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EA is a fat and lazy software company, living off their 1990s genius, but a modern, motivated, marketing company. They will continue selling you the same game for $60 each year because there are enough people buying it. The NFL is dumb hitching their wagon for another five years, because there are so many gaming avenues you could explore with that license that a lazy EA just doesn't want to.

Spoiler alert: Making 300+lb linemen wear masks while they play football will kill more NFL players than any virus from all the cardiovascular stress that mask is going to bring.

The league did well in some of the cities, not so well in some of the others. If they relaunch, hope they take that opportunity to re-calibrate. Whether the NFL likes it or not, a professional alternative league would do the NFL some good in developing players and coaching personnel. I think that's where the sustainability of the XFL lies - as a true football development league. It can't complete star for star with the NFL.

Biden is a fool if he selects her as his VP. She's demonstrated she's out of her league as a governor, as she's made a complete mess of things in that state and has unnecessarily ratcheted up the civil restlessness. He certainly doesn't need the additional baggage she'd bring to the ticket.

Very compelling read and it should be breaking, big news because the Bush, Obama and Trump administrations have kept this information from the public.

Good luck with those riots, California. That state is walking straight into the abyss of civil unrest in every socio-economic corner.

Yet people will blindly trust Bill Gates, probably because he always wears sweaters.

Contract tracing is doomed to fail in America, even if they incentive the program. Upper and middle class America are terrible at disappearing but poor America are experts at doing so.

I don't know how they are doing medically, but I can tell you from experience, they and the Mennonites *hate* wearing the masks, washing hands and being told only one of them is permitted in a store. They are slowly getting with the program. Slowly.

In Pennsylvania, the governor is threatening to pull liquor licenses and funding for the counties planning to defy the state reopening "sequence." I reside in a county that is preparing a plan to slowly winch up the middle finger to said sequence. https://www.pennlive.com/coronavirus/2020/05/wolf-threatens-funding-license-cuts-if-counties-move-to-reopen-in-pa-without-his-approval.html https://www.ldnews.com/story/news/2020/05/11/gov-wolf-punches-back-consequences-going-yellow-too-soon/3110487001/

Major: The Bills do what they are capable of doing: winning the division and at least one playoff game. Minor: The NFL, after seeing the success of the draft, embraces "less is more" in it's programming.

I think in PA, push is coming to shove soon, and several counties, currently in the red zone, have informed the governor that they will not direct their sheriffs department to cite non-essential businesses that open. Other counties have written letters to the governor, pleading that the methodology being used to open the state is quite flawed (it is), which of course, has been ignored. It would be interesting to see if the governor would dedicate state police resources to citations if many counties in this state started making these declarations and businesses opened up.

Still not the worst part of their "presentation.". The correct answer to that is Suzy Kolber and all the NFL retirees. MNF needs a top to bottom house cleaning, *starting*, not avoiding, the creative department. Light the whole house on fire, burn it to the ground, ensure there are no survivors. Otherwise, they are just repacking the mediocrity, hoping you won't care.

Both the feds (what virus? there's nothing to worry about!) and the state of Pennsylvania (this is a super virus, it's going to murder everyone) have somehow managed to botch the pandemic response in uniquely different ways. I like that Pennsylvania has a pediatrician making the decisions on pandemic response. Not an epidemiologist from Penn or Jeff or UPMC or perhaps a committee of infectious disease specialists from a state with like 10+ academic medical centers. Nope, we've got a pediatrician from Hershey doing it.

I think the big movie twist is the Gates foundation, along with some US universities are deeply involved with the Wuhan lab and riding shotgun on pressuring the WHO. I think he's personally deep on this. I don't think the Chinese knew the depths of the research in Wuhan until the accident but I'll bet Gates did. He found a willing partner to push the limits in research and it backfired.

Another vote for Cornelius Bennett.

The GOP doesn't want to discuss anything Joe Biden yet. The furor over Tara Reade now is coming from unhappy Democrats attempting the Hail Mary pass. In many ways, the GOP is likely fine with Biden or Clinton as an opponent. He's going to wear down once let out of the basement and she's literally more unlikeable than Trump and that's hard to do.

These governors push...push...push...

I think Cam Newton will struggle to find work in the NFL in 2020 because unless he's changed his diet/fitness regimen back to what's required to fuel a body that can take the beating the NFL game provides, no NFL team is going to bother.

On a strategic level, don't give the opposition easy buckets. If he wears a mask for the 20 minute visit, there's no story. That's the real idiot part. On a leadership level, he's the face of the virus task force visiting virus patients in a hospital. Since we're all going to get back to work and school with these things on whether we like it or not, lead by example.

The people in this administration are just so dumb. When everyone in the room is wearing a mask and you're telling the nation to wear them and the press is there.... Yet there *you* are, defiantly not wearing one... That's calling in the artillery on your own position.

Why are people surprised the Packers and Eagles drafted quarterbacks that have some talent? Quarterbacks get hurt and they like to retire suddenly. A team's championship aspirations often depend on how much you paid attention to your backup plan at quarterback. The whole problem with the Packers way of doing things is that the entire enterprise lived and died on Aaron Rodger's ability to stay healthy. It was so fragile.

Can we stop trying to make A.J. Green happen?

Absolutely. Still don't buy a word Tyson or Smithfield are saying publicly about what's going on inside their plants.

Eh. They are doing this on purpose. I have a hard time buying this from a company that has lobbied intensively to enter the Chinese market in the last decade. What's next, some Chinese companies offering to ride to the rescue?