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It feels like every day is Monday, around here.
Vikings mandatory mini-camp today. Should be lots of videos of great passes and catches.
Good morning, SKOL, and FTP!
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
My God, log in, log in. How many times?
Until you get it right.
Duh.
I’m convinced now that the “REMEMBER ME” isn’t a command function at all – it’s the login box asking me a question.
Happy the rookie QB will have a true #1 WR to throw too.
And a pretty decent #2 and some good TEs and even a pretty good RB.
Weapons won’t be an issue, IOL will be.
I’ve been shouting about the OL from the rooftop for over a decade.
Hey, I survived the Saturday morning AI primer. I was assigned the fly dusting duties and light chute management, did a couple of shots. I got there early (was told the vet would be there at 9:30 so got there at 8:30 – I wasn’t going to be the rate limiting step). My wife’s ex said the vet got here early, guy stepped out of his truck and introduced himself as Troy. I walked to the corrals where they had about 35 cows and fifteen calves separated, they came around the back in a side by side…in classic fashion the ex was carrying on a convo that had started while they were in the vehicle, and Troy said well you (MT) are the doc you should check this out, do you want to cut it? WTF? Turns out they thought one of the calves/steers still had a testicle, Troy was feeling the lump and describing it to me. As I thought he was a vet for obvious reasons I was like “I have no business diagnosing an incomplete orchiectomy”.
I realized about ten minutes later Troy was no vet, he was more like an informal vet tech with experience with AI’ing.
Kinda cool…give the cows a shot of luteinizing/gonadotropin releasing hormone, put a “plug”/tampon laced with progesterone in the vagina. Wait one week, pull the tampon. Wait 72 hours, place the semen. Then put the cows out with the bull, bull bats clean up in case the AI didn’t take. Preg check six weeks later.
I only got mildly cussed a couple of times, for pushing the chute of cows a little too hard such that they bunched up behind the squeeze.
‘one of the calves/steers still had a testicle’
You could have a real fresh rocky mountain oyster.
Wonder what pecking order is for qb’s preseason games are. Darnold for a half? JJ and Mullens a qtr?
JJ all day!
I’m with you.
I guess Darnold will need to get some game reps with the new system.
It will probably change each game depending on practices and what they coaches feel each QB needs.
I suspect Mullins will need less time as he knows the offense already.
They don’t want to risk an injury to JJ so a balance between Darnold and him. Find a little time for Hall until he is cut.
Have no idea. Tendency is not to play regulars, don’t want JJ killed. Most teams play draft and UDFA though. I want to see JJ.
That makes sense with a veteran QB, but a rookie is going to need some time on the field to run the offense at game speed.
I got a new stereo installed in the Riviera over the weekend. I’m really impressed with how well it fits in the cars’ original location.
Closer view
But all digital
Blue Tooth enabled lol , love it.
Blue tooth, aux input, pretty much everything a modern stereo has but looks like an old school one.
If I had a rebuild of a classic car thats exactly what I would want. I want the look, but also the modern comforts and drivability. A lot of classic cars looked amazing but sucked to drive. Our family has a ’69 Mustang Mach 1.
What engine? the 302 was standard V8 but the 390 was pretty hot and 428 over the top.
…..man you’re testing my memory. I will get back to you on that. I wanna say it was the 302 standard. I haven’t been under the hood in half a decade, thing needs to get driven more.
I will volunteer to drive it. I’ve always wanted one with a 428 CJ.
Its this car. Paint as well, its a lighter blue but its a cloudy day in this video and camera could be messing with it too.
That’s just it. It’s worse to just leave them sit for long periods of time. My dad has a 2007 Shelby mustang, sweet car but hardly drives it, maybe 10000 miles on it. Had to stick close to 5 grand in it two years ago because of fuel issues from sitting.
That is really cool
What year is the Riviera?
I have a Honda with a control panel. YouTube app on cell and play whatever i want. Works great.
Fun project !
Took me twice as long because whoever installed the previous stereo shortcut everything. So I had to clean that mess all up.
