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There's one in Pennsville just off of the Delaware Memorial Bridge and one in Mt. Laurel (next to Cherry Hill), not sure of others in South Jersey. Would need to google it.

Funny how that works out, huh? I mean, they have the worst public schools (because that's where the poor/minorities are), they have the worst crime rates (because, that's where the poor/minorities are), and the elites get to stay far away from them. They use the money that they make pandering to the poor/minorities, to make the elitist areas great. Then, they get to tell everyone how great of people they are. Meanwhile, the poor are still poor, they're still poorly educated, and they're still victims. Go figure.

I think Trump should assemble a private investigative team to search the home, finances, and technology device of every federally elected politician and employee. Who can pay for it? Simple, the 90% who are found guilty of the litany of crimes they committed, pay for it. The ones who are guilty, we will seize all of their assets to pay the bills. Then, we can hit the 50 governors. Probably take down a good 20+ of them too. Lets get rid of the criminal element in our government and start fresh.

Just my 2 cents... Cracker Barrell is like Bob Evans, they have a niche. They should stick with that niche. When I traveled to the south and went to those places, they were hopping. Very busy and the food was fine (well, Bob Evans was, like I said, didn't care for Cracker Barrell), but the clientele seemed to love it. They tried to expand up north, apparently. The few I've been to up here were only a slight upgrade from Denny's. My guess is that expanding out of their wheelhouse caused the quality of their product to decline. Both chains would be best served saying in their market and catering to that crowd. If you stop doing that and try to cater to others, you're going to lose your base and not gain new people fast enough. I think both chains are going to progressively fade out of existence in the future if they keep with their current agenda.

Don't know or care about what Cracker Barrell did or didn't do... I never liked their food anyway so I never go there.

Nope. I never take QB's early. I decided to try that this year in the FFToday mock and took Daniels in the 4th. Didn't like the result. I felt like I was chasing every round thereafter. Jackson averaged 25 fpg last year, his norm is around 21/22, I wouldn't bank on 25 again. You can get good QB production in every round... there's no need to do it in R's 2, 3, 4, or 5, when that's where the best RB/WR talent is. I'd want at least 2 (preferably 3), RB's and 3 (preferably 4 or 5), WR's and maybe 1 TE, before I'd even consider a QB. Waiting until R8 (for example), to take a QB will likely land you Jared Goff, Dak Prescott, Justin Fields, or Justin Herbert... all of which who could get you about 19+ fpg. If you didn't want to wait that long, Mayfield is probably the best value on the board going in R6. He's got great targets, an excellent OLine, a great backfield that isn't run dependent, and a fairly aggressive offence. Do I think he throws for 4500 and 41 again this year? No, but I think 4200 and 35 is realistic. Gotta figure he'll give you something running... call it 250 and 2. All of those are a regression and would still get you 20 fpg. Now, those are ADP's. I don't think in home leagues, Mayfield goes that early. Again, look at the FFToday mock that we did, Mayfield went in the 8th. Look at those other guys I mentioned... Goff and Fields went in the 9th, Dak the 11th and Herbert in the 12th.

It was actually a trick question. Player B is Tyreek Hill. I was curious to see if anyone would say no to both when we know the results of one of them. Listening to Siriusxm, guys were doing this with callers to see how people reacted. The hosts would give 2 players with similar numbers in similar situations and ask what they thought the odds were off success for both players. One of the two were always an established veteran, be it someone who was a stud or a dude. Curious to see how people here would participate. Clearly, not many people were interested in the exercise. LOL

That was my thought when he was hired. After their offseason, I'm not so sure. Tampa had substantially more talent than the Jags have.

I can see him being more impactful on the NFL game than the fantasy aspect. Let's say he is a stud... how many plays is he going to be able to run on both sides of the ball, before he dies? There's no way this dude runs more than 55% of the teams overall snaps and stays healthy. Here's how I see it... early on in games, when he's fresh, he'll probably be all over the field. But how fresh will he be as each game winds down. He won't have a full series to rest up like everyone else. He'll get beat up faster. He'll get tired faster. He'll be out there catching (benefit of the doubt), passes and helping the offense move the ball... but for how long? How effectively? How many times will he have to drop an open pass because he's exhausted in the 3rd quarter, before they give him a 2 to 3 consecutive series rest? How many times will he need to be burned for a big play on defense, because he's exhausted, before they give him a 2 to 3 consecutive series rest? How many weeks will he go before he's physically exhausted. We all know these guys are young, but we hear all the time (and see it), how rookies are metered or hit a wall. Playing both sides of the ball will get him to his wall faster. If I draft him and he has a strong start? I'm trading him. I'll risk him being a unicorn to get a sell high/buy low deal.

Possibly.

Irony from the pro-slavery / communist.

