San Jose Bills Fan

I'm so lucky to be living in CA where everything grows. Wait. I thought he had a thing for Dakota Fanning or Miley Cyrus or one of those teeny stars?

Granted they are but I'm looking for Pettine to be a huge upgrade over Wanny so as I sit here and drink my Kool-Aid flavored coffee, it all seems so plausible.

I would say that most people who live here are Americans, not foreigners. Of the 315 million or so people in this country, about 308 million are American citizens so that's the way I look at it.

Thus,

Would it make you feel differently if this were an attack on Americans by Americans as opposed to an attack on Americans by foreigners?

Before I'd read about Haslam I'd never heard of the business. I guess I always assumed that the market was more fragmented. It makes sense the more I hear about it.

:lol: :lol: The name of your town stuck in my head because it sounds kinda like the title of a Richard Russo book.

Don't git 'er done!

I don't think anyone has done that yet. And that's why I have a special respect for football players and don't lump them in with other North American professional athletes like so many others do.

Not that I'm holding my breath but also, what happens if Carrington becomes a star this year? What happens if Troup, Aaron Williams, Kelvin Sheppard and/or others become solid starters and/or contributors? So it's not only the upcoming draft which could still change Nix's legacy.

I never go anywhere with fear for my own safety but people do randomly get killed and die due to irresponsible drinking and drug use. And irresponsible behavior seems pretty rampant to me at Bills games.

The irony is that Jason Taylor is handsome, articulate, a great dancer, the complete antithesis of the football warrior archetype. Even old school Parcells dissed him like he wasn't worthy of being in "the club." And yet Taylor endured more pain and painkilling than most of his peers.

I'm pretty much a libertarian so I understand what you're saying. However I said upthread that I'd have no problem with an alcohol ban. And here's why the contradiction: I believe with freedom comes responsibility.

Amen

To add to what JPS said (and I'm just repeating what's been said here many times), I don't think it has to do with what position you draft so much as what individual you draft.

NoSaint and I and a few others have been kicking around a discussion about Toradol (brand name) for several months now. The discussion has taken place in this thread about Junior Seau and CTE but as the story develops, it definitely needs its own thread. Toradol is an anti-inflammatory analgesic commonly used by NFL players to manage severe pain. As many of you know, there are many NFL players who have become addicted to narcotic, opiate-type painkillers so Toradol is attractive in that it's not physically addicting like for instance, hydrocodone. The downsides are several. Toradol has side effects like most medications and overuse of Toradol has been linked with gastrointestinal bleeding, kidney and liver bleeding and failure, as well as other significant health risks. Also, while not physically addicting, Toradol is mentally addicting because many NFL players endure so much pain that without pain medications, it's difficult for them to function normally. They need Toradol to act like normal human beings off the field and also to practice and play football on it. Another problem is that Pain is part of the body's defense system. Pain is feedback and allows us to modify our behavior so that we don't harm ourselves. When you desensitize the body from pain, it becomes possible to inflict more damage to your body than your body would normally allow itself to endure. So by killing pain, an individual can more easily endure pain which can be and become acute, traumatic, chronic, and long term. Many NFL players endure pain from the time they play till the time they die. There are many interesting facets to the Toradol story: 1) The NFL is starting to take steps away from Toradol use. Several clubs have banned the use of Toradol while others are requiring players to sign a waiver of legal claims in order to have it administered. In response to the waiver of liability, the NFLPA filed a grievance seeking to eliminate the waiver. 2) NFL sources have told ProFootballTalk that some players now are getting Toradol on their own. So like with the head trauma issue, you have a situation where the league is now trying to take action to legally protect itself (and medically protect its players?) while some of the players are trying to resort to fairly extreme means to keep their careers alive and chase the money while they can at the risk of their own health. Unlike the head trauma issue, there is no question that these players know all the risks associated with Toradol. The fact that they take these risks is similar in some respects to the risks some people take in their occupations (corrections, law enforcement, military, coal mining, deep sea fishing, etc). It makes me think a few things. NFL football players with their non-guaranteed contracts, shorter careers, and higher incidences of long-term injuries as well as their higher risk of catastrophic injuries are not like baseball and basketball players. In every way they are much more like the gladiators of ancient history. I also think about the issue of pain management. PFT sums it up pretty well: It therefore becomes imperative for the league and the union to find the safest strategies available for helping a player deal with pain. Recently, there has been a quiet push to drop marijuana from the substance-abuse policy, since plenty of players use it after games as a pain-management device. With marijuana recently legalized in Washington and Colorado for recreational use, it’s about time the NFL realizes that letting guys smoke pot may be the most effective way to help them deal with the wear and tear of playing football — especially if Toradol and other potent medications should be used sparingly or not at all.

Obligatory Chargers game mention.

So it was the North Koreans?

I agree. I view Nassib as a better prospect than Dalton although I understand the comparison. Now I'm very down on Matt Barkley unlike many here and I view Barkley as being more similar to Dalton. JMO. And in fact, Barkley does have a weaker arm than Dalton.

http://profootballta...-trent-edwards/ The Eagles finally have reduced, not expanded, their quarterback depth chart. Gone is veteran Trent Edwards, the Eagles announced late Monday afternoon.

You know when I heard how he made his fortune, it struck me as odd that a person could make billions from truck stops. I guess he'd be too smart to commit tax evasion so maybe money laundering?

Theories anyone? I got nothin'

Apparently it's on like a MOFO.

Maybe because I used to bootleg Grateful Dead tapes and climb telphone poles to pirate cable TV... not saying I'm right to feel this way but thanks for posting.

I agree with your implication. Nassib is a bit slow afoot which is one of the least-important measures of a QB. His arm is plenty strong and the criticism of his arm is fallacious.