Well, Brooks may have 2 achilles injuries and miss 0 games.

16 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Student debt forgiveness is tricky.  In a way, it's like immigration.  I like both.  Everyone should like both.

But you can't have unchecked immigration and robust social welfare systems.

Likewise, if you are going to forgive student debt, then you need to limit access to college in the first place.  Student debt is actually a huge incentive.  It pushes you to excel in college/grad school, obtain a skill, and leverage it into a high-paying job to pay off the debt.  

If you want to drink and party through 4 years of a 3rd rate school to major in philosophy or art history, that's on you and your parents.  Don't demand that politicians and the tax payer fix your debt.  It would be political suicide to say this, but we really don't need MORE people going to college to enter the economy with jobs that don't require it.  It's a huge inefficiency, really a racket.  

Obviously, @HazletonEagle, you have a specific and essential skill.  It's very challenging to separate that.

I totally agree thats its not fair to many. Those that partied through college, arent using their degrees and get the debt paid off shouldnt really benefit. Those who already paid off great debt wont make out from this. And those who made a wise decision on income/debt ratio field to start with wont be rewarded for their decision.

But... its a great thing for me. 

A good way to reaward a person like me is with the public service loan forgiveness program. But its restrictive enough that I dont quite qualify (due to being on the wrong type of payment plan). I would be eligible for the temproary expanded program but thats only funded with 700M dollars and I suspect itll be out of money in 1.5 years when I reach the 10 years of repayment and employment to qualify. 

Also, Trump wants to cut/end this forgiveness program.  Itd be a life changing thing for me to get this. I dont want to see it ended. I may vote for someone who will basically guarantee it. Immediately. 

 

8 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

I can understand that. I hope Manuel can develop guys better than Undlin. 

He can't be worse...but he still might not be good. Whether Slay is good/bad, I don't think we can pin that on Manuel. It'll be how he gets the new safeties ready and how he figures our CB #2.

2 minutes ago, RLC said:

He can't be worse...but he still might not be good. Whether Slay is good/bad, I don't think we can pin that on Manuel. It'll be how he gets the new safeties ready and how he figures our CB #2.

I’m curious how they split the duties there. Undlin/Manual was/is the DB coach but Hauck is the safeties coach. 

Man, Rodney McLeod and Hauck might end up being the only things in the secondary that are carrying over from last years team. 

Could potentiality have 2 new CBs and a SS, as well as a couch.

Clearly Schwartz was not thrilled at the end of the year.

22 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Well, Brooks may have 2 achilles injuries and miss 0 games.

Huh?

28 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

Say bye to sports. 

Honestly, at this point I don't care about sports this fall

Biden has an issue with stuttering, which can come off as "mental decline."

I can relate, since I had trouble learning to speak as a child and still are prone to malapropism because English in a sense is my "second language."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/

Better a President who gets tripped by a word when speaking his thoughts than a President incapable of coherent thought.

Florida, who was under 3k cases per day of Covid a week ago, started this week with back to back 5k new cases and ended the week with 9k new cases. We are idiots, i'm sorry. 

5 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Biden has an issue with stuttering, which can come off as "mental decline."

I can relate, since I had trouble learning to speak as a child and still are prone to malapropism because English in a sense is my "second language."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/

Better a President who gets tripped by a word when speaking his thoughts than a President incapable of coherent thought.

34 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

Say bye to sports. 

Yup.

And the State just now suspend on premise alcohol consumption because no one here listens to anything 

7 minutes ago, greend said:

Huh?

if there is no NFL season cause Corona is making a raging comeback. 

Just now, HazletonEagle said:

if there is no NFL season cause Corona is making a raging comeback. 

Thanks

4 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Biden has an issue with stuttering, which can come off as "mental decline."

I can relate, since I had trouble learning to speak as a child and still are prone to malapropism because English in a sense is my "second language."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/

Better a President who gets tripped by a word when speaking his thoughts than a President incapable of coherent thought.

Eh. I’ve never been so disappointed to cast a vote for someone then I will be to vote Biden. 
 

Though I am young, so there’s many (hopefully) more elections to top that.

6 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Biden has an issue with stuttering, which can come off as "mental decline."

I can relate, since I had trouble learning to speak as a child and still are prone to malapropism because English in a sense is my "second language."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/

Better a President who gets tripped by a word when speaking his thoughts than a President incapable of coherent thought.

that may be. But hopefully you arent actually suggesting hes not senile. Because he clearly is.

1 hour ago, The guy in France said:

Biden is a compromise candidate that Democrats settled on figuring if the election is close guys like you and greend would vote for him, salt of the earth. I’d say they miscalculated and should have gone for the best Democratic candidate, compromise be damned

 

Democrats' problem is they neglected the grass roots for decades, and are now building the roster of young and upcoming politicians (no, not the Mayor of South Bend) who'll be legitimate candidates in a few years. The ideal candidate is from outside of CA, Mass and NY, because (s)he must be able to relate to a spectrum of people, not just the true believers. Which is why Obama won, campaigning outside of Chicago forced him to communicate to a wider range of people and hear their concerns. Clinton from Arkansas, Carter from Georgia.

However, Biden has a second rate intellect but a first rate temperament, Trump has a fourth rate intellect (he's a f----g moron according to a man who ran a real company) and a fourth rate temperament. A President doesn't have to be brilliant (might be a hindrance), he has to, like the best CEOs, be comfortable hiring and listening to people smarter than himself.

1 minute ago, greend said:

Honestly, at this point I don't care about sports this fall

I'll be perfectly honest... even with all the insanity we've been going through, I don't know how I could deal with no football this fall.

