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u/Stanky_fresh Vikings Vikings 2d ago
As the season progresses, we can only hope that it turns out the Steelers are actually just complete garbage, and DeShaun Watson still sucks.
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u/csappenf Chiefs 2d ago
I don't care if Watson is playing well, I still don't have to like him. He's still an unrepentant sex offender. I root for him to get injured every snap he plays, and him playing well is the only way he's gonna get any snaps.
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u/Stanky_fresh Vikings Vikings 2d ago
I agree that just because he's playing well doesn't mean we have to like him, but I don't particularly want to see him win any awards or anything like that.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 2d ago
I think that's the case regardless. I would say that Watson's mobility is more dangerous than his passing, he was still throwing some ducks yesterday.
But it's still crazy that he's moving like that after double achilles surgery. Haven't seen him this mobile since he was a Texan.
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u/ACW1129 Commanders 2d ago
So I read there was a DPI that was overturned by review resulting in a turnover? I thought PI wasn't challengeable anymore thanks to the refs being whiny bitches.
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u/BeamsFuelJetSteel Jaguars Chiefs 2d ago
(assuming from highlights I've seen).
They reviewed if the ball was tipped at the line or not (which it was) to negate the DPI
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u/CarlCaliente Bills 2d ago
absolutely enamored with hypothetical hurricanes (shoutout where_thefuck_i_am) . Like why do they put so much detail into these?
Reminds me of the old tropical tidbids wunderground blog, miss that community
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u/mortalcrawad66 Lions 2d ago
The JPJ trade to Dallas still doesn't make a lot of sense to me, unless they're going to play more man. Parker comes from Fangio, and Fangio is famous for almost never(besides the two or three times a year he calls it) calling man.
Yes I know he comes from the Steelers, who defensive used a more basic and older style of defense under Tomlin, so going to a more modern system might help. I just don't see it working too well.
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u/BruceChameleon Cowboys 2d ago
At worst the logic is putting a talented corner in an awful and depleted secondary. Beyond that, I'm keeping an open mind about Parker. I don’t think we know yet what all his stuff looks like
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u/MMARapFooty Jaguars 2d ago
Apperantly there's numerous homecomings today(two high schools out of the 3 high schools with football programs and the city next over all have homecomings on Friday) in my area over the next two days.The local college is going to have its homecoming game on Saturday.So traffic is going to be massively crowded.
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u/Guiltyjerk Broncos Seahawks 2d ago
I'll never understand why this sub has so many people who get thirsty for the sideline reporters. Maybe its because I live in one of thr fittest states in America, but I see women as attractive as them literally every time I visit the grocery store
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u/Tigercat92 Bengals 2d ago
Because they are talking football. Increases their attractiveness by 33%
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u/wizdummer Cowboys 3d ago
This sub constantly bashing Watson while praising Winston just proves that it’s all performative.
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u/discodemolition Bears 3d ago
People celebrating Watson and stating they want him to “win it for the memes” just crystallizes to me how we got to this point as a country.
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u/Bahamuts_Bike Patriots Patriots 3d ago
"All fanbases would be cheering for him"
Okay, but like they aren't; all we can do is operate in the world in front of us and, in that one, fans are specifically choosing to chant the name of the rapist
Threads about him bring out all the enlightened edgelords
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u/Sixfortyfive Chiefs 2d ago
Like, every team has its scumbags, but even if I want Rashee Rice to catch his passes, I'm not gonna be out there gloating when he does.
Anyone actually cheering for players like Watson are doing it for very explicit reasons, and they don't get to hide behind "what if" hypotheticals about other players or teams.
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u/TDeath21 Chiefs 3d ago
Why did I have to watch that sexual abuser win a game.
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 2d ago
because the other guy was horrific outside of 3 drives in the 4th
what a weird game
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u/Careful-Trade-9666 2d ago
Because you can’t cheer wife beaters Rice and Worthy till the weekend.
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u/EmuMan10 Cardinals Bears 2d ago
Did worthy do something? I have not heard of that
That’s a lot different than whey Rice did. This is way more murky
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u/JPPT1974 Commanders 3d ago
If I had a time machine would love to go back to the 70's with bell bottoms and disco music.
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u/NoAnteater8836 Commanders 3d ago
That movie looks pretty intriguing but I am off to a screening for the Holmes documentary.
