3 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Beats me. As far as rookies, Newman and Franks were the only two really UDFA developmental guys I can think of and Franks is the #2 in Atlanta so he's probably not going anywhere. 

Free agents there's some guys you could just bring in for camp arms. Barkley, Josh Johnson, RGIII, Nick Mullens. Part of it that's so hard is I have no idea what they are really looking for in a QB since they signed a polar opposite of Hurts in Flacco. 

I'd rather they bring in Charles Barkley😄

5 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

Still laughable that we need a vaccine with a 99% survival rate and 99.999999 survival rate when you have no underlying medical issues. But again, that's science we dont talk about. 

Not quit as high as 99% in most countries but I'll give you that.  If nothing was done, that would mean at least 70 million people would die from Covid worldwide.   70 million deaths would be make it worse than WWII, WWI or just about any other war in the modern era. 

3 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

Herd immunity will not work at 70%

 

experts now calculate the herd immunity threshold to be at least 80 percent. If even more contagious variants develop, or if scientists find that immunized people can still transmit the virus, the calculation will have to be revised upward again

It actually starts working at a much lower %. 

Matt Barkley is still in the league?? Thought he'd be hosting a sports talk show by now.

11 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Fair enough except we haven't reached 70% yet As far as I know 

If everybody thinks like the above then they remove responsibility from them selves and depend on and expect others to take it on and then no one gets vaccinated.

If one isn't part of the solution one is part of the problem, vaccination is a solution, not getting vaccinated is not a solution 

 

Doesn't factor in the people who have already gotten covid who don't really need to be vaccinated as studies show. 

 

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210608/No-point-vaccinating-those-whoe28099ve-had-COVID-19-Findings-of-Cleveland-Clinic-study.aspx?__twitter_impression=true

8 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

Big fan of his , they have him starting outside

 

 

Guessing he's looking good during team drills such as 7v7 or 11v11.

I kid I kid.  

3 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Doesn't factor in the people who have already gotten covid who don't really need to be vaccinated as studies show. 

 

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210608/No-point-vaccinating-those-whoe28099ve-had-COVID-19-Findings-of-Cleveland-Clinic-study.aspx?__twitter_impression=true

I have had Covid, down for a month , my doctors encouraged me to still get vaccinated , and I still have the antibodies  , different strains, different protections 

9 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Part of it that's so hard is I have no idea what they are really looking for in a QB since they signed a polar opposite of Hurts in Flacco. 

.... and Newman is a mirror image of Hurts, and got shown the door before training camp opened.

21 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

Well, if they don't get the vaccine but then get the virus, they would be part of the solution, since they would develop anti-bodies to the virus.  But if you're not going to get the vaccine, please don't wear a mask so that the rest of society can move forward. 

I know that sounds cynical but at this point, after what the world has been through with this virus, do we really need to stress over "anti-vaxers"?  If they're not convinced by now, when will they be?

 

Unless they die. I'm not so sure the best course of action is to let people get covid so they may work up an immunity to it and even if they don't die some of the long term effects from those getting covid can be pretty bad 

I'm not an immunologist or an epidemiologist I just do my best to listen to those who are and they say get vaccinated so I did 

I was already wearing a mask and washing my hands 10 times a day and not talking to anybody other than my nurses a year before covid because if chemo.

I trust my oncologist and nurses and doctors and science, it and they all saved my life so when they say wear a mask wash your hands get vaccinated I do and when they say everyone should,not just high risk people like me I advocate for that because I care about others health as well as my own and the more people that are vaccinated the sooner the better.

9 minutes ago, Iggles25 said:

Matt Barkley is still in the league?? Thought he'd be hosting a sports talk show by now.

He's been Allens top backup

4 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

I have had Covid, down for a month , my doctors encouraged me to still get vaccinated , and I still have the antibodies  , different strains, different protections 

 

There is no science to back getting the vaccine if you already had it.  

1 minute ago, Original Sin said:

Herd immunity will not work at 70%

 

experts now calculate the herd immunity threshold to be at least 80 percent. If even more contagious variants develop, or if scientists find that immunized people can still transmit the virus, the calculation will have to be revised upward again

And, as usual, all of this discussion neglects parents with children too young to qualify for vaccination. "My body, my choice" is all well and good for adult anti-vaxxers but I still have to have my 10-year-old daughter mask up whenever we enter a public place that relies on the honor system for mandating masks only for the unvaccinated.

If the only people who could be harmed by not getting vaccinated were adults who have chosen to make themselves vulnerable, I would be fine with just letting Darwinism play out. But my kids have just spent a year sacrificing their social and educational development so we could keep these adults, who are at higher risk, healthy long enough for a good vaccine to get here. It's infuriating that those adults won't now do their part.

4 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Unless they die, I'm not so sure the best course of action is to let people get covid so they may work up an immunity to it and even if they don't die some of the long term effects from those getting covid can be pretty bad 

I'm not an immunologist or an epidemiologist I just do my best to listen to those who are and they say get vaccinated so I did 

I was already wearing a mask and washing my hands 10 times a day and not talking to anybody other than my nurses a year before covid because if chemo.

I trust my oncologist and nurses and doctors and science, it and they all saved my life so when they say wear a mask wash your hands get vaccinated I do and when they say everyone should not just high risk people like me I advocate for that because I care about others health as well as my own and the more people that are vaccinated the sooner the better.

