brian mcardle

Go skiing, go Buffs

[brian mcardle @wmammoth24]

@AdamSchefter

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

look, Deshaun Watson is a terrible person, and he's actively antagonizing the loyal Browns fans still willing to pay money to see this team, and he's not a part of the future of the franchise, and he's untradeable.

But you've gotta admit: He's also absolutely awful at football

[brian mcardle @wmammoth24]

@Acyn

[WiltStats @WiltStats]

Rules the NBA had to change specifically because of Wilt Chamberlain’s dominance:

1. Offensive goaltending:

"He used to jump up, catch his teammates shots and dunk them."

2. In-bounds plays:

"Players are no longer allowed to throw a pass on the baseline over the backboard. Wilt used to jump up and dunk those, too."

3. Free throws:

"When fouled, players no longer are allowed to take a running start from behind the foul line. Wilt used to dunk his free throws in that fashion as if it were a long-jump competition."

4. Rebounding positions:

"In free-throw situations, the two inside rebounding positions were divided one to the offense, one to the defense. That was changed to both defensive positions because Wilt's coaches ordered his teammates to miss so Wilt could get the rebound and score two points instead of one."

5. Widened key:

"The key area was widened to 16 feet to keep Chamberlain away from the basket."

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If you voted for the Big Beautiful Bill, please don’t get on here and express righteous indignation that the debt is now $40 trillion. Anyone with a room temperature IQ knew that cutting taxes and increasing spending was going to balloon the deficit.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

.@ChuckGrassley Senator, you’ve been in Congress since 1975 and in the Senate since 1981, when the national debt was about $533 billion. It is now over $40 trillion.

Before Reagan, the top individual tax rate was 70% and the top corporate rate was 46%.

Today, thanks to Republicans, profitable large corporations pay an average effective rate of only 9% after Trump’s corporate tax cut.

Billionaires live off stock, capital gains, and loans against their assets, while giant corporations hire accountants to make taxable income disappear.

Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009. Working people pay taxes straight out of every paycheck.

You voted for the Iraq War. You backed decades of tax cuts tilted toward corporations and the wealthy. You helped build the debt, then point to it as an excuse to attack healthcare, retirement, housing, childcare, and every other program that helps ordinary Americans.

Clinton left office with an actual surplus. Every Republican president since Reagan has increased the deficit, largely through tax cuts for the wealthy and unfunded wars.

Obama's debt came mostly from responding to the 2008 financial crisis, one that began under Bush's watch and two unfunded wars.

Biden's came mostly from continuing the same COVID emergency response from Trump with the U.S. economy in free fall in January 2021 when he took office and global inflation.

Trump alone has personally added $11.6 trillion across one and half term, more than any president in history.

The debt did not come from working people wanting too much. It came from Washington cutting revenue for the powerful, financing wars on credit, and refusing to make the beneficiaries pay their share. Don’t blame “socialism” for a debt crisis you helped create.

If it wasn't for Republicans our nation would've been debt free.

[Ryan Paganetti @RyanPaganetti]

Anyone arguing that sack rate is not heavily tied to the quarterback is fighting a losing proposition.

Among quarterbacks with at least 4,500 combined regular season and postseason pass attempts, the five lowest combined sack rates in NFL history belong to:

Dan Marino: 3.13%
Peyton Manning: 3.19%
Drew Brees: 3.83%
Tom Brady: 4.42%
Patrick Mahomes: 4.64%

Now look at what happened to their franchises before, during and after their tenures.

DAN MARINO

Same team and same season:
1983 David Woodley: 10.1%
1983 Dan Marino: 3.3%

Marino in 1984: 2.3%

Marino's final season: 2.4%
2000 Dolphins after he retired: 6.2%

PEYTON MANNING

Indianapolis:
1997 Colts: 10.6%
1998 rookie Peyton: 3.7%
2010 Peyton: 2.3%
2011 Colts without Peyton: 6.2%
2012 Andrew Luck: 6.1%

Denver:

2011 Broncos: 8.9%
2012 Peyton arrives: 3.5%
2015 Peyton: 4.6%
2016, first season after retirement: 6.6%

DREW BREES

New Orleans:

2005 Saints: 6.9%
2006 Brees arrives: 3.1%
2020 Brees: 3.2%
2021 Saints after he retired: 6.8%

PATRICK MAHOMES

Kansas City:
2017 Alex Smith: 6.5%
2018 Mahomes: 4.3%
Same 2019 Chiefs team:
Patrick Mahomes: 3.4%
Matt Moore: 8.1%

Mahomes' sack rate has climbed in each of the last two seasons:

2023: 4.3%
2024: 5.8%
2025: 6.3%
That trend is worth watching as he returns from the major knee injury.

