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I find the game to be pretty neat too. Baseball can tap into that nostalgia pretty well.

There is yet another possible upside. Two of the teams best WR's are rookies. The OL is a new group that will need time to gel together. The beginning of the season would be the time these things have not yet been fully worked out. Allowing Sanders to wait not only helps give him time to learn the new system as you mentioned, it also gives the rest of the team time to adjust to it so you wouldn't be throwing Sanders to the wolves while the rest of the O is still rough around the edges in a new system.

By the time Sanders would start, not only would be be more familiar and hopefully more comfortable in it, so would the rest of the O players.

No election has ever been rigged. Every election has been decided by counting the votes of American citizens who voted. But trump might take over this election "dont worry about it"

How many convicted felons or people that have been admitted to mental institutions murdered someone by voting?

Me too but much like YTown I watch a lot of music videos on Youtube. I scour the list beside the videos to find songs I like but haven't heard in decades. And much like him I never recall seeing this song on any of those lists before. Sort of odd how both he and I ran into it at roughly the same time that way.

Actually that's the entire issue. If not for those unsubstantiated claims none of this would be happening. You claim in one breath "more shows rigged elections and elections have been rigged for many years" then in the next breath say "I doubt it happens".

Then please show your evidence of "more shows rigged elections and elections have been rigged for many years". What you will find is the old trump standard line. "People are saying, people have told me, many people are saying".

Here's what people have done. They have asked for proof that any mass voting fraud has occurred. Accusations have been made from voting machines being rigged to those two women in Atlanta dumping fake ballots and a host of random accusations. Both resulted in lawsuits that ended with these parties receiving damages for defamation because they were lies. All of them have been debunked. When did one side of an argument repeatedly telling you lies start adding context and validity to cheating? I gave a link above showing just that. Why would anyone try to look at this and think backwards? When did accusations with zero evidence to support it became, "more shows rigged elections and elections have been rigged for many years"?

Trump-appointed elections commissioner says 'no real evidence' of president's claims about voter fraud

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politi...e-of-presidents-claims-about-voter-fraud

It takes some special kind of thinking to believe trump and his yes men that only elections where he loses are rigged. When every time they make these crazy claims they are debunked and disproven create such an uproar? And let me ask you, if those elections were rigged how did Republican members of the house, the senate and state Republican officials get elected? Is there some magical way that these ballots only rigged the votes for trump and didn't touch anything else on those ballots? Come on man, you're smarter than that.

And please keep in mind that trump asked Georgia election officials to "find him votes". And seven states had people try to represent themselves as electors who were fake electors after the 2020 election to claim Trump won states he actually lost. Arizona,Georgia,Michigan,Nevada,New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

So if you're looking for people trying to cheat you don't have to look very far. But they also failed.

There is ZERO fact based observation of your statement. You may as well be claiming that you believe in Big Foot. There's more viability that the 9/11 attack was an inside job (which is also not true) base on some of the freakish issues that took place than there is of what you just casually opined.

I think more and more shows rigged elections and elections have been rigged for many years, but that is another issue. As to this, I doubt it happens, but as a general statement I don't see how you could just rule it out, at least at this point.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Always liked that song.

I believe Todd Monken wants to win. He is preparing his team to win and will play the QB that he feels gives his team the best chance to win. If that is Watson, then that will last until results prove otherwise. Then it will be what do we have in Sanders. As for Andrew Berry he has been setting the team up best he can for a QB in 2027. He has multiple 1sts round picks; he has in future years multiple 2nd round picks. If he thinks this team is a QB away from contending he will put together a formidable package to get up to get 1 of the coveted QB's if the teams own pick does not put them in that spot. That is unless a QB already on the roster proves to him otherwise. Not likely but possible. I think the only QB on the roster that has spot on this team in the future is Dillon Gabriel. He was drafted in the 3rd round, the FO likes him, they really like his knowledge for the game, see him as an asset when they do find their QB of the future to have someone that understands what the coach and offense wants to do and can lead in the film and meeting room. They see him as a long-term backup QB. That is why the starter competition is between their highly paid investment QB that they cannot release due to the cap hit and their low-risk possible high reward past 5th round draft pick. If neither show enough this season to be the long-term franchise QB they will both not be on the team next season. If the Browns could afford it cap wise Watson would not be on the team now. No way will they bring a new highly drafted 1st round QB in next year with Sanders and his following still on the team. 2027 will look like this 1) Watson or Sanders 2) Gabriel 3) Green or another developmental QB or 1) 1st round draft pick 2) Gabriel 3) Green or another developmental QB.

