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NFL Offseason Thread - Who cares who won we got a draft to prepare for!

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Sweeney Tom

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The fucking Browns

@MikeSilver
Browns LOL: according to @SI_PeterKing Haslam was upset by Banner's opposition to Greg Schiano's candidacy. Schiano! What coulda gone wrong?

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Goro Majima

Goro Majima

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Grover Cleveland said:
You have an OKCupid tab and a tab that says "virgin"

Let me find out jak

Also, neither here nor there but the Phillies suck.
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How you gonna have an OKCupid profile and still be a virgin? Those chicks aren't exactly looking to get hitched most of the time like Match or eHarmony!
 
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jakncoke

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wienke said:
How you gonna have an OKCupid profile and still be a virgin? Those chicks aren't exactly looking to get hitched most of the time like Match or eHarmony!
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From my experience of reading profiles to pass time, most are looking for long term or that chick talk for not wanting to look like a slut. But fuck em, most ignore any message I ever sent. Thats why I havent sent a message in a while.
 
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DMczaf

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jakncoke said:
From my experience of reading profiles to pass time, most are looking for long term or that chick talk for not wanting to look like a slut. But fuck em, most ignore any message I ever sent. Thats why I havent sent a message in a while.
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A chick I hooked up with at a friend's B-day party (who also works at my friend's job) started telling me she was seeking a long term relationship with someone THAT NIGHT.

A couple of weeks later I find out she was dating a dude she found on OKCupid.

A few weeks after that, I find out they got engaged.

dafuk
 
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jakncoke

Banned
Alligatorjandro said:
I don't think enough of you to get you banned
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If you had a conscience you'd commit account seppuku after how many accounts you got banned.

DMczaf said:
A chick I hooked up with at a friend's B-day party (who also works at my friend's job) started telling me she was seeking a long term relationship with someone THAT NIGHT.

A couple of weeks later I find out she was dating a dude she found on OKCupid.

A few weeks after that, I find out they got engaged.

dafuk
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lol ib4 divorce. my exs sister basically moved that fast with guy off okcupid. she was meeting guys left and right. all of sudden she was moved and married with some dude after knowing him like a month and half
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
After 10 and a half months since getting laid off, dozens of applications, over 30 interviews, and a few near misses where I made the final 2 or 3 candidates but they ended up going with someone else, I've finally gotten a job offer.

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Dutch Gronk

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XiaNaphryz said:
After 10 and a half months since getting laid off, dozens of applications, over 30 interviews, and a few near misses where I made the final 2 or 3 candidates but they ended up going with someone else, I've finally gotten a job offer.

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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR GAF PRISON UPDATES?!

Congrats brother
 
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Farooq

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Quarterbacks are underpaid thanks to stagnant salary cap according to Jason La Canfora

Stop me if you've heard this narrative making the rounds, as misguided as it might be -- now that Russell Wilson, on a cut-rate, third-round rookie contract, won the Super Bowl with the Seahawks, it's time for teams to rethink how much they pay the quarterbacks.

I can't be the only one who has seen this sentiment on websites or floated on Twitter or debated on talk radio. You know, since Seattle won with a cheap quarterback, maybe the thing to do is to let your Joe Flaccos and Matt Ryans and Tony Romos simply walk as free agents once their asking price is mandated too high, and just reallocate those assets into other positions. Oh yeah, and there is a corollary to this ridiculous theory, as well, that claims that quarterbacks are simply being paid too much and so many of them are "overpaid" and that the high cap numbers for passers are going to tear teams apart and curtail their "windows" to win a Lombardi.

This is actually going around. And it's complete, unmitigated BS. Want to know the real problem with the NFL, when it comes to salaries? How about the fact the salary cap hasn't really moved at all since 2009? How about the fact the cap doesn't seem to keep pace with the growth of the league, and that teams are handcuffed by the cap, if anything? That in and of itself doesn't speak to the actual worth of quarterbacks. The real problem is, quarterbacks are eating up a big portion of the cap not because they aren't worth it -- there is a reason teams are desperate not to let these passers hit the market -- but it's that the actual ceiling of the cap isn't growing, even with all these new television packages and all the money flowing in.

First, let me clue you in on a dirty little secret: Pretty much no one in the NFL is overpaid.

OK, sure, a guy like Albert Haynesworth might make a mockery of the process every now and again (lest we forget the role Mike Shanahan played in those shenanigans), but by and large football players end up being a bargain for owners. This collective bargaining agreement is grossly in management's favor. Player costs are more finite and fixed than they have been in the salary-cap era. There is nary an NFL starting QB who is overpaid, in relation to the overall import of the position he plays, the unique impact he has on every game, the physical risks it takes to play the position, the miniscule amount of people on the planet who can execute said job and the ridiculous gross revenues NFL owners rake in.

Newsflash: Relative to other sports, and their collective revenues, starting quarterbacks are an absolute steal, even the most expensive of the bunch. Remember, none of these deals are fully guaranteed for the life of the contracts -- unlike, say, basketball and baseball. All of these guys are potentially one hit away from the end of their career and quite possibly severe mind and body issues in their post-career lives. Their annual salaries are often dwarfed by guys in other professions who risk far less and frankly accomplish far less in relation to the overall success or failure of their franchises.

Only in the past few years have quarterbacks hit the $20M-per-season threshold. So, let's go back to 2000 -- damn near 15 years ago -- when Alex Rodriguez signed a 10-year, $252 million deal with the Texans Rangers, fully guaranteed, to take him above the $25M-per-year stratosphere. Baseball owners would sell their souls to get close to the television revenue and ratings and overall economic dominance that the NFL enjoys, but they have been willing to dole out this kind of money for a long time, to players far less impactful than a Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or Drew Brees or Aaron Rodgers.

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw signed a record $30M-a-season deal this winter. Would anyone argue that someone who touches the ball, at best, every fifth day has the same impact as a premier quarterback who in some cases will have his hands on the ball for literally every offensive snap his team runs in any given season? What about that fact that a scourge, Rodriguez, still makes $27 million a season even though his team, the Yankees, would do anything it could to keep him away? Ryan Howard and Josh Hamilton are just two more players who earn more per season than any NFL quarterback ever has. Every year a handful of baseball players get more than any football player ever has, even some who are limited to a part-time role like designated hitter.

Come on people, quarterbacks are underpaid, relative to any standard you could devise.
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Quoted half the article, the rest is here.
 
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jakncoke

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XiaNaphryz said:
After 10 and a half months since getting laid off, dozens of applications, over 30 interviews, and a few near misses where I made the final 2 or 3 candidates but they ended up going with someone else, I've finally gotten a job offer.

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So is this like your formal resignation of fast food threads?

ps congrats
 
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yankeehater

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XiaNaphryz said:
Technical project manager for software development. I'll give more details once I actually start.



I'll just have to play for longer on the weekends and save up enough images for daily updates. ;P
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Congrats man. Hopefully you are somewhere cool so we can get insider updates. Real ones.
 
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RBH

Member
XiaNaphryz said:
After 10 and a half months since getting laid off, dozens of applications, over 30 interviews, and a few near misses where I made the final 2 or 3 candidates but they ended up going with someone else, I've finally gotten a job offer.

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Congrats!
 
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