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And tragically, no one ever offed her. Hey, that's not funny damn it!?⚡ That never happened!

I don't think so because my head would have exploded!?

Angela Lansbury. Murder She Wrote. A show glorifying a nosy, sanctimonious old hag as some kind of super sleuth just drove me up the wall. She was my epileptic strobe light, my seizure a glorious stranglehold of her turkey wattle neck. Of course my mom loved the show, I just had to quickly twitch away to the other side of the house when the theme music came on.?

Yeah, as many great plays as that defense could make we can thank Walt Corey for them being soft. Saw an interview back then in the USA Today, Walt didn't believe in giving them a lot of rules, stunts, responsibilities and to me that's why we were soft. He liked to just "line them up and let 'em play". Part of the blame also falls on Marv Levy, despite the score of the first super bowl our defense got badly outplayed there and in the next 2 , (the entire team folded its tents in second half #4) and Levy never made the coaching change. Definition of insanity, IMO. Drove me crazy at the time, I'll always believe that D could have been far more elite. Never bought the "no huddle means the defense spends more time on the field. True to a degree, but a shut-down D is a shut-down D.

Great interview. Most significant thing to me was in scouting QB's Daboll would quickly teach formations, personnel group, playcall. QB exits the room, Daboll would draw on the board and QB would come back in and be timed to match formation with playcall in 30 sec or less, testing quick processing. Same exact process and plays for each QB candidate. Josh did great according to Beane, JA should be the real deal for us. But just glad to confirm our management understands this importance and grateful to have Daboll back for another crucial year in JA's development.

Voted for the middle option but I think Josh finishes just outside the top 10. Deep game took a back seat last year because Daboll focused on JA's timing and reads in the short to intermediate game. And JA progressed but still really needs work on quicker decisions at game speed. His speed of mental processing post-snap. And understanding the design of the play and incorporating it into his decision making (ex. passing play shows single coverage pre-snap but post-snap middle of field opens up for late crossing route. JA relied on pre-snap read last year, now needs to wait for late route if his pocket holds up.) I expect more emphasis on the deep game, but Diggs' ability to flash open in the intermediate routes and YAC doesn't necessarily make it so. Definitely curious to see how Daboll tasks him out of the gate. So, given his rawness, I expect he'll make a jump but it'll be most notable after midseason and then lookout for 2021! Unless he really fails this year I expect he'll get his new contract.

Wow, what a whiny "B" McVay is. To clarify, the Rams play the Cards week 13 (12/6) and have to suffer the 90 minute flight home Sunday night to LA then square off with the Pats on 12/10. WRT west coast games, I'm of the mind that ya fly there Saturday, try to keep your EST bedtime, play, then fly back probably Monday morning. Though I don't suffer jet lag much on the times I've flown West so I'm not a good judge of what's best.

I can see if you've got a problem with his style, but no other announcer provides as much insight into the game/strategy and it's not even close IMO. Beth Mowins would be a disaster. Her voice is grating and her excitement, actually everything about her style, feels forced. She needs to stick to those backwoods late night college games for a while, like 20 more years.

Trying to politicize everything in hindsight gets tiring. It's not easy to forsee a once in a lifetime pandemic. I'm NOT a Cuomo fan and he certainly made mistakes, same as Trump, but he isolated New Rochelle early and I think he believed isolating and testing was the way to go before realizing there wasn't appreciable testing resources! None of our leaders were perfect here but for this type of event how could we have expected them to be? Our citizenry has also been less than perfect in following instructions meant to save lives. It's just America, do we band together to get through this and prevent future occurrences or just bicker about the past? We've all heard about Avian and swine flu, etc that never panned out as awful as they sounded. Didn't help that everyone wanted to compare numbers of an emergent virus vs an endemic influenza virus either. It would be nice if everyone could learn from their mistakes and move forward wiser.

It's a good point about S. Korea and NYC admitting people too late. As far as Sweden, the picture at this market was taken April 25th https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/sweden-says-it-prepared-fight-covid-19-long-term Tons of pictures of people there gathered together in restaurants, bars and parks. Articles about nursing home staff saying they are not masked and not doing much to prevent spread of infection. So yeah, I'm not impressed with their Covid flattening steps and choose to look at them in comparison to OH and MI. Is your cell phone sourcing in the other directory? Is it the US spring breakers being tracked or the general population?

Two things: 1. Increased and focused testing can make a difference. 4/17 to 4/21 Ohio had enough extra testing and targeted their prisons which exploded the new cases. The vast majority were asymptomatic and probably never would have been tested under normal circumstances. 2. While the 17% per week sounds intimidating, Ohio, which IMO has done a good job with their flattening, sees at least a 2% daily increase of cases and often 3-4% (especially since increased testing). Looking at the above numbers, 24,322 to 28,437 over a week: 2% of 24,322 = 486 4% of 24,322 = 972 486 x 7 days = 3402 972 x 7 = 6804 Which in itself can account for the weekly increase. Obviously they need to start shrinking but bottom line are not unusual. In Ohio, despite the 2-4% increasing cases, the number of intensive care patients is s-l-o-wly coming down and overall hospitalized is static. https://www.cleveland.com/coronavirus/2020/05/mapping-ohios-21576-coronavirus-cases-wednedays-updates-and-trends.html

We sure are. That's why Sweden is so critical to me. Being in Ohio, population ~11 mil, Michigan pop ~ 10 mil and Sweden pop ~10 mil. Sweden's worse off then Ohio but better than Michigan (in terms of deaths) so will they mitigate or escalate? If the former than USA should do ok. If the latter look out. Part of what makes this country great is that independent spirit and not wanting to be told what to do by our government. Sadly, it works against us now. If people were exploding blood in the streets maybe more people would wake up and realize the importance of lockdown and preventative measures. But, given Sweden's results thus far I'm hopeful reopening doesn't create a bigger mess. You look at how S. Korea, China took symptomatic people and isolated them in gyms, dorms, etc. There'd be a civil war here if we tried to do that! So, here we go...

