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Strider

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  1. Haha. They'll find a way to move the goalposts and keep hating. Win or lose the Super Bowl, Brock Purdy has proven he belongs in the upper echelon of quarterbacks in the NFL. He already has more playoff wins than Lamar Jackson or Dak Prescott.
  2. Popeye's has wings. PC must be in heaven!
  3. The Dodgers are loaded every year. How much hardware has that netted them? Exactly one...in a shortened pandemic year.
  4. As well they should. They were 22 minutes from the Super Bowl and blew it and Dan Campbell is a large reason why. You can't coach a playoff game like you would a regular season game. Every possession is even more valuable. Game situation awareness by the coach is critical. Detroit had 148 yards rushing in the first half. They finished the game with 182...only 34 in the second half. They went away from their strength and went pass-happy in the second half instead of bleeding the clock and shrinking the game. Forget what I said earlier about the Lions being fine and they'll move on from this debacle. There are no guarantees in life. Plenty of young teams have reached the top and failed, and looked as if they were set up for a long run of contention, only to be one-and-done. Look at what happened to Cincinnati and Jacksonville this season. Who knows how competitive they'll be next season or what their rosters will be like? Seattle was never the same after blowing that Super Bowl against New England. Jared Goff has reached the ceiling of his effectiveness. There is only so much you can count on him to do when the pressure is on. You saw that in the NFC Championship game. As the game went on and pressure mounted, Purdy got better and Goff got worse. Detroit better shore up their defense, offensive line, and running game. Goff will never be Captain Clutch. But Dan Campbell better improve his decision making, too.
  5. Yes, he posted in the NFL thread on Monday. I'm sure he's fine. He's not a degenerate gambler like us, hehe. 😉
  6. Go 49ers! End the TayTrav nonsense. I'm picking San Francisco, Walter.
  7. Giving this a try. It is based on this book by Donald Miller.
  8. I guess it depends on where you live and how you define kooks and weirdos. Certainly not so much where I live. I was speaking more hypothetically. But you knew that.
  9. Yes. It's the biggest problem I have with the Democrats. How they have allowed illegal immigration become an albatross around their neck. The mainstream moderate Democrats should have never allowed the far left fringe to push this issue and ignore the laws already in place. They should have held firm and said immigrants have to accept and follow the laws and enter this country legally. Previous generations had to wait. Nobody gets to cut the line. You come in illegally....back you go. The majority of blue-collar middle America is "law and order". Once you lose them it's hard to get them back.
  10. As David St. Hubbins would say, too much perspective. That is heartbreaking news, for sure. Good on you and your brothers for being there and rallying around them. Condolences and sympathies to you all for your loss.
  11. Baltimore has some serious questions to address from within...both coaches and players. Detroit is fine. Nobody expected them to get this far and they can build on this experience and move forward. But Baltimore continually chokes in the playoffs...even when they seemingly have the leverage. Their failures are maddening.
  12. What in the effing fuck Baltimore?!? I really thought this would be the year after the ravens destroyed the 49ers. It was all set up for them with the #1 seed and everything and the other AFC teams (Chiefs, Bills, Bengals, Jaguars) not being as strong as previous years. Instead, they blow it again. Unbelievable.
  13. You're welcome 2019 Season Champion! I know I picked San Francisco in the pool but I am hoping Detroit wins and makes its first trip to the Super Bowl and gives Detroit Rock City something to cheer about. Imagine the University of Michigan and Detroit winning the College and NFL titles in the same year!
  14. The pro-Palestinian rallies are alarming. Fortunately, I haven't seen too many where I live. I still think it is just a very loud and vocal minority. The majority of citizens and people in government still back Israel. Also, when I talk to many of the Middle Eastern immigrants that I come across in my daily travels in shops and restaurants and businesses, most of them express that the very reason many of them came to America was to escape such tribal feudal bullshit. And many of these people trying to come into America now are also trying to escape extreme poverty and violence in their countries. Now, is the influx too large? Are there some bad apples in the bunch? Your answer probably depends on your perspective. I think most reasonable people would say yes. But the idea that these people are being let in just so they can vote Democrat might make an amusing talking point on some right ring podcast or talk show but it is kind of far-fetched when you look at the what happens with a lot of immigrants. A sizeable percentage of immigrants, both legal and illegal, tend to become conservative, at least on the issue of immigration, once they have settled in the United States. Because they realize more and more illegals flooding the border steals a bigger piece of their American Pie dream. I have heard from many Mexicans, Hispanics, Latinos switching their votes from Democrat to Republican because of this very issue. Take another look at the people coming into the country. Whether they are coming from the Muslim countries in the Middle East or the heavily Catholic countries to our south, I would wager a high percentage of them are devoutly religious in some manner. The right likes to portray the Democratic Party as anti-religion, so why would anyone think that these religious people would just automatically vote Democrat? Plus, the idea that there are large numbers of illegals voting doesn't hold water anyway. Most illegals would be afraid of being nabbed by INS if they went to vote. The whole beauty of the United States was that people could come here, escaping whatever persecution or horrors of their home country, and through hard work and perseverance, assimilate into the American Dream. They might bring some of their old ways and beliefs with them, but by and large, they sublimated into the American way of life. Many Immigrant communities by the third or fourth generations became wholly American. That's why you see so many minorities and immigrants at ballgames. And they certainly do not want the U.S. to become more like the countries they escaped from. I happen to believe that is what most of the people coming here want...a chance at a normal life. To work, have a family, etc. So, no, I do not think we are in danger of being co-opted or as you put it, "unionized" by some foreign country, whether it's the Middle East or the Far East or Russia. I think this country is a little bit stronger than its critics, both on the right and the left, give it credit for.
  15. That is generally how it works. You don't realize you are in a fascist state until it is too late. Go after the gays? Fine. Go after the kooks and weirdos, fine. Go after the Jews, coons, Catholics, illegals, fine. Go after anyone who isn't like you. By the time they come after you, it's too late.
  16. Of course I'm not serious. At least about that. I am serious about the sorry state of politics if Biden and Trump are the best we can do after all this time. I am serious about not voting for either one this year. The Democrats are too caught up in rainbow identity politics and victimhood. The Republicans are too in thrall to jackboot authoritarianism and going back to an America that only exists in fantasy. Neither party's vision of America is sustainable nor resembles what the Founding Fathers envisioned.
  17. Trump and Biden are the two most unpopular leaders in American history. The fact that four years later all we can come up with is Biden vs. Trump redux suggests that maybe it's time to vote the U.S. return to the United Kingdom and become part of the commonwealth again. Nobody wins with these two bozos.
  18. Andruw Jones got screwed. The Dodgers spent a billion dollars on two players. Will it matter? Or will they flame out in the playoffs again? https://www.springtrainingcountdown.com
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