Whisky and Colored Pants
We have Steve Shoup @Steveospeak of fanspeak.com join us to talk NFL draft. We cover all the major positions, Running Back, Defensive Line, Guard. Then, stand bye for technical difficulties, and we come back talking about Bruce Allen, Pernell McPhee, and Mark Rypien.
Time to move along – new post: http://www.thehogsty.com/2018/04/03/salary-cap-and-roster-madness-2018-and-beyond/
so glad to be not participating in the qb musical chairs game. we got ours. you guys go ahead and overpay for whoever you want.
We did participate, we just were the first one to jump and sit down. Maybe did it before the music stopped.
It’s more of a cake walk
Cake walks were the worst
*smash cut*
and with that TD, Kirk Cousins breaks the single-season TD record for QBs… in only the first half of game 14…. only to be beaten by Case Keenum by the end of the day.
…and back to Redskins news… now down to Joe Bob Biggins, with Bob Joe Wiggins going down, their 4th QB on IR…
You’d have thought they figured out the LG position by mid-season, but they have not, this last week, they started Chris Thompson there and to no avail…
Throwing a balled up piece of tinfoil at someone while yelling ‘LIGHTNING BOLT!” is one of life’s simple pleasures.
You should try doing it and shouting “hadouken!”
Video
https://youtu.be/j_ekugPKqFw
Sorry for the accidental down vote
How about them Wildcats throwing that basketball in the net last night. One of life’s simple pleasures.
Yes, I am going to be more obnoxious than usual today…
all kidding aside, if Neb had made the sweet sixteen (and this was a year they had a team to do it… finishing 4th in the B1G and since their reputation preceeded them… they didn’t get an NCAA invitation or a home game in the NIT, meaning that someone thought that at least 16 teams were better in the NIT than they were, even WITH the understanding that Neb always sells out their arena), I would have been unbearable, let alone one of those Glen Rice-type (James Palmer going off) Michigan runs to a Title. I would have taken a day off from work (partly because I’d have had to go to a bar to watch the game). UN-bearable. So you get today.
For tomorrow is the next season.
it’s a great conditioning sport for the summer sports
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Thomas Dimitroff says Matt Ryan extension is close
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1st 30 million dollar man here.
loving me some alex smith.
I’d not pay him that money. I’ve never once thought to myself, “I wish the skins had Matt Ryan at QB.” I know he’s a good QB, but I’ve never envied the Falcons for having him like I do the Pats, Saints, Steelers or Packers, for their franchise QB’s.
If the Falcons had not choked in the SB…Ryan would be in the convo for elite. His stats say he’s up there. Throw in a championship…there you got it.
I don’t think it’s just that lack of a ring. Something about his personality I just never dug, he feels way more like Kirk Cousins, or Carson Palmer.
Hope not.
-Green Bay
In that case I’m gonna hold out- KC
Will the Redskins sign another FA till after the draft?
I say no.
Nope
And Nationally we are getting killed for a “lackluster” offseason. Seen a power ranking had us at #26 in the NFL going into the season.
If they don’t get a LG, I actually would put them in the 20’s my self.
they’re close to where you’d want to be for the 90-man going into the draft, but I say they sign about 2-4 more players, and about that many get cut during UDFA signings
Villanova won the National Championship. WHY HAVEN’T WE SIGNED HANKINS YET?
Simple answer. They don’t think they really need him.
Sorry, but Gruden thought Joe Barry would make a better DC than Wade. Excuse me if I don’t trust our FO’s judgment. Also, look what happened when Allen went down last year. Really altered our entire D (for the worse).
Someday I’d love a chance to ask Gruden off the record about that hire.
Was he worried about someone like Wade taking his job if things went bad, or did he think he finally had found someone under the radar?
You know the answer to that.
I don’t think he would have hired Callahan if he was worried about someone taking his job.
Callahan has clearly expressed his desire not to HC again.
look at what happened to the entire defense when Allen, Nicholson, Foster, Brown, Norman, Compton, Ioannidis…
Thinking they get Da’Ron in Da Draft.
Then how are they planning on filling the LG and RB positions because they still need the draft to do that.
2nd and 4th rounds Villanova man
So we’re going to count a 4th round rookie to fill a major need. Brilliant planning!
We’re going to get him on draft weekend
Colts wanted Marcus Davenport, gave us the entire second round, lol
Your score is: 19852 (GRADE: B)
Your Picks:
Round 2 Pick 4 (IND): Hernandez, Will, OG, Texas-El Paso (A)
Round 2 Pick 5 (IND): Phillips, Harrison, DT, Stanford (A-)
Round 2 Pick 12: Penny, Rashaad, RB, San Diego State (B)
Round 2 Pick 17 (IND): Carter, Lorenzo, OLB, Georgia (A)
Round 4 Pick 9: Stewart, MJ, CB, North Carolina (A)
Round 5 Pick 5: Hill, Holton, CB, Texas (A)
Round 5 Pick 26: J Hall, P, DT, Sam Houston State (B+)
Round 6 Pick 14: Litton, Chase, QB, Marshall (A+)
Round 7 Pick 13: Ostman, Joe, DE/OLB, Central Michigan (A+)
Round 7 Pick 23: Carrington II, Darren, WR, Utah (A+)
prob could go with 2 WRs instead of 2 OLBs.
The shortleg’d guy is moving inside.
Nova now has as many national championships as the Skins have rings!
Who would have thought Northern Virginia Community College would be so good at college basketball.
Congrats to ‘Nova..
…for beating the 5th best team in the B1G…
Got to wonder, how is it that the NCAA struggles to have any playoff system with no flaws?
We have a pretty good one.
-NCAA Men’s Baseball Tournament
It’s popular, but it’s highly flawed. You just said it your self, they ended the season the 5th best team in the B1G. I would stipulate that an un-flawed system doesn’t even let them in the playoffs.
First step would be that all conference teams play at least a home and home balanced schedule against every team in their conference. Then, Michigan probably finishes 4th in the B1G, but still…
Well I didn’t realize they actually won the B1G conference as a 5th seed, which sounds wrong to me.
Also I wish the NCAA conferences would force the Big 10, Big 12 to change the numbers or come up with more original names, so it makes sense given that they have 14 teams and 10 teams.
dig deeper into it, and yes, Michigan got hot at the right time, but part of the story seems to be MSG
you have to play a game at MSG if you want to play a game at MSG.
Michigan’s first game at MSG in the conf tourney they stunk–shooting the ball, and a lot of teams did. Nebraska and Michigan are pretty even teams, and Michigan played well in their 2nd game, but Nebraska stunk (their first game), went 1 for 20 mid 1st half. Penn State also played an extra game and also did well in the conf tourney, and then won the NIT, which plays it’s final 4 and champ at… …MSG. Maybe Michigan still wins the conference tourney if they play in Indy or Chicago, but MSG sure seemed to impact both tournaments. Maybe what you need to do is play a tournament in MSG early in the year and you’re golden the rest of the way? You know, if you can dodge a wrench…
Alex, they were a number three seed. They were getting into the field of 64.
Had to get through Kansas to get there, too. Beat two #3 seeds and #1 seed. And, owned all of them along the way.
Now should have to play Penn State at MSG to decide once and for all who is the greatest nation on the Earth…. Portugo or Mexico!!!??!!!
I still find it interesting, that for the most part, if you want to be good at football you have to have some form of red in your colors, and if you want to be good at basketball, you have to have blue.
Well those are the two most common colors teams use in all of sports. Something like 2/3rds of all sports teams in the US use red or blue as their team color.
Years ago I made a chart of every pro-teams official home uniform/team color.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a7eb9ed07fffeddc85a8ac646f4475a53fcdee16aaf7b460e800c31e9dbdc390.jpg
As you can see, a lot of blue and red in there. If I remember correctly hockey I think was the 1 sport where you had the most variety.
pretty cool graphic. is that pro everything (4 major sports) or just football? not a lot of deep red. gosh i love the skins colors.
I think that it was pros for all 4 major sports. I did it about 5 years ago, so there’s probably some changes by now. Yes, very few teams have a burgundy type red, way more light or cherry red out there.
red angers up the blood and those from the more puritanical (historically speaking) ancestry, who emphasized formal education highly, tend to be the blue teams. Kansas was settled by abolitionists from the North, for example. So, that’s just one example, but I wonder if you go across the spectrum if the preference sets a precedence in each conference and the also-rans later choose the blue or red to be opposite of the dominant, thus the peoples who are puritanical but dominant chose blue, and then red followed suit later. Or, could it be possible that early on it affected play, and that being cool and collected aids practice and play for basketball, while angry red aids (or did aid) football? Both? Conspiracy theories unite!
