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  1. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    This logic made more sense before the NIL era. I’m not saying a guy or two won’t walk in the WR room or the TB room, but all of the guys we all would really want to stick would be walking away from life-changing money and real playing time. 

    Now, if Savion Red walks or whoever is at the back of the WR line that I forgot was on the roster (is Cain still here? Niblett maybe?), sure. Frankly, Red leaving won’t surprise or bother me and, looking at the data, I don’t think that would bother the coaches either. 

    I'm sure you have more info on this than I do, but I'm going to be very pleasantly surprised if we don't lose at least 1 and possibly 2 WR that we really want to keep and that will cause major consternation among fans. Not going to name names since I'm just speculating, but it's not that hard to figure out who I'm talking about (it ain't Ryan Niblett).

    Guys might be saying they're happy on March 28 and truly mean it, but our roster and depth chart presents a big juicy opportunity for anyone in the country looking for a guy to plug in and play big snaps this fall. "See what you can get in the mix at Texas, or come be our #2 guy right here and now" is a strong pitch.

    I dunno. I'm a pessimist at heart, so maybe I'm just overthinking it.

  2. 10 hours ago, Sgt Hulk said:

    Seeing how we crushed it in FA 

    7-9 this year at best. Dak will throw for 6500 yards though because we have no run game and always playing from behind 

    Well he'll also be running for his life because 40% of our starting OL is going to be guys off the street.

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  3. 6 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

    If that's the case, then this front office is even dumber than advertised and that would be pretty dumb. The price for QBs will only rise every year. I hope it isn't them thinking his price tag will come down. Look at what Cousins, Mayfield and Daniel Jones have made on their new deals lately.

    Either Dak's team didn't like the lowball numbers the front office made and wants to bet on themselves or both sides just agreed to move on from each other. No real idea. But they did trade for Trey Lance, might as well see what you have with that piece.

    Jerry did end up moving on from Romo, although under different circumstances. But he was ready to play around November and could have easily came in and took back over. Front office had no more faith he could actually stay healthy.

    I just hope they don't think replacing the QB is going to solve all their problems. Still so many holes, especially in the trenches on both sides.

    NFL contracts and salary cap considerations are way over my head, but my reading of the situation is that we've been kicking the can down the road for years with Dak's contract(s) but you can only do that for so long before you eventually have to eat shit one year. So the Joneses have decided to eat shit this year and hit the reset button on the team's salary cap situation. I'm sure they feel like they can beat other offers if they really want to re-sign him after this year.

  4. The easy explanation is that we took Lacey because we liked him, he wanted to commit, and we had dreams of a Lacey/Ryan Williams combo. Russell wasn't really in the picture at that time. Now Russell has blown up, we decided we really like him, and the plan is to recruit both guys hard and let the chips fall where they may.

    The puzzle piece that doesn't fit for me is that Lacey was kind of shaky for a while but lately appears to be getting firmer in his commitment, if anything. He canceled his other OVs. The trend is the opposite of what you'd expect given the situation.

  5. 3 minutes ago, ABSR said:

    The real immediate issue is that the debris may block passage in and out of the port of Baltimore.  So ships can't exit the port, ships can't get in, and cargo can't go in or out.  First issue is to clear debris so ship traffic can flow and the port can resume operations.

    It appears that Baltimore is a huge port for roll-on/roll-off cargo. Not just cars, but construction and farm equipment also. It's pretty interesting on Google Maps, you can see a ton of excavators and stuff like that parked there at the port.

    Containers should be able to go to other east coast ports without too much trouble (trucking will probably cause some headaches), but I wonder if the facilities and capacity exist elsewhere to offload all the cars and machinery that usually go to Baltimore.

  6. 9 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    A tunnel would take years. They’ll have the bridge rebuilt and open in a year tops. Governments have emergency contracts in place for when stuff like this happens, with massive financial incentives for companies to finish ahead of schedule. And with no traffic to worry about they can work almost unimpeded. They had that bridge in Minneapolis open like 10 months after it fell in the river. That Philly bridge that collapsed recently was reopened weeks later, although it was over land. 

    I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but it seems like there is a huge difference between this:

    I35W_Bridge.jpg.8b8c920bf414398278caa414cce1dd3e.jpg

    and this:

    Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_Eastern_View.jpg.webp

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  7. 50 minutes ago, markstanco said:

    For those that dont go there, that is a major artery going around the city, ala 610 in Houston  or 635 in Dallas.  Now people are going to have to travel through downtown area or go way up North to go through. 

