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UpperWestside

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  1. Gotta admire @realgreggymfor starting this thread then never coming back once things predictably went south in a hurry with the adults back in charge. Since he always talks so much about his playing days on the basketball forum I decided to see some of the team pictures for the years he would’ve been a player. There are high school teams I have seen play over the past 30 years that would murder the teams he played on at UT. One of the team pictures looks like a bunch of guys from a 24HR Fitness that showed up and got handed jerseys.
  2. Cas Evac is for casualty evacuation so you did indeed hear it right @austingirl.
  3. I feel that this adds a level of authenticity to the film. The Americans did not come out as heroes at the end. Their mission was not completed. The evacuation was a horror show. I feel like that was the point. We got probably as close a look as any civilian such as myself will get to seeing how war looks when things go sideways. To me it takes a lot to make a film about what may have been the weakest and most helpless moment these guys had as soldiers. I appreciated what was shown. War is not fun and it is not a game. Men and women die and do not come home when stuff goes wrong. For those of you in this thread who served all I can say to you is thank you. It’s not adequate to say the least. I am pretty defensive about defending the men and women that serve so thank you for doing what most of us will never do.
  4. I followed this draft, well, about as much as I follow hockey. I guess since I do not have a team I root for that I'll just root for Skattebo to truck some people while playing for the Giants. He'll probably have a pretty short career, but it'll have some good fireworks while it lasts. Glad he's getting an opportunity to play in the NFL.
  5. He’s all of it. A terrible human being with no restraint and no one to tell him to shut up and go away. American wealth built this idiot and hopefully it’ll be America that takes it all away from him when we come out the other side. For now this clown will now focus more attention on making sure EVERYONE hates Tesla. I am all for him destroying the company. He does not use any restraint with his thought process or how his actions are almost never in the best interests of any company or group he is associated with. If nothing else he is an interesting study for psychologists in how a completely deranged neurodiverse mind works when there are no guardrails put upon it.
  6. This is probably the only issue I have. I don’t care about test scores. Those tests are ridiculous anyhow. Doing what that front office guy did was pretty cowardly. If you think he sucks just attach your name to it.
  7. I don't think that he will, but I also will take the not giant leap of saying Dillon Gabriel will do the same thing as every other Browns QB and either get hurt or fail or both. Neither of these guys are surviving that franchise without being maimed at some point.
  8. I assumed that they must still be on active duty and possibly special forces.
  9. Well yes you would think he might want to tell his helicopter dad to go sit in the waiting room with LaVar Ball. I am not certain that even being sent to the 7th circle of football hell is going to do it, but we'll see.
  10. Did not think this is how I would learn that meaning, but thanks Shedeur for going to the Browns. He's going to get murdered playing for them. Joe Thomas isn't walking through that door.
  11. I don’t care if he is kind or not. That is not the point. I do not care what any of the access merchants put out there in this sport or any other sport. That is as clear as I can say it.
  12. You are not doing that right.
  13. Not Albert Breer. That much is certain. Charles Robinson perhaps, but I do not read him enough to know for sure on that. I used to read him more years back. I know he still writes about the NFL for Yahoo. Who knows he could've joined the access merchant fleet as well.
  14. It's not lashing out. I just don't care about what someone says when that someone is a guy teams feed information to like what happens with Schefter. There are reporters and then there are access merchants like Breer. There is a difference.
  15. Albert Breer is an access merchant and I am dubious of anything a paid shill says. Same with the Schefters of the world. That said I am someone that thinks these interviews are ridiculous. We have seen in the past some of the insane questions they ask prospects. I have zero issue with any player that would allegedly tell a team they do not fit with them. If a team doesn’t want to take him they have that right as well. Sanders can play at the NFL level and he’ll find a fit somewhere. I am not a fan of his, but I don’t hate him either. He’s brash like his father and that rubs GM/control freaks the wrong way. We’ll see what team drafts him or failing that which team invites him as a free agent.