I do as well.  And when I'm asked by friends or associates that have not gotten the vaccine, I'll tell them that I got it and the effects were the typical sore arm after the 1st shot and soar/body aches for about 12 hours after the 2nd shot.   One thing I also tell them is to stop believing social media memes/conspiracy theories and to consult their doctor.  If you trust your doctor with all your health why would you all of a sudden doubt your doctor over this? 

6 minutes ago, bpac55 said:

Guessing he's looking good during team drills such as 7v7 or 11v11.

I kid I kid.  

They got Jamin Davis at mlb and calling plays , if they can coach that talent up , a top D , just got tougher 

9 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

Doesn't factor in the people who have already gotten covid who don't really need to be vaccinated as studies show. 

 

https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210608/No-point-vaccinating-those-whoe28099ve-had-COVID-19-Findings-of-Cleveland-Clinic-study.aspx?__twitter_impression=true

Good to know and there are plenty of people that haven't gotten covid that aren't getting vaccinated and those are the people that aren't part of the solution.

8 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

That wasn’t predictable at all.  You can be proud of yourself.  You need it.  You’ve had a rough few days.  

So has your mom, but she likes it rough...

2 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

There is no science to back getting the vaccine if you already had it.  

I know someone who got virus twice , prior to vaccines coming out , again having virus already guarantees you nothing 

1 hour ago, Dwide Schrude said:

Thought this was hilarious of Stoutland responding to McLane who’s trying to stir the pot again

God I hate the eagles beat. Wentz and Doug are long gone, nobody wants to hear about them so stop asking.

per ny times

 

Herd immunity is often described as a national target. But that is a hazy concept in a country this large.

"Disease transmission is local,” Dr. Lipsitch noted.

"If the coverage is 95 percent in the United States as a whole, but 70 percent in some small town, the virus doesn’t care,” he explained. "It will make its way around the small town.”

How insulated a particular region is from the coronavirus depends on a dizzying array of factors.

Herd immunity can fluctuate with "population crowding, human behavior, sanitation and all sorts of other things,” said Dr. David M. Morens, a virologist and senior adviser to Dr. Fauci. "The herd immunity for a wealthy neighborhood might be X, then you go into a crowded neighborhood one block away and it’s 10X.”

Given the degree of movement among regions, a small virus wave in a region with a low vaccination level can easily spill over into an area where a majority of the population is protected.

At the same time, the connectivity between countries, particularly as travel restrictions ease, emphasizes the urgency of protecting not just Americans but everyone in the world, said Natalie E. Dean, a biostatistician at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Any variants that arise in the world will eventually reach the United States, she noted.

Many parts of the world lag far behind the United States on vaccinations. Less than 2 percent of the people in India have been fully vaccinated, for example, and less than 1 percent in South Africa

We will not achieve herd immunity as a country or a state or even as a city until we have enough immunity in the population as a whole,” said Lauren Ancel Meyers, the director of the Covid-19 Modeling Consortium at the University of Texas at Austin.

 

 

5 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

There is no science to back getting the vaccine if you already had it.  

As is there isn't sufficient scientific evidence to suggest that not getting vaccinated will protect one from covid variants, though Im not sure there's evidence to suggest a  vaccine will protect one from those variants either.

Having said that better safe than sorry what's it going to hurt to get vaccinated???

The article you posted a few posts earlier doesn't suggest that people who have had covid not get vaccinated it advocates for prioritizing those at more risk to get vaccinated before low risk people, those who have already had covid are low risk.

Like I said if one has the chance to get vaccinated what's it going to hurt other than ones arm???

1 hour ago, Dwide Schrude said:

Thought this was hilarious of Stoutland responding to McLane who’s trying to stir the pot again

What a chud McLame is. He has done some good work but then he undermines himself when he asks completely absurd questions like this to coaches that have nothing to do with that situation at all.

38 minutes ago, Connecticut Eagle said:

It keeps you from getting sick, protects others, and limits the opportunities for more dangerous variants to emerge.

That’s worth more than two cents.

The good news is that here in Florida the death rate from covid has gone from a peak of around 170 per day down to less than 15 per day.

On a national level it's gone from a peak of over 4000 per day to less than 400 per day and it's plummeting. 90% drop from peak levels. 

This is with only 43% of the population fully vaccinated.  So yes, both the vaccine and the initial stages of herd immunity is working. 

 

3 minutes ago, metal said:

What a chud McLame is. He has done some good work but then he undermines himself when he asks completely absurd questions like this to coaches that have nothing to do with that situation at all.

I haven't heard the word " Chud" used in a minute👍😄

20 minutes ago, Original Sin said:

I have had Covid, down for a month , my doctors encouraged me to still get vaccinated , and I still have the antibodies  , different strains, different protections 

I had covid as well. It triggered Afib. I nearly died and I feel like I aged five years in a month. You’re damn right I got vaccinated.

Stay healthy, beast. I’m sure I’ll need to talk Gettysburg sometime soon.

4 minutes ago, Ace Nova said:

The good news is that here in Florida the death rate from covid has gone from a peak of around 170 per day down to less than 15 per day.

On a national level it's gone from a peak of over 4000 per day to less than 400 per day and it's plummeting. 90% drop from peak levels. 

This is with only 43% of the population fully vaccinated.  So yes, both the vaccine and the initial stages of herd immunity is working. 

 

The less people vaccinated , the greater the chance of a new variant , that the  vaccine may not be as effective in

18 minutes ago, RememberTheKoy said:

 

There is no science to back getting the vaccine if you already had it.  

There are studies that show a near 100% immunity rate if you've had Covid then get the vaccine. And likely, no need for a booster shot later on.