GaryPinC

I don't like generalizing about a group of people, but when it comes to policemen approaching me I expect repulsive behavior and hope for them to surprise me. Generally the good cops are off doing their duty which never involves me unless it's a speeding ticket! But if they're coming up to me for no obvious reason, chances are some form of harassment is soon to ensue. One balanced set of experiences: I used to take my hunting dog to a town parking lot at night to throw a ball for her. I never did it if there were any cars or people around, but 20-30 minutes of retrieval sprinting was worth a couple hours of walking and the asphalt sanded her nails down nicely! Well of course some cop happens by and comes over and reads me the riot act about every little statute and ordinance I might be breaking and makes me leave. A few weeks later I'm exercising her again and here comes the cop car, this time the guy is asking me what type of dog she is, telling me about his husky, out of his car and petting my dog. I made sure to compliment his approach to his job and mentioned the behavior of one of his coworkers. He gave me a sigh and knowing nod and apologized for it. So, I don't hate policemen but I've had enough negative experiences to plan for the worst and hope for the best.

Oh, if Shady were the devil he wouldn't have left it in someone's sternum, rather opposed and south of there I think.

Critical piece of info and answers my top question without having to look it up, thanks. From the link: McCoy, 27, now with the Buffalo Bills, former San Diego Chargers running back Curtis Brinkley, 30, former University of Pittsburgh player Tamarcus Porter, 27, and Christopher Henderson, 26 Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160209_LeSean_McCoy_eyed_in_assault_2_off-duty_Philly_cops.html#FrSbkD4B9QKYTzAF.99 so a bunch of former college/NFL players and McCoy over a fourth bottle of champagne the officers ordered that Porter felt they were entitled to. I do agree that McCoy seems like a real ass at times, and he's exactly the type that wouldn't stand with his friends in this type of situation.

From that article: "Today, anyone who has watched a sports game will be familiar with a barrage of reminders that this “telecast is copyrighted,” even though such formalities are no longer required under the law. But in that first Super Bowl, it’s unlikely the broadcasters thought to do that–especially as Congress didn’t extend copyright to live sports broadcasts until 1976." Thanks for the article, precisely what I wondered about.

There's no proof that's going to solve anything and the growing awareness of CTE in rugby and Aussie football hints that it won't. I read an article about Snake's condition and he was showing signs of it at least the last few years, according to his girlfriend. Just didn't get a lot of press. There's no proof CTE is going to be found in every player's brain. Preliminary diagnosis while living is based on cognitive/neurological deficits/disorders. Personally, I suspect some are more vulnerable than others.

Good God, people need to get a grip. http://datab.us/CRdaeFxuE-U#"I'AMNOT A RACIST": Arizona Student In "N*GGER PHOTO"...SPEAKS OUT!! Even the press is out of line, claiming they were spelling n*gger. They were spelling nl**er, with that being a small "L" not an i. From the article: Those girls were part of a senior class photo that spelled out the message "The Best You've Ever Seen Class of 2016" with letters printed on their shirts. the photo used asterisks to separate the words. After the photo was taken, the Tempe Union High School District said the six girls arranged their shirts to spell "Ni**er". They were probably standing around talking and someone realized there was a goof to be had. I'm sure most or all of them never intended to have it posted online. Mildly humorous and very poor taste. Bunch of high school kids that didn't think about the larger implications. Gee that NEVER happens in high school. Let's lynch 'em! If anyone should be expelled it should be the kid who posted it online.

That would be the only potential loophole Haupt could look into. Was a sufficient broadcast copyright in place at the time? Otherwise, it's property of the league and Haupt should have taken the 30k.

