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He missed the 2015 season after breaking his collar bone on the 4th play of the season. He missed multiple games in 2017 with a shoulder injury. He missed multiple games due to injury his rookie season, and he got knocked out of a game last year.

He was essentially flawless last season. My only concern is his age. He’ll turn 24 in a few months. I’m always leery of college QBs who are considerably older than the majority of their competition. We saw guys like Brandon Weeden and Chris Weinke tear it up in college only to flame out in the league. For comparison, if Pat Mahomes had played in college in 2018, he’d have been the same age that Burrow was last year. If Sam Darnold were to play in college next season, he’d only be 6 months older than Burrow was last season. I don’t know how much that matters, but it’s a pretty big red flag to me. Given that it’s basically only one of two (the other being that he was a bit of a one year wonder), I’m still high on him as a prospect, but I can’t quite put him up there with Lawrence, Luck, or Manning in terms of “can’t miss” QB prospects.

I feel like players put an emphasis on toughness, and Wentz being injured so much matters a ton to them. Conversely, I think players respect Josh’s willingness to run in the open field. It goes back to the idea that he’s a better “football player” than he is a QB. Nobody really believes he’s a better QB than Wentz when both are healthy, and both are injury prone (albeit for different reasons).

You’re joking, right?

Why did they use Troy Aikman as the model?

That’s a ridiculous way to look at economic health. Having a balanced budget when interest rates are zero is about as fiscally irresponsible as it gets. New York is the single largest net contributor in terms of revenue paid into the federal treasury versus what they receive, and their per capita income dwarfs Florida’s. Meanwhile, Florida is one of the largest hogs slurping up federal money. https://rockinst.org/blog/who-are-the-givers-the-northeast-subsidizes-federal-spending/ https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/opinion/cc-op-zirpoli-050620-20200506-7ya7okjfk5btdpysnrnrfouyz4-story.html https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-05-15/some-states-like-new-york-send-billions-more-to-federal-government-than-they-get-back https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-household-income-by-state

I would have flipped Lamar and Watson, but the list was pretty fair.

Then why even bring it up? It’s about a half step above injecting bleach and shoving a light bulb up your ass and adds nothing to the conversation. The only reference to the spread as it relates to asymptomatic transmission in the article you linked is COVID-19 may also be spread by people who are not showing symptoms (i.e., “asymptomatic”). According to the CDC, 35% of all people with COVID-19 are asymptomatic. However, those individuals are still as infectious as people with symptoms.

You don’t get the difference between a QB who has a great record and great stats, a QB who has great stats but a mediocre record, and a QB with mediocre stats and a winning record?

Tennessee shut him down to the tune of 500+ yards of total offense despite the fact that his receivers couldn’t catch COVID in a bat buffet.

What play were you watching? He had a clean pocket, and Knox was two yards behind the defense. 11:30 mark of the video. That was a pretty routine throw, and he just airmailed it. Other than that it was a fantastic drive. With the game on the line and a chance to slay the dragon, that's a play that has to be made. NE isn't going to roll over.

Lamar is 19-1 in his career when not playing against Pat Mahomes. He’s great.

I distinctly remember the right wing pundits accusing the left of accusing Trump of being racist for his response. I don’t remember anyone actually accusing Trump of being racist over restricting travel from China.

If he’d have hit Knox in the endzone on the last drive, that would have been the best drive of his career. That game is a perfect microcosm of him being a better football player than a QB.

So herd immunity was reached by having 250,000 out of 8,500,000 people becoming infected? Herd immunity with an infection rate of 3%. I can’t wait to have a good laugh with my wife (head of her science department) about this as soon as she’s done with her webinar on how to best educate students during a pandemic (which she is literally on right this second).

Wonder how many QBs will be on the list. Got to think 20 or so.

I’ve got to think that Obama would have come up with something better than “drink bleach and shove a flashlight up your butt”.

What’s the death rate of the job force taking a hit? That’s all that matters. So there were 61,000 deaths from the flu in the year your article discusses despite no lockdown measures. There have been 150,000 in the past 4 months from COVID despite a nationwide lockdown, and half the country thinks we’re doing too much.

So hospitalizations don’t matter, only deaths. I guess we shouldn’t care if people lose their jobs, then. After all, it only matters if you die.

Remember when we put the entire country on lockdown for 4 months to stop the flu and it still killed 1,000 people a day for 4 months straight while cases continued to increase exponentially?

You understand that comparing what a disease does when there is a lockdown in place versus what a different disease does under normal circumstances is intellectually dishonest, right? If we knew that COVID would cause roughly as many deaths as the flu, I think most people would be okay with opening everything. That just isn’t the case, though. People were comparing this to the flu months ago. The flu kills around 40,000 Americans annually. COVID has quadrupled that in 4 months even with all of the social distancing and other precautions that have been taken. This is nothing like the flu. Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?

That list was really accurate based on what happened the following season. It underrated Lamar and overrated Rivers. Other than that, pretty hard to criticize it.

Your data consists of one projection from March that has already been proven incorrect and a study that won’t be complete for 2 years. Both are worthless at this point in time.

Nothing more sciency than taking individual sentences, stripping them of context, and spiking the football...especially when your own cherry picked sentence uses the terms “speculation” and “some sort of immunity” while acknowledging that 60-70% is “widely accepted”.

You may as well have linked Trump’s interview saying it would suddenly magically disappear. Hell, even the comments section of the article is littered with people talking about how it would go away when the weather heated up. You might also want to note that Levitt is a biophysicist, not an epidemiologist. Smart guy with some interesting insights, but not an expert.