2018 NFL Draft

They also have Jordy Nelson. He could be a bigger priority than either of them.

 

That's a big part of the problem. Connor wasn't able to do the job in blitz pick-up last year. They didn't trust him as a part of the passing game.

 

Sarcasm?

 

They gave him $15 million for two years. They obviously think something is there.

He can definitely catch the ball. You can’t say that about the other two.

 

Postmodernism's been around since after WWII. So the balance of the NFL's heights of power.

But, more and more, moral and intellectual relativity exists. And it cuts both ways, liberal and conservative.

A piece like the one I linked about Lamar Jackson is a good example. It's basically declaring: If Lamar Jackson fails, it may be more about the NFL than Jackson himself. Which is a ludicrous assertion; if Jackson's good, he's good. But such is the ferocious emphasis on the "individual" in our culture that, if you're right individual fitting the cool bent of the moment, you can reshape facts into whatever you wish them to be.

See: Our president. What makes Trump's election especially fascinating is that it was an outgrowth of conservative postmodernism, a certitude shared by millions that institutions like "the media" and "higher education" have been lying to us for years, that they know nothing, and Trump's big-gut intuition is more valuable than all of the experts in a variety of fields combined.

 

That's just a nice way of saying, "We're pissed because the black guy won."

 

Jordy Nelson's washed up.

 

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Ah no. But that’s for trying. His running style was smooth.

 

No, it’s not. Not really. The hatred for Clinton is greater than that of Obama. (Perhaps with good reason.) But Trump’s ability to leverage “fake news” and make it his own - which he has! - is a sign the conservative disdain for the left-wing press.

And, look, it’s true. Most reporters at most papers are, indeed, liberal. Judging by twitter, they’re also smug, know-it-all liberals.

 

Alma, don't that bring that stuff into this thread. We have another thread for hobbyhorses of that sort. For the record, NFL teams have been misusing very talented players for decades, generally because of stupidity rather than any malign intent. The Bills got O.J. Simpson and initially decided he ought to be a flanker. Bart Starr was deep on the Packers bench when Vince Lombardi got there because the previous regime had Paul Hornung at quarterback.

 

Didn't the Steelers release Johnny Unitas in training camp?

 

Yup. That was one of the low points among the nearly 40 years of failure that ended around the time Dan Rooney took over the day-to-day operations of the team and Chuck Noll was hired as head coach.