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This is equivalent of a 17-0 prediction.

Bears win

The level of bad that would have to happen for them to go 0-17... Have you guys seen the movie "We Are Marshall" . Yea, that level of bad.

Yea I'll take the backup play and slight chance at even stronger comp a couple years down the line.

Yea his play last year is very much overrated. But I think he may have already improved his arm strength a tick. He doesn't need to have a cannon arm, just a little more zip and then get veteran smarts.

He also desperately needs an editor or director because he'd be putting out feature length films that could have been like 35 minutes, but he's groaning and throwing explicitives for 2/3 of it lol

What is he supposed to pay for 80 tickets? Do 4,000 tickets just get reserved so every player can invite 80 friends each game? (obviously exaggerating, but whatever the number is if he's not taking it from the owners he's probably taking it from teammates)

I didn't even catch it fully. Was that for the preseason game? When he first said it I thought it was maybe for one of his starts last year which would be a much bigger deal.

I just hope Bagent is socking away at least 5x that every time he drops $8k like that. That's an expensive habit to (potentially) build for a guy who may never get a second contract and is making minimum.

Well the current rookie contract rules haven't been around that long either. But if you look at like a Flacco, Roethlesberger, and Manning for example, they were under the old contract structure, but were still on their rookie deals on their first SB and were playing on big discounts. And a huge number of losing SB teams have had rookie contract QBs. Now the rookie QB thing has became immensely overstated. It's really a "QB on a discounted deal" thing we're most of Brady rings that is true, Stafford, and really almost every winning SB QB except Mahomes most recent rings. But yea, a 3rd for Judon is a lot in isolation. But in terms of sustainability, I also don't think you can call sustainability an approach where you never reach. What most people want when they look at sustainability is a draft pick and salary cap hoarding approach where you're never uncomfortable. But that's just conservative nonsense not sustainability. Poles first year was unquestionabily a tank, but the longer he goes on I'm actually optimistic he will have a sustainable approach that mixes aggressiveness and value in a symbiotic way that is sustainable and doesn't require cycles of re-tanking.

MT: "Turn off that TV" JF: "I turned off my Instagram" CW: "Give me the goddamn receipts"

Former scout For very good reason.

Tua?

Windows are a myth

Yea I have a feeling he'll make the team and they'll be heavy at WR/RB at least at first. These things are always fluid too though early on.

More like MIN amirite

Tom your confused, I don't support an apartheid forum. It was just an observation of those who want to banish you to MiLB forum.

Apartheid forum

In a semi-ironic "the boys got it done" way I may occasionally hear it, but it's certainly not like mainstream normal convo.

People very rarely use boys even in those circumsrances. And it's also almost never used in a infantalizing type of way. Putting down women athletes with girls terminology is definitely a common thing. People can either try and avoid that association by avoiding it or be willfully or unintentionally ignorant to it. But it's really not comparable even if it seems like it would be in a text book comparison. Language evolves too and it shouldn't bother people to change with it, even when it feels illogical or inconsistent.

Jumping into the girls/women debate. Yes there are informal uses of girls. When my wife has dinner with her childhood friend group, it's usually referred to as a girls night. It's very informal and perhaps "ladies' night" would be a little less infantalizing and "friends night" would be not infantalizing and also not gendered. But most people probably will go along with that social norm of girls night. It is extremely informal for one, bit also used in a context of a close knit social group collectively by them. The OP question was awkward though in the way it was used, down the fact that it went from "women's volleyball" to "our girls" language. If the sport can be termed in the frame of women's x it definitely ends up coming off extremely misogynistic and infantalizing to switch to "our girls" in the possesive when then talking about the athletes in said womans sport. They're all accomplished adult women athletes. It's not really a question of formality or anything, it was just written in a off-putting way IMO. Personally I do find the girl/guy/boy language awkward at best. If someone says "a girl I work with" a lot of people find that language acceptable (though I defer to woman in these examples). Most though would probably find it extremely awkward to say "a boy I work with" because we have a informal gendered term "guy" for adult men that doesn't play double duty of referring to children too. I guess lady could/should fill that role, but people use that with a lot less frequency for whatever reason. Of course you can always just go with non gendered "my co-worker" in this example, but the most common language of girl/guy is clearly a unique standard. Anyways the polling on these gendered terms doesn't show huge difference in mens/women's attitudes with women finding both girls/boys as slightly less accepting. So anyone here is entitled to their opinion without needing to fill a gender role to legitimize their opinion, but there's pretty clearly a different standard used for these gendered terms whether it used plural collective or to refer to individuals.

Fire up the Ozzie rumors.

Scriptwriters made sure he got the Hollywood glow up

Haters looking for the lamest version of American exceptionalism attitude to complain about (when there are so many other good examples!)

US media usually does total medal count descending and rest of the world does gold medal count descending. And every year* like clockwork one track and field catches up to like badminton and table tennis, it's moot, they're on top lol. *except 2008 where China got the typical home town boost and edged US in golds.