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There is no reason for the Bills to pursue him. For any team that would want him to be QB1, he's in Cam Newton territory. He will play at a very high level for games 1-4 before re-injuring the repaired body part. He would be an ideal QB2, for say Green Bay where the entire season rides or dies with the health of Aaron Rodgers, and Rodgers would not be intimidated with having a former #1 overall and long time starter hanging around.
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I feel for Hunter. Neck injuries take years off your career. (Chris Spielman, Eric Wood come to mind.) You can repair a herniated and ruptured discs. The surgery is absolutely incredible, light years from where it used to be. However, there is always the reality of chronic pain and re-injury for just regular people who don't happen to be DEs in the NFL. The human spine and back are like the frame of a car. Once you mess with it, it's never quite the same, nor quite as strong. I'm wary of signing players to hefty contracts who have had the unfortunate reality of being injured in such a way that it can be easily aggravated and generate the type of debilitating pain that makes you want to quit playing.
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Still believe it's Arizona.
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Biden backs reparations study
dpberr replied to Over 29 years of fanhood's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
It'll be a 3.9 year study. If re-elected, an 8.1 year study. -
Texas has frozen; Bring on the Green New Deal!!
dpberr replied to Big Blitz's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
This is a warning shot across the bow of the country when it comes to not freezing to death. Regardless of which camp you sit in on climate change, you always need reliable standby fuel sources and *a lot* of it. Coal and nuclear power continue to save the day in the northeast and people don't even notice. When demand goes up, guess what fires up? Whatever coal plants and nuclear plants we have left when the natural gas pipelines can't generate the pressure. Pennsylvania contributes a significant amount of production towards the grid on the eastern seaboard. With each coal plant that closes and each generating station that gets decommissioned (Three Mile Island just closed), you lose that crucial standby energy for your cold snaps and heat waves. Natural gas, wind and solar can't do it and probably won't, even if you go to great lengths to winterize the infrastructure. I don't agree with Bill Gates on 99% of his opinions and projects but I do agree that the United States needs to design next generation nuclear power plants so that they could take the place of some of the coal plants. The Texans are paying the price of complacency and being cheap. ERCOT got lazy, fat and happy and wasn't doing nearly enough worrying as they should have been. They didn't think Texas could ever, ever get snow? -
Pittsburgh is the last place he is going to go. He's not going to steal his brother's limelight. My guess is he will sign with the Arizona Cardinals.
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
dpberr replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
This all has happened before in 1976. All of it. The lockdowns are a new wrinkle in 2020 but otherwise, the big vaccine push feels familiar. The government's 1976 swine flu immunization program even had it's own Dr. Fauci "personality." The government, healthcare infrastructure (and media) don't care about the couple broken eggs in making the omelet. They know there will be broken eggs. They expect deaths and disabilities as a result of vaccine administration. It just sucks if you end up being one of those broken eggs. Nobody is coming to rescue you. They learned from that experience and that's why you have blanket immunity, vaccine "court" and the all to routine 100% denial that a vaccine could ever possibly harm you past a sore arm. -
I don't know what NY has in regards to recall or "impeachment" of governors, but I'd offer what Cuomo did is a really good reason to do it. That's a serious dereliction of duty to your citizens IMO. I understand that any public servant that finds time to write a book during a crisis is no great public servant to begin with. I doubt he's the only one that did it. In PA, the governor did the same thing by pushing COVID+ patients into nursing homes and PA's coronavirus data is a complete disaster and the state fights tooth and nail on FOIA requests. The state's former health secretary, the one the media can't heap enough praise upon, pulled her own mother out of a nursing home before that policy she recommended, was enacted. The problem in PA is that she's now working in the Biden administration and the term-limited governor is serving out the last two years of his term. I think when the dust settles, that decision to send those COVID+ patients into nursing homes is going to be considered one of the worst, or perhaps the worst, action the government took in response to the pandemic, even more egregious than the arbitrary use of lockdowns and business restrictions.
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
dpberr replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
It is a big psychology experiment on persuasion and control. I think there's a large segment of the American public that will wear however many masks they are told to wear and take however many vaccines simply because Dr. Fauci thinks it's a good idea and they "feel" he's a stand up guy. The media has propped this guy up as the beacon of all that is honest and truthful when in fact he's a lifelong government bureaucrat. It will be interesting to see how people react when everyone is told their two-shot vaccine that they fought for, drove out of their way for, waited in a long line for, is no longer good enough, and you need to go back out there and do it all over again. So a year from now, you're wearing three masks and have four immunizations of experimental mRNA technology swimming around your body. -
The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
dpberr replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
That truly borders on satire. "Should we see if they will do it, just for fun?" -conversations inside the CDC Multiple masks....multiple vaccines.... -
Don't think for a minute teams always hire the "best" candidate or GM. They don't. They are often manipulated and steered to certain candidates by consultants and coaching agents. In no universe, including all of the parallel ones where strange things happen, has any NFL team said they were lucky to pick Adam Gase because he was the best choice. Juan Castillo's agent is the greatest agent of all time in any sport. There is absolutely no one better at accomplishing the mission of getting their client a job. That man has been a nightmare of a coach at so many professional stops yet gets jobs with ease, sometimes the very next year after being fired.
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The Next Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
dpberr replied to Hedge's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Yet "we" don't seem to be as interested on fixing those. Spend anytime in any store and you're right - 6 out of the 10 people you'd first see upon entering are probably going to be obese. The parents are going to obese and their kids likely are too. You'd think with how COVID preys on the vitamin deficient obese body, you'd see a push not only for checking vitamin levels, healthier eating and getting out and getting a little exercise, but a push to get folks into medical/bariatric weight management programs. There is help out there. -
Re-sign or “Wave Good-bye” series: Player 5 - Jon Feliciano
dpberr replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
He's a priority to resign. -
Bills Asst. LB coach leaving for Vandy
dpberr replied to UConn James's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I don't get why you'd leave a job in a successful NFL franchise for a job in a college football purgatory. -
Wentz isn't as mobile as he was in 2017 and he seemed to be shell shocked while out on the field this last season.
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He's been average since Craig Fitzgerald left the Texans as their S&C coach and I think the rest of the league knows it. He probably joins the Giants because that's where Fitzgerald got a job in 2020.
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Makes sense to me. Amazon is probably at a peak in the current climate. I really question whether the Amazon business model is truly sustainable. I know the company is making a lot of profit now in pandemic times, but there's a lot more money going in to getting you your $5 cat key chains in two days than the money they are getting out of it.
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One and Done: Eagles - Nick Sirianni. This was a panic hire by the Eagles and the team thinks they are getting a Frank Reich clone. I don't think so. Eagles won't do well and a "name" candidate will come available and that'll be it.
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Source: LB Matt Milano looking for “top dollar” in FA
dpberr replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Rough year to hit FA for the first time. If there's no indication fans can return to stadiums where it makes real money for teams, I expect most of the league to mind those expenses again this year and keep the powder dry.