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May 26, 2016 at 8:42 am in reply to: Les Snead on Brian Quick "I was thinking Vincent Jackson." #44732
znModeratorI just wasn’t impressed with his several-game-streak of catching
some balls. I mean, none of the catches made me go “wow, that guy really
did something special there.”w
That;s just chance. The point is, do you want a confident 6’4″ receiver catching 3-4 balls a game, which is what he was doing. And that was from Austin Davis. I will take not being wowed per catch and then waking up and realizing he had 900 yards for the season.
But…something happened to him last year. That’s the point.
May 26, 2016 at 8:42 am in reply to: Les Snead on Brian Quick "I was thinking Vincent Jackson." #44731znModeratorI just wasn’t impressed with his several-game-streak of catching
some balls. I mean, none of the catches made me go “wow, that guy really
did something special there.”w
That;s just chance. The point is, do you want a confident 6’4″ receiver catching 3-4 balls a game, which is what he was doing. And that was from Austin Davis. I will take not being wowed per catch and then waking up and realizing he had 900 yards for the season.
But…something happened to him last year. That’s the point.
May 25, 2016 at 9:50 pm in reply to: Les Snead on Brian Quick "I was thinking Vincent Jackson." #44702znModeratorWhy can’t he be good? Second year after the surgery…. He’s fully recovered now…. Is it a learning thing?
It was a massive injury, career threatening. Fisher I think it was talked about how after the surgery they had to pull and manipulate the arm to break up scar tissue—and you could hear Quick screaming when they did it.
So it could be a loss of confidence combined with trauma combined with a physical setback.
If that’s right there’s no guarantee he recovers from it.
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znModeratorSure universities were around but not with $13.5 billion endowments earning 13.2% interest. That is due to capitalism. List the societies! 13.2%! At that rate these days I call complete and total BS on your assertion in your first sentence. List those “societies”. 13.2%. Wow.
What about me would make you think that I defend “conformity”? Especially here. Really? Other than an occasional poster chiming in I’m the only regular poster that essentially stands alone in regards to support for capitalism, Trump, defense of marriage, secure borders and against the religion of man made global warming. Plus I can’t stand StanK.
I look forward to you giving the examples Chomsky has that would replace capitalism.
Yes universities always had endowments. Endowments are private donations. They’re not profit. And societies in the present that are highly socialistic also have universities with endowments. And the societies surrounding those universities always include people that say don’t criticize the system, you are there because of the system, just go along with the system. It’s one of the things you can count on some people saying in both the USA and North Korea. Meanwhile, although it isn’t uniformly effective, the whole point of a university is to generate and sustain different ways of looking at the truth.
I wasn’t talking about “examples that would replace capitalism” btw…I was talking about specific policies. I also wasn’t talking about capitalism. As with all things, there’s more than one kind of capitalism too. Notice what I said instead was the mega-corporate oligarchic version of capitalism.
But either way capitalism will be replaced. Cause all systems are. Otherwise we would all still be living in the first system (at the level of a civilization, which is beyond tribes and clans, that probably means ancient “monarch as diety” style kingships).
And btw every single system that has ever existed claims it is natural, inevitable, the only real possibility, the only thing that works, etc. It’s a rule of human history–invent a socio-economic system and immediately people start going see, this is the way it was meant to be, nothing can change this, this is reality, nothing else exists or counts. That’s just the way most people in a particular civilization always talk about it. And…yet, all systems have always changed.
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znModeratorMy perception of Sanders in the White House is him sitting there in a tweed jacket smoking a pipe with invited post grads philosophizing about all that’s wrong and what he “intends” to do
W to be fair that’s just you. And it’s the same stereotype you have had of the left the entire time you’ve posted in this forum (old and new incarnations). YOu are always just going to construe it that way.
It just means you have apparently no idea, for example, how Sanders behaved in Congress and the Senate.
All I see you doing is painting the picture W would paint.
That’s why, for example, there’s no real reply to an important point many posters made…that things you (and your articles) call “utopian” are all done, and done successfully, elsewhere.
May 25, 2016 at 7:04 pm in reply to: Keenum will be the starter to open camp…how close or far is Goff? #44693znModeratorCoach’s Corner: Weinke’s First Impressions on Goff
Quarterback Coach, Chris Weinke, is ready to show Jared Goff what it means to be a leader in the NFL.
That was interesting, just to see what Weinke is like.