I agree with you about masks, but let's not forget Sweden (though they have not proven anything to me yet) and let's not forget that China, Japan, South Korea have mandatory BCG vaccines at birth though China's is a little sketchy before 1976. Just so much unknown right now, precaution is best. May and June are probably going to be messy here, let's hope we don't regress and overwhelm our health systems.

Why they could be a good team: defense will keep them in games, can the offense do enough? After looking at a variety of Stidham's preseason games and some of his college film I see why New England got him. Very similar to Brady in making quick decisions and getting the ball out on an Auburn offense that shares a lot of similarities to the Patriots. Stidham's smart, but I'm not impressed by his arm though it may be adequate. Patriots might get over .500 with a solid running game and enough YAC and production from their receivers. They probably need to pull out a lucky win in the first 4 also. Seriously doubt they'll be better than the Bills. So, I do believe Stidham will get his chance to be the man this year. They'll let him learn by doing and hope to coach him up enough to be relevant late in the season. Realistically, I think they'll be just under .500. Stidham's physical talent is more limited than Brady (in his prime) and I think the speed of the NFL will be a problem for him. His velocity really falls off under pressure and after 15 yards. He's going to live for the short passes and NFL defenses are going to figure that out. Definitely a chance the wheels fall off for him but I'm not going to short change Belichick's coaching ability, so I think a mediocre season for the Pats as they prepare for the future. I figure they evaluate Stidham this year, prioritize the need to draft a replacement, and see how things play out next year.

You can question whoever the hell you want, I don't care about that. Everyone has bias, especially you. I take exception to the fact you think scientists lack integrity. That is very different from bias. Science and research are far more than global warming, but you got it all figured out and blanket-generalized, regardless. Congratulations!

Your point was about bias by denigrating the integrity of scientists? News flash, those are two separate things.

I didn't just study science, I am a scientist. I have worked for small biotechs and am currently in academia at age 50. My past companies employed a range of business people. I would trust the integrity of a scientist well before I would trust the integrity of many lawyers and your average businessperson. Any scientist that wants to get rich gets out of basic science. We care about trying to better humankind in our own way. But we are also fallible humans, so skepticism is healthy and most good scientists are good skeptics also. Advocating scientists are not good scientists. Our best advocacy is published results.

Looking at his preseason tape, his sideline pass is only slightly faster than Peterman's. The guy is a slow scrambler and really didn't display anything other than backup skills (at best). I really couldn't see anything to make me think Stidham is starter material. Should be fun come the fall.

With the restrictions imposed in most areas it should reduce influenza infections and deaths also. Isolating people limits exposure to more than just Covid 19. Also, we have solid diagnostic tests for influenza so we can at least reliably determine if that was the cause of an illness/death.

So happy to hear your opinion of my fair city, and please never come here as uber-pricks like you shouldn't poison our happiness.

Thanks for posting this, OP. The thing I hadn't noticed before but stood out to me is his footwork. They scratched the surface of it with his "karaoke rush", AJ really excels with his multidirectional movement and generating power while doing it. Where someone like Bruce would have a lot of bend but keep his feet pointed and moving upfield, AJ is completely comfortable turning his feet into the Olineman, moving laterally while shedding the OL and quickly exploding forward to the QB. It's part of what allows him to quickly knife to the QB. I agree with others in that he's still a bit raw, but he will be fun to watch grow this season. Probably a situational pass rusher only for a while.

Epenesa was noticeably dominant starting for the Hawkeye defense last year, both on running and passing plays. He's not flashy and knifes to the ball with a couple of excellent hand moves. He also is hyper-aware of where the ball is and makes good use of his length, especially in finishing. I'm a Penn State fan and he was dominating, but also watched him do it in other games. I think he fell because of the combine and also because he played at Iowa. They don't get on the national radar a lot, especially not playing the Buckeyes the last 2 years. Looking forward to him working with Hughes on moves and if Bruce visits hopefully shares some tips. I don't think AJ will be elite but should be better than Shaq. I expect him to struggle a bit to NFL adjust.

This is the most critical thing that comes out of this. Global cooperation and at home a US plan with structure, SOPs, adequate supplies, and logistics to monitor. Maybe it takes 100 years for a similar pandemic but with our global population I seriously doubt that. Working at home kind of sucks if the kids are home from school. Companies won't want to spend the extra $ in separating people, PPE, etc so I think it all goes away once Covid blows over. More people will shy away from shaking hands but I seriously doubt social contact goes away. Personally, I will be glad to get back to shaking people's hand as symbolic of the end of this.

Cripes, you're pathetic. In a receiver-rich draft, in a pre-draft interview Beane explained he hates giving up first round picks and he justified the Diggs trade by considering him our first round draft pick in 2020. That's why some of us choose to mirror Beane's thinking in this instance.

Really wanted Dobbins at this pick but Epenesa is a great pick also. He was a standout on that Iowa defense. Deceptively quick, violent with a true nose for the football run or pass. Relentless. He just doesn't have that elite speed. He's definitely NOT Kelsay or Hansen 2.0. He's much more driven, uses his length and has far more range. I'd say 65% Schoebel, 35% Bruce Smith He's got some moves.