Straight clown made me laugh.
Yeah, the generous interpretation is something like āIāve been seeing protests since 1968 and nothingās gotten better; we need action.ā I think his actual words could lend support to that idea, although Iām not entirely certain.
āI think your responsibility is to take action. I donāt know if protest is an action,ā Arians told reporters, according to the NFL Network.
āI think each guy has a personal thing. I would beg [them] to take action. Find a cause and either support it financially or do something to change the situation. Because protesting doesnāt do crap in my opinion. Iāve been seeing it since 1968.ā
Heās kind of going three ways there. He says heās not sure if protesting is an action. Then he says he doesnāt think it does ācrapā. Protesting is absolutely considered a direct action, so heās wrong about that. Itās just that the effect of that direct action sometimes doesnāt end up where people hope or takes a very long time to succeed (usually most successful when economics are threatened). He then goes on to say what each person does is a personal thing and has a very loose definition of action.
If a personās movement to direct action is protest, thatās their personal decision. If a personās movement is to running for office, thatās their personal decision. If their movement is trying to get out the vote, thatās their personal decision. I think about the least direct action you can take is donating to a behemoth organization like The Red Cross. A good donating direct action is to find an established organization that you can tell is doing very good things in something important to you but doesnāt have enough funding to do more.
Iām interpreting his statement charitably that he means he thinks they should do real direct action, but a wildcat strike is absolutely inside direct action no matter how small of a change it creates. Thatās also a major form of protest. More than anything, I think he quickly realized he was stepping on a third rail and could be misinterpreted. Then he started realizing that he could be seen as criticizing his players for not doing enough, so he walked that back. Then he went back to the original bad wording and made it sound more like he thought direct action meant more than protests, even though protests are direct action. Itās a pretty confusing statement to me, but definitely think itās possibly more correct to give him the charitable interpretation.
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Yannick Ngakoue dealt to the vikes for only a 2nd + a 5th that could be a 3rd (one year left on his deal, he also agrees to take a 5.8M pay cut, also itās worse than this, given FL has no income tax and MN does.
so if you wondered how bad the jaguars are, theyāre so bad a player willingly gave up at least 6 million dollars and FL weather to MNās weather just to get the hell out of there.
Easier to go 0-16 with less talent.
Lol jags
This could be the first legit tank attempt in league history
Although if you are going to tank might not be a bad idea to choose this season given the uncertainty. But stillā¦
Isnāt the draft going to have much more uncertainty than it usually does? Or are colleges actually playing football this year?
Iām surprised more teams donāt tank. Can you even win a Super Bowl in todayās game without an elite QB?
The Patriots won 6
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Teams might actually end up drafting smarter because theyāll have to lean on guys who played well as freshmen and sophomores instead of jumping onto one-year-wonder 22-year-old seniors.
Tankingās just not really realistic in the NFL. The Dolphins ātankedā last year and still finished with the #5 pick.
Tanking gets you the #1 pick, or a very high one. Patrick Mahomes was not picked #1, or even the first QB chosen.
It doesnāt matter how bad you are if you pick Trubisky over Mahomes.
Fu poniedddd
Kamara is holding out now apparently. So happy I got him and Fournette in a draft last week!
Patrick Mahomes
Deshaun Watson
Aaron Rodgers
Lamar Jackson
Dak Prescott
Drew Brees
Tom Brady
Russell Wilson
none of them were picked before the 10th pick in the NFL draft and so many of them fell because of incredibly stupid reasons. Nobody can tackle lamar, well we really donāt want a guy like that to have the ball in his hands every play.
basically if your team is so bad you think about tanking your GM is too stupid to pick anyone good anyway.
The Jags picked a non receiver running back over Mahomes/Watson because they had Blake Bortles.
The other issue with tanking is the coaches and players canāt tank as theyāre all trying to get another job in a not for long industry. Other sports this is a bit easier, ie one star in basketball is huge because itās 5 on 5.
Baseball itās stupid, few are so slam dunk with all the minor league filters that weed out a bunch of them before you get to the majors.
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Almost a Full Browns
I was wondering how often the number one overall pick was a QB franchise maker. Obviously further analysis would look at the first group of picks to see if a transcendent qb was just below the surface. I am too lazy for that.
Going back in time, we have kyler Murray but it is too soon to pass a verdict on him.
First maybe is Andrew Luck. Then Cam Newton. They both have many reasons as to why they are not slam dunks. I do think Luck remains in the conversation.
Then we go to Eli in 2004. Results oriented thinking demand Eli be counted. I hate Eli so pfft. Would you really want to tank for the next Eli?
1998, now we are talking. The first slam dunk qb with tanking for was only 22 years ago and Eliās older brother Peyton.
Next to 1989 and Troy Aikman. This is a bit results oriented as well so not sure he is a slam dunk. He was really good and a winner, but was he transcendent?
1983 and our second sure fire slam dunk, John Elway.
1970, Terry Bradshaw. 4 rings, but results oriented and not a slam dunk.
Go back to 1936 and nothing.
So in 85 drafts, there were two slam dunk, transcendent qbs that went overall number 1.
Definitely seems dumb to tank for the top pick.
List from wiki so you can have your own fun.
I donāt think the Jaguars are tanking. I think they are just downright terribly managed. If their first year ever dropping to #1 means that the consolation is Trevor Lawrence who will be the highest graded skill position player on every teamās board at the end of the seasonā¦that seems fine. I rather that than a year that a FCS QB is the best rated.
As far as evaluations, the NFL teams will do just fine. Colleges have already been sending practice tapes to NFL teams.