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Happy birthday, JR Smith! The great thing about him is that there was nothing he couldn’t do on a basketball court. The terrible thing about him is that there was nothing he wouldn’t do on a basketball court.
Meanwhile, it definitely seems I made the right decision to step away from the NFL in general and the Giants in particular. Yeesh. Danny Dimes, the gift that keeps on giving.
Saw a tweet this morning that said since signing his extension Jones has thown more pick sixes (3) than touchdowns (2). Enjoying the last few hours before the Jets season inevitably turns to shit.
If the Giants are bad enough to land the top pick and select a franchise QB (if there is one) to pair with Nabers, things could get interesting real fast. Mara is such an old fool, though. He always tightens the pressure on his coach and GM late in the season when they should be focused on securing a high draft pick.
Schoen and Daboll took over a ship in total disrepair, and Saquon fucked up their grace years by carrying that sorry bunch to the playoffs (in hindsight he probably should have been much more MVP consideration). The idea that either of them should have less than 4 years to prove their mettle is preposterous. Give these guys a free season with job security. Let them secure the #1 pick.
(Having said that, Schoen doesn’t inspire much confidence. I’m not sure letting the cameras film his offseason was a good idea. I saw two episodes of Hard Knocks and they looked about as sharp as a fraternity at a fantasy draft.)
Do you understand what CTE is or are you just oblivious?
the g-men seem like a mess a decade in the making…i haven’t taken must interest since before eli left…in a really shitty way too…
they should have rode eli out to a couple of spectacular drafts…instead they screwed him, and went in the wrong direction…
knicks should have worked something out with patrick…yanks let jeter stay til he was a constant double-play at the plate…
i loved arod going out with DNP’s…
is it even worth looking over the giants roster and organization to identify any personnel strengths…
the giants seem a couple of years away from being a couple of years away from being a…
i bet fighter pilots have a much higher risk for cte, race car drivers too…
damaged brain tissue doesn’t regenerate, your body just tries to re-wire itself as best it can…perhaps there’ll be a chip developed to help return brain functions to normal…
probably help if the issue can be reliably diagnosed in living folks…
The thing is that there aren’t currently two million minors training to be race car drivers.
I don’t really care all that much about the injuries inherent in playing individual sports at the professional level, so long as the protective technology evolve as science evolves. Football has known hazards, including the propensity for concussions. If Jowles et. al. wants to live in a world where all sports combatants are separated by a net, good for them.
“The thing is that there aren’t currently two million minors training to be race car drivers.”
The sport with the highest incidence of concussions among young athletes in North America is ice hockey, which according to one study had more than double the concussion rate of football in concussions per 1000 AE (Athletic Exposures).
Concussions are twice as prevalent in youth football than in youth soccer or lacrosse…a significant difference, but not enough to call for the banning of one on the basis of it being far more dangerous than the other.
At the adult level, women’s ice hockey in nearly as concussion-prone as men’s football. Women (girls) are significantly more prone to concussions in sports played by both men (boys) and women (girls.) Women don’t play much American football but in my experience as a middle school educator and a parent of a college-level athlete, I have seen tons of concussions in females.
I expect that with the development of better helmets and rules changes, these numbers will continue to merge.
Where did the 2 million come from? Kids who benefited from being in organised sport versus no sport? If a small proportion of the latter a likely win. Not everyone is a Tiafoe who could choose between tennis and football as a talented youngster.
Calling up Dominguez so late is almost weirder than not doing it at all, which at least would’ve indicated some kind of internal reason. But whatever, The Martian has landed.
Re: football, I’m not going to get into a long argument with bobneptune about this but it’s perfectly consistent to acknowledge the benefits that come from kids playing team sports generally as well as the extremely well-documented risks associated with football.
I’m hardly on my ethical high horse about this–ultimately the supply of football will be plentiful as long as the demand is, and the demand isn’t going anywhere–but there are obvious, serious risks that should be mitigated and any argument to the contrary is unserious.
“it’s perfectly consistent to acknowledge the benefits that come from kids playing team sports generally as well as the extremely well-documented risks associated with football.
I’m hardly on my ethical high horse about this–ultimately the supply of football will be plentiful as long as the demand is, and the demand isn’t going anywhere–but there are obvious, serious risks that should be mitigated and any argument to the contrary is unserious.”
Who is aguing to the contrary re: that football’s serious risks should be mitigated? By my reading, the argument is whether football should be essentially boycotted, if not outlawed, or not. Bob himself said: “I don’t get the whole idea of Pop Warner football. Kids that young don’t need that sort of contact and size differences.”
As was indicated, football is not exponentially more dangerous (concussion-wise) than other sports…and many improvements have been made to helmets, rules, and protocols…not to mention the massive dissemination of information to players, coaches, parents, and fans. So I don’t really see any glaring ethical issues specifically on the injury front as the game exists today. There are other ethical issues….football culture is hardly wholesome…
It’s amazing how well the NFL’s propaganda on CTE has worked. Anytime anyone brings up CTE a bunch of people run into the argument and talk about equipment and reducing concussions even though CTE is not caused by concussions per se. CTE is caused by repeated hits to a person’s head. These hits don’t need to cause concussions and having a concussion is not a prerequisite to having CTE. So even if improved equipment can nearly eliminate concussions in pro sports it’s not going to eliminate or reduce instances of CTE.
