LinvilleGorge

I think Matt Rhule is what killed Matt Rhule's career. He's just not cut out for the NFL. Hell, I'm not convinced he's cut out for sustained success at the college level.

I'm willing to give McAdoo a shot. We'll see what he can do. My expectations? We're all talking draft again by Halloween. So, basically status quo Tepper Panthers.

Same.

It's been basically the same game with a yearly roster update for over a decade and offline franchise mode keeps getting worse because they want everyone playing online to encourage spending more $$$.

It's just sad to watch. They're setting this kid up for failure and disappointment by putting this bullshit of professional baseball in his head while putting everything else on the back burner all because dad is trying to chase his own pipe dream through his son and mom won't stand up to dad's delusion. dad just doesn't understand that you have to win the genetic lottery first. Without winning that, you have no chance at pro sports. Sorry, it's just a no go no matter how hard you work.

You're not far from getting banned. The shtick is getting beyond old. It basically just comes down to which one of the mods gets tired enough of it to pull the trigger but keep it up and it's coming and none of us are going to be willing to save you when it happens. Fair warning.

We need a coach and a QB. Unfortunately, those are the two must have pieces. You can have a perennially great team that has weaknesses practically anywhere else but you cannot be weak at QB or coach if you want to consistently compete.

Three straight five win seasons have pretty much weeded out the majority of the delusional and the fairweather.

Tepper was our great hope. Finally, an owner who would put his team first instead of the league as a whole. We could finally have a chance to become a perennial contender. But then that plane crashed and burned before the honeymoon could even get started.

You can if you have billions and line the right pockets.

Hell, being not very good would be our best season in awhile. For three years now we've been firmly entrenched in the "sucks ass" category.

David Tepper: "Mediocrity will not be tolerated" The part he muttered under his breath that the press didn't catch: "it will be remembered as the good old days"

Hell, they all look awesome at home. Yeah, that TV that's 5x the price might look better in the store side by side but guess what? That TV that's 5x the price won't be right beside my budget TV in my den.

Here's the thing about any GoFundMe or whatever... if you don't like it and don't want to donate, just don't. I mean, there are people who donate money to fuging politicians.

Maybe, we'll see. Burrow takes most of that punishment because Cincy's OL has been low key damn near as bad as ours and yet he's still elite. Herbert has crazy talent and may have the better career when all is said and done but if I was holding Burrow I wouldn't trade him for anyone else.

Yeah, I'd have Burrow #1 for sure. Not to discount Herbert and Jackson but Cincy going to the SB was nuts. Hell, Borrow and Chase might should've been #1 and #2.

You seem upset.

Translation: it's all coach speak bullshit littered with clichés.

I didn't say they would. I said "if". It's certainly possible that some of those folks employed on that project end up getting laid off in cutbacks due to that project being cancelled. The one thing that stays constant in "it's just business" is that poo rolls downhill and "it's just business" only gets said by folks trying to feel better about themselves when knowingly fuging over others. You literally embody MBA brain rot. It creates a really fuged up system of values because it only values immediate short term profit and executive compensation. It's why wages have stagnated for decades. It's why the wealth divide grows by the day. It's why so much of our production capabilities have been offshored. It's why executives cash huge bonus checks while the rank and file gets laid off in "restructures" that sometimes don't even cover those bonus checks.

Holy poo... My sister in law has an 8 year old son. Her husband is trying to live vicariously through this kid. He was never the cool jock and he desperately wants this kid to be that. Everything revolves around this kid's baseball. He's homeschooled because school schedule was getting in the way of his baseball schedule. He does ninja training to improve his balance and core strength for baseball. He's on every travel team he can be on. He has ninja, baseball practice, baseball clinics, or baseball games everyday. He's on a specific baseball diet. Dad gets excited because the kid gets "invited" to all these clinics and travel teams with no realization that it's simply to get money out of them. Baseball, baseball, baseball. Everything else is an afterthought. Meanwhile, the kid is ADHD as fug and an absolute brat because he gets everything he wants. I've watched dad repeatedly tell him this week "If you want to be a professional baseball player you have to..." while laughing off any and all of mom's efforts to correct behaviours. The sad part is that the kid is a very average athlete. He's not one of the better players on any of his teams. They're really fuging this kid up. They're setting him up for abysmal disappointment. Well, it's dad but mom won't stand up to any of it even though she understands all of this. Once he gets to middle school and kids that didn't have this huge push from their parents actually start picking up sports in school and blow by him in a matter of months because they have real talent I'm afraid it's just going to be an absolute shock to him and dad is going to put it all on him for not working hard enough. It's crazy to watch. Dad is controlling as fug and likely has undiagnosed Asperger's. Mom just folds and goes along with everything because she's too busy being the primary bread winner and isn't willing to deal with dad's bullshit. It's wild to watch and just sad. Anyway... basically just venting.

The deck is stacked like a mother fuger for the wealthy. It has been for a long, long time. Hence our current ever increasing wealth divide.

Because of wage laws. But those contracted companies took it in the shorts. And some of those "working men" might get hosed if it causes those companies to go belly up or endure some cutbacks to make up for the pantsing they took. Why? Because poo runs down hill. "Trickle down" didn't work out so well but poo still runs down hill.

Same. You gotta draft well and have decent coaching to drag yourself out of the basement because the decent free agents aren't coming unless you're overpaying.

Oh, we aren't getting to that point. That's been our reality forever. One of the primary reasons that we have been so up and down historically is because we have historically drafted really poorly overall.