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Right, peer pressure is a helluva drug

Reminds me of the old gif of that woman skydiving naked

From what I understand, the insurance is against the cap. Haslam does still have to pay Watson's salary, but the team gets a cap credit next year for the amount they insured. I think how much Haslam pays for the insurance premium may go against the cap, but it's hard to nail down solid info about this stuff.

So they're really more like a switchubus

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What is it with people trying to turn the entirety of October, November, and December into Christmas?

It's one single night, it's not a season. Is this the Americans trying to push it on us to increase our capitalist consumption or something? I see it a LOT these past few years.

What's next, celebrating other holidays in the actual month that they fall in?

Just some donkeys with paper towel rolls taped to their head

I can maybe see a way to recovery, but it doesn't look pretty.

Go 1-16 this year to secure the number one pick, trade all our picks away to amass 2026-27 draft picks. Tank the 2025-26 season, secure the number one pick again, trade all our picks to amass even more 2026-27 picks. Tank the 2026-27 season to secure the number one pick for a third year in a row, force Haslam to sell the team, fire Berry and the rest of the scouting team, and hire a GM and scouts that can actually put all those picks to use. Draft a superstar surefire QB at one, and then fill the rest of the holes with the glut of picks amassed from the previous years. Trade picks for a superstar here and there if you can. Maybe, just maybe, after all that we go 8-9 (but like 6-2 in the division somehow, in classic AFCN fashion), and we sneak into a wildcard game.

We're still going to be paying Watson a shitload the rest of 2024-25, 2025-26, and 2026-27 because of the void year cap nonsense, so we're definitely fucked until then. But maybe, just maybe, in 2027-28 we're finally able to use our freed up cap space to sign some big names to supplement our young team, end up with a winning record, and maybe even a playoff run.

The way I see it, there's two options:

1. Pay people more. 300k, 400k, 500k, whatever it takes. Surely there's a number that people would feel is worth the risk. The obvious downside is that increases the cost of construction.

2. Make the process of roofing safer - invent new safety gear or safety practices, automation equipment that can be operated from the ground, introduce legislation that encourages those practices or subsidizes the new equipment. The obvious downside is this requires upfront investment and cooperation between government and industry.

Either way, the current practice of "throw cheap immigrant labor at it until it goes away" is not tenable.

I guarantee you more people would find themselves wanting to do the work if it paid more.

Or the Midwest United States during pumpkin spice season

I think it's time for me to go to bed, you almost had me