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I don't agree WRT manipulating the fans about how much they liked Allen. Giants still had Manning and wanted to grow the ground game to support him. He couldn't knock CLE and NYJ out of their spots, so he was going to have to wait on those picks anyways. Indy wasn't in the QB market and it sounds like Beane had enough Intel from Elway that theirs wouldn't be a QB. He took a chance with Denver. He may have also felt Lamar had a chance to be great, we don't know about that. Also, Beane still had a franchise to construct so he wasn't going to mortgage their future picks too soon. I have no problem taking Beane at his word on their Allen view pre-draft.

Except the placebo effect is real. On paper it shouldn't be (your perception), but its reality is measurable and quantifiable. The opposite analogy for the point you're trying to make. Maybe as an athlete you ignored your emotional state, I did and regret it, because my best performances were when the stakes were the highest and I was totally and desperately invested in winning. It gave me massive focus and fear of mistakes or failing vanished. That's just me and everyone's different so I get what you're trying to say, I would simply conclude that perhaps you should open your mind more and that for some, influencing their mental state increases their performance.

Placebo effect involves an actual treatment of a physical or physiological condition, so for me you are completely mis-using it here. I think you are making the point that the players already had these abilities so the emotional heightening from perceived or actual "insults" is negligible. I would simply say that physiological changes when experiencing strong emotions can change mental focus, increasing it when channeled properly. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01454/full So, some pro athletes find ways to experience strong emotions to find greater focus. This is what is being alluded to. Yes, you're right the athlete already had the ability, but finding ways to maintain maximum mental focus enables maximum and consistent physical performance.

Yep, it's the draft. Reasonably priced but undeveloped talent. I would think where you give something up is in second contracts. I wish someone would ask Beane what he's changing in his approach so we don't have to keep using so much draft capital on DL with such mediocre results.

No, it is undeniable it cost LESS than 2 second round picks. One of the seconds gained us the third round pick.

The problem with Kaiir was there is nothing between his ears. Gotta believe the scouts and coaches learned from that mistake this time.

Sure, his bad tape is all part of the picture and the gamble. It wasn't a surprise he struggled last year. The only potential intriguing aspect is why Baltimore didn't re-sign him, but it could be as simple as Tre feels better in our defense. We'll see!

Yes we are, but "later in the process" is important. The Rams seemed to discount how long it took him with the ACL and took that gamble way too soon. No way would I want Beane to take a chance on a guy with Tre's history and timing when the Rams did. It may not work out for us, but now is a good time post-injury to make this gamble.

Well, at least he's consistent with his valuations.

Beating the Chiefs in the regular season has value. You don't just go into the regular game running scaled down or vanilla game plans, because you have establish what's going to work, what isn't, and how we match up. Having the coaching acumen to tweak, adjust, deceive, adapt and bring in the right new plays/formations for the playoffs is where we are sorely lacking. I'd point to Rousseau mentioning the fullback quick runs during the regular season, multiple unstopped Mahomes sweeps in the playoffs. No adjustment. Stick to your gaps. Inexcusable. It's not like KC had an entirely new offense/defense. They just had strategic modifications at strategic times. Something McDermott seems to abhor as he relies on the same system of defending to account for everything. This is where he needs to grow significantly. I believe part of that is the Chiefs relied more on their coaching with less talent on their roster this year and then it finally caught up to them with a talented Philly team. Which really makes it all the more frustrating we couldn't beat them!

Totally agree except that you can't just show nothing of value in the regular season. You still need to win there, too. You just have to manipulate your looks and break trends at the right moments. KC didn't pull that end-around out for that game, they did it during the regular season. Just not much when they played us the first time, Rousseau mentions they did the fullback runs in similar situations during the regular season. But it totally feeds into your point about checkers and chess, after 8 seasons as our HC let's pray McDermott finally learns how to play chess this offseason and year. He's shown signs, like keeping Mahomes off the field late in the regular season game, but he really needs to accelerate his learning curve. 7 seasons is far too long to finally realize that.

Yeah, Rousseau alludes to it in the clip, said he's not getting paid to think, he's still going to cover his primary gap because that's what's most important. So it once again comes down to coaching being willing to adapt in-game or come in with a more diverse game plan.

1 year 12.6M is basically no risk compared to Von Miller's contract, lol. Bosa is not humble but has been humbled, I think. Let's hope he finds that chip to put on his shoulder.

