look before the snap. The two-high structure allows for flexibility in the secondary. The Fangio Defense uses the appearance of simplicity while encompassing a plethora of coverages, pressures, and assignments.

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 his teams are known to be light on blitzing and with a structure based around two high safeties. These looks are predicated on stopping deep, explosive gains and living with shorter, underneath completions.

Though the Fangio Defense uses different matching rules and variations within coverage that combine man and zone coverages, a basic understanding of field zones is important as we start to dig into pass coverage. The general zone assignment can turn into a man assignment based on the formation or if certain players cross certain zones. Further, certain offensive looks can give a defender freedom to support another player’s responsibility.

What makes Fangio’s defense the best response to modern offenses? Its two-high (two deep safeties) structure limits explosive plays and forces offenses to stay patient and throw short. The front mechanics allow the defense to slow down the run with light boxes and commit more resources to coverage. Pre-snap, the defense is committed to showing the same Cover 4 shell for as long as possible so quarterbacks have to make reads after the snap. Even after the snap, it’s hard to draw a bead on what the coverage is because of how the defensive backs disperse from the top down. … From its two-high alignment, the defense can rotate into a variety of zone and man coverages.

One of the key features of Fangio’s defense is how everything looks similar before the snap. Both safeties align deep, and usually one or both corners play off the line of scrimmage, so it looks like Cover 4 across the board or Cover 6, making it difficult for quarterbacks to identify the coverage. Figuring out the coverage before the snap informs quarterbacks where they should look first and how to progress from read to read. Making the coverage look the same puts more pressure on quarterbacks to compute more information after the snap.