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25 minutes ago, ThurmanThomasEnglishMuffin said:
Some good DBs in the twilight of their careers available for depth. Many with significant snaps from 2018-2020. I haven't seen any signings yet.
I am not proposing the following could be replacements for starters, but could add some solid depth. I know PFF is persona non grata here, but it's one way to measure player ability
https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-roster-cuts-tracker-2021
POS-NAME-(Snaps 2018-2020)-PFF Grade
CB - Desmond Trufant (1906) - 64.4
CB - Rasul Douglas (1868) - 64.2
CB - Prince Amukamara - (1869) - 78.5
CB - Pierre Desir (2257) - 66.0
S - Clayton Geathers (1178) - 73.9
S - Will Parks (1349) - 64
S - Tony Jefferson (1211) - 66.8
S- Ha Ha Clinton-Dix (2091) - 81.2
Others available:
CB Dre Kirkpatrick
CB Richard Sherman
Ha ha Clinton Dix was a high school teamate of Matt Milano, so there is some familiarity there.
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11 hours ago, Sundancer said:
I am surprised all the unvaccinated are dying. I thought hydrochloroquine was keeping them safe.
Masks are more than theater. They reduce transmission of course. Policies didn't work tough. I'm like you. Don't mask anywhere unless required or requested by a business. I will likely N95 at Bills games just because I spend a lot of time taking care of elderly relatives and that's a high transmission setting
The N95 is effective but the cloth masks are theatre in most cases. I have to mask in my classroom where kids will be with me for 45 minutes at a time, the cloth mask is not protecting them. If I came to work sick with Covid symptoms the entire room would be infected before 1st period with or without cloth mask. I am curious why you are obsessed with HCQ? It is a benign medicine that people have taken literally weekly for years with no ill effects. Is it because Trump was wrong and it was not the miracle cure?
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8 hours ago, FireChans said:
They had the 31st defense in the NFL.
I take the entire 2020 Chicago Bears roster over the entire 2020 Jags roster. Despite the "top end running back" lol.
I was going to argue more but upon further research of Minshew I realized he was not the Jags problem last year. I still take Tribiskey because he has already had a pro bowl year and been to playoffs but Minshew in Philly might be good also.
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6 minutes ago, FireChans said:
Call me crazy but I think Gardner Minshew is a better QB than Mitchell.
You pick the guy who was 1-7 last year despite having a top end running back. Mitch has been to the playoffs twice and a pro bowl despite having limited weapons around him. I take Mitch every day.
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The Steelers offensive line is not set with 5 decent starters, I doubt Covid will cause us as many issues as that
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1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:
Dude
I literally mean you have nothing to worry about because you are vaccinated
The fact they have you in masks still should be infuriating or any other mitigation for that matter.
part of the issue is that your initial statement reads different than it would sound as you spoke it. your overall point is true though, i am vaccinated, not high risk, and I don't wear my mask unless required. at my daughters volleyball game this week some kids on the court were wearing masks, which is all political theatre. I will protect me and you protect you, which is always the safest way to be.
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On 8/23/2021 at 4:53 PM, LeGOATski said:
Red helmet, blue jersey, white pants, white socks is a really clean look I like to do in Madden....
It concerns me that you and I agree on this- it probably means we both have bad taste
1 minute ago, IronMaidenBills said:What about the helmet I linked to? A white buffalo looks much much better on a blue helmet. Actually looks fresh.
Yours is good but not with a blue jersey, if it was the all whites this helmet might look great.
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On 8/23/2021 at 2:23 PM, Draconator said:
I wouldn't mind seeing these
I don't like these but the blue background with red standing Buffalo might look good, but this is rpugh
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1 hour ago, Sundancer said:
Look at the above graph that is up to date from just a week ago. Israel wants more but it is doubtful it needs more.
Their severe hospitalizations and deaths are among unvaccinated. Just like here.
***** that. I want all 9 of them and 2 playoff wins.Not sure what you are referencing since you don't have any graph but in Israel of the hospitaized 59 percent were fully vaccinated, according to an Aug. 16 article from Science that cited national data tracked by Israel's largest health management organization.
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On 8/25/2021 at 4:57 PM, Governor said:
I have no problem selling my jet ski, that I don’t even use, if it’s for the greater good.
You’re a real mess dude. I think you need to fly in and hang out with some “real” people. No one cares about these things.
Why do you get to decide what is for the "greater good"? You can sell your jet ski right now and donate the proceeds to your chosen charity and help the "greater good" but you won't because all of your kindness is theoretical. Secondly what kind of dummy believes giving the government money helps the "greater good"?
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On 8/27/2021 at 12:43 PM, B-Man said:
Hey if they distribute it then it will no longer be there slush fund, so what is supposed to do, actually help the common citizen?