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Goff played in a no-huddle, spread offense at Cal, so he must transition from taking snaps exclusively from the shotgun formation to taking them under center and then dropping back for passes. Keenum played in a no-huddle, spread offense in college at Houston before signing with the Texans in 2012.
“It’s a tough adjustment, getting to that pro-style, huddle-up, under-center stuff,” Keenum said. “Jared’s done a great job already. It’s not an easy thing.”
This has come up before, but, Keenum may be the only guy so far who transitioned from the Air Raid version of the spread to pro style offense.
So as much as CK downplays being a mentor, it’s interesting that Goff is learning behind CK.
Though they say the Cal version of the Air Raid had more pro-style elements in it.
Still, it’s worth mentioning, that there’s more to it than just taking snaps and dropping back. Under center he has to make pre-snap reads and make adjustments. Dropping back means having your timing just right on the depth of drop to the throw, and pro-style play action means having to turn your back to make the fake and then turn back and re-acquire the defense. It;s an intricate little choreography and you have to do it all like it’s 2nd nature.
Snead once hinted that that whole complex of things about being under center is one of the items that tripped Foles up. That he had a hard time with it.
May 25, 2016 at 5:01 pm in reply to: Les Snead on Brian Quick "I was thinking Vincent Jackson." #44680znModeratorVJ did emerge in his 4th year. BQ, for a bit there, in his 3rd. But, we all know about the injury…and then different people have different ideas about 2015.
Maybe BQ is a Kennison. Not in terms of style obviously, but after years of injuries and lost confidence, EK did eventually amount to something. In his 9th year.
So here’s hoping BQ is a fast-track version of Kennison, in terms of development.
znModeratorRubley saw action in two NFL seasons in 1993 and 1995. He started 7 games for the Rams during the 1993 season. With limited playing time and being waived numerous times by NFL teams, Rubley found success with the Rhein Fire of the WLAF and played briefly with Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL.
I did not post that.
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znModerator#1. Oh yes it is. It very much is. That $13.5 billion endowment is averaging a return of 13.2% per year! You can’t get that return on government bonds or notes! You get that return from CAPITALISM. The same CAPITALISM that created the endowment. Diverse ideas, please! Like the stifling of any dissent (supported by facts) regarding man made global warming?
#2. No, Chomsky needs to name his real world examples that solve the capitalist tendencies of mankind. Yes, scale does matter.
B, they have investments that earn interest in societies that are not based on the american oligarchic model of mega-corporate capitalism. Either way, universities, and what they stand for, existed long before the american brand of mega-corporate oligarchical capitalism, and also exist in places where that particular brand of capitalism does not hold sway.
And of course, either way, if the world always followed the entire “never criticize the powers that be” approach, we would all still be living under catholic-dominated medieval feudalism. So generally, you won’t hear people around here going for the “conformity is your first obligation” routine.
I can name all the real world examples of everything NC is talking about. And NC has thousands upon thousands of pages online. It doesn’t all rest on one article. In fact if you turn to print he has more than 100 books. So on examples, you could read more, or I can just tell you.
From wikipedia:
Chomsky was voted the world’s leading public intellectual in The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll jointly conducted by American magazine Foreign Policy and British magazine Prospect. In a list compiled by the magazine New Statesman in 2006, he was voted seventh in the list of “Heroes of our time.”
He is the most widely read american author worldwide.
May 25, 2016 at 2:19 pm in reply to: Keenum will be the starter to open camp…how close or far is Goff? #44671znModeratorCoach’s Corner: Weinke’s First Impressions on Goff
Quarterback Coach, Chris Weinke, is ready to show Jared Goff what it means to be a leader in the NFL.
May 25, 2016 at 2:08 pm in reply to: Keenum will be the starter to open camp…how close or far is Goff? #44670znModeratorGoff Impressing Coaches with Work Ethic, Showing Early Progress
There’s some interesting stuff there.
Not that Simmons would ever write an article titled
Anxious Coaches Scramble to Update Resumes as #1 Pick Jared Goff Struggles Like a Clown in Quicksand
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And as long as I am being snarky, here’s something for the Coach-Style Failed Syntax folder:
His best friend is going to be turning around and handing it to Todd.
So…they are using 2 qbs in the same backfield?
And what is Goff doing while his friend hands off to Gurley?
