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One further point: The "West" has dragged its feet in giving Ukraine weapons to defend themselves, dragged their feet in giving them air defense missiles, dragged their feet in giving them tanks, dragged their feet in giving them jets... they've been dragging their feet since day 1. To turn around and say "the West has "pushed" Ukraine or Zelensky", in any way, shape or form... is laughable and ridiculous. If anything... the West should be taken to task for dragging their feet. Had they been several months faster in giving Ukraine all manner of weapons... Russia would not have had the time to build up their defenses on newly taken Ukrainian territory and very well may have been pushed backwards to 2014 lines of engagement. No guarantees... But a much faster arming of Ukraine probably results in a much more successful Ukrainian counteroffensive. IMO.

Yes. But in an abrasive way...

Me too. I'd rather be excited about a Cossa/ Augustine tandem... As soon as we can get that to the Red Wings. (Cossa 2024-25, Augustine 2025-26... ?)

I'd like to give Hooker the 3rd and Bridgewater the 4th...

Why do you always offer fallacious takes? The West did NOT push Zelensky, that's bull****. Believe that if you want; but it is NOT factually correct. The West did NOT push Zelensky to fight. ZELENSKY pushed his country to fight because: (A) That is the politically correct stance to take in a country that has been invaded. According to you, the stance should be instead... what? "Oh you want all our land? OK, go ahead and take it." THAT's your stance? (B) Promising NO NATO would NOT, nor will NOT, stop Putin. He'd have laughed at that and proceeded to attack Kiev. Putin wants to wipe Ukraine off the map. The ONLY choice for Ukrainians was to fight. And that INCLUDES fighting for NATO membership. There are NO alternatives in dealing with Putin. (C) In order to GAIN western support, Ukraine had to fight. The support prior to the Kharkiv campaign from the West was tepid. AFTER Kharkiv (and Kherson), when the Ukrainians pushed the Russians back significantly... only THEN did the West open up the floodgates of support. (D) Ukraine, as a COUNTRY wanted to fight back. They do NOT want to be wiped out by Russia, or taken over by another murderous Russian regime (they've already experienced Stalin, mind you, who starved to death approximately 14 million Ukrainians in the Holodomyr, and they view Putin as no different). Zelensky's ONLY choice, politically, was to fight. Full circle. Can we please have the FACTS straight? Any opinions based on facts are great... but based on falsehoods are... not so great.

Or Sunni terrorists. Would not be beyond them in this current wartime condition to take advantage and attack the Shia.

If they use the 1st pick on Caleb.... Does anyone think there's a team out there desperate enough to throw a future 1st at the Bears for Fields? (Maybe not even a 2024 but a 2025...?) I'm talking Jets (long-term solution after Rodgers, and at the very least a "season savior" if Rodgers goes down again...), Raiders? Broncos? Anyone else...?

I LOVE it that Ryan was so pissed off and said it was clearly the Officials mistake.

I also approve of going for the 2 three times in a row from the simple philosophical POV of: Always go for the throat. Go for the win. Relentless. Attack. I think that's the mentality of DC and that's the mentality of the team. Which I approve. But also... We win on that 3rd play if Goff gets a little more air on the throw to Mitchell. Mitchell has the two points, if Goff doesn't underthrow...

I'm thinking of a: "Brad Allen is a LYING ****" T-shirt.

Teams lose a draft pick for signing Chapman? That's a non-starter for Harris... IMO.

Yeah... That is the most realistic scenario... Sadly...

Which makes the Flames' Rasmus Andersson a trade target at the deadline (the only decent right-shot D that might be available...). Just a thought. Not Lalonde. All the players on the ice, D'men all included... are cheating on offense and leaving their spots/ breakaways wide open...

Realistically... If Trump were deported or ran away... he wouldn't go to Qatar, Kuwait, or UAE.. he would HATE that. It would still be Russia. He would LOVE Russia. For the oligarchy. For the corruption. As long as he could be a "friend" of Putin... he'd milk it for all it's worth. And he would fall all over himself with Russian models/ prostitutes/ whomever he could get to surround him in "Trump Tower Moscow". Even though Putin would not respect him, at all... Putin would benefit HUGELY by having Trump there: (A) An American President ran away to RUSSIA. The propaganda would be immense. (B) He'd give Trump a "Tower" in Moscow and in St. Petersburg. Trump would love it. (C) He'd also have Trump develop casinos and resorts and other such places either in Crimea, or Krasnodar, or on the Georgian Black Sea coast, or in all three (Putin's next target, in fact: he's currently planning to take over the Georgian coast and build a Naval Port since the Ukrainians have been so effective attacking Sevastopol and other Crimean ports...). They would USE each other. To full max.

THIS... I would be on board with. Or a 2 or 3-year with a player opt out after the 1st year...

Candelario would have been a better choice than Chapman anyways... Based on: Production. Term. Cost.

Candelario? Oops, too late...

NOT with Chapman please...

I was thinking more along the lines of The North Beyond the Wall. Like... Siberia.

So... Unless they start playing better... They're obviously still not ready yet for prime time (making the playoffs)...

So... We got the BETTER version of Sean Payton then...? I'm glad we got DC in the fold. And Holmes too... So very happy with where the Lions are right now...

I don't think that was turf... I think it was a low tackle that took out his legs... nothing wrong there... But as MC alluded to above, (and it also looked like it to me) he locked his knee right before he took the hit... almost like he was bracing for the hit. I don't think that helped. Not certain how much turf played a role in all of that but... I'm thinking mostly it was a low hit and a "locked knee"...

JAZZ Version: These are some of my favorite Jazz Albums (I have all of these) and I left quite a few out... I don't know why "Bird and Diz" didn't make this cut... call it a bonus album after these 10 (in no particular order): John Coltrane - Love Supreme: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue: Joe Henderson - Lush Life The Music of Billy Strayhorn John Coltrane - Giant Steps: Wynton Marsalis - Crescent City Christmas Card: Stan Getz/ Joao Gilberto: Dave Brubeck - Time Out: Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday & Others at Newport: Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser: Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream

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I thought Branch was playing solely nickel? Then you have 4 guys for 3 spots, or 4 spots if they play any dime packages... So I'm certain the coaches will figure out the rotation. Plus... I wouldn't wanna play CJGJ full minutes his first game back from this injury. And, IIRC, CJGJ was playing both safety and nickel so... there is a small amount of flexibility in there as well...