Ooo looks slick. What year?
72.
Nice car. I like dark metallic colors on cars. Maybe darker rims. Hot rod.
Cragar wheels designed to look similar to the original mag wheels that came on the car.
Old enuf to love vintage cars. Now it’s EV’s. Gag me.
Looks great!
Nice ride, I’ll scroll farther before I ask a question next time
“If you don’t vote for me, you ain’t black”
Hey, poor kids are just as bright and talented as white kids.
Both a race baiter and a racist at same time.
Idaho bar goes viral after declaring ‘Heterosexual Awesomeness Month’ | Fox News
Where are the North Dakota bars doing the same thing??
Got to love it!!
In a traditional type of way.
Eagle is another suburb of Boise, will have to stop by there and show some support next week.
Do it! But go on Monday or Wednesday to get the discounts.
Not sure how much discount we need since we are not drinkers.
Maybe a soda and a little something to eat.
JJets cap hits:
2024 – $8.5 mill ($88.7 dead)
2025 – $15.3 mill ($80.2 dead)
2026 – $39.1 mill ($40.9 dead)
2027 – $43.4 mill ($14.8 dead)
2028 – $47.4 mill ($7.4 dead)
2029 – Void year, $6 mill
The signing bonus is only $36.9 mill of the total deal so they can likely restructure some of those numbers if needed into signing bonus and lower his cap hits.
I think it also lowers his 2024 cap hit by about $10 mill. According to Spotrac, the Vikings currently have about $27.5 mill in cap space. Turner and JJ won’t take much of that. Any free agents out there still or possible trade targets?
Maybe a Good IOL or two.
Not seeing much there for free agents. There’s a few corners available though. They’ve got to have a plan of some kind I would think, otherwise why would you push money to future years?
Injury replacement pickup?
If they don’t use it all they can move some of it into 2025 I believe.
A DB depth piece would be good for when the dump Cine and Booth.
Do we have one CB capable of playing tight man coverage on even a WR2 level talent?
No.
Not good. If you’re going to blitz as much as Flores likes (they won’t all work), with no good cover guys, and Smith isn’t getting any younger, you will give up a fair share of big plays.
That’s where I was leaning. Maybe Howard or Adoree Jackson?
K. Jackson was drafted to be that guy.
Kollmann starts talking about him ‘pre-draft’ about 55 minutes in.
We have drafted a lot of CB’s to be “that guy”. Mackensie Alexander, Mike Hughes, Kris Boyd, Harrison Hand, Cameryn Dantzler, Jeff Gladney, and Andrew Booth for instance.
Can’t forget Chris Cook………well, yeah, you can.
I think it will all move to 2025, but if that was the plan why lower Jets’ cap hit? They had like 17 or 18 mill in cap space already so plenty for injury pickups if needed.
Some of the corners available are Xavien Howard, JC Jackson, Adoree Jackson, Cameron Sutton. Emmanuel Ogbah, Carl Lawson, Yannick available on the DL. Maybe a WR like Renfrow or Thomas?
This is a structure that works for the cap. After two more years, KAM can trade JJ and his cap hit goes away.
If after two years, we are in a position where we ‘need’ to trade JJ, we are up the creek.
Hey JR, I think KAM will walk away from the deal after two years. He’ll trade JJ after getting 6 good seasons out of him. He’ll structure all of his contracts so he can walk away when he wants. This is what “flexibility” means. Don’t actually pay the whole contract.
I wish it were more front loaded to be honest.
Larry Allen dead at 52….
RIP
Guessing heart issue?
Haven’t disclosed but it was unexpected. Was on vacation in Mexico with family when he passed.
Happy Pride Month everybody!!!
At my office we are celebrating by doing………nothing.
June is Dairy Month!
Shame DE….Shame!!!
Give him some SEAL training.
Bottom line. BRING HOME THE CUP! LET’S FUCKING GO!
Did you see the video clip of the young lady (Oilers fan) who flashed her bewbs during the game last night? Very impressive!
