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Orangeburst said:
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Leonard Little, Al Wilson, and Tori Noel, I think, wore tinted visors. All were before Baker.

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Ulysees E. McGill said:
It is going to happen...we will lose players...it always happens.

Why no mention of OL being key?...hell every position on this team is thin.
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i think the only reason i'm leaving it alone is we are returning 4 of 5 starters. LT, we have 2 guys for 1 position, so if they just don't suck out loud, we should be ok there.
i do agree that OL is always one of the groups that is susceptible to attrition, that may be the reason i didn't have it as a concern.....because it always is a a concern.

and yeah, i know injuries will happen, but for them to have enough of an impact to cost us 2+ games, you're talking about impact type players...Hooker, Baron, Young, Tilman, multiple O linemen, Peirce, Joseph, Banks...and they'd have to miss significant time, multiple games.

i'll never say that's not possible. but unless any of it actually happens, no need to adjust my outlook. i'm not going to predict 6-6 because, "injuries". kinda the same reason i'm not predicting 10-2, cause something 'bad' will happen over the course of a game/season, and we're probably not quite good enough yet to overcome whatever "bad" thing that may be, and still get w's anyway. so 8-4. we're better right now than we were last year imo, and the schedule is comprised largely of teams we are capable of beating on an "any given saturday" basis. we won't win them all. but i wouldn't be shocked if we beat any one team on our schedule, and the only games that would shock me to lose would be Ball St, Akron, Vandy, MO, UT Martin.

so i think that's 5 w's right there, imo. 7 other games to get 3 wins. Pitt, UF, LSU, UK i would say are toss ups. we should beat USCe, we'll be favored (i think?). and we'll be decided underdogs against Bama and UGA.
 
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Devo182 said:
That week of the year when all of your fantasy league commissioners are texting and emailing each group simultaneously in a furious rush before the draft and you're trying to keep up with 3 different sets of rules, 50 different players, 3 different draft sites and formats

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Be glad you’re not a commish. Because then, you have the joy of listening to the other league members complaining about the rules, site, and format. It’s a labor of love.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
No mention of OL concerns?
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answered in another post responding to you, but i'll go on to say that i think depth, overall is better than last year. quality of that depth isn't where it needs to be, but just from the standpoint of do we have enough guys to rotate at key spots, i think the answer is yes. hopefully that helps split up reps and playing time enough that it decreases the opportunities for injury to key guys along both sides of the line of scrimmage, and high contact positions like TE, RB, DB, LB, WR.....

long story short, i don't think we're "super thin" like we were last year. we just have a lot of unproven guys, some young guys that we think are capable, and will get opportunities.

that's why I think this Ball st and the akron game are important, those are depth building games. and should we find ourselves on the right side of a beatdown in conf this season, i bet we see a lot of newer faces on the field, a lot earlier than we did last year.

there's ways they can manage the roster and personnel to help defray the opportunity for injury.

fingers crossed.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
Been a while since I played there, but it wasn't being kept up too well back then. They must've changed it.
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When it was Eagles landing…meh, but the city of Sevierville purchased it and now it has 36 holes (River and Highlands courses). It’s much better than Gatlinburg and while I’m partial to River Island off exit 402 it’s in much better shape than River Island as well.
 
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So I just read where a Knoxville native is suing Netflix over her portrayal in the whole Anna Sorokin mess. Anna was the one who claimed to be a rich German heiress and basically lied her way into some serious circles. It would've been a great hustle if she'd been a little more careful and a little less greedy about how she was operating things. But when people started realizing she was a fraud and it was all a lie, it was the friend from Knoxville who helped the police find Anna.

The friend claims that Netflix changed a ton of characters names and details but didn't change hers and says it was basically spite because she sold the rights to her story to HBO and tbh, I kinda think she might be right since they changed everyone else's names and made the one that sold to HBO the villain in their tale.

Any rate, I thought it was weird that we would have any connection to high society fraud outside of producing amazing authors now and then but apparenly we do. We's all cultured now.
 
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Glitch said:
Speaking of sick seats, my wife went to a game with me several years ago and the lady behind her was so drunk and puked all over my wifes back. My wife was thoroughly angry.
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happened to my wife several years ago at a Steelers/Dolphins Monday night game....guy next to us, didn't even make it to kick off. the only thing that could have made my wife angrier, is if the dude was a dolphin fan.
 
