It’s because the premiums are stupid high. The article mentioned somewhere in the neighborhood of $1m to $4m on insuring $22m of a contract.
Many of these owners are billionaires, too. They wouldn’t bother insuring if it weren’t for the salary cap. Being able to get that money off the cap is actually more important than getting the money back.
He should have walked away
In spite of the article, I wouldn’t say it’s impossible for a rookie QB to do well eventually. But I think it’s safe to say that no team should expect a rookie QB to be effective at all that first year. The kid is basically learning on the job, and should be expected to make mistakes (and learn from them). Any team that starts a rookie is basically treating that whole season as pre-season games. And they better have a good O-line, because the guy is still learning how to evade tackles.
That rookie QB also needs good coaching no matter when he plays. The article talk about how badly Jets QBs have fared, but I would chalk that up to the Jets’ historically poor coaching more than anything else. (As much as I loathe the Jets, I have to begrudgingly admit that Saleh is doing a good job now, and Rogers doesn’t need any coaching anyway, but their prior coaches’ ineptitude is well documented.)
Found it!
C U Next Term
Oppression and autocracy that she partially enabled by thinking she could phone in her victory. She should just go away. Nobody wants to hear from her anymore.
Well, there was no physical torture in that Congressional hearing, but that might only have been because of the cameras.
The Restauraunt at the End of the Country
When I heard he said “hide your head in a bag” my mind immediately went to those awful photos from Abu Ghraib. Sure enough, Wikipedia has that one picture front and center on its page about the prisoner abuse:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
It wouldn’t surprise me if that what this poor excuse for a human had in mind, too.
Um, ackshually, as the elected sheriff, I bet that oath he swore doesn’t have the word “citizens” in it at all, and he’s supposed to be protecting all the humans in his county, whether or not they are citizens.
He responded to an anti-democratic conspiracy with a sternly worded letter. Are we sure he’s not a closet Democrat?
I’ve already accepted the fact that Kamala Harris will never be President of Lemmy
I will laugh so hard if they go through all this trouble to ratfuck GA, only to see Dems take NC (or even FL) and make GA meaningless.
I was gonna reply that Hermain Cain was probably the “Black Donald Trump”, but I looked it up and Cain actually had success in his business ventures. He also was only married once.
But there isn’t a single election, there are 51 separate elections, whose results are combined in a way which gives Republicans an advantage. I will continue to maintain the election will be close until Harris starts to pull even in states like Florida and Texas. Even if she doesn’t win those, if those states are closer to even that’s an indication that Harris ought to win all the toss-up states.
But unless that happens, I will assume that the election is a toss-up. And not just the election itself, but also the post-gane show of certification.
Most states (maybe even all of them by now) offer a non-driver ID, which has just as much validity as ID as a drivers license, but isn’t valid for driving.
All that ID does is prove residence, though, it doesn’t prove citizenship. Most first-time applicants will also have to submit a birth certificate or other document proving citizenship. The USA has no other national document that proves citizenship. This service is for passport renewals, presumably the first time you apply for a passport you will still need to show up in person, with your documents.
You know how Donald Trump likes to use aliases to talk to the media? Well, it turns out “Lil’ Pump” is Melania’s pet name for her husband, so he just went with it.
He didn’t call the Europeans “backwoods countries”. He called those other places that. He specifically says that European countries should be more like us, for all the white right reasons…
From the article:
Why does Hezbollah use pagers?
Hezbollah has relied heavily on pagers as a low-tech means of communications to try to evade location-tracking by Israel.
NYT says this switch to pagers has been recent, after the Oct 7 attacks last year, when Hezbollah suspected that Israel was spying on the cell network, and using it to locate targets for strikes. So all these pagers got distributed to Hezbollah-affiliated people in short order . This system doesn’t use commercial networks, and has been called a “closed” network by the NYT.
If all that is true, then that means anyone with one of these closed-network pagers got it from being involved with Hezbollah in the first place.
He’s better at some times and not others, though. He wasn’t this bad at the debates.
He kept saying that Biden must be in drugs to stay awake, it makes me wonder what kind of amphetamines Trump is taking.