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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?
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3 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
Stop with the nonsense. I said infection and hospitalization rates are going up in the 18-38 age group and specifically said mortality rates are not going up at the same rate. Grad level stats classes; I don’t need to defend my math abilities to someone who can’t read.
You predicted that a player would DIE this year- not get sick. If you want to walk back your prediction as hyperbole that is one thing but don't pretend I was not responding to what you said. It is a remote chance any NFL player dies this year.
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3 hours ago, Sheneneh Jenkins said:
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm not sure why you quoted me lol. Unless got posts mixed up? anyway, yeah I agree
Grabbed the wrong post- sorry. I saw yours and then meant to grab someone else's post. Yeah I agree with you obviously.
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Abdul Raouf was a big deal in the 90's when he did it but the king of the NBA was Jordan and the powers that be then decided to make a rule that the players agreed to that all players must stand for the anthem.
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10 minutes ago, Sheneneh Jenkins said:
I'm not sure we are on same page here....First off, Rivers is not a back up nor ever will be, also retired. Second, we been down that road with Fitz. I only suggesting as of now that, imo at least, Mitch gives you the best chance to win enough games til the Starting QB returns. If team has strong surrounding cast then it helps the chances more.
Mitch had a good season and others I think were average. But the Bears team didn't have the best surrounding players with Mitch either. Most were about average.
The surrounding cast is huge for Mitch. People seem to think he had good players around him in Chicago and we saw what they do against our back ups. Mitch was their best offensive player the past 3 years and got them into the playoffs twice. Give the guy his due he is better than Tyrod by a shade.
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5 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
I think you may be basing your analysis on older data not including the delta variant data. The most recent data I've seen indicates that infection and hospitalization rates are rising in the 18-39 year old age group, the vast majority being unvaccinated.
I hope I'm wrong about my prediction, I really do. And the data on the delta variant suggest mortality rates are not rising to the same extent as infection rates. But I think Dawkins this year and Sweeney last year were both very fortunate. Looking at McKenzie's tweet yesterday makes me thing players are refusing to take this virus seriously. It may take a fatality of a player to wake some guys up.
I know you are not able to understand math but I assure you I am applying the numbers properly even I regards to the Delta variant. The idea that fully healthy 25 year olds are dying a lot is simply not true, the younger people being hit are with only a few exceptions have at least one comorbidity and generally multiple. There are a lot of people with these issues but I doubt any are playing in the NFL.
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30 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
I understand the science, and the science is not in quotes. The fact that you put science in quotes shows your ignorance. The data on the delta variant shows that younger people are more prone to getting infected, possibly due to the fact that so many older folk were smart enough to get vaccinated. Will the larger, fatter, D and O linemen be more at risk? Yeah probably. But I didn't say that it would be a WR that dies. I said I predict that an NFL player dies.
Read what is written.
The math says it is unlikely that an NFL player dies. People in good shape without preexisting conditions are in the literal 1 in 100000 chance of dying, if they get Covid. We have less than 2000 players so even if it very single player got Covid the chances of dying from it are remote. Your prediction is based on hysterics not science, which is why it was in quotes.
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53 minutes ago, BillStime said:
Ivermectin - another joke being pushed by @Deranged Rhino (aka @Frat-Train) on his Twitter page.I’m certain there is a a whole thread on this topic at their safe sanctuary hide out - lmao
I know your only goal is to bash Trump but maybe try being accurate and a lot less racist. Or is there another reason you think all the Latino people of south America are a joke?
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27 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
Failure to follow protocols is going to increase the potential for spread of Covid in the locker room. Beasley refuses not only to get vaccinated, but apparently also refuses to wear a mask and refuses to understand the significance of such. His strident views are unfortunately affecting the opinions of other players such as McKenzie and Davis. You see what's happening this week with now 3 WRs not available for practice, along with 2 LB and 2 D linemen.
It is easy to see what will happen from here. This same kind of outbreak will occur during the season and cost us games because key players will not be on the field. And I would also predict that some of these players will be lost for multiple weeks because they will get really sick, like Dawkins did. No NFL team can withstand losing key players, but that's what's going to happen. It has this week, and unless behaviors change it will happen during the season.
