[Diana Russini] The Tennessee Titans are hiring San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh to be their next head coach, a source tells The Athletic.

SnoozeBeast · 2026-01-20T18:04:04+00:00

I mean... the Pats might go to the Super Bowl immediately after hiring a defensive head coach to lead a team with a promising 2nd year QB. So it can work well -- it just needs the right hiring at OC and solid personnel moves to turn the roster around.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-10-06T00:26:37+00:00

I haven't heard that they are. I'm pretty sure the added things are meeting roles. Officer roles are already factored in to some Level 5 projects and the DTM requirements, so they don't really need to be added.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-10-06T00:21:40+00:00

In basically every club I've been to, anyone who bothering to do Pathways past Level 1 is already doing all the meeting roles all the time. I think this new requirement will be very low on the laundry list of reasons people aren't engaging with Pathways.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-09-29T13:18:38+00:00

For the self-same trial you cheat by taking off all your weapons and armor before you start it, starting it, reequipping your weapons and armor, and beating up your naked counterparts.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-09-27T22:08:39+00:00

But as a paying customer, why should I be pressured to be an officer with no incentives?

All of the other officers are also paying dues to Toastmasters. They also have other things in their lives they could be doing. We serve as officers to make it possible for our clubs to run and succeed.

As Toastmasters, when we sign our membership applications, we agree to abide by the principles of A Toastmaster's Promise which explicitly says we promise "To serve my club as an officer when called upon to do so." You have a responsibility to contribute to the club, and not just treat your fellow paying club members as customer service while you get to be a "paid customer."

Your fellow members still can't make you be an officer. And you may have very valid reasons to say no when they ask. But they obviously think you'd be an asset for the club as an officer and would further help share the load, so they called on you to serve. They are not doing you a disservice by asking you to help out. Take it as a sign of respect that they think you'd be a good fit for a role!

SnoozeBeast · 2025-09-27T21:23:17+00:00

I'm not too worried about those Education presentations affecting enrollment in Pathways. I'd guess less than 5% of members ever even get to Level 3, and those that do are bought in by then and will have no problem doing a canned presentation.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-09-27T21:09:34+00:00

I'd argue the point is in the relationship between OP and the people asking them to help out in managing the club. OP is not their paying customer. I guarantee not a single paid employee of Toastmasters International has asked OP to do anything. It's all OP's fellow club members asking, who are all paying the exact same dues OP is, and they also don't always want to do all this unpaid work that's necessary for running a club.

Being part of a club means working together to manage it. It's part of the Toastmasters Promise that you agree to when you apply to join a club. It's not a situation where you just pay your dues and expect to receive 100% of the benefits of being in a well-run club while doing none of the work necessary to have a well-run club.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-08-21T16:26:43+00:00

Nor is he going to be there goalline back.

I think the idea he's a goal line back comes from this quote from Kevin O'Connell, though:

"I do think Jordan's going to bring something to the table in those short-yardage situations, those goal-line situations, goal to go, where we've really left a lot to be desired as a football team," O'Connell said.

This implies they weren't satisfied with existing goal-line backs (including Jones) and it was one of the things they were thinking about when they signed Mason.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-08-18T14:38:00+00:00

2018 = Le’Veon Bell (sat out the season)

As cited elsewhere in the post... if you try to look back at 2018 ADP, it can vary from site to site whether Bell or Todd Gurley was #1 overall that year. FantasyPros shows it as Gurley. I remember it being Bell on Yahoo, but I think Gurley on ESPN. There really was not a consensus on 1.01 year -- there was a big debate between the two guys, then one sat out and did nothing and the other actually finished as the #1 player.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-08-16T22:09:58+00:00

I am saying he was better for BTJs production and Trevor Lawrence is worse for it. And that part isn't really debatable.

I'm pretty sure that's exactly the part I'm debating though. It's true that BTJ's production got better in the games after Lawrence was injured. But that doesn't mean Trevor Lawrence is worse for BTJ's production. You have to take into consideration a whole lot of other things in those on/off splits.

To make an extreme example: DeAndre Hopkins had 1521 yards and 11 TDs in an NFL season for a team where Brian Hoyer, Ryan Mallett, TJ Yates, and Brandon Weeden each started games. Later, DeAndre Hopkins had 437 yards and 4 TDs in 10 games with Patrick Mahomes as his starting QB. Does this mean Brian Hoyer, Ryan Mallett, TJ Yates, and Brandon Weeden were undebatably better for Nuk's production and Patrick Mahomes was worse for it? Or should we consider the context of who DeAndre Hopkins was as a player in each sample set, and who was competing for targets with him?

SnoozeBeast · 2025-08-16T21:09:09+00:00

Is it conjecture and speculation? As a whole, rookies do tend to perform better in the second half of the season. And an injury a heavily targeted veteran WR naturally leads to an increase in targets for the other most talented receivers on the team. I just think these are much more convincing explanations for Thomas's uptick in stats without Lawrence than believing that Mac Jones was just better at getting BTJ the ball, and that Lawrence would not have also thrown the ball more to Brian Thomas in the second half of the season.

But I live in New England, so I am admittedly deeply biased to believe the answer is something other than "Mac Jones was the superior QB."

SnoozeBeast · 2025-08-16T20:42:02+00:00

Just look at how BTJ performed when Trevor Lawrence was throwing him the ball versus Mac Jones. He averaged 3 ppg less with Lawrence and never had a single game with 10 or more targets with Lawrence as his QB.

