Mr.TaterSalad

That's why in my original post I mentioned 2 of the 3 Eagles picks, #15 and #16. I too don't think it would be realistic to expect all 3 1sts from the Eagles given the lack of an elite QB prospect in this draft. To answer my own question on taking 2 1sts and a future pick from the Eagles in exchange for #2 overall, I would probably pass on the deal. I think that Hutch and Thib are game changing playemakers on the edge and will help us get after the QB and disrupt offensive drives. We have zero playmakers on this defense and ranked in the bottom 5 in sacks, QB hurries, and pressure. Improving the front of the defensive line by acquiring game wrecking playmakers will make the back 7-8 look better. I know this team needs talent all around, but we eventually have to acquire playmakers and game changers at some positions. We have a chance to do that this year on the edge and so I don't think I'd pass that opportunity up.

If the Eagles called you up and said they would trade you picks #15 and #16 plus a future pick for #2 overall would you do it?

So twice in one year I have had two individuals that I was highly critical of either prove me wrong or begin to do so. One is obviously Jim Harbaugh and the other is Matt Stafford. I won't say that Stafford has completely proved me wrong yet as I feel he needs to win next week against Tampa Bay to do so. But yeah, he is on his way to proving that he can indeed take a team deep into a playoff run and potentially a Super Bowl. He's proving that his salary and cap hit overall won't hold a team back from being a contending team. He has had a nice season and finally looked really good in a playoff game beating up on Arizona. I still hope overall that we maximize our draft position and will route for the Rams to lose. That said, I understand Stafford is making me look like Fredo with my take on him being a guy that couldn't get his team over the playoff hump.

I see the concern with GB receivers, but if we're signing him to be a #3, big play/deep ball threat guy to help strech the field and the price is right, I think it's worth a convo.

No one knows what will be passed, but I think given their legislative track record, pro birth Republicans would likely push something like that. I do believe once Roe and Griswold are overturned that Republican controlled states will start to impose, as Texas is already doing, strict penalties against having abortions that will be up to and including jail time. There are many pro birth advocates and pro birth elected officials that have been pushing for criminal penalties on abortion. Once Roe and Griswold no longer stand in the way it will be the wild west in America.

I was looking at pending free agents and it's obviously still too early to speculate who will and won't be available. However, going off the pending list, there are a couple of names, if they become available, I would love to see the Lions target. I was looking at cutting Flowers and Vatai to save on the cap and make two "splash" or high priced signings to replace them and then fill out the rest of free agency with moves on mid to lower level players. Top Tier Players Carleton Davis: Starting CB/Tampa Bay. Davis is a guy who could become our new #1 CB and be opposite Amani Oruwariye. Marcus Williams: Starting FS/New Orleans. Williams could be a cap casualty in New Orleans and is a guy who could become our new starting FS or SS depending on where we want to slide Tracy Walker. This would also allow us to cut Will Harris and move on from yet another lousy Quinn draft pick. Jessie Bates III: Starting SS/Cincinnati. Cincinnati has the cap space to resign Bates and he's been a very good starter for them, so I assume they will. However, if he became available, I'd put him and Marcus Williams at the top of my list of players to target and would sign one of the two if both were available. Tier-Two Free Agents Marquez Valdez-Scantling: WR/Green Bay. Much like Tyrell Williams was supposed to be, Valdez-Scantling can be our new big play, deep ball specialist. He'll never be a volume receiver, but I think utilizing him as a downfield threat and in big play situations opposite St. Brown and whomever we draft (assuming we do) would be a nice pickup for this team. I wonder if he walks from Green Bay if Rodgers goes. I would assume he wouldn't want to stick around a rebuilding GB team without Aaron Rodgers. Kenny Young: Left ILB/Denver. Young could potentially slide into the left side and replace Derrick Barnes. Young is a solid starter who, from what I've read and seen of him, can cover in space and run and chase guys down given his speed and athleticism. Unlike the big, plodding LB's on Bob Quinn's past, Young fits the new mold of an NFL LB with speed and athleticism.

Yes but King himself was if not a democratic socialist, a sympathizer judging by his words and actions. Hypothetical yes, but if you looked at how King viewed the world and where he stood on social and economic issues, including his praise of democratic socialism, it's very probable he would have voted for Sanders. We know King voted for Johnson and was a key supporter of his anti-poverty programs in The Great Society.

Cousin Eddie was supposed to be the person you laughed at, not the person you elected President.

Oh gotcha, apologies then on my end.

