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The "risking their health and well being" doesn't entitle them to extra compensation any more than any other job. Playing in MLB certainly doesn't put them on the front lines of COVID-19. Plenty of people have been working in closer contact, and who here is getting hazard pay for it? However, if the owners did indeed agree to prorated salaries and now want to go back on it, that's definitely a bad faith negotiation on their part. I am not sure why they would agree to that if they project losing money now -- how did they not forsee a significant revenue loss from not selling tickets? Either way, the public in general is hardly going to be forgiving to either side if they can't resolve a labor dispute like this peacefully while unemployment is skyrocketing and the average joe is really struggling.

Like I said, the drafting of Love, as long as he is anything other than a complete bust, makes a trade of Aaron Rodgers a very realistic possibility in the next 1-2 year window. Teams just aren't winning Super Bowls with QBs taking up massive percentages of their cap. Trading Rodgers as early as 1 year into Jordan Love's contract, opens up a 3 year window of massive cap space opened from 2022-2024. It barely opens cap room in 2021 but it doesn't cost them space either. No one can guarantee that Love will pan out but the Packers didn't trade up to get him with the idea he'd bomb. They drafted him in anticipation that he will be a franchise QB. And if they're right, they're likely hoping he might be ready after just one year learning behind Rodgers. Because if Love can be ready to play in 2021, that will maximize the benefit of transitioning from Rodgers to Love in every possible way - more cheap productive years of Love, more mega cap room earlier, and more return for Rodgers in a trade. It doesn't mean the Packers need Love to be ready in 2021, it's just an ideal. If he needs until 2022 to be ready, it just delays the cap benefits by one year and likely lessens the return for Rodgers. And no I never said it was the only potential outcome. So let's not ignore that again shall we. Yes Love could bust. Yes Rodgers could have a resurgence that leads to Love being the one traded. But what that article laid out is the absolute ideal scenario. And clearly what the Packers want is that ideal scenario. They get the best return from a Rodgers trade, and they'd get a cheap, franchise QB which allows them to spend elsewhere on the roster as soon as 2022 in a window that runs through 2024. I 100% agree with this concept. I don't understand the fretting about taking a huge dead cap hit to trade a guy. "We can't trade Rodgers, it would be a $32M dead cap hit!" Ok? Yeah, it would be, yeah it sucks, but if you can absorb it in a single season and move on from it, it's not a bad way to go. Think about it. If Love is starting in his 2nd season, is that really going to be a championship season anyway? Most likely not. So you absorb it all in one season, it's kind of a transition season anyway, and moving forward you have a massive amount of cap freed up, plus whatever massive return you've gotten from trading Rodgers. Love gets the year of experience under his belt and if he's your guy, he's likely in a much better position heading into his 3rd year, 2nd starting. He's still got 2 years of very cheap control plus the option year. Love riding the pine until his 4th or 5th season is not ideal at all. Part of the appeal of taking a QB in the first is the massive rookie contract savings, and you lose almost all of that by having him sit through his entire rookie deal, and you also have very little data to go off to decide whether or not to commit to him long-term. While it worked out great for transitioning from Favre to Rodgers, it's just not a very common recipe for success these days. Modern franchises have tremendous success from rookie contract QB contributions that allow them to invest in the rest of their team. Think Patrick Mahomes, Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, etc. The other part of absorbing all of Rodgers' bonus is that the trading team actually gets him at a tremendous discount, making his trade value even stronger. Not saying that he will be traded after the 2020 season, my money would still be after 2021. But the logic behind it is strong. If Love just holds a clipboard behind Rodgers for 4 seasons, it's probably a wasted pick.

I almost always side with players over owners in labor disputes, but I have zero, absolutely zero sympathy with either side if labor disputes, not COVID-19, keep the '20 season from getting off the ground.

In 80 games?!

