Hot Carl

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sooner or later someone will find a hack.

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I’m not sure you can hack the expanded playoffs. Unless you lower your definition for “dynasty.”

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The text novel is the absolute worst.

It's like, "oh shite what am I gonna have to deal with now?"

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That or the vague accusation text sent 30 seconds before a shift at work that requires mental focus dealing with other people. My ex had such a knack for this.

I taught high school history when we 1st got married. Had an infant that kept both of us sleep deprived, but I’d still get up at 5 and go over the material I was teaching that day. Was lucky enough to have my planning period 1st hour, so I used it to finish everything up, have my notes ready, etc…

2nd hour starts at 9:10. I’d get a text at 9:09 saying something ridiculous like “I know what you did. Me and the baby won’t be here when you get home.”

Awesome. Zero idea what she was referring to, but had to suppress it and the accompanying butterflies as I got up to teach a bunch of 17-year-old assholes—who could not have cared any less about anything coming out of my mouth—about the beginning of WWI for the next 5 hours, unable to address the accusation. And had to do it with a smile on my face and a pit in my stomach. Had a lot of those days. Good times.

And my “sins” usually turned out to be forgetting to take out the trash, not dropping off a daycare check on my way to work instead of after when I picked up our kid. Or my favorite—having the audacity to allow a 180 pound married woman I hadn’t seen or spoken to since high school, like a photo on my FB page. That my wife shared with me.

Projection has a name, OP, and thy name is “Woman.”

However, in her defense, we get what we allow. So after the 1st or 2nd time, that shite was on me. So careful what you allow, especially in the beginning. Those goalposts are eternally moving as long as you let them. And that works both ways. We’re all always teaching people how to treat us whether we are aware of it or not.

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What is that 4 top 5 picks in 4 years?

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Yeah

Berry
Skenes
Crews
Curiel

Can’t make myself pull for him to fall, but of all the guys on both lists (save for Curiel and Brown), I think Sheerin coming back would have the biggest impact on the 2027 team. I realize chances are slim to none, though.

Caught a Braves podcast the other day, and the 2 guys on said that Curiel was one of the few names they were hearing as options for them at 9. Neither liked the middle of the 1st round after pick 6 or 7, but did like the back half.

Apparently the middle of the 1st is relatively weak. Which makes it kind of unpredictable. So Curiel probably does go somewhere in that 8-20 range.

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You can go through a PTA program and still make good money...

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My buddy is a PTA and hooked up with a really good PT. Really good at being a PT, but also likable and good at business. He started a home health company. My buddy the PTA was making well over 6 figures the last time we talked about it, which was over 5 years ago. And it’s pretty flexible. He may just have a unicorn PTA gig, though.

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Going for it on 4th down in a situation that we should not be going for it on 4th down.

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That’s 100% going to happen. And happen often. It will be interesting to see how much he trusts Baker and how that manifests. It could be that he trusts him enough to just go ahead and punt. Or he may trust him so much he doesn’t mind giving the other team the ball to start on our side of the field.

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think we're really only going to need 3 WRs (barring injury) that we can rely on.

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What? :lol:

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Is there any way I can go back to look at the Coaching Board from last Thanksgiving?

There's a "Preview" feature on here so you can see what your post is going to look like on the Board. (So you don't come across looking like an ignorant hayseed)

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Ironically, this is almost definitely the best post you’ve ever made on here. :cheers:

We’ll never know