As a fairly recent Floridian, believe we. have a pretty good team from around the Palm Beach area. Should I give them a look.
Yep, they are good.
In fact, the Florida teams have been in the Finals of the last 5 Stanley Cup Playoffs (Tampa and Florida). Pretty cool.
Nope.
GO OILERS!!!!!!!
MT, you got owned last night. Out shot 35-10. FLA has home ice, tough task but i hope Oil find a way.
Only needed two shots to win the game. That would have been classic. 10 shots to win a conference final is a record. Oilers own a lot of records but that is not one they would be expected to own.
This year they were 3-9-1 after expectations that they could contend for the SC. HC got axed, Knoblauch assigned as new HC. From bottom in the west (31st in the league) they have been the hottest team in the NHL since.
Expected to beat LA…took them in five games
Expected to lose to Vancouver (who swept them in regular season). Won in seven.
Every expert predicted Dallas would beat them. Won in six.
On to the SCF against Florida. Northernmost vs southernmost. Experts are predicting Florida wins after losing to Vegas in the SCF last year.
Anything noteworthy happening with the team? I mean, besides the obvious battle between Brandel and Risner…………
I found $400.
Go Team Me!!
#grin
I just lost $400, send it here! (JK)
Ok.
You want it by Fax or E-mail.
In the first season follow the strike in 2005-2006 (their last appearance in the SCF, followed by 11 straight seasons out of the playoffs and several #1 picks, including Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Connor McDavid, and a #3 pick of some German called Leon Draisaitl), they got hot at the end of the season, snuck into the playoffs at the #8 seed. Not a single expert gave them a chance against the high flying Detroit Red Wings. Roloson (goalie) got hot, and cut through Detroit in six, San Jose in six, and Anaheim in five to come up against the Carolina Hurricanes, formerly Hartford Whalers. First time two WHA teams had met, I had great hopes for the series. Roloson got hurt first game, they went down 3-1 in the series, came back to force a game 7…and lost.
I had high hopes for the next few years. Then Pronger forced a trade, the GM made terrible move after terrible move, and we had the decade of darkness.
Just a few MT-style ramblings for the day…
I’ve been a fan of the Edmonton Oilers since my earliest memories, some time after their inception as a WHA franchise in 1971. By the time they joined the NHL in 1979-1980 I was a diehard copper and blue fan, those early years with the high powered offense were electric and I had zero expectations of playoff success. First season they got in at #16 of a 21 team league, got murdered by Philadelphia a team that had lost next to no games all season. Each season got better until they carved through the playoffs in 1982-1983 season, came into the SCF against the three time champion NY Islanders, and I thought they would easily beat them. Ended up getting swept by the NYI, I remember the post game interviews where the Edmonton stars recounted walking by the “celebrating” NY locker room, the guys were mostly subdued because they were physically exhausted, the stars realized it takes more than elite play to win the Stanley Cup, it is a slog of a marathon.
Next five SCF appearances, the Oilers won the Cup.
Have heard that story and used a modified version of it to teach the Nephews/Nieces.
Brains and talent are good to have but they won’t beat out drive and effort.
Get them all working together and you can be unstoppable.
Enjoy June hockey MT.
Go Oilers!
In the useless statistic category…..
Stefon Diggs has earned more money than any other 5th round draft pick in nfl history.
Kirk Cousins has earned more money than any other 4th round pick.
I’d bet Kirk has earned more than any other 2 round pick and many other 1st rounders. Maybe the same for Diggsy.
Nope, that would be Brees at 270. Kirko currently at 232, Wilson 3rd round pick at 266
What’s included in the $232 to date for Kirko?
Up to 2024 or his entire contract with the Falcons?
Pretty sure that if future dollars currently contracted are included, Kirk is the highest paid NFL player of all time. Obviously others are going to get new deals, but those deals don’t currently exist.
Yeah,
Two tags in DC were about $50 million
First 3 years in Minny were $83
Last 3 were around $100 or more.
