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7 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:
I think alternative medicines and treatments sometimes lead people down a similar path, where distrust in the mainstream healthcare machine (which undoubtedly gets things wrong sometimes) becomes belief. Some of it must be the demonstrable efficacy of belief/placebo effect, as you point out. Players find alternative treatments and therapies and medicines that help them more than the standard accepted practices. They both reap the rewards AND feel smarter or more resourceful for circumventing accepted best practice.
I wonder, too, if some players are looking for a competitive advantage. Everyone can use the "mainstream healthcare machine". Using normal therapies does not give them any additional advantage, since everyone is already using them. What some players are looking for is something that other players don't know about or won't use to give them that edge on the competition. It's why I think some people believe all kinds of nonsense they find on the internet. They feel smarter when they think they know something that the rest of the world does not. This is just a hypothesis not based on any science that I am aware of.
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1 hour ago, Gonzonzo said:
one trillion= 1.000.000.000.000.000.000
one quatrillon= 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000
one billion in spanish is one millon of millons, in english is one thousand of millons
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I have now learned something new for today! (I think I'll stick to the little numbers.) 😁
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2 hours ago, Gonzonzo said:
yes, but it means a diferent number.
one billon in spanish = 1.000.000.000.000
one billon in english:= 1.000.000.000
OK, then. Do they have a number for trillion? I took Spanish in high school, but that was so long ago, they didn't have numbers that high!
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Brian Moorman.
When your punter is your best player for so many years, there is a whole lot of room for improvement in that team!
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9 hours ago, Limeaid said:
13,000 million dollars
Do they not have a word for "billion" in Spanish??
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1 hour ago, Rochesterfan said:
I totally agree with Ross Tuckers take here - interesting after 20+ years of use - you come out with this now with no new major information. Why?
It seems much like the “skipping” of OTAs the NFLPA is giving recommendations about things without merit just to pull players away from teams. It will be fun when the GMs suddenly use more games and game time missed for players against them as they negotiate contracts.
I don’t disagree with the recommendation, but I question the timing and the data behind it. Without a replacement recommendation that we have not seen - it seems like a big ask of the players by the NFLPA - stop what has been working for you and what has been used by the general public and see what happens.
To me it reads like a typical NFLPA response to something they lost and are now trying to gain leverage on. Moving to 17 games - we are going to try to ban a pain killer and make it look like the number of games missed shot way up and then we will blame the added game.
Is it possible that this is a case of CYA? Is this the NFL and NFLPA trying to prevent future lawsuits from players who sustain bleeding disorders, saying "We told you not to use it."?
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30 minutes ago, DJB said:
It's interesting that we signed a Tree Walker, after drafting all of those trees! (I assumed he just misspelled his first name.....)
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9 hours ago, BuffaloBillies said:
My unpopular opinion is... take the guy that helps us win now. If he's a 2nd round draft grade, so what! Best for us is what matters. 10 picks up or down, overvalued/undervalued.... BS. Get our guy and win.
I am no draft expert at all, but in my mind a player who can be a difference maker for a team would be the definition of a "1st round grade", no? I understand that people drafted after round 1 can be great players, but pre-draft, those with the "supposed" potential to help a team win now would be drafted first.
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Employees of the federal government can be transferred anywhere in the country (or for some, anywhere in the world) for the "benefit of the government."
Military personnel get transferred all the time.
Companies downsize or close one location and move jobs elsewhere (even outside the US).
Back when I applied for my first permanent job, I had to apply to a central office which would send a stack of applications to an office that had an opening. I had no idea where I could be hired.
Of course, all of us could choose to decline the job offer or transfer and look for another job.
Boo freaking hoo for a football player who decides to declare for the NFL draft, gets drafted, then opts to sign a huge contract with the team that drafted them.
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2 hours ago, BUFFALOBART said:
No mention of total ownership of the Sabres? (Fixed)
I think there is a vet minimum, isn't there? What else can they throw in to get it to that level??
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Holy cow! I saw a million personal fouls and unsportsman like penalties that were never flagged. The refs were horrible back then!! 🤓
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5 hours ago, CorkScrewHill said:
Cody Ford should ask for his fine money back .. he was fined for what the NFL considers a legal block ... I would have my agent all over the league office
With 15 months' worth of interest!
I will say that it does take guts for the NFL to admit they made a mistake, and admit it in such a public manner. They could have just continued to officially agree with the call, while notifying their referees discreetly not to call it again.
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6 hours ago, Rico said:
I don’t think even Sherlock Holmes likes him.
