GaryPinC

Ahhh, Ricky Bobby!

Went up and camped around Munising two summers ago. Pictured Rocks area is awesome, did a kayak tour and shipwreck tour. Chapel Rock beach was a 3 mile hike each way but so worth it. The sand is like brown sugar and Superior is just an amazing cobalt color. Great pictures of the areas we went here: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jensenl/visuals/album/2005/mich/ Need to go back because we never got out by the Porcupines or East to Whitefish point. It's about 9.5 hours from Cleveland, but always worth the long drive.

That indirect free kick was genius. I just wish Klinsmann would have coached better defense. That was the one part of his teams that drove me nuts. I'm hoping we'll go European for our next coach.

No. They outplayed the Germans. Their goalie made some phenominal saves, and the ref missed a handball in the box that would have given us a PK.

USMNT 2002 was a good team. Beat Mexico and got unlucky against Germany 1-0 in the quarterfinals. We definitely outplayed the Germans overall. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/matches_wallchart/germany_v_usa/newsid_2049000/2049234.stm

I was envious of the plan, but wary of the execution. It is the Browns after all. At least they had a good plan this time.

EJ seemed like a hard working, fantastic guy when he was here. I don't hate him and wanted him to succeed. Watching him over time, beyond any coaching, I felt like he couldn't handle the mental rigors and decision making of being an NFL QB. I firmly believe that. One play he didn't recognize the blitz. Another he didn't recognize single coverage. Didn't recognize zone coverage. Another he didn't set his feet properly. It just seemed to rotate from one thing to another. So any opponent that game plans to mess with him, will find success. Last week was unplanned, we'll see what Baltimore does. I will happily eat crow if he proves me wrong.

All we have to do is show/throw a lot of defensive complexity and he will collapse like a cheap tent.

Playing the national anthem to honor a fallen soldier is very different (for some) than playing the national anthem to honor our country. I get that for you it is not. For others, they feel their reality of what this country is differs so much from the ideal that they respectfully kneel to call attention to it. Picture that and let it sink in for a minute.

I just walked into this and respect you as a poster, but you should really stop pretending it's a hypothetical argument. While you originally wrote it as one, you clearly do not mean it to be one. Or maybe you can help me understand your point, for me, taking a specific situation and turning it into a hypothetical usually means opening up the situation and generalizing it so as to explore the principles at work and that they apply in any situation. I guess your wording implies to me this isn't about the players anymore, just two different philosophies which could or would apply anywhere the national anthem is being played. Which would open it up to anyone. But that's not what you wanted. Ignoring intentions, I would say LeSean and any other players who ignore the moment and carry on quietly with something else are being intolerant of the national anthem by ignoring thus disrespecting it. That does not seem kind or generous, but somewhat tolerant by staying quiet while also intolerant at the same time. Has LeSean had to face any consequences for his actions other than people like JK calling him out about it? Has he been assaulted, lost his job or thrown in jail? Luckily for the alien, we don't live in a society that is rigidly divided into 2 groups.

Thanks. Yea, no way Shady. Don't like that. Don't confuse that idiot Trump with our country's pride.

Hughes made a great statement, except for questioning why Jimbo is out on the field. That is not his business, it was divisive, the rest is very acknowledging and respectful. All this should have been done behind closed doors. I think because Jim did not, it motivated Jerry to go public. I did not see the game. If LeSean was stretching while the anthem was playing that crosses my line for being disrespectful. I think the kneeling makes a statement but is respectful because they at least assume a still position and focus that respectfully acknowledges the anthem. Stretching, doing other things and ignoring the anthem, not respectful. Interesting to see what the NFL does moving forward. Last thing they ever want is to lose customers with things like this. Honestly, I feel they should fine LeSean for the stretching.

Thanks for doing all this work OP, excellent analysis. Given the experience and past of this O-line, it makes me think they haven't fully mastered Dennison's terminology/offense yet. Mistakes, mis-communication, and aren't adjusting fast enough yet. Problem is, I think this is when O-linemen are most likely to get hurt as people are out of position making them vulnerable. Definitely got my fingers crossed things improve quickly.

