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The coaching even at the NFL level isn't overly impressive to me. I think that's why people who are competent look like geniuses because there are a lot of coaches out there who are just do-what-we-always-do guys. Think Jeff Fisher, Nagy when he was coaching the bears saying they didn't bring him in to run the ball which was bunk coaching. They brought you into win games however you need to. Hue Jackson who just has the most obvious and readable schemes ever. a lot of these genius moves are obvious to anyone who played video games. Belichick got credit for deferring receiving the kickoff to the second half like it was some genius idea. I was advocating for that for 20 years just from playing Madden. Take McVay for instance. He might actually be a genius for all I know, but what was his big innovation? He disguised his plays by not giving them away pre-snap from the formation. Seriously? We were doing that all the way back in Tecmo Bowl. Or using pre-snap motion to help diagnose the defense. I was doing that in NCAA football 2005. Or McDaniels in Miami getting credit for having his speedsters get a running start parallel to the line at the snap to free them from getting jammed. Wow, what an amazing innovation! They finally started getting rid of fade routes at the goal line which I've been saying for 25 years are stupid plays. They only work like 12% of the time. Or Shannihan taking time to understand what the keys are on the opposing defense so he can design plays to take advantage of their rules. When I heard that I was like, "wait, you mean they haven't already been doing that? WTF?" Tush push - oh, let's take our 240 pound qb and push him forward when we need a yard. Like yeah, no sh¡t. Why haven't people been doing that? And why aren't more teams doing it, and why are more teams not training a fullback or TE to do it to save the wear and tear on the QB? When they moved the kickoff up under the old rules, I always thought, "why aren't they kicking it high and making it land at the 1?" At least Belichick started doing it and they started getting better field position and he'd pull it out on special situations with great success. Announcers were amazed that someone could think of that. Belichick again did something that was obvious that everyone fell all over themselves for. I never understood why defenses used their number 1 CB in bracket coverage. You have two guys in bracket coverage. Do you really need one of them to be an elite cover guy when you have two guys? No. So bracket them with your 2nd corner and another DB. Belichick understood this obvious thing, and implemented it, and was labeled a gneius for it. Peyton Manning basically calling the offense at the line of scrimmage. What a novel concept. See what the defense is doing and call a play that exploits it. He did it extrememly well, but why is Manning one of the only QBs that has done that to the degree he did it over all these years. Wade Phillips was great at what I call linking the front seven to the coverage. This is obvious, but I never understnad why DBs give big cushions when a defense is bringing pressure unless it's 3rd and long and you have plenty of room to tackle short of the first down. The whole point of pressure is you're getting to the QB quickly, so your DBs need to understand that and play tighter. You don't have to worry about double moves or long developing routes because your pressure is going to make the QB have to throw quickly, but you'd be surprised at how many defenses sit back in soft coverage while blitzing giving away a free 6 yards on a slant when it's second and ten. We think of the NFL as the optimized league, but in reality, it's just a bunch of guys doing stuff, but it's not really as complex as folks would have you believe. And college? in college, it's leaps and bounds less sophisticated. I'd say the most innovative coaching I'm aware of (I say that because I'm sure there is plenty I haven't noticed): Belichick - "read the rulebook" game - in the super bowl run in the playoffs when he came up with the exotic formations in which Baltimore got confused on who were the eligible receivers. He saved it for when they needed it, and he pulled it out right when he needed it. That got them a Super Bowl they wouldn't have won if he was out sick that day. Lebeau - Zone blitz - I know it was probably invented in some high school somewhere, but I'm giving LeBeau credit for bringing it to the NFL. This to me was a real innovation. He saw that the caliber of athlete was getting better and adjusted the scheme to take advantage of it. It confused offenses for several years before they finally caught up, and I don't think it was obvious to drop linemen in coverage while bringing LBs in as the 4th rusher counting on them getting enough pressure quickly so the defensive end isn't out there for too long. Belichick again - scheming up a two tightend offense with two extremely versatile tightends allowing them to adjust the play in real time to be a spread look if the defense went heavy or they could squeeze in and pound it if the defense tried to play coverage. Then of course there are things like the read/option, run/pass option that I don't even know who pioneered, but it was at least clever.

It probably is a good time to get into NVDA. They got caught up in the sell-off, but guess what chips DeepSeek used? It's like selling the picks and shovels provider because someone found a new vein of gold somewhere.

