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27 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
What's weird about Tanking for the One Indispensable Prospect theory is how few championship teams are actually built that way lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/nfl-op…
Burrow was almost as hyped as Lawrence and if we did the 2020 draft over again the #6 pick (and 3rd QB taken) would almost certainly go #1.
LOL all those "the Jets pulling off a historic upset was ACTUALLY bad" takes are even dumber than they were at the time espn.com/nfl/boxscore?g…
If the Jets couldn't be competitive against a team with a negative point differential missing all of its wideouts -- or what little remains of the Patriots -- it would mean they have talent and culture problems no specific player is going to solve.

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Trump's pardon statement for the Blackwater mass murderers: "the situation turned violent." lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/12/and-th…
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This Steelers meltdown is absolutely fucking glorious
LOL now getting absolutely torched by...Giovani Bernard is still in the NFL?
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I knew the Jets upset was going to bring a wave of X-Treem Tanking Theory, but not noticing the flaws of hooking your One Indispensable Player theory of team building to...Andrew Luck is wild: theringer.com/nfl/2020/12/20… Image
Luck, who 1)retired prematurely because of the pounding he took behind Ryan Grigson's O-Lines and 2)whose teams topped out at "winning a weak division and giving the living shit kicked out of them in the conference championship" shows precisely that winning the draft ain't enough
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