zn wrote:

a 1 and 3 2s.

Better be worth it.

…

Whether that works for the Jets or not will be seen down the road, I guess, but I would take that deal without hesitation if I was the Colts. Move down 3 spots for 3 second rounders?

In a heartbeat.

I am down on TEs, period. I agree with WV. Conwell was the most recent likable TE.

I don’t understand it. A professional football player should be able to both block, and catch a pass. Heck, I played a lot of flag football in my youth, and I could block, catch, pass, and run. I don’t understand why professional athletes are no good at it.

There was a guy named Big Tex. And there were several Vikings fans. The only one I remember, though, is Mjollnir’s Wrath because he could actually communicate. Like SaintsAlive. They were welcome additions.

CaliforniaTom. Big Tex. Oh, and Happy4LA.

Jesus was his agent?

wv wrote:

I aint a fan anymore. Too many muffs, too many drops, too many fumbles.
I think they will always outweigh the big plays.

I aint a fan of Phar.Cooper either, btw.

w
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Well, I can’t guess what made you start hating America like this, but I guess the next step in your descent is to become a fan of the Nittany Lions.

TSRF wrote:

Just watching more of the footage. “Enough is Enough”.

These kids are going to vote, and soon.

Unfortunately, there are going to be more shootings. With the number of guns out there, how can there not be? My one hope through this madness is that subsequent horrors will harden the resolve of these kids and they will be the ones to change the course of our country.

I hope so.

I just can’t help but think that time works against these sentiments. I mean…most voters are not single issue voters. They vote “identity,” or on the basis of what is “hot.” If the election were right now, the gun issue would be a big factor. Eight months from now? Well…the nation will have endured several more emotional turns that will leave Parkland in the dust. Probably.

The kids will have to keep it up. Right now, they are at a high water mark. It’s hard to sustain. But…maybe this solidifies a generation’s identity. It looks like the under 30 crowd is largely…Not Republican. And identities don’t change much past 30. So we have a wave of people who are headed towards 30 with much more social consciousness than the Boomers had.

We’ll see.

zn wrote:

2. #Rams are high on Josh Reynolds as a replacement for Watkins, and Mike Thomas will also be in the mix. But obviously wide receiver is now a position they’ll also look to the draft and free agency to address.

This kind of comment always strikes me as self-contradictory.

If the Rams were high on Reynolds, they’d be set at WR. Semantics, maybe, but still. To me…being “high” on somebody ought to mean being “sold” on them. And if they are going to still fish around for WR help, that implies that they are not fully confident that Reynolds is going to be what they want him to be.

I’m not shocked, especially since the cap went up, and the FA pool is not saturated. But while I hoped to keep Watkins, I don’t think that number works with Donald, Gurley, and Goff needing new contracts. Watkins was more expendable than any of those guys.

They probably haven’t all been trained to think a certain way, do you think?

InvaderRam wrote:

younger corner coming off an injury vs older corner who knows the defense but can be a loose cannon.

i guess we’ll find out if the rams made the right choice.

Yeah, we will.

But in the mean time, bear in mind that the 49ers first choice was also Talib, and Sherman is Plan B. So they were thinking the same thing the Rams were.

JackPMiller wrote:

Seahawks trade Bennett to Eagles. I saw it was for a 5th round pick and a WR that doesn’t play.

And you want a 4th round pick for Tavon Austin?

See…that’s not happening.

JackPMiller wrote:

If four teams are interested, one of them, may get greedy and trade a 4th round pick. With the Steelers and Ravens it is more of a late 4th. The Jets have no really talented WRs for which rookie QB they draft to throw to.

And if the Jets traded for Austin, they STILL wouldn’t have a talented WR for a rookie QB to throw to.

Nobody is going to give a 4th.

I will be a little bit surprised if they get anything at all. Anything.

Maybe a 6th AFTER the Rams eat the roster bonus.

nittany ram wrote:

I listen to NPR while I’m at work. That’s the only mainstream news I listen to. I’m not saying it’s measurably better than any other mainstream news outlet, but like Zooey, I listen to it to see what events the general public is being exposed to.

I get most of my news from just reading around the internet.

I sometimes listen to NPR in the car – 15 minute commute to work. But I find them somewhat tedious. I mean…I guess I’m glad that someone is peeling back the cover of the folk music and tamale festival in Austin…but I really don’t care. For actual news, you have to turn it on at just the right time, and even at their best, their comparatively in-depth coverage is still shallow.

I like reading.

I seem to always have about 3 or 4 tabs open in my browser of articles I want to read when I get the time.

The closest I get to mainstream TV news is that I tune in to the PBS Newshour on Friday nights about 3 or 4 times a year to watch the Mark Shields/David Brooks commentary. Oh, and sometimes the round table on the Sunday morning Stephanopolous show. Just to hear the mainstream op-ed perspective after a week of significant domestic political news. I guess I’m just curious as to what the “pulse” of the nation is like sometimes.

I don’t think I ever tune in to get “news” from TV.

What does an uncontested pass look like? I think I have seen a few in my life, but in the 6,000 football games I’ve watched, only about a dozen passes were uncontested.