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based on what exactly?

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Look, I saw the guy play in college, and he did make some crazy plays. He was not consistent at all. But when he was on, he was good.
Look at what he did against Georgia, probably the best team in the SEC-
374 yds passing, 117 yds rushing.

if you can't acknowledge that, that's on you. I don't really care, but I can see where somebody would give it a try.

Ok, down vote me if you like. Let's see if he gets drafted

It depends on what you want to do.

If you want to draft a prototype pocket passer, develop him, and build several generations around him over 15 years, I think he's a big no.
*Guys like Brees, Manning, Brady, etc. They secure the position for over a decade, you go through a couple crops of WRs and RBs, and usually most of the rest of the team too. You MAY have a lineman or so that lasts as long as him.

If you accept you're not gonna do that, and want to try to win and go to the playoffs and see what happens, in a relatively small window, using a supreme athlete at the QB position- I could see Milroe being that guy.
*The Cam Newton model, basically. As long as he's got fresh legs, he will ALWAYS have the ability to break off big runs, so he contorts the defense in a way the pocket guy can't, and his run threat makes the other parts easier as a result. But when he's no longer a threat to run and you can play him as a pocket guy, he's done.
I see Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts as that. I don't care about completion percentage and say "oh look he's got a good percentage, he is a good passer", you can tell those guys are open because the defense is hedging against his run. It's basically the ultimate play-action pass, you HAVE to prevent that 20 yd run.

It's what colleges do with these guys, because they don't get to keep them more than a few years anyway. I could see Milroe taking an otherwise mid-tier team and making them a playoff contender for a few years, I just don't think you get a decade + from him.

I'm a Saints fan, I don't know that I would want to take that. But let's use the Saints as an example: you're missing the playoffs every year now that Brees is gone. You still have Kamara and a decent defense, both of who would be gone by the time you draft a franchise passer and develop him; or you could take a Milroe and run a college-type offense, probably win 9-10 games a year for a few years. You're just not looking at a long-term (decade plus) solution, but it could get you above the "we're never going to make the playoffs" threshold.
And who knows, he could develop. Brady was a late round pick, nobody ever saw him becoming even a consistent starter.

I think you can get maybe 7 good years out of him. He'd be a very good runner and a sub-average passer. Once his legs go, I'd say he is done.

But if you otherwise have the personnel in place to be good for the next few years, I think he'd probably win more than the other qbs in this class.
Basically, you don't develop him. You run the Ravens/Eagles offense a few years, then reset down the road.

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While personally not my cup of tea, it would make a great gift for a couple of people close to me.

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I've never had an OTF so I pretty much ordered it out of curiously. From what I've seen on youtube/reddit, the folks who paid $300 plus for it were pretty pissed. The folks who paid $100 for it are happy with it.

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I have a couple OTF knives. A pair of real Microtechs, a couple Chinese fake Microtechs, and a pretty good Chinese Benchmade.
I got the Chinese stuff before Covid, and ordered them online from whatever that site was (also got some Saints jerseys for cheap).

My impressions- I think the Microtech design is superior. Just a better spring layout.
Difference between the real thing, and a well-made copy; mostly seems to be case material. The real Microtech appears to be aluminum, the fakes are something heavier and softer. The blades on the fakes are a decent form of stainless, not looking at one right now to list.

The difference in prices at the time- the Microtech Spartan was around $300 or so, and I think BladetechHQ had them on sale for that. It's a nice knife.
I got the fake Microtech Scarab for around $30, and the fake Benchmade Infidel for about the same.
They came in authentically marked fake boxes. I bought the "Benchmade" to Jim's, and the guy behind the counter thought it was real.

After comparing real and fake, the real IS nicer, but not THAT much. The better quality fakes are probably 85-90% as good, way more than 10%.

This probably isn't fair, because I do like The Mandalorian. It was always fun.
But the season 2 finale, The Rescue, when everyone is pinned down and waiting to die, and Luke fricking Skywalker comes and wrecks shop to save the day- that was incredible.
Yeah, I know, not the smoothest digital reconstruction of his face when talking; I don't care. They did it as right as could be done; all the teases:
-"One X Wing? Yay, we're saved"
- That first camera shot, of the gloved hand, then the green lightsaber ignites
- "is that a ... Jedi?"
- the hooded figure just rolling through the Death Troopers, with the music playing
- then he Force-chokes (crushes actually) one of the Death Troopers

That scene still gives me chills, far beyond what that show should illicit.

We do this every so often, and Firefly is always at the top of the list.

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LSU, USCe, Indiana, Rutgers, Northwestern, Wake and maybe another I'm forgetting...All declined to play. Just go ahead and put the NIT out of its misery.

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South Carolina turned it down too

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Sadly, it makes perfect sense.

P4 schools pursue NIL-caliber athletes. Those guys are not going to stick around for the NIT, and odds are they won't return the following year either. So there's really no point in forcing them to lie and say they're "injured" etc; it was a business decision that didn't work out.

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That's funny, but if we would have just won the games we were leading at halftime, we would be in the NCAA tournament.

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Honest question- if we don't lose Reed, how do you think this team does?

edit to add- pissy crowd here :lol:
I'm getting downvoted, but I'm not suggesting anything at all. I just asked a fricking question!

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And it is 10:35 AM on Saturday and it has yet to rain.

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It's 11:07 here by me, beginning to rain, lots of lightning and wind

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MCU fell into a trap when the storyline becoming more ridiculous the longer it runs. There is always a new enemy that is even more powerful than the last, rinse and repeat.

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One of the problems for me was the fact that it forced an alternate reality, due to what happened in the various movies...

I can watch Iron Man up to Avengers, and imagine it's happening in our world. Tony Stark is Elon Musk doing and making things at the top of his game; Captain America is a classified secret project from WW2 that nobody heard of afterwards. Thor is a strange event in a small obscure desert town that the government covers up, etc.
You may see references in tabloids, but otherwise it's all under the radar. The real world goes on.

Following Avengers and the attack on NYC, it's not my world anymore. Every decision in-world is based on things extremely different than what we have, so it loses touch. It loses the appeal of "what if this happened tomorrow in my town".