I agree with everything you're saying here, especially that players pushed themselves to play through it as much or more than the team. But I would honestly say it's inconclusive at WORST right now. From what I can gather, the biggest concern WRT CTE is sustaining an additional concussion(s) before the original effects have healed completely. And having this scenario play out multiple times. The sub-concussive assertions are still highly speculative IMO since concussions were poorly defined and reported until now. The truth is that this is a new and rapidly evolving area of research. And that's because what constitutes a concussion was never clearly defined until now and more importantly, the need to assess and let even the mild ones heal was never widely done until now. So in 20 years or so, we might be able to see if the new treatment protocols have a positive effect on CTE. WRT the NFL, I don't believe in some evil conspiracy, just that the league mostly ignored and was unsupportive of the research until enough of it was gathered and a critical mass obtained. Why would they support early efforts? It didn't make any business sense to do so. But now it does and they will take every precaution they can. I do believe susceptibility to concussions and CTE is variable, but it's been clearly defined in a subset of NFL players and I have no doubt rugby and Aussie football will be following suit. Until studies against the general population can be done and we get a better handle on avoiding CTE, extra caution is a good thing.

Maybe. But the total number in 2015 is very comparable to 2012, the first year official records were kept. So IMO you can't rule out it was just simply more concussions than the previous 2 years. Even before the movie the truth is out, the NFL can't hide from it any longer so I have to believe they will take every preventative step possible based on current research or be found liable. We do need a good 6 years more data to have a decent baseline establishing normal variability of occurences. This is all still evolving. Concussion protocol requires reporting of any positive diagnosis. http://images.nflplayers.com/mediaResources/lyris/pdfs/NFL_Diagnosis_Mgmt_Concussion.pdf

Current XP rules except that: Teams have to go for two in the first half, their choice in the second half. Bonus just for poops and giggles: drop kick is worth 2 points all game and must be kicked 9 yards behind the line of scrimmage instead of 7.

Well, that's a F'in mess! But, it would kind of ruin her defense of not handling any classified emails on her server. As you said, she's not smart enough. Though it would be entertaining to watch her try. Kind of like the bug zapper on a summer night.

But can she, without proper permission, declassify info that's already been classified by the department of defense?

C'mon now, they just opened another window and did both. Yes, and it set Trump up nicely too!

Went and saw the Benghazi movie, "13 hours" yesterday. Good movie, Obviously a Black Hawk Down, American Sniper type of movie. Definitely stayed apolitical but Bay did a great job of indirectly highlighting that no air support was ever given and that there was a drone monitoring most of the proceedings. Definitely makes one wonder who was watching and why the non decision for air support? Really a shame the administration botched the situation both before and after the attack. Obama, Hillary & co. casting it as a protest gone wrong was just shameful.

I agree with you, why pay $1500 if it doesn't significantly help? Here's a better article with a video near the bottom comparing the motion of VICIS vs a traditional helmet: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-vicis-football-helmet/ Here's an older study comparing different generations of Riddell helmets, so it is possible to achieve a reduction: http://www.momsteam.com/health-safety/football-helmets-reduce-concussion-risk-study-says Personally, I doubt concussions can ever be eliminated with equipment but good equipment and good rules + enforcement may cut concussions dramatically. This area of research is just catching steam with the HITS sensor, so we'll see.

DeMarco is 5 months older than LeSean. He has been running for two less seasons but is a two time pro bowler compared to McCoy's three. They both signed 5 year $40 mil deals in 2015 but the breakdowns and guaranteed $ are different. They both have identical career rushing avg ypc at 4.6. Before Murray came to Philly for a relatively poor 2015 season he had two very strong seasons in Dallas where his avg. ypc were 5.1 and 4.7 respectively. He is not as productive a receiver as McCoy but otherwise statistically they seem fairly close in rushing ability. I don't follow Murray much so can't say if this is true in talent. career stats: Murray: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MurrDe00.htm McCoy: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/McCoLe01.htm Contract #s: http://overthecap.com/player/lesean-mccoy/761 http://overthecap.com/player/demarco-murray/621 Wouldn't seem to be that impossible a deal so I was wondering why DeMarco is considered an average back as opposed to having a bad season at the hands of Chip? Before 2015 his career avg ypc was 4.8.

So, Shady grew up in PA and before Chip Kelly and this season was playing for the team he loves. Passionate guy despite being a bit of a jackass. Chip is gone. What if Shady approached Whaley about getting traded back to Philly? Would you trade him straight up for DiMarco Murray? Shady + late rounder for DiMarco? Yes to either one for me. Thoughts and opinions?