  16. Doesn’t matter. Someone will take him. He’s good. Not great, but good and that should be enough in a league that has a shortage of even average talent at that position. Set aside the outside noise that will eventually die down and you have someone who will be a QB in this league.
  17. Yikes I have not watched the draft, but hoo boy this Sanders deal is going to be interesting when he’s finally taken. The Raiders seem like the kind of team he should be on, but wouldn’t shock me if Dallas took him.
  18. If you have a close enough relationship with them perhaps find a time when you two can talk face-to-face. I will say that they might scoff at you for suggesting it. I did the same thing when an ex of mine first told me she suspected it with me years ago. I told her no way was she right. I remember calling her four years later to tell her that she was right. My best friend of 20 plus years now never even bothered to tell me. He keeps it to himself. I remember telling him when I figured it out and he says to me “Welcome to the club.” I say that just to say reactions vary, but if that’s the case with the person you know then I hope things go well.
  19. Blow up the whole freaking Kremlin. If that despot is going to keep targeting civilians in Kyiv then get all of your active folks in the field to light that place up like the 4th of July. Nothing and no one in that country should feel safe.
  20. If he’s neurodiverse, which he says he is, you have to understand that his ability to make sound decisions requires a lot more time spent thinking about the possible outcomes of what he may or may not decide to do. Now this is the point where I’m laughing because he is obviously making very rash and illogical decisions. One of the things I had to massively work on is stringing good decisions together and remembering to keep making them. I think in very black and white terms and unfortunately so does that rabid idiot. Instead of saying to himself “Might want to think this one over first” he just shoots from the hip. Doesn’t matter if grandma catches a stray bullet when he does this. He is not even thinking about the consequences of horribly bad decisions. Long story short is while neurodiverse people can do some really cool things with their intelligence just like a neurotypical person, you can’t give us carte blanche on decisions, especially if the things we do regularly seem to be rashly made choices that were not fully thought through.
  21. America has had issues with the owners of news media for forever and a day. William Randolph Hearst, a partisan hack of the worst kind in his day, was busy using Hearst owned papers to piss on anything FDR did as president during WWII as well as before hostilities broke out with Japan. We had him at one point knowingly trying to float the idea of national “hero” Dugout Douglas MacArthur to be the Republican nominee in 1944. We’re trying to beat down two separate fascist powers in two vastly different areas of the world and the richest newspaper guy of that time was busy trying to get FDR out of office. If you can actively try to undermine a president that guided America through the Great Depression and three years of war at that point then nothing is sacred with these scumbags. Just a new generation trying to see how much influence they can peddle in DC while lining their bank accounts.
  22. For a franchise that needs all the attention it can get, well, that pick should do it. Overall the NFL does not hold my attention, but this particular situation does. I hope he has a 100 yard plus game receiving and then shuts down the guy he is covering. Pretty rare opportunity to see the physical limits of endurance of an NFL player.
  23. I guess it also matters how you get deployed. If you are sending him across the middle consistently to get his head smashed then it will be short-lived. I think the NFL has taken a lot of the contact out of the game that could cause such an injury though. Wideouts and corners come across looking like they are playing flag football with how little contact can be made. I tend to think that if he can get 90 percent of the defensive snaps and half on offense that he’s succeeded. All up to how his body holds up. Hopefully Jacksonville has good team doctors and not a bunch of Dr. Nicks.
  24. You know they are going to let him play both sides positions though. I say go for it. None of this matters so play both and get as many snaps as you can. I would imagine he will get fewer offensively, but again it’s just football. I might have to actually watch a bit of the NFL just to see how Hunter adjusts to playing both ways at this level.
  25. How does anyone get mad about this? He was more/less the only Democrat that was on FoxNews giving articulate interviews with answers that shot down all the crazy conspiracies these people were putting forth. Now it's a bad idea for him to give sane views to the same type of audience why again?
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