4 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

 

This makes sense.  It's probably what all of the fall college sports should do.  

4 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

This makes sense.  It's probably what all of the fall college sports should do.  

Pro sports too.

P.S. Although the NHL is doing a good job.

10 minutes ago, BDawk_ASamuel said:

 

Yup.  If in the Spring those in charge had just promised NCAAF and schools in exchange for a couple of months of better decision making...

11 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Is that what they’re calling it?  Good to know.  

Didn't look much like "dad weight" to me.

Power is back.  Only seven days.

1 hour ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

  How was it terminated?  You wanted Hinkie around longer to draft more soft immature "stars”?  

absolutely. Hinkie didnt want Okafor. his goal wasnt to suck forever. he understood how to exploit the system that was tilted against us and play the long game

41 minutes ago, justrelax said:

Pro sports too.

P.S. Although the NHL is doing a good job.

I'm OK with the NFL trying to do it because they're a business making a business decision.  The players are also compensated if they don't want to play.  I do think there's some risk of increased spreading because of them playing but I don't think it's that significant.  I mean Tyson Foods has 122,000 employees most of whom work in processing plants.  They are at far greater risk than NFL players.  No one is saying to shut down the chicken plants.  

2 hours ago, bpac55 said:

🙄 I understand that.  I just don't understand why.  You post "can't catch a break".   OK do you want our pity?  Do you want thoughts and prayers?  I just don't understand the constant need to bring attention to yourself.  Clearly people responded prompting his "keep calm" tweet.  Well Miles what do you expect when you're in the national spotlight and you bring attention to yourself?

I know this is an overreaction on my part to a miniscule tweet seeing as we don't know the context yet.  However this is more of broad reaction to people in general who act like this.  I have family members who post everything under the sun on social media when it's no one else's business but our family.  It however brings attention to them for some unknown reason.

 

It’s an outlet to vent and share your life with others. That’s not a bad thing. In general, we need to be more supportive of people who want to talk about their lives. 

29 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

Power is back.  Only seven days.

We were caught in the Derecho yesterday with 85 mph hitting our house and destroying trees. We’re at 25 hours without power. More than 100,000 homes in our area are in the same boat. 

 

Cancelling all sports is an understandable over reaction to the potency of COVID. The longer the teams collectively get in the protocols, the easier it gets to move forward and be normal. College sports stopping is very different from professional ones - far more complicated to manage - and I would imagine, more liabilities.

Once NFL teams can get over TC, it will become a lot simpler for all. There will be an established weekly routine and players will get on with it.

16 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

Well for Arizona it means they had their best football season in half a decade

2 minutes ago, UK Eagle said:

Cancelling all sports is an understandable over reaction to the potency of COVID. The longer the teams collectively get in the protocols, the easier it gets to move forward and be normal. College sports stopping is very different from professional ones - far more complicated to manage - and I would imagine, more liabilities.

Once NFL teams can get over TC, it will become a lot simpler for all. There will be an established weekly routine and players will get on with it.

Disagree with that. TC is the easy part. They are socially distancing/ having routine workouts everyday and daily testing as one team. When the games start will be when there is no distancing from two teams from different regions, and the testing likely to switch to every other day. It's also going to be a harder test of a players will power to continue not doing something stupid like going to a casino or strip club. All it takes is one Marlins/Cardinals situation and it more than likely spreads across multiple teams.

6 minutes ago, UK Eagle said:

Cancelling all sports is an understandable over reaction to the potency of COVID. The longer the teams collectively get in the protocols, the easier it gets to move forward and be normal. College sports stopping is very different from professional ones - far more complicated to manage - and I would imagine, more liabilities.

Once NFL teams can get over TC, it will become a lot simpler for all. There will be an established weekly routine and players will get on with it.

All this is about. The average big time program generates $100-150 mill per year. That’s one lawsuit... 

38 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

absolutely. Hinkie didnt want Okafor. his goal wasnt to suck forever. he understood how to exploit the system that was tilted against us and play the long game

The rumor was he wanted to draft porzingis even if porzingis didn’t want to come right away or be a sixer. Ownership told him no cause they wanted something to show for their year of tanking and coming back the following year with nothing wasn’t acceptable even though they were still tanking. It wound up looking foolish as okafor was immature when he got here and a dinosaur in today’s nba. 

