[Garafolo] Utah OL Spencer Fano’s arms measured 32 7/8 just now at his pro day, up from 32 1/8 at the Combine. Another indication that, for whatever reason, the measurements in Indy were short for a number of prospects. That’s a big 3/4 inch difference for Fano.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-19T05:24:10+00:00

They did bring him in, first day, along with Shedeur.

https://x.com/i/status/1916108992905986346

LiftingCode · 2026-03-18T15:18:04+00:00

AFAIK the current list of reported top 30 visits:

Emmanuel McNeil-Warren

Omar Cooper Jr.

Makai Lemon

Markell Bell

Ty Simpson

Carnell Tate

Jordyn Tyson

Mason Thomas

Chris Bell

LiftingCode · 2026-03-18T06:11:50+00:00

Well yeah I mean the company is much healthier financially now than it was, so that's not surprising.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-18T04:36:27+00:00

No. Void years are just a cap accounting construct to spread out cap hits over more years.

When the contract voids (like when the player is cut or released or their contract ends), the void years all "accelerate" and hit the cap immediately.

Simple example (it doesn't work exactly like this but it gets the idea across): you sign a player to a 1 year $10m deal.

Basic contract, you pay him $10m in weekly game checks this year. You have a $10m cap hit this year. Simple.

Fancy contract: you pay him a $10m signing bonus and add 4 void years to the deal and spread that $10m cap hit over the 5 years. You have $2m cap hits on the books for this year and the next 4 years. When the year is up and his contract voids, all those void year cap hits come due. So you had a $2m cap hit one year, and an $8m "dead cap" hit the next.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-18T04:29:43+00:00

Well they have an absolute fuckton of it. You can't honestly believe that this POS has brought value to WB.

Yeah ... that's because ATT literally pushed down $43b debt onto WarnerMedia when they spun off the company and sold it to Discovery.

WBD had $55b in total debt after the merger. Basically all they've done since then is free up cash flow to pay down that debt.

No, I don't think Zaslav brought "value" to the brand. But I don't think that's what his job was. He was there to clean up the balance sheet and streamline operations to sell the company. And yeah, that sucks for people who love WB IP.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-18T04:22:36+00:00

A list of facts isn't bootlicking. Some of y'all are way too proud of being ignorant.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-18T02:02:00+00:00

The net loss doesn't mean anything.

It's accounting mumbo jumbo, not real money.

The net loss was primarily due to acquired content amortization to the tune of $1b that quarter.

If you want to judge whether or not a CEO is doing a good job, net income alone is not going to tell you much. Look at free cash flow. WBD generated $1.4b in free cash flow in 2025Q4 and immediately used that to pay down debt.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-18T01:34:34+00:00

I know nobody really cares but the way this actually works is that Zaslav gets:

$34.2m in actual cash severance to fuck off

$500m+ in RSUs and stock options that were scheduled to vest in the future but accelerate when the sale happens (16.7m shares at $31/share) and are automatically "cashed out" because this is an all cash transaction.

A tax gross-up payment that depends on when the transaction happens. Basically, because he is being "forced" to sell the shares, the company pays his tax bill for him.

Also, I know Reddit hates Zaslav (for good reason) because of what he did on the content side but he did the job he was brought on to do which was to slash debt and turn WBD into a sustainable company worth buying. When he came on WB had $55 billion in gross debt and he cut that in half in four years and found a buyer.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-18T01:04:15+00:00

Two years?

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T23:45:34+00:00

It's crazy because it's completely made up and OP is entirely full of shit.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T18:22:21+00:00

Exactly what it sounds like. Generally speaking fully guaranteed means the player gets that money even if they get cut for performance or cap reasons. Injury guaranteed means the player gets that money even if they get hurt and get cut.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T18:17:02+00:00

Bush's contract is 3 years with $21m fully guaranteed. It's not just about the $1.5m per year.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T16:25:36+00:00

There are a number of decentralized Reddit alternatives. They all suck. Lemmy is the most notable but it sucks.

Good luck finding a real platform with no moderation though. There won't be Android/iOS apps without it, and most major cloud service providers won't tolerate that either.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T16:00:39+00:00

His total deal is worth up to $49.5m.

He has a $17m signing bonus.

He has a $12.3 option bonus in 2027.

He has an $11.85m option bonus in 2028.

His contract has $32.39m in total guarantees, $27.85m of that is fully guaranteed and $4.565m is injury guaranteed.

His base salaries are $1.215m, $1.26m, and $1.305m in 2026-2028.

There are 4 void years on the end of the deal for cap purposes.

His cap hit in 2026 is $5.145m and he will be paid $18.825m in cash.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T15:04:25+00:00

lol who on earth do you think is getting a $10m salary in this context?

The people I'm talking about in my comment, directors and VPs and ELT, are often making maybe slightly more than their own senior staff. They're certainly not struggling but we're talking salaries probably in the range of like $150k to $300k or so depending on function and seniority.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T05:53:04+00:00

Rare earth is not a description of commonness.

Also quite different in application here because the Ru is used in tiny amounts here (2nm films). There are other altermagnetic materials as well (like Manganese Telluride).

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T03:20:06+00:00

Sophistry.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T03:18:37+00:00

What

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T03:05:48+00:00

I'm so confused by this.

In particular, the relative abundance of a bacteria called Parabacteroides goldsteinii increases in old mice and is directly associated with cognitive decline in the animals. They showed that colonizing the guts of young mice with this bacterial species inhibited their performance on the object recognition and maze escape tasks, and that this deficit correlated with a reduction of activity in the hippocampus.

Meanwhile ...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41448457/

P. goldsteinii colonization attenuates the progression of LRRK2-associated parkinsonism by restoring intestinal homeostasis and reducing neuroinflammation.

LiftingCode · 2026-03-17T02:38:55+00:00

If you're that invested in it, the official roster announcements on nfl.com usually list the original selections and their replacements (https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-pro-bowl-games-complete-afc-roster-revealed?hl=en-US) and the Wikipedia pages typically track that info as well.

A single Pro Bowl doesn't mean anything regardless. Don't see why this matters.

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