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TheBrownBear

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  1. My hunch is that Zay will get a slap on the wrist and end up fine in the long run. 

     

    I mentioned this anecdote in another thread, but when I was in college back in the late 90's I liked to smoke a little pot now and then. I wasn't a stoner or druggie or anything like that. Just a generally responsible kid who liked to chill out 2-3x a week in the evening after studying. My dormmate, however, was THE weed dealer for all of the football and basketball players on campus, so we had a lot of different dudes running through there. He had one friend in particular, a 6'9" basketballer, who was crazy and eventually flunked out of school due to his drug habits.  Unbeknownst to me, he had been in my room during the day, smoked the rest of my stash, and refilled my bag later on with wet (weed with PCP). That night, after my roommates had fallen asleep, I fired up a bowl and was going to eat a bowl of cereal and play some video games before bed.  Things went bad very quickly and I had some very disturbing visual and auditory hallucinations, saw a demonic skeleton in my cereal, believed I was doomed to die and even tried to open up my ninth story window to jump out and escape.  Luckily my roommates were able to calm me down and I was lucid enough to comprehend that I was having a bad trip, so they were able to keep me cool long enough for the effects to wear off.  I was basically fine the next day and able to attend class, etc.  It sounds funny now, but it was very terrifying at the time.  

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  2. 4 minutes ago, billsfan89 said:

    Honestly who knows what drugs he took. It could be anything from overdoing it on edibles to synthetics, to mixing various drugs. Everyone's body and mind do have a different reaction to different drugs. From a medical perspective, most freakouts like Zay's are usually caused by the drug causing anxiety and then the anxiety being exasperated by an unfamiliar mental and physical state caused by the drug. So in Zay's case, it might not have even been something crazy like Spice or a synthetic drug. It could honestly anything that has potiental for an adverse reaction. 

     

    True. He was in California, where you can just go to the store and grab edibles. I've given myself an extremely uncomfortable anxiety/panic attack before by ingesting an entire 150g cookie. Not fun at all. Edibles have a high potential for really adverse effects. 

  3. Best wishes to Zay.  I really hope this is just a one off bad reaction to something he took, and not indicative of a more serious issue.  I actually had a somewhat similar, basically acute psychotic, episode in college due to unwittingly taking something that I never would have if I had known what it was.  I was basically fine the next day and never had a similar issue.  I hope this is sort of what Zay had happen to him and he can quickly move on from this.  Either way, my thoughts are with the young man. 

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  4. It's strange how much some people still hate Trent Edwards.  Count me among those who believe he was absolutely a different player after that hit.  He was never a vertical passer, but early in his career he was very willing and able to take shots into the intermediate part of the field.  He was a West Coast Offense player and got the ball out quick, generally speaking, but that doesn't mean checking down.  Something clearly got screwed up with his ability to process what was in front of him after that game.  Watch film of the games leading up to the hit and then watch the game he played against the Monday night game he played against the Browns later that season.  He clearly lost his ability to process what was in front of him.  After that Browns game, I knew his career was finished.  He played some statistically good games after that, but he never looked the same.  He looked timid, fragile and lost.

  5. 6 minutes ago, kdiggz said:

    this is interesting to me.  horrible mechanics, sloppy footwork, poor ball security, 21 fumbles, but you think he's the best since Luck?  can you elaborate?  nothing i see on video makes me think he will be more than a game manager at the next level.  there are people that agree with you, he's ranked as #1 or #2 in a lot of mocks.  i just can't wrap my head around it

     

    Yeah, I'm left wondering the same.  He seemed to really regress last year.  I don't see much at all.  USC was a stacked preseason top-5 team and he could only lead them to a 3 loss season?  Josh Rosen averaged over 380 yard/games in games that he started and finished.  And that's with one of the worst o-line and receiving groups in the country.

  6. 52 minutes ago, MDH said:

    his propensity to force things when its better to just throw the ball away.

     

    I'm a UCLA alumnus and this was the biggest problem with his game.  He'll throw some absolute head scratchers under pressure.  If you give him a clean pocket, there isn't a better passer at the college level.  He's one of the best pure passers to come out in quite awhile.

  7. I absolutely believe the plan is to move into the top-5 and draft a qb.  It seems pretty clear after the Tyrod and Glenn trades and our focus on D in FA.  However, I could see come scenario where the asking price to get into the top-5 is deemed to be just too high,  or there's a couple of surprise picks in the first 4 that causes our qb targets to drop and we sit around and grab a Baker Mayfield or Mason Rudolph further down in the first round.

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