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I feel like a lot of the Giannis talk lately is pushed by other teams that want to sign him.

This year doesn't count for eligibility for anybody, no matter how many games the team or player plays. How does that work for draft eligibility though? I'm assuming Mertz or any other freshman would be draft eligible after two more seasons? I think Mertz is technically eligible after next season. The rule is three years post high school (so redshirt +2). At least I think that's what it is. Not many redshirt sophs go pro.

For whatever it is or isn't worth, NBA.com had the Bucks bench 8th in scoring, 1st in rebounding, 10th in assists & 3rd in +/- last season. Their bench was good in the regular season. The problem was that Bud used them too much in the playoffs when everyone else leans on their starters.

Would have been exactly what they deserve for not playing the Purdue and Nebraska game even though they were not at the number of positive tests for an automatic cancellation of the games. They deserve it because they were overly cautious?

Can you still play 4 games and retain your redshirt? At this point, you might as well sit Berger for a game and redshirt him since he's only played in two.

I was at a car dealership about a month ago and they had a little thing on the base of the door that had some kind of grip or mini spikes on it that you could "grab" with the sole of your shoe and pull the door open.

I'm quite tired of strawman arguments intended to insult others and derail an otherwise useful discussion. No one here is evil. No one here wants others to die. No one here is indifferent to people dying (even if they have comorbidities) or the strain on health care works. Just because someone thinks differently than you do does not make them evil and it is inappropriate to state or imply otherwise. I never said anyone was evil. I never said anyone wants people to die. What a ridiculous accusation.

I guess I don't see how scientists and doctors aren't talking about the obesity epidemic. Is there anyone that doesn't know that the US has an extreme problem with obesity? Something like 300,000 deaths per year are due to obesity, independent of COVID. I don't know about doctors and scientists, but the news certainly isn't, or is at best drastically understating the role of obesity for some reason I can't quite understand. There was a popular link going around a couple weeks ago about the "healthcare workers claimed by COVID." Literally all 10 of them were not just pudgy, but huge. No mention of it anywhere in the article. The news is in the fear game. Always have been, always will be. They present numbers without any context, like hospital capacity, and leave out what regular capacity is. They're in love with case counts, but largely ignore the mortality, or obsess over death counts, but provide limited data on the breakdown of those deaths. Most people here I would say are of above average intelligence and can figure this stuff out on their own, but most people don't take that extra step. There is a reason each of the demographics under 50 drastically overestimates the chance of death by COVID when asked. 1396 healthcare workers in the US have died from Covid. Not all of them were obese. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2020/aug/11/lost-on-the-frontline-covid-19-coronavirus-us-healthcare-workers-deaths-database And I have to say I'm a little tired of people using that as a way to temper the seriousness of this disease. As if obese people had it coming or something. Stop doing it. And yeah the media tends to use fear. Nothing new. But in this case there is some serious Boy Who Cried Wolf going on. The ripple effects on our healthcare system are real. My wife had her doctor's appt cancelled because her primary care was called in to work the covid unit (too many staff are sick or quarantined). My mom had to have her appt to get a cast for her broken wrist postponed because the doctor tested positive. We have a field hospital in West Allis, we have hospitals canceling electives, we have hospitals sending Covid patients home that would normally be hospitalized in order to make room for ones that are even worse, we have freezer trucks with dead bodies in El Paso, if you care to look there are stories every day from frontline healthcare workers at their wits end trying to deal with this...these are not fictionalized accounts or embellishments. This stuff is happening. It may not be as bleak as New York in April/May but it certainly is serious.

So Bam Adebayo is signing a big extension with Miami. This would take up a big chunk of their cap room. Bam's agent is also Giannis' agent. Giannis is probably re-signing with Bucks.

Yep. Pretty sure he did that in the Rose Bowl last year too. Or at least he punted late on 4th and short and I said to myself "No way we get the ball back".

I think you could maybe change that to Americans. Americans are pretty selfish. Myself included. I fall into the 'pretty good about stuff' group, but I have also done/gone to some dumb places during all of this. Europe is exploding and people are protesting lockdowns. All the Asian countries that had beat it back in spring had cases go right back up as soon as they opened up. This is not simply an "American" problem. Many places in Europe seem to be past their peak. Cases have been dropping steadily in many countries and plateaued in others. I'm sure there are outliers (e.g. Russia)

And he goes for it on 4th down in some unusually aggressive spots and not the obvious ones. I think there was one time against NW that he went for it on 4th and 1 on UW's own 45 or something like that. Then didn't go for it on 4th down on the opponents 36.

In two of the games GB lost they had nice leads and then lost a bunch of turnovers (in the other they played like junk). They beat Indy without the fumbles. I don't think they necessarily beat TB but without those two pick 6's (which is essentially what they were) I don't think TB blows them out of the water like that.

Now if someone could just figure out how to beat New Orleans.

The 12 men on the field penalty was intentional: That's pretty smart.

Speaking of tackle, I saw that Stepaniak practiced last week for the first time all year. Packers took him in the 6th but he fell quite a ways due to the torn ACL. Raw dude but really strong and tough.

Johnson & Johnson is also working on one that is a single dose. The test results won't be known until end of the year I believe.

Two three and outs on two consecutive possessions in 3rd quarter. They scored 3 points in the 2nd half. They didn't get it done in the 2nd half. You can play "defense" by controlling the ball on offense and they failed to do that. I'm not excusing the defense, they sucked, but until that last drive the Packers offense was horrible in the 2nd half.

Stick em in the NFC East and they might have 1 loss. You are what your record is.

"This is a 9, 10 win team that is only going to win 11 or more games."

I think this has always been there. It's just way easier to reach players via social now. Before you had to write a letter and mail it. Only the true psychopaths would go that far. Now any 17 year old or 49 year old unemployed drunk guy can do it with a few button pushes after the game.

I think bc he’s off sides all the time? Right but the way he worded it... He looks offsides all the time, not only when they call it. Might just be me though. What a second year with the team disappointment. I am a mod (albeit an immature one) and there are rules. I can't go into more detail about why your post struck me as funny.

wut I think bc he’s off sides all the time? Right but the way he worded it...

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The football Gods putting our teams at Ryan Field and Lucas Oil Stadium in the same weekend is unusually cruel.