oldmanfan

I cut pretty much all guys on the D line that can be cut outside of Hughes, and focus on getting speed rushers in here. If the game yesterday told us anything (and which we should have known already) is that you beat teams like KC by relentless QB pressure with your front four. We don't have guys that can do that. I think Milano will get more money than we can pay, so let him go and give that spot to Lee (a former first round pick, may have been miscast as a Jet), or let Phillips have that spot (young, faster). Or draft a guy if you see a good one in round 1 or 2. I definitely resign Marlowe as he is a good third safety. I keep Jackson as my CB#2, keep Wallace and Johnson. I look for a big space eating DT to pair with Star when he comes back. And I bring Luke Kuechly in to mentor Edmunds this coming offseason and preseason. Edmunds has all the physical tools but still needs tutoring on how to read plays. Kuechly was the best ever doing that in the McD schemes. On offense, my priority is to resign Williams at RT. I would probably keep Feliciano and let Morse go. I think our run game was better with Feliciano at C, and Morse is one concussion away from never playing again. If Boettger want to stay on a small contract I keep him, otherwise he is nothing special. So I'll need a G in the draft as Ford plays one spot. Get a big nasty in here for one of the G spots in the draft. Since McD emphasized they need more speed, I would try to restructure Brown and I'd bring McKenzie back and figure out better ways to use him. I look to sign a FA TE, maybe the kid from Tennessee. Or I think about telling Duke to get in the weight room and put on another 20 pounds or so and give him a shot at TE. Again, yesterday and the entire season (the last several season really) show the importance of an athletic TE; we don't have one. Has to be a main priority. I look for a faster RB either as a cap cut or on day 3 of the draft. I think there will be a lot of cap casualties so I think we can fill some positions with vets that get let go and will be amenable to playing on one of the 4 teams in the conference championship games. And then coaching. McD and Beane talk about how the entire organization is evaluated on a daily basis. Last night showed the idea of passive D doesn't cut it against the team we have to beat to make the dance. I think Sean and Leslie need to rethink their approach, commit to a more attacking aggressive D, and then get players who fit.

The reason hydroxychloroquine was taken off the FDA list for Covid is because trials indicated it was ineffective in treating Covid and because there was concern about risk of side effects in those who were trialed on the drug. The drug is designed to treat malaria as well as autoimmune diseases such as lupus. Not every drug is going to work against every disease, of course. It's been a while since I reviewed the material, but if I recall correctly HCQ was being tested as a therapeutic for hospitalized patients that had contracted the disease, and was ineffective in limiting mortality or length of hospitalization, and that the data suggested a higher incidence of significant cardiovascular side effects in patients given the rug. Why the side effects were not seen in patients taking the drug for recognized and approved disease states likely has something to do with things like dosages and the underlying severity of the disease in the Covid patients. Doing clinical trials isn't the easiest thing in the world. I've been involved in a few. Getting patient to sign up knowing they may get placebo is probably the main issue. I can also tell you that the FDA doesn't play games with these things. I sit on an FDA advisory panel, and the data analysis we do is very thorough, and you have to sign umpteen documents to ensure you are not bringing any bias into your work on the panel. Those who believe that HCQ (with our without additional zinc and or vitamin D) is an appropriate preventive medication should design an appropriate trial to test it, get it approved by an appropriate IRB (institutional review board) and begin enrolling patients. Make sure you enroll enough patients in the control and treatment arms to give you an answer, and then submit your data to the FDA. That is how good science and medicine get done.

You win in the trenches. Been that way since football was invented.

Well, let's consider the sources. The individual pictured in the video is a Dr. Gold who apparently was one of the insurrectionists on January 6th. And another member of the group you are referring to is the doctor who famously claimed demon sperm causes endometriosis and tried to defend use of debunked medical approaches for Covid. This is the problem with our country today. In the age of social media, this kind of garbage just gets thrown around without any rational basis to it, and people buy into it. I have been a research scientist and clinical laboratory director for over 40 years. The vast, vast majority of fellow physicians and scientists are like me, we try to design studies in a non biased way, we believe in data, we alter our opinions and theories as new data becomes available, and if we are wrong in an interpretation we say so. And unfortunately like any other profession you have a small sliver of idiots that spew the kind of nonsense you see in the video you provided.

Modena did receive some federal dollars, you are correct there. My bad there. Pfizer did not. My response was directed towards my comment about the Biden administration being judged by vaccine distribution, which it surely will be.

