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I mean, to be fair to your neighbor - a majority of people likely don't follow or care about the Falcons that much so i wouldn't hold that one against him, but your point still stands :lol:

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Payton could pull out a gun, shoot the opposing coach in the face, Payton arrested, game is forfeited, and saints fans would still find a way to blame the refs.

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I mean, to be fair, the NFL refs probably wouldn't see the problem with that happening in front of their face either...

Reading the article, it looks like the 'better talent' comment might have been particularly talking about the WR corps (which to be fair, wasn't our strongest suit the last few years beyond Thomas/Sanders):

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“When you have a high-powered offense and guys with the talent to make your offense high-powered, I think there are a lot of questions in the air about how well we will be. That’s always going to be a question, but seeing the talent that we have at receiver, it’s just as good. We probably got better talent here than we had in New Orleans.
“Just seeing those guys – Mike (Williams) and Keenan – lining up all across the field in different formations,
splitting us out in different packages, I definitely think that this offense has what it takes to become a high-powered, prolific offense in the NFL.”

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Still, frick that slippery-handed bastard.

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Yep. The whole George Floyd thing. Why was he allowed to dictate that he didn’t want to be in the police car? 20 years ago they would have wacked him over the head and brought him to jail

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I know right? These priviliged criminals making demands!

This thread is like a bucket of good ol' boy chum. Hilarious :rotflmao:

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This is the way I look at it. I work for a company that is based in Baton Rouge, and I am from Eunice. Baton Rouge population is 221,599 and Eunice is 9,989.
If we had an opportunity for a management position and they had a rule stating that they had to interview candidates from Eunice or other smaller towns simply because we had a population of less than 10k, I'd take that as an insult because they are basically saying all those simple country Eunice folk know is how to farm rice & crawfish or work offshore.

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While i don't disagree that notions like this and the Rooney rule are...ham-fisted executions of an idea at best, i guess it's notable that they are trying to address what is a sort of odd issue.

To your point: Using that same analogy - Say the company based in Baton Rouge had, for their entire 50+ year history, only really hired candidates from the local BR area (whether for convenience, proximity, cost - regardless) and had never even LOOKED in Eunice for candidates. Over those 5 decades, perhaps it wasn't the case that the higher-ups thought that people in Eunice were simple country folk - maybe they'd just always only been looking in BR because that's where they were located, they'd always had a supply of applicants, whatever the case - but could the assumption be made that they were hiring the best candidates in all of Louisiana even though they never looked in Eunice until they had a reason to do so?

Going a step further....without having a reason to do so, in that scenario, why would they even look to Eunice for candidates, when they had been finding managers just fine in BR for the last 50 years? That's kinda what the NFL is dealing with. This idea that when openings happen, searches automatically include ALL qualified candidates rather than orgs just looking in the same places they've looked before more or less for the last century or so.

Your choosing to take that kind of action as an insult speaks to being fortunate enough to not really have to worry about being overlooked under normal circumstances. While the NFL should be a meritocracy and the whole 'picks for blacks' thing has so many issues (like, is it all minorities? What if a coach is only like 1/6th Native American or something - does that count? But i digress :lol:), it seems like they're trying to correct for a *systemic* issue, which is gonna lead to some dumb efforts nearly every time.

Wow, must be a lot of current and former Saints on the board! Seems like a lot of comments about what the rest of their teammates are thinking/saying in the locker rooms...and so much of it about the cuckolding lifestyle and balls, no less :lol:

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He had Drew Brees for 14 years and only won one Super Bowl

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Yeah, it really is a shame Drew hasn't been better on the defensive side of the ball all these years.

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Wondering what that limp was about

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They showed on the replay...someone else was falling to the ground and his ankles got sorta rolled up, but it didn't look too too bad fortunately.

Only semi-related, but...
Why is it that some folks only reference points are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?

Are they commentators on Fox News frequently or something?

Are they still even both alive?

I feel like i've literally almost never heard any of my black friends or people i know talk about them in the last decade or so.

Not trying to start anything, i'm genuinely curious since the person up there mentioned them out of nowhere :lol: :lol:

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A black guy named Logan really fricks with my brain.

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Lol did it shock you to learn Seinfeld's full name also?