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    Burgers

    Dan's is like a block away.
  2. Harkness is River's father. River, the doppleganger, the (other) French assassin that presumably killed Bad Sam, and the bomber are all half-brothers. When River was talking to his doppleganger's mother, she talked about how Harkness had a harem of women at Les Abres - greek, polish, russian, english, etc. Harkness would impregnate the women, steal the baby boys from their mothers, and train them to be his team of assassins. Basically, you can assume that any of the bad guys working for Harkness are his sons. The secret opp that Bad Sam did for David Cartwright was to get David's daughter/River's mother out of Les Abres. Still don't know what happened to mom, or how David Cartwright ended up with River...
  3. Well, I'm crashing the party. I've worked for an occupational health and safety company for 13 years with a specialty in pre-employment post-offer physical abilities testing. Basically, I was the commercial SME and sales lead for our testing division. We test workers to ensure that they're physically safe to do the job that they're being placed into. The owners of the company sold to a large private-equity backed corporation almost two years ago. That corporation primarily owns physical therapy clinics throughout the US, but has also acquired a handful of commercial entities selling injury-prevention services (onsite early intervention, ergonomics, safety services, occupational medical testing, etc). We were enveloped under one of those entities, and their CEO and COO basically took over our company. There has been constant reorganization of the commercial team over the last 18 months. We hired a team of new salespeople who were supposed to focus on selling all services offered by both companies, as they're somewhat complimentary. But basically the four new salespeople focused on services offered by "their" company and I ended up managing new business development of the testing side of things. My colleague who has been with our company for 27 years was put over customer experience/expansion of our existing clients. Two weeks ago they eliminated my position, as well as my colleague's, despite both of us outperforming our contemporaries at the "other" company. They didn't even bother to tell our COO before it happened. The sale of our company was contentious. Previous owners sold operating interest (51%) of the company, and expected (naively) to be allowed to continue to run the company as they saw fit. Shortly after the sale, the previous owners were unceremoniously told their services would no longer be required or appreciated and they were shown the door. It seems pretty clear to me that they want to cut off any ties to the old owners and get their own people in who will do whatever new leadership says without questioning the commercial strategy (which is pretty non-existent). Get the "yes men" in place regardless of performance. This is exceptionally frustrating because we are one of a very small handful of companies that offer employment testing services at a national scale. Most of the time it's done by local physical or occupational therapy clinics, and is a small component of the suite of services they offer local employer clients. Basically, there is almost no opportunity to go to a competitor and continue to apply my expertise. So here I am. My last day is October 18th and they've offered a paltry six-weeks severance, which my attorney is trying to renegotiate on my behalf. I can also cash out a month of PTO. Between myself and my colleague they're offering 12 weeks of severance for 40 years of work between the two of us. I've got two small kids and we don't have a ton of savings where I can afford to be on unemployment for a long period of time. Reading about @Macanudo's experience is somewhat disheartening, and very concerning. If you're still with me, I guess I'm just venting at this point. So anyway, if any of y'all know of anything, shoot me a DM. I've got experience in sales, account management, onboarding and implementation, occupational health and safety, and injury-prevention services. But open to pretty much anything at this point.
  4. This was my favorite exchange. Reality-based aggy makes objective and accurate observation on struggling position groups supported by facts. First response is "this is just wrong" with zero supporting data.
  5. Makes total sense. I guess the point I'm making is that I don't know how much recruiting success of Jackson/Orogbo/Hilson (fingers crossed) can be attributed to Baker. I'm happy things have turned around on DT recruiting, but the jury's still out on Baker as a recruiter and a coach. However, the data points are trending in a positive direction, which is welcome and reassuring after an objectively shaky start.
  6. Recently diagnosed type 2 diabetic and insulin injector chiming in. The needles used to inject insulin are tiny because you inject subcutaneously rather than intravenously. Probably about 1/4 of an inch long and like a millimeter in width. I barely feel anything when injecting each morning. I'm not saying your fear of needles is irrational; only that not all medicinal needle injections are the same.
  7. I thought Baker exclusively coached/recruited DTs and was not over DEs/EDGE. Thought that was Kwiatkowski. Am I mistaken?
  8. I'm not sure what's more embarrassing - thinking Alabama was going to fall off a cliff in recruiting, or arguing with that person who is both wrong and dumb.
  9. I don't know shit about fuck, but I do know this. Mermaids are definitely white. Are there mermaids in this book and/or miniseries and/or movie?
  10. Uhhhhhh.......... No. The answer is no.
  11. Didn't On3 drop him from a 5-star top-30 player in the nation down to the 90s in their final update last year? Lookin' real smart, fellas.
  12. This is a talking point repeated by the talking heads covering college football at the national level, but it's absolute bullshit. Who do they have that's elite? Sure they have a bunch of kids that were 5-stars coming out of high school. But who is "good"? The answer is no one. It's very similar to our time wandering the desert where we were signing a bunch of 5-star players but very few of them lived up to their potential while at UT. Malik Jefferson, Caden Sterns, Jalen Green, BJ Foster, Tyler Owens, etc. The only 5-star player we signed between 2015 and 2020 that KIND OF lived up to potential was Overshown, and the lights only came on after Sark got here. They're in a similar situation - lots of big name duds, which schools will effective use to recruit against them in the same way our competition recruited against us.
  13. I feel bad for the very few posters over there that actually get it. Some of them are accurately pointing out they haven't developed a WR since Mike Evans, had multiple highly-ranked WRs flame out (Demas), and hired an OC that prefers to run the ball (especially with the QB), but then have to put up with a bunch of fucking head-in-the-sand morons complaining about NIL, Holmon Wiggins, and believing that WRs from the portal are somehow going to be more inclined to sign with them than high school WRs. Hey dummies - it's also a pretty shitty strategy when it comes to attracting QBs... Is the Longstreet kid from CA a dual-threat QB? He's 6'1" and almost 200 according to On3. It'll be interesting to see if they hold on to him when their offense sucks shit through a straw this year and Wiggy gets hurt again.
  14. With reclassification being a relatively new trend in football recruiting, it'll be interesting to track the success/hit ratio of players that do reclassify and go to college at the age of 17. Seems like for every Quinn Ewers and Ryan Williams, there's multiple JT Daniels, Tony Grimes, Donnell Harris, Dezz Ricks or LT Overtons who were highly rated and never amounted to shit. But that's just going off my memory. Would love to see some data on that.
  15. Who fell off a cliff faster - Russell Wilson or Deshaun Watson? Those dudes went from incredible to absolute ass in the blink of an eye.
  16. PJ Locke got a mention for Denver as well. Both Denver safeties went to Texas.
  17. This should be everyone's motto at this point.
  18. Those dipshits think we're trying to flip every single one of their commits so that they feel better about each one they manage to hang on to. Big head to head win for the good ags!
  19. None of that matters at this point. As is the case every year, there will be 30-34 5-stars from each service, and about that many composite 5 stars. If it makes you feel better, you can count Orogbo and Jackson as "On3" Five Stars.
  20. No. They've only got 11 commits. No CBs and only two safeties that are their lowest rated commits that we wouldn't want. FSU fans are annoyed that Norvell is overly-reliant on the portal and unserious about high school recruiting and long-term development.
  21. Overshown looked REALLY fucking good for the Cowboys yesterday with 11 tackles, a sack and two QB hits. He looked like he was shot out of a cannon on his sack. Made Micah Parsons look slow
  22. Their offense is exactly as bad as it looked. But I think our defense is also very good.
  23. Love it. Now, let’s do CBs.
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