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7 minutes ago, KD in CA said:
I wonder how math and logic questions have been changed to become more appropriate to modern times.
Not all of it is math and logic.
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35.) A synonym of firmament is:
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The Wonderlic Personnel Test doesn't appear to have any value in predicting future NFL performance.
QuoteEmpirical research has supported the validity of GMA as a predictor of job performance in traditional employment settings. However, the results from this study suggest that in the context of professional football, GMA (a) possessed a near-zero relationship with performance across positions and had an occasional significant negative relationship with performance by position, (b) did not differently predict performance by race, and (c) was unrelated to selection in the NFL Draft or the number of games started during an NFL season. Therefore, its use in the NFL Combine is, at best, questionable in nature.
Also note that the test was apparently revised and renamed in 2007 to "containing questions more appropriate to the 21st century" according to Wikipedia.
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Look like they are trying to fix stupid.
QuoteThe NFL's rule making competition's committee is set to finalize and announce a new definition for the league's controversial catch rule, according to the Washington Post. The new rule will get rid of provisions pertaining to the slight movement of the football once it hits the receiver's hands and the going-to-the-ground requirement.
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1 hour ago, Nanker said:
If Vita Vea is there, they could take him.
45 minutes ago, Reed83HOF said:Does he play QB?
No but I hear he eats them for lunch.
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14 minutes ago, BadLandsMeanie said:
But how many times have you seen the starter go down and then be outperformed by the backup? That has happened plenty of times. The coaches down't always know because practice is practice and a game is different.
Trent Green tears ACL in preseason and is replace by backup QB Kurt Warner who goes on to win the Super Bowl in addition to being named the league and Super Bowl MVP.
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29 minutes ago, Hapless Bills Fan said:
Process is one thing, the arm and the talent is another. There's a reason this guy was drafted in the 5th, and failed to unseat Dalton.
OTOH, the Bengals did try to keep him for an extra year. So they must have thought he was worth keeping around. In an ideal world the coaches would always know who the better player is. That of course is not the case. If it were not for Trent Green tearing his ACL Kurt Warner would have spent the 1999 season holding the clip board instead of winning the NFL and Super Bowl MVP awards.
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6 hours ago, Ittakestime said:
Patriots
4 hours ago, rodneykm said:This is exactly where hell end up.
Makes sense. Where else would you go to make a deal with the devil?
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Why is everybody trying to tackle the guy up high?
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20 minutes ago, Captain_Quint said:
Someone ping Don and see what his sources say.
I heard he is in a high level real estate meeting trying to dump some recently acquired property on a guy named Nate.
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Brees is not coming to Buffalo because he doesn't want to sit on the bench behind Brady.
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1 hour ago, Lfod said:
If you think about it. Isn't this all over money in the first place? Keeps getting tagged because they can't reach $$$ terms.
Alternative explanation. He had no intention of reaching terms with the Skins because he saw them as not being a contender. IOW, he didn't want to be there. If so the Jets have no chance and the Vikings would look pretty good.
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10 hours ago, PIZ said:
I was only stating he has 169 k followers. Nothing else.
From the Wayback machine on 1/9/2012 he had 21.5k followers. Then next date available (5/16/2013) he had 113k. On 6/5/2013 his followers went up to 124k. The last date in the archive is 11/9/2016 where the number of followers has increased slighty to 127k.
The number of follower jumps by 11k in less than a month in 2013 with no significant change in the next 3 years and 5 months. Now all of sudden he goes from 127k to 169k in 1 year and 4 months.
Then again some people have been known to buy their way to Twitter fame.
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Doesn't Chris Brown work for the Bills?
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They tell me "Two MPH ball velocity isn't a big difference..."
It's about a yard per second (2.934 feet)In a vacuum.
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2 hours ago, Kirby Jackson said:
We will at some point have the wonderlic results. Those have been a decent indicator of ability to process information.
I think I would do fairly well on the wonderlic (or would have when I was younger). I am absolutely sure I would make a lousy QB.
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If the Bills decide to become a girls field hockey team Im so done with this team
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Flat earth history lesson.
QuoteIt must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat.
A round earth appears at least as early as the sixth century BC with Pythagoras, who was followed by Aristotle, Euclid, and Aristarchus, among others in observing that the earth was a sphere. Although there were a few dissenters--Leukippos and Demokritos for example--by the time of Eratosthenes (3 c. BC), followed by Crates(2 c. BC), Strabo (3 c. BC), and Ptolemy (first c. AD), the sphericity of the earth was accepted by all educated Greeks and Romans.
