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I wouldn't think they would but then again I wouldn't think they'd doctor cocaine with it and they are. The poo is so cheap it seems like it's going in everything. Well, that and it's so potent that even trace amounts of the stuff if it's near it can still be impactful. The poo is terrifying. I wouldn't touch anything off the street right now.

I think it's a lot less a bar for Rhule and much more of a question of when Tepper will swallow his pride and admit his colossal mistake. Man, he sure was proud when he thought he'd pulled off stealing Rhule out from under the Giants' noses. He was trotting Rhule around showing him off like a proud new papa. That sure turned into deep embarrassment and Tepper hiding out from the public in record time.

Hmmm... what else could've been happening there? Might it have had something to do with why those vaccines were developed in the first place?

Yeah, a 55 year old morbidly obese man is exactly the same as a 26 year old in his prime professional athlete. C'mon man. You are REACHING.

No, I'm not. I'm acknowledging that they're definitely a very small minority. Let's see the study. Let's also point out that you're ignoring the fact these vaccines didn't launch in 2019. Not ready in 2019 (possibly 2018 depending on lag time of the study being published) doesn't necessarily mean not ready in December of 2020 when the first COVID vaccine was approved after a massive yearlong global effort.

That's all you're left with. Dismiss me as "woke". FYI, you're not going to find very many on the Huddle who will agree with you that I'm "woke".

Says the guy who thinks he's smarter than the overwhelming vast majority of doctors and scientist who specialize in this very subject.

I said "overwhelming vast majority". It's these types of critical reading skills that your tinfoil hat interferes with.

Yeah, the overwhelming vast majority of doctors and scientist have it all wrong and right wing bloggers are the ones who have it all figured out.

https://cchd.maryland.gov/alert-counterfeit-street-pills-and-fentanyl-related-overdoses-in-carroll-county/ People may not know if the the street medications they purchase contain fentanyl, which is cheaper and more potent than other drugs, because the pills are made to look exactly like prescription medications such as Xanax, oxycodone, Percocet, Norco, and others. Carroll County is just outside of the Baltimore beltway.

You're free to think whatever you want. Just as I'm free to make fun of you for thinking stupid poo.

@Peppers90 NC and @rippadonn Check the linked tweet in my last post. You may need to readjust your tinfoil hats up out of your eyes so that you can read it.

BTW, the drug speculation is t just coming out of thin air. It would be wildly irresponsible (but not impossible) for the Baltimore PD to make that type of statement unless they were pretty damn certain this is going to end up being OD related. Remember what I said about street acquired prescription drugs?

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You're not wrong in principle but fentanyl is a real game changer in the likelihood of overdose. Yeah, addiction and drug abuse has always been a problem but then you throw in an extremely deadly synthetic opioid into the mix and it's gasoline on a fire. And yeah, it's definitely a weird tangent but it wouldn't be a Huddle thread without a weird tangent.

I don't think it's fixable. You have to just naturally have it. To excel in professional sports you basically have to be able to go into instinct mode once the play is live. If you're trying to consciously think you're going to be too slow. It's not the same as being stupid. I don't think it has anything to do with actual intelligence. It's just how your brain works and whether or not you have a natural aptitude for it. There are a lot of smart people and critical thinkers who would do extremely poorly in that type of situation because their natural instinct is to stop and think the situation through.

I don't know about all that. I doubt the ancient Egyptians had many concerns about accidentally overdosing from high powered synthetic opioids.

Darnold is a one read QB. He locks onto his first read and it's basically too late to salvage the play by the time he comes off of that read. Darnold looks good in two situations. 1. His initial read is open and he can deliver the ball on schedule as planned. 2. He gets pressured immediately and has to hit his check down. That's basically it. He does his worst work when he gets decent protection and his first read is covered so he needs to go through his progression. He's too slow. He'll end up panicking and forcing something or taking the sack. Unfortunately, that situation where he's the worst is what happens on most NFL passing plays.

I think hyperbole is leading you to saying dumb stuff. You're gonna have a really tough time naming 50 better QBs. Palmer is #15 all-time in passing yardage and #14 in passing TDs. Best of luck with your list of 50.

I honestly think that's why they hid Darnold in the preseason. Once they had the opportunity to work with him and found out how limited he was they knew they had to minimize film on him in our offensive system. They couldn't afford giving opposing DCs anything to work with in games that didn't count.

It was kind of an afterthought when it was "just" hardcore heroin addicts impacted by this but fentanyl is showing up in everything now. If you're doing any sort of street drugs these days you're playing some real Russian roulette. That includes street purchased prescription pills. Pill presses are cheap. There's no guarantee that pill is what you think it is.

Yep. Elite talent can obviously come from anywhere. Just look at the NFL. All kinds of good players from small schools or "also ran" P5 programs. But when it comes to overall team talent, there's a massive gap between the elite programs and everyone else. Those rosters are stacked with 4 and 5 star recruits. The also ran get a small handful of those types of recruits per year. The elite programs pretty much don't even talk to you unless you are one of those guys. The elite small school talents were diamonds in the rough and/or late bloomers. Basically the NFL equivalents of late round or UDFA steals.

Yep. The elite programs would still be borderline top 25 teams if they were playing their 2nd stringers. The talent discrepancy is massive.

Bingo.

38-21 in Arizona. Cinci's defense was bad to terrible for most of his years. When they had a good defense they went 10-6. Hell, they went 11-5 with a defense ranked in the bottom third. Palmer wasn't great but he was consistently one of those solidly top 10, borderline top 5 type of QBs. If you wouldn't take that for our current Panthers you done gone crazy. I mean, we basically tried like hell to trade the future of the franchise for that type of QB while he was facing dozens of sexual misconduct allegations. Marinate on that one.