I'm for having fair deals in place with South America. Fair deals. It made sense to tilt it in their favor when we were in the middle of hot and cold wars. The time for charity must end at some point, and there is plenty of room to suckle on the US tit before they decide to join China. We don't have to just open up and get shafted so they'll be our "ally," and we don't need them loving us in order for them not to run into the arms of China. We just need to give them a better deal than China, and unlike the US, China expects ROI, so we have plenty of room to renegotiate the relationship.

Yep. Everything a nation does should be to advance the prosperity of that nation. Every other country gets that. However, the United States seems to think that just giving away stuff for free and getting nothing in return but likes is good foreign policy. I get the concept. Have them rely on the US so they don't rely on China and Russia, but these countries are all double dealing jackballs that are going to shank us the first chance they get either way.

Aren't the Arabica beans what Starbucks use?

Trump should tell them we're going to put a tariff on all the coke they smuggle abroad.

You're extremely naive. What's the point of power if you never use it because it'll make the people weaker than you upset? Guess what? They'll always be upset - whether we exercise our power or not. And whether you think they are an ally or not, if they had the power to do so, they would take what we have. You guys are way too worried about what other countries think.

So we have one cryptobro that thinks Bitcoin replacing fiat currency would be good for the economy and another that thinks something that drops over 50% in a recession is a store of value. Man, it's hard to take crypto seriously when these are the acolytes.

We obviously have different definitions of "store of value" It's a volatile, speculative asset. Just because it went up doesn't mean it's a store of value. That would be gold, art, inflation protected bonds, etc at least in my mind.

No shìt cia.

When inflation went crazy, didn't Bitcoin drop like 60% or something? I know it came back, but I wouldn't call that a store of value.

DEI set back a key weapon system for our military by about a year. The objectively unqualified person they put in charge decided he didn't like the budget proposal of some of his vendors and decided not to submit the full budget. The result was the DoD didn't procure the funds from the pentagon and now the entire weapon system is delayed because the insufficient funds being allocated. That's a direct example of these dumb ass policies tangibly weakening our nation. They put an unqualified person in charge and his direct actions that were in clear violation of every budget reporting policy that any qualified leader would know resulted in our military not getting a weapons upgrade. And when I say objectively unqualified, I mean he went from managing a 2 million dollar maintenance program all the way to heading up a 250M dollar development program. That's absolutely unheard of. The different between managing a small mature maintenance program and a large development program is astronomical. No one could believe this guy got the job.

Same. I be impregnating chicks from across the room. In fact, I wouldn't recommend any of the posters here do paternity tests on their kids since I've been with all of your wives at least once.

I don't think he would've made much more than that either way.

So there is a shared work computer without individual logins? And the guy just happened to use the computer and see the other guy still logged in to the league? In this case, the guy who didn't log out did a dumb and no punishment is warranted. If the snooper, though, was pulling some Mission Impossible sh¡t and sneaking around gaining access to the other guy's personal computer, I'd probably kick someone like that out of the league since that's too shady and is against the law.

I think people probably overestimated how many millions Darnold lost. I think some dumb team will pay him $35M a year.

weepaws reminds me of those people where I work that want to give back money on a project instead of spending it all so they can hopefully get a pat on the head. Like, nah, you won't get a pat on the head and there will be no reward.

That's what you use it for? What a waste.

Oh it's trump. Got it.

Is there really a dude out there named Don Snoreleone?

You should use it some time.

If Todd Monken was smart, he'd have benched Mark Andrews for Isaiah Likely 18 weeks ago.

You should be proud to lose a toe for your team. Like Jameis said, they are putting their body and life on the line every single day! When they're not out stealing crab legs and sexually assaulting massage therapists of course.

So you "don't know a damn thing about LJ," but you know for a fact he's not dumb and he speaks the way he does because of where he was born... right next to Fort Lauderdale. And if someone thinks he's stupid, it can only be because they're racist. So to reiterate, you have no idea what's going on beyond someone called a black guy dumb, but you just know it's because it's racist after making up that he has a "regional dialect." Ok, cool. Glad to know you're completely full of BS. To be clear Fort Lauderdale isn't in the swamps. It's a huge city, and 99.999999% of the people from that area don't talk like Lamar Jackson.

Dude went to the richest schools in the area and then went to Louisville. Peenie talking about how if he gets exposure to the general public way of speaking, he'll pick up proper grammar. Dude has been going to suburban schools and working with the Ravens for what? 15 years? That whole line of reasoning is ridiculous.