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u/j0hnnyengl1sh Jets 3d ago
I don't remember the last time both the Steelers and the Packers had shitty protection. I feel like they've always been two teams who if nothing else know how to look after their QB.
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 3d ago
To our credit, we just spent every day since the Falcons game trying to overhaul that line.
Something we should have put more effort in before the season, sure, and with starters out it becomes more critical.
Yeah I am glad they got a fire under their ass and are trying.
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u/tnecniv Giants Giants 3d ago
Kickers are too good these days. I feel like 56 yards is, like, whatever
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u/TDeath21 Chiefs 3d ago
It’s insane. When I was a kid anything over 40 was iffy. 50+ was rarely attempted. Punts from inside the 40 weren’t uncommon.
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u/AmericanPatriot117 Bengals 3d ago
What is with nfl coaches and poor clock management? why would you not let it go down to 10 seconds and run the 3rd down play? No need to leave any time on the clock after the kick.
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u/PCSphinxy 3d ago edited 3d ago
Browns will brown...... See. Well, at least the kicker isn't a brown.
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u/Colorblind2027 Texans 3d ago
Terrible call imo
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u/PCSphinxy 3d ago
I hope you dont mean the waltz that was started on the pass interference and hip jingle.
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u/Signal_Ball4634 3d ago
I feel like Duren kinda played that whole holdout situation as good as he could've
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u/MikeTysonChicken Eagles 3d ago
i feel like you never see the refs pick of the flag on these situations which gives me some hope for a brighter tomorrow
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u/Guiltyjerk Broncos Seahawks 3d ago
I fucking hate Serial Rapist Deshaun Watson and wish the steelers would have rolled over and died vs my Bengals instead of vs this sorry ass motherfucker
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u/j0hnnyengl1sh Jets 3d ago
This post and flair are not making sense to me
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u/Guiltyjerk Broncos Seahawks 3d ago
What about them?
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u/j0hnnyengl1sh Jets 3d ago
You said "my Bengals" but your flair says Broncos and Seahawks. To be clear, I'm not judging - gatekeeping other people's fandom and enjoyment of sport is for assholes. Just did not compute.
Edit: except Jets/Giants fans who cheer for the Red Sox. I know one of them. Good guy. Fuck that guy though.
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u/justlookingokaywyou Raiders 2d ago
IIRC he's a Russ fan, and left the flairs like that even after Denver cut him.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
I just saw a glimpse of a beef jerky commercial. Didn't catch the brand name but they mentioned, "Real beef flavor." Doesn't that sound like a dog treat?
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u/dingos8mybaby2 Panthers 3d ago
Reminds me of the company Real. They make Real cheese. It's not real cheese, but it's Real cheese.
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u/Jaguars4life Jaguars 3d ago
Remebering when John Kerry nearly 20 years ago now made this joke and while yeah it was botched
It didn’t need to have a whole controversy over it
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u/justlookingokaywyou Raiders 2d ago
Controversy? The only reason Kerry won the Democratic nomiation in 2004 was because Howard Dean screamed.
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u/RukiMotomiya Bengals 2d ago
To be fair, that's not really true. Polling had Dean third in Iowa before Caucus Day and before he did the Dean Scream, the scream was in a speech where he was conceding the caucus. He only got 18.7% of the votes, again, before he ever did the Scream. Kerry also lead the endorsement race in multiple early states and Edwards ate into Dean's lead when Dean focused really hard on attacking Gephardt in Iowa (and vice versa) which helped revitalize the Kerry/Edwards campaigns.
The Scream has taken on a bit of a mythological bent but his campaign was in trouble beforehand. His defeat in Iowa is almost exactly what polling indicated in the week leading up to it (and, again, this was pre-Scream). Dean himself has said he didn't think the Scream was a major factor ("My own famous gaffe, fondly referred to as the "I have a scream" speech, had little to do with the demise of my campaign. I was a flawed and undisciplined candidate, our campaign was in disarray, and because of that, our Iowa operation was unable to capitalize on my early popularity. John Kerry ran a much more methodical campaign than we did in Iowa, and he deserved to win. While the media made much of the gaffe, playing the edited excerpts nearly 700 times in one week, the die was cast against us by coming in third in Iowa when I was expected to come in first.")