If you refuse to consider that Zay ran the wrong route or made the wrong adjustment then I understand why things don't make sense to you.

Certainly receivers approach the game this way. In reality, when your body momentum is carrying you hard the opposite way of the ball and you only have a second or so to adjust? IMO very few, if any, receivers could have made that catch. In this instance, I equate it to trying to say every right handed NFL quarterback running hard left should be able to zip in a 20 yard pass back to their right.

Wow, so much commentary. Read through some, but not all so please forgive if this was covered. This is what I saw from the clip: Zay did a nice job with the inside fake but got too worried about the inside safety and broke off his pattern to the flag instead of continuing an outside shoulder fade to back corner of EZ like he should have run. His slowing and slight stumble was him thinking too much IMO. TT didn't make the best throw but we don't know if he was trying to adjust it at the last split second. Even so, if Zay was running the fade he's in a far better position and makes that grab. It's a shame TT couldn't last-second adjust his throw more to get him the ball but when has he ever been able to? This one's on Zay, with an acknowledgement of TT's limitations as a QB.

I think your math is off, = 0.2146 or 21%

All this talk of best theme songs has made me crave the best: Thanks Ennio. "Ecstasy of Gold" at 8:10 with Susanna Riggaci is almost as good.

Sounds like you just did.

I think if you're flexible and willing to move/leave if there's too much BS going on around you it'll be fine. My son was 6 when I brought him and my 9 year old daughter. They understood there would be bad language and probably some people acting silly but it was great! That was 5 years ago and we've always had an excellent time. We always sit upper deck but not on the corners. But I certainly would never let them sit by some seriously drunk or obnoxious ahole. That's just trouble waiting to happen.

Not really. We need real change in how our congress works together towards real legislation and how our government functions. The clown show is our best chance of that rather than the corrupt political whore.

Just some facts and perspectives, no science there. The science on this is in its infancy. You'll have to forgive the 10 fold over-inflation of those 2 numbers. Was trying to elicit some sort of reasoned response from the poster. Oh well. As someone who does have an active interest in concussions, I'm curious. Why will he be susceptible to all these things moving forward? My daughter had a concussion (playing in the street, slipped on gravel for a header off the concrete) and it took her about 3 months to recover fully. She's been perfectly normal for 2 years now with no reappearance of anything like this. I have a long time friend who's had multiple concussions over 20 years and recovered from all them. Beyond being a mush-head, she exhibits none of these symptoms and hasn't had any long term issues like this. I ask them both regularly beyond the time I spend with them.

Since 2011, just under 1,700 players are on rosters in the NFL each year. Over 1 million kids play high school football and over 73,000 play college football each year . http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/research/football Does the research address that? I am one of the probably hundreds of millions of kids/men who played high school football and suffer no CTE-like symptoms. Does the research address that? Does it address the tens of millions of college football athletes out there not suffering CTE symptoms? According to the CTE website, over 425 brains have been donated, 270 have CTE. https://www.bu.edu/cte/brain-donation-registry/ Only over 100 were presented from football players in this study. Does the research address that? Medical standard of care for concussion assumes that highest risk of permanent damage is when more head trauma occurs while a person is recovering from a concussion. Does the research address this? What the research does is diagnose CTE in over 100 brains donated by football players. Most were likely donated because the person suffered behavioral/neurological deficits consistent with CTE. That is a highly biased, highly limited sample. Is there a big problem here? Absolutely. Does this mean I am smarter than the scientists who did the research? Nope, just trying to realistically frame and understand it. Does this mean there are "staggering odds" my son will have CTE from playing high school football? Nope. But go ahead and question other's intelligence. I am certainly questioning yours.

Keep it simple. I think states without a significant mountain range in the middle of the country are considered the midwest: http://worldmaps.world/us-mountain-ranges-map/united-states-mountain-map-2/ The main one that is questionable is Missouri with part of the Ozarks. You could also make a case to throw out South Dakota because of the Black Hills but that range really isn't significant. The culture argument has some merit but could also argue culture differences between a Kansas vs Ohio, etc.

similar to what frostbitmic said. We also practiced jumping off a table and rolling when we hit the ground. Pretty mundane.