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  1. 1 minute ago, F250 said:

    I predict Lamar Jackson to be the most successful QB to come out of this draft.

     

    I dont know if Baltimore is the right place. I was afraid he would get to the Giants and he, Barkley, and Beckham would have just been a decent OL away from being monsters. 

    Ironically I think the best fit was a team that was never going to take him: Dallas

  2. 1 minute ago, futureman said:

    zeke is the most important player for our defense. 

    They really need to get off of this. No team is winning a title when their defense is so bad it has to be constantly shielded by the offense running down the clock.  

  3. Definitely reached for need and not best player available. That usually has a way of biting you in the ass in the 1st 2 rounds. 

    Dont like taking LB in 1st. Usually about 6 or 7 years is all you get before they are too beaten up and decline sharply unless they take 5 redshirt seasons like Lee. 

  4. 7 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    They have Ogbah..... but why not trade down then?

    They had to be thinking trade down but nobody wanted to give anything up to trade up. Dont think there are many players here you give up multiple picks to get. 

  5. The Browns with a baseball geek as their GM were full on tard. Now they have Dorsey who knows what he's doing and they also have the drunken genius Scot McCloughan who built the SB niners and SB champ Seahawks. I think Browns ace this draft

  6. I think Earl would be a big boon to the secondary but if I had the choice I'd rather package a pick with 19 to move up if Vea is there than use it to trade for Earl. An elite DT up front makes whatever LB you get look a lot better and allows the safeties to not have to play the run as close to the LOS. It helps every level of the defense up the middle. 

    Tell Earl's agent that Seattle wouldn't budge enough for one year trade but we will sign him next off-season if they won't budge and take a pick for next year before training camp starts. 

  7. 8 minutes ago, Viper said:

    this is the guy that called the falcons trading up for a pass rusher last year and then they jumped the cowboys and got Takkarist McKinley

    http://draftanalyst.com/nfl-draft-notes-april-24

    I would be happy with Vea or Vander Esch, but if we're getting a WR I'd rather trade down and get one.

    For that to happen you'd better hope one of the top 4-5 QBs is still sitting there or else no one may be willing to trade up. 

     

    I hope that report is true. It means the Cowboys may have finally gotten their heads out of their asses and realized the foundation of a defense is up the middle and specifically that big fucker up front commanding guard/center combo blocks often. 

  8. 1 hour ago, retread said:

    The speculation that Trump is the template for future leaders is taking shape. Pruitt and Mulvaney realize no one is going to hold them accountable as long as they don't admit they're wrong.

    This is almost the exact template for the fall of the Roman empire. Excessive and widespread open corruption, constant infighting, and a lazy, bloodthirsty populace. 

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  9. On 4/22/2018 at 10:15 PM, Reese Bennett said:

     

    Show me a loss.

    Do we have a QB and OL that play consistently good to great football? Then only 1 or 2 losses. 

    If not then another 5 to 7 losses again. It's that simple. 

  10. 7 hours ago, bolverk said:

    People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor

    For the past 18 months, many political scientists have been seized by one question: Less-educated whites were President Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters. But why, exactly?

    Was their vote some sort of cri de coeur about a changing economy that had left them behind? Or was the motivating sentiment something more complex and, frankly, something harder for policy makers to address?

    After analyzing in-depth survey data from 2012 and 2016, the University of Pennsylvania political scientist Diana C. Mutz argues that it’s the latter. In a new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, she added her conclusion to the growing body of evidence that the 2016 election was not about economic hardship.

    “Instead,” she writes, “it was about dominant groups that felt threatened by change and a candidate who took advantage of that trend.”

    “For the first time since Europeans arrived in this country,” Mutz notes, “white Americans are being told that they will soon be a minority race.” When members of a historically dominant group feel threatened, she explains, they go through some interesting psychological twists and turns to make themselves feel okay again. First, they get nostalgic and try to protect the status quo however they can. They defend their own group (“all lives matter”), they start behaving in more traditional ways, and they start to feel more negatively toward other groups.

     

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    This could be why in one study, whites who were presented with evidence of racial progress experienced lower self-esteem afterward. In another study, reminding whites who were high in “ethnic identification” that nonwhite groups will soon outnumber them revved up their support for Trump, their desire for anti-immigrant policies, and their opposition to political correctness.

    Mutz also found that “half of Americans view trade as something that benefits job availability in other countries at the expense of jobs for Americans.”