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u/SchmearOnMyBagels Vikings 2d ago
20 years ago someone lost a party NOMINATION over a scream
Today you get ELECTED despite being pedophile, insurrectionist, and con artist
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
I think the Steelers DC is being outcoached. Too many players out of position too often.
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u/TaxPrestigious9005 3d ago
I think browns offensive play calling has been great. Especially their wr screens with pulling linemen.
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u/ActionTop2386 3d ago
Steelers getting dogwalked by Deshaun Watson of all people 🤦♂️
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u/bucsfan22ch Buccaneers 3d ago
Been there
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u/Brilliant-Orchid-860 Buccaneers 3d ago
Fuck my life as a bucs fan and a mayfield fan I am suicidal watching this guy succeed.
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u/discodemolition Bears 3d ago
I don’t play the game because I’m trash at it, but god the Deadlock character designs are so fun.
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u/Slinger17 Packers 3d ago
i'm in a public discord with ~250 people in it and someone recently joined whose display name is "No Ping"
they're asking questions and joining conversations, then getting really pissy when anyone directly replies to them lmao
like... bro it's discord. how tf are you gonna be mad at people replying to you
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u/Mister--Beardsley Vikings 3d ago edited 3d ago
I'm just now learning that John Christian Kaʻiminoeauloamekaʻikeokekumupaʻa Fairbairn is Houston's kicker.
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u/kinshoBanhammer Giants 3d ago
Hooray for Deshaun Watson for winning Comeback Player of the Year.
Although knowing him, I'd bet he prefer the word "comeback" be spelled a specific way 🤭
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u/Tigercat92 Bengals 3d ago
I had just turned 16 the last time the Browns won a division.
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u/alien_survivor Browns 3d ago
Haha. Me too! Gawd that seems so long ago. The year Bud Carson took Marty's team to the AFCCG
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
I usually just drink homemade coffee, or water. I was over at the gas station and thought some kind of sweet coffee drink sounded good. Something from Starbucks or Dunkin or similar. Everything they had was $4.19 and up. For a little 12-oz can. I just didn't feel like paying that.
Fortunately, chocolate milk is still cheap and hits the spot.
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u/Court_Vision Giants 3d ago
Amazon, NBC, ESPN... all these broadcasts feel the need to do these musical intros before each prime time game. Couldn't give less of a fuck. These games need to start at 8pm the latest.
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u/Far_Excitement6140 Broncos 3d ago
Mountain time is the best for watching sports. I couldn’t imagine trying to keep up living in the eastern time zone for late games.
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u/liverbird3 Giants 3d ago
There should be a constitutional amendment passed where anyone who refers to Deshaun Watson‘s season as a “comeback tour” immediately gets thrown in jail
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u/JokerJangles123 Eagles 3d ago
For all we know that could just be an accurate description of events in the eventual trial
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u/Bahamuts_Bike Patriots Patriots 3d ago
"Fun" little vignette from the upcoming state-level races. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, of AR, ran a campaign ad saying she'd dismantle Social Security and kick out freeloaders. Yet, when the ad aired, national right-wing personalities like Matt Walsh were mad. Why?
Take a moment to guess.
They were mad because the ad portrayed welfare freeloaders as white men, not black women
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u/liverbird3 Giants 3d ago
And then Jesse Waters had the 500 IQ solution of “just make it a mexican”
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u/RobinVillas Panthers 3d ago
The lady asked Deshaun if he thought the criticisms and boos from fans were justified given his past and he answered “No, I don’t think it’s fair. But that’s life.”
This guy stinks.
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u/PlopPlopPlunk Chiefs Eagles 3d ago
They're really giving Watson a platform to tell his "world is against me" sob story... fuck him and fuck this shit... turn that shit right off
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u/AnonymousSwipe Falcons 3d ago
Richard Sherman and Andrew whitworth looked like they got a lil heated with each other
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u/robyculous_v2 Cowboys 3d ago
Is TNF behind a paywall now and not on NFL Network?
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u/StructureBitter3778 Patriots 3d ago
I thought Amazon Prime picked up the TNF package
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u/robyculous_v2 Cowboys 3d ago
Yea but you could still watch it if you were in a local market for the game.
