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engineerVOL said:
Any of redneks know where I can get some delish seafood in Sarasota FL? Here for work.
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LUCKY!!!!
Screenshot_20250108_175519_DuckDuckGo.jpgAccording to Trip Advisor, it's ranked #339 out of 901 restaurants. That's pretty dang good. 😲


*FYI, The double crunch shrimp dinner is only $17.99. 😋
 
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SoilVol said:
Not to be "that guy" but the Titans hired Carthon and got big props from the league for hiring a black GM. But he wasn't actually the GM it turns out. Brinker was the man behind the scenes running the puppet strings the whole time. Carthon was the face and did the hiring and firing that Brinker told him to. Now I know the Titans have to hit their diversity quota in interviews, but this is probably the first time a woman has been actually interviewed for an NFL GM position. Great for her, and she's probably very capable, but if they hire her she will absolutely be just another yes man for Brinker, again. It will be a feel-good story that Amy will cheer about but any failures she will get criticized and blamed for.

And honestly if I were her I'd turn down an offer. She WILL fail because the Titans are a mess and have horrid leadership and it will look poorly on women being in GM positions in the future. She'd be better off biding her time and hoping for a better franchise with more stability.
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Is it possible for a woman to be a "yes man"
In this day and age, I guess it's passible if some surgeries occur----just asking for a friend
 
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Revived2002 said:
I attribute last nights game to:

1) we are probably not as good right now as we thought - better to be #1 in April than in January, I always say so let’s see how we develop

2) we are a team largely of first year transfers who’ve never faced legit adversity as a unit - they failed miserably this time, but hopefully they learn from it

3) the shooting difficulties were so bad they appear statistically anomalous- I bet we have a bounce back game soon where we can’t miss, and our averages revert to the mean

4) we lack depth and maybe Florida wore us down - this is the one that concerns me a little, not sure much can be done here

5) Florida is tough and we’ve struggled there in the past - they are a good team
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I may be wrong here, but I believe Flurida only used 8 players in this game
 
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butchna said:
And they’re wealthy because…? 🤔
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I don't know what point you think you're making here. I think pretty much all of the NFL owners were independently wealthy already before they purchased their NFL franchise. They all had money from other ventures. Why are you only singling out the Walton family's tie to Walmart?
 
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Several Bru posts in multiple threads. My 2 cents (adjusted for inflation): Bru is a winner. Bru is a Role Model for being a great teammate. If Bru was more than 80 or 90 percent at any time this year I would be shocked. Wherever he is next year he'll be physically ahead of what he was this year. I'd take him back in a heartbeat even if only as a role player.
 
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Vol423 said:
The Cowboys were known as America's team before Jerry purchased it. I also believe it was already the most valuable sports franchise in the world too. He has expanded it. However, I think most of that expansion was due to 1) 3 Super Bowl championships in quick succession in the early 90's, which had at least as much and likely more to do with Jimmy than Jerry, and 2) Fantastic marketing by the NFL as a whole, particularly in increasing the value of its TV rights.
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I'll say it again. Please oh please, Jerry, sell the franchise. There's a reason Dallas has not won Championships in a long time. It's Jerry.
 
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Vol423 said:
The Cowboys were known as America's team before Jerry purchased it. I also believe it was already the most valuable sports franchise in the world too. He has expanded it. However, I think most of that expansion was due to 1) 3 Super Bowl championships in quick succession in the early 90's, which had at least as much and likely more to do with Jimmy than Jerry, and 2) Fantastic marketing by the NFL as a whole, particularly in increasing the value of its TV rights.
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Are you sure? I thought they were South Americas Team with the flow of blow with a lot of their players
 
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Vol423 said:
I don't know what point you think you're making here. I think pretty much all of the NFL owners were independently wealthy already before they purchased their NFL franchise. They all had money from other ventures. Why are you only singling out the Walton family's tie to Walmart?
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Because YOUR point was that there are richer OWNERS. MINE is that none are richer due to the value of their franchise. Jerry bought them for $140 million, which was about his family’s net value. Now they’re worth $11 billion…highest in the NFL. Any spawn of Sam Walton needing to meet with the whole family like Jerry did with his kids?
 
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Another year, another lineup

27 I definitely would see rn, and 3 of them are bucket list artists. Have yet to even build the playlist for all artists, so it'll no doubt grow...and then I'll end up getting to see about half of them 😅

And seeing the top right-hand corner 👀 iykyk

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butchna said:
Because YOUR point was that there are richer OWNERS. MINE is that none are richer due to the value of their franchise. Jerry bought them for $140 million, which was about his family’s net value. Now they’re worth $11 billion…highest in the NFL.
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My point was that there are richer owners because:

1) It was already agreed-upon that the Cowboys were the most valuable franchise, and
2) I was rebutting the point made in his original post that Jerry had the deepest pockets.

I didn't realize thst the Walton family purchased the Broncos until I looked up that list. I also didn't realize that the LA Rams owner, Stan Kroenke, was married to a Walton heir.
 
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Vol423 said:
My point was that there are richer owners because:

1) It was already agreed-upon that the Cowboys were the most valuable franchise, and
2) I was rebutting the point made in his original post that Jerry had the deepest pockets.
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When your net value is tied more into the value of the franchise, stands to reason you’d spend more on football…seems a valid point.
 
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Vol423 said:
The Cowboys were known as America's team before Jerry purchased it. I also believe it was already the most valuable sports franchise in the world too. He has expanded it. However, I think most of that expansion was due to 1) 3 Super Bowl championships in quick succession in the early 90's, which had at least as much and likely more to do with Jimmy than Jerry, and 2) Fantastic marketing by the NFL as a whole, particularly in increasing the value of its TV rights.
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Regardless of football acumen, Jerry knows how to run business. The NFL sued him after he signed stadium deals with Nike and Pepsi. The league had deals with Reebok and Coke. They settled, and he got to keep his deals and sign others. Other owners followed his lead. This has allowed other owners to create revenue streams they didn’t have.

The Cowboys have actually drafted well in the recent past. The issues have been head coach choices and some drama behind the scenes.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
We're recruiting the portal well...but man missing so much on these HS kids is tough.

24 class = 1 HS recruit, Bishop TBD
23 class = 3 HS recruits, Carr MISS, JP TBD, Cade looks solid
22 class = 5 HS recruits 0 with team now, Phillips and Awaka only 2 that contributed much while here (neither really a "hit")
21 class = 7 HS recruits 2 with team still, our last good class IMO. KC, Aidoo, Mashack and ZZ all contributors. BHH, Tamba, and Diboundje misses

16 HS recruits and only 4 are on the team and actively contributing right now. That's rough, I just hope JP can get healthy and finish his career strong like Fulky was able to.
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With the portal era this will likely happen a lot(I’d imagine every school). Guys don’t wanna sit the bench and develop, and unless your a can’t miss blue chip chances are you aren’t playing much ur first season
 
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Leeleesteeth said:
Several Bru posts in multiple threads. My 2 cents (adjusted for inflation): Bru is a winner. Bru is a Role Model for being a great teammate. If Bru was more than 80 or 90 percent at any time this year I would be shocked. Wherever he is next year he'll be physically ahead of what he was this year. I'd take him back in a heartbeat even if only as a role player.
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If Bru comes back it’ll be a godsend to Pope & the WR room even if he never played a snap.

You need mentors, 2022 was an offense full of older leadership players with experience in the system. That’s why they accomplished what they did.
 
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