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Dbeasy

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Everything posted by Dbeasy

  1. I’ve spent several years following corporate, small business, individual, and Texas based ACA/Obamacare plans. Most people have no idea how bad the situation is for a significant segment of our population, including small business, contractors/self employed, and retirees under 65. If you’ve had any sort of medical issue, including cancer, asthma, diabetes, the common cold, etc, you will not qualify for individual plans, which aren’t too bad on premiums. The problem is many people don’t qualify. On most corporate plans, they are covering typical 70-80% of the costs, occasionally 50%. So most people employed by larger companies are fine. Very small business and Obamacare are extremely expensive, but at least the small business plans are PPO’s. Everything on Obamacare in Texas is HMO’s and EPO’s, which provide terrible doctor networks. I haven’t checked 2026 rates, but last time I checked an Obamacare plan was $2500 per month for two older people aged below Medicare, with deductibles >$12k. So before insurance covers hardly anything, you are in for $42k per year. How does that sound? Oh, and that’s shitty HMO’s or EPO’s.
  2. Along those same lines, I assume the agents lie about the actual offers they’ve received for clients? That seems very difficult to navigate if you’re the Texas staff. The NFL has a salary cap so they can dial in a range for a free agent. But with the portal, the amount of money systemwide might be much higher than Texas realizes. Are they able to estimate what a player will sign for, roughly, in the marketplace? As an example, they didn’t want to pay $1m for Wisner based on their resources and their estimated value for him. What if the RB pay is going up across the marketplace substantially? Do they know market rates, at least roughly? I realize a name like Coleman is difficult to estimate.
  3. I posted that yesterday. I’m just going to assume Bobby is following all of my content and repurposing it for his readers.
  4. Baugh would have entered by now, I would think.
  5. Your ability to discern sarcasm, or have any sense of humor whatsoever, is breathtaking.
  6. Anyone getting a little nervous of a scenario where Texas signs nothing but nine punters?
  7. I’m sorry that’s impossible. I know what’s best for everyone in every circumstance.
  8. I’m Shocked he can’t get a better gig than that.
  9. Is Miller a huge upgrade over Terry? Because Terry couldn’t put together a good roster, and Miller’s first roster is shit. Terry couldn’t field a strong D, and neither has Miller. This team looks to be on the level of a Terry team.
  10. Here is how I’m thinking about it. He has the opportunity to play with Arch, probably one the best QB’s in the country and a certain top 5 NFL draft pick. Plus, Coleman knows that Texas is pushing all their chips in to make a run at a title next year. Neither USC or A&M is anywhere near that situation. Reed is a terrible throwing QB, and USC still has rebuilding work to do. If Coleman wants to go join those situations over the Texas situation over a few NIL dollars, then he’s too stupid to have been successful here anyway. A successful year at Texas would push him way up the draft board as compared to those other situations where he could actually end up dropping down the draft board and cost himself a lot of NFL guaranteed money.
  11. Dbeasy replied to UTexasFight's topic in Football
    Setting aside my wedding and the birth of my two kids, it was the greatest day ever, and easily the best event of any type I’d ever attended.
  12. 90% of posters on Surly say 90% of surly posters are stupid. There’s something a little off with that math.
  13. Based on this response it is crystal clear your naivety has greatly clouded your judgement. I used to be like you, about 20 years ago. I couldn’t conceive of such extreme levels of corruption in the US. But as I learned over the past 20 years, the corruption is 10x worse than it appears, and indisputable evidence shows that our current president is probably the single most corrupt president in our history. You really should spend some time examining that possibility.
  14. He arrives at midnight, plus or minus 1 minute. That’s sounds pretty, pretty locked in.
  15. Ya, NIL and constant roster change really reduces the interest in basketball. At least in football, you typically retain enough guys that you have at least some connection to the team. For basketball, it’s just not the same.
  16. My text group isn’t even watching the game, or sold their season tickets to this game. This program is in a very bad place. I’m used to a new coach creating very significant, noticeable change right away. This team looks just as inept as the Terry teams, and in some cases worse than how Shaka teams played in at least some games. This is brutal.
  17. Oh, right. Well….uh…Happy New Year!
  18. Wait, haven’t you been gone for a long time?
  19. But but but those were very strongly worded notes.
  20. Why does Beard’s team apparently suck?
  21. Several years ago I went to some function at The Posse that had several 9.95’rs there. Not Bobby or Fat Ketch. Can’t remember who all was or was not there, but it was about 6-7 of them. Weird, weird group of dudes.
  22. I didn’t realize MTG underwent a brain transplant.
  23. There’s some truth to this. Sark does limit playing time for backups, and it’s having ramifications down the road. And it’s been shown multiple times in the playoffs that more mature teams do win more. The issue I can’t reconcile is that the guys just won’t stay anymore as backups. They want to play a lot early, and by doing so they also get paid more when they portal. So I can’t figure out how Sark fixes that. If he gives guys more minutes, he does jeopardize a few games, and he creates a situation where he helps those backups get bigger offers elsewhere in the portal.
  24. Come on, don’t be so hard on yourself. You’re not that lazy.
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