Now, I know what you'll ask. If vaccinated people can spread, then why is Beasley wrong? He's wrong because of the nature of the virus and the delta variant. The delta variant is much more infectious, but the data still indicate vaccinated folks are less likely to get infected. The delta variant builds up in high numbers in the upper respiratory region, and that's why even vaccinated folks can pass it for a couple days. But that ability in vaccinated people wanes much more quickly than unvaccinated, and vaccinated folks will be able to return to duty much quicker than unvaccinated. And of course vaccinated people are at much, much, much less risk of significant illness.
I understand McD's frustration. The team I am sure has had experts talk to the players, and they still refuse to get vaccinated, a vaccine where the benefits are huge and the risks are extraordinarily small. But you have players h who other wise trust the medical staff refuse to listen about Covid because the politicians and Internet nut cases have turned a health problem into a stupid political cause. And that is killing people.
I could be wrong, hope I am, but I predict an NFL players dies this season from Covid.
You predict young men who are in physically superior shape will die from Covid? I truly hope all the Dlinemen get the vaccine because they are overweight but for the rest of them the chance of dying is about the same as dying from the flu. People that are of high risk (obese, lung issues, heart issues) are at real risk and should be protected, otherwise you don't understand the "science"
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2 hours ago, 716er said:
Almost as soft as Cole if you think that was a “bashing”If you think Cole is soft you are even stupider than I was insinuating.
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1 hour ago, 716er said:
Easy to bring out the loons
Make a stupid post bashing a Bills player and people make fun of you, not sure what else you expected.
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8 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
Honest to God, people refuse to understand the word mitigation. Cloth masks (again depending on the mask) help prevent spread, they do not completely block it, but they help. The data is irrefutable. Wearing masks is not evil.
Wearing masks is not evil, telling a child that you can't see your friend unless you wear a mask is evil. Especially telling children that not wearing a mask will kill people. And as I said the cloth masks do little and there are a lot of better ways to mitigate the threat in schools.
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5 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
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Anecdotally, I have seen kids interviewed, and I have talked to kids, and what they say is they have no problem wearing masks if it gets them back in school with their friends.
If you give kids the choice "masks or friends" of course they will do what is needed for friends, what an evil way to put it. Cloth masks are not very effective, here in Orange County parents could have opted kids out of masks and the two schools with the most opts outs are amongst the lowest rates. If you want effective masks you need the N95 masks or something more but the cloth masks are political theatre in schools.
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4 hours ago, Doc Brown said:
Good for him. I swore he was from Texas though. Best move Jerry Jones ever made was trading him for assets that eventually took us down in two Superbowls.
He has lived primarily in Texas for quite a while, but has always maintained a home in GA. He will have to do as Hillary did in 2000 but he will be going home.
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2 hours ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:
I was just coming here to post this.
Glad to see we have new blood in office. Perhaps female perspective will help her out state leadership back on track.
That said….we’re to believe the Lt Governor had zero knowledge of her boss sexually harassing employees, and was totally, completely in the dark on the COVID death count? No one warned her, no one raised red flags, she wasn’t interested in looking into the numbers occurring on her watch?
Sure.
Meet the new boss, likely same as the old boss.
Just playing devil's advocate- maybe she assisted in getting him ousted because of his actions. I have no inside information but I want to give her a fair shot
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-teacher-couldnt-vaccinated-because-133051272.html
This kind of stuff is bordering on evil. The Union has no clue if she got the virus from her classroom. Secondly there are still openings at Florida Virtual School for those who don't want to do face to face. Lastly their are ways to keep distanced from students even when in your classroom. This women dying is awful but the implication that she was sent to death because children don't wear masks is wrong.
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11 hours ago, billrooter said:
Does the upper sideline feel really far away Riot have you sat up there?
I have sat in the upper deck first few rows many times in different stadiums and they are my preferred seats for watching football. Biggest issue there can be the sun beating on you. Definitely upper deck sideline is better than any endzone if you want to really watch game.
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I feel very bad for Etienne, even if I thought he was overdrafted, and it sucks to have his career start this way. I don't feel bad for Urban because he is such a tool.
It's Time to Mandate Vaccines
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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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