This is Diggs with a checkered past and storm-clouded future putting his best face on. Any fan who would welcome him back needs to pull their heads out of the stats and remember the reality of the toxic ending on our field. Sheesh.

Yeah, I'll definitely be praying for him. For me, the PC and other videos are worrying. Here's a guy repeatedly discussing how he's getting old and career winding down at 29. Brings to mind that quote if you're thinking about retiring from the NFL then you already are. Then the reporter asks him about his film role and first thing he mentions is it was really challenging because it was cold over there in Ireland. "Trying something different is good." "It'll be good to focus only on football now." "Glad to be part of a winning culture " "It was shocking how quickly things changed." Heart-felt or crisis management mantras?😂 Couple that with all the personality of a weathered old board on a teetering barn. Hope Joey uses this time to get his head on straight. Prayers up!

I appreciate your passion for Buffalo, but Josh isn't marrying a local gal. They're two California kids whose families are deeply tied there. When they have a family, whether they live here during the season depends on what Hailee wants to do about her career. Chances are miniscule they live here once Josh calls it a career.

One big component on this defense is risk aversion and a thought process for how to execute that. I suspect this is where Elam struggled. When you see a DB with his physical talents relegated to playing like a covering safety in the AFCCG, you know he's lost in the scheme and maybe not from being unusually harsh but from a minimum of constantly having to correct him. He may never be able to stick in the league but seemed incredibly ill suited for what the coaches wanted him to do. I'm happy he has another chance, we'll see how much our coaching/scheme weighed him down. He's certainly not the brightest bulb either, so good luck to him.

He's also very tied to the Cleveland community so that may also have weighed on him since his announcement.

I could see this being true 3 years ago, but since Brady took over the offense I feel Josh has improved his decision making and distribution from the pocket. You make it sound like he's still scramble-happy hurdle happy Josh. What gives? Do you really think he hasn't improved as a pocket passer?

Apnea creates hypoxic conditions (oxygen deprivation) in the body and is linked to a host of cardiac and health issues, most likely progressing slowly over years. It's a good one to solve even if you're not having too many effects from it now.

Hopefully it's lost it's stringiness or that could get awkward.

I bet that's exactly how your toilet would describe your next day deposit of the remnants!

Yeah, no one did. As soon as I heard about them setting up field hospitals I knew we were f*cked. It seemed surreal but the Chinese take outbreaks seriously and it was too late for them already. 😂Yes, an overexpressing artificially created mouse model always portends truth. Look how many times it's pegged cancer cures. Translation: You are incredibly overreacting and ignorant, and just plain wrong. Stay away from science and medicine. You truly suck at it.

It wouldn't have mattered if they had shut China travel earlier. It spread too quickly with 2 or 3 days of victims being asymptomatic and infectious, and longer for those that remained asymptomatic. China was also slow to acknowledge it, I know I first learned about it from Li Wenliang's warnings shortly before he died and the construction of field hospitals in Wuhan early Feb 2020. Think about how long it had been spreading to get to that point. Probably 2-6 months, plenty to get it seeded around the world. The Wuhan market was shut down January 1 2020 to test for viruses. Other than Trump's standard stupid spews about alternative remedies he did just fine. So many hind-sighters on both sides forget how in the dark we were those first six months of 2020.

Ok, so what? Anyone with a reasonable scientific/medical mind knew that. How is your point that Trump didn't have the vaccine while Biden did relevant to this? Trump would have also "failed" similarly if he had been president in 2021. I would say Biden's political promise was based on two things: pushing vaccination as quickly as he could with the general population and the fact that the mRNA vaccines had been proven to be hugely effective against the beta version of Covid at the time in clinical trials. That's why health officials were quoting 100%, fully stop transmission, etc. So for a non-scientific, questionable mental-acuity president who listened to his over-speaking health officials, I feel like he made a legit good effort to achieve this promise but essentially the vaccine wasn't as great as his health officials were proclaiming. Plus Omicron was first identified in the fall of 2021, has dominated since, and the vaccines have never been as effective against it as they were beta. WRT mass vaccination, the vaccines became available mid-December and by the end of May 50% (167+ million) of the US population had received at least one dose with 41% fully vaccinated. That is pretty impressive to me in such a short time. I am definitely glad Trump presided over the outbreak as Biden probably would have dictated precautions similar to NY or CA and they were the most delusional about being able to stamp it out entirely.