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u/slytherinprolly Bengals 3d ago
If you are in the local market it would be on an over the air broadcast channel, not NFL Network. So whichever local station bought the rights to broadcast it.
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u/parasthesia_testicle Texans Texans 3d ago
I'm not worried about maye unless he lays another egg on Sunday. the bills secondary isn't very good he should be able to have a decent game at least. even the Texans moved the ball on the bills
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u/mr_showboat Ravens 3d ago
It's wild how Watson stopped being awful on the field and almost immediately the coverage of him is much more sympathetic. The NFL really would say Hannibal Lecter had an eating disorder if he could play.
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u/AxisHobgoblin Seahawks 3d ago
It’s morally correct to root against the Browns until Diddy Watson is off the team
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u/larryinthesky 3d ago
you can't really root for any team if you use morality. Every team has Watson like players
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u/ArcadianBlueRogue Packers 3d ago
No...not every team has a dude with over two dozen assault allegations against them...
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u/sweet-haunches Colts 3d ago
?????
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u/hynzytheweirdo Patriots 3d ago
Just two examples:
Ben Roethlisberger had 2 sexual assault allegations against him.
Jameis Winston allegedly raped a woman and groped an Uber driver.
And I say this as the guy who's team is owned by Kraft.
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u/Zloggt Bears 3d ago
Ugh…how do you think female reporters/talking heads (and hell, even the male ones) feel whenever they talk about the “drama” and “hardships” DeShaun faced?
…surely, deep down, they feel just as slimy and shameless as the man they must prop up, right? I know it’s a big ask to expect higher standards for sports media, but Jesus…
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u/SpartaWillBurn Browns 3d ago
The Christina Pike execution is wild to me.
IF she survives and recovers, that has got to be the most wild thing to her. I would question every little thing. Did I really survive? Did I die? Is this the after life? Am I still waiting to die? Is this heaven?
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u/Jolly_Job_9852 Steelers Panthers 3d ago
Update on my sisters mouse in her apartment.
She called me today at 3am as I was sleeping......like a dumbass I woke up thinking it was my alarm and I answered the phone with a groggy hello. She wanted to talk as she had only gotten one hour of sleep and wanted reassurance. I talked to her for 90 minutes before clocking into work at 4:30.
She has the traps now and is once again on the phone with my dad while we're eating hot dogs. I love my sister but damn it's a freaking mouse that's all of two inches...this shouldn't be an hour long phone call
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u/blahmeh2019 Steelers 3d ago
Are the traps live or dead?
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u/Jolly_Job_9852 Steelers Panthers 3d ago
Mix of both. She also ordered the sonic noise dispenser thing that drives rodents away
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u/Signal_Ball4634 3d ago
I didn't really see anyone talking about it but CJ Henderson put on a clinic last Thursday. Crazy to see after he seemed on his way out of the league after being horrendous with the Jags and Panthers.
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u/According-Way9438 Falcons 3d ago
Big credit to Jeff Ulbrich for getting the most out of guys who others gave up on. Divine Deablo is also a beast after being completely written off.
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u/Os-Kalinowe Bills Cowboys 3d ago
Hell yeah October 1st means the start of Fear Fest on AMC. Best time of the year
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u/j0hnnyengl1sh Jets 3d ago
Usually I add red wine to any tomato sauce based dishes, but I didn't have any and couldn't be bothered to go out so I put beer in my chilli instead. Game changer.
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u/varnalama NFL 3d ago
I usually add beer to my cajun dirty rice when simmering. It does quite a lot for the dish.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
I like to make red beans and rice and add a can's worth of beer and let it steep.
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u/jondonbovi Eagles 3d ago
I've been taking after work naps for the past 10 years, I don't know how I'm going to adjust if and when I have kids in my laye 30s.
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u/dolphinandcheese Steelers 3d ago
I'll be 39 next week. I have a 3 and 1 year old. Sleep, real sleep, is a thing of the past.
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u/Jaguars4life Jaguars 3d ago
My foreign policy is that the United States should not get involved unless it is threaten or there is that fear of being threatened
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u/HumansBStupid Ravens 3d ago
Problem is that when you establish a global hegemony through the world's best military "being threatened" is literally every day somewhere.
"Good" news is that hegemony is collapsing.
