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With McD calling the D signals this coming season, what do you think will look different over Frazier calling the shots? I think we’ll see our corners playing up on WRs more to keep them from getting into their routes. And I think we’ll see a lot more stunts up front to free up the pass rush.

He’s a solid DT with flashes of greatness. Glad we’re keeping him around.

Well done Bandits! My nieces took us to a playoff game last year when we were in town. Loved the action; I’d get season’s in a heartbeat if I still lived in town.

And Tucker gets clicks now. Just like he planned it.

I think he had long Covid. And if so that affects a lot of his physical activity.

Forget just football. He may be the GOAT for sports in general. Watching him when I was a kid was something special.

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Can’t believe I forgot that. Thanks.

He belongs but he quit on Ralph twice. So it’s never going to happen.

The Wall has always included both in filed and off field. OJ was so good on field the off field did not take him off. I understand the desire for many to have him removed.

Bills: Tasker obviously, Ruben Brown, and from the glory days Saimes. Others: Otis Taylor

I don’t use the labels you use because the issue is not binary; it is more complex. I am not for abortion as a means of convenient birth control. I am for more readily available contraception and education of our youth on the seriousness of entering into sexual relationships and the use of contraceptives. I am for making adoption laws more uniform such that it is a more reasonable option for those with unintended pregnancies (although adopted kids can then have issues which are largely ignored). I do not endorse termination up to birth, certainly not once viability outside the uterus is possible. I endorse that medical decisions be made by a patient and physician without interference. I’ll end my contribution here.

Different opinions, yes. But they don’t have expertise in my area. Just like I can have an opinion on a question in physics but it would not be as informed as a physicist’s. And why I would defer to him if her. My view on when human life begins? It is a philosophical question. Because we are eutherian mammals I think a logical place to start considering the question us implantation. But because twinning can occur until the primitive streak stage a unique entity doesn’t really occur till then. Then you get into when formation of maternal/fetal circulation is established, neural activity, ability to exist outside the mother, and so on. I take the view that it is a continuum. As I have described there is no defined moment of conception. A real problem with society today is the refusal to accept facts and to have them help form opinion.

You cannot scientifically prove or disprove when human life begins because you cannot apply the scientific method to the question. What experiments would you design? What controls? What data would you gather? About 40 peer reviewed articles in different journals. An NIH New Investigator award for research in sperm-egg fusion. Director of clinical IVF labs for over 49 years. By the way some of your references were textbooks. They aren’t peer reviewed.

Which is the realm in which the question of when human life begins belongs.

I do reproductive biology and IVF for a living. There are very few people in the world who have the knowledge base I have in the area including scientists in other fields. Not bragging, just reality. I would defer to physicists if it’s a physics question, I suggest you defer to a reproductive biologist when discussing questions of reproduction.

I do IVF for a living and have been a reproductive biologist for over 40 years. Here's some biologic facts. There is no moment of conception; fertilization is a continuous process that begins when the sperm first contacts the cells surrounding the egg at ovulation and ends at syngamy when the chromosomes from the egg and sperm align just before the first embryonic cleavage division. That is fact. Entry of the sperm into the egg following sperm-egg fusion (and I have published a number of papers of sperm-egg fusion, does not mean the beginning of life because the fertilization process may not be completed. We know this from IVF where we commonly inject sperm directly into the egg to achieve fertilization (a process known as ICSI). Even when one directly places the sperm inside the egg fertilization does not occur about 15% of the time on average. So there is no discreet part of the fertilization process where you can say life begins. Some say life begins when the sperm enters the egg because a unique genetic identity is formed. That is not true, and we know it is not true because of the existence of identical twins, each of which are unique human entities and each of which derive from the same fertilized egg. Another biologic fact is that many fertilized eggs, either in nature or during IVF, do not continue developing post completion of the fertilization process. Human embryos commonly stp growing at the 4-8 cell stage because it is at that stage where the embryonic genome is activated and then controls further development. That is a sensitive point and many embryos cannot pass this stage; about 40-50% in the IVF setting, and it varies based on the patient. Human are eutherian mammals; they require the formation of a placenta for maternal-fetal communication and development to term. Placental development only occurs if the embryo implants into the uterine lining, and that happens about 20% of the time in any given month for couples trying to conceive. The other 80% of the time either fertilization does not occur, the embryo does not develop to the point where it can implant, or the embryo develops to implantation (blastocyst) stage but fails to implant because of dissynchrony with the uterine lining. So while an embryo has the POTENTIAL to become a fetus, and deserves respect and our best efforts to support the embryo to do so, its potential can only be reached with successful implantation. Thus one could make an argument that the debate on when human life begins should start at implantation (but even then twinning can occur post-implantation). One last point. Science proves or disproves things base on use of the scientific method. You make an observation, form a hypothesis to explain your observation, then you must experimentally test your hypothesis to determine of the hypothesis should be accepted or rejected. And this is why science cannot tell you when human life begins. There is no way to design experiments to prove or disprove that hypothesis. Thus, the question remains, and rightly so, a moral and/or religious and/or ethical question to be debated in those forums. These are the biologic facts of fertilization and pre-implantation development. Again I do this for a living, have done it for 40 years, and while I don't usually come to this side of the board I always weigh in on these kinds of discussion so actual facts are brought to bear.

He has said he is all in, and I don’t think showing up at one horse race on one day in a lime colored suit changes his work ethic. He needs to constantly improve, as do we all at whatever our chosen field may be. But even for us non-athletes we get to have a little fun every once in a while.

Well, because he said he’s all in this year. Oh but I get it now. If you hear a Chris Simms video with a guy that we should take as Gospel but if Josh says he’s all in that we should question because he showed up at a horse race. Am I there watching him every day? No, but the difference is I don’t pretend that I am nor that other guys are more invested than he is as if I have some inside info.

If you don’t think he is working on his conditioning and such, making sure his elbow is ready to go, then you live in a fantasy world. And it means that attending a horse race does not destroy one’s ability to play great football.

You don’t have a freaking clue what they’re doing on a regular basis. Not a single damn clue. You just like to pretend you’re more knowledgeable than the next guy. It’s like that guy who started this nonsense thread talking about how he doesn’t like Diggs personally, as if he has some personal interactions with the man. Mahomes is at the same race and nobody says a freaking thing. Josh is there and he gets criticized for modeling? For not being all in? That is pathetic.

No one on this or any other NFL team’s message board has the first damn clue about what other QBs are doing or not doing today, yesterday, or tomorrow when it comes to what they do in the off-season. Except that Mahomes was at the same horse race as Josh on Saturday.

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I cannot imagine why you would move an All Pro LB to another position.

Great news!