Miyagi-Do Karate

For any self-respecting Bills fan, that hit is very important to pull up on YouTube and watch every few months.

Yeah, you’re right. I think I was mostly referring to his driver— he has been a mess off the tee with that. But his irons and short game have been pretty good. Mahomes really doing a nice job with his short game too, esp putting. I will say that it is interesting to see his chipping— he is really wristy, but it seems to work.

Golf can humble even these great athletes. JA looking like a mess out there— I have been there!

Re Tua, I bet they define a check down as a pass less than x yards to a RB, or at least as the second read. Tua was throwing 3-yard lasers to his receivers as his first read.

good points. Can’t really realistically simulate or practice a crisis situation like this.

thats what I was thinking. very sad. Like others have said, Goodfellas is an iconic movie and he was a star in it.

Didn’t realize how big he is. 6 feet tall and 190 pounds. That’s Diggs’s size. Seems like he can easily play outside.

I don’t quite understand still how the shooter got into the school. In our schools, all the doors are locked during the day. I think most schools started doing this 5+ years ago.

that is exactly right. He probably saw the money and the location of the city, and was like, “okay, trade me there.” it kind of reminds me of when we almost signed McKissick and he kept referring to us as the “buffalos.” Some of these NFL players don’t seem to really football at all.

they really have tweedle dee and tweedle “dumb” over there in Miami.

Haha— context matters. Before praising Tua for throwing one of the “prettiest balls” Hill has seen, Hill made it clear that he came to Miami with low expectations. “At first, I thought it was going to be something crazy, the ball going all over the place,” Hill said, “but Tua actually has probably one of the prettiest balls I’ve ever caught in my life. It’s very catchable. I don’t want to continue because the more I talk, the more it sounds weird. Tua is a very accurate quarterback. That’s all I’m going to say.” https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/05/25/tyreek-hill-admittedly-had-low-expectations-for-tua-tagovailoa/

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — Twice on Monday at Bills camp, E.J. Manuel dropped back and launched deep, soft throws high in the air. Twice they nestled easily into receivers’ hands, including a 53-yard strike to fellow rookie Da’Rick Rogers. Beautiful throws. Just the right touch, and Manuel threw both balls only when his man had a step on the cornerback. That’s the essence of a good lofted deep ball: You throw it deep enough where only your guy can get it, and high enough so the receiver can adjust his speed to the flight path of the ball. https://www.si.com/.amp/nfl/2013/07/31/ej-manuel-buffalo-bills-camp

This is the time of year when the team controls all the media. I have my doubts.

Pretty sobering. my only response would be to hope that these stats reflect more of the “average” NFL player. A lot of the NFL “elite” tore their ACL’s and went onto have productive careers. Von Miller and Darrell Revis both come to mind.

I am no boxing expert. But the Muhammad Ali hands down, bobbing style doesn’t appear to be the most effective self-defense strategy. Even Mr. Miyagi is going to be blocking those punches.

The comments in that twitter thread are gold. i hear you! That said, even a lot of these pro athletes are like us regular folk too. I remember chatting with this one retired NFL lineman a few years back. He was a semi-starter and had probably a 8-year career. He was basically exhausted— said his wife worked full time now and the deal they made was he would be the stay at home dad when he retired.

haha— true. He can probably turn over duties to the Au Pair.

Wow, mitch has a nice wife— she just had a baby a few weeks ago! The idea of me asking to play golf even on a public course 5 minutes from my house with a newborn in the house would have been produced uproarious laughter from my wife.

haha— I need to confirm with my wife too. Her knowledge of trashy reality TV is much deeper than mine, if that is even possible. I think she watched Kristen C. In the old Laguna Beach shows and spin-offs, plus the recent one with her and Cutler.

If you all are including TV, Mandy Moore (as the elderly version of the mom) this past year on “This is Us” was phenomenal. She has to be winning an Emmy.

I am not a big Tom Hanks fan, but his performance in Cast Away is epic, and he was totally robbed out of an Oscar. I think Russell Crowe got it for Gladiator, which is an absolute joke if you look at both movies now in hindsight.

Pat Morita in the Karate Kid. Sorry, I had to! (Although I think he was nominated for an academy award for it).

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i hear you. When my issues were popping up, I would play through the pain. Then, I just realized it wasn’t worth the risk and shut everything down for a while to get better. I also made the decision that I can’t overuse my Achilles. So, I cut out all running and really any exercise I didn’t enjoy, and I also cut back on how much bball I played. My issues started happening when I thought I was Superman and would play a rec league game at night and then pickup ball the next morning. So no more of that. The other thing I do is basically wear these Achilles braces any time I am doing any sort of running or even hiking.