TOM BRADY

New England's injury test:

2007 Brady: 3.5%
2008 Matt Cassel: 8.3%
2009 Brady: 2.8%

New England when Brady left:

2019 Brady: 4.2%
2020 Patriots: 7.8%

Tampa Bay:
2019 Jameis Winston: 7.0%
2020-22 Brady: 3.1%
2023-25 Baker Mayfield: 6.5%

Joe Burrow is a notable quarterback who has not been associated with a decreased sack rate.

2019 Bengals before Burrow: 7.2%
2020 rookie Joe Burrow: 7.3%

Same 2025 Bengals team:

Joe Burrow: 17 sacks on 276 pass plays, 6.2%
Joe Flacco: 9 sacks on 265 pass plays, 3.4%

Sack rate does not belong solely to the offensive line. Quarterback play is often the biggest variable.

[ؘDAYA PR MANAGER @dayasouvenir]

you can tell he lived in a frat house his entire 20s cause wheres he pulling these cheating tactics from?? 😭😭

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

I finally have all 1.2 million raw image files from my latest mission to ISS! Here is a sample of one of my favorite Milky Way photos, taken from the Cupola with Nikon Z9, Arri Zeiss 15mm lens, T1.8 with custom sidereal drive that cancelled out star motion relative to our orbit.

[brian mcardle @wmammoth24]

@MaryKayCabot

[brian mcardle @wmammoth24]

@thedawgspodcast

[฿₳₮₮ⱠɆ ฿ɎⱤĐ @BattleByrd]

Do British dudes take their girl to kilogram town?

[brian mcardle @wmammoth24]

@LisaDNews @SenatorDurbin

[brian mcardle @wmammoth24]

@KobeissiLetter Ya, that’s a war crime bro

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Whoever is in control of the Aim Line must be a 30 handicap

[brian mcardle @wmammoth24]

@NewsWire_US

[GH HILL @GHHILL1911]

I don't know who wrote this originally:

A future soldier time travels into a gun store:
"I need a rifle to kill aliens that are mostly bullet proof."
Ok, you're probably going to want a larger caliber, probably .308, or for armor the added velocity of 6.5 Creed might...
"No, we only have 5.56."
Ok, no problem. You're going to at least want a longer barrel to keep as much velocity as you can.
"I was thinking like, 7 inches."
Ah, ok. If portability is a big concern you're probably going to want a super compact PDW style stock.
"I need the longest, heaviest stock you can find."
...Ok. Lets talk optics then, a 7" 5.56 is gonna be pretty limited on range so a simple red dot...
"I need magnification."
Oh, are these aliens hard to identify?
"They're gigantic."
Oh.
"I tell you what, go ahead and put a red dot at a 45. They look sick."
Will you ever use it?
"I will not."
....so, aliens huh? That sounds rough.
"They have incredibly heightened senses. They can smell blood from a mile away."
OH. Well, now the shorter barrel makes a little more sense. You're making room for a big suppressor.
"A what?"
A silencer. Especially if you're going to be shooting these in close proximity to other people, the concussive forces will be...
"No thanks. We'll probably shoot a dozen of these full auto in a concrete stairwell."
That's...I think you're making my point.
"We'll also be fighting in dimly lit areas."
You'll want a super bright weapon mounted light.
"No I said they'll be dimly lit. What's your dimmest light?"
How is this war going for you?
"We're losing terribly."

[brian mcardle @wmammoth24]

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[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

Vibe coders everyday struggle in 15 seconds.

[Andy Johnson @TheDirtJohnson]

Everyone out here asking the Blazers to go get shooters this off-season and they went and got the wrong kind.