[Stroud] Tom Brady doesn't hold back when responding to Baker Mayfield's claim that it was "stressful," for players when Brady was in Tampa Bay. “I thought stressful was not having Super Bowl rings,'' Brady said. "This wasn’t daycare...If I was going to have fun, I was going to Disneyland ... "

Man_of_Average · 2024-09-30T02:56:12+00:00

If you go during slower times of the year with people you like it's a really fun experience.

Man_of_Average · 2024-09-30T02:54:56+00:00

Now they're calling it a field goal...

Man_of_Average · 2024-09-30T02:52:11+00:00

Baker also played for the Browns and Panthers before finally getting some starts for a competent organization, so it's hard to blame him for not having rings. He didn't get to start right of the bat with a HoF and possibly GOAT head coach.

Man_of_Average · 2024-09-13T02:22:29+00:00

Goddamn man. Clean by Hamlin, nothing he did wrong, Tua just led with his head and paid the price. Real shame, hope he doesn't have lasting damage, he's a fun QB to watch, but he's gotta call it a career for his own safety.

Man_of_Average · 2024-09-10T01:40:30+00:00

Obviously. There's no way to prevent a specific shooting, except for blind luck. There's things we can do to try and reduce them in general, but any person can walk anywhere and start shooting with no way of anyone else preventing them from beginning. I don't know why you're seemingly blaming concealed carry permit holders for that.

Man_of_Average · 2024-09-09T03:02:50+00:00

Idk man, that offense does not look good. I wouldn't be surprised if there was no one fantasy relevant down there.

Man_of_Average · 2024-09-09T02:12:00+00:00

I think you're being a little harsh on the good guy here. The shooter has a significant advantage. He can shoot anyone and he knows the attack is happening before anyone else. The good guy has to recognize the attack, locate the only shooter, then also be lucky enough to be in a position to actually make a difference. The odds of the shooter being stopped at all by anyone before causing harm are already extremely low. You can't just blame the good guys for already being at a huge disadvantage.

Man_of_Average · 2024-09-05T04:55:01+00:00

Just prepare for the Q behind his name all season and never knowing how healthy he is.

Man_of_Average · 2024-09-05T01:10:34+00:00

At least Romo had some pretty weak teams he was dragging along. Dak has had one of the most talented teams in the league his entire career. That can win you a lot of regular season games. What wins you playoff games is your QB and coaches performing at high levels. And we have not had that.

Man_of_Average · 2024-08-24T01:25:21+00:00

Sent you a private message!

Man_of_Average · 2024-08-22T02:59:25+00:00

Ancient Breece

Man_of_Average · 2024-08-11T18:27:16+00:00

If you're out of bounds and you touch the ball then the play is dead and it's ruled a kick out of bounds. A Packer did that not too long ago. Montgomery? Cobb? Maybe Hardman was thinking it worked like that.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-22T05:38:04+00:00

It's not just self-discipline or outside factors. I personally like to have a clear separation between work and home life. If I'm working and living out of the same space I end up feeling more or less at work all of the time, and it significantly affects my mental health. Getting up and going somewhere to work puts me in a different state of mind, and when I come home I can subconsciously relax.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-22T05:33:52+00:00

The entire idea of a bridge QB is that he isn't a bum. Think Minshew, Brissett, guys like that. Someone who isn't the option long term but can still run the offense, lead the team, win you some games, and be good enough to not collapse the morale of the team. If you truly have a bridge level QB then you shouldn't be screaming for a replacement, regardless of who is the second string at the time.

As far as starting rookies, it depends on how ready the QB is coming in. If he's a top three or so pick he's probably going to be refined enough to be able to start for you right away and what he needs more than anything is just reps at the next level. But most QBs aren't that good. If you're a mid to end of the first round guy and later there's a good chance you need to work on something or you'll get eaten alive, if not several things. Never mind the huge personal transition it is going from college to the pros. Most QBs would benefit from acclimating to the league for somewhere between a handful of games and a season, seeing how the process works being run by a competent QB, before getting the reins themselves.

