jrober38

I think my issue is that there hasn't been a "Brady, Brees, Roethlisberger" type drafted in the past 10 years. I think Mahomes will be that guy, but otherwise I see the league filled with guys who show some flashes but will probably never put it all together. With the salaries QBs are making, I think we're nearing the point where it no longer makes any sense to pay the guy because you're scared of the unknown. It's proven to be very detrimental to pay a QB $35 mil/year if they're not actually good enough to carry a team without a depleted supporting cast. That makes sense. I think I'd just prefer to watch that system play out from a fans perspective. Getting rid of the franchise tag would make things a lot more fun.

I get it, I just don't think it makes financial sense. It seems like many of the highest paid NFL QBs fail to make the playoffs every year so why devote so many resources to guys who can't carry a team on their own. On a side note, I'd love if the NFL became more like the NBA with it's trades and free agency. I wish they'd get rid of the franchise tag to let more players test the market. I think the number of mega trades the NBA has makes it so much more interesting for fans in the sense that the league essentially sees a bunch of it's best players reshuffled every few seasons.

It decimated tiny villages in Northern Italy but it's not going to hit South Carolina? I sincerely hope you're right. I would just choose to err on the side of caution. Plan for the worst. With evidence showing that social distancing does work, I don't understand why anyone would risk it if there's a working strategy that can really help eliminate the chance that it does hit hard. I have a friend who works at a hospital in London. He says they're a day away from being at capacity in their ICU. They've stopped hooking up anyone over the age of 70 to a ventilator because they think it's a waste of resources. The US has the highest number of ventilators per capita in the world, but most are located in urban centres. It's the rural areas with limited resources that aren't equipped to handle this, which is why I think they should be taking every precaution possible. Just my two cents.

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I think the system is going to change. It has to. We're going from an era where guys played for the same team for 15-20 years (Brady, Brees, Roethlisberger, Manning, Rivers) to one where I think we're going to see a lot more turnover at the QB position. Right now teams want their $35 mil/year QBs for be the face of the franchise for 10+ years but it's not going to happen because the current QBs just aren't good enough.

What makes them so good is their intimate knowledge of the college game. Asking them to do the NFL instead doesn't seem like a great fit. Is it really that hard to find a good crew to call games?

Don't bother with him. I threw him on my ignore list a couple months ago. You should try the same.

It's working where it's being practised. Unfortunately that's not happening everywhere. Some stats still have very relaxed are no lock down measures at all.

Sure. To do that teams need to start letting QBs walk and test free agency. As QB play declines across the NFL it won't make any sense to just pay a starting QB top dollar like you do top players in the NBA a "max" contract. There needs to be tiers, but in the current system each guy who signs a new deal seems to make more money than the last guy despite not actually being an elite player. The system is absurd.

I think there's a lot we don't know yet because people are walking around with the virus right now without knowing they have it yet. I think places that were slow to lock down like Florida are going to get destroyed. Old population, one of the slowest to lock down. I think what's happening in Louisiana happens there in 2-3 weeks only a wide scale due to a larger population. I think ultimately it's still super early in the whole thing. Everything done so far has been done to flatten the curve and space out when everyone gets it, but pretty much every expert says this won't go away until there's a vaccine which will be at the end of the year at the earliest.

I dunno. The lag makes it hard to predict anything. I assume many places are still 3-4 weeks from getting hammered. Maybe in a month 10,000 deaths in a week doesn't look that bad.

It is going to be a bad week. About 10,000 people are going to die.

Keep making stuff up. 1-2% death rate and apparently the entire world's population is going to disappear. I find your ignorance hysterical. Your lack of understanding of basic math is hilarious. Didn't you call me crazy a few weeks ago when I said this thing was doubling every 3 days? When I said we had 8k cases, then we'd have 16k, then 32k? Wasn't that you?

You're still miserably failing to comprehend that this is going to last another 10-12 months.

What a bunch of morons.

Of course hospitals aren't busy on the outside right now. There are no elective surgeries, and no visitors allowed.

By political you mean a medical stance right?

Without NYC the US death rate is till about 1.8%. Over the next few weeks that number will continue to move higher.

Right. You pay for it through taxes, and health care around the world is as good or better in most developed countries for a fraction of the cost. You're probably right about pandemic circumstances. We'll see where the death rates wind up when this is all said and done. Or Canada, which faced a similar set of challenges as the US when this pandemic broke out overseas.

Socialized medicine works all over the developed world.

Forbes says 78% of Americans live pay check to pay check. What's your source?

It's going to be a major problem everywhere. Anytime it infects a vulnerable population like that it will be bad. I'm extremely worried about Florida and their older population. I can't believe they waited as long as they did to take decisive action. The whole country needs to be shut down for 30 days and Trump needs to deliver an emergency address to the nation as though the country was just attacked by another country/terrorists/whatever. Shut it down for 30 days, quarantine the sick, and give the healthcare system a fighting chance if it's not already too late.

Most Americans are living pay check to pay check, struggling to get by. I'd guess those people couldn't care less about where they're buying products from. They're just trying to keep the lights on, put food on the table and clothes on their kids backs.

When billions in stimulus packages are involved it's going to be political. Dr. Birx assessment today that the data says that people are not following the social distancing guidelines the way they should is extremely concerning. Following those guidelines got them to 100,000 to 240,000 deaths. If they're not being followed it could be a lot worse than everyone is hoping for.

No price is in the cards. The world economy is going to be in tatters when this thing is over. Shunning the world's second largest economy makes zero sense whatsoever. The Western World have 2 months to prep for this, and for the most party every single country sat around and did next to nothing.