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I'm not the type to call out anybody else for their opinions. To each his own, but I don't understand the vitriol toward Campbell. There's a huge difference between him & Patrica - he has this team. They love him. Goff ran right over to him .. Did you see the locker room come around him? Never did that over the last 3 seasons. I get that he's made some bad moves. I'm not saying any different, but as a leader his relentlessly moving forward is exactly what this organization needs. After the first 5 losses, I figured this season was over - so let's let him learn everything he can learn. You do that by doing - making mistakes - & then learning. I think yesterday is an example of learning. He could have punted the ball - I probably would have - but after giving the ball back how many times this year, only to have teams chew up 4-8 minutes of clock, I get the desire to go. Yes the call didn't work - but it gave his team a chance. This time it worked. I personally think he took over play calling for only one reason - to get into the ear of Jared Goff. Sean McVay ridiculed & pummeled Goff on the field & off - Dan Campbell is trying to rebuild his confidence. I don't think it has anything to do with Anthony Lynn's ability as a play caller - it's all about lifting up Goff's confidence. Like many of you I have my doubts Goff's ability as a QB - his coach may have those same doubts, which is why he wants to be the voice in his ear. I think we will see Campbell grow as a coach as his players get better in the coming years & there's more talent around him.

So you are using opinions to argue against facts? It’s nice that you have beliefs on how things should be but you can’t really compare MLB to other enterprises as if relates to “entry level”. I don’t care who gets what at the end of the day as long as I get baseball. My costs won’t go up or down. But if I don’t get baseball then I will look for ways to vent about it and seek out appropriate blame. The owners are simply lazy and don’t recognize their role in the attraction of the game. They didn’t build the business. Their efforts don’t make it a better product. They aren’t the guy in the pizza shop making dough and pies every day. They cut a check to buy a property. That’s all.

LOL - do you want me to recap the last 10,000 posts from this and the old forum? Rejection of science, cultural celebration of ignorance , the shift from the popularity of rational/enlightenment Christianity (old school Protestantism) to anti-scientific biblical fundamentalism (this is a huge movement - by far the most important), movement away from demanding critical thinking from the leadership on both the right and left, the increasing cultural objectification of women even in the ironic face of the explicit rhetoric against it, the re-emergence of the US white nationalism, the explicit admission by the political elites that democratic principles are now strictly transactional ( this one is significant because even when principles were ignored in the past, they were not admitted to be ignored, so social pressure could be brought bear to bring things back toward compliance. When the elites are explicit in their rejection of principle, that leverage now lost - you will never shame Mitch McConnell or Donald Trump, to live up to a higher principle than the win - and yes I could probably come with someone on the other side just as bad but not as close to mind if I wanted to spend more time than I do.). That's all I got in 5 min.....

Gonna be a sad day for his cow.

If we were horse trading over abortion law, I'd go in a different direction. My opening position would be a national DNA database, so the father of every one of those children carried to term could be identified and required to be financially responsible for it until it was 18. Put that on the books and watch the demand for abortions in the US go to zero.

Anyone who types "must of" is not to be taken seriously on any topic.

Fox News says that saying someone supported Trump is disrespecting them.

Reading this thread annoys me. SOOO much deflection. Other countries have problems with racism. Other countries have drug problems. Other countries have access to the internet. Other countries have kids spending a lot of time on their phones. No other country has the gun violence and the crazy easy access to guns that the US does. But how do those two things go together... No one could ever know...

Nobody cares if they look foolish, because it's irrelevant to the arguments being made. You are just trying to deflect.

I'm not sure I want to live in the universe where a coach makes a decision many other coaches makes, it works, the team wins, and yet it's still the wrong decision and no one can give a reasoned answer why.

All that made me think of was "It's not a motorcycle, it's a chopper"

That’s why Al Gore invented steroids.

I fully expect this to be a calm, logical, rational place for discussion.

We can't have this conversation until he can properly identify the specific car including make, model, year, engine size and transmission and in the exact terminology.

it's actually just that your comparison sucks chief but don't sprain your shoulder patting yourself on the back

I've sent in the binax test which you can visibly see if it has one or two lines (although I don't think it has a key explaining that attached to it). For another one, you actually use an app, so I did a screen shot and sent it to my daughter. She showed it to the office on her ipod and they accepted that too. My guess is it's probably an honor system to a point as every time I talk to a different parent, their kids are in quarantine too.

Don't "fix" my post with that BS. Talk about a deflection...

It's a not-uncommon rhetorical tactic people use for many other topics, too. I remember some years ago on MTS we were talking about healthcare and I made the case that health insurance is a form of what people called at the time "socialized medicine", because people pay insurance premiums into a pool (managed by a for-profit company), and then the benefits funded by the premiums get doled out based on who needs their healthcare subsidized at the time of need. IOW, health insurance (all insurance, really) is a socialized asset collection and redistribution scheme. One of the regulars there kept trying to invalidate my argument by trying to trip me up on the term "risk pool". Specifically, did I know what one is? We went back and forth for a few pages on the relevance of the question (I said it wasn't; he ignored relevance and kept pushing the question) and I said, let's say I don't know what it is, so now what? His reply was that since I didn't know what a risk pool was, then nothing I had to say about the topic could possibly be valid, since to his argument I was ignorant on what a risk pool is. The strategy of course is to ignore the core point in a bid to win the entire argument on a strictly semantic point. It's what people who have a weak case throw against the wall hoping it sticks.

