GaryPinC

I think most on here know you're a huge OSU guy. Would you rather see Harbaugh stay or go? 🤔

Not sure he got them turned around or simply benefitted from the large number of seniors that stuck around this year. He has struggled with recruiting and his coaching has been weak and unimaginative. I think most UM fans feel he's not a very good coach. Due to his ties and reputation, things would have to be really bad for him to be removed, the pay cut was needed and I think both sides feel the best thing is for him to move on.

Belichick just got his ass handed to him in a historic way. If it happened to McD would you prefer he be all Dick Jauron gracious about it or so incensed he's a bit of an ahole for a while? I like a coach who takes it personal because that fire's going to burn for improvement.

Sure, definitely agree. I was addressing your original reply where you seemed to imply Beli wasn't run out of Cleveland, and while he stayed on until the team left, everyone here wanted him gone well before. I didn't realize Bernie and him had a poor relationship as the reason Kosar got cut. Makes sense as I felt Kosar was still a serviceable backup at the time. Certainly better than Philcox

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/patriots/its-nothing-personal-bill-belichicks-handling-bernie-kosar-telling "Before the game, after studying the film, Kosar pointed out that the Broncos could probably be kept off balance by throwing the ball on second and third downs. Belichick did not agree with that strategy, but in the second half, Kosar ignored him and threw those passes anyway. The Browns, who trailed 16-0, scored twice and missed a field goal in five possessions with Kosar calling the plays. He was sacked six times. They eventually lost, 29-14. And less than 24 hours later, Kosar lost his job." This was 1993. It was pretty classless, as a Bills fan who still lives in Cleveland. Definitely a tough situation with Kosar though. But I can tell you that the fans definitely wanted to run him out of Cleveland on the spot. Belli was fired after that final 1995 season as they left for Baltimore. I can't speak for Modell, but I just think Belli was so abrasive and reviled by the entire press and fans in CLE that Modell didn't want to take the same chance of it happening in Baltimore. Plus, he was still very unproven as a head coach.

There's a lot of knee-jerk garbage posters on this site, but there's also a lot of established, highly respected posters who can dissect on-field play and be right-on, sometimes more than the outside "experts" who may only take a superficial look at Edmunds. I agree with the assessment that Edmunds is a talented player who lacks good football instincts. I think you have to be blind not to see the plays he is out of position or gets fooled. It happens too frequently and his lack of game changing plays speak to this. The fact that the FO hasn't locked him in to a long term contract also speaks to it. Let's see what they do. I'm okay keeping him but not at elite prices.

Personally, I think holding the program together and going 8-4 and 7-5 with a large loss of scholarships, some transfers and a reviled image post-Sandusky was excellent. PSU was lucky to avoid the death penalty. And I think most PSU fans appreciate his work in that situation. In terms of W-L, we'll never know how good of a college coach he was, but as a PSU fan, I definitely thought his teams played hard and pretty damn well given the talent deficit and taint those 2 years. And he seemed much less of a prick back then also.

"And while Katie doesn’t disclose what sparked the tiff, she explained in the comments that she dreamt up the odiferous measure to “make him miss me.”" Oy. Somebody needs some Massengill's

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-covid-19-vaccine August 23, 2021. Moderna followed. The entire reason vaccine mandates began in earnest. Classic tweetardation, congratulations.

Cripes. https://www.google.com/search?q=vaccine+definition&oq=vaccine+def&aqs=chrome.0.0i131i433i512j69i57j0i512l7.5495j0j7&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. "every year the flu vaccine is modified to deal with new strains of the virus" That's it. Simple. Even for you. Vaccines are meant to protect the body by sensitizing the immune system against an antigen (disease). How that effects transmission will be unknown and vary depending on the etiology of the virus/disease, and how quickly the immunized individual eliminates the antigen. WRT transmission, this is from July 2021:. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210720/Researchers-examine-the-effectiveness-of-the-Pfizer-BioNTech-COVID-19-vaccine-in-reducing-household-transmission.aspx "Additionally, the overall vaccine effectiveness against transmission (VET) was found to be 88.5%." This was known to drop against Delta, and most likely even moreso against Omicron, hence the wording on the CDC website. They have backed off because of the new variants. No one is denying what Fauci said. THE PROBLEM IS YOU REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HE SAID WAS TRUE AT THE TIME BUT HAS SINCE CHANGED WITH DELTA AND OMICRON.

