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Post by seattlepat2016 on Apr 22, 2022 17:53:19 GMT -5
Mike Lombardi said he was excellent too. He said if you pick DK Metcalf over Harry your a idiot. So the point is there is no point. Mistakes and evaluations are different. Even from the so-called professionals. Who doesn't make mistakes? Water Under the Bridge is Correct response, by Lifer. My point in posting that was to show that some people who are now on their critical high horse with regard to the pick were praising it right after the pick was made.
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Post by prairiemike on Apr 22, 2022 21:14:18 GMT -5
Mike Lombardi said he was excellent too. He said if you pick DK Metcalf over Harry your a idiot. So the point is there is no point. Mistakes and evaluations are different. Even from the so-called professionals. Who doesn't make mistakes? Water Under the Bridge is Correct response, by Lifer. My point in posting that was to show that some people who are now on their critical high horse with regard to the pick were praising it right after the pick was made. It's a funny thing about "pundits" ... Being occasionally (or consistently) wrong doesn't affect your status as a pundit (or Mike Lombardi) at all. When I grow up, I want to be the guy with access to all the radar and pressure information who gets the weather wrong every day, and still makes six figures.
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Post by prairiemike on Apr 22, 2022 22:02:06 GMT -5
Okay ... I'll admit it ... I wanted to be just wild about Harry (and I wanted Harry to be wild about me) ... but he hasn't turned out to be very good, and while I respect both mthurl and wozzy as informed posters who don 't simply spout off from the top of their heads (the way I do), but actually present evidence to support their claims and approach this forum as if it matters, (wouldn't it be funny if it really did?) ... I do take exception to the word "lazy." The lazy part, at least fro me, is from training camp observations of a guy who would walk around like he was a top five receiver in the NFL…take his helmet off, take a knee after a “good play”, go off to the side and get some “treatment” after doing whatever everyone else on that field was doing. That, and from what I’ve heard about him from the beat writers…that he’s a guy who think he’s arrived, when he hasn’t. And then he takes himself out of plays and get something iced or rubbed down, where everyone else is wondering why. Other than that, yeah I just don’t think he’s good. He’s a guy I’d expect to get cut second year into his contract, as a 5th round pick. Just my Opinion. Same for the laziness/attitude. It’s just my observations from watching a guy and comparing him to 100’s of others I’ve seen down there at training camp. He always seemed to have a swagger and diva type of way of walking around. Then again I could be wrong. Lol Fair enough, and probably not as uncommon an attitude as we might hope ... Times change, and whatever we might think about football, people aren't ever going to change. Who's ready for a story? Once upon a time -- in a bad world that doesn't exist anymore -- people were mean. I was one of those people. I was mean. I was a mean person; a bad boy. I used to think I was funny. But I'm not funny. I'm a racist. I never realized that I was a racist until one day when I was working for Dow Chemical (maybe you've heard of them), and I was doing whatever it was that I was doing for them, when a fellow I hadn't thought much about thought it would be funny to stand behind a door I wished to pass through and make life difficult for me. "You can't move me," Ricardo said, holding the door against me and proud of his strength. "I've been working with you for almost a year." I said to this guy. "And I haven't seen you move yet." I thought it was funny. Dow Chemical had a different take, and counseled me with tremendous chagrin about my inference -- joking or not -- about Ricardo being "lazy." I never said the word, and I was joking in any case, but my contract with that company -- that conglomerate -- was nullified because I had intimated that a black guy was lazy ... which is a stereotype, if you didn't know. None of this is designed to disagree with you, but without doing any research at all, I would be willing to bet that no one of consequence has ever called Nickelback Harry "lazy." I would love to be proven wrong about this.
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Post by mthurl on Apr 22, 2022 22:41:25 GMT -5
The lazy part, at least fro me, is from training camp observations of a guy who would walk around like he was a top five receiver in the NFL…take his helmet off, take a knee after a “good play”, go off to the side and get some “treatment” after doing whatever everyone else on that field was doing. That, and from what I’ve heard about him from the beat writers…that he’s a guy who think he’s arrived, when he hasn’t. And then he takes himself out of plays and get something iced or rubbed down, where everyone else is wondering why. Other than that, yeah I just don’t think he’s good. He’s a guy I’d expect to get cut second year into his contract, as a 5th round pick. Just my Opinion. Same for the laziness/attitude. It’s just my observations from watching a guy and comparing him to 100’s of others I’ve seen down there at training camp. He always seemed to have a swagger and diva type of way of walking around. Then again I could be wrong. Lol Fair enough, and probably not as uncommon an attitude as we might hope ... Times change, and whatever we might think about football, people aren't ever going to change. Who's ready for a story? Once upon a time -- in a bad world that doesn't exist anymore -- people were mean. I was one of those people. I was mean. I was a mean person; a bad boy. I used to think I was funny. But I'm not funny. I'm a racist. I never realized that I was a racist until one day when I was working for Dow Chemical (maybe you've heard of them), and I was doing whatever it was that I was doing for them, when a fellow I hadn't thought much about thought it would be funny to stand behind a door I wished to pass through and make life difficult for me. "You can't move me," Ricardo said, holding the door against me and proud of his strength. "I've been working with you for almost a year." I said to this guy. "And I haven't seen you move yet." I thought it was funny. Dow Chemical had a different take, and counseled me with tremendous chagrin about my inference -- joking or not -- about Ricardo being "lazy." I never said the word, and I was joking in any case, but my contract with that company -- that conglomerate -- was nullified because I had intimated that a black guy was lazy ... which is a stereotype, if you didn't know. None of this is designed to disagree with you, but without doing any research at all, I would be willing to bet that no one of consequence has ever called Nickelback Harry "lazy." I would love to be proven wrong about this. Is this a true story? By the way you wrote it, I assume it is. Jesus! That is insane!! Wow.
