58 minutes ago, downundermike said:

A brilliant football mind at work.  

I've been hearing rumors that Steve McNair has been lighting it up at camp this summer

11 minutes ago, Bacarty2 said:

I thought the said the guy killed was unarmed, 

Possibly. I didn't read the whole thing, just a few witness statements and parts of the story. I was merely painting a hypothetical

Just now, mikemack8 said:

I've been hearing rumors that Steve McNair has been lighting it up at camp this summer

c'mon man, let that guy rip. 

2 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

I've been hearing rumors that Steve McNair has been lighting it up at camp this summer

And his favorite, Tommy Maddox.

11 hours ago, BigEFly said:

But private industry is doing solar.  Farms popping up all over the country. 12 significant utility sized farms in PA and over 400 solar farms in development. Heck, my Newsmax watching father-in-law can see and acknowledge all the commercial solar farms growing up around his place in east Texas.   Sorry, you missed on this one.  Business is developing solar farms  

There is no such thing as a Thorium reactor. Thorium has no isotopes.  The old, long discontinued thorium based reactors were bombarded by U233 to work.  U(ranium)233 is highly radioactive.  The theory that thorium produces no radioactive material is based on a liquid core.  So many issues with this.  You’ve been listening to Andrew Yang way too much.  

Still produces far less waste and shorter lived. 
 

how much govt money are those solar farms taking? Quite a bit. Bc the roi is negative…

45 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

But, can he break out of a perfectly good pocket, run for a yard and take a hit unnecessarily?

Haha we already have one of those...Steichen WANTS him to break pocket and run...

Hope Hurts progresses tho, we'll see.

Maybe Strong is a hang in there, make the throw, not take the hit guy.

News flash, Brady was a late 6th round pick. Howd that work out? lol.

Kidding, be nice to have a strong armed QB with all the tools back there.

Still searching for now...

 

 

47 minutes ago, UK Eagle said:

Thorium is being seriously looked at to replace Uranium in Nuclear reactors: https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html

Also, a few miles up from the road from me, some very clever people are reviewing the practicality fusion reactors, etc

https://www.energy.ox.ac.uk/research/nuclear/

https://cherwell.org/2022/05/08/oxford-nuclear-fusion-revolution-cherwell-meets-the-scientists/

Infact, I've just realised my Grandfather spent 30+ years at one of the places doing "science stuff". That interest didn't get through the family genes 🤣

Molten salt reactors have significant advantages

1 minute ago, Doc S. said:

Haha we already have one of those...Steichen WANTS him to break pocket and run...

Hope Hurts progresses tho, we'll see.

Maybe Strong is a hang in there, make the throw, not take the hit guy.

News flash, Brady was a late 6th round pick. Howd that work out? lol.

Kidding, be nice to have a strong armed QB with all the tools back there.

Still searching for now...

The two bolded statements are pretty much at odds.  The QB that wants to run will only learn how to play inside the pocket, if he's being trained how to do it, and the coaches working with him push him to stay in the pocket more.  Hopefully, Steichen is only putting that out publicly and in private meetings, they are working on him staying in the pocket and playing better from the pocket.   

I don't think its a coincidence that the single best half of football that Hurts has played in the NFL was the game against the Broncos... where he came off the field after leaving the pocket in the red zone unnecessarily and they settled for a FG... and Sirianni yelled at him about staying in the pocket, and he ended up throwing for 2 TDs that half.   We need to see that Jalen Hurts.  Sadly, we've seen it for exactly one half of football in the NFL.  And that's it.  Habits are hard to break, and unless he's being pushed to break those habits... they will remain.

When are these practices supposed to start?

3 minutes ago, UndyTaker said:

When are these practices supposed to start?

 

2 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

The two bolded statements are pretty much at odds.  The QB that wants to run will only learn how to play inside the pocket, if he's being trained how to do it, and the coaches working with him push him to stay in the pocket more.  Hopefully, Steichen is only putting that out publicly and in private meetings, they are working on him staying in the pocket and playing better from the pocket.   

I don't think its a coincidence that the single best half of football that Hurts has played in the NFL was the game against the Broncos... where he came off the field after leaving the pocket in the red zone unnecessarily and they settled for a FG... and Sirianni yelled at him about staying in the pocket, and he ended up throwing for 2 TDs that half.   We need to see that Jalen Hurts.  Sadly, we've seen it for exactly one half of football in the NFL.  And that's it.  Habits are hard to break, and unless he's being pushed to break those habits... they will remain.

Agree 100%.

My post was at odds with itself the moment I hit send, but the reality is we don"t know what's being coached up.

That Denver game showed us possibilities. Haven't seen those possibilities sustained yet.

This is not another bash Jalen post, just trying to calibrate the barometer.

You dance with who brung ya til a prettier lassie catches yer eye....

 

3 hours ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned in 2014 that Putin was funding certain "green" groups through far-left organizations as part of the Kremlin's "sophisticated information and disinformation operations."

