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Working backwards, after Coen was hired, I thought that same thing. If he was able to turn Mayfield into a good player, he should be able to do the same with Lawrence. In my keeper league, I was going to see if the Trevor Lawrence owner was going to be willing to trade him... to be fair, I was 100% confident he would. Then, I waited for the draft to see what the Jags were going to do. At the time, when they drafted Hunter (I thought they were moving up for Jeanty), I was still intrigued because of the hype around the kid. I was thinking that they were looking to basically try to recreate an Evans/Godwin situation. Honestly, I was all in. Then, I started doing some research and talking and that's when people I know chimed in about Hunter being a better DB than a WR. The Jags OLine was, at best, below average. They didn't address that. Their RB's were below average. Not sure they really addressed that. Brian Thomas was better with Mac Jones than Trevor Lawrence. I then tied that in to stuff I've heard previously, that Lawrence wasn't really "all-in" so to speak, on football. With all of that, everyone on Jacksonville went on my DND list and I never inquired about trading for Lawrence. Fast forward to pre-season, I thought that their kicker might be their best fantasy player... I actually have him in 3 of my 4 leagues. From there, working forward, with that premise. I did not watch Jacksonville's games because what's the point? They're just like the Browns. So I'm pretty much box score watching with them. I'll go with what you said as fact, and with that, I'll say this... I'm not surprised. I wouldn't be surprised at all of Thomas is following the lackadaisical tone of his QB. I also wouldn't be surprised if he's thinking, you know what, I'll just go out there and do what I do and not put myself in harms way for this bum [Lawrence]. I think Coen's system works in the NFL... I just think he needs a new QB, one who actually cares and doesn't suck. After that, I think both Thomas and Hunter could be quality NFL and fantasy, players. Based on the two weeks worth of information we have, if I'm Coen, I'm telling ownership/management, that I want a new starting QB in the offseason.

I don't watch college football, but people I talk to who do, all seemed to have the same opinion of Hunter. He'll likely be a stud DB but may contribute on offense. After the draft and seeing what team took him, I think anyone drafting him (in non-IDP leagues), was very foolish. Trevor Lawrence can't even get Brian Thomas the ball. I mean, come on.

Screw that! He's tied for 23rd! Based on the first 2 games, if Brown ends up as a WR2, the people who drafted Brian Thomas are going to be very upset.

Well, you know what they say, it's better to be lucky than good. Though, I agree with your premise. The only reason Ertz is outscoring Bowers is because he's been able to score. I expect the 2 to 0 TD lead that Ertz has, to do an about face. I also expect Ertz to miss 3 to 6 games this year and I expect a TD correction in the future. I agree with taking a late round TE that's reliably acceptable, and stream if necessary, but let's realistic. Assuming both are healthy, by year's end, Bowers is going to be 3 to 5 points per game better than Ertz.

I don't have sympathy for Communists when they die, they just shouldn't be assassinated. My guess is that they're all still alive because not even Satan wants their level of evil down there.

710 Don't have a kid at 16.

Just don't know why you wouldn't criticize Murphy and the policy in it's own thread as warning to people as something that could happen in their state.

Weeeelllll.....????

So it did make a jump in 2024 like HT said? Got it.

It just didn't for him, so it didn't matter. You know, no different than "I can't see it from my house" or "As long as it's not in my yard". Same argument as illegals.

They're all suckers.

Shhh... that's the part you don't say out loud. I bet that if Sherrill is elected, he'll be here complaining about his property taxes going up... and blaming Trump's policies.

I can think of a few ways to get it back. Jack up the tax on charter flight fuel. Add taxes for hotel rooms. Add taxes to round trip airline tickets bought outside of PA. This is how most states should operate. Make the tourists and climate change activists who fly all over the world all the time, pay for it. They estimate that last year, PA brought in about $2.8B from the gas tax. In 2022, almost 2.9M rooms were booked in Philadelphia. In Allegheny County, about 3.8 million were booked. In the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas, you have over 6.5M hotel rooms booked. I've gone with the little woman to places like Tennessee, Ohio, Connecticut, and others where they charge for stupid crap... Ohio specifically, charged $16 per night, for a "luxury housing tax". Tack on $20 a night in PA. There is $120M just from those 2 areas. That's not counting areas like Harrisburg or the Penn State area. This like that can easily be added to reduce costs to the tax payer. I noticed that the costs for aviation fuel was only 10% of the automobile tax. Willing to bet if if was 25% or even 50% (because the automobile number would drop), that would make a huge dent as well. There's ways to do it, they just don't want to... any of them. All of the politicians are jackazzes.

