With Dickerson and Jurgens all but permanently hobbled, and Steen's expiring contract, I think the Eagles need high-quality IOL depth more than we think.

Ran the numbers @ IOL (blue is C only). This is one where the qualitative needs to be matched up with the quantitative. But everything I have says teams should be pounding the table for Micah Morris and Keylan Rutledge if they need a guard.

-McNeil-Warren was the most productive pass defender, but got dinged almost everywhere else. Mediocre testing, skinny frame, average production vs. the run, already has a bit of an injury history, poor competition, and has almost no experience covering the slot. I don't know!

Ran the numbers @ safety. Again, I haven't added any tape grades, but the data says:
-There's a VERY defined top-4. Thienemen and Haulcy seem like + fits for the Eagles.
-Genesis Smith, VJ Payne, and Bud Clark can run & cover, but won't tackle.
-Dalton Johnson & Kapena Gushiken are sleepers.

I can't believe I have to sit around for 2.5 months and watch Patriots fans pretend they're going to get AJ Brown for free. 🤮

What's a production score?

Sure, but Kelce is damn near 40 now, and he was an inch taller and 15 pounds heavier coming out of college, where his blocking was frequently recognized as a strength.

mattwaldmanrsp.com/2014/08/18/r...
www.nfl.com/prospects/tr...

I’m just saying TEs aren’t very good if they, like Calcaterra, are incapable of doing half their job. A TE that can’t block is like a LB that can’t cover. Useless.

Like who are we looking at and saying “oh yes, there’s Stowers’s path to success”? Evan Engram? I’m good…

The Eagles don’t use TEs the way you describe Stower’s best-case usage. Does anyone? Has a 239 pound TE ever found success? Other pass-catching TEs—like Ertz, Kelce, Loveland, etc.—had substantially better blocking profiles.
Why spring a premium pick for name-brand Calcaterra?

But he’s such a detriment as a blocker, that you can’t play him on the line. So you’re stuck with him split out or 21 personnel. And is he a more effective receiver than a slot WR, especially if his blocking is more or less equal? He is a bad TE bc he can’t block.

This is triggering to me. Why do we love a TE who can only do half his job well and can’t actually play attached to the LOS effectively?
What 235-239 lb. TE has worked in the last 30 years?

8 children killed in Louisiana mass shooting The alleged gunman was killed after a police chase, according to police.

BREAKING: Eight children were killed in an "extensive" mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, police say. The suspected shooter is also dead.

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Australia launches plan to provide households with three hours of free solar power daily The Australian government recently announced that people living in three states will start receiving up to three hours of free power, starting in 2026.

That doesn't strike you as funny business? Other countries are giving power away, while the privately owned corporations in the US vaguely gesture at some perpetual maintenance, and that doesn’t seem odd? energiesmedia.com/australia-la...

Australia launches plan to provide households with three hours of free solar power daily The Australian government recently announced that people living in three states will start receiving up to three hours of free power, starting in 2026.

That doesn't strike you as funny business? Other countries are giving power away, while the privately owned corporations in the US vaguely gesture at some perpetual maintenance, and that doesn’t seem odd? energiesmedia.com/australia-la...

Because they're constructing new infrastructure, obviously, but here's a follow-up question: once solar becomes viable and initial costs have dwindled, do you believe the savings will be passed on to consumers?

It's clear that the darkness the show is grappling with extends well beyond the ER, which is a microcosm of American society at large. We all need to find a way to dance through this darkness, and the show offers service to others and presence as meaningful forms of escape.

The last twenty-or-so minutes of The Pitt's finale—the sequence of Abbot telling Robby that he needs to find someone to "dance through the darkness with," to "America the Beautiful" playing while they watch fireworks, to Robby's displaced self-talk to the baby—rocked. Beautiful and subtle.

What a weird trade! I had Smith graded slightly higher in '24, but thought both players were strong prospects. Smith, in my mind, was more of a 1-3T type of player, and Orhorhoro was a 3T-5T type of player (very similar to Ojomo, IMO).

In a world where utilities are privately owned and managed by executives who are beholden to fiduciary obligations, the people will not share in the savings because it is literally ILLEGAL for executives to pursue actions that would diminish corporate profits.
It's time to seize the power companies.

Which returns me to my initial point about corporate greed. Completely renewable energy is possible within the next decade. In such a case, where the power of the sun is harnessed in excess, power SHOULD be free beyond the costs of operations/development.

Average Price: Electricity per Kilowatt-Hour in U.S. City Average Average Price: Electricity per Kilowatt-Hour in U.S. City Average

And finally, are you finding that the development of cheaper power generation has correlated with lower consumer costs? For whom is the prospect of cheaper power "exciting," in reality? Because savings certainly aren't being passed to the consumer… fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU00...

Also: www.chooseenergy.com/solar-energy...

The lurking threat to solar power’s growth Plummeting sunny day solar prices are undermining the economic case to build more solar farms – and putting climate goals at risk.

I am, but I think you're making the mistake of assuming that California *isn't* capitalistic.

"It could become difficult to convince developers and investors to continue building ever more solar plants if they stand to make less money."

www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/14/1...

Profit incentive is the enemy of human progress. It is a stagnating greed. Capitalism only breeds innovation in the field of exploitation.

“Why aren't we doing this?”

Private, for-profit corporate monopolies own American power. Renewable energy, particularly solar, is so cheap and efficient that companies cannot profit from it.

Remember this when someone tells you capitalism breeds innovation.

Geese - I See Myself (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Geese

Anyway, "I See Myself" by Geese makes me think of my daughter, and it reminds me of the Rolling Stones. Therefore, I like it. youtu.be/deFElPQMasw?...

You either like something, or you don't. If you do, great! If you don't, don't. Enough performative garbage. Don't hawk the language of institutional conspiracy for self-validation. Weirdos.

We live in the stupidest timeline. Marketing isn't a psyop. A psyop is a military operation. Promoting a band isn't a conspiracy. Words have actual meaning. Why is everyone so dumb, angry, and suspicious about even the most innocuous things?