NC-17 posted:

Matt Cassel looked like a bumbling retard in most of his preseason showings and was worth a 2nd round pick eventually. So ergo Hoyer is worth two 1st's at least.

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If you put the odds at PSU landing either Urban Meyer, Tony Dungy, or Jon Gruden at about  a 1 in 8 chance, or say 12-15% for each of them . . .  . . . when you add it all up statistically, you get pretty close to 40-60 / 50-50 for landing one of them.

All three of them will at lease have the conversation w/ PSU when that time comes . . .


Just saying.

MorningView posted:

Last year I only kept this open because it made *entry removed* mad.

tk posted:

In this post, we demonstrate a poor understanding of both the world and statistics.

tk posted:

In this post, we demonstrate a poor understanding of both the world and statistics.

MorningView posted:

Last year I only kept this open because it made Pop Dog mad.

DO YALL WANT A HAM posted:

"Get me Brian Hoyer!!!!" - many an NFL GM

Patsfans posted:

Call me a homer if you want, but the biggest challenger to the Patriots is Themselves. There better then the other 15 teams in the AFC. Our 2nd and 3rd units would be a playoff contending club.

tk posted:

In this post, we demonstrate a poor understanding of both the world and statistics.

tk posted:

In this post, we demonstrate a poor understanding of both the world and statistics.

dubdrome711 posted:

oh is that so

AdamD posted:

shhh we're not allowed to talk about it

MorningView posted:

Last year I only kept this open because it made Pop Dog mad.

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I’ll be honest and say I really can’t stand the idea of women in the NFL. I am personally sick of the myriad female commentators. Every network has a bunch of them, and they talk out their @sses in my opinion. Why do women have to feel they need to infiltrate every conceivable male bastion. I watch the NFL to find an escape from the yammering, know-it-all females that dominate the world. I couldn’t care less if you want to outlaw the stupid cheerleaders, too. That whole bit is asinine. The fans don’t need “help” to know when to cheer or boo.

I wish women would frikken let men have at least one or two things where we can escape from them. I mean it. I’m sorry if this makes me a dinosaur, but for the love of God- I am so sick of this PC world. In TRUTH, do you really think someone like Erin Andrews is actually BETTER (more well-versed in football knowledge, more eloquent, etc.) than the one thousand males who would give anything to have that job? Truthfully? She is there because the honchos think some tart with blonde hair and a nice rack will mean more fans. I kind of doubt even the lowest knuckle-dragging neanderthal actually watches one NFL broadcast over another because they trot out some less-qualified chick out in front of the cameras. Gimme a break.

If the NFL really does FORCE female officials down the public’s throats, they should be ashamed of themselves. Women have, like minorities of all types, been able to steal jobs from many far more qualified men, ever since all this affirmative action crap started. I personally know highly educated, and vastly superior, qualified professionals who got passed over because the college where I worked HAS to hire far less qualified minorities. Where is the justice in that? And the students suffer, through no fault of their own. Really makes sense.

It’s one thing if someone is TRULY the MOST qualified. Then, I say hire them. But do not tell me there are women refs out there who are honestly superior in qualifications to the hundreds of male candidates who want that job just as badly. It seems to me that men let women walk all over them in this country. And we hold them and other minorities to a much lower standard, which has made our country even weaker. Makes me sick.

Ozu posted:

Yes it is. I can't link directly to the comment.

