Salty Ginger Talk Newsletter

January 6th, 2025

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January 06, 2025

Salty Ginger Talk Newsletter

January 6th, 2025

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CURRENT EVENTS

Patriots fire Mayo after one year as head coach

Our take: Not long ago, the New England Patriots were the paragon of stability in the National Football League. Their head coach was the longest-tenured coach in the league; they had reeled off 19 consecutive winning seasons, unprecedented in the salary cap era.

There has been a long-running debate about which member of the Patriots was the most responsible for their success, head coach Bill Belichick or quarterback Tom Brady. Brady left for Tampa Bay in 2020. He won another Super Bowl with the Buccaneers, and New England made the playoffs only once.

After a subpar campaign in 2023, Belichick and the Patriots parted ways. New England had a deal in place with Jerod Mayo, one of the coaches on their staff, to assume head coach duties if the position opened up. Unfortunately for Mayo, this season went terribly, culminating in his termination.

We cover all this as there is a valuable business lesson here. This is an organization that had an unparalleled run of success. Things could literally not have been better. As we all know, change is inevitable. The patriots were lulled into a false sense of security after decades of calm. They did not have succession plans in place for the eventual departure of Brady, Belichick, or the front office personnel who kept the Patriots stocked with high-performing players for Belichick to coach and Brady to lead. That all brought them to where they are now—one of the worst teams in the NFL, with no head coach and no realistic chance of improvement any time soon.

Don’t let this happen to you personally or professionally. No matter how well things are going for you, expect bad things to happen. Have a contingency plan for tough times. It is better to think things will be bad and be wrong than vice versa, something the Patriots failed to do.

COURTESY: MSN

Journalist misses the entire point with anti-Trump screed

Our take: I don’t know why we were surprised when we read this opinion piece, but for some reason we were. The author spends several thousand words explaining that journalists are really smart people, that other really smart people should agree with them, and, most importantly, that anyone who voted for Trump or refused to be swayed by the incessant coverage that has followed him for the last 10 years just doesn’t get it. The overarching point he tries to make is that journalists never intentionally mislead you, you’re not smart if you question them, and that liberals are the deep thinkers who know what’s best. Uh-huh.

What he seemed to gloss over, probably because he was thinking deep thoughts the rest of us are not smart enough to think, are all the issues that the mainstream media refused to cover or be truthful about over the past several years. To name just a few: Biden’s clear cognitive deficiency since he took office, Kamala Harris’ flip-flopping on multiple issues (fracking, the border, and crime, to name a few) during her failed presidential run, Hunter Biden’s laptop, the Steele Dossier being Clinton Campaign propaganda, and Donald Trump threatening Liz Cheney with a firing squad—the list goes on.

These elite windbags just don’t get it. We know you think you’re smarter than us, but you’re not. Go think your deep thoughts somewhere else and leave us alone. We are busy making the country go by doing all the jobs you have no idea how to do. Plumbing, welding, building, cleaning—anything that is hard where you get your hands dirty. At least show us enough respect to not send your pointless drivel out into the world without covering both sides like you’re supposed to.

COURTESY: MSN

Huge winter storm pounds Mid-West, East Coast to start off 2025

Our take: A massive winter storm is working its way across the country, dropping heavy snow across over a dozen states, impacting more than 60 million people right at the start of 2025. The storm reached as far south as Arkansas, up to Ohio, and continued across the country from New York to Virginia.

We want everyone to be safe, avoid any nonessential travel, and hunker down until this storm passes and everyone can dig out.

COURTESY: USA TODAY

TIP OF THE DAY

Be yourself. Don’t try to act differently around people to try and gain favor with them or make them like you. If you are just yourself, you will wind up with the people you should be around.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.” ― Alain de Botton

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