5 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Disagree with that. TC is the easy part. They are socially distancing/ having routine workouts everyday and daily testing as one team. When the games start will be when there is no distancing from two teams from different regions, and the testing likely to switch to every other day. It's also going to be a harder test of a players will power to continue not doing something stupid like going to a casino or strip club. All it takes is one Marlins/Cardinals situation and it more than likely spreads across multiple teams.

I disagree.  Of course there is the strip joint thing, but players will also have to take care of their bodies on a weekly basis. Bye weeks will be an issue, as will Thanksgiving. But with travel, etc, teams will get into a cadence they've not had.

22 minutes ago, UK Eagle said:

Cancelling all sports is an understandable over reaction to the potency of COVID. The longer the teams collectively get in the protocols, the easier it gets to move forward and be normal. College sports stopping is very different from professional ones - far more complicated to manage - and I would imagine, more liabilities.

Once NFL teams can get over TC, it will become a lot simpler for all. There will be an established weekly routine and players will get on with it.

Disagree.  When games start, they need to shift to a new routine, which may take time to adapt to.

They are also introducing travel and interaction with other teams to the equation

I think you also have to consider how motivated payers will be on terrible teams. Winning and being strong contenders should motivate the team to be more accountable to not derail the season. But if you are one of the guys on a crappy 0-4 team, it could be a lot easier to stop caring. 

1 hour ago, NCiggles said:

I'm OK with the NFL trying to do it because they're a business making a business decision.  The players are also compensated if they don't want to play.  I do think there's some risk of increased spreading because of them playing but I don't think it's that significant.  I mean Tyson Foods has 122,000 employees most of whom work in processing plants.  They are at far greater risk than NFL players.  No one is saying to shut down the chicken plants.  

Well put.  

1 hour ago, NCiggles said:

I'm OK with the NFL trying to do it because they're a business making a business decision.  The players are also compensated if they don't want to play.  I do think there's some risk of increased spreading because of them playing but I don't think it's that significant.  I mean Tyson Foods has 122,000 employees most of whom work in processing plants.  They are at far greater risk than NFL players.  No one is saying to shut down the chicken plants.  

They actually had to temporarily shut down meat processing plants when there was a significant outbreak.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/26/business/meat-processing-plants-coronavirus/index.html

 

4 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

They actually had to temporarily shut down meat processing plants when there was a significant outbreak.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/26/business/meat-processing-plants-coronavirus/index.html

 

They did and people are still testing positive at these plants.  

29 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

They actually had to temporarily shut down meat processing plants when there was a significant outbreak.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/26/business/meat-processing-plants-coronavirus/index.html

 

Yep and they only reopened because Trump signed the executive order forcing them to.

1 hour ago, WentzFan11 said:

It’s an outlet to vent and share your life with others. That’s not a bad thing. In general, we need to be more supportive of people who want to talk about their lives. 

We need to, in general, be more supportive of people who need help. 

Social media is one way for these people to reach out, but just like anything else it can be abused and in some cases, make things more difficult. 

1 minute ago, Green Dog said:

We need to, in general, be more supportive of people who need help. 

Social media is one way for these people to reach out, but just like anything else it can be abused or in some cases make things more difficult. 

It’s not easy to determine who actually needs help and who doesn’t.

 

Sometimes just tweeting something and sending it out into the world provides them the relief they need. It’s not his fault his platform just happens to be bigger. 

1 minute ago, WentzFan11 said:

It’s not easy to determine who actually needs help and who doesn’t.

 

Sometimes just tweeting something and sending it out into the world provides them the relief they need. It’s not his fault his platform just happens to be bigger. 

I wish Twitter had started with the increased character limit.  Those couple years subconsciously trained people to be cryptic and unnecessarily short with these kinds of 'announcement' tweets.  Bad habits, etc.

It's just a shame that there will always be some who look at it in a different way and purposely edit what they intended to say because its how they've always done it.