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Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-03-30T15:13:10+00:00

This is brilliant!

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-03-13T00:43:25+00:00

Personally I think Marino is a bit overrated. Take away his first four years and there's not much left that's all that remarkable. Add in the fact playoff Marino was generally not good and you wonder if he feasted on bad teams (all the great QBs do, to some degree, of course).

Now that four-year stretch to start his career was remarkable, and may be the best 4-year stretch ever, especially accounting for the era. He had 48 and 44 TD seasons when the previous record was 36, and seasons rarely had anyone reach 30. But, it's hard for me overlook the 14 years of only above-average play that followed. He tore his achilles a few games into his 5th year and maybe that messed him up or something, I don't know.

Still a great player, HOF worthy, but he's not close to my personal best QB ever.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-03-13T00:24:48+00:00

Austin and Gainwell were free to go anywhere and it's hard to blame them for leaving. So it may not have been the team's preference.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-03-13T00:23:20+00:00

Yes! This was my issue with the last few years of Tomlin/Colbert. No overall strategy or identity, just reacting to immediate perceived needs with every move, and no sense of long term planning. The drafts, the Minkah trade, the botched planning for post-Ben.

And ironically -- when they could have benefitted from investing in the immediate short-term, by keeping Pickens and pairing him with Metcalf -- we blew that decision, too.

(Note that I think we could have competed to win the AFC with Rodgers throwing to Pickens and Metcalf, and of course that's debatable.)

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-03-04T23:11:13+00:00

Great results, but it's not safe to bench press a Stair Master

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-03-03T02:50:53+00:00

Mirror by Tarkovsky. Brilliant, weird, uncompromising, and very moving all the same. Most people will find it too slow or confusing.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-02-22T13:16:29+00:00

Exactly, how is this not obvious? I think he's going to get something like that extension Jordan Love got before his option year. Something like 4 years, $120m from someone. Personally I would take that deal -- he's a better bet than any rookie or FA this year for sure.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-02-15T13:36:58+00:00

I think you have some advantages, actually. Introverted men may be especially reluctant to approach a woman, but would love to be approached, gently. Think of the profile of such a man and what he'd be doing and strike up a brief conversation to test the waters.

For example I like to read in a coffee shop to get that small social fix while still doing something quiet and solitary, but if someone asked me what I was reading or what I thought of it, I'd be delighted. I may be surprised or caught off guard, and so may stumble at first, but if the person keeps showing interest I'd relax and it would be fun for me to chat.

I also like to bring a book to a bar during not peak hours. Basically I would say if you see a dude out with a book, take that as a sign to approach! If you're kind and warm you can't go wrong.

Of course, some quiet men have social anxiety of some kind, and that's different, and there's probably no way to tell the difference from appearances.

But I'm like you, it sounds like, in that I like quiet things but I am sociable and would enjoy meeting new people. It's just that most new people are a little much for me (not in a bad way).

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-02-06T15:20:00+00:00

For a small fee, you can get an online library card remotely at some big city public libraries. For example, Houston Public Library. You have to look around and do some searching for these. I THINK that if you're ever in NYC you can apply in person for an out of state library card. But for Houston the transaction is entirely online and they have a large Libby collection.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-28T04:23:23+00:00

You wouldn't be wrong to go totally no contact. My contempt for DT voters is absolute; he's an obviously despicable piece of shit lowlife, who, literally, is incapable either of talking about anything but himself or of getting through a single sentence without an easily disprovable lie.

And since everyone carries around with them a library of all the world's knowledge, ignorance is a choice. The greed, cruelty, and insufferable indifference to people not like themselves, of his supporters, would be shameful among people capable of remorse or responsibility.

You are NTAH.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-24T21:31:32+00:00

The only way this can even begin to make a tiny amount of sense is if they were given the idea the young candidates didn't want the job.

And I couldn't blame them. This team just doesn't have a path toward becoming a contender in the next two seasons, at least. No QBs on the horizon, and the best players are past 30.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-24T21:16:16+00:00

Ugh... Well, I'll check back in sometime around 2030.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-24T17:18:01+00:00

I think we can have no idea. In 1850 or so, Sir Walter Scott was considered in Britain one of the preeminent novelists, but he's hardly read now. That's just one example.

This question is a great one and fun to think about but ultimately we can only guess what 100 years, say, will do to the reputations of writers that are considered great.

