He could say things on air that affect trades to and from the Raiders, who are players flying under the radar on squads; he could even voice during a telecast who would be leading draft picks at certain positions of need, ostensibly ones the raiders might need or want.

I mean even Kirk Herbstreit cant make pregame picks as an analyst of games he is calling from the booth.

Brings up the question: Are you okay with a non-citizen receiving this honor? He’s been a Miami resident since well before he signed with Miami. He was cited for his charity work with UNICEF, his Messi Foundation, and community programs in Miami. Kind of surprised MAGA hasn’t whined about this South American on a work visa. 😉

Jeans and sweatshirt and thong here

Offense WRs – Gill, Buie, Howard, Anderson
Offensive line - Dunker, Stephens,Logan Jones??/ Myslinski, Pieper and Lauck have been listed
TEnds – Ostrenga; Oertwerth; maybeLachey???
QB – Sullivan; Stratton; Lainez Running Backs – Moulton; Jazz P.

Defense Dline - Allen; Llewellyn; Pittman; isHurkett available Lbkr - Rexroth, Harrell, Sharar
Corners – Lee and Hall; transferring in Juco
Safeties and Cash – Nwankpa;Entringer; Lutmer; Nestor
Punter – Dakin Kicker - Stevens

Start off with an upgrade at QB, TEnds are pretty good; rebuild at OLine?; RBacks solid DLine not deep and maybe a rebuild; Lbkrs know the system; corners need to get stickier; safeties etc could be bigger and rangier; kickers are very good to great

Who might step up from the backups?

#13 Illinois
#15 Oregon
#16 Michigan State
#20 Purdue
#22 UCLA
#24 Michigan

Receiving Votes:

Nebraska (62)
Wisconsin (31)
Maryland (7)
Indiana (6)

Nebraska is knocking on the door.

No rank/no votes:
Ohio State
Iowa
Minnesota
Washington
USC
Northwestern
Penn State
Rutgers

Thinking Mizzou takes this one.

24-16 Tigers win.

What’s your final score prediction?

Browns at Ravens
Bengals at Steelers

Booo....

Heard Marco made the decision to go portal? Eliot you hear anything?

Friday, December 20, 2024


Saturday, December 21, 2024

Where illegal immigration and police violence are concerned. Here are the parallels:

1) Both identified a problem:
A) Poor constraints around illegal immigration for MAGA
B) Instances of unacceptable police conduct for BLM

2) Both made extensive use of specific events pertinent to their cause via social media in order to drum up support and illustrate a problem.

3) But.... Both then made claims that didn't fit the evidence:
A) The MAGA movement markets the illegal immigrant as very dangerous -- you could say more dangerous than the American citizen -- despite poor evidence for this claim. (in fact, on balance extant evidence indicates the opposite is true)
B) The BLM movement marketed cops as more dangerous and corrupt than they really were -- this helped to spawn attitudes like ACAB and the widely held belief that black people were much more highly targeted by cops than they actually were.

4) This happened because the movements were more interested in feelings than in (statistical) reality. While both identified legitimate problems, their rhetoric clearly misinformed the public.