I've read that back up QB's don't usually get reps with the 1st team offense in the NFL - since Sanders was 3rd string last year at the beginning of the season ... did that mean he didn't get any reps or just not 1st team reps? Obviously the comparison is Baker who had no 1st team reps even though he was the 1st overall pick and heir apparent.

I guess my thoughts are that if Sanders or Gabriel are going to improve (hopefully become better than a mediocre Watson) -- then the progress is going to be due to a year of NFL exposure and experience, not because of additional reps at the beginning of season 2? Does that make sense?

this team has completely imploded to 3rd place in the worst division in MLB.

I do see ONE upside to starting the season with Watson.

SS is like a rookie all over again. Last year he didn’t have a preseason, he was this years Green not getting reps.

This year he is getting reps, but with an all new coaching staff and offense to implement.

Starting Watson could allow SS to get up to speed with Monken’s offense before he inevitably does come in for either a really bad or injured Watson at some point in the season. For a second year 5th round QB, odds of success would probably increase if he had a handful of games learning from the sidelines.

So are people who want to require ID to vote but not require background checks to purchase a gun also loony?

Field of Dreams is awesome. First time I've had the chance to tune in to the festivities. What a great idea by MLB.

Well he is a billionaire so you should cut him some slack

Never ending with this guy. War, reflection pool, fraud, corruption, Kennedy Center, Greenland, Nobel prize, ballroom.

A national embarrassment. Alienating allies. Promoting dictators. Never ending lies. A convicted felon. Federal jury verdict finding Trump liable for sexually abusing E Jean Carroll. A tape recording saying "grab them by the [censored], you can do anything." "Find me the votes to win Georgia," on tape. Jan 6th.

The weak lying hypocrites of the senate should have impeached this bag of pus.

people not wanting to show a state id to vote but want to require background checks on gun purchases are loony.

At least attempt to stay on topic. The choice is between Biden's babbling and trump's lies. I have no idea why you think anything has improved.

#BDS

I should clarify... I mean first half of the season.

If that leads us to 8-9 wins, Rams go deep into the playoffs and thus both 1st rounders might not get us to a spot to draft a QB early.....possibly yes. Especially if the FO has already come to the conclusion that Watson will never be in their future plans.

I don't know if I agree with the idea there is no upside in starting Watson. He is only 30. In QB years that is still pretty young. We've seen the ceiling of him being a superstar from 5 years ago, but successive injuries probably limit that ceiling, although that's not what Monken believes. I think people not wanting to see team success in Watson starting is based on his off the field issues from 2022 and I get that. I'm trying to carve that out in my thinking and keep it to field performance. We see QB revivals all the time if the system is right....see Darnold in 2025.

What it all comes down to for me really re: Watson, is (1)if the offense Stefanski ran for Watson (for all QBs, really) was that bad, (2) can he get back the athleticism he once had and (3) can Monken get the best out of him using his legs and not making the offense (early on) too complicated. I think this was an issue for all of them last year.

I’m not sure he was even dismissive of it in terms of he will never be able to do it in an NFL game, I took it more as this game had very few elements of a real NFL game where there will be shifts, coverage disguising, full temper rushing with guys that belong on the league, etc. the HOF game wasn’t just vanilla, it was a hyped practice with a 1/4 of the playbook being ran by 3rd stringers and guys that won’t make a roster.