Mhmm. Your tone doesn't indicate how much you hate the analytical fan at all.

Different fans have different relationships with the team and different purposes for being a fan. Everyone supports the team and treats it as a source of entertainment, some for the purposes of consumption or identity and others for critique. Hating the 2nd kind of fan is the same as hating the 1st.

Oh, I don't like any fanbase

An Eagles fan said, mockingly, "“Don’t ever criticize the quarterbacks me and my friends like 😡” re: QB discourse, as if we, as a fanbase, aren't doing this 24/7.

Reading comprehension, please! Why do you think Charles thinks it's ironic that an Eagles fan is saying, "Don't ever criticize the quarterbacks me and my friends like" to mock QB discourse? Do you think he's referencing the dialogue around Sam Howell?

And what's crazy is that people, as the offense struggles to pass the ball, will put together these ostensibly 'logical' arguments for why Hurts is great. Not that Hurts is like these players, but we did the EXACT same thing for Foles and Wentz. Did we learn nothing? Also, aren't you bored?

As an Eagles fan, it's so exhausting... Is it 'fan-purity' culture? I can like Hurts as a person and appreciate all that he's accomplished without pretending he's beyond criticism. There's a nearly tangible irony in saying "appreciate greatness" and being constantly mad because other people don't.

It's not even subtle!

There are a lot more people who are punitive weirdos about making sure everyone follows the rules, even if the rules/laws themselves aren't very good. They just love the illusion of having the power to force people to do something. They don't like it when rules apply to them, though.

Anyways, FREE SLAY.

Also, the draft lets these asshole billionaires sit around and do fuck all to make their team competitive. A system that gives players agency would punish owners who are more invested in cashing in on shared-revenue checks and treating their teams like cash cows than in competing.

I think some would argue that such a system would favor big markets, but market size hasn't stopped the best young athletes in the world from going to places like Tuscaloosa, Durham, Chapel Hill, Eugene, and Norman. If the team/program is good enough, the talent will go.

Tangent: Imagine if the draft process were replaced by a system that more closely resembled college recruiting or the MLB's International Signing Pool. Pool money, determined in part by record, could be traded, and players would be free to sign wherever they please. I'd be interested.

Drafts are anti-player for the same reason, by the way. The spectacle and contrived 'honor' of being drafted very much obscures the fact that the player has absolutely no agency in the process. And what a gimmick for the teams, huh? They have to do NOTHING to compete for talent.

Where'd it go? New Orleans.

How many people could've been spared the trauma if one guy simply hadn't decided to fire his gun in a fit of road rage? What an incredibly stupid, reckless, and selfish choice. It's unbelievable.

And let's not forget the trauma first responders will live with, too. They'll see that kid on the back of their eyelids when they go to sleep for years, at least. For the rest of their lives, when they drive past the scene, that dead kid will rush to mind.

That family wouldn't have to live the rest of their lives grieving a child, wondering what he could have been — Who would he become? — and mark his absence from every event to come. He'll be at weddings, graduations, and holidays, in speeches.

I legitimately can't stop thinking about him.