NFL Week 4 N/V: Weird Blonde Drug Addict w/ No Gameplan Butchered on TV

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Which was more embarrassing? This poll is closed.
The Debate	32	14.81%
MNF	8	3.70%
Donald's Hair	12	5.56%
Six Pickspatrick	48	22.22%
The Texans	50	23.15%
Whatever's about to happen to the Bills.	37	17.13%
Print the Shirts	29	13.43%
Total:	216 votes

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Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

sean10mm posted:

Beating the pre-Belichick Patriots is like beating the, I dunno, Titans or something. It doesn't count for anything in the OH poo poo HISTORIC WIN Y'ALL bin at all.

Eli should go in the Hall of Fame because his entire career is both awesome and funny as hell. It would be like if Jim Plunkett won both his Super Bowls against the Joe Montana era 49ers teams. OF COURSE that guy makes it no matter what the rest of his career was like, it's just too good.

Nail Rat posted:

I dunno the 96 Pats were pretty drat good, maybe not historic good but a really good defense and a really good offense.

Bill Belichick was assistant head coach on the Patriots for exactly one year before he became Patriots head coach in 2000

Guess which year that was

Also Drew Bledsoe doesn't get nearly enough credit

# ¿ Sep 27, 2016 17:41

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 18:32

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

Ross Angeles posted:

Favre was a first ballot guy, so

Eli's playing in a football era where the rules have been specifically massaged to allow enormous passing stats and he's still making loads of turnovers.

Favre threw a million picks but it was (almost) always in the midst of trying to make a gigantic play. It got to the point where my dad would just shrug and say "As good as a punt" whenever Favre would bomb it downfield in triple coverage on third and long.

# ¿ Sep 27, 2016 17:44

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

Take pity upon us with nut allergies

# ¿ Sep 27, 2016 23:00

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

https://twitter.com/playerstribune/status/781486018402713601

# ¿ Sep 29, 2016 18:07

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

PFF, but...

https://twitter.com/PFF/status/781559923016622081

Looks like that extension is gonna be worth it

# ¿ Sep 29, 2016 20:46

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

https://twitter.com/robdemovsky/status/781120440559366144

# ¿ Sep 29, 2016 21:06

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

Hot Diggity! posted:

Nick Perry too.

I'm real surprised by how good Perry has been this season. He'd been totally unremarkable the rest of his career and I figured he and Datone Jones were going to just be let go after this season.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2016 21:41

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

fsif posted:

Nice, NFL. Let Josh KNOW!

https://twitter.com/NFLResearch/status/781614215052292096

This is strangely petty

# ¿ Sep 30, 2016 00:48

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

adaz posted:

Also I do not understand the JJ Watt backlash. He's this generation's lawrence taylor and is loving amazing. Just stay away from some of the fawning and appreciate the all time great who can destroy games at defense, those guys don't come around very often and it's super sad he's out for the year.

# ¿ Sep 30, 2016 07:49

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

Chichevache posted:

Being the smart Gronkowski is like being the least annoying Hawks fan.

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/09/13/rob-gronkowski-patriots-nfls-brainiest-tight-end

quote:

We�re not here because Gronkowski is the NFL�s best tight end. (He is.) We�re here because he just might be the smartest.

Skeptical? Then consider Bill Belichick�s take:

�The tight end position is, probably after quarterback, the hardest position to play in our offense. That�s the guy who does all the formationing. The running back is usually in the backfield. The receivers are receivers. But the tight ends could be in their tight end location, they could be in the backfield, they could be flexed. They could be in the wide position. To formation the defense, those are the guys you�re going to move. It�s moving the tight ends that changes the defensive deployment.�

Practice is about to begin at Gillette, but Belichick is volunteering more information on Gronkowski. In fact, he�s expansive, even congenial.

�Rob is a versatile athlete, but he�s also a versatile guy mentally. He can handle a lot of different assignments. Some guys can�t. Either they mentally can�t do it, or it�s just too much and their game slows down. They don�t play to the same skill set you see athletically because they�re thinking too much. That�s not the case with Rob.�

Rest of article goes into heavy detail. I thought it was a pretty good breakdown.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2016 00:56

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 18:32

Brannock: Feb 9, 2006; by exmarx; Fallen Rib

swickles posted:

Couple things, first he doesn't have sickle cell anemia, he has the sickle cell trait. If you remember high school biology, you inherit half your genes from mom and the other from dad. Inheriting two genes that are recessive, confers sickle cell anemia. Only inheriting one gene for it gives you the sickle cell trait.

So what is the difference? People with sickle cell trait can and often do live perfectly normal lives. In fact, having the traits tends to confer some resistance to malaria, so if you live on a country where its endemic, then its actually an advantage. However, in a small percent of people with sickle cell trait, they will react very poorly to high altitude. Ryan Clark was in that small percentage and lost his spleen and gall bladder due to them becoming infarcted (blood flow was blocked) and dying. It is unknown how Tevin Coleman will react, but simply going by the statistics, there is a 99% chance he will be perfectly fine.

That's basically it, but if you want to know a little more about why this happens I will continue. If you don't then skip this. Sickle cell anemia is a disease where the hemoglobin (the thing that transports oxygen) is slightly defective. This causes the blood cells to become misshaped (they actually form crescents, or sickles hence the name). The problem is that they then clump together and essentially form tiny clots all of the body. If they get large and/or numerous enough, they can block bloodflow to a whole organ (the spleen almost always gets hit first). In the sickle cell trait, only half (and often way less because of the bodies other mechanisms for dealing with this sort of thing) of the cells have this problematic hemoglobin. One thing you have to know about hemoglobin, is that its shape is dependent on how much oxygen its carrying. As the oxygen leaves, it becomes mishaped. Not a problem for most people, but in the sickle trait along with hypoxia that little problem tends to ramp up and you go from being a sickle trait person, to having identical blood as a full sickle cell anemia person.

Thank you for the education

# ¿ Oct 4, 2016 02:23

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