Hardly, Jowles… I responded to the poster who said there were “obvious ethical problems” with the NFL. There aren’t any obvious ethical problems since everyone is well aware of the risks involved. In a free society people get to make their own choices. In your nanny state, maybe not. You love tennis and hoops which are both wonderful sports. Others like football. Their lives…. they can take what every risks they please.
But it is hardly an ethical issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=hqBw5k5fY0mJGRZf&v=1vpRtpPtq7M&feature=youtu.be
This was discussed in the Lowe Post episode today with Bobby Marks
My son tells me his sports med teacher told him seven high school kids have died from playing football. In the last thirty days.
Which I think beats out high school students killed from shooters this past month. But one is bad and one is good.
We might as well dicuss boxing and MMA while we are at it.
Let’s not and not even bother to say that we did.
Haven’t injuries been a major problem with Robert Williams?
Leaving aside the highly questionable assertion that teenage boys are fully aware of the life-altering risks of CTE…
Just curious Bob, does this mean you’re in favor of minors having unrestricted access to any/all of:
Porn
Alcohol
Cigarettes
Cannabis
Firearms
Asking for a friend.
god damn the Koch brothers et al. really did turn “personal liberty” into a rallying cry for idiot internet trolls supporting millions of YOUTH football players to have a high likelihood of a life-changing, irreversible neurological condition that has terrible health and social outcomes
GOD BLESS THIS COUNTRY
GOD BLESS IT EVERYONE
you’re a fucking fool if you swallowed the NFL’s propaganda bullshit, plain and simple, and I’m not going sit here and argue with lead-paint-eating takes on team- and character-building
go read a single narrative about a young man blowing his brains out and having stage 3 CTE by his early 20s
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/podcasts/the-daily/youth-football-cte.html
and then come back and give me another Cato Institute argument for this sport being played by fucking K-5 kids you fucking morons
absolutely fucking moronic, as usual — fucking worms for brains
yes. Assuming he’s fully recovered he’s probably better than anyone else reasonably available though
A problem we run into is that both the left and right have their pet issues where they support personal liberty despite health risks to individuals and the community, questions on morality, and other downsides but there is no underlying consistent philosphy to any of it.
I come down on the side of freedom, but that doesn’t mean we can’t strongly discourage things that can be demonstrably shown to lead to poor results instead of normalizing them, taxing them to gain government revenues, and in some cases practically encouraging them.
That also doesn’t means that communities (cities/states) with very different views can’t have completely different rules.
Goddamn it I miss you Jowles.
Great start, Jets.
Actually that was a nice drive. And the defense looks tough.
I despise the NFL, I dislike the Jets, and I want to beat Aaron Rogers to death using the corpse of RF Kennedy’s bear. If someone can guarantee me a loss I’d so hate-watch this game.
Teenaged boys cannot play organized football without the approval and consent of their parent or guardian, so you question is moot.
If you would like my opinion on children having unsupervised access to Vodka, cigarettes, weed, guns and the such, I would be against it and restricted my sons from that at a young age. Porn I would have no problem with.
https://www.usatodayhss.com/2019/study-most-youth-sports-sudden-deaths-were-in-basketball
Not to minimize a rash of deaths…. but surprisingly….
So, are you in favor of children having access to those things if one of both parents say it’s ok?
1. According to the study, those basketball-related deaths were all cardiac events; I would imagine, though I can’t be sure, that most if not all of these children had underlying, undiagnosed heart conditions. There’s a big difference between someone with a heart condition that happens to die while playing basketball and someone who dies because of a head injury suffered while playing football, hockey, etc.
2. Why did we start discussing exclusively deaths when we were talking about injuries that have lifelong consequences, like CTE?
Got two more reasons not to watch the NFL.
Bill Bellichick and Tom Brady.
I’m sure there are people whose opinions I would less like to hear, but I suspect that list is small.
Tom Brady has the softest hands I’ve ever shaken.
I read through the 7 kids died in a month from football quickly but I think only one died from a head/neck injury. Most were cardiac/hydration issues. Not to minimize any death but there isn’t some epidemic of kids getting their brain’s maimed from football. Professional football is another issue. And there isn’t a big difference… they are just as dead.
I gave you my opinion. I would restrict all mentioned other than porn. I don’t raise other people’s children. But like most things…. it depends on the circumstances. For example, I went to a school where shooting a rifle an hour a week was mandated from 7th through 12th grade. I could shoot the pupil out of you eyeball from 100 yards and not nick your iris, but I never went postal on anyone and I have enormous respect for firearms. Would I turn a 12 yr old lose with a firearm of any source unsupervised…. not on your life. What’s your point?
Jesus, Jowles… what on earth does the Koch brothers boogeyman (isn’t one of them already dead?) and the Cato Institute have to do with brain injuries.
If you read what I previously said rather than going into spazz mode… I am against youth football and wouldn’t have let my kids play it if they wanted to. 7 year olds playing competitive tackle football is insane IMO.