Can't help but feel like this puts a team like ours with a very weak farm system at a big disadvantage. We simply don't have good depth from 26-50, and although this might get guys like Corey Ray and Zack Brown a shot, teams like the Dodgers and Braves have numerous young MLB ready weapons at their disposal in the minors. It's good news for guys like Corbin Burnes though who might have otherwise been only given a shot to figure it out in the minors this year.

Well, it depends what we can get. I think we have evidence that this is still a pretty good team without Giannis. If you can get some real significant pieces, including at least one who has a chance to be your next franchise cornerstone, that's probably better than losing him for nothing. However, if you keep him for one last year and win an NBA Championship, it's all worth it. I hope it's all a moot point and that he signs the supermax. I have no idea what he intends to do. If he ends up in Golden State I may completely tune out of the NBA for awhile out of total disgust, although I would simultaneously respect his right to make that choice.

Are people changing jobs so often because they want to, because they need to as a result of cuts in their field, or because they have only general education and aren't really specialized in anything? I think there's absolutely value in narrow training for a specific career. Some of the best paid individuals I know had limited schooling for specialized careers, little or no student debt, and enjoy what they're doing and are very good at it. The trick is finding something sustainable. But there are plenty of careers in nursing, networking, manufacturing, plumbing, carpentry, etc. that will always be needed to some degree.

I loved and appreciated Favre when he was with the Packers and love and appreciate Rodgers now. For a time, when he was with the Vikings I disliked Favre simply because of the Packer/Viking rivalry but enough time has passed where I look at his career with a lot of appreciation again.

Yeah, I have no problem believing Favre, particularly because of the auditor's own admission that they found no wrongdoing from him. I will say I think in the future it would serve him well to pay a little more personal attention to what is happening with foundations and assets in his name. Things can happen like this that reflect badly on his name, or worse, the wrong person is going to end up taking advantage of him if they haven't already.

Exact quote from the actual person who was in charge of the audit: ""I want to applaud Mr. Favre for his good faith effort to make this right and make the taxpayers and TANF families whole,'' White said in a statement Wednesday. "To date, we have seen no records indicating Mr. Favre knew that TANF was the program that served as the source of the money he was paid.''

https://www.yahoo.com/news/researcher-verge-making-very-significant-030320409.html What is going on here?

There isn't really a good explanation that Favre can fall back on for this one. Either he entered into a deal he knew he didn't have to fulfill or he took taxpayer money and blew off the speaking engagements. The fact there were multiple events is hard to rationalize. There's actually a lot of possible explanations. Maybe it's part of one of many memorabilia deals. Maybe it was set up for a foundation in his name by his representatives without any real knowledge on his part of it. Or maybe he's a scumbag and knew all about everything. I really don't know. But can we at least hear what happened before we draw definite conclusions?

Yeah, let's maybe see what culpability Favre himself has in this before making these kinds of declarations. Let the evidence come out,; if he did in fact commit a crime, by all means prosecute him. I'm curious to hear the rest of the story on this. Seems odd that the article would plainly say that Favre isn't facing any criminal charges from this, so I'm hoping it will be better explained what actually happened.

I think it's about as good of a plan as they can get and I hope they get it done. If being quarantined for a couple months with your family in a Vegas NBA village is the worst experience of your life, you could do a lot worse. If they are waiting for a perfect plan to just fall into their lap, it is not going to happen.

In no part of his post did he say or imply that WW2 was/is the same as COVID-19. That's your inference entirely.

I liked the Spriggs pick. I think most people liked it at the time. It just didn't work out. I think Thompson tried to do enough on the O-line. He drafted Bulaga, he drafted Sherrod, Spriggs, paid all of Bahk, Bulaga and Linsley when they were up for free agency, and drafted quite a few guys for depth. As others alluded to, more talent everywhere would have been helpful to Rodgers. Thompson just flat out did not draft well enough for a draft and develop team, particularly in the early rounds where you really need to make your money. The 2015 draft class was an absolute nightmare. Almost all of his 1st round picks have been busts at worsts and only mildly impactful or temporarily impactful at best (Perry, Clinton-Dix). Kenny Clark is probably his best 1st rounder since 2011. It's tough to come up with a defensive post 1st round player in the last 10 years that was remotely helpful under Ted. Daniels, Micah Hyde, Casey Hayward...that's about it.