May 25, 2016 at 2:04 pm in reply to: Keenum will be the starter to open camp…how close or far is Goff? #44669znModeratorGoff Impressing Coaches with Work Ethic, Showing Early Progress
Myles Simmons
With the Rams beginning OTAs next week, No. 1 overall pick
Jared Goff will be on the field squaring off against a defense for the first time in practice. Because players are not in pads, the organized team activities are essentially a period of continued learning. And the coaches who work closely with Los Angeles’ newest quarterback — offensive coordinator Rob Boras and quarterbacks coach Chris Weinke — are looking forward to seeing Goff progress on the field.
When the organization made the decision to trade for the first pick, it was clear there was a general consensus one quarterback appeared a cut above the rest. According to Weinke, Goff’s film was simply outstanding.
“The guy is just a natural passer of the football. You can tell he’s a natural athlete,” the QB coach said. “He was probably the smoothest guy that I’ve evaluated in a long time, as it relates to pocket awareness and pocket presence.
“Time after time, you’ve seen him make big plays,” Weinke continued. “And the guy made some ‘wow’ throws that not a lot of college guys have made — or that I’ve ever seen on film. You really put all those variables together, and he was a guy who kind of rose to the top and we felt like would be a good fit here in Los Angeles.”
But it wasn’t just about the throws. The fact that Goff helped bring Cal from an 11-loss team his freshman year to winning the program’s first bowl game since 2008 speaks volumes about his leadership ability.
“Collectively, you look at his body of work and what he did as a young kid going into Cal … not only physically, but mentally what he was able to accomplish, and truly be the leader of that football team,” Weinke said, adding to “go from 1-11 to going to a bowl game and winning is important, as it relates to the quarterback position and leadership ability.”
According to Boras, Goff has shown those qualities even in the short time he’s been a Ram.
“Watching him with the other rookies and just the leadership, and getting those guys out involved — it’s all the things that you’d hope for, and you heard,” Boras said. “But now to see it in person, it’s truly exciting.”
Goff’s strong work ethic has been well documented, but witnessing it in person has nevertheless been noteworthy for Boras and Weinke.
“The thing that’s really impressed me with Jared has just been his commitment to the classroom and his commitment to learn,” Boras said. “He’s been in there early for every meeting — I don’t mean five-minutes early. The meeting is supposed to start at 8:30, he’s trying to roll in and he’s always working.”
“The good thing about Jared is that he’s a cerebral kid,” Weinke said. “He’s very smart. He can absorb the information. In our research and our due diligence on him, we found that out — that this guy can take the information from the classroom and apply it out on the field. And that was important to us.”
Those factors have made the coaches comfortable with giving the rookie QB plenty to learn in the nascent stage of his career.
“We’re throwing a lot at him — probably more than you would throw to most guys,” Boras said. “We’re going to throw a lot at him right now, see what sticks, instead of just spoon feeding it along. Now, obviously, we want him to have success and feel comfortable, but we need to challenge.
“We need to raise our level of expectations, not just for him but for this entire offense. So we’re trying to put as much not only on Jared, but with all of these guys, as possible,” Boras continued. “So what maybe we would’ve taken the mid-OTAs to get to, we’re trying to get to now. And the more you hear anything — repetition is the mother of all learning. So the more that we throw and the more chances they have to hear it, the better it has to stick.”
Going along with that, Goff has shown a proclivity for asking relevant questions whenever he needs clarification. It’s a behavior the coaching staff has encouraged since his arrival.
“I think it’s important that you lay the foundation on Day 1 with a young quarterback — understand that there are no dumb questions,” Weinke said. “Understand that the more questions you ask, the better we’re going to feel. Don’t ever assume that you know the answer.
“And so [Goff’s] done an outstanding job of, throughout the course of meetings, whether it’s with coach Boras or myself, pausing and saying, ‘Wait, I don’t understand that. Explain that to me better,’” Weinke continued. “We’re excited about that. That means he’s not afraid to ask questions. And then when we do teach him something, he is absorbing it and understands it.”
Despite the staff’s ability to put a lot on Goff’s plate, there are ways within the scheme where they’ll look to smooth the rookie’s transition to the NFL — particularly with pass protection. Boras identified the understanding of pass-protection concepts as the biggest hurdle first-year QBs often face.
