bnw wrote:

Zooey wrote:

Have you ever had difficulty opening a jar?

If so, you know it has nothing to do with physical fitness.

Opening a jar, or being unable to open a jar, is without question the poorest test for the presidency I have ever heard of.

Yet it was the test the Hildabeast campaign chose to fix in her favor to address the issue of her health.

You know it was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, right? This wasn’t a press conference where Hillary came out to demonstrate her fitness for the presidency with a feat of strength. I can’t believe you take this seriously. It. Was. A. Joke.

My heart certainly goes out to all Vikings fans everywhere.

NewMexicoRam wrote:

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Good words there, zn.

While I believe in free speech, I also believe one must be wise in what they say publicly. Words reflect back and, in this case, can hurt the team and efforts to both unify the team and reach out to the fan base.

If I spoke out on every issue I thought strongly about, probably half of my patients would be upset or feel alienated somehow. That’s not fair to them.

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This, imo, is the only valid argument against what he did.

That it will divide the team, and distract them from their jobs. There is some merit to that argument, I believe.

However, I will point out that there are all kinds of behaviors – holdouts, drugs, anger issues, violence, laziness, primadonnas, on and on – that can do the same thing. A football player has to focus. A professional has to focus. In theatre – which is the world I know – actors convince the audience they are batshit crazy in love with one another even when they actually hate each other in real life. That’s focus. That’s professionalism. That’s on Coach Kelly.

CK knew this would cost him money, and he’d get killed on social media. And that it wouldn’t make any difference in the end.

And he did it anyway.

Because it mattered to him. Enough to go through all this.

I respect that.

The only people I have even HEARD of on that list are Coples and Bertolet. And I only know Bertolet because kicking is prominent. So I noticed him. But he knew, just like everyone else knew, that he a a camp leg. Coples is the only one with a name, and his release isn’t a shocker, though I’m a teeny bit surprised he was in the first round of cuts. The rest of the guys were camp bodies to begin with.

Back in the 80s, I sat through the national anthem all the time. I was pissed off about foreign policy. So I sympathize with his symbolic gesture that the USA distributes its freedoms unequally. Injustice and inequality are a Way of Life for black Americans. He’s right.

Will his gesture make any difference? Well, nothing measurable. It got a lot of people talking, but probably no opinions shifted about the issue, only about Kaepernick himself. But the gesture mattered to him, and to some other people. He has a brief, brief moment in the spotlight, and he can live his life knowing that he used a moment of that time to make a statement about injustice on behalf of millions of Americans, for whatever that’s worth.

I don’t know what else he can do. Or anyone else. There is no quick solution to the problem he is highlighting. Maybe there is no solution at all. But I sympathize with his need to make a statement about it, to say publicly that it matters. What else can he do? What are the alternatives?

InvaderRam wrote:

spruce better be playing next week. can’t imagine they’d be able to start the season with 2 injured receivers on the roster.

That’s a good point, although they probably won’t need any receivers against the 9ers, anyway. So that gives them an extra week. Getting the 9ers first is kind of like starting the season with a bye. From what I’ve heard, they aren’t even strong enough to stand up during the national anthem.

I did not know that.

That is interesting, and certainly a reason to question the appropriateness of the Star-Spangled Banner as national anthem.

Of course, that isn’t what CK was protesting.

Most of the debate surrounding his sitting seems to be centered on whether it was “appropriate” or “effective.” I am not seeing much on the issue he was protesting. And although I haven’t tracked many comments on this either on the radio or online, there has been a predictable “How dare he slight the military men and women who risk and sacrifice their lives to protect his freedom?” as if the flag is a primarily a military symbol. I think THAT perspective is one worth questioning in itself.

The fact is that the flag is used primarily to shut people up in this country.

And QB Dylan Thompson. Whom I never even heard of.

Rams QB Dylan Thompson announced Sunday night that he has been waived by the team, as they work to get down to 75 players by Tuesday’s deadline.

I was released today by the Rams. Another part of the journey and looking forward to the next stop God has for us!
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Thompson, 24, wound up signing on with the 49ers as an undrafted free agent out of South Carolina last year. He was unable to make the 53-man roster, but was later signed to the 49ers practice squad.

San Franscico elected to promote him to their active roster towards the end of the season, but he was unfortunately released shortly after this year’s draft. The Rams later signed him to a contract in June.

Thompson has yet to appear in an NFL game.

wv wrote:

Well I’ve been waiting for the first QB to fall.

Winter is coming.

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You know who’s next?

Tom Brady.

Only the Pats will conceal the injury because they won’t want his suspension deferred, and we will get another Patriots scandal.

nittany ram wrote:

Billy_T wrote:

Why would modern humans mate with Neanderthals?

Bigger brains. Neanderthals apparently had bigger brains and were stronger physically.

Home Sapiens won the war. But it’s kinda like VHS versus Betamax. The latter should have.

Neanderthals were certainly more powerful than modern humans but it’s doubtful that their larger brains made them more intelligent. One study found that more of the Neanderthal’s brain was devoted to vision and body control than ours and less was geared towards cognition and social interaction. This would make sense given the way they hunted. Neanderthal’s didn’t kill from a distance like modern humans. Their spears were designed for stabbing not throwing. Therefore, a Neandethal had to get within a couple meters of his prey. Vision and body control would have come in handy when you’re only a few feet from an angry bison with nothing but a spear for protection. They must have been incredibly athletic to avoid getting trampled or gored every time they hunted but they must have taken a beating nonetheless. Many of their bones show evidence of healed fractures. They lived a tough life.

So… a bunch of linebackers, basically.

Doesn’t it happen in bars around the country every night?

I’d give Keenum about 10-15 snaps which could be 1-3 series, depending.

Goff I’d give around 25 – 30, switching from 1s to 2s throughout, and the rest to Mannion.

nittany ram wrote:

Zooey wrote:

I’m betting he did. It’s just nobody was comparing anybody to Montana yet.

Wrong. It was widely reported that during week three of his first training camp Montana looked like George Blanda during week two of his 25th training camp.

That is utter nonsense.

Montana never kicked an extra point in his life.