12 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Breaking a leg is an injury/illness. Getting nervous is not.  Horrible comparison. 

How do you know how she's feeling?

How do you know her state of mind?

Being mentally emotionally drained can be just as debilitating as a broken bone.

Like I said it's not my job to diagnose her, it ethically not my wifes job a practicing psychologist trained in diagnosis to diagnose her.

That job belongs to her personal therapists and that information is biles to share or not share if she so chooses and we should respect that.

She doesn't owe you or me or anyone an explanation.

And if the explanation she gives is she was mentally emotionally drained then who are we or why would we should we question that as a legit reason as to not compete?

Just now, vaeagle2 said:

would love to him in a short yardage scenario   LOL

 

 Remington, who the Remington Award is named played 7:on 7 football in high school. (So did my dad).  I always said my strategy would have been giving Remington the ball and letting him carry the other team through the goal line.  I see Mailata like that.  Eagles really need a Refrigerator Perry like play designed for Mailata. 

6 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Its sounds like she had an anxiety attack. Thats not chicken ish. 

Nothing she has said indicates that.  You can feel nerves without it being an anxiety attack. 

I'd bet tons that it was not.  With those symptoms she would be having all kinds of medical tests done to rule out cardiac emergencies.  She was in and out of the training room in like 2 minutes,  talking to her teammates, and cheering then on,  absolutely fine. 

Looked nothing like an anxiety attack. 

7 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Yet none of her teammates are pissed at her as they said they were there for her and wouldn't even be where they were without her.

Simone Biles doesn't owe you or anyone else an explanation.

If she says she's not mentally fit to compete why question it???

What's the point. What answer would satisfy your expectations???

 

 

She's lucky to be on a team full of the same generation of coddled kids. 

 

is it fair to judge Emily Blunt and the Rock in Jungle Cruise against Bogart and Bacall in African Queen?

17 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Watching rugby right now and getting excited for football.  I cannot f’in imagine trying to,deal,with Mailata as a rugby player. 

Bledisloe cup is in a few weeks, go all blacks.!

If Mailata was such a force to be reckoned with as a rugby player he would have been playing in more than what is akin to triple A ball.

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Nothing she has said indicates that.  You can feel nerves without it being an anxiety attack. 

I'd bet tons that it was not.  With those symptoms she would be having all kinds of medical tests done to rule out cardiac emergencies.  She was in and out of the training room in like 2 minutes,  talking to her teammates, and cheering then on,  absolutely fine. 

Looked nothing like an anxiety attack. 

Wow so all the sudden people on the message board are trained sports psychologist and without even talking to Biles are confident in giving or speculating about her state of mind and her diagnosis???

 

4 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

She's lucky to be on a team full of the same generation of coddled kids. 

 

Yes because US gymnastics has such a well known reputation for coddling their athletes👎

13 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

 Remington, who the Remington Award is named played 7:on 7 football in high school. (So did my dad).  I always said my strategy would have been giving Remington the ball and letting him carry the other team through the goal line.  I see Mailata like that.  Eagles really need a Refrigerator Perry like play designed for Mailata. 

In rugby one isn't allowed to low tackle or ankle bite, nor are rugby defenders wearing a plastic and metal helmet they can launch into an opposing players knees or ankles.

One carry in the NFL by Mailata and the first defender is chopping him down at the knees/ankles which isn't allowed in rugby 

Would be fun to watch him truck some dudes though

Trying to avoid the cliche "Dawkins would make a great D-coordinator!” trope but I think Lane Johnson might have some real potential as a future o-line coach. He clearly admires Stoutland and is learning from one of the best but he also co-held the 4th annual OL Masterminds summit. Teaching the position seems to be an interest of his.

4 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Trying to avoid the cliche "Dawkins would make a great D-coordinator!” trope but I think Lane Johnson might have some real potential as a future o-line coach. He clearly admires Stoutland and is learning from one of the best but he also co-held the 4th annual OL Masterminds summit. Teaching the position seems to be an interest of his.

Yup, I could see him doing that or going like  chuck Smith who has his own pass rushing clinic and starting an OL clinic.

I think the media and the network hype-machine did Biles an injustice by advertising her as the GOAT before the Olympics even started. Why do that right before world-wide event?

27 minutes ago, brkmsn said:

I think the media and the network hype-machine did Biles an injustice by advertising her as the GOAT before the Olympics even started. Why do that right before world-wide event?

