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  1. 29 minutes ago, Fondren & Main said:

    Is Gideon that bad of a coach?  He has had the least talented group on the roster.  The safeties seem to know where to be, but they’re just slow like their coach.  I’m a lot more concerned with the play from the CB’s and the talent level there is much higher than at Safety.  It’s also possible that I’m a fucking moron.  Both things can be true.

     

    Counterpoint: Kitan Crawford 

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  2. 1 hour ago, NoName said:

    to be fair when i first posted i thought he had spent more than A single year in the NFL

    doing some digging on who could have recommended him.

    2022 WKU coaching staff:

    Tyson Helton was part of his brothers staff, who was at USC after Sark was fired. don't see any ties between the DCs at WKU in 20-22 and the PK/Sark trees.

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    dolphins coaching staff: https://www.miamidolphins.com/team/coaches-roster/

    DL coach has some USC ties but not until 2017 i think.

    as far as i can tell, the only guy with clear ties is the dolphins LB coach, who has ties to Flood via Rutgers: https://www.miamidolphins.com/team/coaches-roster/anthony-campanile-x1381

    Flood was there 05-15, Anthony Campanile was a player at Rutgers from 01-04, student assistant in 05, HS coach for 6 years, then was a coach at rutgers for 4 years (12-15)

    don't see any other connections out there.

    everyone is going to want to compare to Jackson's coaching pre Texas, and coaching at a position where the scheme impacts recruiting significantly more - but he was a NFL coach for 3 full years post playing career.

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    what?

    Choice coaching career, who was very highly thought of as a recruiter and developer pre Texas.

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    this seems like they had zeroed in on Rod Wright. DeMeco Ryans then got rid of the Texans DL coach and will be bumping up Rod. which is hard to turn down, understandably.

    Some dude named Wade Harman is listed as a "Senior Assistant" on the defensive side for the Dolphins. Setting aside for a minute that that doesn't make much sense because he's a career offensive guy, he was Sark's TE coach when Sark was OC of the Falcons. Maybe he put in a (really) good word? I'm honestly pretty curious how this guy even made it on to the radar.

  3. Just finished watching this on Netflix. I had never seen it before. Great show (obviously). The concentration camp episode was a real gut punch.

    My only complaint is that, aside from a few main guys (Winters, Nixon, Donnie Wahlberg, maybe a couple others), I never had a good sense of which guy was which and what their rank/role was. There's a ton of characters and a lot of the time they're wearing helmets, faces are super dirty, etc. For example, Michael Fassbender was in an early episode I was like "oh, cool, early career Michael Fassbender". Then he disappeared (I guess?) and I forgot he was in it, and he reappeared in one of the last episodes. Not a big deal, just a nitpick, but I did feel like there were quite a few scenes where a character is portrayed as "one of the guys", or they're really sad about his death or something, and I'm sitting there thinking "wait who tf is that?".

  4. What a business model. Yeah yeah, our planes are death traps designed by accountants. But also! Consider this! The market for our product is a duopoly and our competitor is backlogged and we're too strategically important for our government to let us fail, so.....fuck you, pay up.

    Maybe these MBA geniuses are on to something after all. They probably fly Gulfstreams, so no harm no foul as far as they're concerned.

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  5. 42 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

    Yep, and "the economy was better under trump ; he kept us out of war: he's being unfairly harassed; he's being taken off the ballot; he would spend our dollars here instead of Ukraine; he would secure the boarder; (and my favorite) I don't like Trump but he cares about the working class."


    Inflation is enough to screw Biden despite the economic realities. Joe Blow doesn't understand GDP or global financial circumstances, but he does notice his dollar doesn't go as far.


    It was shocking Trump won before. This time it would be unsurprising at best.

    I’ve seen a ton of “I don’t care about Trump, all I know is I could afford groceries in 2020” type stuff on Reddit, which skews very young. It gets shouted down, but that train of thought is definitely circulating among younger people, and like some fuckhead said: if you’re explaining, you’re losing. 

  6. Right off the bat, I thought we already knew that the plug came from Spirit loose so that Boeing could open it up during assembly? That guy claims it comes in the final configuration. Which is it?

    edit: read it again, and it sounds like someone who has access to those record keeping systems but doesn’t actually know how things work out on the assembly line. A supply chain middle manager or something like that. He read the associated tickets and filled in some gaps and made some assumptions. Interesting info, but I take it with a big grain of salt. Better watch his cornhole, too, because I guarantee they have a record of who accesses those systems and when. 

  7. 1 minute ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

     

    I meant in the primary.  Is there a figure if primary turnout was down this year?

    I dunno if it works exactly this way, but NYT’s current results numbers imply about 320k total votes. 

  8. 56 minutes ago, RPM said:

    Maybe Lockheed needs to get back into commercial aviation. There really should be more of a choice than literally A or B.

     

    35 minutes ago, royiv said:

    In addition to A and B there's now a C to keep an eye on. I don't think we're going to see US airlines buying the Comac C919 anytime soon, but it's selling well in China and that's historically been a big Boeing marker. If it starts catching on in the rest of Asia, that could put a big dent in Boeing's narrowbody business.

    Seems insanely hard without a big push from a deep-pocketed government. Bombardier tried, actually built a pretty nice airplane, and it bankrupted them anyway.

  9. 1 hour ago, Red Five said:

    I really hate to both sides this, but I saw a brief clip from one of the 2020 debates the other day. Biden has aged a lot since then and I hadn't really realized it. Trump could say absolute batshit crazy things in a debate and come away the "winner", just because Biden looks 100 years old. 

    the big lebowski dude GIF

    I got nothing against Joe Biden. I think he's done a good job. Voted for him once and I'll damn sure vote for him again. But it's hard for me to see his decision to run again and not step aside as a damn near unforgivable act of pure ego.

  10. "Institutional investors are broadly against (an airplane manufacturer) developing new airplanes" is such an absurd statement that I just can't get over it.

    The only remedy is a salty, ball-breaking regulator. Every time I hear CEOs or politicians whine about "job-killing regulations" I'm going to mentally replace the statement with "door-plug-fastening regulations".

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  11. I don't understand the difference in @YGIFS's group 3 and group 1. Group 3 is just...Republicans, Trump or no Trump. Either they were already Republicans, or the modern conservative media ecosystem has convinced them in the last 10 years that Democrats and liberals are evil.

    16 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    It still boggles my mind that somebody could vote for Obama and then vote for Trump later down the road. I don't know why I look at the voting records of any family members.

    When I feel like wringing my hands, I think about Latinos of both sexes and Black men. I'm worried that those groups have seen something in Trumpism that they like. They tend to be more conservative on social issues than the average Democrat, sometimes significantly so. Trump has dropped a lot of the traditional "fuck anyone who isn't rich" GOP messaging on economics and replaced it with populism. Even if Trump's actual policies and actions were pretty much business as usual, messaging is important. Maybe this is who YGIFS is talking about in group 3?

  12. 8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Ron can get back to terrorizing FL with new laws and exec orders. He needs to get an early jump on ‘28.

    I think he’s on the Scott Walker career path. Don’t think he’ll actually lose like Walker, but once he’s done as governor, that’s it. 

  13. Outlaw King on Netflix. 

    You’ve seen this exact plot a dozen times before. Plucky, outnumbered Scots battle evil, numerically superior English. That’s the entire plot. But it’s well made and well acted and worth a couple hours of your time. Plus you get to see Florence Pugh’s boobs.

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