It could also be that Red has better contrast against green grass, than some other colors so it would be easier to tell your team apart in a fast paced game like Football.
Michigan was clearly the best team in the Big 10
they had an advantage in playing in MSG 1 extra game before playing any of the top half of the conference in the conf tournament, and that mattered a lot for both Michigan and Penn State, because first time playing MSG teams laid a lot of brickage. Both did well in the conf tourney. The way the B1G conf tournament works is that there are 2 byes for the top 4 teams, and Neb had the tie-breaker on Michigan (they blew out Michigan at home, but the unbalanced schedule meant they didn’t play again). I think Penn State could have prob won the conference tournament if they had been the 5th seed.
Some draft analysts think that there is going to be a lot of day 1 trades. Could be an epic night.
All these new GM’s think they are Kev Costner
we might be remember (emphasize) last year too much, maybe this year teams go more medium
especially if Buffalo makes another move before the draft
I really like this kid
https://twitter.com/RedskinsFGSN/status/981143961950674944?s=20
I think Gray could do great things with HHill#5
https://youtu.be/TxW8ZT6h0ug
Him and MJ Stewart are the two.
These two cats.
https://youtu.be/A8WYxJNFwfs
Josh Allen is going to get a GM and coach fired.
That’s what they said about Carson Wentz.
part of it will matter what offense he has to play in; and the players around him
I don’t see Allen as a Weeden or Manziel
Allen is a Blake Bortles/Josh Freeman
Not even a comparison. Wentz was a multiple national champion lesser competition. Allen was an average QB against lesser competition.
though, Wentz’s teams were NC before he got there too; so relatively speaking, he didn’t have to do it himself
Wentz’s teams were a lot m ore talented than the ones Allen had. Wentz was also 3 yrs. older than Allen.
I was as skeptical as anyone about Allen at the start of this process, but I’ve been impressed by the improvements he’s made in his mechanics and touch. Still — he’s a very high ceiling, low floor guy. I wouldn’t take the chance in the top 4 picks.
Cleveland def destined to take him at 1 lol
In hope the Giants take him
Always blaming it on someone else.
The GM and coach will be getting themselves fired.
This is true
I wanna see Mahomes play.
Ban dumbasses
Woman “accidentally” discharges pistol, shooting man in the head, live on Facebook, while they play with what looks like a Glock, and talk shit, sitting in their car.
There is also a fantastic video of the shooting on YouTube, if you’re in to that sorta thing.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/03/man-shot-in-head-on-facebook-live-as-friends-played-with-guns-cops-say.html
Aw man, I just shot Marvin in the face!
Yeah, lol
Natural selection at work
Aye
Wouldn’t natural selection be if she shot herself?
Wow………just……lol
Fuckin’ guy sat around last year and came up with a brand. SKC orange crush, @lammasssuzy. I don’t care if he has a good year, he’s poison.
Oh well… had a feeling it would be ugly
Go VILLANOVA!!!
NCAA Tournament
#NorvstradamusBracket
Came in 2nd. Still money.
Lost by 1 point. Oh well….
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/cf636146a1ce1cf601ea509cdb40972cf1af1468ec5831b97dc14e1a60c30316.jpg
I gave him crap, but Will Compton was a good teammate and depth player for the skins.
and , he knew all the calls
Just had trouble executing them.
LoL
Oh he executed them fine… about 3 steps behind
Got hit at the LOS and carried 5 yards before the RB fell on top of him.
But he got credit for the tackle!
GO BLUE!
Which now virtually guarantees they’ll lose
Any of yall watch “The Kennedys” on CNN?
I prefer to watch them from the bushes.
Now if you’ll excuse me, the secret service would like to chat.
Do the Nats have a chance at re-signing Harper?
He’s gonna command between three and four hundred million dollars
And his stats just don’t bear it out
My belief is that they are the favorite, given what’s now happening with the Spankees.
Harper is a great player to have alongside a great leader. Harper is a guy who gets on base and gets into scoring position for the clutch cleanup team leader guy to get the game winner in September and October. Hustle guy. I think it’s that other guy you pay the huge $$$ to. And that guy is prob D Murphy on this team right now. The real problem is, that Harper is becoming the age where he might go on a 7-8 year run where he becomes that guy. So, do you give him a 10 year deal for 400 mil? And who is another team that could have a local TV deal re-up soon that might find it worth it? (the Phillies and Dodgers are in the fairly early stages of a 25 year local deal, for example, so Harper would not help them get more money from those, unless they have “performance” clauses). The Dodger’s deal averages 334 mil per year and they have had problems with getting cable operators to sign up. Maybe a Harper deal makes them more interested?
Heard one guy say that they do, because teams these days are less interested in paying big money, and losing draft picks to sign a top talent like Harper, he would push to many top teams into the luxury tax range, that they don’t wanna be in.
Buck…
You know Michelle Obama’s “thing” was “Let’s Move”…so they would invite several elementary school kids and administrators to the White House for games and activities. They held me and my students and teachers in one room that leads to the South Lawn. She comes in and speaks to us and it was awkward because I didn’t know how to greet her. I extended my hand for a hand shake, but she went for a hug…
We went out to an organized relay race with folks from different agencies around the area, Redskins included. My team was slightly behind and Michelle had already been tagged so I had to play catch up but not by much. I said I would lay back and not look all competitive, but SHE WAS! I tried to catch her but couldn’t…REAL STORY.
….highlight of my career. I have a pic…I will post when I find it.
That’s a cool story .
Cool first lady.
Harper, explodes a blast to deep, deep center field for a 3 run nuclear bomb.
Overrated
Harper does it again.
Nats blog, still funny.
I’ve been invited to the White House 4 times…once during the Bush administration, and 3 times during the Obama administration…even hugged the first lady and raced her in a relay race.
This may surprise you, but if Trump invited me, I would go out of respect….but I ain’t doin’ no dishes or cookin’ no food. 🙂
You’d hug his old lady though .
See story above.
D_C would say something stupid and argue with security and get tazed.
He refused to show them his ID . Screaming , he didn’t need one .
Then freezing straight up, squealing like an impaled pig and falling straight to the ground like a log, twitching and crapping his pants.
You gotta tell us about this relay race . You can’t leave off there . Curiosity is killing me
2 – 0 Nats in the top of the 1st. Harper scored on a close play at the plate.
I worked with a guy who lived next door to a retired military officer . The guys wife still went to work everyday , and my friends wife didn’t work . Every time she would get outside and work in the yard , (she did all the yard work, don’t ask me how a guy a gets that lucky) the guy stared at her from his upstairs window . Eventually the guy started pulling out his junk and playing with it while in the window and she could clearly see it . Long story short , they called the cops and they set up a sting , I guess you could call it . They caught him in the act of doing it .
When the cops knocked on his door he wouldn’t answer . His wife came home and let the cops in. He was hiding in the attic. True story .
A district judge in Long Island is in jail after admitting to police he repeatedly broke into his neighbor’s home to steal her underwear.
Officials say Suffolk County District Judge Robert Cicale has been removed from the bench and faces up to fifteen years in prison. The married father of three young children was arrested for burglary.
helluva thing to ruin your life over . Underwear .
I’m surprised he didn’t argue that he was looking for legal briefs.
swing and a miss .
tough crowd tonight
I’m sure underwear was the least offensive thing this guy did.
I thought Vigil was faster than Compton and better in coverage.
He was
Yes, he is.
The Redskins also have Harvey-Clemmons, a young talent, but yes, we need to draft someone.
Zach Vigil can give them what Compton did .
Vigil was always near the ball and always seemed to get there quickly.
I thought he played really well , considering he came in there cold . He hadn’t played since the preseason . Like you said he was constantly around the ball. Harvey Clemmons has the potential to be really good I think . He needs a defined role , whether it be obvious passing situations or whatever .
I don’t think Harvey-Clemons is in the mold of a traditional ILB – to me, he’s more of a hybrid nickel backer / safety.
me too. That’s why I think he needs that specific role in defined situations .
So he’s Sua without the quitting
He looks more physical to me.
That probably comes with not having a vagina
Friggin laugh out loud funny right there
I found out definitively that a man I’ve called a friend for over 40 years is not a friend at all. He never calls me, never visits me and only comes to events like birthday parties. We got together last week for some drinks and wings and all he could point out was my shortcomings and feed his ego…told me he only has sex with two women at a time…I mean, real juvenile crap.
My wife has been trying to tell me he is not my friend for 25 years.
Punch him in the mouth, it’ll feel great.