These Russian subversives targeted hydraulic fracturing — fracking — which is used to extract oil and gas from otherwise difficult deposits. Putin condemned fracking in 2011, saying it was "associated with significant environmental risks, in particular the hazard of surface and underground water contamination with chemicals applied in the production process."
I see their propaganda worked. 

The gas companies were their own worst enemies.

Devon, who was a leader in shale gas, opposed tougher regulation of fracking (along with Chesapeake and some other industry leaders).

Had they supported regulation, including a small tax to finance inspections, etc., reduce methane leaks, water contamination, and so on, at a small fraction of their net revenue, they would have both made fracking more politically palatable by reducing the damage, and discouraged entrants who wanted to aggressively drill without regard to environmental consequences, thus slowing the crash in natural gas prices (which would have made the incumbents a lot of money).

This is why I laugh when people try to tell me brilliant people run these companies.

3 hours ago, dawkdaballhawk said:

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned in 2014 that Putin was funding certain "green" groups through far-left organizations as part of the Kremlin's "sophisticated information and disinformation operations."

These Russian subversives targeted hydraulic fracturing — fracking — which is used to extract oil and gas from otherwise difficult deposits. Putin condemned fracking in 2011, saying it was "associated with significant environmental risks, in particular the hazard of surface and underground water contamination with chemicals applied in the production process."
I see their propaganda worked. 

On you, maybe.  There is truth to the quoted statement attributed to Putin.  If you don’t recognize that, you really don’t understand production, including fracking.  Done right, those hazards can be controlled, such as reprocessing and reusing the water utilized in the process.  But that adds to the costs.  Fracking is break even when oil is in the sixties.  Oil is in the eighties now and that’s right around where it needs to be to make the process profitable.  The problem is, if you start a well today (and that assumes you have previously done the geological survey necessary to understand where and whether the oil will pool and where the gas will go for capture), it will be seven months before that well produces.  Can you foretell what oil prices will be in seven months.  Like it or not, what killed fracking wasn’t environmentalists, it was OPEC increasing production and knocking the price down.  @austinfan is right about the oil companies really not anxious for a whole lot of new leases.  They are more worried that inactivity may cause them to lose leases they aren’t currently producing.   Most leases are go for peanuts (as are our national forest timbers and our grazing lands and you don’t even want to look what we are giving our metals like gold away for to mostly foreign mining companies).  

1 hour ago, UK Eagle said:

Thorium is being seriously looked at to replace Uranium in Nuclear reactors: https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium.html

Also, a few miles up from the road from me, some very clever people are reviewing the practicality fusion reactors, etc

https://www.energy.ox.ac.uk/research/nuclear/

https://cherwell.org/2022/05/08/oxford-nuclear-fusion-revolution-cherwell-meets-the-scientists/

Infact, I've just realised my Grandfather spent 30+ years at one of the places doing "science stuff". That interest didn't get through the family genes 🤣

Fusion has been just around the corner . . . for 50 years.

There's a big jump from what can be done at small scale in controlled conditions and what can be scaled up to an economically and politically feasible technology.

16 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Molten salt reactors have significant advantages

And some difficulties in maintaining.  

9 minutes ago, UndyTaker said:

When are these practices supposed to start?

Browns want to practice in the middle of the afternoon, for whatever reason. 

3 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Browns want to practice in the middle of the afternoon, for whatever reason. 

To make us wait and kill time talking about other things.  Don’t know about you but this offseason has dragged along slowly.  The Beats seem to publish the same thing and it is not real informative and now, except for the scrimmage practices, we are down to a couple of preseason games and limited open practice time once a week for the reporters to basically see stretching and position drills.  9/11 seems a month away.

32 minutes ago, downundermike said:

 

The one time I remembered in the morning and they choose to practice in the afternoon instead. Not fair

14 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

To make us wait and kill time talking about other things.  Don’t know about you but this offseason has dragged along slowly.  The Beats seem to publish the same thing and it is not real informative and now, except for the scrimmage practices, we are down to a couple of preseason games and limited open practice time once a week for the reporters to basically see stretching and position drills.  9/11 seems a month away.

The info this offseason has been very limited

8 hours ago, The Blackfish said:

  In terms of pipelines one out of North Dakota to the remaining refineries on the east coast would be nice. Delaware City was getting about 100,000 barrels per day by rail a few years ago. 
 North Dakota is sitting on approx 4 billion barrels of light crude, (estimates from 4 billion to 8 billion) sh!t is so sweet it smells like honey and money, lol, I worked on 3 rigs right after I lost my job at the Sunoco refinery in Marcus Hook, when that refinery closed in March 2012.   They had rigs everywhere back then until 2014, when the Saudis decided to boost their production and a barrel went from $100 down to around $45, which led to rigs being shutdown and out of staters leaving for home. 
  Now more  recently they can’t find enough experienced workers for the rigs.  There’s really no need to start up rigs on Federal Land, or other questionable areas if you can’t get workers on existing ones. I put my time in North Dakota from mid 2012 till the end of 2013. That kind of work is not for everyone, working 20 hour days in that F’ed up weather. No one’s going from pushing papers for 5 years in the a/c and heat of a building wearing dress shoes and suits with half the office filled with skirted broads, to working with some of the nastiest scumbags hiding from warrants, for drug offenses to manslaughter.   
 In terms of Federal land leases and permits, I understand the value for drilling purposes, I also understand OPEC and the Saudis control the cost of oil, which means they also control the price of gasoline. 
 
https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/Environment/2022/0415/Demand-for-oil-is-spiking.-So-why-are-North-Dakota-rigs-lying-idle

 The Keystone Pipeline would have given jobs to a few thousand guys temporarily, which most are working anyway, but it would not have done anything to the price of oil unless again, the Saudis or OPEC said it would. 
 
