Coach Tuesday

I promise this really is my last post in this thread - but I just got a list of the vaccinations my kid has to have or he won’t be allowed in the public middle school in our district. That may not be the case everywhere but it is in the Northeast for sure and has been for decades.

It jumped the shark when Beas tweeted, basically, that someone should autopsy the 600,000 dead because - did they really die of COVID? There is a way to make a personal choice with discretion and class, within the confines of his teammates’ decision about how to deal with the issue publicly, and mindful of his status as an athlete whom kids look up and listen to. “Recount the bodies” is the opposite of all of that. I’m sorry, it just is. I’ll stop posting about it though.

Can you imagine if COVID caused a high mortality rate in children, and the vaccine (as this one is) wasn’t yet approved for kids, and there were uninformed jerk “role models” like Beasley spouting off about “it’s my life and my body”? This debate would get really ugly then. As a parent, you’re damn right I’d be ready to have the government jab a needle in his meathead arm. SMH… If this were polio, the “freedom” crowd would be an existential threat to society.

Unreal.

LOL

Not going to the car wash because of shark attacks.

There it is. All of the misinformation and wrong-headedness condensed into a single post. Pretty impressive honestly.

@Hapless Bills Fan I’ve got a book recommendation for you: “Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks” by Ben Goldacre.

Yup. And if there were a way to ensure that the hospitalization costs of folks who choose not to get vaccinated would be borne solely by them - instead of insurers or hospitals - many anti-vaxxers would get the shot. And by the way, the vast majority of COVID hospitalizations right now are unvaccinated people… 🤔

He simply presented you with facts - wtf…

I’m right there with you. I’ve known several healthy people who died from COVID. Devastating. I know a few young, completely healthy people who got it and survived but still have terrible after-effects involving their immune and nervous systems (one of them now has some kind of rare kidney ailment resulting from it). This is real, it happened, I’ve actually SEEN it. It’s not some crap on Twitter. And yet here we are, we’ve got folks who think it’s a made up conspiracy designed to control their bodies - never mind that Warp Speed was launched under their likely preferred candidate and, had he won, their views of a life-saving vaccine would likely be different. Imagine that? And never mind that many of the same folks in society and on this very board spouting the “everyone has a right to their opinion” and “you don’t control what I do with my body” mantras have an issue with other people refusing to stand while a certain song is played - THE VERY SAME PEOPLE! Saw my dentist yesterday for the first time since lockdown. He got COVID, no issues. His wife got it and almost died after 17 days in the hospital. Likely got it from patients. He told me a story of one patient who said that he wasn’t going to get the vaccine because “it’s a conspiracy - Dr. Faucci owns the company!” My dentist asked this patient whether it would bother him if he (my dentist) had not gotten vaccinated and the patient said, “oh yes, absolutely, I wouldn’t have come here, too risky.” That’s about where we are as a society right now. As contagious as COVID is, idiocy seems to be spreading even more quickly.

So you’re advocating universal free choice about what people can and cannot do with their own bodies, correct?

The thing is they’ve all been briefed on this - their options, what the league can and cannot force them to do, etc. I’m sure they’ve gotten a memo from the union. And the players on this team, in particular, have discussed it and decided how they’re going to deal with this issue vis-a-vis the media. And if that weren’t enough, his OWN BOSS got in trouble already for musing publicly about cutting players who refuse vaccination. So yeah, I suppose he could just be misinformed or immature, but I mean…

When did The Right To Be Stupid become our national rallying cry? He’s an idiot for not understanding basic labor laws. Putting aside the science vs. “faith” issue.

Great player. Raging idiot. Just colossally stupid dude.

Is there a weekly TSW Edmunds thread quota or something? Really we’re gonna do this AGAIN?

Hodgins stepping up will really force some decisions.

The Twitterization of sports talk radio = 7th Circle of Hell.

Take care of business on the field and it’ll speak for itself. Folks here get fired up whenever someone says something. Buncha snowflakes. Worry about the wins and losses not what people say.

He threw the football like he was throwing a dart in a bar. How's that?

It was a potato chip bag.

Remember when he threw you out of the stadium for wearing a paper bag over your head? And then it turned out we were all better off when you had a paper bag over your head?

Obviously you didn't read the "deep dive" with Trubisky.

Exactly. Also not a lie.

“EJ, we have high hopes for him. We know, and he knows, there is a lot of work ahead for him to become the franchise player we all want him to be. He’s harder on himself than anyone and he wants to be great. It’s our job to help surround him with the resources and patience to help him become great. At the same time, and EJ will be the first to tell you this, we’re in a results business and no one on this roster or in this entire organization - myself included - should feel complacent with where they are. We all have to work harder to become the best versions of ourselves and EJ is no exception. I believe he’s putting in the work to do just that and I’m excited to watch his career develop here. His best football is in front of him.”