Trying to get the man a night a night in the pokey.
His friend is a badass, he won’t call the law…
Sounds like a guy trying to convince himself… and everyone else that he’s cool. Sure sign he’s a shut in loser. Cut bait
Yeah , once you reach a certain age that shit gets really stupid and has no meaning anymore .
Could be he is actually jealous of you and that’s how he tries to overcome it . Just saying .
also the women that care about us usually always know the right thing . They just do.
You just found out that NPI isn’t your friend?
Will Compton is signing with the Titans.
Now no one on the Skins LB corps will be able to make any calls!
but he doesn’t know all the calls
“hey hey hey, goodbye…”
I’d say this virtually guarantees that the Redskins will draft an ILB this year.
catching the end of “Remember the Titans” on TV. “Run it up, Herman! Leave no doubt!”
My wife went to the racist high school.
Marrying you was her punishment, clearly.
Free College for everybody and you don’t even need an ID . My exclamation key is broken .
!!
whoever we get this offseason, Callahan has got to get more time with the OL going over run blocking.
you get OTAs (9-10 days) and 1 contact practice a day at training camp up to X days max (like 22)
problems with ‘Skins run game
poor LG
blown run game blocking assignments by OL
lack of vision/burst from RB’s
upgrade OL
practice run plays more in camp/practices
upgrade RB
I’m convinced that the upgrade RB part is going to happen in the first couple of rounds.
Won’t do a whole lot of good unless they 1) You know, actually call run plays and 2) fix the LG position
…oh and 3) Keep the o line healthy
Gain 1 yard, from the 1, when everyone knows you are running it.
They call run plays. It’s just that the ones they call are predictable and the players can’t execute them very well.
i think the skins tried to run a fair amount last year. they just did not do it every well.
this is not the road to any top-of-the-league rushing attack, just the way to a functioning run game to set up play-action/misdirection. too many blown blocking assignments, especially on short yardage, and when the OL did make a hole, the RB’s wouldn’t see it.
…and when we did run effectively, we almost immediately went away from it.
That page in the playbook with the play where we run to the left on first down for -1 yard?
Yeah, tear that page out and shred it please. Thank you.
No doubt… turrible
more passes on first down would help, too.
A healthy/available Reed opens up a lot of that.
It’s only April and that’s not looking real promising already . Still rehabbing from off season toe/feet surgery . Its a big fucking mystery , that spells he won’t be ready for TC . Again.
Oh yeah….you gotta love that play . My favorite.
Defense giving up TDs forcing them to play from behind . Not conducive to a run game either . It’s been the perfect storm basically .
Josh Sweat, EDGE, FSU coming in for a pre-draft visit
that’s an awesome name for an athlete.
Heck of an athlete, too.
https://www.mockdraftable.com/player/josh-sweat
Everyone but me had to work
so I made bacon cheeseburgers for Easter
one of god’s great gifts to humanity. (can i say that? or are there snowflakes present?)
…and you wonder why I target you… you beg for it
It’s funny to see you call anyone a snowflake considering you wrote an email to The Hogsty guys because, well, you can dish it out but not take it.
good weekend. we dyed eggs. wife and daughter had their annual cake decorating contest. i went to church. we went to in-laws for easter dinner. deviled eggs (i didn’t name them), ham, turkey, fat potatoes. good times.
Sounds like fun…and there was no licka’ involved.
Deviled eggs. Oh the under covers fart wars and dutch ovens for you married schmucks.
we married schmucks are the winners.
Yeah, right up until you aren’t.
for those who can’t access Twitter where they are
Offseason workouts start April 16
OTAs May 22-24, May 29-31 and June 4-7
Rookie mini-camp May 11-13
who is Sinclair Broadcasting Groups’s largest national news partner?
You think Fox?
Wrong it is CNN
bwahahahaha
so when Trump praises Sinclair and criticizes CNN he is literally talking out of both side of his mouth at the same time
there are not enough sides to a mouth for trump.
“Crusin’ down the street in my 6-4…”
(edit)
It’s the other way around.
Jockin’ the bitches, slappin’ the hoes
Went to the park to get the scoop,
Knuckle heads out there cold shootin some hoop
Started talkin shit, wouldn’t ya know I reached back like a pimp and I slapped the ho.
Her father got up and he started to should so I threw a right cross and knocked his old ass out.
….cause the boys in the hood is always hard….you come talkin’ that trash we’ll pull your card….
Knowin’ nothin’ in life but to be legit…
…”don’t quote me boy, cause I ain’t said shit”.
“…a car pulls up who can it be….a fresh El Camino rollin’ Kilo G….
had an uncle who had one of those in a barn; but it was a show. hadn’t been started in many years
’61 bubble top coupe, 409 big block, 4-speed. The best of that run.
his did not have the 409
he also had a 74 Cutlass in that barn. that car still drove, and looked spectacular inside when he passed away a few years ago.
The V’d rear window?
https://twitter.com/TandlerNBCS/status/980887911322308609?s=20
Mr. Steve’d, or, Hogsty’d
This is what happens when Redskins PR sends an email out to all media about the schedule.
I’ll retract that if you don’t want credit.
https://twitter.com/JPFinlayNBCS/status/980889101497962497?s=20
Or take a stud o-lineman…which I would be all for…..
Hopefully this kid doesn’t fuck up his growing connection with the FO.
https://twitter.com/TheHogSty/status/980888734546702337
What are the days Jordan Reed will NOT be on the field, Alex?
That would be all of them.
That was an answer, phrased in the form of a question.
Dow down 700 again
We’re all gonna die!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4jSdXkVJg0
Has SCamp been up here talking about it?
That’s his new schtick
Buying opportunities abound
Especially companies who do biz with JINAH!
– POTUS
Trump threatens China with a trade war, and China fires back. He lays into Amazon, and Amazon’s stock starts tanking. Of course the markets are going to take a hit.
Every nation on earth has tariffs and we are actually responding to China ripping us the fuck off.
It’s going to work out fine. Keep your wifebeater on.
I don’t give a shit. Markets are going to do what markets are going to do.
They are moving this much because of the uncertainty; what markets hate the most.
It’s going to be fine. The certainty that will come will stabilize the markets again. Only pussies cry about a correction every one of the smart people knew was coming all along. It’s all good. The markets are going to be just fine and get even stronger because of the US taking – not asking for, but taking – a position of such strength.
The markets will like that and you can book that all the way down the line.
In the meantime, there’s a ton of money to be made on the shorts.
D_C will struggle shouting this name, Robert was so much easier
https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/980877563303284739?s=20
can you imagine what Joey T would do to that?
I’m a big fan of Vinny V Tevia TuPac Tuiossosopo Voorhees Fellatio Veal.
– Joey T
Velveeta tokundo tupelo molasses valet
We may get to see during preseason.
Insert exploding head GIF.
I will just call him Robert.
Umhmm
LeBron James is a douche.
That’s all I have to say.
Dude thinks he “invented” barber shop conversations and will take legal action against others who put out a show with that type of setting.
I hope this becomes a national story.
I really can’t stand that guy.
And when he signs with LA next year you will change your opinion just like you did with the Ball Clown Show 🙂
I doubt I’ll change my mind – I’ll just basically hold my nose and root for the guy to help the team win – and my opinion of Lavar Ball has always been the same. I never hated him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R1h2Df3Nrc
That’s because he got into massive tax trouble and needs the money to pay the IRS.
===========================
Hollywood gets such a rap as liberal, entitlement people
but so many of them run into problems not paying their taxes like Cage and Snipes
trying to not pay their “fair share”
Ja Rule, Stephen Baldwin, Lauryn Hill, Fat Joe, Teresa and Joe Giudice, Joe Fancis, John Travolta, Dennis Rodman, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Martin Scorsese, Lionel Richie
To be fair Nick Cage spent all his money buying a dinosaur skull.
Nicolas Cage racked up a $13.3 million tax debt after failing to pay his debts to the IRS in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008. The actor blamed his former business manager for the mishap, claiming he was not aware of the situation.
Student Loan debt is $1.5 trillion, higher than credit card and Auto loan debt. Amazing.
I worked my way through college (when it was far more affordable) and left college with about $3k in Student loan debt. Paid that sucker off within 2 years.
IMO, this level of indebtedness has the potential to trigger some huge problems. Hopefully not.
College ain’t for erryone.
But there are enough opportunities for student aid, tax breaks, low interest loans and of course many people worked – sometimes multiple jobs – and still graduated.
Education is an investment in yourself.
Some kids should not be going to college
In academia they are called sports scholarship winners.
Can’t spell ‘academia’ without DACA.
