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irishtexan

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  1. Haastrup is listed at 235. Mbatchou is listed at 280. Right now. Not the same physical profile. Not the same position. Apples. Oranges.
  2. Haastrup's an EDGE and Mbatchou's an interior DL. Apples to oranges.
  3. Does anyone have a good volunteering resource? I've had an absolute shit year. One year ago I did some stupid shit and got drunk and said some jealous petty bullshit to my life-long best friend, and now we no longer speak to each other. Totally my fault. I don't blame him for not speaking to me, but I am very sad that he won't accept my apology. The end of that friendship feels like a mini-death. Last April I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and that was a fairly significant disruption of my lifestyle. I've had to change how I eat, exercise, and generally live my life. It's actually required me to eat and live healthier, but it's still a degenerative disease that I will have to manage for the rest of my life. Then a month ago, after 13 years with the company, I got laid off. The company was purchased two years ago and after a constant reorg, they eliminated my position (along with another co-worker in our department). I worked in a very niche and highly-specialized industry, so there aren't a lot of jobs for which I'm readily-qualified. I'm probably looking at some sort of career change at 46, which is terrifying. Looking for a new job has been a soul crushing kick to the dick. I'm drinking too much. I need to reconcile the reasons that I drink too much and better understand the "why". My drinking has negatively impacted my life a few times (see best-friend above) and that cannot continue to happen. I am going to read the book cited above "this naked mind" and intentionally address my relationship with alcohol. It's time. This has all taken a heavy toll on my mental health, and subsequently my interpersonal relationships. My mother pulled me aside this weekend and said "what's going on with you? you're not well. I've never seen you this sad and angry." My wife has been distant. While all of this stuff has "happened" to me, it's also impacted her, and I need to be more empathetic of that, but it's difficult to do so when I've constantly been "woe is me"-ing for the last year. I go to a therapist but I'm finding that it's not particularly productive. I'm not one to go into therapy and fully unload in a way that's honest, transparent, and forthright. She's not picking up on the context clues I'm giving her, the conversation isn't organic, so we just kind of go in circles. I know I need to find a new therapist, but I keep going to this one for now because I know that I need accountability of self-reflection every other week. But my insurance runs out at the end of the month and with the money well drying up here shortly, I likely won't be able to afford a good one out-of-pocket. So anyway, with all this time I have, I think it's a good idea to do some volunteer work with people who are in need. My hope is that it will provide some perspective and allow me to focus more on the things in my life for which I should be grateful rather than obsessing on the negative things that have happened to me over the last year. So if anyone has a specific place they volunteer and recommend, please PM me. Or if you have a general resource that can provide a few options, let me know.
  4. Agree. But every year GMs talk themselves into drafting QBs in the top 10 despite tons of red flags and only about 40% of them historically shaking out (and I think that's a generous percentage, as the metrics I've seen used are "won a playoff game" or "made a pro bowl", neither of which are indicators of sustained success)
  5. And no Vince Young...
  6. Shut. The. Fuck. Up! Or take this dumb discussion here:
  7. It will be interesting if it comes down to Ewers and Milroe, a guy that was committed to Texas for like a year before we went after Ewers and he flipped to Bama. It almost feels like fate.
  8. My buddies from Chicago were in a band called Sybris in the 00's and they recently reunited to record a new album. First link is a new track. Second link is an old one.
  9. The challenge for Ewers is that the Heisman is as much about accumulating statistics as it is winning big games and being a Quarterback. Milroe has played every game, accounted for 18 touchdowns in four games, passed for 964 yards with only 1 interception, ran for 273. And on the biggest stage of the season so far, he passed for 374 and two touchdowns and ran for 117 and two touchdowns to lead his team to the number one ranking. Another thing hurting Quinn is that when he went down, his backup QB statistically outperformed him. So some voters may ask "Is Quinn good, or is it Sark and the system?" He'll have an opportunity to get back in the race if he shines against OU, Georgia, and in the SEC Championship game.
  10. This is why. Not a terrible opinion.
  11. Best practice is to shoot the bad guy reaching for his gun before they're actively killing people instead of after they've started killing people.
  12. Saw that yesterday and initially thought the same thing. But the second tweet says dude who got shot had a 9mm handgun he was trying to pull from his waistband when he was approached by the cop. It's tough to tell from the video though. Cops suck. But if you're driving a stolen vehicle, and then you pull a gun on a cop, you're gonna get shot.
  13. Hudson doesn't fit the profile of who they're looking for out of a portal WR - 1) Speed - he ain't fast. 2) Proven production - he ain't done shit.
  14. A "Hi" is for a silent commit. Since silent commits are bullshit and meaningless, so are "Hi"s. That'll be $9.95 please.
  15. irishtexan