Good Lord, you are incredibly dense. The vaccine wasn't touted to prevent transmission until it was proven by trial back in January of 2021. This was against early variants, there was no Delta and omicron at that point. From spring of 2020 until January 2021, vaccine trials focused on prevention/mitigation of severity. This was the primary endpoint for emergency approval. Prevention of transmission was proven after healthcare workers had begun vaccination and was icing on the cake. It's a virus. They mutate. The science changes. Welcome to science. The government is not to blame for that.

Go look at the vaccination rate of Sweden. That is a population that follows what their government says, far better than the US. Sweden has also admitted they botched that part of Covid and their death rate was too high. Realize also Sweden was not testing for Covid as aggressively as the rest of the world since they were going for herd immunity. Also, most of their gatherings were outdoors, lowering the risk. Compare it to Russia, who doesn't follow what their government says unless forced, which only happened recently. You want to be multi-dimensional, let's be multi-dimensional.

Other than NYC, we did flatten the curve. Here in Ohio, they predicted 8-12k cases a day and we got a max of just over 1300 during lockdown. Seemed like predictions were way off until fall/winter 2020 when they came true. The original lockdown was done to prevent overwhelming our health system and give medicine and science more time to get the necessary understanding and resources to better treat Covid patients. It was painful but successful.

Your relatives are right. When vaccinations began, it was unknown if they would prevent transmission. It was strongly felt they would enable our bodies to at least fight it off more effectively. Before Delta and Omicron, studies showed that the mRNA vaccines did indeed prevent transmission, which was rightly touted by Fauci and the CDC. With our current variants that aspect is greatly reduced or eliminated. It's a virus. The science is changing quickly, unfortunately. Perhaps the most interesting human behavior is the inability to comprehend a rapidly changing situation and only see in two dimensions.

He may not be there long. From flushing Kosar, to Bledsoe, to Stidham, Belli has never been one to ride with a mediocre QB any longer than necessary.

Personal bias. 🙂 Is Cole going to self-report very mild symptoms that could be anything? Or is he going to play through them? I know I would play through them, especially if I felt, as he does, that his symptoms wouldn't stop him playing.

We don't know if he'd be playing or not. He feels like he could play and if he were vaccinated, per the rules, he may never have been tested to discover it. Especially as I doubt he would self report. Regardless, he made his decision and stand up for it. Stop blaming the rules as his decision puts himself over the needs of the team. Even though his team supports him, stop trying the distracting, cowardly deflection. CDC failed all of us not ringing the bell on the booster more loudly earlier this fall. Ample evidence is there that 6 mos is all you can count on for significant immunity.

While I also admire Beasley for standing up for his beliefs/convictions, a true stand-up guy IMO, also knows when to shut up when causing a needless distraction. He is not playing because he knew the rules and stuck by his non-vaccinated beliefs. Now he chooses to blame the rules and not his decision. That's not stand-up.

I think they are betting the season on the belief that most of the vaccinated infected players will be asymptomatic/mildly symptomatic and play through it.

McDermott, more than any coach I can recall, overtly acknowledges using your emotions is a huge part of playing in the NFL. He encourages appropriate individual expressions of those emotions. He appropriately handled the situation.

No, the silly cartoon is not accurate. Conservatives have most definitely not stayed the same and gone equally off the rails as their progressive counterparts.

They were using the Binax Now test. I've used this at home and if you get a positive Covid result it's 98.5% accurate. If you get a negative result it's 84.6% chance it's accurate. So with Trump's negative test, there's about a 15% chance it was inaccurate, for his positive about a 1.5% chance it was inaccurate. Then he got sick and confirmed Covid a couple days later. Sooooo...

Congratulations to Michigan and the B1G for adding some juice back to this storied rivalry. Let's hope it can last!

Congratulations, how much of NY's numbers are due to that Cuomo debacle at the beginning? Wonder how it looks if you take away both Florida and New York's initial surge? But, in all fairness, data is incomplete until the winter surge is over WRT your point about numbers, it's called the delta variant and it's also called lack of boosters, which the CDC has pretty much dropped the ball on IMO. They should have rang the 6 month bell at the end of summer for everyone.

And of course, one of the premier countries whose citizens mostly ignored covid via a very lagging vaccination rate and took little or no precautions until very recently, Russia: Maybe they'll actually get some kind of control over it soon and at least chart an actual baseline.