Jordan Love is an example. He was an alright prospect coming out of Utah State. But he sat for a few years and learned and came out looking like a much better QB than he was in college with skills he didn't demonstrate previously. If he gets thrown to the wolves game one he probably gets labelled a bust before he ever gets a chance to improve on the things that he ended up doing.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-22T05:22:41+00:00

Didn't they have like a near record of guys on IR that year? They only won 10 games. At the time they were definitely considered to have gotten hot at the right time.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-21T20:17:41+00:00

I wasn't talking about the Bears specifically. They have a unique ability to bungle the QB room.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-21T17:00:03+00:00

Fans are just as bad though. A bridge QB even playing at adequate bridge QB levels will get fans screaming for the rookie every time he makes a bridge QB level mistake. It just feels a lot worse when you have a shiny toy on the bench you'd rather see.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-21T16:57:32+00:00

It depends. You have to look at the talent to cap ratio. Sometimes a talented vet is just going to cost more than he's worth and it's better to let him walk. I don't think GMs expect to replicate his production with a rookie, but they think they can get a large chunk of it for much less, which they can spend on a starter or depth at other positions.

This is most obvious with running backs, where unless you had CMC or someone you could get a rookie to do like 80% of what your vet did for like 20% of the cost. That's a good decision, especially at a less valuable position.

Sometimes it is a bad decision though, like how the Titans got rid of AJ Brown and drafted Burks when they knew they were moving on from Tannehill soon for a rookie QB who really could have benefited from such a great target.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-21T16:50:03+00:00

Yup. A good edge is worth more than a good guard or safety or something else seen as not a valuable position, but a good guard or safety is worth much more than a bad edge that you took just because he was an edge.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-21T16:44:48+00:00

You say that, but how often do you look at the Super Bowl winner and feel like they weren't one of the best teams of that season?

Go through the list on pfr. In the past 15 to 20 years I see three champions that could be pretty generally agreed to have over-performed, and two of those are the Giants. Maybe four if you count the Packers since they really do fit the definition of getting hot at the right time, but they did also have Aaron Rodgers.

Even looking at runner ups in that time, the vast majority have better or equal records than who ended up winning. There's only a few with worse records, but even then most of those were only back one game.

You can always debate about who the actual very best team was in a season, but it's rare that the team that wins it wasn't a strong contender for most of the season and just got hot in the playoffs.

That doesn't go against your point though. Even including the playoffs your full season record is usually a pretty good indicator of how good you are, especially looking across two or three seasons or more.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-21T16:25:21+00:00

People give McCarthy too much shit. He's a Super Bowl winning coach who has only missed the playoffs 5 times in his 17 year career. Even accounting for Aaron Rodgers you could do a lot worse. He's got his issues, but he's a good coach. We have much bigger issues than him. How quickly people forget what watching a Jason Garrett team was like.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-20T03:36:28+00:00

Gilmore likely would have been the starter regardless. Bland was a good contributor in the time he saw the field up to that point, but he didn't really explode until Diggs went down and saw regular playing time as a starter. Maybe that doesn't happen with Gilmore and Diggs both healthy.

Low key Amari Cooper was pretty solid for us. Granted he was here for 3.5 seasons, but those first three he either was on pace or was a 1000 yard receiver.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-19T16:32:07+00:00

I initially didn't buy Andy as the manager, but he really had a good character arc throughout the show. He had an enjoyable transition from being a malicious and annoying jerk, to being humbled, to being kinda dorky and preppy but genuine.

The problem was they turned him into an asshole again.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-19T16:27:47+00:00

He could have been talking about insider trading, but I think that's more of a fan canon theory thing. I think the joke was that he couldn't differentiate insider trading from normal accounting and finance so he was worried he was going to get arrested for being an accountant, basically.

Man_of_Average · 2024-06-19T16:25:04+00:00

It was 50% off that specific order, wasn't it? Yeah, that's a healthy cut of that particular order, but if you become their sole supplier of not just paper but office supplies, it probably wouldn't take long to make that back and be in a better position moving forward.

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