The person selling is so low on the food chain, that they're only getting a cut of what was sold and how much they sell, isn't an issue. The higher ups don't care because they're funded by foreign governments who are fine with forcing our government to stop it. We should one-up them, and not care. Darwinism. Trust the science. If people want to continue to take stuff they don't know where it came from, let them and let them suffer the consequences.

You're supposed to put a lie in there.

Why? Any list of reasons or just a hunch?

Exactly. If they think he's going to be great on both sides of the ball, they are colossally foolish. Just take the stud RB and if they think Lawrence is the real deal, then you have a stud WR, a stud RB, and a stud QB. You're set. Now work on the defense. What they did was trade up to draft a 2-way project. Stupid.

I still can't believe they made that move to get Hunter instead of Jeanty @ #2.

Yes, back in June.

Justin Herbert throws for 4400 yards and 35 TD's.

Yeah, that's probably the case, I just didn't find the need to delve into that and just grant his premise to prove a point. Personally, I find this topic perplexing. Last year, Bowers was TE3 based on fpg, not TE1. He was TE1 because he was healthy. I expect that to be the same or similar this year. You're not just drafting for production, you're drafting for consistency and reliability. If Bowers ends up as TE4 and averages the ppg that he did last year, is the person drafting him going to care that they took him there? Doubt it... they got what they drafted. So what if someone else or a couple others outscored him. If McBride got his average ppg in the 1 game he missed, he'd have outscored Bowers by 2.71 total points, that equated to 1.6 yards per game. That's nothing. Kittle would've outscored Bowers by 5.44 points, so 3.2 yards per game. Nothing. So what? The drop off in talent between pick 18 (Bowers), and pick 27 (McBride), is virtually non-existent. There is a bigger drop off between Bowers and Kittle, but there's also a much greater likelihood that Kittle misses games. Willing to bet that the vast majority of people drafting Kittle, are taking another TE in rounds 10 to 12... 'just in case'. Odds are, the value you saved by waiting on Kittle by taking him at 38 instead of Bowers at 18, you lost most of it by taking a TE in R's 10 to 12 where you can get a guy like Christian Kirk, Marquise Brown, Keenan Allen, Cam Skattebo, orJayden Higgins who may end up being a solid RB2, WR2, or WR3. Give me the #1 target on a team who's likely to play all 17 games, and I'll be happy. Rather than a guy who's going to be on a team will actively try to force feed a WR they took in the top 5 or a guy who misses a couple games every year and on the wrong side of 30.

Yes, there's risk everywhere, it just seems that the risk is only being applied towards Bowers... which is my point. If that's the case, that Jennings isn't at full speed and Pearsall is only a 2 (yes, I know Aiyku won't be back for a while... and that wasn't my point about Deebo), then teams will key in on Kittle and force Purdy to spread the ball around, meaning, he's likely to get less targets and be less productive. He wasn't getting that many targets in the first place. We already saw what happens with Bowers when they key in on him. Detroit is not the same thing. The running game has nothing to do with LaPorta. Yes, Detroit ran the ball 30 more times than in 2023, yes, they threw the ball 66 less times... but, Goff completed only 17 less passes but still managed to throw for over 50 more yards and 7 more TD's. Volume and production was still there. The thing that hurt LaPorta was Jameson Williams. He had 49 more targets, 650 more yards, and 5 more TD's than the prior year. Gibbs, on the same amount of receptions, had 200 more yards and 3 more TD's. Teams were keying in more on Williams, so instead of force feeding LaPorta, they just spread the ball around more.

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Why I disagree.

Completely agree. I think it's pretty obvious that we knew Jones was the starter the day he signed.

If I knew Goedert would play 15 games, he's definitely a top 7 TE. Last year, Goedert was TE27, but TE10 in fpg. Kicker, 1 game he played 3 snaps (no targets). Take that 1 game away, he averaged 11.5 fpg, making him TE7. He was TE5 in 2022 and TE8 in 2021 (all those in fpg). He just gets hurt too often and misses too many games. According to ADP, he's TE14. I'd have no problem taking him there and someone else a bit earlier to make sure I'm covered.

You guys do remember that the Niners drafted a WR in the 1st round in 2024, right? It wasn't Jennings, who had 975 yards and 6 TD's. I'm not saying Pearsall will be great, but the Niners saw enough from him to say, "Deebo? We can move him". The dude had 31 receptions for 400 yards and 3 TD's on only 46 targets. Why are those guys "crappy receivers"? Plus, no expectation that McCaffrey will be healthy (like he is every other year)? Plus, Aiyuk will be back at some point. None of them are worth a pick that high, but if I'm taking one, I'm taking the guy who's the teams' 1st read... Bowers. I'm not taking any of those 3, but like you, I'm fine with taking Njoku or Engram, or Kraft, much later in the draft.