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  1. 30 minutes ago, DougO said:

    Let's make it simpler. How many of these qbs would put the Cowboys in the Superbowl? Whatever your guess would be, it's likely too high.

    Then how many of them did the Cowboys actually have the opportunity of drafting? Would anyone have given them the opportunity to trade up and at what price, if they even were incredibly lucky enough to pick one of the few that are Superbowl quality? There are 31 other teams that would like to have that crystal ball, because they blew it, too, and most had a far better chance of getting those coveted quarterbacks. 

     

    ttps://www.insider.com/nfl-draft-first-round-quarterbacks-busts-stars#t22-jordan-love-green-bay-packers-2020-17

    WHERE ARE THEY NOW? The last 39 QBs taken in the first round of the NFL Draft

    Dec 18, 2022, 7:31 AM

    I think a better line of demarcation would be top 15 pick. Generally you don't see QB's in the back half of the first round become elite. Aaron Rodgers is the exception not the rule.

  2. 24 minutes ago, SurlyGator said:

    On a silver lining note (if you can call it that), I am genuinely heartened at the lack of civil unrest associated with this incident over the past weekend.  I was fearing Rodney King-esque unrest all over the place, especially considering the professional rioters that will latch on to any opportunity to unleash a little anarchy.

    I echo this. Post-tragedy it's heartening to see a) expedient "justice" in the firing and criminal charges of the cops and b) non-violent protests and community gatherings being held peacefully and c) general lack of civil unrest for the sake of civil unrest

    Dare I say that progress-- however slow or incremental-- is being made? Arguing over whether progress is happening fast enough is a better argument than it not happening at all, I guess.

  3. This thread never ceases to make me feel better about cutting a tuition check every semester for a theological private school every time I start to think "is it really worth it for a poor man like me and times are hard?".

    Some of you people's parenting philosophies are insane to me (and mine, insane to you I'm sure) which just makes me love the freedom to choose on things like education all the more. One thing we can all agree on is the freedom to point at the other and think "Bless that person's children's heart".

  4. 8 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    The egg thing is weird to me. Gas prices? I get it. It's big, bold numbers that you see everywhere and it's something that we all use regularly.

    Eggs are such a small part of someone's budget that the amount of headlines given to it seems strange. I see more about eggs going from $2.50 to $5 than I did about college tuition going from $2,500 to $5,000 when I was in school. 

    If you needed any further proof that Waffle House is a cherished institution and should be protected at all costs, they are eating the costs of the price of eggs and not passing on to the consumer. 

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  5. 10 hours ago, DougO said:

    I get sick of people moaning and groaning about Dak. Stop being a bunch of pussies. 

    Dak is what he is. He's tied for the 8th highest paid QB in the NFL. The Cowboys are currently the 5th or 6th best team in the NFL as it shook out.

    Dak will be further down the list next year and likely the ensuing years as all the young star qbs get humongous contracts. 

    Dak's salary is what NFL qb salaries are. It comes with the deal.

    As far as replacing him, go ahead and tell me how the fuck you're going to get a top 3 qb in the league. Every team wants one. They are pretty rare. Just wanting one doesn't make it happen. You either suck so hard that you have a top pick and then get more lucky that the quarterback you draft isn't one of the typical top drafted draft busts and disappointments. There are a lot of them. Only a few of them ever become what they were drafted to be. That's just how it is. 

    The only other way to get one is to get really lucky and draft a quarterback that quite a few teams passed up, yet he turns out to be a far better NFL prospect than anyone imagined. Would you rather have Carson Wince or Jared Goff with a 1 or 2 overall pick than Dak for the 4th round pick they spent in the same fucking draft?

    All you can do is keep drafting quarterbacks later in the draft, which the Cowboys and every other NFL team should be doing every other year, and hope you get incredibly lucky. 

    Sports fans are some of the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet. 

     

    I disagree and think you can reflect back on...checks notes... 27 years of data points to make the case that drafting an above average QB in the late rounds is not the way to win big games and win big games often. In fact, you could argue that the worst thing that has happened to the Cowboys is falling into the lull and trap of "wow we are lucky" with late round "hits" with Romo and Dak-- both fine QB's but not elite, Super Bowl winning QB's early enough (rookie contract) and not great enough when you have to allocate a ton of resources to them (second contract) from the rest of the team.

    Look at the Bengals. I was consulting for 5/3rd bank back in 2018-2019 and I remember opening up a meeting in downtown Cincinnati with the old tired joke: "Man, it's so dangerous here downtown. I had 2 tickets to the Bengals game this weekend on my dashboard and when I came back to my car the window was broken....and on the dash someone had left two more!" har har har (I know, don't judge-- it's chicken noodle soup for the corporate soul). The Bengals were so bad that people were complaining about nepo baby Mike Brown and how the Brown's should be forced to sell the team for robbing fans and tanking. 

    Well they get Joe Burrow and in 3 seasons since the 2-14 year they have been to two Super Bowls. With the same coach who started 0-11 and went 2-14 in 2019.

    And the list goes on with the teams that understand you have to suck a couple of years to set yourself up for a sustained run with an elite QB on the cheap.

    Or you can be the Cowboys and let Great be the enemy of Good and spend 27 or 28 years trying to get past the wildcard round with any semblance of consistency. 

     

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  6. 8 hours ago, Vermin said:

    McCarthy is horrendous at clock management. Adding play-calling duties will probably end in disaster.

