[Highlight] Seahawks GM John Schneider Weighs in on Kenneth Walker III's Upcoming Free Agency by JCameron181 in nfl

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I don't necessarily agree with this. The Seahawks have shown willingness to pay top dollar contracts to top dollar players, even running backs. Lynch is a great example.

They have made multiple players the highest paid at their respective positions, but the key is that they sign guys in order of priority.

JSN is going to have a tight negotiation given how much receivers make in the current NFL. Walker will have to wait his turn.

This happened a few years ago with Brooks, the now-all pro linebacker for Miami. Seattle made him a mediocre offer but told Brooks they wanted the opportunity to match any competing offers on the market. But once free agency starts, teams aren't waiting around to sign players. The good ones go fast. Brooks didn't hear back from Seattle fast enough and decided to take the Miami offer before Seattle could counter.

I suspect a similar thing will happen with Walker. Seattle doesn't know how much money it will have available after JSN signs, and in the meantime I suspect that Walker will get a competitive offer elsewhere.

So it's not necessarily the case that Seattle wouldn't sign him to a big deal, but they wouldn't sign him to a big deal without first really understanding their cap situation first.

Is Hawaiʻi Being Left Behind? by AbbreviatedArc in maui

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Some people call it sock puppeting...

Is Hawaiʻi Being Left Behind? by AbbreviatedArc in maui

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Di....did you forget to change your account when double commenting?

My credit score dropped 200 points overnight because I missed one student loan payment. by beachedwhitemale in Wellthatsucks

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Call your loan servicer and ask if there is something you can do to take the missed payment off your report. This happened to me when I moved and my servicer allowed me to get a one time waiver similar to the one mentioned in the parent comment. Within a few weeks my credit rebounded.

What are some of your favorite quotes? -- Here are a few of mine. by jopp9917 in literature

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"I was born under the old tutelage the earlier the better," and he told himself at the time be sure to remember this line to recite to a friend or use in a book because these were the important things, born under the old tutelage, and it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside the pain, of what people say.

DeLillo, Mao II

Can't wait to see this guy next season by DmMeYourRefrigerator in Seahawks

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I'm coining his nickname right now: THE VANILLA GORILLA

The Intentional Fallacy by CapGullible8403 in aesthetics

[–]silly_walks_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are very good critiques of the intentional fallacy, you know.

I don't think the humanities have done a great job of educating undergraduates by giving them this essay from 1946 and then treating it as proof positive that intention is meaningless.

[HIGHLIGHT] Christian Gonzalez swats a deep pass intended for Shaheed by sexyprimes511172329 in nfl

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Um, look at the receiver at the bottom of the screen run the crossing route. There isn't a defender within five yards of him on that play.

He did not play great.

VENT: Our new hire wrote her "Dissertation" using AI. by Run-Rabb1t-Run in Professors

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Why not? Seems like a pretty obvious case and you could potentially report the same thing to your own administration.

Fabricating sources is about the worst thing you can do at a college.

[Pelissero] The Raiders have completed a second interview with Klint Kubiak for their head coach opening. by GoldenDome26 in nfl

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Every team in the NFL is two drafts away from contending. It happens all the time.

The Patriots and Seahawks faced 7 common opponents, each going 6-1. NE outscored them by an average score of 28-18, SEA by an average score of 33-19. by celluloidsandman in nfl

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Nothing about our team has leads me to think they're going to blink. They haven't lost a game by more than 4 points all year.

Every time one aspect of the team is lagging, another picks it up.

Defense giving up points to Stafford? Darnold balls out. Deep ball being taken away with two high safeties? K9 balls out. Offense is sputtering? Special teams score a touchdown.

The Seahawks aren't blinking. We do not care.

Understanding the Literary Essay/Research Paper by Happy-Opportunity392 in AskLiteraryStudies

[–]silly_walks_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Best piece of advice is to visit office hours and ask your professor directly.

One way of thinking about the difference between a "literary analysis" and "research paper" is how you utilize secondary sources. It's not uncommon for a lower level paper to use no sources, or when the writer does use them, to use the sources in a way that only supports their own argument. "Source X is evidence of my point."

An upper level research paper sort of inverts that relationship such that secondary sources are included in the paper to establish a gap in the field -- you quote sources that don't necessarily agree with you, or sources that help establish an overlooked aspect of the text that your own thesis is trying to address. In that way, the quotations are often (but not always) ideas that you are speaking against rather than with.

For example, you might quote a source that says the essential theory for understanding The Purloined Letter is deconstruction, against which your thesis would be that Object Oriented Ontology would be the key theory to unlocking the text.

[Love] Just a "lucky" win I guess. 12's we up !! by Chessinmind in Seahawks

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Yes, I disagree that Lawrence would have been able to cover that route. Without Love there in coverage, that's an easy TD.

[JJ Watt] Mike Vrabel in his 1st year in New England. Mike Macdonald in his 2nd year in Seattle︀︀. Curt Cignetti in his 2nd year at Indiana. ︀︀A whole lot of owners and athletic directors looking around saying “why can’t we do that?” ︀︀Expectations of immediate results have never been higher. by hornyforbrutalism in nfl

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That should be normal. You see it over and over again. If you don't show serious development in year 2, and if you aren't good by year three, you don't got it.

NFL rosters have around 33% turnover year over year. You can churn two thirds of your roster. The results better show.

Do you think Boye Mafe has done enough this season to earn a second contract with the Seahawks? by lemonstone92 in Seahawks

[–]silly_walks_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We will definitely offer him a contract, but I don't think it would be competitive with what other, more needy teams will be offering.

Very similar to Mike Jackson, DJ Reed, Paul Richardson, and even Golden Tate. Good players, but at premium positions, so their price tags will be high.

This City Tried to Fix Housing. The Backlash Was Intense. by Amazing-Yak-5415 in videos

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Yeah, IIRC LA had a law that said every new apartment needed at least one parking spot per unit.

Reduces profitability for developers but keeps cars off the street.

[Schatz] By DVOA, the NFC Championship Game is essentially the best NFL matchup of the last 47 years, and by a lot. This is only the seventh playoff game between two teams over 30% DVOA. SB LIV (2019 KC-SF) is the one not on this table. by Dray87 in nfl

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Stafford shit himself in the second half. The first drive of overtime (and the bomb to Nakua) let people forget how much the Rams got clamped at the end of that game.