“The pass concepts don’t vary very much from college to the NFL — or really from one team in the NFL to another. It’s really the protections and knowing what your problems are,” Boras said. “If we can make the run game simple for them, if we can simplify protections — and by simplify, it doesn’t mean max protect necessarily. But just letting him know where his problems are, and if you have a problem, how do you fix it? And then once he gets accustomed to that, he’ll have the opportunity to go be himself and spin the ball like we know he’s capable of doing.”
Plus, the Rams have the reigning AP Offensive Rookie of the Year in Todd Gurley , whose ability to run the football inherently takes pressure off the quarterback and the passing game.
“That’s what coach Fisher told him when he first got here, and when we really first met Jared was, ‘You know who our running back is?’” Boras said. “And that’s what we can’t forget. His best friend is going to be turning around and handing it to Todd. And then whey they stack the box and try to take Todd away, we need to be able to take advantage of it through the air.”
And so as the Rams begin their OTA sessions next week, both Boras and Weinke are highly encouraged by the prospect of Goff learning and growing in his new offensive system.
“There’s bumps along the road, but he’s understanding the process,” Boras said. “And we’re just trying to make sure we’re building the foundation that will allow him to be successful on Sundays in the near future.”
“He’s, really, exactly what you’re looking for,” Weinke said. “Great clay to mold, and we’re excited about what he brings to this football team.”
znModeratorRubley saw action in two NFL seasons in 1993 and 1995. He started 7 games for the Rams during the 1993 season. With limited playing time and being waived numerous times by NFL teams, Rubley found success with the Rhein Fire of the WLAF and played briefly with Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL.
The line between elite greatness and abject failure is just so…massively thick.
znModeratorWhy do the masses of voters and nonvoters allow that?
Ideology.
I suspect he pees in the very wheaties that pays his salary.
MIT pays him to be knowlewdgable and speak his mind.
Good universities are not real big on the “shut up and conform to the powers that be” routine. That would kind of defeat their purpose. Or, real purpose.
And there’s nothing Chomsky commends that isn’t being successfully done somewhere in the world.
That’s one of the things he’s paid to know.
#1, Yes his largesse is due to CAPITALISM. He does pee in his wheaties.
#2. Where are his examples? Would love to see something on the scale of a nation that spans a continent with a minimum of 200 million people of multi-racial multi-cultural make up. Scale is everything and that is where he fails.
#1. No it’s not. Not at a private university with a 13.5 billion dollar endowment, it’s not. In fact the reason we have such things as universities is so that not everything gets crushed down into the same “propaganda for the present system” sound bites. That’s because in a democracy, we’re NOT supposed to all think the same…or, it’s not really a democracy. Those who believe in democracy therefore actually value there being diverse ideas.
#2. Name a thing, I’ll name the example. Just don’t keep moving the goalposts. That way we don’t have to make up things like the idea (supported by nothing) that the larger the population the less you can deviate from mega-corporate oligarchy.
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May 25, 2016 at 11:25 am in reply to: The 2016 Los Angeles Rams Need Rodger Saffold For Cohesion On The Offensive Line #44651znModeratorThe Rams could not get it together without Saffold. A handful of players, from Jamon Brown to Cody Wichmann, stepped in for Saffold throughout the remainder of the season. None of his replacements had sustained success,
I didn’t catch it if this guy said it, but while Wichman started out rough, if seems to me he settled down and was fine for his last few starts.
Wichman did not start until the Baltimore game. His first 3 games were rough (Baltimore, Cinn., ARZ). But it seems to me he was settling down by the time of the Detrpit game and continued like that through the last game (that last stretch would be 4 starts).
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znModeratorThe Rams hired former Chicago Bears receiver coach Mike Groh to … become the new passing-game coordinator.
Just a note on this because I’ve seen different times when people wondered what a passing-game coordinator is.
First, he is not a co-coordinator with the Offensive Coordinator. The OC oversees the creation of gameplans (which are collaborative) and calls the plays on gameday.
The passing-game coordinator just contributes to developing gameplans. I would imagine he’s also asked to provide unique input from his area of expertize.
There’s also running-game coordinators out there.
Here’s two coaches with different teams who have those roles.
Denver: Quarterbacks/Passing Game Coordinator – Greg Knapp
Carolina: Running Game Coordinator – John Matsko
znModeratorWhy do the masses of voters and nonvoters allow that?
Ideology.
I suspect he pees in the very wheaties that pays his salary.
MIT pays him to be knowlewdgable and speak his mind.
