Mr. WEO

Brady has had to compete agaisnt far better athletes all over the field, not just other QBs. Yet he has dominated for many years, still well ahead of the field (in QB terms) at age 44 a year ago. Ruth faced a bunch of ham and Eggers most of the time. He looks like he was taking BP in those old films. A far superior athlete in Barry Bonds had to subsequently get jacked on steroids to hit more HRs than Ruth because he was regularly facing far better starters and closers (didn't really exist in Ruth's day) than existed in Ruth's day. Ruth doesn't get 30 HR facing pitchers of Bonds's heyday. Curt Schilling, Pedro, Glavine, Maddux, Smoltz (on one team!), Clemens......Randy Johnson would have destroyed Ruth.

Only if they choose not to. The time you spend with your specialist doctor will always vary--patients with any experience in the health care system have always known this. They also know on many visit they will see the midlevel provider for ongoing care---also not new. I guess if you are someone with little or no contact with health care, you may be surprised that you aren't seeing a doctor. But patients over 30 without prior contact with the the system are an extreme rarity, perhaps you are one of those? Of course, when you make the appointment, you could simply ask who will be seeing you. Similarly, as for how much testing will cost, federal law requires hospitals to post the cost of tests and procedures online. No reason to have "no idea" what the costs will be.

actually it’s a boon for the consumer.

Black markers are thriving in weed legal states because they price below legal market sellers, whose product is heavily taxed. California, longtime a legal state, black market sales have increased with time.

Decriminalizing would positively impact the lives of the consensual workers disproportionately to the trafficked. However as a trafficked worker, being serially arrested won’t improve your lot. Trafficked kitchen workers, for instance, don’t face this risk by cooking food free people are willing to pay for.

Certainly not true in the US. Trafficking is a massive problem and it is worldwide. Knowing this, US law enforcement will often conflate trafficking and sex work in order to set up busts. This is apparently what happened in this Florida case. A massive trafficking ring was promised, none was found there and the DA had to walk it all back. The implication is that no person would willingly enter the sex trade unless forced or coerced. Consensual sex trade exists and has advocacy groups such as SWOP that argue for the destigmatizing and legalization of the trade as a way to reduce violence and abuse of workers.

Most "medical consumers" know exactly what they are paying for (more accurately, what their insurer or the public is paying for). It has been routine for decades in this country for patients to see providers other than an MD/DO. NP's have long been licensed to practice unsupervised. PAs less so. MDs aren't being "replaced"--there simply aren't enough of them (and a lot of them aren't very good). Your "attending physician" doesn't need close to "a minimum of 21,000 hours of clinical training before practicing independently". A Primary Care or Family Medicine or Pediatric MD trains for 3 years and at most 80 hours a week (they don't come close to this). The most hours they could log would be 12,000. And still in their frist year of practice may be less useful to the patient than their seasoned NP/PA.

perhaps as a placebo.

Kidneys don't need to be "cleansed" and "clean kidneys" have nothing to do with BP control. Renal renin-angiotensin hormonal regulation of BP is one way the body regulates systemic BP. No cleaning necessary.

Eli Manning's scenario was different as he was a draftee and there were excellent options for SD (nfl.com at the time before the draft reported Chargers were high on RIvers, but settled for the "safe pick" in Manning--not wanting another Leaf fiasco). Also, Big Ben was available--he, not Rivers, was the Giants #2 choice after Manning). It was "no Lose" scenario for SD and NYG. Plus SD got K Kaeding and, a year later, Merriman. Anyway--that scenario wasn't repeated.

He needs to grow up some, no doubt. But everything about that Browns org--from it's criminal moron of an owner to the goofy MLB analytics guy team to the worst coaching hires in NFL history certainly didn't help him with that. He would be a better QB if he landed with Andy Reid or Shanahan or McDaniels bringing him along.

he only comes out to comment on all things patriots. very weird. he does the "pats fan" thing to set the table...then right back in the hole. You are correct . PervKraft paid for an service that was illegal in the state in which it was offered. It was a transaction. He "got off" on a technicality produced by bungling cops and DA. Watson wasn't offered that service by those 24+ women...