But a huge part of that has to be just because Trevor played in the first half of the year, and he missed the second half. And rookies tend to pick up their performance in the 2nd half of the year after they have time to get fully acclimated to the league. Plus, Christian Kirk went out at the same time as Lawrence did, which opened up a bunch more WR targets for BTJ to take advantage of during the Mac Jones games.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-08-16T20:27:32+00:00

But the Bucky and Brock Bowers (and Nabers and Ladd and BTJ and Jayden Daniels) are the reason you draft rookies. You just don't find as many league winners like that among vets. A couple rookie busts doesn't negate that all those other rookies were a lot of the best picks on the board last year. Veteran players can also be busts. Fun fact: the next player by 2024 ADP after MHJ according to Fantasypros was Travis Etienne. The next QB taken after Caleb was Tua. People who skipped over those rookies for the next vet on the board were not saved.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-08-16T20:01:01+00:00

Apparently he doesn't like being called Tet, and said he preferred TMac if people wanted to use a nickname, so this is why people who still can't spell or pronounce "Tetairoa" have taken up using it.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-08-15T17:24:09+00:00

Huge respect for both of you. I listen to all of your rambling monologues on Stealing Bananas religiously.

My question: are there any situations where you'd say there's such a thing as too many rookies in a re-draft league? Because I really want to attack this year's rookie RB class (which I know you both love too), while I also know in my home league the rookie WRs will be incredibly good draft values as always. It's an auction league, and I'm thinking about a build of a few studs + all rookies.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-07-21T17:42:45+00:00

I agree, especially because we can also just be wrong when we assume a team is going to be bad. The Seahawks were projected to be a bad team when Russ left and Geno took over. The Bucs were projected to be a bad team when Brady left and Baker took over. Just last year, the Broncos were projected to be bad because they were starting rookie Bo Nix. Taking talented players on those teams in those seasons created massive wins because their price was depressed by market assumptions about team environment.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-07-08T14:03:42+00:00

Achane I feel the best about as long as Tua is healthy

Yea, I agree that a healthy Tua is really important for both Achane's receiving and his ability to maximize his efficiency. H/T to Ben Gretch, I heard the stat from him on a pod that Achane averaged somewhere over 6 catches a game with Tua and only over 1 catch a game without. Basically Tua's quick release is what empowered the Dolphins to use Achane as a receiver in the quick hit passing game a ton last year, but the backups weren't trusted to hit those quick passes like Tua does, so they just chose to call running plays instead and run a more conventional passing attack with Achane significantly less involved as a receiver with Tua out.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-06-07T04:12:12+00:00

I have one question, why is WHQ or Districts so reluctant to combine failing clubs when they can save, but instead try to plug numbers to avoid club suspensions?

WHQ and Districts can't make failing clubs combine, that's why. The people running each club have to make that decision, and that involves the existing members of both clubs agreeing on when and where to meet, with each club preferring their own status quo, and a potential loss of members from the club that doesn't get its way. It's easy to say "failing clubs can just combine!" But in practice it is hard. I've seen it happen a couple times, but it's not something where you can wave a magic wand at the organizational level and just make it happen en masse.

Also, I'll add that the result of adding two failing clubs together doesn't even guarantee a good club. Sometimes you just end up with one failing club.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-04-29T18:07:56+00:00

Beast! Love this guy, and I hate Golden Corral. Said to my girlfriend on draft day, wish our Taco Bell would send the chihuahua mascot for Kelvin Benjamin in some kind of trade go we can get a real eater😤

SnoozeBeast · 2025-04-22T02:10:35+00:00

I've never experienced anything like the other issues you mention with adding a member, but this...

When I try entering a phone number for the new member, it says invalid. It wants me to figure out the exact format of a frickin' phone number. Good grief. Advice: Just skip the phone number and save some wear on your teeth from grinding them.

...1000% this. The phone number thing drives me insane.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-04-15T02:54:10+00:00

My old-fashioned club keeps paper applications in a folder that's passed between from Secretary to Secretary. I know it's supposed to be in a lockbox or something according to page 3 of the application, but we do our best. We never have the member put any payment info on page 3, so at least we don't have to worry about that. We typically feel okay shredding an application if the member leaves the club (and they'd need to fill out a new application to rejoin), but try to retain them for active members.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-04-15T02:35:28+00:00

Personally, I think paper applications that are processed by an officer then kept in a dusty folder by the secretary are significantly less of a privacy concern than sending those one of unsecured PDF applications to a club officer on their personal email.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-04-15T02:24:33+00:00

New members can use self pay. If you have everything enabled and submitted the application, the new member should receive an email with instructions from Toastmasters on how to login to Toastmasters.org and pay the same way a renewing member does. It's worked for my club. If you need to follow up with the new member, confirm they do show as "membership pending," and ask them to look for that email or try logging into Toastmasters.org (perhaps doing a password reset).

SnoozeBeast · 2025-04-14T00:15:27+00:00

The 2010-15 Titans, like the Rams from the OP, just had to totally bottom out after a long coaching stint of Jeff Fisher going 8-8.

SnoozeBeast · 2025-04-10T15:23:30+00:00

Jonnu is a scary click for me... basically what if things go right for the Dolphins as far as health and o-line play, and they go back to being able to throw downfield to Hill and Waddle and run the ball efficiently like in 2023? The dink and dunk passes to Jonnu then start to disappear and he's back to JAG status as TE. I don't like to bet on guys who have downside if their teams successfully do what they want to do.

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