    Granted, most people just voted for the same party in both 2012 and 2016. However, between the two years, people—especially Republicans—developed a much more negative view toward international trade. In 2012, the two parties seemed roughly similar on trade, but in 2016, Hillary Clinton’s views on trade and on “China as a threat” were much further away from the views of the average American than were Trump’s.

    Mutz examined voters whose incomes declined, or didn’t increase much, or who lost their jobs, or who were concerned about expenses, or who thought they had been personally hurt by trade. None of those things motivated people to switch from voting for Obama in 2012 to supporting Trump in 2016. Indeed, manufacturing employment in the United States has actually increased somewhat since 2010. And as my colleague Adam Serwer has pointed out, “Clinton defeated Trump handily among Americans making less than $50,000 a year.”

    Meanwhile, a few things did correlate with support for Trump: a voter’s desire for their group to be dominant, as well as how much they disagreed with Clinton’s views on trade and China. Trump supporters were also more likely than Clinton voters to feel that “the American way of life is threatened,” and that high-status groups, like men, Christians, and whites, are discriminated against.

    This sense of unfounded persecution is far from rare, and it seems to be heightened during moments of societal change. As my colleague Emma Green has written, white evangelicals see more discrimination against Christians than Muslims in the United States, and 79 percent of white working-class voters who had anxieties about the “American way of life” chose Trump over Clinton. As I pointed out in the fall of 2016, several surveys showed many men supported Trump because they felt their status in society was threatened, and that Trump would restore it. Even the education gap in support for Trump disappears, according to one analysis, if you account for the fact that non-college-educated whites are simply more likely to affirm racist views than those with college degrees. (At the most extreme end, white supremacists also use victimhood to further their cause.)

    These why-did-people-vote-for-Trump studies are clarifying, but also a little bit unsatisfying, from the point of view of a politician. They dispel the fiction—to use another 2016 meme—that the majority of Trump supporters are disenfranchised victims of capitalism’s cruelties. At the same time, deep-seated psychological resentment is harder for policy makers to address than an overly meager disability check. You can teach out-of-work coal miners to code, but you may not be able to convince them to embrace changing racial and gender norms. You can offer universal basic incomes, but that won’t ameliorate resentment of demographic changes.

    In other words, it’s now pretty clear that many Trump supporters feel threatened, frustrated, and marginalized—not on an economic, but on an existential level. Now what?

     

    Ironic that it's going to be white America's gullible nature feasting on their own insecurity and jingoistic fears that will bring this country crashing to the ground. 

    They let republicans and so called "conservative" media fool them into a state where they prey on those fears to get the power to enrich themselves far beyond anything the Jesus they claim to serve would consider greedy and gluttonous. 

    Especially considering almost every minority group that is in America wants to assimilate to the same white American ideals. Steady job. House. Nice car. White America is fighting a strawman and stabbing themselves in the process. Then repeating over and over. 

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  11. It comes out that Vea may be the trigger man in a massacre. He goes undrafted. The day after the draft it turns out to be mistaken identity and shoddy police work and he's innocent. Jerry signs him as a UDFA. 

    Cowboys trade 50 to Seattle for earl. Draft an OL at 19. No trade back because Jerrah ain't havin' no draft in his dome without making a 1st round pick. 

  12. 1 hour ago, Drew said:

    Absolutely false. Yes he needs be phased out, but you’re once agian being overdramatic by saying he adds no value whatsoever.  He’s still a security banker and catches everything. Yes he doesn’t do much else but that’s still valuable. 

     

    They just need to force his ass off the field more. That’s the issue. He takes every snap. 

    I think that's his point. Witten needs to be gone since the coaches or jerry or whoever can't seem to be trusted with doing the right thing for the team and cutting his snaps by a lot. Especially if Swaim and Rico are healthy this year we really need to see what they have. 

    Sort of like there's nothing wrong with a bottle of bourbon but an alcoholic needs to never have one around because he can't be trusted with it. 

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  13. 5 minutes ago, sachick said:

    How is he not over playing golf every weekend? Am I missing something by not being into golf, is it really that addicting and fun to play?

     It isn't the golf. It's all that sweet taxpayer money he's funneling into his pockets. 

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  14. 8 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    and he named his son after his alter ego. wtf, man

    "Barron is like, a very very rich name. Hugely rich name. Barrons were some kind of English rich guys or something. Very very rich. Like me. Not as rich as me. Not even close. But still rich. Like maybe half a billion. Or maybe one."

     

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