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1 hour ago, Sundancer said:
If everyone was vaccinated, barely anyone would be in the hospitals. Deaths would not be above pandemic thresholds. And we wouldn’t be masking (in schools FFS) or even testing except in medical settings and maybe with the most vulnerable. It’s not that hard to understand. It’s not a conspiracy of control. We just have overwhelmed hospitals and medical care.
I am living my life without restrictions right now. I hope to continue but suspect the unvaccinated will be filling northeastern hospitals soon and our ***** governors will react.
Much of this is wrong. And has been proven so many times. The vaccine “limited time” narrative is hugely overblown right now. It remains the best defense because you don’t get Covid and spread it for a longer time to get that immunity.It is amazing how Israel has rising cases despite being the most vaccinated country, and the vaccine lasts longer than the six months but Covid is ravaging my parents retirement community right now when almost all of them got vaccinated in February. The antibodies produced by those who are at high risk drop much faster than those who are low risk. There are several smaller studies that show that the high risk people lose the antibodies quicker and they are consistent.
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20 minutes ago, Bangarang said:
Fields should probably start but you do so with the understanding that he’s likely not going to be very good and the team will struggle because of it. They just don’t have the weapons or online capable of protecting him well.
It’s impossible to get excited or confident with Dalton as your starting QB. You just have to hope that Fields progresses and gives you hope for next season.
If Nagy was in his first year he would start Fields and let him learn this year, like Josh or Manning way back when, but he has to show better than 8-9 or else he will be fired and someone else can use Fields next year. Dalton gives them the best chance week one though Fields give the best chance week 16 if he starts early
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I had my Culturally Based Teaching training, which had an absolutely hilarious moment. As our very liberal black presenter told us how we should not Americanize African and Latino names she Americanized one of our coworkers Polish names. She also made a statement that Africans and Latino culture are not a single culture like white culture.
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On 8/26/2021 at 1:46 PM, Chef Jim said:
And Biden should be reaching out to the community leaders like I mentioned to get them to motivate people to get it done. You know......teamwork!
You're just pissed because it's a great idea and your old man didn't think of it because he has no idea how to lead. Not his fault actually. He's had no real role models in DC in the half a century he's been there to show him what true leadership is.
Carry on Follower
I know I am stupid for believing the Israel government but between my parents needing a booster 6 months after initial jabs and Israel I am gonna say the efficacy of the shots are not all that effective 6 months after the jab.
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36 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Joe Schad is the reporter covering the Dolphins for the Palm Beach post, previously worked for ESPN
One would think, but if I could conditionally buy a house that might or might be liveable for the next 2 years and you let me make the conditions protective enough of my interests, I might go for it - if it was a much bigger and nicer house than the one I'm currently living in
You make a good argument but the report is so different. But seeing as my point is the report is crap your response is more likely than the actual report.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/88-old-professor-georgia-resigned-183510351.html
This is absurdly unhealthy expecting 18 year olds to change their behaviors to protect a 88 year old who needs to protect himself. This professor should have retired when he needed everyone else on the planet to protect him. I would fully explain to my parents that if they expect complete strangers to go out of their way so they could feel better they should not be in that situation
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I read on some news site that Texans are team that leaked the info that Dolphins are front runners. They could be front runners but also could be because they are only team in discussion at this point. No team is trading much for a dude who likely will not play for at least one whole season if not gone forever.
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1 hour ago, GunnerBill said:
The game plan McDermott and Frazier used first time round against the Chiefs last year was a good plan. I get it that fans hate it. A lot of them grew up when football was about toughness first and toughness last and having yards piled up against you on the ground was an affront to your manhood. But that isn't the NFL anymore. It so nearly worked too. An inch away from a forced fumble that would have likely won us the game and then a blown coverage on a broken play on a 3rd down scramble drill. The NFL used to be a run and stop the run league. It is now a pass and stop the pass league.
That game against KC was not that our defense was bad against the run, just that it we chose to be better against the pass. Sometimes you have to pick your poison and we did it properly, despite Josh having a poor game by his 2020 standard we were one play from winning. Your point is why this study is so flawed.
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The issue is that football, especially defenses, is not based around one defender. Rams had Jalen Ramsey and Aaron Donald and we put up 28 points on them in just over 30 minutes of football. It is better to have 3 levels of great players than half elite and half average. The definite statement is that edge rushers are more important than run stuffers today.
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If the Dolphins trade for him when the NFL suspended Deke for 6 games on the word of a single women they are dumb. Watson should be not allowed to play until this legal issue is resolved and then we can discuss reinstating him.
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41 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Lol like they didn't know this 12 months ago.
They've been lying since January 2020. Nothing shocking here:
Infectious disease expert: Americans must 'recalibrate' vaccine expectations
COVID-19 vaccines won't eliminate the coronavirus, "no matter how many booster shots the United States gives," Céline R. Gounder writes for The Atlantic. But that's no reason to panic or lose confidence in them.
Grounder, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at New York University's Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital in New York City, thinks public health messaging got out of hand early on during the vaccine drive, especially when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published real-world evidence that showed that two doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were 90 percent effective at preventing infections, as opposed to just disease.
