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Why's that? I haven't started paying attention to football yet, outside of the Bucs.

No, they'll blame the Republicans... they'll say the parties switched.

They should defund the police completely and use social workers in the communist states and use real police officers in American states. You'll know which is which by the 81M.

Yup. But I will make the caveat that when people ask "Who was more responsible for the Patriots... Belichick or Brady", the answer is Brady. Just like the answer was Jordan, Shaq, and Kobe. That doesn't mean their coaches were overrated though, because the teams still won. As you said, other coaches have good and great players and never win.

That's exactly what happens. It turns non-guaranteed money into guaranteed money down the road. What they do is take base pay (which isn't guaranteed), and turn most of it into bonus money (guaranteed), so they can spread it out over more years to free up cap space in the current year. Let's say he had 5 years left on his deal and this year his base pay was $35M. They kick the can down the road by taking $30M of non-guaranteed money (because base pay isn't guaranteed), and giving it to him in bonus money, and leaving it as $5M in base pay. So, he's still getting all $35M of his money... he's not taking less. But, what happens is now that $30M gets spread out over the 5 years, giving each year and extra $6M of cap hit. So, instead of this year being a $35M cap hit, it's only $11M ($5M base pay + $6M bonus from restructure), and that's how they save $24M for this year.

Yup

It can be, but when you look at the list of pre-2008 QB's, at lot of the top guys who had long careers, are Hall of Famers.

If he plays well, only 1 team is getting Caleb Williams next year. I don't follow college football that much but I heard one other kid who's looking to be a high pick, but if I recall, there's only 2. Arizona and Washington are going to make a run at #1 overall in the next draft, I think there'll be a few others like Denver and Vegas who'll be in the running as well, even Tampa if Trask turns out to be just as terrible as Mayfield. Now, all aren't going to be looking to take a QB #1, but the more that are in the conversation, the more likely teams are going to look to trade up or down. At least one or two teams in need of a QB will be on the outside looking in. I can see someone parting with a 2025 #1 pick for Watson.

My bad, I didn't mean to hit too close to home Mr. Simpson, no offense meant.

Common sense agrees, but not every GM/Owner has common sense. Look at the deal Daniel Jones got. It only takes one.

He was better than solid when he was healthy. He played almost every game of his career before the new passing rules... and he currently ranks 11th all time in completion percentage. Here's the list of the top 10... take note of how many played their entire career post-2007: 1 Joe Burrow 68.2% 2020-2022 cin 2 Drew Brees 67.7% 2001-2020 2TM 3 Jimmy Garoppolo 67.6% 2014-2022 2TM 4 Deshaun Watson 67.0% 2017-2022 2TM 5 Justin Herbert 66.9% 2020-2022 sdg 6 Kirk Cousins 66.8% 2012-2022 2TM Kyler Murray 66.8% 2019-2022 crd 8 Dak Prescott 66.6% 2016-2022 dal 9 Teddy Bridgewater 66.4% 2014-2022 5TM 10 Patrick Mahomes 66.3% 2017-2022 kan He ranks 28th all-time in passer rating. Of the 27 ahead of him, 18 are current players, and of the other 9, 4 are in the hall of fame with Brady, Big Ben, Brees, and potentially Rivers, in the future.

No, he's not close to Brady, but Brady is the exception. Laws of averages significantly favor the higher draft picks. We can disagree on the H.O.F., that's fine.

I'd favor Pacheco because I think he's going to have a more productive offense, opportunities, and TD's. That said, I don't think there's anything wrong with Etienne. I wouldn't fault you for keeping him instead. While Pacheco is on a better offense, Etienne has a team with limited weapons. He could be used a lot more. The downside to that is higher risk of injury. That's the part that makes me favor Pacheco, but as I said, I think your fine with keeping Etienne.

If they really wanted him, they wouldn't need to part with a 1 & 2... my guess is that a 4 would be enough. Also, if he were really that good, the better move would be to trade Watson. There definitely would be a team who would part with a 1, and may be a 2, for him.

Agreed.... but Mahomes didn't take a pay cut. He's just re-working a current deal allowing the Chief's to kick the can down the road. In the original deal he signed, he had a $60M+ year that was set to hit in 2025, but now that's going to hit in 2027. He's still going to make the money he signed for, it's just the cap hit that's changing.

Well, it's liberal b.s. disguised to help the poor when it's going to help out the more well off people. Look, for a change, they're actually helping the middle class. But we all know what's going to happen. After the 2024 election, there'll be a black politician and say this policy helps white people disproportionately more than blacks or other minorities, and they'll change the plan at some point for the next election cycle.

It was created by politicians, if course it's going to go that way. LOL. Probably in less than 12 months. Wait, correction, it'll go that way after the 2024 election. Funny how this is presented as helping the poor, when all it did was help help the well off. You libs will believe anything. LOL

Ok. Just looked like by your post that you thought George Carlin was right in his condemning of Republican's for that point of view.

Agreed. That's why nothing had to change. It's simple, if you have people who need help, they apply for it. No one needs to know. It's all done between the parent and the school district. No one has to physically pay for food at school, it can all be done behind the scenes... but the parents who can feed their kids, should be the ones paying.

So you are a Republican then? I thought you've always said you weren't.

Seriously... you think that $1B going to the school is going to stay there? That other $55B is going to where ever it's going and they're going to find out they need more. When that happens, they'll start taking money from that $1B and eventually wrap it all into one pot. When that happens, that extra 4% is going to quietly go away, and you'll never hear about it.

LOL "State House News Service, an independent news wire, reported that $1 billion of the state's record $56.2 billion fiscal budget for 2024 will be funded by its new 4% tax." Where's the other $55.2B coming from?

I'm ok with the stereotype that I think people should be and act, in a responsible manner and be accountable for their actions.

Didn't see that in the link. Willing to bet that won't last. Also, no way $56B is coming from the millionaires alone.

Also like I said, that stigma is easily removed WITHOUT taxing people billions of dollars. The funny thing about this, which is even funnier that no one appreantly realizes, is that the people who can't afford to feed their own kids, will be taxed extra to feed kids who's parents not only can afford to feed their kids, but also the kids who's parents are wealthy. I can't believe there are people who think this even remotely to a good idea.