100%!!!
Posted on 07/01/2019 6:48:31 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
100%!!!
Amen to that. I refer to the former 49ers QB as “Copper Nickel”. Partly because I can’t or won’t take the time to figure out how to spell his surname as he wishes. Mostly because, like the U.S. coins made of that metallic content, he initially shone like silver but is basically worthless.
Like the Wildcat formation, his style of QB was hailed as “innovative” because it was a wrinkle on the standard offense, catching other teams off-guard and vulnerable. Once the other teams’ defensive coordinators had enough time and tape to analyze his moves, they were able to neutralize him, and his glaring deficiencies as a more standard QB were exposed and exploited.
LOL, well....I admit that I get a fair number of the “TL/DR” responses, which understand. I get wordy, but...I do use FR to sharpen my writing skills, such as they are.
I have never been able to deliver the pithy one line responses like some do (which I really enjoy) and when texting, I cannot use the shorthand...if I have to say “Be right back” I have to spell it out, not use the “BRB” acronym.
I know Strunk & White advocate the direct, less wordy approach as the pathway towards more powerful writing, but...I rarely succeed in following their advice!
Yes...granted, that is the way of life in football. It is why there are often young players that perform well once they are given time on the field, but the next year, they fall off, and the year after, they are gone.
It is the job of defensive coaches and players to study and counter the tendencies of everyone, including rookie players. After a conscientious defensive back who studies film has a season of video on a player, that really effective move the rookie has won’t work anymore...they don’t bite on it they way they did.
If you are a “one trick pony”, you better have a really good “one trick”, or you will never make it.
You bet, SunkenCiv...nice to see you back these days after your time off!
“I’m sorry this letter to you is so long.
I didn’t have time to make it shorter.”
With today’s short attention span,
brevity is the path to readership.
Nike may be better insulated than entities like CNN, because there are always successful players who will leverage some social cause so they can virtue signal themselves into thinking they count in a way that won't work for CNN because...people like a winner, not a last place media outlet!
A lot of people will see a successful SJW athlete wearing a Nike logo and buy it because that athlete is wearing it, but it doesn't work the same in other arenas...
I didn’t know that. The first time I actually saw some images of Tony Podesta’s art he owns, I was stunned.
I thought: It has to be open knowledge he is into this creepy art...and this guy is still in positions of power? How can that be?
I know...but...I gotta live in my own skin!
Thanks rlmorel, most kind.
Hatred of America and work hard to destroy its institutions one by one. So far, no end in sight.
Bookmark! First rate analysis.
Kaepernick is such a victim of racism that he was adopted and lived with WHITE FOLKS.
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