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This makes a lot of sense, thanks for that insight. To be clear, I'm not questioning the medical professionals, whom I have zero reason to distrust or cast aspersions on. My issue is that I mistrust the league and I don't believe they care about anything more than making money so I don't look at announcements that they are consider changing a policy as an update to changing medical conditions. The political side has been mismanaged. If they wanted everyone vaccinated they should have just mandated it and worked something out with the NFLPA, instead they penalized players with things like telling them they couldn't have endorsements without being vaccinated. I don't believe that removing an endorsement from a player could be considered being made with health concerns in mind.

I agree that there are medical people in place trying their best to do things based on the evidence at hand. I do not believe these people are alone in setting league policies though. I believe they make their set of recommendations and the league makes their policies taking the experts reports into account along with their own set of executives. The desired outcome was a 100% vaccinated league, they set out to do that with a carrot/stick approach. Carrot - no mask, fewer tests, can visit family and friends; Stick - Mask, daily tests, no family visits AND no endorsements? I agree that the word entirely was a poor choice, should have been significantly influenced by perception.

Daily testing would be a more effective tool to protecting the season. If anyone wonders if the NFL's policies are based entirely on perception, this hollow attempt should verify this. Assuming this passes (which it won't), according to current regs, you would have everyone walking around with no social distancing inside without masks, getting tested bi-weekly and being allowed to interact with people outside of the team "bubble." With this situation you could have a single breakthrough case walking around spreading the virus for 2 weeks and no one would be the wiser. Again, my issue with these policies is that they are based on perception, not prevention. Truly preventative policies in this situation are inconvenient. The Bucs went beyond the league's policies and banned players from leaving their hotel on road trips because it's obvious that the NFL only wants cover from blame and not to actually protect players.

Have any of you read those Jack Carr's James Reece novels? They're a decent read. Fairly predictable, but good. Reminds me of the old days with Tom Clancy when he actually wrote books himself and it wasn't a team of writers purporting to be him releasing books.

thank you guys. I'm fairly confident that my general knowledge and these sites can at least get me to the playoffs

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I have a subscription. I will do this asap. Thanks

Mods feel free to move this to off the wall. Hoping I can get some help from people who enjoy fantasy football to advise me on a website where I can find a cheatsheet. I jumped into a buddy's league as a favor after someone dropped out last minute and they were on the verge of cancelled rather than having an odd number. I'm not a FF savant - I follow the Bills as closely as the compression sleeve on Stevenson's leg but I don't care about parsing stats for most other teams other than watching them before we play them. Anything you could send me would be greatly appreciated as I am now pairing ignorance with a fairly unhealthy competitive drive. Thanks board!

You can rest assured Stormlight will be finished in a timely manner. Look at the top right corner of Sanderson's webpage, he gives weekly updates on his writing and what stage a project is in. https://www.brandonsanderson.com/

i get tired of the media asking the same questions and then when people complain they have to insist "it's a story, it could definitely affect... ." Guess what, we know Covid affects things, the only thing they really want is a soundbite or quote making a political stand so they can dissect it ad nauseum.

First Law is very well written I'll check this out, thanks! I'll check out Destroyermen thanks! Goodkind I have issues with, he has a real problem with not doing homages, but lifting entire premises and just copying them from other authors. I know a lot of people are not aware of this. I'd recommend giving this a watch I'll try reading the Takeshi Kovacs books. I saw the first season on Netflix and it seemed like a great concept that was poorly executed; was not aware the series was based on books. If anyone is into fantasy I have a few recos for series I love: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson - This is my favorite current series, it's in the epic fantasy genre. Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson - he's just a great writer. Fantasy, but more post-apocalyptic. Sanderson is a prolific writer and churns out at least a book per year and currently has about 3 series going. A lot of his series are set in the same universe on different planets so every once in a while you might run into a character and think "this person seems a lot like person A from that other book.. and it usually is." None of it is spoonfed to you and I like easter eggs in my books. Night Angel Trilogy - Brent Weeks - This was one of the first fantasy series I read, it's pretty good. Gentlemen Bastards Series - Scott Lynch - Fun worldbuilding Kingkiller - Patrick Rothfuss - Excellent writing, but the third book may never come out while the first two are classics. Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan - I recommend this with a couple caveats: 1- These books spawned many tropes and copycats. You might read something and think "I've seen this angle before" and you'd be right, but that's because Jordan wrote it first and was copied by half the genre, so it can seem derivative to people who've read other authors who followed. 2- The series is 15 damn books long, I dunno if I'd recommend it to someone just checking the genre out, that's a huge commitment.

Some people think it gets a little slow in the middle section of the series but I loved all of it. DM me and let me know what you think! If you like Wheel of time I'd recommend the Stormlight Archive for more classic fantasy and Mistborn Trilogy if you like post-apocalyptic fantasy.

IMO if you have a player you've seen enough out of, whom you'd like to put on the PS, this is the time to cut them. Makes sense to cut someone now while teams are still evaluating their rosters, might make them hesitate to put in a waiver claim.

Any readers here? I'm looking for a new series of books to read. I read a bunch of non-fiction but try to give myself a mental vacation enjoying some fiction everyone 2-3 books. I got really into the Stormlight Archive (highly recommended) but the next book won't be out for at least 3 years, so I'm looking for some fun fiction series I can tear through. Anyone have a rec? Thanks!

Looking forward to the Wheel of Time series on Amazon. Great source material.

I was going to say my Reebok Instapump Shaq Attack 4s. They came with a compressed air cartridge to pump them up. Then, looking for a picture of them, I read these are getting re-released! Lol. So I'm going to go with Z-Cavariccis

I've seen very little of the kid. I don't understand how he has managed to be on his fifth NFL team going into his fourth season. Numbers say he stinks, is there something I'm missing here?

This is correct. The issue is the testing policy. Saying "if everyone were vaxxed you deal with it" takes the very point of the issue and sweeps it completely under the rug. You can still get and transmit covid while vaccinated, as such there is no reason not to have daily testing. At this point, even presuming that preliminary studies stating vaccinated people are less likely to transmit the disease, vaccinated players still pose a greater threat transmission because if positive they would be allowed to walk around, maskless, for a week able to transmit the disease. An unvaccinated player would be identified as a result of daily testing and can be removed from the facilities. The carrot of way further restrictions for vaccinated players creates a more dangerous work environment than the one we had last year, where everyone was distanced and tested daily.

I hope so. At this point it is obvious that weekly testing is not going to work. The best way to protect the season is daily testing, not this PR-driven face-saving nonsense that is currently dictating policy. If the goal is to protect as many people as possible (which it should be) and to avoid outbreaks (which the policy should), then testing protocols need to be daily, it's that simple. The issue is the league knows it will face significant backlash from players who only got vaccinated to avoid daily tests. The league needs to step up and take the hit so we can have a season.

There is a pinned post directing covid-related discussion on this board. Would be nice if we could have actual discussions without getting threads closed. If anyone wonders what the difference is between a football-related post and a political one is here is a perfect example. MAJ's post works, the other is drivel - they both express the same sentiment.

The Gamepass international app works pretty well. In my experience the NFL app is not good at all and agree it's super buggy. I haven't had any issues using the website though.

WWE is pretty much unwatchable. AEW reminds me of a more entertaining WCW from the late 90s - to this point they haven't had the star power, but they are infinitely more entertaining in the clips I've watched and I'm rooting for them. I haven't watched wrestling consistently since the early aughts, but AEW looks good from the outside.

This is from TSE, they have black and red helmets on there that the team doesn't use. I don't think these are real.

To quote someone with extensive knowledge of the situation...myself...