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He's also very tied to the Cleveland community so that may also have weighed on him since his announcement.

I could see this being true 3 years ago, but since Brady took over the offense I feel Josh has improved his decision making and distribution from the pocket. You make it sound like he's still scramble-happy hurdle happy Josh. What gives? Do you really think he hasn't improved as a pocket passer?

Apnea creates hypoxic conditions (oxygen deprivation) in the body and is linked to a host of cardiac and health issues, most likely progressing slowly over years. It's a good one to solve even if you're not having too many effects from it now.

Hopefully it's lost it's stringiness or that could get awkward.

I bet that's exactly how your toilet would describe your next day deposit of the remnants!

Yeah, no one did. As soon as I heard about them setting up field hospitals I knew we were f*cked. It seemed surreal but the Chinese take outbreaks seriously and it was too late for them already. 😂Yes, an overexpressing artificially created mouse model always portends truth. Look how many times it's pegged cancer cures. Translation: You are incredibly overreacting and ignorant, and just plain wrong. Stay away from science and medicine. You truly suck at it.

It wouldn't have mattered if they had shut China travel earlier. It spread too quickly with 2 or 3 days of victims being asymptomatic and infectious, and longer for those that remained asymptomatic. China was also slow to acknowledge it, I know I first learned about it from Li Wenliang's warnings shortly before he died and the construction of field hospitals in Wuhan early Feb 2020. Think about how long it had been spreading to get to that point. Probably 2-6 months, plenty to get it seeded around the world. The Wuhan market was shut down January 1 2020 to test for viruses. Other than Trump's standard stupid spews about alternative remedies he did just fine. So many hind-sighters on both sides forget how in the dark we were those first six months of 2020.

Ok, so what? Anyone with a reasonable scientific/medical mind knew that. How is your point that Trump didn't have the vaccine while Biden did relevant to this? Trump would have also "failed" similarly if he had been president in 2021. I would say Biden's political promise was based on two things: pushing vaccination as quickly as he could with the general population and the fact that the mRNA vaccines had been proven to be hugely effective against the beta version of Covid at the time in clinical trials. That's why health officials were quoting 100%, fully stop transmission, etc. So for a non-scientific, questionable mental-acuity president who listened to his over-speaking health officials, I feel like he made a legit good effort to achieve this promise but essentially the vaccine wasn't as great as his health officials were proclaiming. Plus Omicron was first identified in the fall of 2021, has dominated since, and the vaccines have never been as effective against it as they were beta. WRT mass vaccination, the vaccines became available mid-December and by the end of May 50% (167+ million) of the US population had received at least one dose with 41% fully vaccinated. That is pretty impressive to me in such a short time. I am definitely glad Trump presided over the outbreak as Biden probably would have dictated precautions similar to NY or CA and they were the most delusional about being able to stamp it out entirely.

Which point is that? The point that Trump handled it better than Biden with no vaccine? You really think Biden wouldn't have done the shutdown pretty much the same as Trump? Or is it the point of September '21 to February '22 round of deaths where Homelander pointed out to you the states with fewer vaccinations weighed more heavily on the death count? In this case your point is irrelevant. Or is it the point that no matter who was president the virus was going to ravage the US? This is the closest to the truth, except that dumb Democrats foolishly thought we could stamp it out while dumb Republicans felt we shouldn't do anything and let it run it's course. The truth is we simply needed to slow the spread of the novel virus long enough to not overwhelm our health systems and allow science and medicine time to understand in order to minimize it until it was fully endemic. Masks to protect those around you, distancing and isolation to minimize exposure, vaccines to minimize illness and severity. It was ugly going, but it worked. Also don't forget in that Sept 21 to Feb 22 timeline most states were coming off masking and isolation, undoubtedly contributing to the uptick. People were also burned out on all the precautions and the vaccine gave a sense of security.

Wrong about no one being fully vaccinated. https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/news/alumna-sandra-lindsay-first-to-receive-covid-vaccination-is-bmccs-2021-presidents-medal-honoree/ I myself received Moderna December 21 and the second jab 3 weeks later, before Trump left office. All the hospitals were in overdrive vaccinating December-February as the priority was to get health care professionals vaccinated first. As a researcher, I was just fortunate that our hospital had extra doses with limited shelf life. As a physician, I should think you would be well aware of this.