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Post by prairiemike on Apr 22, 2022 23:09:20 GMT -5
Fair enough, and probably not as uncommon an attitude as we might hope ... Times change, and whatever we might think about football, people aren't ever going to change. Who's ready for a story? Once upon a time -- in a bad world that doesn't exist anymore -- people were mean. I was one of those people. I was mean. I was a mean person; a bad boy. I used to think I was funny. But I'm not funny. I'm a racist. I never realized that I was a racist until one day when I was working for Dow Chemical (maybe you've heard of them), and I was doing whatever it was that I was doing for them, when a fellow I hadn't thought much about thought it would be funny to stand behind a door I wished to pass through and make life difficult for me. "You can't move me," Ricardo said, holding the door against me and proud of his strength. "I've been working with you for almost a year." I said to this guy. "And I haven't seen you move yet." I thought it was funny. Dow Chemical had a different take, and counseled me with tremendous chagrin about my inference -- joking or not -- about Ricardo being "lazy." I never said the word, and I was joking in any case, but my contract with that company -- that conglomerate -- was nullified because I had intimated that a black guy was lazy ... which is a stereotype, if you didn't know. None of this is designed to disagree with you, but without doing any research at all, I would be willing to bet that no one of consequence has ever called Nickelback Harry "lazy." I would love to be proven wrong about this. Is this a true story? By the way you wrote it, I assume it is. Jesus! That is insane!! Wow. Oh yes. What I described above actually happened ... and not recently. We live in a world (today) where you can be fired for asking Lisa if she remembered to pick up the apple-cinnamon bagels while she was getting coffee (which isn't her job). And if you think all of this is a lot of hyperbole ... well ... it is. But I did get fired for being a racist .... you can't take that away from me!
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Post by mbeaulieu07 on Apr 23, 2022 7:30:28 GMT -5
He's proverbial, "looks like Lia Thomas, plays like Jane". Well .. while we're ignoring the above poster's insensitivity to Liar Thomas, his struggle, and the endless, silent struggle of people just like Liar ... who would lie just the same ... if only they could speak out in unison and tell the world ... Oh .. I'm sorry. This is embarrassing. It turns out that the opposing view didn't actually have anything to say. You should know that I punished myself accordingly. For the crime of having a sane opinion that differs from the totally tolerant woke mob, I decided to march my butt straight to bed after supper, without dessert. JK, biological men playing women's sports is one of the most ridiculous and insane things I've ever seen.
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Post by prairiemike on Apr 23, 2022 8:04:30 GMT -5
Well .. while we're ignoring the above poster's insensitivity to Liar Thomas, his struggle, and the endless, silent struggle of people just like Liar ... who would lie just the same ... if only they could speak out in unison and tell the world ... Oh .. I'm sorry. This is embarrassing. It turns out that the opposing view didn't actually have anything to say. You should know that I punished myself accordingly. For the crime of having a sane opinion that differs from the totally tolerant woke mob, I decided to march my butt straight to bed after supper, without dessert. JK, biological men playing women's sports is one of the most ridiculous and insane things I've ever seen. Marched your butt right to bed after supper? Your parents are useless! But all kidding aside ... I suspect that most of us have learned not to do the things some of our parents did that made us .... ummmmmmm ... this way. I'm almost certain that the lunatics are running the asylum ... but if I say that too loudly, they'll actually put me in a place that is not called an asylum anymore. And you guys don't want that. Either that ... or I am entirely wrong.
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Post by seattlepat2016 on Apr 23, 2022 12:14:36 GMT -5
My point in posting that was to show that some people who are now on their critical high horse with regard to the pick were praising it right after the pick was made. It's a funny thing about "pundits" ... Being occasionally (or consistently) wrong doesn't affect your status as a pundit (or Mike Lombardi) at all. When I grow up, I want to be the guy with access to all the radar and pressure information who gets the weather wrong every day, and still makes six figures. "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so."
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Post by prairiemike on Apr 23, 2022 12:26:18 GMT -5
It's a funny thing about "pundits" ... Being occasionally (or consistently) wrong doesn't affect your status as a pundit (or Mike Lombardi) at all. When I grow up, I want to be the guy with access to all the radar and pressure information who gets the weather wrong every day, and still makes six figures. "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so." I see that you've got this^ in quotes. I'm going to go ahead and guess it's not Roger Ebert. Who is it? (if it turns out to be Roger Ebert, I'm gonna be pissed)
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Post by seattlepat2016 on Apr 23, 2022 12:36:12 GMT -5
"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so." I see that you've got this^ in quotes. I'm going to go ahead and guess it's not Roger Ebert. Who is it? (if it turns out to be Roger Ebert, I'm gonna be pissed) Ratatouille - the movie
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Post by digger0862 on Apr 23, 2022 12:50:45 GMT -5
I see that you've got this^ in quotes. I'm going to go ahead and guess it's not Roger Ebert. Who is it? (if it turns out to be Roger Ebert, I'm gonna be pissed) Ratatouille - the movie There's a youtube video for virtually everything.
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Post by philskiw on Apr 23, 2022 13:03:41 GMT -5
There's a youtube video for virtually everything.
ha ha it’s true though
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Post by prairiemike on Apr 23, 2022 13:12:39 GMT -5
I never saw Ratatouille.
My grandchildren are always dragging me to drab, ponderous Norwegian films about people who speak in subtitles.
A Disney movie that openly posits rats as a common dining experience ... I can get behind that.
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