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Any cookies, twizzlers, candies, or snacks?

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Kyron Samuels @kyronsamuels]

daunte culpepper after throwing the craziest 70-yard dart to randy moss.

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@swarheit Has Ragnow commented on it saying he feels alienated? The story reads as if this happened a while ago and he tried to rejoin the team…also I like to think the org. has learned from Barry/Calvin. They may find a way to make him whole under the table

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@FootballGuy_Al bump

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@FootballGuy_Al I'm starting to think taking Tyleik over Josh Simmons was a mistake!

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@erikschlitt OTC is showing Lions save $7M more in cap if they wait until Post June 1. Will they?

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

G: Can you believe we are going to live in a town without a Tiki Bar?

Katie: No, that’s our whole brand!

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@FootballGuy_Al Are these only RB runs or do they include Kyler?

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@NFL @NFLPlus @NFL @NFLSTATISTIC this should be recorded as a run, not a pass. Please correct it.

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@PrideOfDetroit granted, the Lions with Morton are one of those 7, so it’s not a perfect picture, but the point stands: good OC’s can be successful year 1.

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@PrideOfDetroit 7 of the top 10 teams in ppg had OC’s new to the team (or that role on the team) this year. It doesn’t really take time.

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@erikschlitt Why?

[Al Karsten @FootballGuy_Al]

The Detroit Lions offense averaged just 2.8 yards per play on early downs against the Vikings in Week 17 — their worst showing since 2010 and tied for the worst in a single game since 2004.

Their -0.55 EPA per play on early downs was the teams lowest since 2008 and ranks as the third worst since at least 2000.

The 29.2% early-down success rate marked the worst performance of the Dan Campbell era.

[Scott Warheit @swarheit]

What I want to see this off season from Homes especially is some real humbleness and none of this “I’m the smartest guy in the room”‘ bravado.

This season was a disaster, and should be a real wake up call for the entire front office.

Status quo and hope isn’t enough anymore.

[Emerson Lotzia, Jr. @EmersonLotzia]

me if I’m the fan DK Metcalf punched

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@TheMSCPodcast @CMU_Football @MiamiOHFootball @DrinkallCoach @CoachLT39 @coachsmitttty @CoachCandle @Martin_Miami_HC @CFBHome @MACSports @MACBarstool @GroupOfFiveGuys @TheHerdBros Looks like your other reply was deleted. There was a mistake in your assumption. I’m assuming Toledo beats Ball St this Saturday (28.5 favorites).

Assuming Toledo wins Saturday, all CMU would need is:
-Beat Toledo
-Miami loss

CMU/Ohio would go to Tie Breaker #5

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@TheMSCPodcast @CMU_Football @MiamiOHFootball @DrinkallCoach @CoachLT39 @coachsmitttty @CoachCandle @Martin_Miami_HC @CFBHome @MACSports @MACBarstool @GroupOfFiveGuys @TheHerdBros I'm seeing they would both have strength of schedule records of 28-36 (assuming Toledo wins Sat.). In this scenario, it would go to the SportSource Analytics Team Rating. What did I miss?

[G @PreSeason_Champ]

@TheMSCPodcast @CMU_Football @MiamiOHFootball @DrinkallCoach @CoachLT39 @coachsmitttty @CoachCandle @Martin_Miami_HC @CFBHome @MACSports @MACBarstool @GroupOfFiveGuys @TheHerdBros If CMU and Ohio both win, and Miami, Kent, Umass all lose, what is the conference strength of schedule for both CMU and Ohio?

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Raising em right!