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Phil Simms and him have so much in common.
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Also, don't get me wrong - a lot of fans would love for their team to have had the consistent success (winning records, playoff appearances, etc) that the Packers have had. There's very few teams that have had that, even if it didn't result in more than two NFCCG wins. So I'm not trying to disparage him or put him down. Simply making the point that he's not the all-timer of all-timers.
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I understand why it may come off like I'm saying that, but I'm really not. It would sound silly and petty to say that Rodgers "held them back." I don't know that there's more than a couple of QBs that could have done better than him, but the point is that he's revered by many as this god-like figure, yet he simply didn't accomplish what his contemporaries did in similar situations. He's a first-ballot HOFer and deserves all that goes with that. But I think it's possible to be at that level and still be overrated. Like i said, on these very board, some people are adamant that he's either the GOAT or at least above Brady. I think that take, as well as any take that has him saving the Jets and going out on top, is over the top.
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There's a lot of people through the years - IRL and also on these forums - that say Rodgers > Brady. Brady would have wone SBs with Rodgers' Packers teams, while Rodgers hangs out with Nick Foles and Trent Dilfer in the one-ring room. That's not to say Rodgers is trash, because that's ridiculous. But I don't think that saying he's not the generational legend that some have made him out to be is a "hot take". He had an outstanding career, but let's be real - Eli Manning won more Super Bowls with less talent. Eli Manning.
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Not too bent about it. Knew it was gonna happen - that's what happens when your QB goes from $1.5M to probably $50M. It's certainly not ideal, and the defense will absolutely be weaker - but I expect the offense to be better, so maybe it nets out. Hargrave is the biggest loss by far. Pleasantly surprised they were able to bring Bradbury back, even if it meant an unexpected breakup with Slay. Losing their LBs is meh - they're good, but replaceable. We'll see if Nakobe Dean was really the draft steal that many thought he was, and if Jordan Davis is anything but a fat tub of goo that stuffed the middle for Georgia. Marcus Epps was a good starter, and I really didn't expect to lose him, but he's not special. The Miles Sanders loss is also meh. Kenny Gainwell had replaced him by the end, and he's a fumble machine and simply not reliable. Seamalu was really good, but they have in-house replacements. CJGJ is key. They need to bring him back. But the thing with them is that they had the best roster in NFL last year, and a lot of it was very late additions. They brought Bradbury in pretty late in the game, CJGJ in August, and some guys during the season. They have two 1st round picks and enough financial flexibility to sign some of this year's guys who get cut with one year left on their deal and want to "prove it". They'll probably find some idiot team like the Saints to rob of picks again, which only adds to their flexibility. They're still far and away the top team in the East, and IMO still in the top 3 of the NFC, even losing the players and their coordinators.
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Is he really that good though? Dude's been made out to be a Mt. Rushmore kind of guy, but he's been to one Super Bowl, and that was over a decade ago. True legends can find a way to get there even with mediocre talent, and he's had better-than-mediocre talent for a lot of his career. He's simply not a threat in the playoffs when the competition is better, and while I may be proven wrong, his career is going to end on a very sad note. Using a top pick on a RB is simply asinine. I said it then, I said it with Barkley, and I'll say it anytime any dumb team does it. If you're drafting in the top 10, chances are you're not a good team and don't have the luxury to be picking a RB who's career will likely be winding down by the time you are good. I read some stat that there's a very low number of RBs who have been productive into their second contracts. They're more/less fungible, and the main differentiating factor is whether they can catch or not, and whether they're "power" backs or not. Elliot will end up like Lesean McCoy - maybe winning a Super Bowl, but as a backup on a team with a starter that's an otherwise unremarkable guy.
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With all the annual Aaron Rodgers drama, you'd almost think he had made it to more than one Super Bowl (over a decade ago.) I guess in that way, he's just like Brett Favre... especially if he goes to the Jets. You almost can't make it up. Two QBs that played in GB forever, won exactly one super bowl title each despite being talked about like gods, then moved on to the Jets. The only differences between the two is that Brett Favre never endorsed witchcraft or locked himself in a dark room for a week, and Rodgers never sent anyone unsolicited dick pics or stole from the poorest people in the poorest state. I have nothing against the Jets, but I hope this turns into a complete dumpster fire. It's also silly that while Joe Namath offered him #12, it'll be #12 in the AFL uniform they're wearing now, not the classy set they moved away from a few years ago.