Raise the tuition for out-of-stater’s and enable illegal immigrants get to attend college for free!
– California
They got to keep the money rolling in by any means necessary.
No shit.
– Entitlements
actually, the idea of such is borne out of Ivy League thought, academia thought they were a good idea; at least the admission part of it
Here in Mass (or the towns I’ve voted in) do not require IDs to vote. Just have to state name and address and they’ll check you off some list before and after the physical vote is complete.
Photo ID required in Austin. I bring my voter registration card, but they never ask for it. They check me against the voter rolls, and admit me.
There’s no excuse for not having 100% of voters show an approved photo ID. To be against it is to just be playing partisan politics.
Same for gerrymandering?
Of course that’s what gerrymandering is all about, for both parties. Duh.
And it needs to go away, for both parties.
That isn’t going to happen, ever.
And kill Citizens United while you’re at it.
Citizens United isn’t anywhere near as evil a decision as some would have you believe. It’s actually pretty limited.
It gives corporations and unions the green light to spend unlimited sums on ads and other political tools, calling for the election or defeat of individual candidates.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
You need to carefully read the opinion word for word. The SC was actually correct.
What’s correct about it?
I’m not going to turn this forum into a detailed legal discussion of Citizens United. It would take far more than a few blog comments. Believe what you want.
Just checking. Didn’t think you knew.
That was rough. Let me rephrase. Without getting into a protracted legal discussion, just give me ONE reason why you believe the SC decision was actually correct.
**crickets**
Hey, buddy, have you even read the opinion? I have. I doubt you have.
People who support gerrymandering love to cheat.
Just put a robot in charge.
it can’t do worse.
I nominate: Max Headroom
Martin O’Mally?
At least he admitted he made an effort to crate district boundaries where it would be hard for any republican to win.
The only reason Sheila Jackson Lee in Congress is employed is because of gerrymandering.
I don’t defend Dems who try to do it. It’s plain wrong. Draw the districts to eliminate as much bias as possible on ethnic, socioeconomic, and political factors.
Let the chips fall where they may.
This is total nonsense. First, there is NO EVIDENCE of any kind of meaningful, in-person voter fraud, so off the bat you have to ask yourself why Republicans want to inconvenience hundreds of thousands of Americans who don’t valid photo IDs. The obvious answer is Republicans are trying to suppress the Democratic vote because most of the people who lack proper ID are low income, and most low income people are Democrats.
Now if you really want to fix the problem, mandatory voting laws is the way to go. That would make it much easier to catch fraud.
Mandatory voting laws would be un-American, to me. People should be free to NOT participate.
Voting is the most American thing Americans ever Americanized. Besides, if you require turnout it takes away one of the biggest ways voter fraud was done in the past, with poll workers placing fake votes for people who didn’t show up to vote.
Because unlike the Voter ID issue of people voting 2x, poll workers voting at the end of the night has been an issue in the past.
That is a totally false, complete, unadulterated load of garbage. No evidence of in-person voter fraud. Wow. That’s just delusional.
As you like to say, it’s easily provable. You just have to look up the many judgments where these laws have been thrown out, and read the accompanying findings of fact. But I’m not going to waste my time….
Oh alright, here’s a couple:
The Fifth Circuit, in an opinion finding that Texas’s strict photo ID law is racially discriminatory, noted that there were “only two convictions for in-person voter impersonation fraud out of 20 million votes cast in the decade” before Texas passed its law.
In its opinion striking down North Carolina’s omnibus restrictive election law —which included a voter ID requirement — as purposefully racially discriminatory, the Fourth Circuit noted that the state “failed to identify even a single individual who has ever been charged with committing in-person voter fraud in North Carolina.”
btw the same goes for Republican efforts to curtail early voting.
You could vote for every one of your neighbors
I also always show id and it PISSES them right off
I love bit where they are administering a weed field sobriety test
and they ask “Why if a pizza is round does it come in a square box and when you cut it, it ends up as triangles?”
and the person is like “Wait, what? I am getting a pizza?
starts off with
Why are you pulling me over officer?
Because you have been sitting at this stop sign for like 5 minutes
Well, that’s because I’m waiting for it to turn green
Austin’d
Will Blackmon is on the Herd in just a few minutes . Have a feeling the Cravens situation will come up.
A Mustang driver has successfully eluded police after a brief chase on Interstate 70 in Colorado.
State troopers clocked the older-model Mustang going 140 mph approximately 10 miles west of Glenwood Springs, entering an area with relatively tight highway curves, according to a Denver Post report.
Troopers initially pursued the vehicle, however the driver accelerated to 150 mph rather than slowing down. Police consequently called off the chase.
“It’s extremely reckless, especially with people who haven’t been trained to drive at those speeds,” said Colorado State Patrol spokesman Gary Cooper.
Police never got close enough to catch a glimpse of the Mustang’s license plate.
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Was it Steve McQueen in his Bullit Mustang?
It was Memphis Raines.
GO-BABY-GO
Nick Cage is nowhere as cool as Steve McQueen
Movies son. Movies. Both were cool.
One thing you can say about Nick Cage, he works hard, will say yes to any movie offer.
That’s because he got into massive tax trouble and needs the money to pay the IRS.
When people evade the police they put innocent people in danger
I have absolutely no problem with them using any means necessary to stop them
Lethal force is more than fair
drone with hellfire missile it is then
Yeah, that’ll work.
– Elon Musk
So Suzy says its all made up and he’s not a quitter. And Florio believes him and thinks the Skins are at fault. LOL.
when it comes to PFT
1. The name is racist
2. Is it always the team’s fault
Where did you see that?
I read the thing on PFT yesterday where Cravens says he did quit, and the team made him see a doctor who helped him get better.
“People have their own truths and can make their own decisions,’’ Cravens said. “There is a narrative that people have that I quit, I quit on my team, that I don’t love football – that is completely forged and wrong.
“Everybody has the right to make their own decision, but my truth, I never quit on my team, I never abandoned anybody. I don’t know where they’re coming from with ‘he quit at USC.’ I don’t know where that came from, that was made up. That’s a narrative that’s wrong.”
more fake news being spread around
So in Texas white “Affluenza teen” Ethan Couch served his two years of probation violation (for drinking again and then fleeing the country with his Mom) in prison for killing 4 people while drunk driving and was just released
black convicted felon Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years by a judge for illegally voting in 2016
and people wonder why some think the justice system is broken
Should clearly get time for illegally voting. But that the kid and the mom aren’t in jail for a long time is insane.
agreed, she did something illegal she should get punished
but there is a huge difference between killing someone (accidentally or on purpose) and illegally voting
i agree, kid DUIed 4 people, should get something like a life sentence or 25 years kind of thing.
Though I’m all for severe punishment when it comes to political corruption, like if it turns out a politician did something illegal to win an election, I want them lined up against a wall.
Doing anything illegal deserves some type of punishment. But like anything there has to be appropriate application of punishment to the committed crime.
…and get rid of Gerrymandering once and for all. Redraw districts solely on shared infrastructure, school districts, etc. Districts to be drawn by a non-partisan organization.
Every vote should count.
Guff away
And have to show id to vote
Agreed
I’m all for it, so long as you make the DMV’s provide ID’s for free rather than charging $50 or whatever it costs now.
licenses and IDs are money makers now
along with vanity plates
Charges for licenses are fine. But if we are going to require ID for day to day public life, than that should be provided no extra charge. I miss the days of not having a photo ID on me.
the level of proof is the same for both per HLS standards so I can understand the cost
the difference is the the driver’s testing to get your license to drive which is not that expensive since in most places it is computer administered and scored
in FL ID is $25 and DL is $48
We pay for the DMV with taxes. Give folks free basic ID’s. I also know what it costs to print an ID card, they are about $1 each.
According to D_C , he never needs his ID . Argued this subject with him until it was ridiculous . He maintained they weren’t necessary , in spite of numerous examples I stated in which they were .
Now I will say, I’ve never once needed an ID to vote in any state I’ve lived in.
Also, real voter fraud isn’t gonna be stopped by the ID stuff, because that is not how people do successful voter fraud in the 21st century.
Now a days it’s easier done at the digital levels.
in my county in FL you have to show some form of ID to vote
“No one is less right…more often…than D_C.”
Would you work for free
No, but we already pay the DMV in local/state taxes.
proof of ID seems like a very, very basic requirement to me. if it’s difficult for low-income people to get IDs, then make that easier. i completely agree with the idea that a voter should have to present ID.
if FL you have to have a DL, ID or passport to get “welfare” benefits
How many people on welfare have a passport.
Drunks run STOP signs.
