DrDawkinstein

That would definitely do it! But I feel this has been going on since well before that. When did he get the Unsportsmanlike called on him for patting our own player on his head? I feel like that was before 2018.

Probably, yes. It's looking like they will be extending our closed campus through next week as well, and we're just a corporate office setting. If that's the case, then places such as gyms should be closed as well. It's like this: Do we shut everything down as much as possible for the next 2-3 weeks and get some containment on it? Or wait, allow business as usual, and drag this out through the rest of the year with exponentially more cases?

Right. So you agree. DONT "keep living your life". Cancel plans for the next week and stay inside. Catch up on some reading, or the tv show you have been wanting to binge. Too late for what the governments should have done. Can only do what we can now.

Fair enough, you didnt propose any workarounds. Just discounted the warnings. Point (1), I can agree with that it doesnt need to be done in person. But no way can or will teams sign guys to big time contracts pending physicals down the line. If one player fails a physical, which they do, then it screws that teams entire offseason. Maybe they can do a physical locally, but the physical has to happen at the time of signing. (2). Disagree. The facilities should ALL be closed right now. Whether they are team facilities or private facilities. The good news is, as the article above states, it doesnt look like the season will be delayed. Nor did I think it would get that far. But I think we can both agree some things need to be changed around right now.

You do realize there arent any "confirmed cases" because we dont have the tests, and havent been testing people. Right? It's like me saying I've never tested positive for weed, because I've never been tested, even though I smoke it regularly. Your take on the disease, how it spreads, and the current state of its spread is naive at best. Quarantining yourself AFTER you show symptoms is already too late. That means you've been a carrier for a week already and have probably infected at least a couple other people. This isnt a one-off fluke terrorist attack, like 9/11, where you can say "Im going to keep living my life!" and be right. The time to lay low is NOW. I'm not panicking or trying to be dramatic either. We're all home with a closed work campus and I'm sure it's already spread through Atlanta, but I'm not panicking, just being realistic about it. A little bit of upfront, proactive prevention will go a long way in the end.

"this isnt about discounting warnings" then proceeds to make suggestions for "work arounds" which essentially discount every warning. FA involves players traveling from city to city, through airports, and through crowded offices, to meet with different people. Spreading the disease. Training facilities have people in close quarters sweating and breathing hard and getting bodily fluids on each other. Spreading the disease. Players have families. Keep them together (to spread the disease through all of them) and then send them home (to spread the disease to their family, who will in turn spread it themselves).

LOL. "I wont die, so what should I care about spreading the disease?"

That's good, in that we need way more testing than is currently happening. Start up the drive-thrus!

https://www.livemint.com/news/world/covid-19-study-says-placing-wuhan-under-lockdown-delayed-spread-by-nearly-80/amp-11583923473571.html NEW DELHI: China’s decision to place Wuhan, the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak, under a lockdown in late January helped slow down the spread of the infection by nearly 80%, showed scientists in a new modelling study. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Would be nice if we could use some personal responsibility and not stubbornly force ourselves into a police-state lockdown. Work closed our campus, and a lot of other large companies have as well. Employees are being urged to self-quarantine for the next week, and I dont plan on going anywhere for the next few days at least. But hey, some of us need to get to Cedar Point and dont care about what no high-falutin scientists have to say.

Gobert was straight up reckless. And now that Italy has been starting to charge and prosecute people who knowingly broke quarantine or spread the disease while sick, he should worry something similar doesnt happen here. Same reason they dont like soccer. And that "nonstop" action is part of it. Americans love baseball and football. Which have set starts and stops to plays. We love the ability to track each play or pitch, and the subsequent stats and math that goes along with it. Tracking all of these self-contained little battles in the bigger war of the game. We do not like that free-flow type of sports where it doesnt have set starts and stops. Basketball plays somewhere in between there. But that is the gist of the issue. It's just part of the culture.

Sure, I would never say it is 100% solid science, nor did I post it that way. But it is a good perspective-setter. And saves us from re-typing all of that.

Dude gets blatantly held on pretty much every play and never gets a call. It's unfortunate how badly his sour relationship with the refs has affected his career. Wonder where that all stemmed from...

and back to some "humor"... cue Curb Your Enthusiasm theme music.

This is long but a great read on the very real issues we're facing... (link to original post)

T's an P's, broooo!

We're still waiting on the punishment for SpyGate1. So no.

I bet the old folks are missing the days when being told "OK Boomer" was their biggest problem! Yep, that was the point I wanted to raise by asking that question. We have a low number of "confirmed cases", but that's mostly due to the low number of actual tests.

Yep, when they announced "5 cases in Georgia" my first thought was "That means more like 5000" and maybe even a higher multiple of that. I'm fairly certain it has already spread through Atlanta, but there arent any tests available. So hey, the numbers look good!

How many people have been tested tho?

Like I said in the other thread, there is already a buzz about the NFL closing the Draft. No fan attendance, video only. My work closed our campus of roughly 5000 employees for the rest of the week. So did Coca-Cola, Amazon, and Microsoft. They keep saying it is just a precaution as "there are still no positive tests"... but fail to mention that no one has actually been tested. At this point, it's like saying Freddie Mercury never tested positive for AIDS (because he was never tested).

I agree with all this. While it would be nice to get a top tier guy, and much safer as far as potential success, it will cost us way too much in order to get up high enough to nab Jeudy or Lamb, and probably even Ruggs. Rough estimate being a 1st and 2nd AND another pick along with them. With that, I think 2 WRs in our top 4 picks is the way to go.

Ehh, he was a bit over-drafted, but still performs, and has performed well for the Super Bowl champions... so not sure he's even almost a bust. If anything, I'd just use that as an example of why it's not worth it for top-10 teams to trade up into the top-5 for a WR in a deep draft like this one. But that doesnt mean a team at 22 shouldnt move up to get one of the top tier guys. Had any team in 2014 moved up to get Watkins/Evans/OBJ in the 10-15 range, they would have looked smart. I'd save that label for the likes of Corey Coleman, who is nearly out of the league already, and may not get picked up as a UFA this year.

The list of WRs taken at all in the top 15 the past 2 or 4 years isnt even long. 2019 - 0 2018 - 0 2017 - Corey Davis, Mike Williams, John Ross 2016 - Corey Coleman But if you go to a year where the class was known to be strong coming in (like 2020 is considered), such as 2014, you have Watkins, Evans, and OBJ all in the top 15 and none of them are busts. I'd guess Jeudy and Lamb will go top 15 this year, and I'd bet they both turn into successful pros. Too bad we wont have a shot at either of them.

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81-90 for me, which is about as good as it can be with no playoff wins. Nobody is perfect and I dont expect that. They've done well so far. Now need to take the next step. I only approve of Hallen with David Lee Roth as the singer. I give that lineup a solid 91-100.