That’s $233 before the Falcons deal.
Kirk will surpass most QB’s, if not all other draft picks drafted over the last 10 years.
Since we’re mostly all capitalists, not socialists, on this site, isn’t the point to make as much money as possible.
Yes, good for Kirk and Stefon. No one should ever apologize for how much money they make unless they steal it from others.
Well there is a group of people who believe that anyone who makes a lot of money must being doing so by taking it by dishonest means from others less fortunate.
Well, believing that eliminates all reason to go out and try to make your own money.
It fits and justifies their choice to sit around and live off of the government handouts, aka vote buying.
Lots of people in this country that think a free lunch lasts forever.
For some it does.
Prob right, the saying “there’s no free lunch” should be revised. Like paying off student loans. It’s a payment transfer to taxpayer. What a damn joke this admin is.
‘What a damn joke this admin is.’
Wrong!!
A Joke by definition is a funny story or quip.
There is nothing ‘funny’ about the crap FJB and cronies pull.
It for sure does and has for generations with no end in site.
Sometimes I like to be funny when everyone else is serious.
I was shredding a bunch of old checkbooks this last weekend in preparation for the move. As I was tearing apart an old checkbook so that it would pass thru the shedder without causing a jam 4 $100 dollar bills flew out.
After some research 10 years ago I evidently put some ‘extra cash’ in a checkbook for a trip thru Arizona, New Mexico and Texas before we settled on Idaho for retirement. I evidently promptly forgot all about it.
I got very careful about checking what was going thru the shedder after that.
Luckily no $100 dollar bills were harmed in the learning of this lesson.
If I were you I’d go buy a lottery ticket today while you’re on a roll.
$400 worth of tickets with ‘found money’??
You should have waited until your move to Idaho was complete before mentioning this. Newsome is going to be knocking on your door wanting his 60%.
As long as we get out of here before his ‘exit tax’ goes into effect I will call it good.
https://www.luxuryrealestate.com/blog/2024/02/13/21239-understanding-ca-exit-tax
Crooks, all of them are crooks.
This cannot be constitutional. Crooks.
‘This cannot be constitutional.’
Doesn’t stop them from trying to do it obviously.
You miss on 100% of the shots you don’t take after all.
Happy little accident right there
Based on a trial that just ended, you shredding a checkbook means you are hiding something. You are a FELON !!
Would you rather pay Jarred Goff (10-12 QB) $53 million a year or Justin Jefferson $35 million a year (1-3 WR). There’s only one right answer here.
Only ‘one right answer?’ Believe you were saying last week context matters, so true.
Suppose we are the Lions and right now we swap Goff and JJ. Do you think Lions win as many games this season.
Correct, context. As in, paying “top” money for players that are actually top. You’re hypothetical doesn’t work because they Lions dont have a rookie QB if they get rid of Goff, their roster and cap usage is different. If Goff was on a rookie contract and you add JJ, yes they win more games.
Not the point – you’re a baseball guy. Pitchers are more valuable than shortstops.
That aside, since you added another condition. Let’s swap JJ and Purdy on the 49ers?
Who is playing QB for these teams in your swap? This doesnt work as a 1 for 1 because theres more than one player on the field for one position group and theres only 1 for the other. If anything you should be swapping a WR on the other team. Goff at the mid range QB honestly is not worth $53 mill a year, thats over pay. Jefferson is worth the $35 at top 1-3 is my point. Remove either player from either team and they both win less games, so im not sure what point you’re making except playing devils advocate for the sake of that. Which is a theme im picking up on lol
Would just say QB’s are worth more than WR’s. Your original thought although JJ is clearly #1 and maybe Goff is 10, under right circumstances might take Goff.
That aside, looking at last year, when JJ went down our offense was off some first two games (we still won) but then it played really well the next two. Won all four without JJ
Not saying JJ is not the best and we have to be better with him, but to me the question is he worth the money as the highest paid non QB in the league for the marginal difference in overall offensive performance.
