PetermansRedemption

I hate the virtual draft. It’s even more boring than I thought it would so far.

Ok Cinci. Just put the damn pick in.

Only the NFL and Goodell could find a way to draw out a virtual draft.

I hadn’t realized that the commissioner didn’t open the draft yet ?

It always pisses me off when the team with first overall takes all 10 minutes. You’ve had months to make a trade or decide on your pick, you really have to waste 10 minutes every.damn.time.

Intro give anyone else chills

They won’t anyways unless they kick Fitzpatrick to the curb and roll with Rosen. Which they have shown before they will not do.

The story says the two homes are identical. I’d be willing to bet he was texting with Leftwich prior to arrival and Leftwich just told him to come in when he got there.

Trading away a premium pick for peanuts would likely accelerate the loss of their job. They would need Thuney, Gilmore, 2020 1st, 2nd and 2021 1st. That might get it done. Doesn’t leave New England with much of a team though.

Thought this was pretty interesting today. [Edit: Fox news link downrated Look, this Fox News story doesn't even have the link to the study nor much data though it includes links to all of Fox News NYC and covid-19 coverage. That's Total BS, sorry. Fox News is notorious for allowing misrepresentations (They allowed Gregory Rigono false claims to be an "advisor" at Stanford University to tout 100% cure rate of tiny study that excluded all the outcomes that died or went to ICU, for example. Stanford had to publicly come out and say "No, he's not, and we had no part in that "study"). I'll deconstruct the Fox News coverage further on.] I'm trying to use quotes to make clear who wrote what, hope I succeeded: Fox News deconstruct: Hap sez: No, that is NOT what the study says. Nowhere does it make that claim. 5,700 people is a fraction of those hospitalized in the NYC area. Per this source, there have been 35,920. So 5,700/35920 = 16%. This hospital network self describes in the article as "the largest academic health system in New York". Academic health systems (systems associated with medical schools) are sometimes called "tertiary care centers", meaning they typically get the sickest, most complicated cases that are referred from other hospitals. So, we have to say "yes, there could be a selection for the sickest patients here". Is the data from those 5,700 patients representative? Maybe, maybe not - it's simply NOT a claim the study tries to make. Hap sez; The "94% more than one other disease" is correct. The "most patients in the country" is misleading - it makes it sound like this data is the majority of the covid-19 patients in the country. Not even close, it's not even the majority in NYC! It may be true that this hospital group has more patients compared to other hospital groups, but the wording is misleading. Hap Sez: Again, technically true but misleading - it's actually 60.7% of covid-19 patients who suffer from obesity, because the authors separated obesity and morbid obesity (not coronavirus, that is also misleading, there are multiple coronaviruses known to infect humans). I think this may be one of the biggest "news" in the article, because there just aren't that many obese people in China to know if it was a risk factor or not, and it clearly is. I don't need advanced statistics to say that 60.7% of covid-19 patients being obese overrepresents the 40.2% of US adults with obesity, while 42% (cited by Fox) vs 40.2% could just be random chance. Basically, Fox is being careless here thus obscuring what may be one of the study's most important findings. Hap sez: Once more: we have no idea what happened to the "majority of patients on ventilators" - they could still be on ventilators. They correctly give the information that we only have outcomes for 316 patients on ventilators, of whom 278 died. But there could be more patients who are still on ventilators, without an outcome - we don't know the outcomes for 3066 patients. It's very careless writing at best. Please, please please - if you choose to read Fox, please cross-check how that news is covered with another source than FOX. At best, Fox is careless and misleading in how it presents data. And that's if it's not outright allowing people to fabricate credentials and misrepresent stuff on-air.

I did too!!! I loved that guy. Wanted him badly in the draft.

Came here to post 2020-2021 season only to be massively disappointed that I was beat to the punch.

No slight to you personally, but, luckily for us no one can predict QBs. Not the least of which are the scouts for the Dolphins. I’m not worried. Herbert and Tua have the same bust factor as any other first round QB. Tua isn’t some Andrew Luck QB prospect. The bust factor is always high.

He’s certainly been a bit disappointment. Really everyone the 49ers have given a big contract to are a disappointment.

But shouldn’t that be taken in account when changing the points allowed for a safety? Not only do you need to make a tackle for a loss play, you have to first pin the opponent that deep to begin with. So you would have to take both probabilities and combine them. It isn’t simply the percentage of safeties that result when inside the 1. It would also need to take into account the probability of pinning your opponent inside the 3 so you actually have a legitimate chance at the safety play. It’s definitely a combined probability.

so.... why wouldn’t they just take the 4th? Instead of downgrading their 1st to a 2nd. I assume they would rather have a 1st and a 4th instead of having a 2nd for the same cost (giving up Ford).

The whole premise of Madden leaking a player signing seems pretty far fetched. It is more likely one of the developers was a titans fan and put him on his team since he was the best remaining free agent.

I’ll make you a screen name/avatar bet if you’d like? I will bet that nothing goes wrong when the Patriots are picking.

It takes two to tango. Thankfully not every GM is a pure idiot like Bill O’Brien. The only thing I’d value the Pats have are draft picks. Even those are limited. No cap room and an aging, uninspiring roster. Even if they dangled Gilmore, that’s a CB on a big contract. Hardly the centerpiece for a QB. I think their biggest splash possibility is cutting a bunch of people and signing Cam Newton. But that’s further thinning an already unimpressive roster.

Trump deserves to be a one term president. But my goodness the DNC really couldn’t give us anyone better than Joe Biden ?‍♂️. I would have preferred ANY democratic nominee over Biden. Hell, bring Hillary out of retirement and it would have been better.

This is a good example of consider your source. You cited two very liberal sources. And their sources are “two people close”. That isn’t very reliable. A couple of things that immediately refute that “news”. First, Trump loves to hear himself talk. He will never, ever skip airtime. Second, he knows he is behind Biden in the polls. Third, he can see that Biden cannot really handle himself under pressure. Two examples off the top of my head is when he was confronted by the factory worker regarding the 2nd amendment. In that he threatens to slap the guy, calls it an AR-14, and makes a few other mental lapses. Second example would be when his teleprompter went off during his recent speech from his house. He was clearly shaken and did not know anything about a subject he had reportedly spent weeks researching and gathering facts on. Add that together and there is absolutely zero chance Trump doesn’t get on the debate stage against Biden. I would bet every dollar I have that Trump debates Biden.

Love the quote by Cousins. I honestly don’t think they would care as much as fans seem to think they would. These guys play 8 home and 8 away games. It would be great for the away team. Wouldn’t even need silent snap counts.

It’s always telling when you get traded (potentially) from two teams in two years.

If the NFL decides to have a season, this shouldn’t be much of an issue. They are very likely to be playing with no fans. Therefore, a team doesn’t really have a home field advantage. The games could be played anywhere. If, for example, Florida’s governor allows NFL games but New York’s doesn’t. You can have Miami and Jacksonville play all 16 of their games at home. You could also utilize the NFL stadiums in whatever state allows it. Even if it means playing on Saturday and then again on Monday in the same stadium with different teams. It shouldn’t pose too much of a logistical challenge if the NFL decides to have a season.

If I’m not mistaken it’s already written into law that insurance companies have to cover the cost of the tests.