Btw, US imports gasoline as well as crude, so if we had more refineries here under our environmental controls, wouldn’t that be much safer to the environment than say Russia refining it for us? Just saying, it’s not just the air over the US that matters right? 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/630298/us-imports-of-finished-motor-gasoline/

 

I appreciate this information.  I grew up not far from the Marcus Hook refinery.  I remember the explosion and fire in the late 70's in Delaware City.  There are 2 big problems with building more refineries in the US.  They are not pleasant to live near and historically have been prone to accidents that have big potential environmental problems.  Tougher regulations here means oil companies don't want to build refineries in the US because the cost and environmental liability are higher here than in other nations. There's not an environmental solution that doesn't impact the profitability of these companies.  

27 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Yeah, wont it be like 106 heat index later in the day?

It is 72 degrees without the heat index.  In Ohio you add 34 degrees because of the lake effect snow from Lake Erie.  

13 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

To make us wait and kill time talking about other things.  Don’t know about you but this offseason has dragged along slowly.  The Beats seem to publish the same thing and it is not real informative and now, except for the scrimmage practices, we are down to a couple of preseason games and limited open practice time once a week for the reporters to basically see stretching and position drills.  9/11 seems a month away.

The Mantra seems to be " Start slow, then taper off"....

Trying to limit soft tissue injuries? Spending more time teaching in the rooms? Adhering to new NFLPA guidelines?

( How about those lovely helmet Bonnets...?) Ask Mailata how they worked out...

I always thought time on field ( practice or Game) was the most valuable commodity. Reps, Reps and more reps.

Playing Football was always about conditioning, hitting, tackling, execution by way of repeated drills...

NFL dancing close to the Vince McMahon model lately...

 

 

8 minutes ago, Doc S. said:

The Mantra seems to be " Start slow, then taper off"....

Trying to limit soft tissue injuries? Spending more time teaching in the rooms? Adhering to new NFLPA guidelines?

( How about those lovely helmet Bonnets...?) Ask Mailata how they worked out...

I always thought time on field ( practice or Game) was the most valuable commodity. Reps, Reps and more reps.

Playing Football was always about conditioning, hitting, tackling, execution by way of repeated drills...

NFL dancing close to the Vince McMahon model lately...

 

 

Rodger Goodell with a hoe or two on the side?

A little while ago I posted about a couple of the fronts the defense has shown. I paid closer attention to the 4i front but Gannon also ran a lot of 4-2 against the Jets, much more than the 4i, and that got me thinking. Michigan ran a lot of the 4-2, with only two down linemen and Hutchinson and Ojabo as stand-up DEs and they were tough to run against and with their DEs, could generate a lot of pressure. A lot of that was because of DT Mazi Smith, who is a load. We have one of those in Davis. If you can get away with such a light front you have an extra guy in pass defense. Gannon also stacked his two ILBs behind the DTs, which makes it tougher to run inside since blocking to the second level is hampered by the DTs. You also need fast LBs to make up for the lighter front and we have those too.

Interesting to me, if no one else.

48 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

PFF 😂

 

4700 total yards is not unreasonable. Figure he runs for 700, passes for 4000.

4000 for 16 games (assuming he misses one), is 250 yards per game passing, and say 150 yards per game rushing.

Those are reasonable goals given the talent on this offense.

Just now, justrelax said:

A little while ago I posted about a couple of the fronts the defense has shown. I paid closer attention to the 4i front but Gannon also ran a lot of 4-2 against the Jets, much more than the 4i, and that got me thinking. Michigan ran a lot of the 4-2, with only two down linemen and Hutchinson and Ojabo as stand-up DEs and they were tough to run against and with their DEs, could generate a lot of pressure. A lot of that was because of DT Mazi Smith, who is a load. We have one of those in Davis. If you can get away with such a light front you have an extra guy in pass defense. Gannon also stacked his two ILBs behind the DTs, which makes it tougher to run inside since blocking to the second level is hampered by the DTs. You also need fast LBs to make up for the lighter front and we have those too.

Interesting to me, if no one else.

It also may reflect the move to 3 WR formations and the dearth of good run blocking TEs, which means teams throw more short passes and run inside less.

What Gannon now has is the personnel to run almost any scheme up front, 3-4, 4-3 under, 4-3, 4-2, 3-3.