SageAgainstTheMachine Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 Didn't Trent Edwards' sister move to Buffalo and live with Trent while he was with the Bills? I'm not suggesting incest or anything, but maybe the scientific research should be expanded to see if living with your sister also affects your testosterone levels. Once my sister left for college, I became a much better tackler.
l< j Posted December 20, 2011 Posted December 20, 2011 I'm going to guess that you are not a provider, not involved in childrearing, and not in a committed relationship with any women (outside of the staff at a sports bar or 2). Compensate much? kj
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted December 20, 2011 Author Posted December 20, 2011 Once my sister left for college, I became a much better tackler. Well, then you and Trent make two data points, but we still need a double-blind study.
ieatcrayonz Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Didn't Trent Edwards' sister move to Buffalo and live with Trent while he was with the Bills? I'm not suggesting incest or anything, but maybe the scientific research should be expanded to see if living with your sister also affects your testosterone levels. I don't know about that but I heard their Aunt Flo thought it was convenient because she could visit them both at the same time of the month.
BringBackFergy Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 "That guy's married and gayer than the 1890s." Hilarious. Absolutely love it. Literally LOL'ed. (LOL?) I did too...funny as hell.
Best Player Available Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Once my sister left for college, I became a much better tackler. Now That's funny!!
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted December 21, 2011 Author Posted December 21, 2011 The existing research shows that being in a committed relationship with a woman lowers your testosterone levels. If future research shows that living with your sister does NOT affect testosterone levels, then becoming a better tackler when your sister leaves for college isn't funny, it's SICK!
JOE IN HAMPTON ROADS Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Oh, it's Ralph. No doubt about that. The fact that he kept the team in Buffalo does not exclude him from the responsibility for what happened on the field. But the losing of the past 12 years is the result of poor ownership. The bad draft picks, coaching, free agent decisions etc.. are just like cracks in the windshield all caused by the initial impact of Ralph. I don't hate the guy because it's just a game and I realize that it is HIS team, not Buffalo's. But he is just a lousy football decision maker. VERY lousy. And when you consider that the object of a pro football team is to convince the locals to support you it should not be a surprise that people actually do find him contemptible (as one TBD poster put it so well). Dick, that's the best summary of RW I've seen on this board. I don't hate him either, but he's the least common denominator in all the bad decisions that bring us to a lost decade (or more).
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted December 21, 2011 Author Posted December 21, 2011 I'm going to guess that you are not a provider, not involved in childrearing, and not in a committed relationship with any women (outside of the staff at a sports bar or 2). Compensate much? kj I'm not hiring right now, but if I was I would pay fair market value. You probably wouldn't get the job, though, because I prefer employees who reach reasonable conclusions based on available scientific research over people who make uninformed guesses. Maybe if you ran a Monte Carlo simulation on your guesses so that you had a higher confidence level in your conclusions you could be an unpaid intern.
BringBackFergy Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Plato would prove this theory as follows: Men like to meet women. Women are attracted to men with high testosterone and can smell it in male sweat. Men who sweat attract women. Men who attract women eventually lay pipe and have kids. Once men lay pipe and have kids they slow down because the little ones stay up at night. When kids are awake, the woman loses sleep and is grumpy in the morning. When the woman is pissed off, the man has a bad day at work. He comes home from work all sweaty and woman is attracted to him. Man and woman lay more pipe. More kids arrive. Performance on field sucks. Single man laughs in corner so hard he sweats. Single man walks out of locker room and attracts woman. Cycle begins again.
Pirate Angel Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Whiffing on QBs is the main reason.......giving a bunch of bad qbs 4 years to develop into even worse qbs is another
Dr. Fong Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Interesting notion, which kind of ties into what I've often thought about with the Bills going overboard to draft high character guys. But at the very base level it's Ralph. The guy runs this football team like a business. A business that is out to maximize profits and not necessarily be the best that it can be.