Nor did this situation change with the advent of Christianity. A few--at least two and at most five--early Christian fathers denied the sphericity of earth by mistakenly taking passages such as Ps. 104:2-3 as geographical rather than metaphorical statements. On the other side tens of thousands of Christian theologians, poets, artists, and scientists took the spherical view throughout the early, medieval, and modern church. The point is that no educated person believed otherwise.
Historians of science have been proving this point for at least 70 years (most recently Edward Grant, David Lindberg, Daniel Woodward, and Robert S. Westman), without making notable headway against the error. Schoolchildren in the US, Europe, and Japan are for the most part being taught the same old nonsense. How and why did this nonsense emerge?
In my research, I looked to see how old the idea was that medieval Christians believed the earth was flat. I obviously did not find it among medieval Christians. Nor among anti-Catholic Protestant reformers. Nor in Copernicus or Galileo or their followers, who had to demonstrate the superiority of a heliocentric system, but not of a spherical earth. I was sure I would find it among the eighteenth-century philosophes, among all their vitriolic sneers at Christianity, but not a word. I am still amazed at where it first appears.
No one before the 1830s believed that medieval people thought that the earth was flat.
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Historical scoring by points/game.
Maybe not very informative but was fun to do.
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2 hours ago, DC Tom said:
I heard from a guy in Dunkirk it was filmed somewhere further east of Buffalo...
I heard he found out about at a high level meeting beforehand and purchased the property prior to the filming.
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Guy has enough money. He could just go out on a boat with a decent telescope and look back at the land. There is a reason those old sailing ships had a crows nest. Even they knew the earth wasn't flat.
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46 minutes ago, K-9 said:
Mac and cheese?
Kraft dinner. A college staple.
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4 hours ago, Sky Diver said:
Per APR scores, Alabama can claim top 25 status academically as well as on football field
From your link.
QuoteThe APR is a barometer for how well athletes are on pace to graduate, and covers a four-year period, in this case from 2012-13 through the 2015-16 school years.
Graduate with what degree? For Alabama it says.
QuoteIt shows the top four are Business, Exercise and Sport Science, Communications Studies and Criminal Justice, with 19, 17, 10 and 9 athletes respectively.
Why is this important? As we reported earlier, when athletes pursue the same major, something known as clustering, it raises questions whether they are taking the classes they need for an education, or being steered to easy (or in the case of UNC-Chapel Hill, fake) classes that help keep them eligible.
The 2017 roster (not including freshman which usually have not declared their major) has 24 seniors, 26 juniors, and 29 sophomores for a total of 79 players. Four majors account for roughly 70% of the players in a university that offers 72 undergraduate degree programs. One might tend to think the APR barometer in nothing more than NCAA PR.
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1 hour ago, apuszczalowski said:
If the Bills aren't in, I think the front runners are Denver then Arizona, Minnesota could also be in the running if they are interested. Arizona has a decent team in need of a QB, Denver is the same and would have had a better record with a good QB. Minnesota was close to a SB birth and now needs to sign a QB this year. The Jets and Browns can pay him whatever he wants, but are much further away from contending then just a better QB.
If I were him Minnesota would be a slam dunk. The Bills, Broncos, and the Cardinals are a toss up. If he is true to his word about wanting to win the Jets and Browns are non starters.
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6 hours ago, Nihilarian said:
Denver has a decent receiver corps and but their offensive line is bad and their vaunted defense was 22nd in points allowed last year. (#3 in yards).
That is a bit misleading (not accusing you). The points the Denver defense allowed included touchdowns on 1 punt return, 1 kick return, 2 pick 6's, and 2 fumbles. In the category of the "defense wasn't even on the field" they were tied for 1st with Indy at 6 (4 interceptions and 2 fumbles). If you subtract 7 from points allowed for each of those categories for every team they end up 19th. The Bills ended up at 21st.
The Wunderlich test for quarterbacks
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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The GM's that were around when the Wonderlic test was instituted are no longer around. Why would they bother administering it? Most likely because that is what they have always done. The study I posted found no correlation to being drafted or playing time. While there may be a GM or two that consider it, the evidence indicates as a group GM's don't consider it important.