Murfdogg21

I too am frugal so during our fall 6U season, I went to Home Depot and bought some rope, pvc pipe, pipe insulation foam, and black duck tape. I made a poor man’s version for every boy on the team. They were as sturdy as the real ones, but worked fine when the kids were hitting squish balls or tennis balls to work on their swing. Inevitably most of the boys started hitting baseballs with them and they exploded.

WTF they are allowing video review taken from iPads and cell phones? Can you start protesting balls and strikes soon based on Grandma’s tik tok reel?

Not sure if spoiler, probably addressed in first 5 minutes of first episode: Some of the things you mentioned about Jedi or rebels getting their hands dirty, yeah but it was always a greater good thing. I think there are people out there who want to rewrite it like the Jedi were actually the villains, or at least non-good misguided force zealots. They were clearly ignorant, but I don’t believe they ever had bad motives. Painting the sith, night sisters, or other dark side users as the heroes is some Lucifer worship type shit.

Read some nerd reviews yesterday who say this creator loved The Last Jedi and pitched to Kathleen Kennedy that they could redeem that movie by exploring more on the themes that the Jedi are wrong, or bad, or morally ambiguous. I don’t know why Disney keeps coming back to this. Andor showed you can make great SW content that is not related to Skywalkers. You don’t have to tear down motifs and characters that people have loved for 40+ years and upon which your franchise is based.

You jest, but I heard they made Morph into a trans and the creators intended for there to be ambiguity in “his” relationship with Wolverine.

Onside kicks are an awesome part of football, and they already hamstrung it by forcing half the kicking team players to line up on each side of the kicker. This proposal eliminates the possibility of a surprise onside. I would be open to a safer set up like they discussed with b both teams lined up farther down field, but they should get creative and work a way to do onside kicks into it.

My boys can’t wait for their first surly tailgate of the SEC era. They started offering beer to any coed who walked by.

Not so bold prediction: they left Yoda out of the trailer so there can be an ooo and ah moment when he comes on screen. This period is probably peak for him #nocane

All true points. But the question was if ATL was better off reaching for a QB at #8 or blowing a lot of draft capital to get up in the top 3 for Mayes or Daniels, vs. signing Cousins and taking best player available with their draft pick. It isn’t a slam dunk that signing Cousins was the incorrect move.

The recipe isn’t a mystery: good QB, good OL, good DL, and as many playmakers at WR and DB that you can fit in your salary cap. Since non-rookie contract QBs are the most expensive, drafting a star QB gives the most roster flexibility. OTOH first round QBs are busting at like a 75% rate in recent years, so do you want to play those odds? What was ATL supposed to do, draft JJ McCarthy or Bo Nix at #8 and hope for the best? Trade 3 first round picks to the Redskins or Patriots and take their chances with Maye or Daniels? Signing Cousins (who is a known commodity) allows them to keep their picks and get a difference maker at WR or DE with the #8 pick. 4 of the last 9 Super Bowls were won by acquired QBs with a well rounded roster (Manning, Foles, Brady, Stafford).

Denver is in salary cap purgatory and their roster is shit. They should be trading back and picking up extra 2nd and 3rd round picks and hope to get as many to stick as possible. Taking Bo Nix at #12 is opposite of this.

They could’ve blown the top off their following, tickets, merchandise, and general good will and they blew it with their aw shucks way of doing things. It wasn’t an either/or to have a winning team and badass threads.

Chose not to make a light blue jersey ✅ Ignored what Houston fan base (and football fans in general) were crying out for ✅ Used Fubu-esque font for numbers ✅ Way to go, Texans! It was so easy to do a great thing and you stepped on your dick.

Here you go, Texans. A powder blue jersey that doesn’t use red so Adams family can fuck off, and there is no use of Old English or Fubu font.

I would challenge that shit, either in court or among the other 30 NFL owners. This is grade A bullshit and spite from the Adams family towards regular football fans when their hostility should be aimed at former politicians (many of whom are dead now, like Bud and the raccoon that lived on his head). The McNairs hoped by running from Oilers themes, colors, history, former players, etc. that Houston fans would forget and fully embrace the Texans. It’s become clear that didn’t happen and there’s a huge demand for retro color scheme gear. Cal needs to quit being Amy Adams Seaskunk’s bitch boy.

I still don’t get the impossibility or trademarkability of a color scheme. At various points, the Eagles and Jets were green and white. The 49ers and Cardinals are red and white (cardinals added black as an accent in recent years). Bills and Giants are royal blue with red and white as secondary colors. What gives the Adams family the right to block all other teams from having a non-“Columbia” shade of light blue for a jersey? They really overstepped their bounds IMO by sending cease and desists at UH and Rice for using color schemes similar to the Oilers when no reasonable person would confuse an NCAA team with a professional NFL team. They are being bullies and need a legal slap down.

Any navy is too much. Pics like this get me nervous, like the new uniforms will be a Fubu inspired version of the battle red helmet and jersey alternates with light blue accents like shadow on numbers or something. 🤮 Make it H-town blue or don’t do it. Nothing half ass.

Hopefully the plan is watch the draft board unfold and be ready to jump back up into the 30s based on who they want (like jumping in front of KC for a WR).

If Caserio doesn’t see value, he should make the obvious move and trade back. There could be teams in the late first or early second that want to jump up for a particular OT or WR and give up an extra 3rd round pick. #23 is probably too early for Longhorns Mitchell, Worthy, and Sweat but it would be amazing if they somehow walked away with two of those guys.

Not just less money for Mixon, but Mixon in a contract year should give maximum effort. I like it much better than overpaying Barkley or Henry. They are are better on offense and with a couple more signings will be better on defense (on paper) without consuming a ton of cap space.

Maybe Houston knows that Dameon Pierce roided up all offseason and is about to murder some people next season?

Surly: Caserio: Longterm deals that pay players in the top 3 or 5 at their position generally don’t age well, with exceptions like Pat Mahomes and a handful of LTs. Caserio seems like the type who will overspend to the point of paying a player 5-10% above their projected value, but tells free agents goodbye and good luck when other teams back up the Brinks truck. People want Saquan or Henry at RB for the studs they were out of college and early in their careers. There’s a better than average chance some third round rookie will have a better season than one or both of those guys. The Patriots sustained success by pairing a HOF QB with an excellent HC and mostly undervalued supporting players. Outside of KC/Mahomes, every team struggles to remain perennial contenders because their star players eat up a high % of the cap and when inevitably gets injured or starts to suck, the team has a rough season and has to retool. I don’t know who’s going to fill all these positions for Houston, but I feel like the dodged a bullet by not handing out $27M/yr to a second tier DT, or a big contract to a RB that may be cut in a year.

Unless theirs is in the top 4, then they get both theirs and Brooklyn’s.

Simms was pretty insistent about CJ Stroud over Bryce Young before and after all the S2 score shit.

He’s getting paid $38M this year no matter what. His Denver contract has offset language, so if he signs somewhere for $10, Denver then pays him $28. He’d be hurting his new team to sign for more and take cap space and make the same amount of money. I think they said the vet minimum is $1.21M, so that’s probably what he will sign for and Denver will pay him $36.8m