55% is bad. so is 57%. But because Josh Allen was 24th in completion %, RJ was not an awful QB. I see that direct line you are now drawing between the 2 QBs makes so much sense now. It's beautiful.... It's a positive integer.

55% is bad.. Kelly was 24th that year. Only 3100 yards. Favre was orders of magnitude better than Kelly that year—not even close. Jim Harbaugh was 1995 UPI AFC Offensive Player of the Year. Bu by all means keep comparing RJ to “cherry picked stats” of HOF Jim Kelly and superstar Josh Allen to explain your weird pump up of this really bad WB, while simultaneously telling me that I am cherry picking stats

57% is abysmal in any era. You can’t convincingly argue otherwise. He was 10 full % points behind the leader. I’ve offered several stats that show RJ was awful. The more he passed the worse he got. He got sacked with abandon. He struggled to throw for over 100 yards a game. Those are bad stats in the 1990s. Good defense for sure. Awful QB.

RJs fantasy numbers?! Lol—That’s a joke right? He had none—unless “sack%” is worth fantasy points. Good one! The more he passed the worse he got. He was to slow to get away from pressure. He was never a legitimate passer. He was terrible nor in the first half of that game. One of the worst halfs of ball in Bills history until NP caught McDs eye.

lol RJ's 23rd passing % was an abysmal 57% in 2000. 1998 he barely got 100 attempts--he averaged a measly 114 ypg---and yet he still took 29 sacks for an insane 21% sack rate! 1999? LOL---"limited work"???. he started 1 game--you're going to prop him up with that "73.5%" and "8.5 YPA"?? why not throw in that record breaking "season" he had in 1997?? The bolded parts you say without any sense of irony--so that's why it's funny. Also ironic is that you have made an excellent argument that RJ was a much better QB when he hardly attempted to throw the ball at all! I'm in agreement with you there... he was awful. Manning at his worst didn't have a half equal to RJ at his best. Look back on that sequence of possessions--RJ in a nutshell.

This is the only way to safely enjoy RJ

correct. but no individual sued or brought charges against Kraft, so why bring him up as an analogy to the Watson issue?

it would have made the Bills the NFLs only 5 time SB losers. Anyway he was terrible. His career stats tell you this. In his 2 seasons where he was sort of the starter, he had under 7 YPA. Completed barely 60% of his passes for only 30 career TDS.He appeared in only 48 games and 29 starts, yet he was sacked 140 times. Despite being described as a “WR-type athlete”, he couldn’t pass and could not fit the life of him, avoid a sack.

no one pressed charges or sued Kraft. He was arrested in a sting.

This has been repeated by many and it is a very weak argument. RJ was awful that day (so was McNair--the worst 2 QB performances in a playoff game I have ever seen). He completed 10 passes (of 22) for 130 and took 6 sacks and fumbled 3 times! First half: punt, sack/fumble (missed Del Greco FG), punt, sack/fumble/safety, punt, punt, punt. He completed 5 passes---only 1 in the entire 2nd Q. His incredibly bad play in that half is why the Bills were stuck playing catchup in the 4th. McNair was so bad that any decent QB could have put the Bills comfortably ahead in the 1st half.

they can decide what their own “punishment” will be so it’s not really a problem for them

Maybe you are thinking of a different Rob Johnson? The one who played for the Bills had 4 in his career—same number as Trent Edwards and half as many as…Doug Flutie

Owners don’t want anyone checking out their dirty laundry. The money they are making with zero effort is just too insanely large that they don’t really care. They have all known about Snyder running a gross organization for decades. They did nothing. Maybe now that he skimmed a few bucks off their take they might suddenly pretend to be indignant. Who knows.