Regarding JJ’s contract, its market value for arguably the best WR in the NFL, Chase will likely get 36 mil per year now
And in two years it will be a bargain at that rate. Im sure the cap hits get bigger towards the end of the contract as they often do but we will still have JJ and Dallas Turner on rookie deals.
It won’t be a bargain, but with the cap increases it will be an appropriate amount
Just wait until some other WRs sign in the next 48 months. Lesser WRs than JJ
Lesser WRs this offseason will sign for less over the next couple years someone will exceed it
I wouldn’t be surprised if Lamb meets or exceeds it this year. That’s just the way the NFL works. Chase will be in the same boat.
I think Lamb and Jets were waiting on each other.
I expect Lamb to be paid more than Jets, unless Jerra decides to keep the Black Kirko.
And Tyreek Hill is already talking about a new deal along with Chase.
I bet a new WR contract will exceed Jets’ deal by next year, if not sooner.
I don’t know how Dallas will be able to pay Lamb though without getting something worked out with Dak. Depending on how that goes, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have to trade him or he plays this year and they have to franchise him next year.
Also Cee Dee Lamb.
Yup, domino effect. I wonder what Jerry Jones is thinking today.
I don’t think, he thinks anything, at least not all the way through.
Yeah. They have no cap space and a QB who’s on the last year of his deal with a massive dead cap hit next year if he doesn’t get a new contract.
That use to be us.
How can we possibly build a competitive team with that 1 player taking so much of our cap space? Has an NFL team every won a super bowl with a WR taking up that much of their cap? I would guess not.
We are doomed.
We were doomed by another players’ contract the last 6 years.
At least the Vikings are trying it on a different player.
At least they’re paying top dollar for a top player and without a big chunk of the cap going to a QB, the time is perfect for a deal like this. The length of the contract will also coincide with JJ’s next contract. We’ll see where they sit cap wise at the end of it, but this is possibly/likely his last contract in purple since JJ is going to be getting 60-65 a year. We’ll see if they are able to extend Addison in a couple years.
It will be interesting to watch.
But that is a future problem.
I’m thinking that now that JJ is making $35M a year, he’ll automatically ensure the Vikings will win the Division, win playoff games, and get to the Super Bowl, right?
I see nothing but Blue Skies ahead for the Vikes!!
Other than the fact that every offensive play doesn’t start with the WR.
Hmmmm… so one guy cannot win games on his own… got it.
The QB is the most important position on the team. Always has been. Always will be.
It’s on the QB.
Laughing… so hard…
So let’s pay the guy with the least influence on winning, the most money. Got it.
Exactly this. I’m skeptical this will help the Vikings chances in the long run. Really doesn’t matter unless we hit on JJM.
JJ is going to usher in an era of winning the likes of which you could not even imagine. They will be in so many Super Bowls we will feel bad for the rest of the NFC.
‘we will feel bad for the rest of the NFC’
Unlikely.
Right…
JJ hasn’t signed a contract and when he does will be around $5 mill per year and yes, he is going to have them in contention for SBs because he’s a winner.
And player that is factually Top 1-3 at their position on any given week. Not opinion based 12-18 at their position. Its not the amount of money, its the amount of money = top production at that position.
I’m not going to try make any claim, other than the Vikings never even sniffed an NFCG appearance over the last 6 years.
Try something new.
This makes sense. But the JJ signing is irrelevant unless we hit on JJM. Doesn’t move the needle to playoff wins and SB’s by himself.
This may sound strange, and my memory is shakey sometimes, but can’t recall many teams making a deep playoff run that can’t run the ball some and play good defense.
Easier to bolster trenches on both sides of the ball and build a defense with cap space from not overpaying at QB. These things go hand in hand.
But paying a guy $35M a year who touches the ball less than 7 times a game, and has an injury history makes perfect sense to you.
Laughing so hard.
He affects the game more than when he actually catches the ball.
Every play he is on the field he affects the play. Like Moss, 2 defenders at the minimum have to account for Jets.
