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Mathematician ... Saints, Pelicans, NASCAR ... Married to a Girl, Owned by Dogs, Kids ... Eat, Sleep, Rock ... Insight + Incite ... Puzzles + Patterns ... Space

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A little halftime PSA. It's got Fonzie and my godson in it.

https://t.co/vvx6nUzddL

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@grimcity The mall

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@jamie_arrington Weird for a coach to say.

Even if you genuinely believe there's an insurmountable quality difference, I don't think that's how you answer a question about a series of slow starts.

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@jamie_arrington bravo

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@nick_underhill Seems to me between this and the Tough Rule, I mean, Tuck Rule, it would behoove the NFL, if they want some consistency, to invoke a rule like with a safety... the ball must be completely past the plane of the back edge of the shoulder pads and be proceeding like a forward pass.

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@JonoBarnes Moore than a game

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@ALEVYWORLD Yes.

Griff took some deserved blame and was a lightning rod for Ownership, attracting shots best aimed at them regarding some decisions.

Ownership lowered the ceiling but raised the floor... above "relocated."

Sad, but true.

This IS the price we pay for their billions.

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@JonoBarnes Awesome

Glad to know there is a brotherhood I'm a part of

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@JonoBarnes I was excited about him

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@JonoBarnes Do you remember Adrian McPherson? Voodoo guy, did some times on the Saints back pre-K? Monty Montgomery and them.

He lined up under a guard in one preseason game.

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@all4Saints And they would know more about what top talent looks like and acts like.

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Getting the number one pick doesn't fucking matter. What you get for your pick does.

Zion might have been the best pick in the draft that year, but that doesn't make him good enough, nor does it make picking him the best use of that pick.

Waive him and move on.

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@all4Saints No. I was not happy about getting the top pick from before that lottery. The franchise isn't ready to handle top talent. They would be more well served building their organization out for years, then at least they'll be able to have a chance at keeping their top talent.

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Thunder Model

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The Lakers don't just ruin everything, they ruin everyone

Beat LA

(too soon?)

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@FearTheBrown In addition to anything else, a public script for you is an advantage to your opponent

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The most important lesson from...

Harry Potter: Standing up to your friends is important

Star Wars: The necessity of an independent judiciary

Lord of the Rings: It's always the fucking Hobbits

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And so passeth the dream of the John Wall trade

Shanti
Shanti
Shanti

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Thunder Model

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@Jim_Eichenhofer @FletcherWDSU Looking at it in terms of a tipping point, again, just for the top pick, it's 42-12.5-45.5 for "top 3"-"4th"-"bottom 10"

So, it's more likely that one team from "bottom 10" picks 1st than one team from "top 3" does.

For any given team, nothing "good" is "likely."

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@Jim_Eichenhofer @FletcherWDSU To your point, Jim, there's a 54.5% chance that one of the top 4 lottery seeds pick first, 45.5% that it's not them. Over the course of 10 drafts, the outcomes are probably indistinguishable from a 50-50 scenario.

It's skewed 42-58 against the top 3 seeds.