Patriots brought in someone to teach them about millenials

[meatface]

technology changes but people don't change from generation to generation........individuals themselves change over time......I am nothing like I was then I was 20......if I was, I'd be dead....one way or another, I'd be dead

I'm glad you got out of the.......Danger Zone.

 

[Kontradiction]

technology changes but people don't change from generation to generation........individuals themselves change over time......I am nothing like I was then I was 20......if I was, I'd be dead....one way or another, I'd be dead

I don't know if I agree with that. The Boomers didn't have the hoarding and saving tendencies that those from the Depression era had, just to use an example.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

you just made my point by trying to summarize kids today with one video

I have some advice for you......don't have kids

This is from a national debate championship!
In my high school days, debates may have been lame regurgitations of talking points but we weren't rapping some nonsense about "dreams of chocolate covered watermelons."

 

[Adam Seward]

It is a weird area, go one way and well look out, go the opposite and all looks like suburbia.

As far as caucasion area, most of New England is a "caucasion area". I was born and raised there, my entire family resides there. Not sure where you are from. So don't take this the way it will read.

He grew up in Virginia, he was one of three starters on his football team that were white. Now poverty does not know race, contrary to the popular thought. We live in Stafford county, VA.

The 15 Richest Counties In America

an older article I know, but he went to a high school where the average medium income was $102,000 last fall, with 1600 students in a county with 5 high schools of 1600 students or more, and only one had a medium income of under 100k.

So it was not a cuacasion area nor a poor area. I believe our population is 17% black. Its a diverse county. It is a very nice place to live, minus the traffic, and the damn expansion. But I digress.

I know you probably didn't expect this response. But its a tired assumption to me that "non-Caucasian" equals poor. And IMO, its extremely racist. But its an acceptable norm of conversation, because us privileged white folks understand they can't help themselves.

No worries! I didn't mean to suggest that he didn't know diversity, just that Springfield is not only diverse and impoverished but also incredibly violent. Kids killing over an ounce of pot is a true concern. Not the norm country wide but unfortunately an actuality in this city. I've been in night club stabbings, have been threatened, it's only getting worse.

Springfield ranked No. 2 most dangerous metro area in Northeast, according to Law Street Media

I'm from Springfield, born and raised, and just wanted to share my perspective to you. My high school had a freshman class of 3000 and graduated less than 100, so this was a big deal:
Springfield High School of Commerce Class of 2014 attains 100 percent college acceptance rates

 

[Ring 6]

Different generations have different characteristics. Parenting has certainly changed.
But like everything else there is good and bad.
There are good and bad in every generation and good and bad in every parenting style. Every generation that has ever existed thinks the next generation is lazy which is probably just a way of ignoring that they themselves ar lazier than they admit (but didn't have all those opportunities or some other rationalization).
Every generation has its relatively small group of high achievers and its relatively small group of malingerers. Everyone else falls in the middle and they are either saying my kids will have it better than me, get off my lawn, the man was keeping me down, peace love and hope we can pay the mortgage, we are all snowflakes, or hit me up wya lol.

Ultimately when parents have teenage and grown children they believe they sacrificed everything for those kids and can't understand why they are screwing it up by acting differently than them.
It goes around and around.

 

[Ring 6]

Really?

Kids today are insanely more competitive in school.

Let me clarify. The competitive ones are. I can't be sure a larger percentage are competitive but the ones that are take it to a much higher level.

 

[yukon cornelius]

‘GM Street’ — What Went Wrong in Week 3 (Ep. 148)

Around the 1m 40s mark, it's a bit of a throwaway line where Lombardi talks about while he was with the Patriots, they brought someone in to teach them about millenials.

Nothing really important, just found it amusing, and another example of BB leaving no stone unturned.

they also brought in folks from the US Navy Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) to look at how the select potential candidates from pools of active Navy Seals - sounds like they use a lot of their psych profiling, etc to help with the draft and free agents.....


lot of Patriot fans within that outfit - Kraft has let them use the stadium for training, etc as well

 

[Ring 6]

I don't know if I agree with that. The Boomers didn't have the hoarding and saving tendencies that those from the Depression era had, just to use an example.