No, I pretty much nailed that part. You wanted people to think Trump was the problem almost no one on this board lives here so they wouldn't actually know the truth, and because you never said it was Murphy and the state Democrats. You even posted a link that gave Murphy a free pass. It wasn't until As far as prohibiting nuclear energy, I misspoke. He didn't prohibit them, he just closed one of them. That one, plus 5 other coal burning plants, produced 20% of the states electricity, the majority of that 20% coming from that one nuclear plant. Because of that, here's the irony, NJ is relying on importing energy from out of state and that energy is being produced from guess where? That's right, the burning of fossil fuels. So, NJ is staying "greener", but we're now paying more for the same kind of energy we were doing for a portion of the price. He's an idiot and so are the Democrat's who wanted and supported it. NOW, Sherrill, the dumb broad, is campaigning on helping the citizens alleviate that burden. How funny is that? Murphy causes the problem, she white washes is, then campaigns to help people. Gotta love it. Dumbocrats in this state will buy it and probably elect her. This state never really votes red. Both Whitman and Christie weren't red... they were more purple. Ciattarelli is probably the only actual Republican NJ has had running for governor in my lifetime, that seems to have a chance to win. I don't have much faith in the population to elect him though. Hope I'm wrong.

You're right, but not completely. Democrats just jacked that tax up last year, didn't they?

Yes, in a thread about tariffs where people are talking about costs of products increasing (or not), because of federal involvement, you just threw in a ho-hum "my electric bill went up", because that was supposedly on topic. Everything you type, always leads back to Trump's fault. You even did with your electric bill. Murphy limits the supply of energy under the guise of "renewable energy" (lol... wind energy), and prohibits nuclear (which is very environmentally friendly). There was no reason at all for this bill. Yet, if Trump's measures do increase electric bills in NJ, you'll blame him instead of the guy who actually caused the problem in the first place. Again, yeah, I think I got the gist of it right.

A lot of NJ's gas price issues are thanks to the wonderful elected democrats. They had the votes to pass the gas tax bill in 2016 even if Christie vetoed it, so Christie negotiated for other tax breaks... breaks that the dbag in chief Murphy put an end to... oh, and then he jacked up the gas tax by himself in 2024, without putting it to a public vote. He also conveniently decided to "extend" the bill to 2029. It's designed to do exactly what he did. He extended it without any ballot measure as a ho-hum. At the time, his objective was to a) if a Democrat wins this year, give them the opportunity to do what he did... just extend it or b) Allow the NJ DNC to use gas prices as a hammer for a Republican (if he wins this year), when he's up for re-election. This, just like the electricity costs, are self inflicted. None of that falls at the feet of any person at the federal level.

Where, that you put a left-wing article basically saying that it was someone else's fault and not Murphy's? Where you're letting it linger out there so that people think that it was about Trump? All in the name of climate change? Again, you're going to blame Trump if it goes higher, because of what Murphy did? You're setting it up to be Trump's fault because of a Democrat governor making a stupid policy. On top of that, you're going to blame Trump again (if Sherrill wins), because your taxes are going to go up, just so that she can follow through on her campaign promise to lighten your burden on the bull crap energy bill that Murphy enacted. No, I think I have the gist of it right.

In other words, you were trying to gaslight. You were trying to give the impression that Trump's policies were causing your electric bill to go up, when it was in fact, "solely" (even though you want to pretend it isn't), caused by the governor. But, for the sake of argument, let's pretend that Murphy doesn't garner 100% of the blame... let's call it 50%. The other 50% would fall on PSE & G. In NO WAY would NJ's energy costs fall at the feet of Trump or his policies (like you wanted to imply by omitting this pertinent information). Now... you're just trying to deflect. I don't need to chill, I'm just calling you out for being full of crap.

Then why bring up the cost of your energy bill? That cost is up, solely due to the Governor's policies.

You're saying that Phil Murphy's bill to force NJ into 100% renewable energy a ending nuclear service is Trump's fault?

I'm not sure I understand your issue. He's right.

I agree to an extent. The problem is that there needs to be a distinction on where the/a line is. If a random person or government employee is walking around with a MAGA shirt or Guys for Kamala, nothing should happen to either... but we know that's not what happened. If a random person or government employee, condones violence, they need to be fired.

I agree that all Muslims aren't martyr's in waiting, and just want to live a peaceful life. What needs to happen with them, black folks, and other minorities is for people in those communities to get up and say, "this needs to stop". They need the white liberal to stop babying them. They need the white liberal to stop white knighting to protecting them. No one has a problem when white people are committing crimes, getting arrested and going to jail. No one is yelling out "due process", no one is yelling out for profiling. More white people every year commit more crimes than any other race. Why are we ok with holding white people accountable, but seem to struggle with holding others? Stop making excuses them. Heck, there were towns and counties in Texas that voted straight red to protect the border. What happened? Liberals said they didn't understand or that they were ignorant. Why? Because those people felt that immigrants should come here legally? Black people are called Uncle Tom's who side with Republican's. Why? Because they think black criminals give other blacks a bad reputation? The reason is because of people like you making excuses for them. Now, you can choose to support excuses by continually voting for people who race bait to push that agenda and national message, or you can keep calling everyone else a racist, because that's what you are and can't figure out why.