Stoners stop and wait for the sign to turn green.
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LOL
i’ve heard of people doing this before
Used to happen with regularity, postal worker would replace the money with a stamp. Think c.o.d.
My House
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my cat can hear a can opener being taken out of a drawer across the house
we feed her dry food. couple times a month I’ll have a tuna sammich.
she can be asleep somewhere, and as soon as that drawer opens
*mmrrrrrrooooow*
My cats get excited by the ice dispenser, if a cub falls on the floor they start playing with it.
my dogs are the same way about plastic ziploc bags
their dog treats come in one
shredded cheese from Costco comes in one
as far as they are concerned everything good come in a ziploc type plastic bag
and come running when one is opened
My dogs spend the day either patrolling the hill, or napping at various FOBs around the property, shadowing the kids if they’re in the woods playing, show up at suppertime like, chow time…
After retiring, a former Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant took a new job as a high school teacher.
Just before the school year started, he injured his back. He was required to wear a light plaster cast around the upper part of his body.
Fortunately, the cast fit under his shirt and wasn’t noticeable when he wore his suit coat.
On the first day of class, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in the school.
The smart-a** punks, having already heard the new teacher was a former Marine, were leery of him and he knew they would be testing his discipline in the classroom.
Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, the new teacher opened the window wide and sat down at his desk.
With a strong breeze blowing it made his tie flap. He picked up a stapler and stapled the tie to his chest.
Dead Silence .
The rest of the year went smoothly.
if you have ever seen the outtakes to We Were Soldiers…
there is a great scene they cut talking about Sam Elliot character Sgt Major
another sergeant is talking about his first day in the Army when the new Lt has all the soldiers show up in the dress uniforms with all their medal
the platoon Sgt who is the toughest SOB, scarred all over, comes out nude in his boots with his Medal of Honor hung around his neck
and the other Sgts say is that who is the new SGM?
and the first Sgt says no we are getting the one that made that guy cry
Dang we had a running gun battle in the streets of Tampa yesterday and I missed it
Tampa Police killed the murder suspect from Georgia
he vowed not to be arrested and FL fulfilled his wishes
Good
“Netflix original shows I’ve never heard of”
Orange is the New Black
House of Cards
Stranger Things
Narcos
Peaky Blinders
Godless
13 Reasons Why
Altered Carbon
The Crown
GLOW
Ozark
Grace and Frankie
Bloodline
I’ve heard of the top three, but none of the rest of them. Watched none.
Peaky Blinders is a lot of fun. About the mob in Britain in the 1920’s.
House of Cards will keep you from standing on the edge of a Metro Platform.
I don’t need a TV show to keep me from doing that.
just finished season 4 , that last episode was a doozy
I just finished Altered Carbon. Really great flick/series, gets you thinking a lot about a persons sense of self. Some deep issues they try and cover there.
And the character of Poe was a 10.
if you like westerns, check out Godless, it’s like a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western on steroids
the best thing about Netflix is they do not strictly program content for the 18-35 demographic
House of Cards- Great, amazing, Kevin Spacey was incredible in it, and then something happened in the real world.
Stranger Things- Everything you love about 80’s sci-fi wrapped into a perfect package.
Peaky Blinders- The theme song gets stuck in my head, and man does that show love to edit Radiohead into it’s montages.
Godless- A decent enough western. The final episode disappointed me.
Altered Carbon- Like Blade Runner with more nudity.
The Crown- Worth watching Season 1 just for John Lithgow’s performance as Churchill.
GLOW- Lot of great jokes, wife and I watched together, She was a fan of the real GLOW.
Ozark- Basically Breaking Bad in Missouri.
Bloodline- Watch season 1, pretend there is no 2nd or 3rd seasons.
Others not mentioned on your list:
Master of None- It’s kinda like the early Woody Allen stuff. In a good way.
Sense8- Terrible, no one should watch it. Took 5 episodes to just get a plot going.
Black Mirror- Only seen a few episodes but it’s like a modern Twilight Zone
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- Good campy comedy.
Love- There were some scenes in this that were disturbingly like my relationship, nothing terrible, but just weird.
Oh and finally
Anyone who enjoys the show “The Ranch” should be kicked in the face.
Little Caesar’s pizza giveaway will cost the about $4.5M
estimate of free publicity surrounding the giveaway about $7M-$8M
Plus, Little Caesar’s most likely purchased an insurance policy on this giveaway.
it would have been the smart move
I doubt it. The odds of it happening were astronomical. So this is just a promotion expense.
ESPN announces it’s own live streaming site for $5 a month
https://espnmediazone.com/us/press-releases/2018/04/espn-to-launch-april-12-bringing-sports-fans-more-live-sports-exclusive-originals-and-on-demand-library-all-for-4-99-per-month/
The future, for sure.
I wonder if it will impact how I currently stream ESPN on Sling.
I don’t stream any shows, really. I watch whatever comes on cable.
Well if I can go down to the cheaper Sling package for $25 and add ESPN+ for $5, saves me an extra $100 a year or so.
I’m now paying for Netflix, though, because the boys wanted it. I’ve looked through their selection and it seems to be a combination of shows I can get on demand through cable already, Netflix original shows I’ve never heard of, and a limited selection of movies. I was disappointed in the number of movies they have, because so far not one movie I’ve searched for has been available. The boys seem to know what they’re looking for, though.
Netflix has actually lost a bit, Fox is taking their content off slowly but surly, as is Disney as they are both planing competing models.
CBS draining their content from Netflix and Hulu
will be all on CBS All Access with Paramount movies coming into that at some point (according to experts)
CBS can keep it.
I don’t think it actually includes ESPN
I think it’s basically replacing what everyone gets for free on ESPN3 now
I’ve not seen anything on ESPN3 that is worth watching.
ESPN8, “The Ocho” is the bomb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8414uArsBOs
major college football bowls and the national championship playoff are on ESPN3
occasionally your fav team might be on there if it’s out of market for you (like out of market ABC, for example)
and if you have a poor ABC signal, anything (sports) that is on ABC is on ESPN3
ESPN3 is where a lot of the smaller college games sports end up. A lot of 2nd and 3rd tire sports. Basically I just use it to watch my Temple Owls.
ESPN isn’t good. I try and get my sports news from any other place.
Sports news you can get from google. Only time I turn on ESPN is if it’s a game I want to see. And because of my weird preferences, it’s a lot of ESPN3 for me.
Mike Greenberg’s morning TV show apparently started this morning. He’s going to regret leaving Mike and Mike. Whatever this new show is is inevitably going to fail, but Golic and his radio show will be there forever.
Most radio shows don’t have a long lifespan, 2-3 years. The good and great ones that go 10+ years are a rarity.
Giants traded back with AZ…who will take Rosen.
Keep on racing for QB’s in round 1 and let those studs fall to #13.
If they do or they did?
Was listening to Cowherd and I guess it was more of a “Here’s what they should do…”
I don’t listen to Cowturd bloviate
As we discussed with Shoup, 4 will go top 12 for sure, maybe 5.
I was glad to hear him say that he doesn’t think Josh Allen should be a first round pick, even though he will be. I don’t believe he is, either.
Yep, but we also all agree that some team will take him in the 1st.
So that means the top 8 or 9 other position players will fall to us.
lots of qbs picked early is good for us. so relieved to have qb solved for a few years.
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Lunchtime listen: How to describe Vita Vea? One former GM told me, “A massive mountain of humanity, for his size, it’s pretty amazing.” https://buff.ly/2FrFZMj
I don’t see him falling to us at 13. I’m not gonna get my hopes up.
Here is the updated top 50 FA list.
http://nfltraderumors.co/top-2018-nfl-free-agents-list/
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#Jets free agent DE Kony Ealy is slated to visit the #Cowboys early this week, sources say. He’s also remained in discussions with NYJ over the past few weeks.
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Mo Fo’s want dey free pizza!
I don’t mind little caesars pizza.
But they may have the worst customer service of any establishment I’ve ever been in. And it’s not just the one near my house, it’s every one I’ve been too
I don’t have one near me. I just do Pizza Bolis, or do 50% off Papa Johns when the Wiz or Caps win lol!!!
The pizza starts at $5, what do you expect? Mass children food.
The product’s fine. I don’t go out of my way for it. But about 1/2 the time I walk into one of their stores, there’s no one at the register and can’t see anyone in the back making food. Just empty, they are all out back behind the shop
It’s pretty good pizza as far as chains go. I have one just around the corner from my house, and we will go there occasionally.
They have Sunkist or Fanta orange soda?
No, they’re a Pepsi company.
Just like the “Samurai Deli”.