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted December 21, 2011 Author Posted December 21, 2011 Interesting notion, which kind of ties into what I've often thought about with the Bills going overboard to draft high character guys. But at the very base level it's Ralph. The guy runs this football team like a business. A business that is out to maximize profits and not necessarily be the best that it can be. I don't think there's any question that Ralph could do a better job of running the team. But if he chooses to spend less than the salary cap allows and makes other decisions to maximize profits, there's not much that Nix and Gailey can do about that. Faced with those limitations, though, Nix and Gailey should do the best job they can to make the team a winner. If the best available science shows that guys in commissioned relationships have lower testosterone, and are therefor less aggressive, we should be drafting and signing guys that are "playing the field," if you will, and aren't involved in raising kids. Note that I said "raising" kids, not having kids. Travis Henry and Willis McGahee both had plenty of kids, but since they weren't involved in raising them and remained on the prowl, their testosterone levels weren't obversely reflected. Fitz is different.
The-scout Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 An I would bet more then 50% of the team already is on some kind PED. I'd bet 80% of the league is for that matter. But still a pretty gay post.
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted December 21, 2011 Author Posted December 21, 2011 An I would bet more then 50% of the team already is on some kind PED. I'd bet 80% of the league is for that matter. But still a pretty gay post. Maybe the guys who are married or heavily involved in raising kids subconshuslee realize that they need to take PEDs to be competitive. And they'd be under more pressure to be competitive anyway, because they have mouths to feed. What do you think?
WVUFootball29 Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 Are you suggesting that the NFL Combine start ranking players based on their testosterone levels?
QB Bills Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 We need more players who display this level of aggression. There's always an "exception that proves the rule," but I'm guessing that even if you are in a committed relationship, you are not currently intimately involved in raising any children. Your testosterone level appears acceptably high. Can you play OLB? hahaha...nicely played OP, you are quickly becoming one of the better posters on here...kudos
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted December 21, 2011 Author Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) Are you suggesting that the NFL Combine start ranking players based on their testosterone levels? Hadn't thought about it. At first push it seemed like it might be a good idea, because we'd have exact measurements, just like we already do for the 40 yard dash, 3 cone drill, etc, etc. But then I tried to put myself in Buddy's gloves, and got to thinkin' about how he says all the teams are tryin' to rob the same train in the draft. If we asked the folks in Indianapolis to test for testosterone, Belicheat's spy cameras would probably see it somehow, and then he'd start asking questions. When he eventually found the scientific research, we would no longer have a competitive advantage. I think we should keep the science under our hat for now, and draft based on relationship and child-rearing status. Sure we might still miss on a few picks - - there could always be some guy who was secretly in a committed relationship or secretly helping raise his kids but lieing about it to his buddies to be "cool." But it would let us keep our strategy a secret. The Japs didn't tell us they were coming before they bombed Pearl Harbor. Odd looking draft picks might be a dead give away that teams like the Ravens or Cowboys were onto something, but in our case everybody would just laugh and say "same old Bills - - can't draft worth a s**t." When we started winning based on the scientific research, other NFL GMs would eventually figure it out, but at least we'd have a head start. It's a lot like the "Moneyball" situation in baseball. When the Texas Rangers started acquiring players who hit with power, nobody realized the method to their madness, until they started winning more games. Now all the baseball teams do it. Edited December 21, 2011 by ICanSleepWhenI'mDead
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted December 21, 2011 Posted December 21, 2011 An I would bet more then 50% of the team already is on some kind PED. I'd bet 80% of the league is for that matter. But still a pretty gay post. Does this post like to get freaky with other posts about testosterone?
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted December 21, 2011 Author Posted December 21, 2011 (edited) I think the jury is out on whether living with one's sister is equivalent to having a spouse. I believe Ndamakan Suh lives with his sister, and he's a raging bull. Roger Goodell is a sharp guy, and the NFL is powerful. Roger's probably seen the unpublished "sister" research. Maybe the NFL says Suh is required to take anger management courses, but he's actually just required to live with his sister as part of a "testosterone adjustment" program. Come to think of it, Trent Edwards looked pretty good for a while. Maybe Belicheat got to the research first, and talked Trent Edwards' sister into moving to Buffalo to live with Trent. I don't know how fast a player's testosterone levels would drop. Maybe the effect kicked in right around the time Trent took that big hit in the AZ game. I hate the Patriots! Edited December 21, 2011 by ICanSleepWhenI'mDead
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