After that, (low info moron) folks got excited, believing that full vaccination status meant you could only very rarely get infected or transmit the disease. But now that the efficacy appears to be lower, there's a lot of anxiety.
Grounder says Americans simply need to "recalibrate our expectations about what makes a vaccine successful." While "the public discussion of the pandemic has become distorted by a presumption that vaccination can and should eliminate COVID-19 entirely," that's not an attainable standard, she argues. And it's one that makes "each breakthrough infection" look "like evidence that the vaccines are not working," even though they're performing "extremely well" and reducing what may have been serious infections to either mild or asymptomatic ones. Read Grounder's full piece at The Atlantic.
The issue is twofold in my opinion: they promised the vaccine would allow back to normal life which is untrue and the efficacy of the vaccine after 6-8 months is not great. My parents live in a retirement community and Covid is raging there the past two weeks amongst people who were vaccinated in February. This community never had a major Covid outbreak until the past few weeks.
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59 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
No it is not the practice of medicine. If anyone actually denied care to a patient based on race in our network they’d get bounced so quickly their head would spin.
Where DEI benefits our organization is helping all employees understand you can sometimes exert unconscious behaviors or biases that can negatively impact the workplace and thus impact our care of patients. You kind of give away your own bias about lumping DEI together with CRT by focusing your question on race. DEI does not do so; DEI helps understand that we need to recognize potential biases against anyone: women, men, LGTBQ community, immigrant populations, difference in employment status, differences in socioeconomic status. And yes race.
I’ll give you an example of where DEI has helped our organization: relationship of doctors and nurses. We had an issue with some docs just ripping nurses to shreds (male or female) because they viewed them as underlings, as uneducated. When DEI education was introduced as mandatory every year, docs realized their implicit bias. Relationships between nursing staff and physicians improved. Our patient care improved, patient’s evaluation of their care improved, and that improved our Medicare receivables.
My point is that DEI and SEL (socioeconomic learning) is much more that race. Much more. You ask how it can affect schooling. Because kids should understand that they all get a shot at a good education, that biases against their fellow students are not healthy, and because when their education is completed and they enter the work force understanding that will be essential. I can give you a couple practical examples. The city where I live is middle to upper middle class, and about 80% of students are white, 5% Asian, 10% black, and the remaining other minorities primarily Hispanic. Many kids are well off economically, but about 10% of the total student body is on assisted lunch and other programs because they are too poor to afford things like lunch or backpacks or other learning essentials. DEI teaching in our schools has helped the more affluent kids understand the difficulties of those classmates, and in return we see the more affluent kids on their own start programs to raise money at football games, choir concerts, and such to help out their fellow students. Those students benefit from that, they have a better attitude towards learning and thrive. It’s a great thing to see.
The schools aren’t perfect yet. There is still bullying based on race, kids are still called the N word. My daughter before she graduated was teased because she’s Asian, and people would assume she was smart and that her parents made her study 8 hours a night, not knowing she’s adopted. But overall by inclusion of DEI and SEL principals in the schools we see a more inclusive learning environment where the contributions and talents of each kid are celebrated and rewarded.
So that is why I keep talking about the DEI and SEL concepts. Because I see value in them, and because I am tired of seeing people who are not proponents of CRT lump everything together. I have read some on CRT and it has nothing to do with the other concepts. CRT is a theory and theories are just that. My impression of CRT is that it reminds me of scientific papers that I review and reject; that the authors have a theory and then seek to bend data to fit their theory, rather than let data drive the formulation of a theory. I suspect the original proponents of CRT did just that, and as such I’m skeptical.
Sorry for the lengthy reply, but I hope it clarifies my position. Go Bills!
That is well said and not what I thought you meant by Diversity training. That kind of training is good and helpful. We do it at my school every year but it is not wrapped in that name. I will agree that CRT is very different than what you have described. CRT is a Theory similar to phrenology, it was presented by finding only evidence that supports your beliefs and ignoring the majority of evidence that shows it is incorrect.
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7 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
They are being bastardized by those who don't like CRT. They try to lump them together with CRT and they are not the same thing.
We do DEI training every year and it has benefitted our health care network.
How has diversity training improved healthcare? If you mean being aware that certain ethnics have certain diseases and conditions that more prevalent I can see it otherwise what are they teaching you?
It's Time to Mandate Vaccines
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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To anyone who truly does not understand the objection to the vaccine mandate let me explain. One of my son's friends currently has a mild case of Covid but about 2 months ago, before I got my vaccine, his parents lectured me and several others how we were irresponsible not to have it and went to great lengths to explain how we bordered on immoral. These parents took there child who is struggling in school on one of the test cruises last week, where he got Covid, and then allowed him to go to unmasked to meet to friends on Monday knowing he had a sore throat. We all make selfish decisions in life but the rank hypocrisy sometimes is astounding.