Good universities are not real big on the “shut up and conform to the powers that be” routine. That would kind of defeat their purpose. Or, real purpose.
And there’s nothing Chomsky commends that isn’t being successfully done somewhere in the world.
That’s one of the things he’s paid to know.
znModeratorI honestly tried to respond with an applause GIF
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znModeratorWe can project that we have two thirds of a triplet, Gurley, Goff, and Gnobody
Go G’Rams
May 25, 2016 at 12:21 am in reply to: congressional study: NFL attempted to manipulate concussion research #44628znModeratormaybe the owners should go on a walk of shame.
shame! shame!
Now now. What’s the point of paying for scientific research if you can’t manipulate the results.
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from “Miller’s Crossing”:
It’s gettin’ so a businessman can’t expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can’t trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return, you gotta go bettin’ on chance – and then you’re back with anarchy, right back in the jungle.
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znModeratorCertainly didn’t post it to antagonize anyone. I disagree that it is racist. Blacks use that phrase about blacks who have earned it. No different than whites using it about whites that have earned it. And here both races use both.
You live in Maine. I live in Tennessee. Maine is 97% white, 0.5% black. Tennessee is 80% white, 16% black. I’ve also lived in Mississippi and I know what is said in mixed company as well as the intent. The use of black and white is descriptive not racist. So we definitely disagree but I will try to use trash as stand alone, here.
I appreciate your explanation and I get the point you make in the last sentence. So all is well. I think the matter is closed and we are just chatting now.
Just in terms of me and my experience, though, I don’t want to leave the wrong impression. I am originally from Canada. We moved to the states when I was 10 or 11. First it was Indiana. My first grade school was 90% black. My 2nd grade school was 100% white and so openly racist some teachers used overtly racist language in class as a matter of course. My high school was more mixed. Before college I lived in Chicago. I went to college in St. Louis. My neighborhood in St. Louis was 90% black. Since St. Louis, I have lived in Chicago (again), Claremont (outside LA), San Diego, SF, and Louisiana. The biggest portions of that were San Diego and Louisiana. I moved to Maine in my late 40s. So Maine is not my only experience of the USA and its demographics.
I think all I was saying was that online, in posts, people don’t really know who you are. (That’s the generic “you” not you personally–this applies to all of us). They don’t always know how we mean things. So it is always best to stay away from certain kinds of language that we know can be taken wrong. So I do appreciate you recognizing that in this case.
Given that kind of basic distinction, this board is built to allow people all kinds of freedom in what they say and how they say it. What interests me is that we regulars know that, and yet conflict is minimal. So I am proud of that.
May 24, 2016 at 11:36 pm in reply to: Tweets 5/24 – 2021 Super Bowl will be played in Los Angeles #44623znModeratorThat’s because Rams’ owner Stan Kroenke’s $2.6 billion stadium and development project will become the most lavish stadium project in North American sports the day it opens.
mmm…. is it too late for the rams to move back to st. louis???
The “most lavish stadium” thing is divisive. Some people like it, some people are kind of put off by it.
Fortunately, when watching a game, you (generic you not YOU) don’t have to notice either way, regardless how you feel about stadium lavishness.
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May 24, 2016 at 10:30 pm in reply to: Tweets 5/24 – 2021 Super Bowl will be played in Los Angeles #44621znModeratorSuper Bowl LV just the beginning for Rams’ Inglewood stadium
Nick Wagoner
The NFL announced Tuesday that the Los Angeles Rams’ forthcoming Inglewood stadium will host Super Bowl LV in 2021. For anyone paying attention throughout the relocation process and, especially, during the team’s relocation announcement, that news didn’t come as a surprise.
That’s because Rams’ owner Stan Kroenke’s $2.6 billion stadium and development project will become the most lavish stadium project in North American sports the day it opens. Tuesday’s Super Bowl announcement was a mere formality, but perhaps more important, it’s also all but certain to be just the first of many such declarations in the coming years.
“Los Angeles is built to host the Super Bowl,” Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti said in a statement. “We helped forge this great American tradition as its very first host in 1967 and now, at long last, we’re bringing it back where it belongs. L.A. is already welcoming a record number of visitors from around the world and Super Bowl LV will bring even more economic prosperity to our region.”
