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Nick O'Leary Recovering from Heart Attack
HardyBoy replied to Mike in Horseheads's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/health-management/yoga-teacher-practicing-again-after-covid-19-triggered-cardiac-arrest Carr knew she had COVID-19 when she experienced mild symptoms and then got a positive test result, though she’d been social distancing and being as careful as she could. But staying home to wait it out was no longer an option when that seemingly minor case of COVID-19 turned into heart failure – and four episodes of cardiac arrest. -
Nick O'Leary Recovering from Heart Attack
HardyBoy replied to Mike in Horseheads's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Did he have covid19? -
NFLPA recommends that players stop practicing together
HardyBoy replied to Logic's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
You have absolutely no basis to say that this isn't dangerous to young people or people who don't get really sick, and there is mounting evidence saying that you are so incredibly wrong. People are judging this thing soley on alive or dead, and must save the economy today and that is not the right way to judge this. If I'm a pro athlete, where even a 1% change in my body's metabolic function could be the difference between hall of fame and out of the league, no way am I messing around with this virus. In terms of larger society, here's a huge problem: they know 100% this attacks the testicles. They 100% are seeing concerning testosterone level ratio changes in otherwise healthy males to the point where they are recommending follow up reproductive health screenings to males wanting to have kids later (first link below). What happens to the economy in 30 or 50 years if even 5% of population becomes infertile as a result of this (granted we're screwed either way, because exponetial economic growth means exponential non-renewable resource growth and we live on a planet with finite resources, but an economic model requiring infinite exponential growth to keep up with the exponential interest on the debt)? Don't think that's possible that a virus causes huge society wide impacts? Go look at polio...go look at pictures of small pox survivors (warning they are very disturbing, and then remember Europeans intentionally infected native Americans with small pox). Then tell me a virus that just came out of nowhere can't have incredible incredible impacts on a society. Not to mention all the other potential lasting impacts that they have no way ruled out of people that are asymptomatic or have very few symptoms. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41585-020-0319-7 https://www.vox.com/2020/5/8/21251899/coronavirus-long-term-effects-symptoms -
Fracking industry projected to have $300B in losses
HardyBoy replied to cage's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Wouldn't paying for the loans taken out to buy the teams count as debt? Assuming they didn't pay for it outright. -
No false start jokes yet? I don't know nearly enough about guard play to have a real opinion.
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Jake Fromm: Controversial comments
HardyBoy replied to Elite Poster's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Something based on gender or race? Maybe as a dumb teenager or in their early 20s with very minimal life experience, but as an adult? Might want to reevaluate that "everyone" and change it to some people or a few people. Now, I mean have I done things outside of work that potentially could have gotten me in trouble at work if it went viral...sure, I'm 100% with you there, but non satirical off color jokes about race or gender...nah, probably not the norm honestly. -
Jake Fromm: Controversial comments
HardyBoy replied to Elite Poster's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I don't see the front office or this coaching staff doing that in this case...if this wasn't satire, which I've expressed my thohghts on already, this is a teachable moment (I guess I'm assuming this was a joke at worst if not satire, and not his true underlying belief system, but even then he's what, 22...not excusing racism in 22 y/o, just they really arent their own person yet). Even then, this is a really good opportunity for the team to come together and help someone grow. -
Jake Fromm: Controversial comments
HardyBoy replied to Elite Poster's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Again, difference in a joke vs satire. Agree, not a tasteful joke...if it is satire used as a metaphor to show general things through a single example taken to an extreme...and proving a point very clearly that charging so much for supressors that essentially only elite white people are able to get them, and that is largely what is happening with say a college education, where the vaaaast majority of people graduate with student debt...it's a pretty solid satirical sarcastic comment...that said, I have no idea if that's what he was doing. -
Jake Fromm: Controversial comments
HardyBoy replied to Elite Poster's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
If he was saying that fully sarcastically as an example of the outome of systemic racismand income inequality that shouldn't be a problem (and I don't believe it would be a problem). Issue is, it's so easy to not get that context in a text...this is a situation where you would need to see other texts and comments, especially because that is pretty right on in terms of satire that aligns with what truly needs to change systemically. -
Jake Fromm: Controversial comments
HardyBoy replied to Elite Poster's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Not from first hand experience, but pretty sure the move is to put a Pam in as a Pat...you're doing it wrong -
Football in a pandemic era. It’s been done before..
HardyBoy replied to Chandler#81's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Except this is the first act still, and likely midway through the first act...population density and air travel have changed a lot since 1957. Also, people need to stop judging this just soley on deaths. They are finding long term damage, possibly permanent, in multiple organ systems in people getting sick. The US military is banning people who were hospitalised with covid19 for life, and initially that was just being diagnosed prevented you from enlisting, but was rolled back. That's a huge policy for something likely to infect 70% of the population...there has to be a reason for that. -
Reason the Dolphins fired their OC
HardyBoy replied to Nihilarian's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
There is a HUGE difference between basic and simple. The Bills offense is basic, but not simple, which imo is what you want. You make things complex by combining basic pieces together is creative ways. People who are hoping for a monolithic offensive system where there is no artistry or improve within a structure are confusing me. JA is going to thrive when he can be creative within a framework that he truly understands and can combine basic pieces quickly into super unique creative things on the fly at the line. I'm not sure why people are so hoping we have a simple elementary offense that puts artificial ceilings on players. You can be overly complex too though where people have to think instead of react, but usually that happens more on defense (see Rex Ryan or Al Golden at University of Miami) -
Do you keep the ball where you end up, or if you make it does it go back to the 25? If it goes back to the 25 I'm much more ok with it than if you can score a td, especially since you can't advance an onside kick. That said, make it the 40, since a kick has to go 10 (or 15 yards now) before it is a live ball. The only thing is that a kickoff is a live ball so you could theoretically get possession wherever on the field if the team doesn't touch it. All that said, the idea of a free hail mary that you can score on by saying "onside kick attempt" is not right.