Can someone explain to me why average citizens living paycheck to paycheck are realistically expected to save 3-6 months of living expenses, but companies are bleeding after one month of reduced profits? Why can't they apply the same principles of saving 3-6 months of expenses in the event of a global economic catastrophe?

One concept that I've seen making the rounds is "Oh good, if Rodgers goes down we finally have someone who gives us a chance!" It's just not the case, not now. Honestly, if Rodgers goes down in 2020 I would guess that Tim Boyle gives us a better chance to win than Jordan Love. You can probably cut Boyle loose by 2021 but I'd be surprised if we don't carry 3 QBs in 2020 with our 1st round pick being our 3rd string QB. Love is a developmental project and if you're taking him in the 1st right now you're all-in on his ceiling. He should not see any kind of meaningful snaps in 2020 as he is simply not close to ready. Don't be surprised if he is a healthy inactive many times this season with nothing more than a few snaps all season in late blowout games. If this were college football you'd be redshirting him.

I don't think anyone is looking to open up everything at once, but I think there's little harm in opening salons and barbers under controlled conditions.

Of all the dumb crap that has found ways to stay open in the last month I can't understand why a salon/barber can't stay open with strict guidelines like one customer in the building at a time and online/phone payments online as well as strict hygiene guidelines. Of all the sources of the spreading of this, if they took precautions this would probably be a very minor source of spreading in the big picture. I can wake up, go out and play 9 holes, swing by the liquor store, fight some lines at Home Depot to go buy some plywood, drive through Mickey Ds and drop my dog off to get groomed but heaven forbid I get a trim and interact with one single person there while I'm out.

Certainly you want a great QB in any situation, but they're certainly more critical for pass heavy operations. I can understand his point that a run first offense needs a top defense to be championship level and we didn't do much to address that. We must be counting on tremendous second year strides from guys like Gary and Savage and really hoping to get positive contributions from Christian Kirksey.

I understand the logic behind *some of* the moves. I still hate the moves. Obviously, I'm not alone, as the grades from our draft from almost any source range from "bad" to "horrifcly bad". I understand draft grading isn't perfect and you can't really completely evaluate them for 2 to 3 years. But you won't find many "awful" drafts that turn out to be "terrific" in retrospect. Nor do you find many that get graded terrific that turn out to be awful in retrospect. Both happen, but they are very, very rare. Most drafts are right there in the middle and usually are the ones that can go either way.

Buckle up fellas, it's what we've all been eagerly awaiting ....Korean baseball on ESPN https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/04/espn-korea-baseball-organization-broadcast-rights-deal.html

So I do think that maybe, even though we're not there yet, it's fair to discuss what a post COVID-19 world will look like. Some thoughts: 1) "Post" COVID-19 probably won't really be that way, we'll be dealing with this for awhile, at least until a safe and effective vaccine is proven. 2) Handshakes. Is it just time to do away with this custom? Is there an "acceptable" alternative? Bowing? Saluting? Elbow bumping? Just a polite nod of the head? I think we can all agree that something culturally should exist to substitute for the handshake. Just maybe, this is something that has run it's course and just doesn't make good hygienic sense anymore. 3) Maybe, just maybe, the travel industry, arenas, stadiums, etc, are going to have to figure out that, maybe we shouldn't pack human beings in like sardine cans in the name of profits anymore. Maybe sports stadiums will need to reduce their capacity by 40% to space fans out a little more (I can't even imagine the ramifications for season ticket holders, but here we are). I do believe we'll have live in fan sports again, but maybe it'll be forever different. And maybe it should be. But consequently, I'm sure these things will cost even more. Just common sense stuff can probably reduce viral spread much more than we've grown accustomed to.

Guess I've never really looked at the Tennessee Titans as an organization that anyone would want to duplicate. Particularly from a season where they were offensively mediocre by just about any measurement.