    Yeah, obviously first thought it with the lives lost. But beyond that, this seems like it is going to fuck up the Baltimore area pretty good, and for quite a while. I assume the port is completely closed until the debris can be cleared, which will take what, weeks? Rebuilding the bridge will take years. Looking at Google Maps, just across the bridge are a bunch of warehouses and distribution centers - Amazon, Fedex, Home Depot, looks like a big VW entry point. A lot of economically important traffic must flow over this bridge every single day.

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  8. 9 hours ago, shadow_operative said:

    sign him up. let’s get this draft date/order knocked out. 

    if we can get most of the folks here to give the ok then i can knock out the draft order tomorrow (today for most of y’all) and we can set the draft up for wednesday evening.

    if i quote this post do the people tagged in the post get a notification? need people to check in within the next 12-18 hours optimally.

    I didn't get a notification from this post.

    I'm game, just gotta know when and where. Are we doing NL-only?

  9. 8 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    Ben Thompson clarifies more in his newsletter this morning (I’ll link when I get to a computer; I am mobile this AM) but I thought this was pretty pertinent to the discussion (below). All in all this feels like a lawsuit of people with sour grapes and hurt feelings more than facts and law:

    My contention is that Apple users buy iPhones first-and-foremost because they want to use iOS; Apple has durable market share and pricing power because they are the sole provider of iOS-based devices. Yes, this may seem obvious, but as I explained yesterday, it was not at all obvious that this approach would succeed a decade ago; most observers thought it wouldn’t. Indeed, the DOJ case reads like it was written by one of those early 2010’s pundits certain that Apple would soon fade away precisely because they were trying to sell an integrated product in an inevitably modularized market; instead of accepting that they (and Professor Christensen) were wrong, they insist that customers are being held captive for *checks calendar* over a decade by Apple’s evil scheming to lock them in. It’s an approach that ignores consumer choices and the very real innovation that Apple has undertaken to create and continually update the iPhone for the last 17 years.

    At the same time, to reiterate my conclusion from yesterday, the fact that “integration” does in fact mean a “monopoly” (on iOS), which leads to durable pricing power, is precisely why it behooved Apple to not even risk gaining the attention of antitrust regulators in the first place; at a minimum, it is hard to explain why the company can charge so much for so long! Unfortunately, management has been so myopically focused on the self-perceived righteousness of its App Store position that it utterly missed the far greater danger inherent in coming across as a greedy bully. In other words, I think this lawsuit is a mistake, but I also think management bears a not insignificant portion of the blame for it existing in the first place.

    Personally, I buy iPhones because Apple's core business is selling me devices, whereas Google's core business is showing me ads. Whether it's justified or not, that leads me to trust Apple with my privacy more than I do Google.

    I'm not exactly an Apple fanboy. I find the notion of giving a fuck about any megacorporation ludicrous. I do however have concerns that forcing Apple to do this or that could ultimately lead to unnecessary enshittification of its platform. Apple's walled garden may very well be anticompetitive, but it has also caused a lot of consternation for other tech companies that see me as a product rather than a user (thinking mainly about Meta's complaints about tracking on iOS devices). I view that as a win.

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  10. I'm having a hard time reading between the lines about what's going on at QB. Lacey and Russell both say the right things about being in a 2-man class but that seems pretty far fetched in this day and age. So you'd say OK, maybe Russell is just the Lacey insurance policy. But if anything, the latest updates on Lacey indicate a guy that's getting more solid, not less. Not to mention that they're different players - Russell is significantly bigger and much more of a running threat. Russell's tape looks pretty legit to me. No offense to SMU, but I think he's destined for bigger and better things, whether it's us or someone else.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Blotto said:

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/business/boeing-ceo-calhoun-leaving/index.html

    I guess the only unknown now is how many tens of millions Calhoun will receive in his "retirement" package. 

    Interesting snippet from the article:

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    Boeing has been buffeted by more than five years of problems with its airplanes, including two fatal crashes of the 737 Max in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people, and most recently a door plug that blew out of the side of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max in January, leaving a gaping hole in the side of the plane. The problems have led to multiple groundings for safety issues and more than $31 billion in cumulative losses.

    In a letter to Boeing employees Monday, Calhoun called the Alaska Airlines incident “a watershed moment for Boeing.”

    Killing 346 mostly brown people = "lol these non-Western pilots suck"

    Door falls off above Portland, no injuries = "WATERSHED MOMENT!"

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  12. It’s a Wu-Tang kind of day in the tokamak household. 

    Do any of y’all ever stop and think how fucking absurd it is that all these guys ended up in the same group? Or is that just me? Pretty much all of these guys would have been (are) legends on their own. 

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  13. Reports say that the interpreter made $300-$500k. Would a bookie really let that kind of guy run up LOSSES of $4.5m (implying that his total action was much more, unless he’s the worst picker of all time)? Seems like, at bare minimum he’d have to really heavily imply that Ohtani was backing him up. 

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