To draw viewers 

 

By far the worst take with all this Covid stuff. 
 

here’s the tweets since he’ll probably delete them

 

1 hour ago, WentzFan11 said:

 

By far the worst take with all this Covid stuff. 
 

here’s the tweets since he’ll probably delete them

 

Yikes. What an idiot 

4 hours ago, brkmsn said:

I think the media and the network hype-machine did Biles an injustice by advertising her as the GOAT before the Olympics even started. Why do that right before world-wide event?

She wears it on her uniform. 

9 hours ago, eagle45 said:

 

To a certain extent, I am being devil's advocate...but what do you think the response would be if Tom Brady sat out last year's SB?  You think the TB fans and teammates would applaud him taking his mental health seriously?  

This isn't her first Olympics either.  She's already done it all, won it all, signed all the endorsements...I just find it unusual.

Was Brady molested and then interviewed during super bowl week about it? (I'm not even saying that's what caused this for sure)

8 hours ago, bpac55 said:

More Hurts slob fest.  Me personally, I don't like the #1 for a QB of his stature.  From a visual standpoint, 1 is lean and narrow, looked great on Charles Rodgers at Michigan State.  He was tall and lanky.  Hurts is a thicker built QB and with the flak jacket on, 1 looks too small on the jersey.  He's built like Donovan.  5 was perfect for his build.  Hurts looked good in 2 as that fills the jersey.  Carson was taller and 11 filled him out.  2 looks silly on him.  I could go on and on about numbers.

I've said it before but I've always loved the aesthetics and visuals of the game of football.  Numbers and how they look on certain players, certain positions are a huge part of that.  It's why I'm not happy with the relaxed numbers rule.  I'm sure some will give me a hard time for the post but it's just something I always liked going back to when I was a kid.  

 

I could give a crap how "fresh" he looks.

8 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

There are anxiety disorders.... and then there is just being human and feeling nerves before competition. Thats not illness. You just need to learn coping skills. Which... is something these younger generations dont seem to learn. So they quit. So now we will start calling a little bit of competitive nerves a mental illness and coddling them even more. And praise them for being quitters and taking care of their mental health. So wrong. Taking care of their mental health is not what we just witnessed today. 

She met with a sport psychologist once for competition nervousness and supposedly learned how to turn it in to focus. In sports psych this is a principle known as the inverted U hypothesis. You show and describe this curve to the athlete. Explain that those feelings are normal. But there are coping strategies to make sure you know how to peak at the right time. Too little arousal you under perform. Too much, you underperform. You learn how to peak. 

If this is the case, then I agree

7 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

I agree.  We can make a push to spread mental health awareness and destigmatize it.  In doing so we should be careful not to cross to far too this extreme where we coddle people who quit just due to feeling regular human emotions,  which are normal- not illness at all.

There could be something more serious with Biles. Something clinically diagnosable.  But everything she has said today makes it sound like it was just nerves and not wanting to make a mistake out there. 

If she wants to help raise awareness and destigmatize it then she should be open about it if there's something more. The answers she gave do not make her sound deserving of so much praise about bravery.  Right now she appears the polar opposite of brave. Abs her teammates have every right to be pissed that she cost them gold. 

They got a lower score than Russia in qualifying with Biles competing, without Biles they were worse, Biles cost them nothing. The other gymnasts weren't good enough to win Gold period.

8 hours ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Olympic hockey is bad for the same reason that Olympic basketball is bad.  Because the pros are doing it.  Unless of course you’re weird and hate hockey.  
 

I like some skiing and other winter events.  But track and field and swimming is the best for the summer.  

Did I hear right that there’s 3vs3 basketball in olympics now?

Summer, I also like beach volleyball, women's gymnastics, triathlon, marathon, and the bike races, I would also watch weightlifting and taekwondo if they even televised it. I haven't watch one lick of usa basketball other than a few minutes of the half court 3 on 3.

7 hours ago, Moderator12 said:

Only in terms of EMB salary

 

26 minutes ago, greend said:

Was Brady molested and then interviewed during super bowl week about it? (I'm not even saying that's what caused this for sure)

Was she?  I thought that had pre dated her.  Regardless, she pulled out of the all-around, so I was wrong that it was to focus on that.  Seems that someone is going on.  

13 hours ago, downundermike said:

How many of those guys still on the roster ??

I get what you meant, but in the grand scheme of things, it was a pretty darn good draft considering how much the SB depended on those players.

1 hour ago, eagle45 said:

Was she?  I thought that had pre dated her.  Regardless, she pulled out of the all-around, so I was wrong that it was to focus on that.  Seems that someone is going on.  

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/simone-biles-says-she-was-molested-gymnastics-doctor-larry-nassar-n837806

I still can't believe what TJ Ward said. Who blames someone for getting cancer?