After reading the article, this is essentially how I feel about Martin. I think he's trying to whitewash this past a bit to try and propel himself into the future with the self perception of being a stronger man and having grown. I hope it works for him. I have trouble buying it. The entire article is an overwritten fluff piece on all these bold things he's attempted (and failed) and how Richie and Pouncey have already peaked while Martin's just getting started. A "look at me" article. On one hand he blames his own mother, Wells, and finally himself for not handling the situation differently. On the other hand in present day, he refuses to reach out to Richie to discuss this situation he feels he allowed to get out of hand. I know if I felt guilty like that the honorable thing to do would be reach out and at least try to be accountable. Martin's an emotionally fragile personality. He showed it back then and I see it in this article. I hope this article works therapeutically, he finds some peace and confidence from it, and can finally move on.

To hell with KC, let's focus on why the sun doesn't seem to shine down enough in our 8 years of drafting.

For whatever reason Mahomes wasn't stepping up in the pocket or reacting to the pass rush until it was too late. For sure Josh would have done a better job of that and completing more of those passes on the scramble. That would have strained Philly's defense far more. Not saying we would have won but our offense would have fared much better.

Making strategic changes to the scouting department might also help.

There is a draft coming up in a few months, let's also not forget about free agency.

Yep. Lamar had the better individual season while Josh really took the Bills to the next level. The proof is in the playoffs. The voters got it right.

Well, Knowles is in his mid-fifties and I think this picture is classless. Not happy to have him now and I think things will turn out for for the best with OSU. I'm about his age and clearly Knowles is emotionally immature. https://www.essentiallysports.com/ncaa-college-football-news-tensions-rise-for-james-franklin-as-ten-m-jim-knowles-gamble-sees-new-twist-adding-to-penn-states-misery/

I think best candy bar has to at least have chocolate and caramel. Milky Way/Snickers for me with Twix in second. Sorry Butterfinger fans, but that one tops my list of worst candy bars ever. I couldn't not spit it out the few times I tried it. A "worst candy bars" thread might be more fun!😂

Yep! Thanks, eloquently summarized. I would just add that the lifetime of joy doesn't have to derive from losses and victories, rather the shared experiences. And that can help dad redefine his fandom too!

At a minimum Beane should bring in some scouts better at picking D-line

Ok good luck with your decision. Even though your wife hates football, I hope she respects how much you love it and if you choose to build that connection with your daughter.

Except for the shaky start, I thought he was great again. Fantastic TD pass to Hollins. Led us again, unlucky on the fourth down and a great deception by Spagnola. We were right there thanks to him, even though his superman role is less frequent because of the run game. You are well within your right to expect him to be "great" every game, but to me it comes off as petty. Great defenses are going to take their toll and Josh was far from the reason we lost, Kincaid makes that catch or coaches have a backup plan for the tush push and we're not nitpicking Josh's couple of bad plays.

Who came up short? Yep, it’s okay to love all of the great things he does AND to point out when he comes up short. But to then declare he's not reliable enough in the playoffs? That borders on deranged for me, like all his outweighing great plays are negated by a jittery start and a misread on a fourth down (where he unbelievably still got out a catchable ball with a throwing hand/wrist injury to boot)!

Concussions are a highly variable thing. Both my kids have had "mild" concussions that kept them out 2-3 weeks with symptoms even though they could pass a neurologist's mental questionnaire/assessment. A lot of it seemed to rely on the self-reported symptoms they were experiencing, and if you apply that to an ultra competitive professional athlete..... Even at the child level I was shocked at the large number of parents who still preached the attitude that you play through them unless the symptoms are severe. So, I don't know how these players recover in a week but I have some suspicions...

I'm not as confident. Kelly ran the offense, so were there really any signals to steal? The Giants defensive plan centered on taking away the passing game by jamming to disrupt timing, being extremely physical in the secondary, and changing coverage schemes every series or two. The most effective thing they did was hold the ball on offense for a 2:1 TOP advantage. Even if Belichick was secretly taping I'm not sure there was much to be gained anyways.