ruksak
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I cannot find the words to describe how awesome it is to be sitting here in another Gameday thread.
Should be one hell of a year.
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Trent Richardson really hits the open hole so well. pic.twitter.com/gqk6smjrOo
— CLEsportsTalk.net (@CLEsportsTalk)
August 15, 2015Trent Richardson must be of German heritage, because that dude is a Not See.
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performing well in TC imo is meaningless.
That's highly inaccurate in many cases. I'm not applying it to Smith, but let's not overreach here. TC performance is FAR from meaningless.
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well you know the posters that come out the shed to compliant
All too well. A bad performance by one player can cause a landslide.
Myself, everyone here knows I'm not the 'rah rah' type, but this Colts squad looks terrific. Possibly the best Indy Colts team we've ever fielded.
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Anyone who needs to be told this, well ....they won't listen.
Tell it to this brick wall. It may listen. It may not.
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New rule regarding number retirement should read as follows;
Any player whose career leads to the erection of a $720 million dollar stadium, who personally finances a vastly successful children's hospital, who drags his team to the playoffs for a decade straight, appearing in 2 Super Bowls and winning an NFL Championship as their leader, plays with a broken jaw and a snapped neck, breaks almost every career and seasonal record at their position .....should have his number retired.
That should limit the field a smidge.
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Still one of my top 5 favorite gifs
finally the Brockster gets his chance lol
Sorgi 2.0
Poor Brock.
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2014 happened.
He's just not that good, is all.
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Our society has a habit of discussing bad behavior and outright ignoring good behavior.
As an example; Does it sound silly to praise someone's young adult child for having a job and never having gone to jail?
How silly does it sound when that young adult grew up in a gang infested inner city?
We SHOULD take note of good behavior, with every opportunity.
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Strangely enough, the beer doesn't taste flat.
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Does anyone know why Wells has an Irish flag as his avatar? Incredibly annoying.
It might be because he has Italian heritage.
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We're talking about a grown man that threw away an opportunity to earn over a million dollars to provide for himself and his loved ones, with the potential to earn much more....over a paltry debt. He won't learn from this, that brand of dumb is in his nature. A cheetah doesn't change his spots, as they say.
His NFL career is likely over now, and I don't feel the least bit sorry for him.
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Bluster. What kind of weak-minded goofball is this sort of cheerleader fodder meant to target?
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The legal definition of defamation requires proof of malicious intent. So.... good luck with that.
http://dictionary.law.com/default.aspx?selected=458
"Public figures, including officeholders and candidates, have to show that the defamation was made with malicious intent and was not just fair comment."
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Doubtful...people just can't accept they were the best team in football last year and have been one of the best for the past decade. Its a good thing I'm not a moderator or I would delete any posts with an * in it outside the deflate gate thread. I'd give people one place to say what they want but to drag that horse crap into every single thread that NE or Tom is discussed to me gets terribly annoying and detracts from the thread and the intelligence of this board.
Pretty much this ^^^
I abstain from the deflategate discussions altogether, as they seem to more closely resemble moon landing conspiracy discussions than actual football topics. My summary is that NE was by far the best team in football in 2014 AND they tweaked the rules regarding the air pressure to one degree or another. These are mutually exclusive issues, one not having to do with the other.
There comes a point where we should let bygones be bygones.
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Since the pats* will no longer have full control over their air pressure tactics, that helped the entire league close the gap.
I wonder if we'll ever let it go?
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Injury may dictate how this shakes out. Dorsett is my guess, as I expect him to quickly become a liability if off the field. Meaning; when he leaves the field, his absence will be noticeable.
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Ok. Let's just put the detection aside. I do agree that it should be irrelevant. My original question still is what do you think the nfl should do about a player that is busted for POSSESSION. Do you understand that. Possession. Right or wrong it is still illegal. What should the nfl do about someone who breaks the CURRENT law
What Jvan said.
The law is the law.
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Really doesn't matter how long it takes to vacate the body. Are you saying it would be ok to take steriods if they vacated they body in 12 hours and couldn't be detected?