    I heard some advanced statistics a few weeks ago that showed this was actually something people believed because of his past glaring issues, but this year McCarthy was actually one of the better coaches at clock management. I'll try to find the link.

  7. 10 hours ago, Hermanator said:

    Wonder if Dak would have had this regression if Kellen and Nussmeier weren't forced upon McCarthy in 2020

    I read today actually that Kellen and Nuss weren't forced upon McCarthy, but that McCarthy didn't want to fix what ain't broken with Dak. I don't know how accurate or how much of that is damage control...

  8. 49 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Today I had my vision blocked by a GMC Sierra so this thread hits home. Totally had to lay it on the Lord while backing out, hoping I didn't pull out in the blind spot of another behemoth.

    Been checking out local traffic composition (Birmingham Metro), and huge clean trucks, while they exist, aren't quite as overwhelming as y'all describe in Texas. Here, the moneyed set (yes, like all self-respecting 3rd world nations, we do have some) keep it more low-key with high-end sedans and SUVs, and attempt to ape the reserve of Old Money even if their grandaddy drove a Golden Flake truck. Not like Atlanta, where they go into hock for Lamborghinis and hair gel.

    But there is a BHam suburb, Hoover, which is Dallas-y in several ways, and sure enough, that's where I saw more truckasauruses including that damn house of a GMC Sierra that I couldn't see around. Oh, and while exiting Whataburger I saw some damn crew-cab abomination gung-gung-gungin its way through the geometry puzzle of the drive-through like a Deuce-and-a-Half trying to mate with a Jeep.

    And what, praytell, do you drive again Mr. Judgy McJudgerson. Any answer other than a hearse is a disappointment to the image of you I have in my head.

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  9. On the other hand, this is now the third of the three legged tenant that All Americans can agree upon:

    - LiveNation/TicketMaster is evil

    - Chrissy Teagan (sp?) is the worst

    And now

    - Velma is horrible

    I feel like you could run an election campaign on those three issues and win 98%

     

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  10. pickups
    Olivia Heller

    How America’s pickups are changing

    The Ford F-150 has been America’s bestselling car for 41 years.

    Last year, an F-Series Truck was sold every 49 seconds, and pickups accounted for the top three bestselling cars nationwide.

    Interestingly — despite stunts like this one, where an F-150 tows a double-decker freight train filled with 42 other F-150s — data shows a third of pickup owners rarely or never use their truck for hauling, while two-thirds rarely or never use it for towing, per Axios.

    • Instead, 87% of pickup owners frequently use their truck for shopping, and 70% say they do so for pleasure driving.

    To accommodate for this, today’s F-150s are 63% cab and 37% bed, a near-total opposite from early generations’ 36% cab, 64% bed design.

    So what?

    Since 1990, the average mass of US vehicles has increased 25%. Pickups are already a safety concern, with twice the pedestrian strike fatality rate as smaller vehicles.

    They’re getting heavier, too, as the industry electrifies them with enormous batteries. Ford’s F-150 Lightning, for instance, at ~6.5k pounds, weighs 35% more than its gasoline twin.

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  11. 6 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'd rather have one in the Senate and one in the House.  Now that's off the table, unless I'm missing something.

    What are the resources at play and typically on the table from the Dem party to try and have good candidates play nice on timetables together? Can you legally offer any goodies or head coach-in-waiting type deals to keep a Schiff from running against a Porter? Anything at disposal that is more than just promises and has teeth?

    What has the party done in the past it anything?

  12. 4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Well, I don't think I'm being an idiot, but you obviously think otherwise.  I don't think California should be pitting two of their sharpest Dem legislators in the same race.  Period.

    You are wishcasting that a politician will put their personal ambitions and careers second to the general political party’s best interest?

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  13. 3 minutes ago, smwhorn said:

    Truthfully can't decide if I want to watch this video.  I have zero desire to watch an innocent and defenseless man beaten to death by criminals acting under the authority of law enforcement officers.  On the other hand, I sort of feel "obligated" (don't know if that's the right word but only one I can think of as I type) (1) to watch it for his family to attempt in some small way to try to understand what they've been through and (2) to watch it as a member of society/human being because we "owe" it to HIM to see what he had to endure.  

     

    Georgie:
    Evidence of the old glazzies. Nothing up their sleeves. No magic, little Alex. A job for two, who are now of job age. The police.

  14. 15 hours ago, MalibuSheriff said:

    It’s been since pre-kids or at least early pre-kids since I’ve picked up a paintbrush.  I used to dabble around with both watercolor and egg tempera, generally painting rural landscapes or outdoor scenes since those are my two main connections that put me at ease.

    This is an egg tempera of an old Pecan tree and windowsill in Fisher County, TX that was opposite the entrance gate of our old hunting lease.  It always struck me that the tree and window were last visual elements looking out to the northwest before the landscape opened up and seemed like you could see to the end of the Earth.

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    Watercolor of the Devils River:

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    Overcast sunset - County Road near Webbers Falls, OK:

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    Beautiful.

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  15. 18 hours ago, Redneck Mutha said:

    Gave up a few thousand dollars for spite?  Nice.

    Now get some REAL satisfaction.  Turn it up to 11 and let your neighbor know what you did.

    I love it!

    One thing to think about before you taunt and rub your enemies nose in it is make sure it's not gonna bite you in the butt. I don't know how the legality or ethics of it works, but could he be in trouble for choosing a lower offer based on subjective things (race, color, creed, who is best friends) within real estate transactions? Or is that just with banks and realtors and not sellers?

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