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Which one is the running QB? Is it the guy who led the league in TD passes or the one who has been dead last in completion percentage both years he’s been in the league?

He was at the Trump rally in Tulsa. Has Marco Rubio posted a tweet with a picture of Ben Carson yet?

I think people are simply overestimating how seriously players take stuff like this.

The 49ers offense scored more than the Chiefs on the season. Their defense allowed more points than the Chiefs on the season.

In 30 games as the team’s #1 he’s been knocked out of 2 games and missed 4 games completely due to injury. Ironman

The truth is flyover country is essentially worthless. The only thing these areas really contribute is oil, and that’s just because it happens to be there. It’s not like anyone in the area did anything of value. Even the farming has become increasingly less important as agricultural production has moved towards California. Rural areas, particularly those in the South, the Rust Belt, and the Midwest are sewers that run on welfare and meth with a few Dollar Generals mixed in.

Why would you discount his injury history in college when considering whether or not he’s injury prone? He missed nearly 50% of his games due to injuries at Wyoming. That makes no sense whatsoever. Did Tua suddenly become Cal Ripken the day he was drafted?

He’s started 26 games (not counting week 17 last season). He’s been knocked out of 2 and missed 4 more due to injury. That’s 30 games he’s been top of the depth chart, and he’s either missed or been knocked out of 6. Add that to the 17 games he missed in college , and he qualifies as injury prone to me. You’re welcome to disagree. To be clear, I’m not saying he’s fragile. I’m saying he gets hurt a lot. His style of play lends itself to injury. He’s not a guy who slides around in the pocket and makes quick reads. He’s a max effort, play with reckless abandon QB. That’s his game, and he has to play that way to be effective at this point in his career. In 5 seasons at Wyoming and in Buffalo, he’s had one injury that cost him an entire season, 2 that cost him 4+ games each, and a fourth that caused him to leave a game with a concussion.

Both of their teams went from terrible without them to championship contenders with them basically overnight. What has Bosa done for the Chargers?

Seems crazy. He’s nowhere near the player Aaron Donald is, and pressure off the edge isn’t nearly as valuable as pressure up the middle. They’d better hope Herbert is legit.

He missed the 2015 season after breaking his collar bone on the 4th play of the season. He missed multiple games in 2017 with a shoulder injury. He missed multiple games due to injury his rookie season, and he got knocked out of a game last year.

He was essentially flawless last season. My only concern is his age. He’ll turn 24 in a few months. I’m always leery of college QBs who are considerably older than the majority of their competition. We saw guys like Brandon Weeden and Chris Weinke tear it up in college only to flame out in the league. For comparison, if Pat Mahomes had played in college in 2018, he’d have been the same age that Burrow was last year. If Sam Darnold were to play in college next season, he’d only be 6 months older than Burrow was last season. I don’t know how much that matters, but it’s a pretty big red flag to me. Given that it’s basically only one of two (the other being that he was a bit of a one year wonder), I’m still high on him as a prospect, but I can’t quite put him up there with Lawrence, Luck, or Manning in terms of “can’t miss” QB prospects.

I feel like players put an emphasis on toughness, and Wentz being injured so much matters a ton to them. Conversely, I think players respect Josh’s willingness to run in the open field. It goes back to the idea that he’s a better “football player” than he is a QB. Nobody really believes he’s a better QB than Wentz when both are healthy, and both are injury prone (albeit for different reasons).

You’re joking, right?

Why did they use Troy Aikman as the model?

That’s a ridiculous way to look at economic health. Having a balanced budget when interest rates are zero is about as fiscally irresponsible as it gets. New York is the single largest net contributor in terms of revenue paid into the federal treasury versus what they receive, and their per capita income dwarfs Florida’s. Meanwhile, Florida is one of the largest hogs slurping up federal money. https://rockinst.org/blog/who-are-the-givers-the-northeast-subsidizes-federal-spending/ https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-zirpoli-050620-20200506-7ya7okjfk5btdpysnrnrfouyz4-story.html https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-05-15/some-states-like-new-york-send-billions-more-to-federal-government-than-they-get-back https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-household-income-by-state

I would have flipped Lamar and Watson, but the list was pretty fair.

Then why even bring it up? It’s about a half step above injecting bleach and shoving a light bulb up your ass and adds nothing to the conversation. The only reference to the spread as it relates to asymptomatic transmission in the article you linked is COVID-19 may also be spread by people who are not showing symptoms (i.e., “asymptomatic”). According to the CDC, 35% of all people with COVID-19 are asymptomatic. However, those individuals are still as infectious as people with symptoms.

You don’t get the difference between a QB who has a great record and great stats, a QB who has great stats but a mediocre record, and a QB with mediocre stats and a winning record?

Tennessee shut him down to the tune of 500+ yards of total offense despite the fact that his receivers couldn’t catch COVID in a bat buffet.

What play were you watching? He had a clean pocket, and Knox was two yards behind the defense. 11:30 mark of the video. That was a pretty routine throw, and he just airmailed it. Other than that it was a fantastic drive. With the game on the line and a chance to slay the dragon, that's a play that has to be made. NE isn't going to roll over.

Lamar is 19-1 in his career when not playing against Pat Mahomes. He’s great.

I distinctly remember the right wing pundits accusing the left of accusing Trump of being racist for his response. I don’t remember anyone actually accusing Trump of being racist over restricting travel from China.

If he’d have hit Knox in the endzone on the last drive, that would have been the best drive of his career. That game is a perfect microcosm of him being a better football player than a QB.

So herd immunity was reached by having 250,000 out of 8,500,000 people becoming infected? Herd immunity with an infection rate of 3%. I can’t wait to have a good laugh with my wife (head of her science department) about this as soon as she’s done with her webinar on how to best educate students during a pandemic (which she is literally on right this second).