PetermansRedemption

If you think a second round rookie WR is going to come in and upgrade upon Beasley’s production of 67 receptions, 778 yards and 6 TDS then you will be sorely disappointed.

Eh, all the same anyways. I watch from home.

This is how I see it happening as well

I feel like the first part is being scared of a boogeyman in the closet. It’s such a small chance that the same hotel you chose to stay at (where probably no one has been staying because no one is vacationing) happens to have remaining particles. And if the governor of California doesn’t want games I am certain the NFL will have no trouble finding another venue.

Assuming availability of instant testing, that part is easy to overcome though. You treat every game as an away game, meaning both teams enter a hotel Saturday. Before coming together, each coach and member undergoes a rapid test. They are cleared and allowed into the hotel. They don’t have contact with anyone but team/staff/coaches until after game day Sunday.

I voted no, but I don’t attend games anyways. Can’t beat the view and comfort from home. That being said, stadiums are huge. I can’t see why they couldn’t devise some social distancing capacity for these games. Ticket revenue is such a small amount of revenue for the NFL. If a stadium has a capacity of 70,000 maybe sell 20,000 tickets, all seats spaced out strategically. Only have a gate for a certain amount of tickets at a certain amount of time. Spread the entrance times out amongst 2 hours. If you have X section you go to X gate at X time kind of thing. It sounds more complicated than I think it would be. You section off seats. Skipping a row or some seats between people. On the ticket you print what gate they are to enter and at what time. An organization as large as the NFL shouldn’t have a problem figuring out the logistics.

Is there a question as to who the worst GM in the league is?

Oh I’m very biased. That’s why I refrain from commenting on most political things.

It doesn’t matter. It’s just like everything else of the Trump presidency. He’s either supported by people who supported him anyways or hated by those who hated him anyways. He was never winning over anyone or losing much support either way. Thus is the nature of the most polarizing president in US history. It’s much like anything else I suppose, extremely biased. People who hate him will find anything he did wrong. People who like him will find anything he did right. The truth likely falls somewhere in between but very few people will ever take off their bias blinders one way or the other to see it.

This play is the biggest pile of horseshit I’ve ever seen in my recent football viewing. The head referee wears the white hat. The head referee who has, at a minimum, 30 years officiating experience. The head referee is right there in the end zone, deliberately doesn’t take the “flip” from the Texas returner. The head referee calls it a TD. How this was overturned is beyond me. One thing is for absolutely sure, it isn’t a touchback. It’s a TD, a safety, or an illegal forward pass penalty (which would have resulted in a safety). The intention of a player should never be taken into account. If we want to take the intentions of the player into account then why have a rule book at all? Of course the players intention is the most advantageous to himself and his team ?‍♂️.

I rewatched this a few days ago. Man it hurt. Pure domination for 2.8 quarters of football. Houston doesn’t even score until a minute left in the 3rd. I’ve never seen such domination followed by such a blown lead. Idk, it stings. No other way to describe that game ? I forgot how much the announcers stroked off JJ Watt in this game. Even when it’s 16-0 Bills they are ready to hand Watt the MVP.

First, which season would a 7-9 team have taken the extra spot? Second, what happens when the Lions win.

Most of these guys over Mccaffrey is just laughable. This is a re-draft WITH hindsight, correct? Mccaffrey is an absolute beast and accounts for such a large percentage of Carolina’s yards. Juju, in his first season without a pro-bowl QB and one of the best receivers to ever play the game (when sane), ended with 552 yards and 3 TDS. He broke 100 yards once this season.

So, let me get this straight, somebody actually got paid to come up with the idea to change the outer edge and add a barely noticeable extra curvature to the logo. Seriously? Who came up with this one. In the Board Room ”We need more fans” ”We need a QB” ”We need people to come to the games” Some guy way in the back “I have the solution.... we change the color of the outer edge of our logo” Board room breaks out in applause

You should have stopped at South Korea. You just unwillingly helped his argument by citing Germany. Germany has 82 million people, roughly one quarter of the US’ 327 million. Yet Germany has 39,502 cases. If you extrapolate that data to the US’ population figures the US would have nearly 160,000 cases. Therefore, by your own definition of doing a good job, the US is doing a phenomenal job. Because we currently only have 69,197 cases. For deaths, they are about identical figures as well. Germany has 206 deaths. Again, for a country one quarter the size of the US. If you apply that 4x multiplier they would be at 824 deaths. The US currently stands at 869. South Korea is a good example. But I doubt it’s because of their pandemic response team. I’m not versed in how many countries have them, but ask Italy, Spain, France, the UK, etc how well their pandemic response teams are helping. Source: Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Tracker

Excellent post sir. That is exactly what I’m wondering. I see some people reported as being healthy coming ill. It’s making me wonder if healthy is simply without pre-existing conditions though. Someone could be considered “healthy” simply because they aren’t obese. But to me, my definition of healthy is not only that, but someone who exercises quite regularly, eats right, things of that nature. But, as you said; I think the data is just too new to collect these exacting variables yet.

Any idea how many did have prior conditions/risk factors? As China has the largest smoking population in the world. Accounting for 40% of all tobacco smoked in the world. It isn’t like the US is the picture of health with our obesity problem. But I do wonder, and have not been able to find, what the risk is to a totally healthy person. I’m talking 20-30, who doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink, exercises regularly, isn’t obese, and has no pre-existing conditions. I really want to see that data and have yet to find it. Especially because in America you are considered healthy if you aren’t morbidly obese. To me, healthy is exercising regularly and eating right. Most Americans definition is far different it seems. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6546632/

It does if you want any money tied to it. Sure Trump could order any industry shuttered. But he would be doing it without any economical strings. I suppose congress could address that shortly thereafter. But I don’t have much faith in them.

Which I fear won’t be anything near what would be needed for a complete, extended shutdown. We should find out sometime today.

You do realize that what you are proposing requires the power of the purse, which is controlled by Congress?

I absolutely agree. 30 days would be completely fine. How does it get accomplished legislatively though?

So, theoretically, couldn’t we manage this thing by making everyone over the age of 50 or 60 stay home? Many over the age of 60 are retired and can stay home anyways. Many, many cases under the age of 60 do not require hospitalization. While many over the age of 60 do require hospitalization. [Edit: Misleading information confusing case fatality rate statistics with morbidity (serious disease). About 20% of those infected require hospitalization, though the rate is higher in the old.) Currently in USA, 40% of those hospitalized with severe to critical illness are age 20-54. If you do the math, as the disease spreads that age range alone will exceed our hospital capacity. Plus people 50-60 include a lot of critical workers - small business owners, doctors, nurses, etc; people over 60 inevitably have some contact with others even if they do stay home.

What you say is pretty much the only way this happens. You need everyone to stop collecting payments. No car payments, mortgage payments, utilities. You would also need to make food free or pay people what they are making when they work. Needless to say all of this would require massive government intervention, the likes of which this country has never seen. It would involve overreaching in an uncountable amount of private businesses. Think of how many businesses hold mortgages, hold auto loans, how many people and companies collect rent, how many utility companies there are. I’m not sure that kind of legislation could ever be drafted and implemented inside of the constitution and framework of our government.

What I’m concerned about is the death rate. As long as we keep the death rate around that 1% mark this is a successful result. The only country that has been able to keep it that low is South Korea. China was around 3.5, Italy is around 9.5. Spain around 6.7. Iran is 7.7. Keep our number as low as the model of response so far (South Korea).

Not sure if that last sentence is sarcasm. But, please no.