Good article. Here's another decently balanced one from msn: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/prosecutor-says-%E2%80%98making-a-murderer%E2%80%99-omitted-crucial-facts/ar-AAgnXkT?li=BBnbcA1 I didn't watch the series, I hate, hate, hate this type of "investigation", but it just shows the power of media bias. Every producer in this situation does it because they're convinced of an injustice and that's how it ends up looking because certain facts were conveniently omitted or de-emphasized. Really just a travesty of justice and it's a shame producers can't be held liable for misrepresenting the story. I hate frivolous law suits but just once I'd like to see the victim's family sue the producers/studios for emotional distress or something relevant.

It's a great point about baseball and only one of many flaws of what he is trying to assert, IMO. Is it really so groundbreaking to take the W-L of every team in the league for a decade, throw them all together and show a regular distribution about a mean and median? Every league has a negative skew though, is it small enough to keep with parity? If the same teams are always to the left or right of the mean is that truly parity?

I'm with you, this is not a very useful article and a rather poor, biased one considering Urschel's intelligence. But being able to do higher level calculus and analyze a real world situation are obviously two very different things. Urschel seems to assert that there is parity in all 4 leagues and salary structure does not make a difference. To do this he defines parity as performing to a 0.500 record and first takes every team's record over a decade and bins it into a league-wide bar graph. Is this appropriate? What about charting individual teams year to year according to the mean? In an ideal world, the mean would equal the median at 0.500 and there would be a normal (symmetric) distribution about the mean. What are the actual means/medians and corresponding errors for each league? There is a negative skew in every league so can he justify all these numbers being close enough to 0.500 to give parity? If not, what is the reason? In the last 10 years (2015-2006)the Bills' avg # of wins is 6.6 +/- 1.35 the New England Patriots: 12.4 +/- 1.65 Do these fit the definition of parity? IMO, his best attempt to answer this is looking at year to year movement, i.e. the pie charts showing "stays put/moves towards the mean" vs "moves away from the mean". Even this seems weak as first of all you would want to split out the "stays put" group and these metrics would probably be better assessed with individual teams over the 10 years. How many individual teams fit a regular distribution about the mean? This would seem to me to be an interesting test of parity. So, whether or not there is parity, how do you justify salary structure as a significant factor as compared to quality of coaching, quality of talent selection and acquisition, injuries, etc? In each league, has the salary structure changed over time to any measurable effects on parity? Is there any correlation of baseball payrolls with winning? What comparisons between baseball and football, who have the biggest comparative divergence in salary structure? Really fascinating questions to me but Urschel's article really doesn't enlighten much.

This is an important point as Rex can't blame the front office for the failures this year. He already admitted he shouldn't have shot off his mouth so much at the start of the season and changed how the defense communicates the last two weeks. Good coaches are not too proud to change the way they do things if it's not working so we'll see.

I have to agree with Hondo's perspective much more than yours. You are right, DW was not in a tough position and they did not delay because having a player like McCoy was on his wish list. I doubt the deal got ugly, I think the FO knew they were going to have to overpay because that's how it often goes with premier free agents. He did the same for Charles Clay. DW gambled McCoy would be a lynch pin to turn around the offense and keep it solid for the next few years. He wanted the playoffs this year and lost. McCoy will probably never be worth his contract but he plays with passion out there and I like having him on our team. I also respect DW for rolling the dice to try and get this team over the hump now, not in the future. Good thing he can also pick talent like Karlos, Darby, and Gilleslee. Sorry you're so bitter over this.

Let's hope, he can't blame the front office this time! Good coaches have to be willing to incorporate change when it's needed. We'll see.

+1 agree. The first intelligent move Haslam has made since becoming owner.

I agree with you but at the same time suspect Roman has given him the green light to use his legs more as he sees fit. I think most of the season they've tried to coach/force TT to be a pocket passer until the last few weeks.