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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
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They're almost certainly required to pass a physical for those issues, and lord knows Hochuli stays in better shape than men a third his age
I can understand those bannings from the standpoint that it can be a distraction - see Guerrero/Brady and Belichick.
What I am more talking about is preventing teams from circumventing the tiny concession made to prevent CTE - concussion protocol. We've seen this season that teams can't be trusted to follow it. I suspect we'll see changes in the offseason.
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If you follow the non-Patriot trainer banning, you'll see they coincide with a rash of concussions, banishment, then *poof* no more concussions suddenly. Take the Bills for instance. Their doc got banned for prescribing medical marijuana but only right after a rash of concussions. And then *poof* Bills became concussion proof. Same thing happened in Seattle and Carolina this season.
There's no way both Wilson and Newton weren't concussed this season ... I saw both of them get woozy and yak after 2 big hits this year. Seattle's second offense was so obvious they got nailed for it.
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"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
Yah I was thinking especially of Newton in that last game where the Panthers didn't even take him to the locker room. Maybe the refs can do it. If they see a guy who obviously just got hammered in the head, they can call him to the sidelines.
Hah, wow that would not be controversial at all.
Every day is a gift, not a given right.
I'd be down with the refs but they'd need to add 2 more to the field for it to be done well (1 looking at OF, the other DEF). NFL already blocked the skybox and another new ref addition. I don't see them adding 2 for injuries.
IMHO, the NFL is beginning to enter the death-throes of the sport.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
Let’s not leave the players blameless in this mess as they hold an equal share of responsibility when they lie, shout, scream and rage to go back on the field, even after having had their bell rung. What needs to be done when players get whacked like Wilson and Newton is that an independent observer needs to go on the field and order the player to surrender his helmet and keep it away from the player until he undergoes a thorough and complete examination, either in the tent or in the locker room. No helmet, no play.
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I'm pretty certain (like 80% yes, 20% no) the Patriots should beat the Titans this Saturday. If they do, I should be attending my second AFC Championship game. The first AFC Championship game I attended was Deflate Gate!
Of course, if the Patriots lose I'll be highly disappointed. And then I'll be cheering on Pittsburgh of all teams.
Why would colder weather be advantageous for the Steelers? Wouldn't that make throwing the ball more difficult? Thus slowing their air attack down. Thus making it less likely a better QB decides the game.
Seconded. Jacksonville would probably prefer a one-dimensional Steelers attack. I know Big Ben threw 5 INTs in their regular season matchup, but that's not exactly a statistic you'd expect to see repeated. Especially in January, and without Antonio Brown.
Expect Pittsburgh to look to Leveon Bell way more this time out.
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Time for predictions:
AFC
Patriots 23, Titans 17
Steelers 21, Jaguars 13
NFC
Eagles 23, Falcons 20
Saints 30, Vikings 21
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Pretty reasonable predictions. You surprisingly see a bit of a game there with Pats/Tenn....I tend to more lean on thinking that if the score ends up close (Pats winning of course), it will be because of some garbage time-ish touchdown or field goal where the Pats think they have the game enough in hand and they try to save some effort and energy for the next round.
I probably more lean to maybe Pats 27, Tenn 17.
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Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft
Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”