1 injury is not necessarily an injury history. He has missed was it 6 games in his career?
Paying JJ top money, when he is a top performer at that position, is better than paying the QB top 5 money, when said QB rarely cracked the top 10 at the position.
Yes!!! I received a down vote! Street Cred.
Minot recognizes ‘Street Cred’??
They seemed more into ‘Farm Cred’ or ‘Snow Cred’ when i was there.
Just out of curiosity what is ‘street cred?’ Lived in DC for years and never heard the term.
strēt ˌkredəˈbilədē/
noun
noun: street cred
Strange – didn’t think there were a lot of ‘gang ‘types around here.
Thanks.
Prison exposes you to all those types.
If you don’t understand their thought processes you are not very effective.
It’s a running joke around here.
Darrisaw soon. Addison after 2025. Cap hell, just never goes away.
Better than blowing big money on other teams’ players. It’s a good problem to have.
Wish JJ health, fairly vulnerable position.
Thinking of that cheap shot prick for Lions that took out Hock, after signing a big contract.
This true. Prolific? Hoping so.
I’m hoping for wins, playoffs and super bowls.
I got no clue what “Prolific” is.
I agree, you have no idea…
This offseason has gone EXACTLY as I stated it should go if they wanted to to truly right the ship long term. JJ to JJ is on the menu very soon. Happy days.
THIS IS THE WAY!
I like the intentional Kurt misspelling.
Same, got a chuckle
I am amazed but not surprised by the amount of mental gymnastics the pundits are pouring out over the Caitlin Clark stuff – a cheap shot is a cheap shot. period.
It was a mostly peaceful cheap shot though…
Nice how Angel Reese jumped up and cheered it from the bench.
Was watching a lot of replays. Clark leads the league in turnovers but it was pointed out defenders were getting away with flagrant fouls stealing the ball.
The league officials allowing this to happen are utterly stupid. Destroy the golden goose.
Rookie on a bad team (#1 overall draft pick) learning to handle the speed of the game, her teammates adjusting to her and her to them is most of it.
Hard fouls are probably magnified due to her popularity so a lot more eyes on it. Bad optics though.
Exactly, all eyes on her, gonna be rough for a while. The talking heads just making it bigger story than should be. She’s in the big girls league now, gonna have to buck up. I personally think it’s kinda good for the league, in the sense of the game getting more attention.
I think she is ‘bucking up’ just fine.
She says the right thing and just plays the game.
Fans and media are the ones overreacting to anything that happens.
I agree. She’s a Midwestern girl, she’ll be fine.
She is bucking up fine but why would the league want this to happen – what if she gets hurt?
Not a fan of women’s bb, but few years back watched some soccer – kids into it.
Remember David Bechum came to play in US and this was big. sales and attendance went way up – US Pro League was considered second rate.
Big hype. So first game he plays, a third rate defender from from South America making 18k per year, does a flagrant slide tackle and injuries beckum’s knee and his is out for eight weeks. attendance then went right down.
The racists and Alphabet people are reacting to the ‘perceived bias’ toward Clark. If the league tries to protect her more then that will just prove to them that she has all the privileges and they will lash out more.
Kind of fun to watch, drama as the woke does all of the things that they accuse everyone else of doing.
^funny
Yep.
Also a few saying that the rest of the Fever team should be standing up for Clark.
It almost reminds of when the first blacks were allowed to play in the major leagues.
She kinds of reminds me about how Jackie handled it. Just puts her head down and plays the game.
‘Basketball is a physical game, contact happens.’
*not saying what she is going thru rises to that level, just that she seems to be handling it similarly*
I actually have no idea. I haven’t watch one second of WNBA or of Clark and that includes news clips. I’m just piling on.
A cheap shot for sure, but when I finally watched it I thought, “That was it?”
It was a cheap shot, there’s also footage of Carter taking an elbow from Clark on the previous possession, it looked somewhat inadvertent, but Clark obviously didn’t think so and took retribution.
League probably loves it. They are finally getting some attention.