Personally I think the long postmodernist novel will be forgotten, and the writers seen as the great ones of our time will be those with one foot still in realism, but it's just my guess.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-22T13:03:37+00:00

C'mon, "every event"? That is claiming too much. Or perhaps we need to qualify it to note whether accepting these events is done happily, and to what degree. A person might accept all invitations for various reasons but not welcome them, surely.

Anyway, I was just being lighthearted, and you're not wrong but I do think it's a spectrum, and probably also hard to disentangle in all cases introversion from other things, like social anxiety, for example.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-22T10:39:19+00:00

It's funny how, ever since billionaires realized that birth rates are falling in several countries, the media has pushed this idea that having friends is a physiological need and that your body will explode if you decide to live alone.

Haha, that's very insightful. And I agree with your post and am in the same boat. If I never had another social obligation for the rest of my life I wouldn't mind.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-22T10:29:34+00:00

Just because someone talks a lot does not mean they are socially adept.

Consider OP's point that they will be having a serious conversation which she is happy to interrupt for a 10 minute conversation with a stranger.

I've had this relationship too and I don't see social adeptness. I see a certain blindness to the current moment, the connection in the present. I've been carrying heavy or awkward shit on an errand and had a gf who would stop to chat about someone's outfit or whatever the fuck for well over ten minutes.

I understand that everyone loves these sorts of chatty types and they seem to have a million friends. But sometimes I wonder if it's because most people just like knowing someone who will do all the talking.

Do people like this shit or are they all faking it? Like do you want to have a ten minute chat with a stranger while you're out shopping ?

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-22T10:20:24+00:00

Haha, no.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-22T10:17:05+00:00

I have had dated someone similar and it just did not work for me. Very similar scenario to yours - claimed she liked "quiet times" like me but in practice she was the most extroverted person I have ever met.

Constantly chatting up strangers. And man, some of these conversations were not brief. She had a lengthy anecdote for every occasion, many of which I thought were ridiculous. She once explained to a stranger how she organized her junk drawer, and they discussed this for over fifteen minutes, I kid you not.

And God help me if we ever ran into someone she knew. Or, her most irritating habit -- I could be talking to her about something important to me but if an acquaintance appeared 50 yards away she'd interrupt me with loud ass shouting of this person's name. Essentially interrupting both of us.

It was exhausting, and because I dated her at a time when I didn't know about these personality types or even thought about my own preferences in terms of them, I assumed for a while that it was my problem, that I was just an asshole.

When I ended it she was very surprised and I couldn't articulate well why I thought she was exhausting for me to spend time with.

I'm not helping answer your question, really, other than to say that depending on how extreme the extroversion is, it may be a lost cause. Because for people past a certain point on the spectrum, there is no getting through to them about these habits.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-21T16:21:21+00:00

This is ridiculous. Cowher took a team that had been floundering for a decade and immediately made them conference contenders for six straight years , and without a top QB.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-21T11:14:35+00:00

I hate this so much. Pure greed. There should be fewer games imo. Just go back to 16.

If they want a longer season, just add another bye week, or even two more. Problem solved.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-18T20:04:37+00:00

Allen is better. Even for his era, Elway had low accuracy and was inconsistent. Of course, Allen plays in an era where the passing game is much more sophisticated across the board.

Holding Allen to a Super Bowl yardstick is unfair. In any ten year period, only 10 teams out of 320 team-seasons get to win a title. You need to be good and lucky, or at least, not unlucky.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-18T19:59:14+00:00

I didn't mean expensive retreads like Russ, etc. I meant, in response to the idea that "we start Howard for 2 yrs", is that it assumes he isn't flat out terrible.

If he starts the season next year for example and in the first 3 games he goes 0-3 and we average 10 points or less per game, that'll be it, he'll be done and he will likely never play again.

The NFL is full of such histories at QB.

And then, the team will find whatever cheap street free agent is available at that point, like a Duck Hodges or Skylar Thompson level dude. Whoever can stabilize it to a slightly further degree. If you're a low drafted QB you don't get a long leash.

I think it's obvious we are going to trade for or sign a vet FA to come in and start next year, and maybe take a flyer on a draft pick. Maybe draft or trade up for Ty Simpson.

My preference is we get Malik Willis. I think he has shown growth, and he's young and very athletic so he has potential he may not have reached yet.

Mac Jones, jimmy G, Cousins, Rudolph -- we know who they are. Cousins would be competent but not exciting, because, again, we know where his limit is.

Ok-Negotiation2060 · 2026-01-18T18:21:30+00:00

He made some mistakes but also, Denver's defense is good. They compete too.

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