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but I’m not going to sit inside a soulless warehouse when there’s a million things to do outside in light. That’s more my point - that they need these depressing facilities that feel (at least as an outside observer) like a place I wouldt be able to wait to get out of. Seems like the kind of atmosphere that people move to Florida to get away from.
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Many cities don’t have great - or at least warm - weather year round with beach activities available every day. im willing to be that the entertainment activities available in Miami or Tampa in March are a little more than what’s available in Kansas City or Minneapolis or Philadelphia or… etc.
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Jimmy G has at least made it to the Super Bowl - something Carr can’t do, regardless of team. And I assume Jimmy was a lot cheaper. If you don’t have a franchise QB, then don’t bother paying for one that’s not. Just someone to keep the seat warm till you find your guy.
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I'm not sure what this is - please explain. Keep in mind these are serious/feasible proposals. I'm also thinking that engineers could develop land mines that only stun rather than kill. We could embed a few at random so a guy might be running a long route, or running for a long TD, then BZZZZZZT - hits a mine and is dropped and likely fumbles. Turnovers are exciting, and this gets us a few more. It's also theoretically possible that during a runback, the defensive player hits a stun-mine. If the stun mines can't be invented, then something like this - but the pipes are buried like a Burmese tiger trap:
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Yeah maybe within 10 yards or something. I wasn't envisioning a guy throwing the equivalent of a block 40 yards downfield.
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I don't really blame the fans too much. If I'm in Miami, there's plenty of things I'm doing besides sitting in a lifeless domed park watching mediocre-at-best baseball. I don't know the Tampa area too well, but I assume there's also plenty of awesome distractions. Even here the shore season decimates summer attendance (with the exception of the 4-year sellout streak, but there's still there's the population and traveling road fans to support it, and I know that's not a unique situation.) SoCal is a little different, because you have perfect baseball weather all the time, so it doesn't necessarily feel like you're depriving yourself by going to a game. But Florida? Nah.
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I can't figure out exactly if there's pro baseball (like we know it) in the UK - I mean, there is, but I can't tell what their top-tier league is or how the system works. Regardless, here's some teams that I think are tier-1. Their uniforms are relatively conservative, but nothing like the sheeeeit that their WBC ones are. London Mets
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I think pick plays should be legal. I also think bumping on both sides - not pushing off by the offense, not shoving by the defense but more like bumper cars should be allowed. Takes away some of the subjectivity of the calls. If either guy shoves either other away, that should be pretty obvious. If anyone blocks the other from getting their hands up, that should be pretty obvious. But the ticky-tack contact penalties need to stop.
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I think we knew that since they gave AEW that time slot for their reality-ish show. Is there a more deplorable american than Dana White? The look on his face when these guys are getting knocked out is disgusting. He has lust in his eyes and is likely hard AF. The other cronies just sit there and agree with whatever he says. NGL, I can't turn away. It's like a car wreck, and I feel guilty watching guys willingly give up their long-term memory and mental health for like $50, but like I said... I simply can't turn away. It's like the Howard Stern effect - the people that hated him actually listened to him more.
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I'm not sure I totally understand the logic. It kinda penalizes teams for finding and developing talent later in the draft. I'm not saying it's anything that's screwing the Eagles, since every team plays by those same rules, it just stings especially hard when it's a QB that's gonna get around $150-200M guaranteed, and you kinda have to do it after year 3. Curious what other non-1st-round QBs have been in this situation since the standardized rookie rules were in place. Was Russ before or after that?
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it’s apparently 4/84, “only” 40 guaranteed. Seems low for ESPN’s #2 overall free agent. Eagles now down 2 defensive starters, likely to lose two more pro bowlers by tomorrow, and have told Darius Slay to find a trade. Man it’s nice having a QB on a rookie deal. It’s ironic that if Jalen Hurts was drafted in 1st round, he wouldn’t get paid till next off season. But he gets paid sooner by being a 2nd round pick. Not sure how that makes sense.
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Holy hell. Hargrave to the 49ers (4/$80, not sure about guarantee.) That DL will be unblockable. My gods.