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UTProf said:
So I just read where a Knoxville native is suing Netflix over her portrayal in the whole Anna Sorokin mess. Anna was the one who claimed to be a rich German heiress and basically lied her way into some serious circles. It would've been a great hustle if she'd been a little more careful and a little less greedy about how she was operating things. But when people started realizing she was a fraud and it was all a lie, it was the friend from Knoxville who helped the police find Anna.

The friend claims that Netflix changed a ton of characters names and details but didn't change hers and says it was basically spite because she sold the rights to her story to HBO and tbh, I kinda think she might be right since they changed everyone else's names and made the one that sold to HBO the villain in their tale.

Any rate, I thought it was weird that we would have any connection to high society fraud outside of producing amazing authors now and then but apparenly we do. We's all cultured now.
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Wife made me watch the first couple episodes and once I got past the main character Anna’s horrible accent portrayal, played by Julia Garner from Ozark btw, it wasn’t too bad. I don’t see how that friend has a case in court unfortunately, even though I agree with her decision she made in that whole debacle. If someone scammed me out of almost 100k from my work credit card id do the same thing no hesitation.
 
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franklinpence said:
Be glad you’re not a commish. Because then, you have the joy of listening to the other league members complaining about the rules, site, and format. It’s a labor of love.
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Omg yup. I'm annoyed and not even a commish.

I'm like wgas...Just play ball.

Who even has time for all this in-depth idk. I put in minimal time. I mean, I'd much rather put my free time into who will be our 3rd string RB in week 2 and what KingNico said this week...because that's a better use of time 😂
 
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UTProf said:
So I just read where a Knoxville native is suing Netflix over her portrayal in the whole Anna Sorokin mess. Anna was the one who claimed to be a rich German heiress and basically lied her way into some serious circles. It would've been a great hustle if she'd been a little more careful and a little less greedy about how she was operating things. But when people started realizing she was a fraud and it was all a lie, it was the friend from Knoxville who helped the police find Anna.

The friend claims that Netflix changed a ton of characters names and details but didn't change hers and says it was basically spite because she sold the rights to her story to HBO and tbh, I kinda think she might be right since they changed everyone else's names and made the one that sold to HBO the villain in their tale.

Any rate, I thought it was weird that we would have any connection to high society fraud outside of producing amazing authors now and then but apparenly we do. We's all cultured now.
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Isn't it her "best friend"? Without looking back, iirc she was from Knoxville.

The only social media scam doc I found more appalling last year was The Tindler Swindler.

Why are people so quick to believe some person could be rich...when they're asking you for money 😂 yeah because ultra rich people need to "just move some money around" 😒

About like investment scams. People are so gullible when it comes to someone acting with confidence and the slightest hint of charisma.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Vol trivia..

Who was the first to wear a tinted face shield on the field?
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Question on a thought I’ve always had:

Why don’t more QBs use tinted face shields? I’ve never worn a tinted shield in a football helmet, but I have on a hockey helmet, so maybe there are drawbacks I don’t know about but it seems like it could be valuable for a QB to wear one. Safeties are taught to read the eyes of the QB.. but they can’t do that if they can’t see their eyes. Maybe it’s such a minimal advantage and there are more disadvantages though. Who knows.
 
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Nash_Vol97 said:
Question on a thought I’ve always had:

Why don’t more QBs use tinted face shields? I’ve never worn a tinted shield in a football helmet, but I have on a hockey helmet, so maybe there are drawbacks I don’t know about but it seems like it could be valuable for a QB to wear one. Safeties are taught to read the eyes of the QB.. but they can’t do that if they can’t see their eyes. Maybe it’s such a minimal advantage and there are more disadvantages though. Who knows.
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Maybe they could make Joe Milton a prescription tinted face shield?
 
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Brad Shepard posting his thoughts on 247.

Excited about Bru and the offense, but says OL is an underrated concern. Callahan agrees.

Front 7 will be bigly improved. Surprised Turnage isn't in the 2-deep. Mcdonald may not be the most talented, but had a camp you just can't ignore (he's listed as starter at STAR).

Eason is his breakout candidate.

8-4/9-3 range
 
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