Right. Quit being a partisan hack.

I agree Warp Speed was a good thing. It did not affect either Moderna nor Pfizer as they did not take federal dollars. Biden’s administration will be judged on how effective they are in getting people vaccinated.

What the chief executive has is the responsibility for the response to the virus. And the previous holder of the office did a terrible job, starting with withholding from the public the severity of the pandemic, as was heard on his interview tapes with Bob Woodward. One of my favorite presidents was Truman. He probably made more crucial decisions for the country than most any other president not named Lincoln. And he famously had a sign on his desk saying The Buck Stops Here. And what did Trump say about the pandemic response? I take no responsibility.

I enjoy the dialog we have on many occasions, but you must realize the post you have above is ridiculous, right? You honestly can't believe this is Biden's virus, right? You can't honestly believe that 2.5 weeks is enough time to completely turn things around, right? You can't honestly believe that science isn't the ultimate way to defeat this thing, right? You can't honestly believe they aren't taking steps to get more vaccines out to folks, right? Looking to get more funding to do so, right? Assuming I'm correct on the above, what is the purpose of your post? I have to tell you it makes you look silly.

Two things will fix Edmunds: 1. Get an actual 1 technique DT in front of him again 2. Hire Luke Keuchly as a consultant and have him go over film again and again with Edmunds. Have him there during preseason next year. Edmunds has the tools, he just has to learn the nuances of reading plays and such and since Kuechly played that role to a T with McD in Carolina, he would be the best teacher.

I get boosting the economy when we are in the pandemic crisis we are in. I am a fiscal conservative, but I get it. But do it intelligently. Make sure small businesses and not big corporations get $$. Make sure the unemployed or underemployed get $$. I have been fortunate that my job has not been affected by the crisis; don't send people like me $1400 when so many others have been out of work and can use the $$. If you're going to do this do it with some sense of rationality and proportion. And then give us some kind of idea how , after we conquer the virus, what will be done to pay down the debt. Having close to 25 trillions of dollars of debt is simply untenable.

This is sad. For years, back to when I was a little kid 50 some years ago, I would wait each week for the SI issue to come, and would be out of touch to the rest of the world until I read the entire issue. When I was older and married with kids, they knew Thursday nights for an hour or two they didn't bug Daddy while he was reading his magazine. Such great writers - Deford, Kirkpatrick, King, G Smith, McCallum - and the list goes on. I will really need to think this one through, but my gut says I'll probably pay. Imagining not reading SI just doesn't seem real to me right now.

Coward!

Tell you what. Let's start a new movement. We'll flip a coin, winner gets to run for President and the other takes the VP slot.

Yeah, I wouldn't vote for the fringe on the other side either. What happened to sanity in our country?

I'd be OK with Atkins for a year, although if we're going to go after a vet with a year or two left I'd take Watt first. Sherman is a no for me. We don't need an aged CB; we need more speed there and I want to see Jackson get his chance.

I'm independent. I vote for the individual and do not vote solely for one party or the other. But if this is the way the Republican party is going, and if these two are emblematic of the nominees that will be put up by the Republicans, I won't be voting for any Republicans. Ture republicans values like fiscal conservatism, strong foreign policy, policies that I agreed with, are being usurped by folks like this. Sad to see.

I don't think Ralph was fully calling the shots then. I think he was very much influenced by Litman, who was all about cost savings to protect his investment.

Agree. Milano will not get the huge numbers he may want because of the lower cap this coming season. So maybe we can keep him. And based on Beane's presser, I seriously doubt any of the one year D linemen from last season return.

It would have helped. Sad to see Marty in such decline. I remember watching him as a player back in the '60,s.

There is a lot of fatigue from folks given this has gone on for almost a year now. I live in Indiana, and was driving back from Kentucky a month ago. I stopped to get gas and was going to run in to the convenience store to get a drink. There were a dozen folks in there; one was wearing a mask and not doing so correctly. This virus is highly contagious, and the variants may be even more so. It doesn't take much of a screw up for infection to occur.

We desperately need a true third party option

I have always been of the opinion that you could throw all the backup QBs into a bag, pick one out at random, and he'd have just as good a shot as the next guy in winning a particular game. Barkley is fine; he has great rapport with Josh and knows what Daboll wants by now. And at some point he'll get replaced by Fromm.

I don't understand why everyone is so anxious to push Barkley out.

More power to him. If he goes, then Phillips and Dodson step up and/or draft another kid.