kungfoodude

Injuries are an underrated possibility to torpedo our season. We loaded up on guys with rather suspect injury histories to go with a few of our other oft injured players. I can remember more than a couple of seasons completely derailed when the injury bug settled in to the team.

Well, there are a couple of obvious possibilities. TBD how it will go. About 44 days until we finally get a look.

If he is dropping a bunch, then the writing is on the wall. That is a completely different scenario.

He's too busy posting (over)reaction videos about the Knicks draft that ESPN will spray all over their platforms.

Guys, this is one video of one rep. Not great for Moore, but we are really making a mountain out of a molehill here. Now, if this was a compilation video of David Moore training camp drops, that's pretty bad. Or if most of the sources at the camp talk about how rough Moore is looking, that's bad. This....this is just one rep. Not a great rep, but just one rep.

Remember when we had threads sarcastically predicting that the anti-Darnold folks would dramatically overreact to incomplete passes? Notice how the exact opposite of that is happening?

Yeah, I mean I suppose you could get caught up in that conspiracy. Fits the mold. Ask yourself this question, what the fug does that have to do with the vaccines now? Even if you do believe that this is some Chinese biological warfare. In fact, if it is some Chinese weapon....why WOULDN'T you want an American made vaccine set to stop it? These seem to be competing thoughts here.

My 5G reception is fantastic after I got these mRNA chips in my bloodstream. Thanks, Bill Gates! The Huddle refreshes faster than ever!

Agreed. It's one rep. It will only be meaningful if it keeps being repeated.

Ginn would have been much more wide open.

If that was the rep that ends up costing him his job with the Panthers....not sure he was on very solid ground to begin with.

You don't trust the source? You mean the virus? Well, I mean, it's a virus. I don't think it really has much capability to lie.

It's one rep in practice. Not great but he is gonna have ample opportunities to make up for it.

It's probably a bit early to jump to that conclusion.

The comforting thing about all conspiracy theorists is how completely uniform they are in thought process. Doesn't matter the specific conspiracy or slant, they all are the same. The concerning thing is how widespread conspiracy theories are becoming. I mean, at this point these aren't even niche, this is flat out mainstream. That is what is so concerning. I attribute this directly to people not being savvy about the media that they consume. The fact is, the overwhelming majority of the world's population is not intelligent enough to digest information without filtering. I never would have thought that I would end up with this viewpoint but I have been involved in the internet since almost it's inception(not back in the DARPA days, obviously) and I have watched this unbelievably powerful way to access information eventually turn into something I never expected almost three decades ago. It isn't a way to spread information, it has devolved into a way to spread disinformation and "choose your own adventure" facts. Frankly, mass media has basically followed that trend to mirror it. You couldn't have convinced me that would be the result 30 years ago.

The idea of suppressing "evidence" is literally conspiracy theory garbage. There are few examples in recent memory of a medical treatment with such transparent and large data sets. Do people have side effects? Yep. Have some been bad and even lethal? Yep. Are the percentages very low? Yep. Anecdotal evidence isn't completely valueless, but if you base your decisions purely on statistical outliers, that is just not smart. I would want to go out and draft a player based on one good game in college, verses 20 mediocre to bad games. Now, Marty Hurney probably would. Do you want to be Marty Hurney?

The anti-vax movement is not purely a modern thing. There is a tradition of it for religious reasons going back quite some time. The modern era is really no different. Politics and idiocy are the new religions, so it does fit. The 90's/2000's anti-vax movement(from the "liberal" bastions, no less) has been so thoroughly debunked that it's more of a litmus test for critical thinking anymore. The anti-vax movement against these new vaccines will end up being a similar situation, most likely. I definitely can see a scenario in a decade or so how the volumes of research will make this movement look just as foolish as the last major one. The leaders of this version are just as much sideshow personalities as the last one.

I'd say it is usually a harbinger of things to come more than anything.

Having a sophomore slump would lead to actual hot seat talk in 2022. Lots of variables, though. Is Darnold still a bust? Does our new OL fall apart? Is the defense underwhelming? Do we simply catch the injury bug and never recover? The red zone struggles seemed to be about 50/50 Brady and Teddy last season, for instance.

Yep.

He is vaccinated. You know that, right?