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He looked an awful lot like the horrible rookie under Hue those first few weeks.

Maybe the difference is as simple as the difference between a simplified offense and the normal, complicated NFL offense?

I don't recall the high passes happening in his rookie year, but they were definitely a problem last year.

I suspect some other QB coach was messing him up; probably trying to change his release point or some whacky thing.

Passes were high his rookie year, just not as much.

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And there will be a bunch of idiot fans on here and off of here advocating for it. Sometimes I think Browns fans get what they deserve.

j/c:

Did anyone see that Nick Chubb was on the Jim Rome show earlier this week and said that "we didn't actually put the work in?"

Six wins.

Pretty safe bet. The streak continues.

Great discussion starter.

At Baltimore - LOSS
Cincinnati - WIN
Washington - WIN
At Dallas - LOSS
Indianapolis - WIN
At Pittsburgh - LOSS
At Cincinnati - WIN
Las Vegas - WIN
Houston - LOSS
Philadelphia - LOSS
At Jacksonville - WIN
At Tennessee - LOSS
Baltimore - LOSS
At NY Giants - WIN
At NY Jets - WIN
Pittsburgh - WIN

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I was thinking about how to handle this about a month ago and I kept imagining a scenario where they have to bring in all the players, quarantine everyone separately for 14 days, then have them pass tests before they can bring them together as a group. Then, everyone - coaches, assistants, equipment people.... all would have to be part of it and it would have to be replicated by all 32 teams. A totally closed system. It would be like all of them being deployed for half a year, away from their families and friends. It's the only real way to guarantee anything, and even that isn't a guarantee.

Not doing that simply achieves the result of connecting all of those people and their families/households. Testing before the games merely tells you who has been sick already for a week or two which means that up to what.. eight entire teams could have been exposed and compromised during that time?


It is definitely going to be a strange season.

It's why there probably won't be a season.

If one player on one team catches it, the whole team has to quarantine, no? So then for 2 weeks you have one team who can't play their games. How is that going to work?

As you said, the only way would be a totally closed system. That simply isn't realistic, plus, you have the issue of travel. How do you assure the hotel where teams stay is 100% virus free? How about the bus that gets them to the stadium? The airplane?

College football is going to dictate this. I don't think colleges are going to be eager to re-open the campus anytime soon. I hope not. Putting students back in to dinky dorm rooms isn't a good idea.

I can already see some are getting a bit slack in precautionary measures. I see another spike in this a few months down the road.

Until we find a vaccine, I don't see this ending. How have we done in finding a vaccine for aids? That is harder to transmit than this crud. Just don't have unprotected sex solves about 99% of the problem. This is totally different.

It's a different world. I am a old guy. I don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon, but I have had my life. I could go next week and feel like it was full.

For you folks in your 20's, 30's, 40's, if we can't defend against this, sooner or later it is going to catch you.

I can see life expectancy's dropping in a dramatic way if we can't fix this. Right now, men can on average expect to live until the late 70's. Women maybe early 80's. I can see that becoming even closer with people, on average, not living much past 45, 20 years from now. Maybe even younger because children are now starting to die from this as it mutates. As 7 year old children start to die, the average age goes down in a hurry.

I won't share what I really think about this stuff, but it is a bad deal unleashed on humanity. Yep, it came from a bat my ass.

Corona virus discussions pretty much dominating the EE and PP forums - do they have to take over PF too?

ballpeen and purple, I may not understand the testing , but I do not agree with what you are saying. Purple I do not think you would need to isolate the team for two weeks. If they do the viral test, not the antibody test, on everyone it will tell you if anyone has the virus. This test has a very high specificity ( I think that is the right term ) which means if the test is negative it is accurate 99.9 % of the time. So if the test says you are negative you do not have the virus.

If the test says the player is positive, it is not as accurate. The sensitivity of the test is the % of positive results that are accurate. This test is about 65% accurate with positive results. So if a player tests positive we would retest. It would be very unlikely to get two consecutive false positives. If a player is positive he cannot play and would need to be isolated and treated.

This can be done, inconvenient, but it can be done.

ballpeen and purple, I may not understand the testing , but I do not agree with what you are saying. Purple I do not think you would need to isolate the team for two weeks. If they do the viral test, not the antibody test, on everyone it will tell you if anyone has the virus. This test has a very high specificity ( I think that is the right term ) which means if the test is negative it is accurate 99.9 % of the time. So if the test says you are negative you do not have the virus.

If the test says the player is positive, it is not as accurate. The sensitivity of the test is the % of positive results that are accurate. This test is about 65% accurate with positive results. So if a player tests positive we would retest. It would be very unlikely to get two consecutive false positives. If a player is positive he cannot play and would need to be isolated and treated.

This can be done, inconvenient, but it can be done.

So if it’s your starting QB that’s sick you’re basically without him for two games minimum. That could derail a team’s playoff picture quickly.