That prosperity figures to carry over to other major sporting events that the Inglewood stadium will be capable of hosting. Because of the stadium’s high tech, translucent roof, there’s nothing that it can’t host. Which means that the combination of the futuristic venue, the city’s weather and its abundance of hotel rooms is right at the front of the line to host everything from Final Fours to college football championship games to the Olympics to the World Cup.
With the first of what figures to be plenty of Super Bowls in hand, the Inglewood stadium is also throwing its name in the hat for the 2022 Final Four, 2023 college football championship game and is part of the city’s bid for the 2024 Olympics. If U.S. soccer puts in a World Cup bid for 2026, Inglewood’s stadium would also be a part of that proposal. WWE’s Wrestlemania event figures to be coming to Los Angeles at some point as well and the Rams’ pitch to the NFL also included the idea of hosting the Oscars at a theatre that will be constructed in the Inglewood development.
All of that, plus other NFL events like the scouting combine and NFL draft are possibilities for Kroenke’s palace and its surrounding structures.
“On the heels of the National Football League’s historic return to Los Angeles, the Rams are proud to be part of such a significant regional effort of teamwork, leadership and vision to bring the Super Bowl back to Southern California,” Kevin Demoff, the Rams chief operating officer, said. “We would like to thank the NFL owners for giving us this opportunity to host the nation’s biggest event in sports and entertainment at our world-class stadium, to showcase the great cities of Los Angeles and Inglewood and to deliver an incredible experience for fans from across the globe.”
Super Bowl LV will be the first hosted in the Los Angeles area since the 1993 edition pitting the Dallas Cowboys against the Buffalo Bills. It will be the eighth game played in the metropolitan area and also brings the league full circle as the Los Angeles Coliseum hosted Super Bowl I in 1967.
According to the Rams, the city’s Super Bowl bid included the promise of “60,000 hotel-room nights (with the possibility of generating up to 100,000 total room nights) as well as other official and unofficial events to be hosted throughout the region.”
Construction on the Inglewood stadium is expected to begin later this year with the opening of the stadium set for 2019.
znModeratorWhile cap space was an issue for Los Angeles…trading Nick Foles would have gone a long way in helping their cap situation so they could have added or re-signed more talent.
PFF gets it wrong.
They gain no real cap space by trading Foles.
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May 24, 2016 at 5:37 pm in reply to: congressional study: NFL attempted to manipulate concussion research #44612znModeratorMay 24, 2016 at 5:07 pm in reply to: congressional study: NFL attempted to manipulate concussion research #44611znModeratorDoctor criticized in congressional report on concussion research counters claims
A pediatric neurosurgeon criticized in a congressional report Monday vehemently denies attempting to influence the selection process for a research grant on the NFL’s behalf and says no one from Congress contacted him before the report’s release, Tom Pelissero of USA Today reports. .
Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, who is co-chairman of the NFL’s Head, Neck and Spine Committee, said his two phone calls with National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke director Dr. Walter Koroshetz were about Ellenbogen’s belief in the need for a longitudinal study on the effects of concussion and he never told Koroshetz not to give a $16 million grant to researchers at Boston University instead.
“We know there are long-term risks of traumatic brain injury, and we need to know the incidence and prevalence,” Ellenbogen told USA TODAY Sports. “Is it one in a million or is it 100 in a million? That was the entire thing that got blown up.
“I never talked to Congress. No one ever asked me my opinion. I had two private conversations with Walter, and this is a lesson I guess: Big Government can crush you if you disagree with them. I’m trying to protect the kids.”
Asked about the report’s contention that he “told Dr. Koroshetz that he could not recommend that the NFL fund the BU study, because he believed that Dr. (Robert) Stern had a conflict of interest and that the grant application process had been tainted by bias,” Ellenbogen was adamant.
“I wasn’t on that phone call. He got it wrong. He got it 100% wrong,” said Ellenbogen, who also chairs the department of neurological surgery at the University of Washington. “I talked to him about the longitudinal study, not about the BU (proposed study). That is not true. I had a private phone call with him and I would take a lie detector tomorrow. Absolutely not.”
May 24, 2016 at 4:55 pm in reply to: Tweets 5/24 – 2021 Super Bowl will be played in Los Angeles #44609znModeratorThree Super Bowl sites were announced and Los Angeles is one of them
Eric Edholm
The Super Bowl will return to the Los Angeles area for the first time in almost 30 years.
It was also announced that the new Atlanta stadium will host Super Bowl LIII in 2019 and South Florida will get Super Bowl LIV in 2020.
