EPT2019 NFL and CFB Season - Page 147
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Sermokala
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ZerOCoolSC2
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JimmiC
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Emnjay808
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On June 10 2020 12:11 Sermokala wrote: we can't cut cousins his contract is fully guaranteed lol  | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On June 10 2020 03:14 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: He may as well have! He didn't graduate. Left mid semester. And is only probably going to enter the supplemental draft. What a move! On a more somber note, I am just increasingly turned off by the CFB offseason (even as I like the product on the field more). It makes the latent 5% of me that always thought college sports are bad because schools admit students that have no reason being on campus grow to 10%. | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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Some kids there and buckle down, get to work. Some just get so hyped in their heads that they're just a time bomb waiting to happen. | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
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On June 04 2020 23:26 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: It's still weird that people can't let go of the flag. I served and I could not care less about the flag at this moment. Pay attention to why Kaep was kneeling and not object/soundtrack he was kneeling to. That's a backdrop. Background noise amplified to distract you from the core reason. In football news, we're probably not going to have JD Spielman back but we're bringing in taller WRs so if we have a season, our perimeter and downfield threats should be better. Can't wait for that to materialize. (EDIT: Just like the first minute or so, which comes from Paper Tiger; awesome special, btw.) | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
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On June 04 2020 11:49 Emnjay808 wrote: Ahh it was the flag thing. Well I can understand better now. Though it feels weird that someone can’t respect the flag and the BLM movement. I’m not trying to start a poli discussion—just trying to understand. If the flag stands for what the country is and was, and the country has a history of systemic racism... what aren't you getting? No one is saying there's nothing good about the US; they're saying that the flag is representing ideals that have led to systemic oppression of people of color, and they won't stand and honor that until they see some tangible changes in the way the country operates. Tbh, Kaepernick couldn't have been more clear about this. Furthermore, I've yet to meet a "respect the flag" ranter who isn't an outright racist/bigot. They might exist, but I haven't found one. And, in case anyone remembers my defense of the league all those years ago: I still think the MFer sucked dick as a QB, and that's the reason he's out of the NFL. Being controversial played a role, no doubt, because you don't keep controversial players that suck. But it's not merely that he sucked. No, it's that you'd have to redesign your offense around his skill set if your starter got hurt. So yes, he was better statistically than Blaine Gabbert (or someone equally shitty), but at least you can run the same offense with Gabbert, and hope that he throws to the right guy. Kapernick couldn't drop back and stand in the pocket to save his life, and that's what being a QB in the NFL requires. Despite that, the Broncos went hard to get the guy, and the deal was refused. So 31/32 teams didn't want to deal with the media circus over a guy that would likely never see the field... can you really blame them? That doesn't make them racist, imo. | ||
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Emnjay808
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Categorizing flag supporters as racist-tolerant doesn’t seem the way forward though. | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
I've written and rewritten a bunch of things to follow that up, but suffice to say, all of them IMO have been political, and IMO banworthy for posting in a sports thread. So now I'm done. | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
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(Not really, I just probably won't remember to come back to respond, and I don't want to leave half-assed responses all over) | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
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(Not really, I just probably won't remember to come back to respond, and I don't want to leave half-assed responses all over) | ||
GTR
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andrewlt
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On June 10 2020 15:00 cLutZ wrote: What a move! On a more somber note, I am just increasingly turned off by the CFB offseason (even as I like the product on the field more). It makes the latent 5% of me that always thought college sports are bad because schools admit students that have no reason being on campus grow to 10%. It's hard to classify them as students when they are asked to be at school before classes start but need special accommodations for exams because that's when bowl season is. More so with the pandemic if they are asked to be at school at the same time students are forbidden to be on campus for safety reasons. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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QuanticHawk
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Emnjay808
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GreenHorizons
United States23234 Posts
On June 23 2020 02:41 Emnjay808 wrote: So is the NFL gonna continue the season as scheduled, just without a stadium crowd. I feel like I’m not hearing enough news on how they plan to go forward with covid controls during the regular season. UFC without crowd noise has been weird I don't think they could broadcast NFL games on network TV without crowd noise drowning out a lot of what is said on the field? | ||
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ZerOCoolSC2
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GreenHorizons
United States23234 Posts
On June 23 2020 03:29 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote: I think I read somewhere that UEFA or some soccer league would be using old recorded crowd noise in their games at some point. Wouldn't be surprised to see the NFL do something similar as well. I tried that for UFC and it works okay at low volumes and more ambient style noise but part of the effect is the crowd reacting to what's happening at the moment. Will be interesting to see what they come up with though. | ||
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