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hndog609 said:
The entire point of the whole original post about Dobbs and his "luck" is he needed to actually keep himself in a position to have a "chance" and consistently hasn't. I said not a word about Hodges playing "over" Josh. I pointed out how instead of putting himself in next man up position he was traded in a season where someone who had been a #4 ended up starting 6 games.
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So lemme get this straight. You think Dobbs was better served being the #2 to Big Ben a future Hall of Famer who had been remarkably durable up to that season over a 6th round rookie who became the Jags starter due to Nick Foles season-ending injury? That's called revisionist history 101.

I actually remember when that trade went down. Most people on here were happy for Dobbs and thought he would finally get a chance to start. What actually happened is why I said Dobbs has been unlucky. Minshew ended up looking pretty good and having a good enough season to keep the job all year while in Pittsburgh both Big Ben and Rudolph ended up getting hurt.

Looking back you can say Dobbs would have been better served if he stayed at Pittsburgh but at the time, everybody thought being traded to Jacksonville was the better move to getting playing time. Unfortunately for Dobbs it didn't work out that way.
 
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engineerVOL said:
My dad would look at something caddywampus in a particular construction trade and say “that looks like damnit”
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I love big construction sites. Young engineers getting ****. Young gophers getting ****. Young PMs getting ****.
Then I’d go to the Kimberly horn office to have a round table meeting about why they’re trying to put a landscape wall over our million(1000MCM) underground cable run 😂
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Long story short..In mid July 1998, after several years of drug addiction had destroyed literally everything, I was sitting there on the front steps thinking seriously of blowing my brains out when a miracle happened. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had, and I would be a complete utter fool and liar to deny that God exists after it happened (I've had several experiences like that in my life, but this is the one that pertains to this particular event)

A complete stranger walks up to me while I was sitting there on my front steps smoking a joint and hopelessly thinking of ending myself, and bummed a cigarette, then he oddly looked at me in the eyes for long moment and tells me that he sees a darkness around me and that he felt compelled to tell me his life story, so he asks if it is alright and I just kind of looked at him like he was crazy and said "go ahead I ain't got no where to be"...

So he tells me how as a young man he had been a preacher with a wife and a young daughter, and on the way to a revival meeting a drunk driver had hit them, killing his wife and daughter...after that he said he blamed God and lost his mind and started drinking heavily.

There was a lot more after that part, but the point is that when he got finished he said "Son...call your Momma to come get you, and go home and make it stick"

I just sat there bawling the whole time he was talking and when he said that I said "I think I will"...I then said something to him about my brother getting married in a few weeks in St Pete and I was supposed to be there for the wedding, and he said that was weird because his great niece was getting married in St Pete in a few weeks...turns out his niece was the one marrying my brother..like I said this was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

After that I walked up to the convenience store a mile away and called Mom collect on the pay phone out in the lot...she asked me exactly where I was at and said she had to go get my baby sister from West HS and would be there asap. From the time I called her she made it from Knoxville to Murray County Georgia in just a little over two hours.

I went home, went cold turkey and God turned my life around...I have many flaws, but I am not the person I used to be.

Especially today it rings loud and clear.."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"

Merry Christmas everybody.
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This is an amazing story, thank you for sharing this. It hits close to home for me (closer than I choose to share) and I'm certain there are many more on here that agree. Merry Christmas guys (and ladies on here), I pray that Jesus touches us all with His love and Mercy.
 
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