dpberr

There is a correlation with the amount of weight - between muscle and gear. The private sector defense contractors spend a lot of resources in engineering gear that reduces the load on a soldier's body, namely the tendons and ligaments. I don't know how much all the NFL gear weighs on game day, but I bet it's substantial from helmet to shoe. No more artificial turf fields. That'd be a good idea. I also don't think the NFL promotes rest as much as they should. Most NFL players train year round and rather intensively - the body can only take so much. I think some of these injuries are due to over-training.

The team has performed well in the first two weeks of the season until opposing teams get tape on them. Perhaps Rex will approach the regular season like preseason - different starting quarterback *every* game. It isn't a half bad idea if you have three decent quarterbacks and on any given Sunday, one of them exploits a weakness in the defense better than the others.

Mental health - THE issue of our time. Someday, we'll start paying attention to it in the workplace.

As a Big Sky alum, I think he's comfortable kicking in the cold and on artificial turf, two constants if you play ball in that conference. Doesn't like kicking in the heat. Buffalo is probably as ideal as it gets for him.

I feel pretty good about the quarterbacks. I think TT and EJ played very well. I think the whole EJ playing with the 2nd teamers is a deliberate confidence building exercise by the coaching staff. I don't think he's going anywhere. If I'm the Browns, that game couldn't have inspired much confidence. McCown took some serious shots and had two INTs against a vanilla defense.

Along with the OP, I'm shopping the truck segment now. I've test driven all of them - Colorados, Tacomas, Frontiers, Silverados, Sierras, F-150s, Rams, Titans, Tundras, Avalanches. I prefer a Crew Cab so they've all been the Crew Cab versions. In regards to the mid-size - I think the Colorado is overpriced and there aren't a lot of rebates. For what you'll pay, and as long as you'd be ok with a Silverado, just get a Silverado. I'm not a fan of used Colorados with that wonky I5 engine. Dealers are discounting 2015 Tacomas ahead of the new 2016s good but they are misers with the used products. Frontiers are pretty good value because they are discounting heavy before their 2016s as well. You'll get them for less than a Tacoma but they are plagued by frame rust issues like the Silverados. You have to watch out for those. The big game change will be if the US stops enforcing the chicken tax on foreign made trucks. If that happens, you'd see the Volkswagen Amarok over here probably, along with the new Ford Ranger. It's been rumored for years too that Jeep may bring a Comanche type truck back to the market.

I think some guys are better assistant coaches than they are head coaches. Wouldn't shock me to see Marrone be one of those guys. Marrone and Hackett, just like Jauron and Schoenert before them, will look like geniuses Weeks 1 and 2. Once teams have tape, their schemes are quickly figured out and whether it's hubris or confidence you pick - they will not change the plan and the results will suffer. So yeah, I'm sure things look good in Jags camp. They looked good in Bills camp. Let's talk Week 3.

I wouldn't glean much from a study of German parents. German life is country club compared to life in the US. Germans work far less hours, have a lot more vacation and leisure time. Bottom line - they are a bit spoiled so when it comes to the work of raising a child - it's like Mission Impossible to the them. As the saying goes, Europeans work to live and Americans live to work.

I always thought restaurant inspector would be a fulfilling job. And street sweeper.

+1. I rarely comment on the EJ "issue" because it doesn't get me riled up as it does others. The draft is a crapshoot. You make the best decison you can with the information you have. Sometimes it does not work out. That year especially was a bunch of lottery tickets as far as QBs are concerned. This wasn't a Whitner/Ngata or a Cushing/Orakpo/Maybin debate where overwhelming evidence contrasted with the front office decision.

I think you're both right. Hollywood wants guaranteed geese that lay golden eggs and there is a great deal of worry and trepidation about inflaming sensitivities. Think about it. You can't shoot up entire police departments anymore on screen. (Terminator) You can't violently rob banks. (Heat) You CERTAINLY can't crash planes as part of a movie plot (Die Hard 2) Can't smack women around. (Casino) Can't show women of a highly aggressive sexual nature. (Basic Instinct) Can't offend anybody (Red Dawn 2 are the hapless North Koreans instead of the Chinese, Rambo took on some random Cambodians) Can't lose your **** and just start killing people. (Commando, Speed, Demolition Man, nearly every Chuck Norris film) I doubt Saving Private Ryan would be made in today's Hollywood. Way too real. Not nearly enough time travel.

I watched Heat over the weekend. It's in my Top 5 of all time favorite movies. It was made in 1995. Studios wouldn't touch a movie like that today. The actors would be too expensive. No super heroes, robots, cyborgs or time travel. It was rated R. People died in it. It was a long movie. It was never intended to have a sequel.

While the bombs were bad, a full invasion of mainland Japan would have been a bloodbath for both sides, with three times the casualties. As for dropping one on Germany, I recall when I read a book about Oppenheimer that dropping a bomb on Germany was a non-starter due to the fear of fallout on Allied countries and the large numbers of Allied military in and around the city.

I'm digging that.

Kasich and Fiorina for me. I think she'll crack the Top 10 for the next one. IMO, Kasich easily won that debate last night and not just because it was in Cleveland. He will be the front runner by the end of the summer.

He's lucky he got suspended. Showing such poor decision making as an adult gets you fired in a lot of other places.

+1. Always have been fascinated with the 46 scheme. I wonder if it's being used in camp to train the rushing offense because it's excellent against the run and if you can run against a 46 with the talent we have, the holes in the regular season will feel like a mile wide.

Last stand? Please. He'll have 1,000 yards this year.

In the world of strange things happening, Matt Simms. He's kind of like Taylor - has never had a real shot at being a starter. Strong arm, smart, confident, and probably the most accurate of the bunch when it comes to game time.

I'm pretty sure this only leads to Sam Neill chasing you around a haunted space ship.

The McCoy/Jackson duo exceeding expectations. Otherwise, that puts even more pressure on the QB to make plays through the air. 1,000 yard rushers. Each.

Yep. Grenade in an enclosed space. It especially sucks for the kids and the innocent dental hygienist and admin assistants. Wife isn't' that innocent. A douchebag this huge gives off enough warning signs.

Sport hunters are some of the biggest "tough guys" on the planet. They'd starve to death if they had to do a true hunt without guides, bait, high tech weapons. What personally pisses me off here is the 40 hours of suffering enduring by the lion and that we still have douchebags on this planet still hunting rare animals. This particular jerk not only has ruined his life, but the life of his family for a head on a wall. Animal rights people don't let this go. He'll be living Casey Anthony style forever. It won't surprise me to see his dental practice over, and he's got to move the whole family far far away to start over. That is if he somehow escapes extradition and jail time for something that is equivalent to the crime of poaching. If he gets jail time, no way he's making it out of there.

The doctor did not have control over his procedure area during the procedure. That's problem #1. She falsified medical reports. That's a bigger problem #2. Office protocol was not followed for an anesthetized patient. Why any patient would still have a phone on him (and regular clothing) in the procedure room, again shows extreme sloppiness and lack of care. If the patient went into sudden cardiac arrest, sudden drop in blood pressure or other emergency situation, both the unfocused doctor and anesthesiologist were in poor position to respond immediately to it. I know she's the focus of the story but it's he that's really at fault here.

As one of America's finest poet laureates once espoused... Don't start nothing. Won't be nothing. I'd give the guy a million dollars just because it's weak to talk trash to somebody who's passed out and all that bitching. There should be consequences for that.