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How does a story like this generate zero headlines in Western media?

Another funny part of the consensus rankings is that some boards will adjust if they catch wind of “risers” or “fallers”. People weren’t privy to Stribling rising until the last moment. If they did some might have adjusted and wouldn’t have seemed like as big a reach by consensus. For example, in 2021 there was a ton of smoke about Mac Jones to the Niners so consensus shot him all the way up to #5 on the board. They were lower on eval, but what they thought was inside information greatly influenced them. Whether it is admitted or not, they are working with incomplete information. A lot is being said behind the scenes on where guys are truly predicted to go that does not reach the public.

LEBRON MF JAMES TONIGHT: 28 POINTS 8 ASSISTS 7 REBOUNDS 31 MINUTES LED THE GAME IN SCORING AT 41 YEARS OLD TO ELIMINATE THE ROCKETS. 🤯

No way man lmaooo. LeBron was asked about Texans DE Will Anderson Jr after the game: “That’s my 4th child. Him and Bronny are twins and nobody knows it. Me and Savannah been trying to keep it under wraps for a long time.” 😂😂😂

This is one of my favorite genres of Chicago lol

When Zohran clocks out at 5pm, Curtis just starts his shift as night Mayor.

They put 17 people, married an average of 21 years, into a brain scanner and showed them a photo of their spouse. The same parts of the brain lit up that fire when a teenager has their first crush. Two decades together, and the chemistry was still going off like fireworks. The study ran at Stony Brook in 2011. What changes after 20 years is the anxiety. That panic of not knowing if they love you back, the wondering, the checking. All of that fades. The pull toward them stays. So that tells you what old love looks like in the brain. It doesn’t tell you how a couple gets there. A marriage researcher named John Gottman has spent 40 years on that question. He films couples arguing in his lab at the University of Washington and predicts whether they’ll divorce. He gets it right 93.6% of the time, from 15 minutes of footage. More than 3,000 couples now. He watches the two-second moments between sentences. The pauses. That’s where the prediction lives. The fights themselves matter less. His go-to example: your wife is staring out the window and says, look at that bird. You glance up and say, oh wow. Or you keep scrolling on your phone. That tiny choice, that little reach for your attention, is what he calls a bid. He watched newlyweds in his lab and followed them for six years. The couples who were still married had responded to each other’s bids 86 times out of 100. The couples who divorced had responded 33 out of 100. Same money fights. Same in-laws. Same dishes in the sink. The one thing that was different was the bird. This part stopped me. Gottman found that 69% of the things every couple fights about are problems that never get solved. The chores. The money. His mother. Whose family they spend Christmas with. The arguments repeat for 50 years. Happy couples and unhappy couples have roughly the same list of problems. The happy ones learned to argue about that list without contempt. The eye roll. The sigh. The little smile that says you are pathetic. Gottman calls contempt the sulfuric acid of relationships. He says it’s the single biggest sign that a marriage is over. When you see two old people asleep on each other on a plane, the forgiveness in that picture is real. They have absorbed thousands of small failures by now. There is something quieter underneath the forgiveness, though. Decades ago, one of them said look at that bird. The other one looked up.

The improvement on the Titans aesthetic cannot be understated

Greatest aura gamble of all time

Rookie deal signed for first-round pick @vegaioane17!!

BREAKING: The Senate just unanimously banned Senators from trading on prediction markets, effective immediately.

@flock313 Idt they were after Reader tbh since he’s always been primarily a NT. Calais was my dream get for the DL in FA so I can’t be more pleased

so Trav stays 1t and he plays 3t. Readee must have a scorching hot market. very happy with Calais. we all wanted him last year anyways

@PatrickMoranTB Appreciate it bro

@plagueboymax No idea where he's at in terms of development obviously, but with McGovern signing an extension I think his path to being a starter at any point barring injury is blocked. So, maybe you can get something of value for him.

Can I interest you in one Sedrick Van Pran Granger?

@DAV1D6RAND @TommyK_NFLDraft Agreed, we can refer to @startkyIeorton ‘s cycle for that issue lol. Poles not hitting on DL and using premium picks for it will bite him in the butt, and it’s very possible we see him get desperate next FA/draft. Wish he focused on it before turning the position into a liability

@plagueboymax @TommyK_NFLDraft I can see that but that doesn’t excuse the ability to evaluate/swing on cheap talent in the draft, no? Example: Z. Thomas at 89 over DDS or K.Proctor (we don’t know the background/medical/fit) but having to fix trenches in FA is a ridiculously expensive/unwise proposition.

To expect any rookie DL to come in change life for you at 25 was always unwise. Totally fine they weren’t big on this class. But to be as passive as they were in FA is where I get hung up. Doesn’t sound like they were in on Hendrickson at all. Never made sense

@The_RedMonstar3 This makes up for their draft not being able to get a DL for me. Great offseason, now we need a center

YES YES YES YESSSS

Time to get Calais Campbell his Super Bowl

Six-time Pro-Bowl DE Calais Campbell, who played in Baltimore from 2020-2022, is returning to sign a one-year deal with the Ravens, per source. Campbell will 40 on Sept. 1 and this will be his 19th NFL season.

@startkyIeorton Unfortunately I think the 25 DL he got in FA made him realize not to overpay for the sake of filling a need. When they can get out of a ton of contracts next offseason, I think we’ll see the DL properly addressed. For now we have to pray the secondary holds up imo

"Did you want him to force a DL pick over thieneman" I didn't want to be here at all, but when you're told "calm down, the offseason isn't over, there's still the draft" and then they don't do anything in the draft it's hard not to be mad at the entire offseason plan

Yeah I didn't love this year's DL class either but this is why we are in year 5 of the flowchart.