“No Coke…Pepsi…”
I tried to google Pepsi’s orange soda equivalent.Something called Mirinda, I’ve never heard of it.
Me either. Truthfully, I don’t drink much soda, though; typically only on the weekends.
Price point wise, it’s hard to beat.
How the F is a free pizza and drink that probably cots $5 worth waiting in a line like that for?
Broke ass motherfuckers.
EXACTLY, what I was thinking.
lol yeah
I mean, if you have an hour to kill over lunch, and choose to wait in this line, eat, and can still get back in that hour, fine with me.
Best way to defeat opioid epidemic, legalize pot
finding of new study
more fake news from the Journal of American Medical Associations
Like opioids, marijuana has been shown to be effective in treating chronic pain as well as other conditions such as seizures, multiple sclerosis and certain mental disorders, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Research suggests that the cannabinoid and opioid receptor systems rely on common signaling pathways in the brain, including the dopamine reward system that is central to drug tolerance, dependence and addiction.
and evidently it’s extremely rare to die from a pot overdose
Head Shop Dave was right, stick with the herbals avoid coke, meth and heroin
extremely rare, meaning in recorded medical history it’s never happened.
There was a incident where they thought it had happened with an infant last year, would have been the first recorded case of an overdose. But further medical review showed that he died from a heart defect.
if we executed everyone who was addicted it would aid the population.
-Mother Nature
Everyone’s addicted to something.
Mother Nature is ruthless, ain’t she?
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Hurry out and get your free pizza
Little Caesars is giving away free pizza on Monday, April 2 after losing a March Madness bet.
The restaurant chain said it would give customers free lunch combos if a #16 seeded team defeated a #1 seeded team in the 2018 men’s college basketball tournament, which occurred when the #16 seeded University of Maryland, Baltimore County beat the #1 seeded Virginia Cavaliers 74-54 on March 16.
Now, basketball fans and pizza lovers can have lunch on Little Caesars’ dime. The promotion includes a four-slice deep dish pepperoni pizza and a 20-ounce drink from the Pepsi family on April 2.
To receive the free Little Caesars pizza, customers must order the lunch box no later than 1 p.m. local time on April 2. The promotion begins at 11:30 a.m. on Monday.
Mind blown…..as this is how I feel.
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The sentence “Are you as bored as I am?” can be said backwards and still make sense.
Ma I sa derob sa uoy era
RIP Winnie Mandela, 81 former wife of Nelson
Your score is: 22169 (GRADE: A)
Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 13: Vea, Vita, DT, Washington (A)
Round 2 Pick 21 (BUF): Michel, Sony, RB, Georgia (A)
Round 3 Pick 32 (BUF): Jewell, Josey, ILB, Iowa (A+)
Round 4 Pick 9: Dawson, Duke, CB, Florida (A+)
Round 4 Pick 21 (BUF): Welsh, Sean, OG, Iowa (A)
Round 5 Pick 5: Callaway, Antonio, WR, Florida (A+)
Round 5 Pick 26: Ford, Poona, DT, Texas (A)
Round 6 Pick 14: Sieler, Zach, DE, Ferris State (A+)
Round 7 Pick 13: McDermott, KC, OT, Miami (FL) (A+)
Round 7 Pick 23: Jamerson, Natrell, FS, Wisconsin (A+)
I’ve heard we are interested in Jewell and Dawson (and Corbett)
we will stay away from Callaway
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POONA for the win!!!
The great Twitterater has weighed in
President Trump on Monday slammed “dishonest” CNN and “Fake NBC” over their criticism of Sinclair Broadcasting for allegedly using its local television stations to push a right-leaning agenda.
So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased. Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2018
and I understand now how I got got labeled lying about Australians being able to own guns
people are actually unable to differentiate rhetoric from reality
@httrsince65:disqus
Did Hankins sign with the Rams? Didn’t see that anywhere.
Doubt they would pay Suh AND Donald AND Hankins at DT.
Day late April fools my friend! Btw, your Wildcats will run away with it tonight. Damn they’re too good! Only a team-wide cold spell shooting 3’s will stop them. Ain’t happening
We’ll see. Live by the three; die by the three. They couldn’t miss against Kansas,. Tonight’s a different night.
That’s true. I’m pulling for them tonight.
OK. You’re back in my good graces!
Thanks my friend. lol
I picked Villanova to win it all, so I’m rooting for them to salvage my bracket.
We’ll take it any way we can get it!
Your score is: 22121 (GRADE: A) Your Picks:
Round 1 Pick 17 (LAC): James, Derwin, SS/FS, Florida State (A)
Round 2 Pick 12: Guice, Derrius, RB, LSU (A+)
Round 2 Pick 16 (LAC): Evans, Rashaan, OLB/ILB, Alabama (A)
Round 4 Pick 9: Senat, Deadrin, DT, South Florida (A+)
Round 5 Pick 5: Phillips, Skyler, OG, Idaho State (A+)
Round 5 Pick 26: Hill, Holton, CB, Texas (A+)
Round 6 Pick 14: J Hall, P, DT, Sam Houston State (A+)
Round 7 Pick 13: McDermott, KC, OT, Miami (FL) (A+)
Round 7 Pick 23: Facyson, Brandon, CB, Virginia Tech (A+)
Chargers traded up and took Vita Vea
the mocks I have done on both sites the last few days
both James and Vea have gone top 12 and a lot of times Smith is gone to
I just can’t see talking Guice at #13, Wynn maybe
Nice one.
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Okay… so while my wife was out interviewing for a job I was getting some work done on selling my company here in the hotel room and The Fate of the Furious was on the tv…
Quite possibly the dumbest, most unrealistic movie in history.
How many of those movies are there now? I’ve never been able to sit through more than 20 minutes of any of them.
Googled it, 8 movies now, 9, 10 and 11 all already planned.
#7 was very good, in part because it was the tribute to Paul Walker.
Think I saw the first one… after that completely ignored them until just now.
Was that the one that just came out last year, where they were driving Ferraris at the South Pole? I was very disappointed with that installment in the series.
Not sure they were Ferraris … but yeah
it’s like most movie bad guys gimmicks, where the person hits the bad guy and attempts to get away but the bad guy recovers and captures them
trust me in my scenario the bad guy never gets up, but then you have a very short movie
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Sure fire winner!
Hankins sign with The Rams! Those guys are gonna be hard to beat!
Thanks for nothing FO!
Ugh!!!!
Day late April fool’s joke. Sorry lol
He signed with the Titans
lmao!
Man the lack of news about the Skins…its’ rough man. I keep checking Twitter to hopefully see something relevant, but it’s not gonna happen. Gotta wait till April 26th before we hear anything.
When we trade out of the 1st you’re gonna be MAD
A Navy Seal walks into a bar and takes a seat next to a very attractive woman.
He gives her a quick glance then casually looks at his new Apple watch for a moment.
The woman notices this and asks, “Is your date running late?”
“No,” he replies, “just got this state-of-the-art Apple watch, and I was just testing it.”
The intrigued woman says, “A state-of-the-art watch? What’s so special about it?”
He says, “It uses alpha waves to talk to me telepathically.”
The lady says, “What’s it telling you now?”
“Well, it says you’re not wearing any panties.”
The woman giggles and replies, “Well it must be broken because I am wearing panties!”
The Navy man smirks, taps his watch and says, “Darn thing’s an hour fast.”
And that, my friends…….is
Confidence
Spend time with SEALs and others in similar units and you will quickly realize that they are either brilliant or dumb as rocks, but always extreme personalities.
I would think to be in that line of work that an extreme personality is a given
It is. I deployed with them several times, and those aren’t folks you’d want doing a regular office job.
They probably couldn’t handle a regular office job… they’d go crazy
there are generally two types of SEALs what I call rough and tumble ones and quiet ones
quiet ones adapt, rough and tumble ones could never be in any office job
They don’t lack confidence regardless of their intellect.
I’d say that’s more like playing for the percentages. That lines gonna fail on 90%+ of women.
Depends. I think 90% is too high a failure rate.
…also, it’s a joke
lmao yes it is
Always makes me roll my eyes when people analyze jokes
Well Alex as I’ve said in the past
you build your team nowadays around QB, Edge rusher, Shutdown CB, LT and coverage beater receiver (either WR or TE)
those are your money guys, the you around 20 guys still on rookie deals and about 10 FA’s
those 35 guys are the core of the team
No running back? Different game now
it’s a passing league now
I know. That’s why our offense hasn’t been our problem the last couple years, even though we had scrub running backs.
I don’t totally disagree with that, to me it’s interesting that we are spending as much on TE as we are.