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Yeah, and they set the market that's going to cause the Eagles to lose Hargrave, who's a much better player. Hargrave was projected to get around 18M / 55M guaranteed. I'm basing that on what writers are saying, because I've never heard of Payne (though nobody's heard of most DTs.) Hargrave is now probably in the 25M/75 guaranteed range . Still, I don't blame Washington for doing whatever they can to become relevant again. My main anger right now is still on Cleveland for ruining the QB market forever.
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frankly, I think WhoDoYouThink is making some really good points that are getting dismissed due to the mob mentality and focusing on memes vs the actual points, but this is basically the only argument. If I couldn't walk 20 mins or take a subway, I wouldn't go to Phillies games during the really down years where it didn't seem like they were trying. Their in-game experience is awesome, and the park is awesome (unbiased, I think it's a better park than PNC, though PNC certainly looks better, has infinitely better views, and more around it - I'm just talking about the experience of watching a baseball game once you're inside.) If I lived in the burbs and had to deal with traffic (and then dealing with it on the way home after having a few), I just wouldn't do it when the team is crappy. Part of it is cost, but also the cost of my time and stress of traffic. - Tampa is a relatively cheap game to go to vs most other cities, but I'm not sure it's worth the time to sit in a warehouse. I average 20 games/year, but again, I can walk (and am fortunate enough to be able to afford it, since I don't have the "family of four that for some reason you have to buy hotdogs and t-shirts for" that they always cite in those dumb cost-of-attending stats. Part of it is the team. Honestly, despite them winning, there's nothing exciting about the Rays. It's like watching the Devils all those years ago. I want to see guys hit dingers, throw 120MPH fastballs, and for other exciting stuff to happen. Not watch 9 clones get single after single and play solid-fundamental baseball. Frankly, it's boring (to me, and probably to many casuals.) The main indictment and counter is when it comes to the World Series. It was literally cheaper for Phillies fans to fly to Tampa, get hotels, and tickets to WS games (which were readily available) then to attend games here. Stadium and any other issues aside, the experience of a World Series should have attracted people. It didn't. I'd like to see how that team could do with a better-located park, but not at the expense of locking them in that market for another 30 years.
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From my brief (10-day) experience, it's like most other big cities. There's wealth, then there's the poor, and some in between. There's parts of it that you'd swear was just a more colorful Los Angeles, and then there's a part that no Uber driver would take me to (and in hindsight... that's probably a good thing.) There's parts that reminded me a lot of Brooklyn, and some night clubs are exactly the same as you'd see in NYC (fun nugget, I was at one where Mark Jindrack (Marco Corleone), the CMLL champion was at.) There's more than enough wealth to support a team, though (and a local would know a hell of a lot more about this than me) the government isn't building a US$1B stadium ever. Monterrey and Guadalajara could also likely support a major US team, but again, public investment would probably be off the table. Another thing about Mexico City (unrelated to sports) is while you wouldn't expect it, it's one of the world's greatest restaurant cities, and they're not cheap. Again, the problem with CDMX is altitude. I've been to Denver, CDMX, and Cusco Peru. The latter two are night-and-day from Denver as far as the need to aclimate goes before doing any kind of really physical activity. In Cusco, I took three days before hiking Salkantay mtn. In CDMX, I hiked some volcano (it's surrounded by volcanos) an hour or two outside the city, and nearly passed out shortly after starting (granted, we had ascended via vehicle prior to starting, but still, the altitude is no joke.) Completely unrelated: The US headliners at the music festival were ofMontreal and Mac Demarco. Demarco was absolutely wasted, and went off on the crowd and cut a full-shoot heel promo, saying (paraphrasing because I don't recall exact words) "F you, I'm playing Monterrey tomorrow anyway and it's so much nicer than this s-hole city, there's a reason they're all filthy rich and paying me 100x more than this s-hole." He proceeded to take two full 32oz cups of beer (they don't F around there with their beer sizes at festivals!) and throw them into the crowd, finished a song then left.
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The '83 Philadelphia Stars drew 38,205, so I assume that's the record that was just broken. While looking that up, I see they played at the Vet. For some reason, I always thought they played at JFK.
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Today I heard that Vance Worley (former Phillies and Pirates pitcher, who I think last played in 2016?) is playing for the UK GB because his mom was born in Hong Kong while it was under British rule, then moved to the states. He didn't even know he was eligible to play until very recently. That's all it takes. EDIT: left out the pic, showing the "prize" that he got to wear for his discovery:
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Holy balls! That looks great! Hopefully they can sustain it.
