Jaylon Tyson has played better and better as the year has gone on. I suspect that a lot of teams are booting themselves in the backside for passing on him.
I am perfectly fine with taking another late-round flyer on a QB who falls and low-risk FA signings. I'm also a fan of the current trend of QB reclamation projects.
Trey Lance will be a FA. He is a former high pick and spent a LOT of time with Shanny. I believe the injury bug derailed his career so it'd be pertinent to know if that's past him.
What about Tua? We can't afford him with Watson still dragging down the cap, but he could benefit from a change of scenery.
Obviously, all of this is just spitballing until we at least know who our OC is going to be.
An observation/lack of observation worth asking is:
When did the cop pull his gun? I coould have missed it, but I never saw him draw his gun Suggesting that he already had it out well before he fired - why? Suggests that he was eager to(for lack of a better word) to shoot someone
There is no competitive balance within the constraints of the pay structure. That couldn't be any more obvious.
What you have is a bunch of billionaires who appear not to want that balance or players fighting against that balance. Possibly both. I don't know enough about the situation to say.
There are examples like the NFL who have salary caps. That may not be totally fair to owners in smaller markets but it's as close as they have been able to come.
Either owners don't want that in MLB or the players union doesn't.
I actually see things much differently than that. If they don't think the QB they've been searching for is in this draft, I see every possibility they will trade down again for another first round pick in next years draft.
Another complication is that teams at the bottom of the draft have less needs. That's why they're winners and more complete teams. Teams selecting before us in round 2 have already gotten their #1 need and have the luxury of scooping up any remaining gems left on the board. If there are truly any WR steals left in this draft by that point, I look for them to be snatched up late first or early second round. We hear the talking heads say a lot of things every year before the draft. How deep or how weak certain positions are and projections of where players will be selected. Like Shedeur Sanders being a first round draft pick. Over the years I've learned not to take what they say as serious as some people do. But to each their own.
Yeah, there's really no choice if we're going to meander into another QB fantasy project.
Although there are other ways to secure that pick. I think Jimmy is considering the King's Ransom that will still be paid for Garrett. And it's hard to argue that wouldn't be a win-win-win for all three parties.
I don't think he is trying to destabilize NATO, either, but I do think he is firmly taking the stance that the U.S. is done with getting told what to do by NATO/U.N.
I'm only picking out this part to respond to because I gotta let the rest of your post simmer in my brain a little longer.
I thought we were sick of having to do everything/direct everything in NATO. That NATO has to grow a pair and start acting like adults and make decisions without the US having to bless lead all the time? At least that was the story behind us pulling back on Ukraine.
Patrick Mahomes is my all time favorite QB. Love watching him play. He does what most other QB's cannot do. At the same time I usually root for his team to lose... Figure that one out. lol
This is a tribute cover done the day Bobby died. One of my favorites of his songs. A song about heartbreak and loss. Of letting go no matter how much it hurts.
Same for me. As you know, I'm in one of those communities now, While I engage in very small-scale agriculture, I sell all of my stuff locally so these things don't affect me much, but I see it all around me. Even the local beef ranchers who also sell everything local are hit by it all because the input costs on everything are higher. Fertilizer, lime, diesel, seed... those things are the pillars of an operation, so even if you can sell everything locally, your cost-to-consumer is going to be higher because you still have a mortgage and tractor payments to make in addition to all those other inputs. Fertilizer for 100 acres can easily hit $15k-$20k depending on your soil type and the target crop.... then it takes a fair bit of diesel to run the tractor to till, seed, and spread that fertilizer. It's tough to make those costs back.
Germany, UK, Nordic countries... Most of Europe are far far left of where the Democrats are. None of them are communist or kissing cousins to communism.
Donald Trump did not go into politics to make China great again. But that is what the latest poll of global public opinion from the European Council on Foreign Relations suggests he has done in the eyes of the world.
A year on from Trump’s return, in countries across the globe, many people believe China is on the verge of becoming even more powerful. Even before Trump’s dramatic intervention in Venezuela, his aggressive “America First” approach was driving people closer to China. Paradoxically, his disavowal of the liberal international order may have given people licence to build stronger links to Beijing, since they no longer feel the need to fall in line with a US-led alliance system. Meanwhile, “the West” seems to be a spent geopolitical force for the foreseeable future. America’s traditional enemies fear it less than they once did—while allies now worry about falling victim to a predatory US.
This splitting of the West is most visible in Europe, and in what others think of Europe. Russians now regard the EU as more of an enemy than they do the US; and Ukrainians look more to Brussels than to Washington for succour. Most Europeans no longer consider America a reliable ally, and they are keen to rearm. These are the main findings of a new poll of 25,949 respondents across 21 countries conducted in November 2025—one year after Trump’s triumphant victory in the last presidential election—for ECFR and Oxford University’s Europe in a Changing World research project, the fourth in a series of such global surveys. While the data predate Trump’s operation in Venezuela, many of the trends identified here seem to prefigure it, and one imagines they might even be reinforced by thisintervention.
The world appears to be becoming more open to China; or at least not fear it—an evolution that is in keeping with dominant Chinese interpretations of global geopolitics. As ECFR set out in The Idea of China last year, Xi Jinping and others believe the world is experiencing “great changes unseen in a century”, entailing (although not confined to) a power shift from West to East. One way the Chinese are dealing with this—and with America’s hegemony—is to work with other countries to “democratise international relations” by giving non-Western countries more of a voice. In a global order in which (as this year’s survey shows) publics feel their countries are freer than ever to choose their friends, the results of the poll will be music to the ears of decision-makers in Beijing. For decision-makers in Europe, however, the question is how to live in the truly multipolar world many Europeans have long dreamed of, but perhaps never imagined would take shape in quite this way. They also worry the Venezuela intervention legitimises the idea of China and Russia having their own spheres of influence.
The deadline set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed into law in November 2025, for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release the files was December 19, 2025, though the DOJ stated it would need "a few more weeks" to complete the release due to newly discovered documents. Which they admitted in the article above was "less than 1% of the Epstein files."
The last major batch of documents released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) came on December 23, 2025, consisting of nearly 30,000 pages.
So their "claim is" they will release them in batches as they go through them. It's been 22 days since a single file has been turned over.
Since Republicans are issuing contempt of congress charges, where is the contempt charges against the DOJ? How much longer will they exempt from following congressional orders?
I think you are getting to the meat of it. Disagreeing with the fed chair isn't unprecedented. Calling him names and attacking him verbally in public took it to another level. And now with investigations by using the DOJ as a tool against him has far exceeded anything close to normal and is a very dangerous precedent.
Rodgers is going to wander into the Peruvian jungle, drink the Yagé and decide his best move is some strong indica and six months of couch-lock.
If someone calls him to get off the couch, long after the grind of TC and the early season, he'll decide if that city if worthy of putting his cape back on and playing Super Hero.
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