I just can't imagine being OK with that.

40 minutes ago, WentzFan11 said:

Say bye to sports. 

 

1 minute ago, HazletonEagle said:

that may be. But hopefully you arent actually suggesting hes not senile. Because he clearly is.

That's crap. If you struggle with stuttering, you're gonna come off as senile. Trump is more likely to be senile than Biden, obese, never exercises, awful diet - those are correlated with early dementia. Of course, he's so dumb it would be hard to tell (reads at a 6th grade level, they have to give him Powerpoints rather than briefing books).

My mother at 92 is probably a lot sharper than you are, she still teaches (now by Zoom) courses at a senior center on a wide range of topics, from politics to art history.

I just hope Biden picks a good VP. 
 

Give me Abrams or Warren.

59 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

Student debt forgiveness is tricky.  In a way, it's like immigration.  I like both.  Everyone should like both.

But you can't have unchecked immigration and robust social welfare systems.

Likewise, if you are going to forgive student debt, then you need to limit access to college in the first place.  Student debt is actually a huge incentive.  It pushes you to excel in college/grad school, obtain a skill, and leverage it into a high-paying job to pay off the debt.  

If you want to drink and party through 4 years of a 3rd rate school to major in philosophy or art history, that's on you and your parents.  Don't demand that politicians and the tax payer fix your debt.  It would be political suicide to say this, but we really don't need MORE people going to college to enter the economy with jobs that don't require it.  It's a huge inefficiency, really a racket.  

Obviously, @HazletonEagle, you have a specific and essential skill.  It's very challenging to separate that.

Student debt payoff is a tricky one.  Another issue is if students know their debt will get paid off what’s stopping them from going to a private University that costs $30,000 per year in tuition vs a state college that costs as little as $6000 per year? 

2 hours ago, ManuManu said:

According to PFF, Pocic graded out at 43.3 in 91 snaps last year and 45.9 in 296 snaps last year. In 2018, he finished at 50.4 in 639 snaps. 

He’s really bad. 

Obviously Jones has been bad, but he’s flashed just enough to keep some level of optimism, plus he’s under team control for two years. Pocic is a FA after this season. 

Yeah its a bad move for so many reasons but the player control pretty much is the nail in the coffin.

Honestly I am still a Sid guy (i know, i am crazy), he did not look awful in man coverage last year. He especially showed up towards the end of the year, even if it was against lesser competition at times. Corner is the closest position (mentally) to goalie in other sports. You NEED confidence to play corner, it is the fuel that combines with physical traits and mental processing to make the whole thing work. Look at Jalen Mills, he has so many physical limitations but he has a competitive tenacious edge (and a short memory) that makes him an excellent defender when the field is shortened. Guys like Steven Nelson, Casey Hayward, and Quinton Dunbar are all really solid defenders who had to overcome some physical limitation. Then when you combine all of the physical skills with the confidence you get guys like R Sherman, Tredavious White, Shaquill Griffin, etc... All of these players have swag and an inherent drive to shut receivers down.

Up until about midway through last year, it seemed to me that Jones had completely lost his swag. He has all the tools and I think that it took him this long to regain his confidence, honestly I expect a lot of growth this year. Sidney thrives in man coverage, which is why confidence and aggression are so important for him to succeed. Here is to hoping he takes a big step forward so I dont have to swallow my words any more than I already have. 😬

3 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Student debt payoff is a tricky one.  Another issue is if students know their debt will get paid off what’s stopping them from going to a private University that costs $30,000 per year in tuition vs a state college that costs as little as $6000 per year? 

I may be wrong, but I don’t think private universities qualify for any kind of forgiveness. 

Just now, Ace Nova said:

Student debt payoff is a tricky one.  Another issue is if students know their debt will get paid off what’s stopping them from going to a private University that costs $30,000 per year in tuition vs a state college that costs as little as $6000 per year? 

Hopefully the admissions office - but yeah - that's a concern. I would say that the initial program should have no restriction as far as school. But I think going forward there needs to be a plan for public accredited university. Public High School was invented because America saw the benefit of having educated Americans. High School just doesn't get it done today. There needs to be a public option for University and Trade School with reasonably high minimum standards. And then a voucher program to private schools in the amount of the equivalent tuition for the public option.

4 minutes ago, austinfan said:

Democrats' problem is they neglected the grass roots for decades, and are now building the roster of young and upcoming politicians (no, not the Mayor of South Bend) who'll be legitimate candidates in a few years. The ideal candidate is from outside of CA, Mass and NY, because (s)he must be able to relate to a spectrum of people, not just the true believers. Which is why Obama won, campaigning outside of Chicago forced him to communicate to a wider range of people and hear their concerns. Clinton from Arkansas, Carter from Georgia.

However, Biden has a second rate intellect but a first rate temperament, Trump has a fourth rate intellect (he's a f----g moron according to a man who ran a real company) and a fourth rate temperament. A President doesn't have to be brilliant (might be a hindrance), he has to, like the best CEOs, be comfortable hiring and listening to people smarter than himself.

It seems to me the Democrats formula for success has always been to find a young-ish candidate with a fresh voice and ideas — Kennedy, Carter, Clinton, Obama — it’s absolutely surreal to me that they would go ahead and push candidates like Sanders, Biden, and Warren, etc who are all in their seventies.  Who Biden picks as a running mate will be vital, because I don’t see Biden going a full term in office.  That person (woman, apparently) will be assuming the presidency in my estimation.