Robert Chandler says:
Aug 13, 2011 6:21 PM

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Many people will use this as yet another tired excuse to (yawn) rail against the inequities of the NCAA system itself. These people simply miss the point entirely. Spare me. The players know the rules. They know the conditions that they voluntarily agree to work under. They chose this life. If they also chose to violate their agreements, then that is not somehow the NCAAs fault. As draconian as the rules appear, the rules exist because this sort of thing would only be worse if the rules were less strict.
We also do not at this point know the allegations are true. On the one hand, we have the word of a convicted felon who is doing 20 years – essentially for lying. So how do we know he’s not lying now? On the other hand, to be honest, the allegations do not have the ring of bullshit. I wish they did. They don’t.
We also will have a large group of people who will take disproportionate glee in seeing Miami, of all programs, fall. The outrage will be louder, longer, and certainly much more shrill simply because it’s the Hurricanes. Stories need heroes and villains. In college football, Notre Dame and Penn State go out of their way to be the old-fashioned, milk-drinking hero in the white hat. Penn State pulls it off. Notre Dame simply come off as sanctimonious assholes. On the other side of the spectrum, the hero is boring without a great villain, and NOBODY plays a better villain than the University of Miami. We’re everything class-warfare salivates over – a small wealthy, elite private school (and worse, one who is unashamed to promote black athletes) who comes into your house and beats you. You used to hate the Oakland Raiders. You hate Duke Basketball. You hate the Philadelphia Flyers. You hated the Boston Celtics in the 80s and the Miami Heat today. Why? Because they wear the black hat. But it means that when a program like that falters – the fans will take disproportionate glee in its demise. Sports Illustrated will give you comfort while they snipe at us. They’re just mad that some other publication got the scoop, not them. But they’ll take their shots like they always do. You love to hate us and the college football landscape is a more boring place when we’re not on top.

NC-17 posted:

Ozu posted:

A PFT post about the potential for women officials. What could possibly go wrong?

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/13/female-officials-coming-soon-to-the-nfl/

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Where can I find a Power Rankings with the Bills not #30, #31, or last

Thank you

Tremendous Taste posted:

The Big Jesus posted:

...and there is a reason for that: The position of the belly button.


I thought people at my school (GT) were supposed to be smart

The Big Jesus posted:

I don't know if a white RB under 220 lbs in the past 10+ years has ever started for any BCS team (excluding BYU, etc) and there is a reason for that: The position of the belly button.

Oodles of Wootles posted:

I'm sorry, what?

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French medical anatomist Etienne Serres really did argue that black males are primitive because the distance between navel and penis remains small throughout life, while white children begin with small separation but increase it during growth—rising belly button as a mark of progress.

Grittybeard posted:

e: Or is it common knowledge of some sort that black guys have low belly buttons? I can honestly say I've never paid any attention to anyone's belly button position.

news.discovery.com posted:

Scientists have found the reason why some athletes dominate on the running track and others in the swimming pool: It's in their belly buttons, a study published Monday shows.

What's important is not whether an athlete has an innie or an outie but where his or her navel is in relation to the rest of the body, says the study published in the International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics

The navel is the center of gravity of the body, and given two runners or swimmers of the same height, one black and one white, "what matters is not total height but the position of the belly button, or center of gravity," Duke University professor Andre Bejan, the lead author of the study, told AFP.

It so happens that in the architecture of the human body of West African-origin runners, the center of gravity is significantly higher than in runners of European origin," which puts them at an advantage in sprints on the track, he said.

Individuals of West African-origin have longer legs than European-origin athletes, which means their belly buttons are three centimeters (1.18 inches) higher than whites', said Bejan.

That means the black athletes have a "hidden height" that is three percent greater than whites', which gives them a significant speed advantage on the track.

venutolo posted:

It was probably a Management major. I really don't understand what position of the belly button has to do with anything, so I'm baffled.

The Big Jesus posted:

Also good guess on that. His username is "HelluvaMGTmjr"...

The Big Jesus posted:

Yeah I've never heard of the belly button thing before in my life and I've lived in the south for 23 years now...

DJExile posted:

Honest to god until this point I never knew Miami was private

Chimeric posted:

THE ANSWER TO THE GREAT BELLY BUTTON CONUNDRUM


And so forth: http://news.discovery.com/human/belly-buttons-sports-athletes.html

e: Apparently this means white people are better swimmers? vv

ChickenMedium posted:

I like how they mention that blacks statistically have longer legs than whites, but still it's the belly button thing that gives them the advantage?