The first Super Bowl ever played was in Los Angeles at Memorial Stadium, featuring the Green Bay Packers beating the Kansas City Chiefs. Memorial also hosted Super Bowl VII (Miami Dolphins over Washington Redskins) before Pasadena’s Rose Bowl became the area venue of choice for the NFL. The Rose Bowl hosted five Super Bowls from 1977 to 1993.
Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which is set to open before the 2017 season, was likely the tipping point to land the big game for February 3, 2019. Atlanta beat out New Orleans for the final vote, which came down to a fourth tiebreaker and a simple majority among voting NFL owners.
Atlanta and New Orleans made it through the first two cuts of votes for Super Bowl LIII after Tampa and Miami dropped out. New Orleans’ only bid on that year’s Super Bowl but without a new or significantly revamped stadium, its bid was limited in that regard.
Atlanta previously has hosted two Super Bowls — XXXIV, which was the last-play classic with the St. Louis Rams beating the Tennessee Titans, and XXVIII, which featured the Dallas Cowboys beating the Buffalo Bills to complete back-to-back championships. Now the city’s Super Bowl drought since 2000 will come to an end.
With Super Bowl LIV, Miami will become the sole owner of most Super Bowls hosted (11 after LIV). It currently sits in a tie with New Orleans for the most in league history.
The vote was made by the NFL owners at meetings in Charlotte, NC. Los Angeles, which has an NFL franchise again for the first time since the 1994 season, was a heavy favorite to land one of the three games up for bid, and it reached the super majority over Tampa on the first vote — there was no doubt. The L.A. bid was only a voting option for Super Bowl LV, the first year it was technically allowed to host the event because of league bylaws.
The next two Super Bowls will be played in Houston and Minneapolis.
znModeratorRFA in 2017, from a previous post in this thread.
Thanks.
May 24, 2016 at 3:47 pm in reply to: audio: Snead interview (more than an hour)… must listen stuff #44604znModeratorThis is the 4th article based on that interview, and each article has a completely different content. That’s how much there is in that interview.
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Les Snead: Rams knew Nick Foles trade might fail
Chris Wesseling
The Los Angeles Rams have been trying to solve their quarterback riddle since early in the 2015 offseason, when general manager Les Snead insisted that “deleting” Sam Bradford was not the answer.
Less than a month later, Bradford was summarily shipped to Philadelphia along with a fifth-round draft pick in exchange for Nick Foles, a 2015 fourth-round pick and a 2016 second-round pick.
Appearing on FOX Sports’ The Peter Schrager Podcast last week, Snead insisted that he had no intentions of dealing Bradford until teams starting calling to gauge his quarterback’s availability. The Rams’ preference at the time was to reduce Bradford’s salary after back-to-back ACL surgeries, with the opportunity to earn money back via playing time bonuses.
“And initially you’re like ‘Hey, we haven’t really thought of (trading Bradford),'” Snead said. “Who’s the answer after him? We’re really looking to try to get something done contractually. Those few teams kept calling and calling, now we’re talking about it internally. Eventually, we made the move. You very rarely see starting quarterbacks swapped. One of the reasons for us was it helped us from a financial standpoint.”
As it turns out, the 2016 second-round pick acquired from the Eagles carried more value than Foles. In fact, Snead revealed to Schrager that the team’s brass was not convinced Foles was the answer.
“We also knew grabbing that extra second-round pick, whoever our quarterback was going to be last year might not work out, so it would be time to start looking again,” Snead explained. “We knew by getting that extra second-round pick it would give us the ability to maneuver more in the next draft.”
The Rams went on to sign Foles to a two-year extension last summer, but protected themselves by allocating the bulk of the financial commitment to the 2016 season. By the middle of November, the former Pro Bowl MVP had lost his job to Case Keenum. By the time the offseason kicked off, Foles was persona non grata in Los Angeles.
Realizing there was no chance of competing against the stacked Cardinals and Seahawks without a viable quarterback, the Rams sent a treasure chest of picks to the Titans for draft’s top spot.
If not for the second-round pick originally acquired in the Bradford-Foles trade, Snead might not have pulled off the blockbuster trade for Cal star Jared Goff.
“I do think having the two twos in this draft was very beneficial,” Snead added. “… I think that was definitely a core part of it, a big part of the foundation of that trade.”[/quote]
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