It is kind of like the “drama” between Kerr and Ingelbritsen in running. It got played up and played up to try to get people to tune in.
There are still not enough
Clark is not an alphabet-identity type, and white. The typical WNBA player will hate her for both of those things.
1st sniffer comes out and complains about her salary. Guess joe doesn’t get the fact that it’s driven by popularity and profit. Then to sniffers ignorance he can’t see the endorsement factor. Clark is likely to have a hard time.
I’ve said, for a long time, the reason the WNBA will not be successful is because there will never be 2nd or 3rd generation fans.
I don’t watch much hockey if the wild aren’t playing but I’m glad that Edmonton took down Dallas. Now the Celtics can beat the Mavs. Screw Dallas!
I’m more into screw New York mode – hope the Jets and Giants both go 0 -17.
Screw Dallas, Screw NY, Screw FTPs, Screw New Orleans, anyone I am missing?
I can only have so many negative thoughts at once – and right now it’s focused on the city of NY.
I am more of an ‘equal opportunity hater’.
Like a few teams.
Hate a few more teams.
Ignore the rest.
Unless it’s purple and gold, I hate em all. I just hate a couple a little more then others.
I can work with that.
Collage is a bit different, Army sent me to lots of parts of the country so followed those local teams a bit. Not as much hate involved for me in Collage sports.
Agree with all of them👍
Jets’ instragram announcing the deal.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7wTQMauExp/
I was at a graduation party this weekend and ran into some people with whom I graduated seminary. As we were talking, we realized it has been 38 years. I can’t be that old, can I? Someone has got to be lying to me.
Those are fun moments, like when my kids became 40 years old.
Don’t know how they managed to speed things up like that.
It does seem you have more ‘moments’ to reflect on as you get older.
Birthdays are tricky for me as I tend to ignore them.
The Teacher occasionally reminds me that an important one is coming up like 65 and signing up for Medicare.
@That was fun@
My wife is just now turning 65 and we are going thru all the medicare stuff now. We’re laughing some – hell, we used to think 65 was old.
I had to get Part D even though I didn’t have any prescription drugs.
Penalty was more than the plan was (got a cheap one) so I am paying for something that I don’t use so that the government won’t penalize me for not having it.
Sounds fair.
Sounds like DC logic.
It’s right up there with taking social security before “full retirement age”.
You get penalized for working AND taking SS.
They want to keep you poor.
Don’t get Humana! 80% of all my almost daily insurance fights are with Humana. Cheaper up front but I can rarely if ever Rx what is best for patient.
I have Humana for Dental Insurance.
I have Aetna for Part D/Drugs.
Aetna is good for part D. Good being a relative term.
Good to know in case I ever use it.
Thanks.
It just seems like yesterday that my wife was crying because our oldest was getting on the bus to go to kindergarten. Now this year, his daughter just finished kindergarten. Time flies.
JJ Signed.
4 years, 140 million.
110 million guaranteed
Think that’s what I said it would take. $35M a year. Yay me!
WOW! He definitely got his money. I assume he will now show up for work, tomorrow?
Let’s go!!
SKOL!
JJM, please don’t be a bust and be able to get the ball to all the weapons!!!!!!
Not terrible.
I was worried he was going for even more than that.
JJ to JJ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can live with it at this time, I guess. Plus, now I can hold him to high standards and belittle him if he doesn’t meet them. Everyone wins!
Could have been more worser,
Who is next up Darrisaw?
Likely, but not until late 2025 or 2026
I just saw a Falcons fan video mocking that they paid a QB $180 million to win games on Sunday before 7 p.m. only. Good times!
Good morning, SKOL!
FTP!
First!
FTP!
Skol!!!!
🔨⚒️🔨⚒️
Can’t quite make out what Goose is watching there
Likely the NFL Network. Usually have it on in the background.
Good luck with the pooper checkup this morning, I had my first last year as my father has had malignant polyps found a couple times so they said I need to start getting checkups 10 years before he first had them found.
Thanks man.