And compare this to what it was not long ago when WR was probably number 2 or 3 on that list. Also an issue when you look at where we are spending and it doesn’t all sync with on the field performance.
you don’t need to have that superstar (i.e. big money) WR anymore (it’s nice to have one though)
with all the rub schemes teams use, receivers are able to get open
passing is a lot more about scheme matchups than individual player matchups
you get 43 guys active to scheme with on game day (I’m not counting LS, K, P)
some of those are just backups usually (OL/QB) or rotational/situation guys (DL/DB)
Sure. We’re paying a lot of money at this point for backup OT’s, based on Steve’s chart, looks like 6 Million or so.
My column for tomorrow is going to be a salary cap analysis, and I’ll get into those issues.
It’s being slammed on Twitter as a “hostage” video.
Sinclair Broadcasting Group, which owns more than 170 U.S. TV stations, has ordered local news anchors across the country to read a script decrying “some media outlets” for “false news” and “fake stories.”
“This is extremely dangerous to a democracy,” the script reads.
Deadspin created a supercut of anchors reading the script and ThinkProgress shared a similar clip that showed newscasters reciting the identical lines.
Sinclair is currently in the process of purchasing Tribune media, a deal that would give it access to 42 more stations. Once complete, Sinclair will reach 72 percent of U.S. households.
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1984 or Animal Farm, take your choice
Sinclair has been knocked for this for a while, I’ve worked with a lot of people over the years who worked at Sinclair, and never once heard anything good about how they treat their employees.
Was told a story recently in fact from a guy who worked for them in Baltimore.
The local news guys did a story, had to do with one of the Baltimore protests on police shootings. Someone in the national office, re-edited the story to make it look like the protesters were actually rioters and were attacking police during the protest, the station was sued and the local reporters were blamed and fired even though it wasn’t them who did it.
BTW this stuff used to never happen in local news. It would be considered unethical for a national HQ to dictate stories and change stories being done by local press.
TV News maybe, newspapers being doing that since the Spanish American War
Not to that extent.
So now the media is honest all of a sudden?
No, but the riots didn’t have to do with the story that these guys were covering, were from a different day. Purely done to manipulate the audience. And then to blame the reporter for the actions of their superiors is the style of corporate cowards
totally fucked up – unless they are actually calling out media for giving false news the weight of true news (i can’t even believe i have to say “true news”.)
Sinclair started as
The company, founded by Julian Sinclair Smith, originated in 1971 as the Chesapeake Television Corporation. Its founding television station property was WBFF (channel 45) in Baltimore, Maryland, which signed on the air on April 11 of that year.
Not really.
1984 about about the gov’t’s control of its citizens. This is a private company asking its employees to read a script.
Steve Shoup is an incredibly knowledgeable guy. He’s alot like Mark Bullock in that he doesn’t have a big-time football playing background, and his expertise is a labor of love.
Where a team spends it’s money. Says a lot about a GM/Coach when you look at how they distribute salary cap space.
OT 13.83%
CB 12.35%
QB 12.31%
OLB 9.63%
DL 9.01%
TE 9.01%
WR 5.71%
OG/C 4.90%
ILB 3.44%
S 3.44%
RB 3.28%
Also of interest, by what I’d say are our starters, we are spending 67% of the cap on the starting 25 guys right now
oh, look! compression waves (arriving after light waves):
Dramatic video footage shows the moment an enormous explosion breaks up a frozen river in eastern Kazakhstan.
The thick ice on the river Irtysh River near the city of Semey had prevented vital shipping traffic from passing through, and officials decided to tackle it with 1,322 lbs of dynamite.
The witness behind the camera is thrown backwards by the sheer power of the blast, which blew the windows out in nearby homes, injuring several people.
As a result, the force of the explosion destroyed numerous windows in neighbouring properties and left several people injured from flying glass.
Two people had to be hospitalised as a result, a child who suffered serious cuts, and an adult who had a heart attack as a result of the shock from the blast.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5569097/Ice-explosion-open-frozen-river-leaves-people-injured.html#ixzz5BWYFC0mT
They’ll push our rockets across the universe and beyond, someday.
Screw you science
Two things the Spanish introduced into North America which were not native animals
pigs and horses
before the late 1600’s the nomadic plains Native American tribes walked every where
then they found horses which had spread over the past 100 years from Mexico northward
the wild pigs ate the food the Aztecs cultivated
4 things the Americas had the Europe didn’t
Corn, Potatoes, Tomatoes and Tobacco
I understand you were probably shooting for realism, but a fifth of old crow would have been funny.
It’s still funny though, make the world gold.
you mean in the show photo?
I was going for a theme. It’s not one you have to look hard to find.
Yes, it’s great, I was just spinning the rotgut budget whiskey theme.
Gold shirt, gold pants, gold label.
https://deadspin.com/how-to-cook-pork-belly-which-thoroughly-kicks-bacons-a-1619788169
Our salary cap page is updated.
So if this douche punter King shanks one can Jon Gruden come out onto the field and go all Pete-Townsend-Windmill-air-guitar on him while telling him to get his candy ass off the field?
well… not anymore.
https://norecipes.com/pork-cheek-ragu
Happy Monday!
Hpy Hpy
Happah Happah
– Phil Robertson
heyo
“technical difficulties” would be a fun name for a band.
“Everyone Gets Laid”
Unskilled ease
Would be even better if it was an all acoustic band.
and they played technically difficult music.
The Raiders cut punter Marquette King last week, and that came as a surprise. King is a solid punter who had a career-best 42.7-yard net average last season, and he still had three years left on his contract.
But new Raiders coach Jon Gruden apparently didn’t like King.
Veteran Raiders reporters Bill Williamson and Vic Tafur both reported that Gruden was the one who made the call to send King packing, and that Gruden had personality issues with King.
What exactly those personality issues were is unclear, but King also drew the ire of former Raiders coach Jack Del Rio, who said in 2016 that he was growing tired of King’s antics after King picked up 15-yard personal foul penalties in back-to-back games.
Cutting King knocks $2.9 million off the Raiders’ salary cap, and whoever the Raiders eventually sign to replace him will surely cost less than that. So there’s a financial reason to get rid of King. But the biggest reason may be about a personality clash.
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I’ve never heard of a punter getting cut for having a personality clash with the head coach before
bad punting yes
I would want so, so, so badly to have a clear shot at some fucking punter who celebrated a downed punt deep in his opponents territory like he just won the game for his team….or was even a fucking football player to begin with.
One of the many more reasons I love Jon Gruden.
Look if a punter gets the thing down to the one, I don’t mind a few high fives. Or if he gets down field and gets a good hit on the returner.
So you are cool with a fucking punter of all people celebrating himself?
Have you ever even held a football? In your life? Let alone played on a team where punters pretty much don’t even practice?
No dude. Gruden is 1000000000% right.
Fuck the punter.
I am cool with a punter reasonably celebrating with his team mates when the do a good job on special teams.
I am sure that’s the the only reason Gruden got rid of him.
Never give a punter the benefit of the doubt.
Ever.
I’m sure there’s something we don’t know. Like he may be a real ahole in the locker room.
his post-play antics are no different from lots of players’ antics. a guy makes a tackle and does stuff like king.
You mean real football players? I’m fine with the football players getting fired up or firing up their respective units.
that is weird. punters are usually just happy to be on a team.
I mean just look at him, he even punts like a gigantic A-hole!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA45DSfb0pc
If I were a coach, I wouldn’t be down at all for a punter who’s picking up penalties. Punters are too easily replaced for that garbage.
looks like 80’s and mostly sunny all week in Tampa
Ah, the hobo’s will be pooing outside in comfort.
hobo’s? what is this the 30’s and a Little Rascals serial we’re talking here?
there are either mentally ill homeless or drug addicted homeless
there are no genteel hobo’s riding the rail around here
Usually it’s a combination of the two. Mentally ill self medicating homeless.
I just like to call all homeless people hobo’s
It gives them a bit of dignity and class.
That term offends me.
– Chris Chester
it boggles my mind when i see homeless people around here, or anywhere north of here. just start walking south.
Nothing better to do right?
well…. i don’t know. i can only imagine. but, seems to me like i’d rather be homeless in a warm than a cold place. i’m sure there are myriad other reasons why someone would stay local.
A high percentage of homeless are mentally challenged to say the least. They don’t ‘think’ like rational people.
httr,
yeah… i understand that in general. the specifics, i can only imagine.
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Peter King says #Giants price tag to trade Odell Beckham is 2 1st-round picks & expects #Rams to be involved in the bidding as long as it goes on.
No chance I’d do it.