    Burgers

    Dan's is like a block away.
  16. Harkness is River's father. River, the doppleganger, the (other) French assassin that presumably killed Bad Sam, and the bomber are all half-brothers. When River was talking to his doppleganger's mother, she talked about how Harkness had a harem of women at Les Abres - greek, polish, russian, english, etc. Harkness would impregnate the women, steal the baby boys from their mothers, and train them to be his team of assassins. Basically, you can assume that any of the bad guys working for Harkness are his sons. The secret opp that Bad Sam did for David Cartwright was to get David's daughter/River's mother out of Les Abres. Still don't know what happened to mom, or how David Cartwright ended up with River...
  17. Well, I'm crashing the party. I've worked for an occupational health and safety company for 13 years with a specialty in pre-employment post-offer physical abilities testing. Basically, I was the commercial SME and sales lead for our testing division. We test workers to ensure that they're physically safe to do the job that they're being placed into. The owners of the company sold to a large private-equity backed corporation almost two years ago. That corporation primarily owns physical therapy clinics throughout the US, but has also acquired a handful of commercial entities selling injury-prevention services (onsite early intervention, ergonomics, safety services, occupational medical testing, etc). We were enveloped under one of those entities, and their CEO and COO basically took over our company. There has been constant reorganization of the commercial team over the last 18 months. We hired a team of new salespeople who were supposed to focus on selling all services offered by both companies, as they're somewhat complimentary. But basically the four new salespeople focused on services offered by "their" company and I ended up managing new business development of the testing side of things. My colleague who has been with our company for 27 years was put over customer experience/expansion of our existing clients. Two weeks ago they eliminated my position, as well as my colleague's, despite both of us outperforming our contemporaries at the "other" company. They didn't even bother to tell our COO before it happened. The sale of our company was contentious. Previous owners sold operating interest (51%) of the company, and expected (naively) to be allowed to continue to run the company as they saw fit. Shortly after the sale, the previous owners were unceremoniously told their services would no longer be required or appreciated and they were shown the door. It seems pretty clear to me that they want to cut off any ties to the old owners and get their own people in who will do whatever new leadership says without questioning the commercial strategy (which is pretty non-existent). Get the "yes men" in place regardless of performance. This is exceptionally frustrating because we are one of a very small handful of companies that offer employment testing services at a national scale. Most of the time it's done by local physical or occupational therapy clinics, and is a small component of the suite of services they offer local employer clients. Basically, there is almost no opportunity to go to a competitor and continue to apply my expertise. So here I am. My last day is October 18th and they've offered a paltry six-weeks severance, which my attorney is trying to renegotiate on my behalf. I can also cash out a month of PTO. Between myself and my colleague they're offering 12 weeks of severance for 40 years of work between the two of us. I've got two small kids and we don't have a ton of savings where I can afford to be on unemployment for a long period of time. Reading about @Macanudo's experience is somewhat disheartening, and very concerning. If you're still with me, I guess I'm just venting at this point. So anyway, if any of y'all know of anything, shoot me a DM. I've got experience in sales, account management, onboarding and implementation, occupational health and safety, and injury-prevention services. But open to pretty much anything at this point.
  18. This was my favorite exchange. Reality-based aggy makes objective and accurate observation on struggling position groups supported by facts. First response is "this is just wrong" with zero supporting data.
  19. Makes total sense. I guess the point I'm making is that I don't know how much recruiting success of Jackson/Orogbo/Hilson (fingers crossed) can be attributed to Baker. I'm happy things have turned around on DT recruiting, but the jury's still out on Baker as a recruiter and a coach. However, the data points are trending in a positive direction, which is welcome and reassuring after an objectively shaky start.
  20. Recently diagnosed type 2 diabetic and insulin injector chiming in. The needles used to inject insulin are tiny because you inject subcutaneously rather than intravenously. Probably about 1/4 of an inch long and like a millimeter in width. I barely feel anything when injecting each morning. I'm not saying your fear of needles is irrational; only that not all medicinal needle injections are the same.
  21. I thought Baker exclusively coached/recruited DTs and was not over DEs/EDGE. Thought that was Kwiatkowski. Am I mistaken?
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