I don't think that means people changed I think it means their experiences changed.

If I grew up in the depression and therefore hoarded and saved out of fear it could all be lost tomorrow my kids don't know that fear because I made sure they weren't exposed to it.
They don't see the effort just the result and therefore grow up thinking money is always there. Then they realize they will inherit it and consider that their savings.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

Kids today are insanely more competitive in school.

Let me clarify. The competitive ones are. I can't be sure a larger percentage are competitive but the ones that are take it to a much higher level.

Yep, adderall is one hell of a drug and will certainly help them with the "insanity" part.

 

[IllegalContact]

This is from a national debate championship!
In my high school days, debates may have been lame regurgitations of talking points but we weren't rapping some nonsense about "dreams of chocolate covered watermelons."

and completely irrelevant to the point....but thanks for playing

 

[Kontradiction]

I don't think that means people changed I think it means their experiences changed.

If I grew up in the depression and therefore hoarded and saved out of fear it could all be lost tomorrow my kids don't know that fear because I made sure they weren't exposed to it.
They don't see the effort just the result and therefore grow up thinking money is always there. Then they realize they will inherit it and consider that their savings.

Different people exposed to different environmental stimuli have different reactions. The Depression-era generation was exposed to different environmental stimuli than the Boomers were. Therefore, they became different people with different tendencies than their children.

 

[yukon cornelius]

the fact that some people's worldview is so skewed by memes and other fake news, and then these same people go out and vote, saddens me


i work with today's youth......i sleep easy at night. we'll be in good hands.

 

[Ring 6]

Different people exposed to different environmental stimuli have different reactions. The Depression-era generation was exposed to different environmental stimuli than the Boomers were. Therefore, they became different people with different tendencies than their children.

I don't think acting differently based on your experiences makes you a different person. If the baby boomers grew up during the depression they would be equally sensitive to the same issues.
That's really the point. People havent changed, the situations they are in have.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

and completely irrelevant to the point....but thanks for playing

Your point was how wonderfully the education system is working. I posted a video of a national college debate championship where the final teams looked like absolute buffoons. Right, completely irrelevant.

 

[IllegalContact]

Your point was how wonderfully the education system is working. I posted a video of a national college debate championship where the final teams looked like absolute buffoons. Right, completely irrelevant.

I have 4 kids in college.......2 of them were junior statesmen........in all of my time in attending debates and other academic extra curriculars, I have never seen anything like that

you have no kids, and you post one video and you proclaim to know the education system..........entirely clueless

here's a JSA debate

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

I have 4 kids in college.......2 of them were junior statesmen........in all of my time in attending debates and other academic extra curriculars, I have never seen anything like that

you have no kids, and you post one video and you proclaim to know the education system..........entirely clueless

here's a JSA debate

Much less depressing than the Towson debate I posted, I'll give you that.

 

[IllegalContact]

Much less depressing than the Towson debate I posted, I'll give you that.

well......you decided to choose one thing to fit your narrative and generalized based on that.......try to be more open minded

 

[RobertWeathers]

After experiencing the horrors of WW2 firsthand, they naturally wanted to shelter their children from the harsh realities of human nature . . . hence, baby boomers.

I think that is part of it for sure although my dad was raised tough as his dad had a real tough childhood.

My mom had a very good life growing up.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Oh come on! Soundgarden wasn't half bad. Even early hip hop (like Grandmaster Flash) had it moments before it denigrated into repetitive narcissistic garbage.

This pop song from 98 seems to sum up the zeitgeist of the 90's.

Don't let @Tunescribe get away with this.

Grunge changed the universe and was the last great seismic event in music history. It was awesome.

Except for metal, Led Zeppelin, The Stones, U2, The Police and a small handful of other bands like the Foo Fighters it blows anything from the 70s and 80's out of the water and its certainly better than the commercial crap we hear now.

 

[Patjew]

honestly.......you don't know what you are talking about

competition for merit in high school is more intense than it has ever been

My son's middle school recently did away with the honor roll due in part to reducing anxiety and to prevent non-honor roll kids from feeling bad. I thought that was odd but maybe it is for the best. They still have it for high school.