That's not realistic. While we would be a safer country without guns, they have become too big a part of our culture to just wipe them out. We are stuck with them. We can make incremental changes though. My general suggestion is to not allow such easy access to guns. If someone is not a responsible person, they shouldn't be able to own a gun. I would center laws and enforcement around that.

Blacks also had their middle class area wiped out by I-375.

I've posted it before. It's as of week 9.

what makes people not value life? Feeling like you don't have much to live for. *Most* murder in America has always been an underclass problem - you can overlay murder rates on income data census tract by census track and get nearly a one to one correlation. So the question is both simpler and more complex - which is how do you attack the poverty in US inner cities which is where most US poverty and most US murder are? A big part of the reason we have poor, decayed inner cities is because they are mostly black, and when whites moved away they took their political power and economic development resources with them. That's more or less the definition of institutional racism. Political resources allotment decisions made by majoritarian systems have a natural bias toward beggaring the minority. That's baked into the system. That's a hard political problem to solve. Integration is the 'easiest' answer in a system like ours where representation is geographically based, but America doesn't seem to be capable of it. But to be clear, murder in Chicago and mayhem like Sandy Hook or Oxford are quite different problems and we defeat ourselves when we don't keep the distinction clear. It's true they intersect at the availability of guns, and reduction in that availability would help both, but that is the only factor they share in common.

Good Lord, Jared hit the lottery with that one. Kind of nice to get paid an enormous sum of money to provide mediocre QB play and come home to THAT.

We’re all aware of the human carnage of black youths in Chicago. Last week the Cook County Medical Office recorded its 1,000th murder of 2021. There is a month left in the year. Of these victims, an estimated 80% were black. This is so wrong on so many levels. I have a question that is simple and straightforward. How do we stop this ongoing madness? It is beyond epidemic. I have read, true or not, that Chicago has some of the toughest gun laws out there. I confess, I don’t know their laws related to this topic. So what is the answer?

This from someone that referred to a gun as "just a piece of metal".

well, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.

Good.

Speaking of OSU - I was amused to see a disappointed Buckeye fan on the Columbus SBNation site accuse Ryan Day of DAntonio.ism - i.e. being unwilling to move on from under-performing staff.

For the Vikes this was like the Ravens game was for the Lions. The idea this Lions offense would go 75 in 1:50 with no time outs was probably as hard to take seriously as the chance of someone hitting a 66yd FG.

goff is awful no matter who is calling plays. they won that game because zimmer turned off the pressure and played prevent, rushing three on a qb who couldnt handle any kind of pressure at all. thanks mike zimmer. you just got yourself fired after this season.

i appreciate the response. suffice to say, i think you've vastly overrated the influence of those you disagree with politically, and vastly underrated the effects of technological and political progress in the lives of women. so much so, that i would argue that there are no women in the history of the world who have as much freedom, power, well being, and progress as women in the united states in 2021. and call me whiggish, but i think that will continue to increase in the upcoming years no matter what happens at the supreme court.

at any given point a football game can evolve down a hundred different possible scenarios. Almost any decision can be good or bad in some number of those futures. Of course only one outcome happens, but which will is never more than a guess. There may be more or less statistical support for some choices but there is never any guarantee the particular game is going to take the 'average' path and validate the best 'average' answer. Campbell took a chance his team could do something if they got the ball back. It was a bet that ended up paying off even if it didn't have the best odds. I'm not going to fry him for that. how he uses his QB? That is a different matter. Depending on what is clearly the least reliable cog in your offense when you need a foot on 4th down - *that* makes no sense. My biggest beef with Campbell is that he seems committed to the idea that Goff can play at a higher level than he has shown any inclination to do since he's been here.

the tigers signed another shortstop besides baez? who?

This week: Michigan wins B1G championship. LIons win first game of season Red Wings win 5 in a row and are in playoff position almost 1/3 of the way through season Tigers sign a star shortstop

I think it's pretty telling Goff ran straight to Campbell.

It's like we've seen this movie before. Remember how a young Stafford would sputter and stumble and then run a great 2 min drill when he no longer had time to think about anything? We just saw sort of a painfully familiar thing with Goff.

What kind of wheelchair was it?

I really couldn't give a fuck what they or their son will go through. I care about the parents and friends and families of those 4 children who were killed. Imagine how they will have to live the rest of their lives. Also don't care what Brian Laundrie's piece of shit parents went through either. They knew their son was a murderer and let him leave the home with a gun and lied to law enforcement.

Let's think about the position that these monsters have put other families in.

additional signings will be arms that throw from the mound.

If buying and holding is making you nervous, then maybe you are risking too much. Don't wait until you get nervous though. Make adjustments to your balances at the end of each year or twice or year and stick to it. I now put 24% into retirement. I invest the majority in cheap index funds, but I have never been 100% in stocks. I always have put a substantial portion in investments with fixed returns just for peace of mind. As I get closer to retirement, I now only put 50% in stocks. I avoid individual stocks, because I think you need to follow the market closer than I do in order to make smart choices. If you feel strongly about a stock, maybe invest a small percentage in it.

The "Field of Dreams" game was the one that looked off to me. Balls were just flying.

Its a damn shame O'Neill wasn't inducted when alive. That'd have been a wonderful speech. The man was a fantastic orator. He could probably hold the room mesmerized by just reading a label on a can of soup.