Would We Sign Drew Brees

luuked said:

I don't get how any reasonable person can look at the systematic overreaction of police forces against mostly peaceful protests in the last week and come to the conclusion that things are in a decent place. "Better oversight" is an understatement with such a large gap that I can't even express it.

In many ways the police force and their unions are closer to a Mafia-esque racket than a group that is there to protect its citizens. There is close to zero accountability.

Randomly pepper spraying people at intersections, shoving seniors to the ground without any emotion, teargassing protesters, shooting rubber bullets wildly into crowds, using excessive and deadly force over alleged fake 20$ bills or running a no knock raid and killing completely innocent residents. And then lie to the faces of the media or relatives after the fact. If anything we have seen once again that there is no reason at all to trust a single police officer if he can't back his claims up via their body cam. But unfortunately those are conveniently turned off on a regular basis.

And all of that is nothing new, it is just that now we have cameras on our phones to record most of those transgressions. There are collections of over 300 taped cases all round Twitter or Reddit threads of those ****ers totally snapping.

I am sorry but "better oversight" and "decent police force" doesn't quite cut it.

Or to use your analogy: at this point those alleged few bad apples have produced so much ethylene that most of the lot has been spoiled.

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Patstastic said:

His comments were out of line. But he is generally a pretty sharp guy. Well liked.

But...when is the last time this guy flat out had an outstanding playoff game? It feels like forever ago. Brees would've done worse with Brady's weapons. Heck, he played worse than Brady in the postseason (And that's with a stacked team). Patriots need to go all in on Stidham or some other guy.

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Patstastic said:

His comments were out of line. But he is generally a pretty sharp guy. Well liked.

But...when is the last time this guy flat out had an outstanding playoff game? It feels like forever ago. Brees would've done worse with Brady's weapons. Heck, he played worse than Brady in the postseason (And that's with a stacked team). Patriots need to go all in on Stidham or some other guy.

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Ned Stark said:

See ya!

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IllegalContact said:

yes and no........I'll give him a pass for being naive enough to think that he can make it just about the flag or the military....I think now he woke the **** up and gets it.....there are lots of eyes being opened up this time around

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Brewskies said:

I don't think this is his first time taking his stance regardling kneeling

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MainePatsFan26 said:

That Saints team was incredible on paper. It was shocking to watch the Vikings take care of them.

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Tony2046 said:

That's a good read. Thanks.

I've always thought our police officers are stuck in the middle of some kind of a policy war. Yes there are a few bad apples and yes we might need better oversight but I think overall we have a decent police force and your article supports that.

I agree with the notion of "systematic oppression". I think the current welfare system has a lot to do with it. I grew up in the military and we all had the same amenities and all performed at an equal level. So how do we get that in the US?

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BaconGrundleCandy said:

You either learn to like change or irrelevancy.

Remember when people would talk down the college game and its influence on the NFL? It's a phase, they said. Mobile QB's would never work, they never win, people still say foolishly.

Well the college game has taken over and very soon all we'll see are mobile QB's winning.

Again learn to like change or evolution or get left behind.

I'm reading these post like I'm in a car looking in my rear view mirror. People are getting left behind and are scared of change.

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1960Pats said:

Change can sometimes be worse. The changes that are occurring in football have made the game worse, not better. And I'm not talking about a change to more mobile QB's.

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1960Pats said:

Change can sometimes be worse. The changes that are occurring in football have made the game worse, not better. And I'm not talking about a change to more mobile QB's.

As for the NCAA, I took them off my dance card a long, long time ago and I haven't missed it one bit. The same goes for MLB.

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1960Pats said:

Change can sometimes be worse. The changes that are occurring in football have made the game worse, not better. And I'm not talking about a change to more mobile QB's.

As for the NCAA, I took them off my dance card a long, long time ago and I haven't missed it one bit. The same goes for MLB.

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