Comparing steroids to marijuana is apples and oranges. One is a recreational narcotic, the other is....well it's steroids. If steroids got people high, we'd have a society full of muscle bound stoners.
My point was the fallacy that marijuana is affecting your faculties just because it's in your "system". While stored in your fatty cells, the active ingredient is NOT causing any tangible level of impairment. When anti-pot lobbyists purport car crash statistics involving marijuana smokers, they use this aspect to bolster the numbers to make it appear far worse than it is. A person gets into a car crash weeks after smoking, they test "positive", and there it appears in their statistics column. Even though the marijuana had absolutely nothing to do with the accident at all, they make it appear so.
Pot is federally illegal right or wrong. If it is in your system you broke the law. However my question wasn't a positive test but one of possession in a state where it is illegal.We understand all that, and that is why some of us have worked so hard for so long to see it recognized as legal on a federal level. As it is, NFL players should abstain and concentrate on their careers. They have their entire post-career lives to enjoy their millions and smoke all the dope they want. Why this is hard hard for so many, I'll never understand.
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Either vapor or smoke, either way, IMO, it still speaks to attitude. I don't know the mental state or attitude of someone who deliberately seeks to feel "exceptionally relaxed" when not asleep, but it just seems to me that such a desire for relaxation would be inconsistent with having a job that requires excessive vigor, like professional football. I would think that someone who's mental attitude lies more towards hyperactivity would be drawn to the sport more naturally, and would therefore have a better ability to maintain themselves in the condition needed.
I'd dare say you're operating with a faulty preconception of your average, casual marijuana smoker. This idea that pot smokers sit around on the couch playing XBOX all day while munching chips is a bit old school, don't ya think?
Is that you, Bill O'Reilly?
Question for you, Doug. Do you currently, or have you ever, consumed alcohol casually after work?
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I do agree however what are your feelings if a player is busted for possession in a state where it is illegal? Should the league institute a punishment because of the player breaking the law? Just curious of your opinion. Nothing critical.
A lot of the legal semantics revolve around federal laws, due to insurance reasons for one. Example; Workers Compensation insurance companies lobby against the legalization of marijuana. Why? Because one of their biggest outs, one of the premiere reasons they get to forego coverage is when people are injured at work and they fail a drug test before being allowed to return.
Problem being; Marijuana is the one and only drug that gets stored and slowly released in your body's fatty tissue, taking up to a full month to clear. Meaning that if you smoke a joint on the weekend, and 2 and half weeks later some * runs over your foot at work, you get fired and have to pay your own medical bills based off the faulty assumption that you were "stoned" at work and this led to the injury.
Since insurance companies often operate based off of federal guidelines, they will always lean on federal drug laws to validate denying coverage. I'm not sure exactly how this ties into the NFL, as it is in fact a workplace, but I'm sure it's part of the tangled web.
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Yeah, but I think there is a link between his habit of smoking and him failing his physical, if not a lung and pulmonary situation but just an attitude link. I think weed is classified as a depressant and not a stimulant, so is alcohol and valium, etc. Caffeine and Adderall are stimulants. IMO, an athlete who smokes or drinks might like to "relax" a bit too much to go through the rigors of working out and staying in shape. That's my thinking. Forgetting league rules or social law, as a GM, I would frown upon a player who spent a bit too much time "relaxing", and not frown so much on someone getting caught taking Adderall. So yes, guys like Blount or Aldon Smith would be in my doghouse much quicker than Welker or those players from Seattle.
A lot of people have gone toward vaporizing. I would think a pro athlete would certainly choose this option over traditional smoking. Vaping, as it is known, is pure water vapor and it spares the user of the ill effects of the tar found in smoke.
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For those that don't want to waste your precious time to read the link here's a summary.
I went to the link to read the article, but had the article redacted in lieu of filling out a survey. I don't do surveys.
Would love a more verbatim recap to be provided.
Colts @ Eagles Preseason Game Day Thread
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Man that is harsh. Poor Vick, he was so flashy and exciting in his rookie appearances. So much wasted potential. My heart goes out to that young man.