No it isn't. Republican Governors and State Legislatures, along with pro birth advocates and leaders on the religious right have pushed for things like abstinence only education, limiting discussion in school around birth control, opposed handing out condoms in school to students, opposed morning after pills, and more. Wisconsin: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Republicans block vote on birth control education Missouri: Kansas City Star: ‘Do you believe in birth control at all?’ Missouri Senate moves closer to floor fight Georgia: Macon Telegraph: Many Georgia school districts tell students: No sex until marriage The Hill: Abstinence-only education making a comeback under Trump ALEC: Contraception Mandate Once Again Up Before Supreme Court

I wish pro lifers put as much energy into helping, feeding, housing, clothing, and educating kids as they do wanting them to be birthed. You can do both though and have pregnancy prevention programs in tandem with abortion and I believe we should. By the way, when we they try to teach safe sex in schools, hand out condoms to boys, and teach girls about birth control, who opposes those programs? Usually people on the religious right and Republicans. They're out there promoting abstinence only sex education, which has been proven not to work.

Again, the law already did change in Texas and they are going to start using penalty of jail for abortions via medication by mail. So when the Supreme Court overturns Roe (and Griswold) then Texas law takes effect and people could/will start going to jail.

Fine, saying we're close to Handmaids Tale is hyperbolic, but saying woman will go to jail for having an abortion is not. Do you believe if Roe and Griswold are overturned and abortion rights are left solely up to the states that we will start seeing woman and abortion healthcare workers (doctors, nurses, other) go to jail for having abortions or having preformed them? I do. I believe that because Texas is already taking us down that path with their new law enacted that imposes jail time for abortion by prescription through the mail. Once they fully role back abortion rights, I have no doubt that the religious right will be coming for marriage equality and LGTBQ rights next. Not only will the religious right work to role back marriage equality and rights, we'll start to see all the gay conversion therapy bullshit pop back out of the woodwork again too.

Also the most pro life states too right?

Did anyone read about Texas Senate Bill 4? The language is in the bill that they will start imposing jail time for medication abortions being prescribed by mail. Do you really believe it won't stop there? Do you really believe the insane base of the GOP wouldn't come for marriage equality and LGBTQ rights after they get done gutting Roe and Griswold? Also, Mike Lindell was an advisor to Trump. While I don't literally believe they will jail 300 million people, the fact that this guy is advising the man who could be President again is insane to think about.

NPR: Texas Toughens Ban on Medication-by-Mail Abortions With Jail Time and Hefty Fine Texas Senate Bill 4 Did I miss something? Texas Senate Bill 4 is literally imposing jail time and large fines for individuals, doctors or otherwise, who prescribe and receive pills for medication abortion through the mail. If you think they'll stop there you are fooling yourself. Woman will go to jail just for having an abortion in this country if Roe is overturned.

From the article you shared . . . There is simply no helping a clod like that. It seems like it would take YEARS and YEARS of counseling and therapy to pull just one person like that back from the brink of conspiracy. To know that there are millions and millions more like this ignorant dolt out there is truly remarkable and frightening.

We're about to start putting woman in jail for having abortions if the Supreme Court strikes down Roe and turns abortion rights over to states. In Texas you can already face jail time for prescribing abortion pills online and sending them in the mail. This isn't hyperbole on my part, this is real life. Once the far right strips away abortion rights they'll come for marriage equality and LGBTQIA rights next. That doesn't sound socially liberal to me. That sounds like a few steps away from an episode of the Handmaids Tale. Add onto that, one of the former (and possibly next) President's advisors, Mike Lindell, is talking about jailing 300 million people. Going even further, the former (and possibly next) current President wants to change libel laws and eliminate a free press in this country. You think that sounds crazy until they actually start doing it and again, none of that sounds socially liberal to me.

Let them. They didn't go 0-16, they don't have playoff win droughts that go back to 1990, they've made Super Bowl appearances and the Fords never have.

Maybe the worst behind the Ford's, but no one is worse than the collective Ford Family.

My confidence level of the Cardinals winning is high but something tells me Stafford will win tonight and make me look foolish. I hope we maximize our draft position tonight though with a Rams loss.

I firmly believe in my heart if Dr. King were alive to vote in 2016 or 2020 he would have voted for Bernie Sanders.

Just a friendly reminder that before there was Bernie, there was Dr. King, as America's most prominent Democratic Socialist. Dr. King understood that a free society was an equitable society. He understood the challenges brought and the strife people faced on by having a society of two Americas, one of economic haves and another of have nots. He understood how massively capitalism was failing the working class and working poor. In 1967 Dr. King gave a very important, yet less famous, speech to students and faculty at Stanford University that has come to be known as "The Other America" speech. In it he talked about income inequality, poverty, and helping those less fortunate and the very poor. He said it is much easier to integrate a lunch counter than it is to guarantee a livable income and good, solid job.

We can agree on that. 🙂 In the era of Trump though, I just refuse to call America a welcoming country anymore. Not that I think we really were in the first place. Hell, back in the 1910s, the Irish on my father's side of the family were told "Irish Need Not Apply" when immigrating to America and looking for opportunity.