Will Rogers never met a man he didn't like. But, then again, he never met Edelman.
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6 hours ago, 2020 Our Year For Sure said:
He must have been suffering a great deal
I am both the perpetrator and the victim.
I truly have empathy for you and others who suffer from mental illness, as I do for people suffering from physical illnesses.....up to the point where the sufferers kill others. At that point, they are criminals in my book. That leaves 99.9+% of people with mental illnesses in my good graces. The others, not so much.
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I was a volunteer member of the Luray Volunteer Rescue Squad in Virginia and used to volunteer Sundays from 4 PM until midnight. I was completely enthralled one afternoon watching the Bills-Niners "no punt game". We got a call in the middle of it! The look on my face when the tones went off was enough that, thankfully, the other two volunteers with me that night said, "Relax. We'll take the call." I was forever indebted to those two guys!
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5 minutes ago, JGMcD2 said:
Josh Allen would absolutely eat if this came to fruition.
The man loves 4th and 15+. Sometimes I think it’s easier for him to convert than 4th and 1.
May be true, but it seems like our defense can't defend third and longs lately, so there is always that.
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1 hour ago, The Frankish Reich said:
Just on the objective stats at age 43:
- QB Rating: 9th in the NFL
- ANY/A (adjusted net yards per attempt): 8th
- Total passing yards: 3rd
- Sack rate: 3rd
I think this is a good way to separate eras. How do/did they compare to their contemporaries?
I also think there is a difference between the greatest passer of all time and the greatest quarterback of all time. Quarterback includes being vital to team success, in my opinion.
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If we resigned Matt Barkley, what do you think we could get for HIM in these frothy times??
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2 minutes ago, Kelsayrundefense said:
You would think but some fans get funny about guys trying to maximize their money. The 2nd contract, is huge for these guys if they get a multi-year deal. Laurent Robinson lives in my neighborhood. He was a WR for the cowboys and Jags. He cashed in off a nice season with Dallas and the Jags gave him 14 million guaranteed. They released him a year later and he never played again. Anything can happen in the NFL.
I could live happily ever after with 14 million guaranteed dollars, even after NY taxes....
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11 minutes ago, HOUSE said:
I left my wallet in the car
And which car is yours, exactly??? 🤑
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7 minutes ago, mannc said:
The article offers zero evidence in support of its main premise—That Matt Stafford is a MUCH better QB than Jared Goff.
Lot of competition for that title...
Stafford has hardly been without weapons in his career in Detroit. The absence of a great running back is a weak excuse for his lack of success...
The lack of 100-yard rushers can be attributed to a terrible offensive line as well as a lack of a great running back. I think Stafford played behind poor protectors, if I recall correctly. That surely had to affect his play and success, or lack thereof, no?
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1 hour ago, DCOrange said:
Those GMs should probably not be GMs. Goff is precisely the type of QB teams should constantly be trying to replace IMO. A talented passer but he just doesn’t have it between the ears at all. If a play doesn’t play out exactly as expected, he’s screwed.
What about the GM that gave Goff that horrendous contract? Should they not be a GM? I think part of the trade had to do with the Rams paying penance for giving that contract to Goff (who they obviously did not completely believe in) and trying to rid themselves of that awful sin and the taint that goes with it.
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2 minutes ago, Limeaid said:
Under current rules no but I could see NFL/NFLPA making that agreement but with a cap so team could not load up dead money on one player.
Part of reason for cap is to prevent football to become like baseball with teams with large resources in large population area and deals with local networks from dominating league. If football became like baseball I'd watch a lot less.
I assumed this was a one-time deal due to the COVID drop in revenue, as the OP was proposing.
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35 minutes ago, Limeaid said:
You cannot force a player to do it but often it is in a player's best interest.
Sometimes a player has a bad year and the market value for the player on next contract is weak.
Sometimes a player will accept a pay cut for more money up front maybe with incentives.
Sometimes a player is near end of career and would rather take a pay cut rather than move and adjust to a new team.
There is not "only one way".
What if, instead of "buying out" a player's contract, whereby the player still gets a percentage of his contract money, the league changed the cap rules? Can they say that each team can cut one player, but that contract would not be included in the dead cap hit. That would amount the the same situation of ridding a team of one bad contract, like proposed by OP, but the player would only get whatever is left of his guaranteed contract. Would that be allowed under CBA rules? Would that be better or worse for the player than being "bought out" of his contract?
Tre's always got jokes (especially at Terry's expense)
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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This one is perfect for the Pegulas and their GM's!!
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