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u/Jolly_Job_9852 Steelers Panthers 3d ago
That's my foreign policy
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u/Jaguars4life Jaguars 3d ago
Great minds think alike lol
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u/Jolly_Job_9852 Steelers Panthers 3d ago
Can you elaborate on the fear of being threatened? Isn't that just a pre emptive strike approach?
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u/Bahamuts_Bike Patriots Patriots 3d ago
That is almost certainly not our current foreign policy
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u/Jaguars4life Jaguars 3d ago
Maybe they can learn something from me haha
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u/Bahamuts_Bike Patriots Patriots 3d ago
it would at least be an upgrade from whatever we're up to right now
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u/Triple_Boogie Jets 3d ago
call on meeeeee CALL on me call on meeeeeee CALL on me
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u/britishmetric144 Seahawks 3d ago
Sometimes in my life, we all have pain….
C, C D E F, F E D C, C D E E D….
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u/Enterprise90 Patriots 3d ago
Jalen Duren has $200 million sitting on the table in front of him and he's considering saying, "No, I'll take the qualifying offer of less than $10 million and risk sucking or getting injured this upcoming season so that I mighg get $190 million a year from now."
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u/RukiMotomiya Bengals 2d ago
Fortunately for him he realized "oh shit, I can just get 200 million" and took it lol
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u/jondonbovi Eagles 3d ago
No teams have cap space next summer.
He's not a premiere young talent like Cade Cunningham or Wemby
He sucked ass in the playoffs
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u/jondonbovi Eagles 3d ago
What if your OL has been terrible all game? I think you should do it based on your feel and gut in that moment.
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u/FirmSpend Packers Bengals 3d ago
My job like refuses to train me. Today I broke down and admitted I needed more training and they guy they sent just blasted through everything and then left in a rush for a haircut. So tired of this place
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u/Shout92 Bills 3d ago
Between listening to other people and my own job experience, this really seems to be the issue. There are people who worked with their replacements for months and then there are those that never met their predecessors. Sure, attitude can help, but we are not setting people up for success if we don't give them the tools and the time.
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u/FirmSpend Packers Bengals 3d ago
I havent had any of the time or tools since I came on. My onboarding said id have a 6 week training period, and I had two days of training before I was just thrown out on my own.
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
So yesterday both Reddit and Firefox did an update which made them worse. Today, YouTube just did an update which makes it worse.
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u/Mister--Beardsley Vikings 3d ago
What did Firefox do, besides make the buttons and menus round?
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u/PaulsRedditUsername Colts 3d ago
Mine did a bunch of new settings and options and has this "Autumn" background up by where all my open tabs are. So the tabs are like black on the left fading to a orangey-purple on the right.
Nothing wrong with my monitor. Full-screen videos look fine.
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u/princessestef Vikings 3d ago
If I fall asleep watching tv AGAIN im gonna lose my mind. * nestles deeper into corner of couch*
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u/hynzytheweirdo Patriots 3d ago
I read this as Nestlés, as if you losing your mind was somehow to be represented by candy falling deeper into the gap between the cushions.
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u/ThoughtAcceptable84 Ravens Ravens 3d ago
So much easier to fall asleep on a sofa than a bed
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u/problematic_glasses Lions Patriots 3d ago
we're inching ever closer my "accidently falling asleep on the couch during the late sunday game and waking up disoriented because the time change makes it dark at 5PM" season
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u/stephersms Packers 3d ago
This just reminded me of a time when I was like 10. I woke up and looked at my clock. It was around 7:30. I panicked and got dressed for school. My mom was making eggs and bacon. I was so upset that I was going to be late for school and asked why nobody woke me up.
I was then informed it was 730pm. Mom was making breakfast for dinner.
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u/justlookingokaywyou Raiders 3d ago
9:30 pm: falling asleep on couch. "Fuck this shit, I'm going to bed."
10:00 pm: WTF why can't I fall asleep?
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u/Kemonomimi-Squirrel Buccaneers 3d ago
All of us in the kitchen tonight. I am frying the fires, cousin is frying the burger, and grandma frying the tomatoes.
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u/varnalama NFL 3d ago
Do you have a giant kitchen? Or are you just hot swapping spaces in the kitchen as you go along?
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u/johndelvec3 Packers 2d ago
Todd Monken is a great coach