Wes21

You are making me chuckle because of how true it is. Check this timeline: 2020 Panther's Fans "Our defense sucks!" 2020 vs Lions = "holy crap we shut someone out!" 2021 Panthers Management = "hey we should give up the farm for that QB our XFL guy beat 20 to 0."

I've seen every snap of Matt's career. I know exactly where the goalposts are with the Lions.

I remember Santonio Holmes did this to the Jets. Its the best way out for an athlete. Show up and then claim hammy or bad back...something that's not really verifiable. Now you are there, so they have to pay you. But you are annoying as all heck for what you are doing. And to be a real dik you can practice all week and then during pregame warmups pull out! If you go back and study the Calvin Johnson and Barry Sanders situations in Detroit where the Lions were able to get back signing bonus money, it tells a different story. To everybody that hears "signing bonus," it sounds an awful lot like a bonus you get at signing that is free and clear the moment you get it. Spreading out of the bonus money for the books seems like an accounting thing, not a real thing. What was discovered in the BS and CJ situations is that bonus money can be looked at as an advancement of future earnings. Therefore if you do not follow thru on your contract, the team can recapture a portion of your signing bonus money. The Seahawks did it to the Michigan State kid as well. The Seahawks could have gotten back around $5M from Marshawn Lynch, but let him walk away with it as a parting gift.

The reason for leaking offers is to make other interested teams panic and up their offer rather than lose the player. What did you hear leaked from the Lions camp? "At least 1/3 of the league has contacted the Lions about Matt Stafford." Then it even leaked into compensation that was being discussed, "at least one team has offered a 1st rounder." Then they leaked "we want a deal complete before the Super Bowl" to put even more urgency into interested teams.

Thank god someone else said it about the Jets. I hate the New York media bias, because it dumbs down what should be a decent conversation about Watson. People keep asking "what would be the best fit for him?" And the dang Jets keep coming up. Not because it is...but because its New York and the people talking are sitting in New York answering the question half the time.

Clearly you don't know much about the Lions if that's your statement.

The entire concept of TB at $20M a year was silly and counterproductive to begin with.

What about sending a bunch of creepy text messages to a co-worker? Asking for a friend who just lost his baseball job.

Ah, the new staff has synergy and a holistic approach to their core competencies I see. Hopefully this guy is a self starter and understands our pain points. Whenever Hurney said "who moved my cheese" he literally just lost track of a cheese plate he was eating.

That's how it's been for us here in Va Beach. It didn't start like that. Holy heck it was tough in March and April. But the last few months we can go get a test immediately, and get the results in a day or two.

No, its terrible and I hope someone gets punished. I'm just hyper focused on some comments that you made that made it sound like we're hiding information and someone improving on something COVID related would be a bad thing. It just seemed like an odd way of looking at it, given how unique the situation is.

We are supposed to be sharing, yes. This is not a normal situation, this is a global pandemic.

Why are we hiding data that we should be working with the rest of the world on?

We are talking about a virus that the entire world should be working together to beat. Hacking into databases and such is bad. But I'm still trying to wrap my head around how them getting and improving on something COVID related would be a bad thing, and why we would be hiding it from them to begin with.

Going back to his question - what exactly would they be "stealing" if we are openly sharing and cooperating with the international community? And if someone finds a way to improve on the research of COVID - why is that a bad thing?

I have an old work buddy who fits some of the stereotypes people talk about here (white southern male). Soon after Trump tweeted the mask thing, I saw him do a post on FB saying something to the effect of "I guess I need to look at this a different way. When else are we going to be allowed to walk into a store with a mask and a gun? Mind as well take advantage of it now."

I'm glad Trump tweeted out his grand standing on face masks. Its a little cringey, but it seems to have helped. I've seen an instant change of tune on my FB feed. Apparently they didn't realize Trump started wearing and loosely supporting face masks previously.

Carrie Madej, DO is a Internal Medicine Specialist in McDonough, GA and has over 19 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from Kansas City Univ Of Medicine Bioscience College Of Osteopathic Medicine medical school in 2001. https://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-carrie-madej-y7thx

Some people have been talking about the gubmint using Facebook and some other apps to update their facial recognition software. I thought it was funny that as we are talking about this kind of stuff, the very first post on my timeline is another "challenge" where you are supposed to put an old photo and new photo side by side. Here's what it says: 1 - Go to your Facebook. 2 - Go to your 2nd oldest clear profile pic. 3 - Now go in your photos and pick the last selfie in your camera roll. 4 - Put them side by side and let's see the difference. Let’s see them Baby Faces Y’all

I honestly didn't realize how bad it was until 2 weeks ago. I get a monthly email letting me know my summary report for where I've traveled the previous month. I normally just take a quick glance at the summary data (you went to 7 new cities) and stuff like that. But for whatever reason I decided to look at the detailed view. Holy poo it freaked me out a bit and I called my wife immediately. The dang thing was tracking all the way down to which gas station I stopped at, where I parked and the exact minutes I was there. I took a look back at a trip I made to Tanger Outlets last summer, and it literally recorded every single store I walked into and the exact time I was there. There it was. Every single minute of every single day going back to September of 2018 (when I got this phone). We are testing more, but there is no doubt there is a post Memorial Day/protest spike, along with more spikes coming from opening back up. Real spikes, not just more testing. Parts of Spain are going back into lockdown, as they are seeing another wave coming https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1310860/barcelona-lockdown-coronavirus-spain-covid19-outbreak-latest-cases?fbclid=IwAR3qvgUw3w4EW4jmKLcYh3uDBEFctZpFVCW_hpQR-D46hbajaKUM2VSqFRU

Its like saying the CEO of the company is responsible for tracking when the carpenter is going to run out of nails.

The major news outlets have a symbiotic relationship with social media. I've noticed even when someone doesn't watch the major news outlets, if they participate in social media, they end up parroting back some of the same talking points. Sometimes the major news outlets come up with the talking points and they ripple thru the interwebz, and other times it starts somewhere else but the news outlets quickly pick them up.

The idea of running the entire show from Washington is silly. People actually expect federal agents to know that ABC hospital in Anytown, USA is running low on masks? No. And that's where the chain of command works. The people at the hospital follow their protocol for it, then they kick it up the food chain. If its a big enough deal, you could get city, county or even state agencies involved in the situation. Either way ALOT has to happen before it goes to the feds, and ALOT of people need to be doing their part. I swear I've seen people who genuinely think the feds are supposed to be sending out agents to do inventory on every hospital in America, and if the feds don't show up the people that work there or in the lower forms of government can just cross their arms and say "not my problem."

You lose credibility when you spread poo like this. Its absolutely mind boggling. I expected the "well, it was worth it!" argument. I never imagined that people would just pretend it was fine.