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Josh's next step in reading defenses
HardyBoy replied to TigerJ's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I am hoping a lot of the long ball stuff is overblown (no pun intended...you'll see). Basically every home game to end the season starting with that Eagles game was crazy crazy windy, and I'm sure that played a huge part in not reverting back to the mean at least a bit, because the start of the year was bad for sure deep ball wise. A lot of the deep shots seemed like they happened at the end of progressions last year (could be wrong here), which might be why he couldn't put as much air under the ball. This article makes me think he will be able to better recognize a saftey can't possibly get to a spot on the field, so he can throw it earlier and therefore higher so it can take longer to get to the spot. -
Josh's next step in reading defenses
HardyBoy replied to TigerJ's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I mean yes, but you really think that wasn't in the play design the last two years? You basing this on evidence or a hunch (genuine question)? Cause I'm going with hunch: -
I think this has as much to do with the analytics on what is better for those individual games as it does for ensuring you get a more likely chance at as nice a schedule as possible. Not being difficult with specific needs makes it a heck of a lot more likely that you get fewer teams coming off byes, etc. Their goal is to balance all that stuff out when they build the schedule...start adding stipulations and it's such a complicated thing that you start having to play multiple teams off byes potentially to accomodate the other stuff...i mean that's an assumption, but I'll stand by it big time.
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Yeah, it's actually kind of crazy that the cap is tied to a single year revenue. I mean I guess it is stop gap for something like this, but you'd think they'd smooth it over over the last few years with future anticipated revenue built in too. The problem you are going to run into is cashflow though...the fans are a consistent revenue stream, especially season ticket holders. They'll get loans, but remember that whole cash to cap thing? Maybe not the worst idea after all, but assuming that included future ticket revenue anticipated in the coming season. Might be a good number of teams up for sale, because I don't care who you are, not many people have 150m in cash burning a hole in their pocket and a lot of investments are down and it might make a lot more sense to sell an nfl team at a profit than a bunch of investments at an astronomical loss...they should sell guaranteed team bonds.
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Examining Brandon Beane’s comp pick hack
HardyBoy replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
So to me this is part of the team building continuum when you have a qb on their rookie deal. First you sign a bunch of value free agents to one year deals to build depth. Then you turn some of those players into picks...basically turning cap space into draft capital in the early late rounds (5th and 6th rounds). Then, you use those picks initially to move up to get players that you have a significant higher value for you because of system fit or identifying an elite skill others are missing, but drop to say the third round because moneyball. Then, you stop trading up and using those picks to find high value depth (where a lot of teams are still plugging in needs for starters). You're still signing one year free agents, but that really needs to stop once you need to start signing players, but by then you have a steady stream of rookies going from year 3 to year 4, and those are basically your one year free agent deals, but now you actually get comp picks when they leave and instead of using free agents to trade for mid round capital to keep this rolling, you start trading down. Don't know if I'm right (directionally I think I'm on the right track for sure though), but by the time I got done typing that out, I'm pretty sure I was describing the Pats. -
Talk of no alcohol at NFL games this season.
HardyBoy replied to Jrb1979's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
So my wife had a friend from high school that booked a flight in very early March to come visit us in south Florida mid-march. If the flight had been the next day I would have said heck no, she needs to cancel, but seeing it was a bit less than three weeks away, I just let it ride and things took care of themselves in terms of people not flying. This will be the same way...lol at thinking there will be 70k screaming people in stadiums...screaming and spitting on all the people in the rows below them. I mean it's not impossible I guess, but I think setting your slim hopes on any season at all would be a better use of your time...lol and at the start of flu season where the beds are going to fill up from that already...(I know I may come across like I think this is funny, it's not, it really sucks...I have a 4 month old that I'm concerned that a lot of my family basically halfway across the country in rochester that I'm not sure when he will see them...genuinely could be years...unless we move north a ways, which is looking very likely). Wait, I'm not taking my advice and just letting it ride...yeah we'll see, hopefully they let people drink, but whatever, I don't usually drink inside sporting events too much, because it makes me miss too much of the game. -
NFL Unveils League Office Pay Cuts, Furloughs
HardyBoy replied to Lurker's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Very interesting on the pensions...that is not a good sign after a ten year stock market streak to have to cut pensions I have a strong feeling we are going to be hearing about a lot more of pension cuts in the near term, and this is an organization that brings in a ton of very regular and steady profit...same cannot be said about many local municipalities and states. -
How will it affect Phish having right & left handed QBs?
HardyBoy replied to Saxum's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I'll just leave this here, cause that left hand is nasty good (the solo is pretty unreal):