2 2nd round picks sure. But a 1st is too valuable.
theoretically maybe, but I think that destroys the team chemistry even for just 2nd round or whatever price
I mean if you sign him you got to get him the best shrink in LA. Lucky for the Rams LA’s probably got more therapists per capita than any other city.
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Source tells King Browns will take Josh Allen
that changes the draft up top significantly if true
Leave it to Cleveland to screw up a sure thing.
they could prob take BPA at #1 overall then, and take Allen at #4
They could probably go BPA and 1 and 4 and be better off than they would be touching Allen
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Need to Know: Monday morning #Redskins five pack:
—About $10 million to spend or roll over
—2019 cap looking tight
—Cap balance on the roster
http://www.nbcsports.com/washington/redskins/need-know-what-will-redskins-do-their-remaining-salary-cap-money
Best tidbit from that
—One more note on the salary cap here. Redskins salary cap guru Eric
Schaffer believes that for a team to operate under the cap, about half
of the players on the roster need to be on rookie contracts. Right now,
of the players I currently figure will be on the depth chart (offense, defense)
21 are on rookie contracts. It’s safe to say that five or six of the
eight draft picks will make the team so 26 or so (give or take a few
since some of the draft picks may replace players on rookie deals) will
be on rookie deals or just about half of the 53-man roster. In that
regard, the 53 should be fairly well constructed.
Yeah I would never have thought that half the team needs to be on rookie deals.
it does if you have 5-10 players on $6-10M and QB at $18-24M
Exactly. One exercise that I think it doesn’t hurt to do as a fan, put together a spreadsheet of what % cap, and what total $ you’ed personally want to spend at each position, factor in what you are willing to pay backups vs starters, ect.
Gives you an idea how the team’s got to look at roster building.
QB: 70%
Wide Receivers: 15%
Offensive Line: 10%
All Others: 5%
-Kirk
KSFTG
Bull stuff
Extend some folks and create some space
How can we be against next years cap already
A lot of it depends on what they end up paying Brandon Scherff. Probably have to redo Kerrigan at that point he’s making 13 M. And you’re gonna have guys like Scandrick at 4 M, V Davis at 6 M
many of those nice deals that have low hits this year don’t have such low hits next year
Yes but many of them are also guys who we can let go to save cap space. Scandrick being cut will save 3.5 M.
minus whatever the salary is of his replacement
That’s where you have a rookie in the 6th – 7th round this year step up hopefully.
At least be respectful enough to post mocks from fanspeak.com on a thread when we just interviewed the guy who runs that mock draft site.
What’s the other one?
pickyournose.com
Just picked a mock good one!
My bad. All I use so you know going forward.
sure is there a hogsty code he gave you to get free premium fanspeak or whatever?
because pick the first has trades for free
Round 1 Pick 22 (BUF): Hernandez, Will, OG, Texas-El Paso (B+)
Round 2 Pick 12: Guice, Derrius, RB, LSU (A+)
Round 2 Pick 21 (BUF): Andrews, Mark, TE, Oklahoma (A)
Round 3 Pick 1 (BUF): Washington, James, WR, Oklahoma State (A-)
Round 4 Pick 9: Hill, Holton, CB, Texas (B+)
Round 5 Pick 5: Ford, Poona, DT, Texas (A)
Round 5 Pick 26: Richardson, Will, OT, North Carolina State (A+)
Round 6 Pick 14: Watts, Armani, FS, Texas AM (A+)
Round 7 Pick 13: Worley, Chris, ILB, Ohio State (B)
Round 7 Pick 23: Ankrah, Andrew, DE/OLB, James Madison (A)
who did Buff trade up for?
our 13th pick
Wow, I thought it might have been for #15
No Skylar Phillips
Failure
UDFA
When it comes to show titles, I was unsure if I wanted to go with Whisky or Whiskey
Morning folks..
D James already picked and I skipped on D Guice for once at 13…problem was w this draft come Rd 2 Guice Michel Johnson and Chubb were gone when my time to pick. I passed on RBs Ronald Jones and Rash Penny at 2. They were gone at my pick 4th round.
Rd1 Pk 13. DaRon Payne DL Bama.
Rd2 Pk 12. Austin Corbet. G Nevada
Rd4 Pk 9. Mikah Kiser LB. UVA
Rd 5 Pk 5. Brandon Facyson. CB. VT
Rd 5 Pk 26. Eq. St. Brown. WR. Notre Dame
Rd 6 Pk14. Shaquem Griffin. LB/Edge Cent FL.
Rd 7 Pk13. Bo Scarborough RB. Bama
Rd 7 Pk 23. Levi Wallace CB. Bama
This mock makes my Guice picks at 13 or so not so much a reach… Skins dont need just any RB imo. As well we already have N Chubb in Perine so I’d pass.
If Skins want a RB its homerun or bust or a late rounder… way I see it.
CT will be back and the reason for optimism is that his leg injury was a broken bone rather than a soft tissue/ligament. I’d like to see if Perine steps up in year 2. Bibbs is pretty good. I think the Fat Rob experiment is going to be officially over.
We need a stud though. We have plenty of JAGs with one guy (CT) who is the best of the bunch and even then he’s not going to carry this team’s RB corps.
Irrespective of who we go for in the draft, I really hope they have posted a time of better than 4.6 in the 40. We already have a bunch of those 4.6 dudes.
Yes. Just an example above and not real life but an example non the less. Agree we dont need any more ‘bunch of those’. How many Kamara’s are found and make it to the 3rd round ea year ? Sure there are gems mid rounds but they arent a dime a dozen….and no guarantee we able to pick him.
Bobby Bethard would find ’em!
Shanny had knack too will say…
No question.
I am fed up with Gruden’s lust for big power backs, they just don’t work in this offense as he constructed it. In an ideal world, yes I want a 250 lb RB who just beats down on the defense. But we don’t have the blocking at TE and even our OL are better off pulling and running Zone concepts.
I need RB’s to have speed, and then more speed, and after that some speed.
and tackle breakers…some of these dudes wont do in NFL what they do in college.
Clearly need to improve int hat regard, can’t tolerate any more Matt Jones types who get pulled down by 1 hand.
Guice and Johnson….
Which big, power back did Gruden pick while here with the Skins again?
Jones and Perine are both what I’d call power backs. Both around 230 lbs.
Right. And Gruden picked or even lobbied for either?
I don’t think so.
I think he did lobby for Perine.
He keeps saying how he wants power backs.
I don’t hear that from Jay. He might be saying that because of who we have on the roster. I have always heard Jay lust for the 3-down back who can get to the edge and who has great hands.
Never heard him express any desire for a bruiser as the lead back of his RB corps.
He has said many times he likes “bangers” which to me means “power back”
So he likes sausages.
A banger doesn’t mean “power back” at all.
Do you see CT as a power back? I don’t.
But do you see CT as a banger? Especially on blitz pickup? I do.
Everyone knows the type of back Jay drools over. Think Gio Bernard (5’9″ 205) when he was a rookie. Prototypical Jay Gruden RB.
40 times at combine:
Nyheim Hines 4.38
Saquon Barkley 4.40
Rashaad Penny 4.46
Kalen Ballage 4.46
Derrius Guice 4.49
Justin Jackson 4.52
Bo Scarbrough 4.52
Nick Chubb 4.52
Sony Michel 4.54
Royce Freeman 4.54
Ronald Jones hurt hamstring, didn’t get a time. Has he posted a time at pro day?
Nice players to select from but the NFL is an entirely different place than college. Wonder who will be this year’s 3rd or 4th round gem.
not much difference between 4.49 and 4.54. 40 times are nice, but vision, quickness, shiftiness, balance are not measured
I beg to differ and I think we’d be able to see that difference with our own eyes. Yes, the 40 is only one of many parts of measure for a RB.
But, I still want that uncoachable component…speed. Pure, raw, unadulterated speed.
a half-second at the end of the 40 is only about a step
I was shocked that Michel had such a bad 40, watching him play he looks like a real speed guy.
Utter and complete fail. Go back to bed and don’t get up again until after the draft.
Lol
I think it is unlikely that those 4 rb’s will be gone by 44. And if it happens, so be it. We need to keep stocking our D. I’d be happy with Payne and an OG at one and two
Just epic yesterday, late in the game, Bryce Harper up to bat and some Reds fan shouts, “O-VER-RAT-ED!”
Next pitch? Harper goes way deep out to dead center field. Bomb.
I’m first, what do I win?
The internets.
I mean, I can print out and autograph the photo of Bruce Allen and send it your way if you will pay for postage.
Free beer, tomorrow.