jrober38

If you think they'll be sending small businesses a cheque I dunno what to tell you. The odds of that happening, and all the money not going to massive corporations seems slim to none.

Agreed. As I said in my first post, BOTH sides are to blame. The Dems are asking for too much socially, and the GOP is asking for another corporate bailout package. In this case their bailout package is a secret, and we'll find out who received the funds right around or probably just after the election which as a proposal is absurd. Both sides are playing politics. It's a joke.

Playing Devil's advocate it presents a great opportunity for Republicans to bail out their donors. The fact that payments don't need to be disclosed for 6 months is highly suspicious. It's like they don't want people to know who got the bail outs until right around the election or something...

It'll be interesting to see how the COVID-19 pandemic develops over the next two weeks. I feel like there's a decent chance that Republicans begin pushing to reopen the economy even though it will mean the loss of dramatically more life than if things had been kept shut. Keeping things shut will likely result in an economic collapse though, with the trade off being fewer hospitals overwhelmed and more lives saved.

Both sides are guilty of playing politics. The Dems are pushing through overly socialist policies, and the Republicans aren't backing down from corporate bailouts (they won't give up giving Mnuchin a $500 billion fund to bailout businesses and not having to disclose who was bailed out until 6 months from now). The deal both sides are angling for is horrible.

I've yet to see any data that breaks down when passes were dropped so I have to go off team completion percentage. Josh threw 90% of our passes this year and I'll use the Washington Post's stats for drops by team. I can't see how many passes each QB had dropped. Adjusting for drops the Bills completed 63.4% of their passes. 299 of 513 becomes 325 of 513. The only teams lower than that were Cincinnati, Cleveland, Tampa (62.2%), and Detroit (62.5%). Teams that winded up just higher were Miami (64.9%), Carolina (63.9%), Indy (63.5%). Any way you slice it it was bad. None of those teams had a passing game that anyone would consider "good" a year ago.

The stock market is screaming that things will not be back to normal by November...

The entire concept of professional football is incredibly flawed. The bust rate for first round QBs is well above 50%. You're acting as though the NFL has a solid track record when evaluating, drafting and paying big money to Quarterbacks. That couldn't be farther from the truth.

You don't seem to get it. Go adjust each teams completion percentage by the number of drops. The Bills were still bottom 5. Unless you only want to adjust for the passes Bills receivers dropped, and not the ones other teams dropped, what you're saying doesn't make sense.

Then I'll come up with a new idea. ?

Yup. That was me. Weren't you the guy who really wanted us to draft Blaine Gabbert 3rd overall in whatever year he came out? We've all made mistakes. Literally every single one of us. That's the nature of throwing your neck out on a position that busts like 70% of the time in the first round. I understand what an average is. I've looked at every QB in the NFL's completion percentage adjusting for drops. Josh is still bottom 5.

Why did the Rams pay Goff? Why did the Eagles pay Wentz? Why did the Vikings pay Cousins? If there's one thing the NFL is good at it's making bad decisions at the QB position. I've looked into. Adjusting for drops he's still bottom 5 in the NFL if you do the same for every QB. When you start adjusting for drops, every QB in the NFL has better stats.

It's very hard to find an elite QB. Recently it hasn't been particularly difficult to find a base level starter. I don't see much difference between the 11th best guy and the 25th best guy in the NFL. I think at that point it mostly boils down to the supporting cast around them. If we invest heavily in our supporting cast, I think it's reasonable to expect another first round QB to be able to come in here and have some sort of success. If we invest big dollars in a QB who can't carry a team once other positions have been stripped down due to that contract, I think you can get into trouble long term. Just my two cents.

We have to decide by this time next year.

I think QB could become e the new RB of the NFL. Draft a guy, keep him on his rookie deal and then trade him for picks and draft another one. Recent history shows it's very risky to pay guys who aren't truly elite.

We have a year to figure it out which is good. I think he needs to improve a lot. At his current level, I don't think he warrants the $30 mil/year he'll likely ask for. Recent history has shown that paying non elite QBs has major effects on that team's ability to win football games after the new contract kicks in.

Would be nice if this sentiment was actually based on reality.

If Josh is bottom 5 in most passing categories again do you stand pat at QB?

That we shouldn't draft a new QB next year to avoid paying him $30+ mil a year.

This isn't going away anytime soon. I think even if the stay at home orders are removed, social distancing will exist until there's a vaccine and that won't be until next year. I don't expect there to be any live sports this year. Cramming 60+ thousand people into a stadium doesn't seem like it's going to be a great idea anytime soon.

I own multiple firearms. I have no belief that I'll have to use them. I didn't edit anything.

That's why it has to come from the Federal Government. Europe is already doing it. No rent payments due, no mortgage payments due, no interest on your credit cards, no utility bills. Just stay in your damn house. That's what the US needs to do, and will eventually do. That's the end game. Just need to decide when to get there.

Why does China matter? Can you even leave China right now? No one new is getting into the US from anywhere in the world. The border is completely closed. What's happening elsewhere is completely irrelevant at this point.

It's getting exponentially worse. Hospitals aren't even at capacity yet. Soon they won't be able to treat new patients because they'll be out of ventilators and just like in Italy and Spain people will be left dying in hospital hallways. This is a disaster that's incredibly hard to wrap your head around.

I imagine most businesses can survive if they know they'll be reopening in 45 days. Forcing restaurants, hotels and airlines to indefinitely operate in the red doesn't make any sense. The restaurant, hotel and airline industries are all going out of business unless something drastic is done.