Jake

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 10:56 PM) Haha no argument would be had. I'm mostly doing this to see if it heals my reflux issues that have been killing my acting career. right now I'm just using NOW Pea Protein and shakeology Shakeology tastes good. Pea Protein tastes awful. Yeah, pea is notoriously difficult to flavor...though most plant based things are. The texture of plant-based proteins tends to be just...off.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 10:06 PM) i must be slow. but i no get it. lots of vegan athletes though. I'll avoid the argument and instead let you know that the company I work for sells a vegan protein powder . It is rather delicious and price effective when compared to its competition. PM me if you're interested.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 08:02 PM) awesome dude! I think I'm gonna be going vegan. I'm gonna use whatever crap I still have, but next time I'm shopping - it's alllllllll veggie I'm gonna try it for like... 2 months... or something like that... and see how I feel. Placebo vs. The Malnourished Athlete Who shall win?

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 09:41 PM) Depends on your carrier. The Note 2 is a big phone, but if you love big screens, that's the phone to get. S3 is a great phone as well, I really like the feel of it in the hand. But you should probably hold off. New flagship phones will be here in 2-3 months. Interesting. I'm not in a hurry, probably going to wait until my iPhone 4 bites the dust.

Thinking about making my next phone an Android. I like the app cross compatibility with my tablet and I really love widgets. Thinking about Samsung S3 or Note 2. Unsure of size and price of the Note obviously. What other things should I consider? Other phones I should bring into the mix?

Beatty ranked 11th this year, very good. Last year - 35th, above average. 2010 DNP 2009 middle of the road.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 08:29 PM) It's like hey, we finally have a stats-oriented GM! I'm probably gonna pay for the site next year to use it for fantasy football. Yeah I see they have a Fantasy Package, I'm not sure how it differs from what I purchased beyond the fact that it is different.

Jake Long rated exactly in the middle of the pack among tackles, just one spot ahead of J'Marcus Webb. Every other year they've done these statistics though, he's been absolutely awesome and number 2 more than once. A downward trend, though. Ryan Clady is in the top 4, though. He was rated as terrible last year and good to very good every other year.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 08:20 PM) Carimi better have been playing on one leg, because that is inexcusable. Rated as 7th worst T in football among all of those that played in at least 25% of their team's snaps. 3rd worst in pass blocking. Kind of absurd that they rated his run blocking so positively but his pass blocking was SO bad that it undermined his positive entirely. When looking at our run game splits, we are positive when we run behind our RT (Carimi mostly), TE (they give Spaeth a very positive rating for blocking), and FB. LT was neutral, all 3 interiors very negative. This website rules and it is even more comforting to know that Emery sees this too. I'll post more interesting things as I find them for all to see. I'll take some requests too if you're curious.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 07:37 PM) According to PFF (the source Emery cited in his press conference), these are the yearly pass blocking rankings for Jay Cutler's offensive lines as a Bear: 2009 21st (woo!!!) 2010 32nd (last) 2011 30th 2012 27th In 2008 as he threw for 4500 yards, his Denver line ranked 6th. This was PFF's first year of compiling proprietary statistics like these. On PFF's grading system, positive impacts are reflected in positive values and vice versa. A 0 would mean roughly average, neither a positive nor negative impact. For any statistic, +20 would be great and -20 would be just about the worst of the worst. Our linemen overall: Webb -0.8 Garza -5.6 Carimi -10.1 Louis -1.8 Rachal -12.1 Spencer -4.0 Scott -8.1 Brown -6.4 Edwin Williams -2.9 Pass Blocking: Webb +1.4 Garza +1.9 Carimi -17.4 Louis +5.7 Rachal -1.0 Spencer -9.2 Scott -7.3 Brown -2.7 Williams +1.1 Our team rating for pass blocking is -22.2, which is horrible. However, a huge portion of that negative rating is wrapped up in our right tackle, which is just crazy. You may have noticed that our blocking became less of a factor after Carimi's benching, and these stats may explain why. While things don't translate exactly from position to position (they said they are really working on this but it favors RBs a bit), Marshall led our team and was one of the highest in the league with an overall 21.3 rating.

According to PFF (the source Emery cited in his press conference), these are the yearly pass blocking rankings for Jay Cutler's offensive lines as a Bear: 2009 21st (woo!!!) 2010 32nd (last) 2011 30th 2012 27th In 2008 as he threw for 4500 yards, his Denver line ranked 6th. This was PFF's first year of compiling proprietary statistics like these.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jan 4, 2013 -> 11:15 AM) Obama plans on creating a trillion dollar coin to pay off national debt http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/...ing-end-around/ "Obama plans" being an interesting way to put it. Nonetheless, I think it's brilliant. If the Republicans want to hold us hostage on something they should have no say in anyway, then Obama should have an equally ridiculous yet absurdly legal trump card. If they wanted to make changes to the budget, they should have negotiated over the budget. Obama was going to give them hefty spending cuts that they're now going to have to make asses of themselves to fight for.

We can't talk about Columbine, Wayne LaPierre says security was totally different back then and it was too easy to shoot up schools. Therefore, if a bomb failed at Columbine, then it would REALLY fail now.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 11:08 PM) Continuing to borrow limitless amunts of money is actually doing the sticking. But it only sticks people who actually pay taxes. It's about not sticking it to future generations. It's about not borrowing money to give us s***. The economy is based on borrowed money, that doesn't last forever. But most of America starts crying like petulant children at the supermarket checkout. Actions that seem to fix the budget via simple addition and subtraction actually make it harder. Reductions in spending and even increases in taxes will harm growth so you must be careful how much you do them. If you want to close the gap, you increase employment. If we recover the economy, we will pay off that debt. If we get desperate about fixing the deficit now, we'll have a long term problem with our economy and thus a continuing problem with meeting our budget goals. The credit card analogies don't work on this scale.

Ann Coulter thinks we should publish names and addresses of women who have had abortions

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 04:29 PM) But that same kid can manage to find his way into just about any illegal drug he desires pretty easily. And bomb plans can be had online. Yet we don't think he used drugs. And when was the last time someone went through the effort to bomb a school? We can't prevent everything, but we can prevent some things and make it more difficult and illegal to try to carry out these plans. For the purpose of stopping mass shootings, there are straightforward steps we can take to start preventing them.

The world also doesn't revolve around women. They didn't have to vote yes, but instead they didn't vote at all. The larger point is even if there is a legitimate problem with a bill like the Sandy, they are completely wasting their time trying to f*** with Obamacare yet again. I encourage you all to contact your representatives like I did today to let them know that we don't mind them pushing their ideology, but we do mind when they waste our time.

Really like PFF. I'm going to buy a month's subscription and look at all the premium stats.

First bill of 113th Congress introduced by House GOP: Repeal Obamacare Sandy victims and women be damned!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 08:59 AM) Who gets to define what's "substantive" or "on subject?" The Speaker We see how fun that is in the House. It is at times efficient, and others times anti-democratic

What does the fiscal cliff debacle say about our chances to avoid the far more worrisome climate cliff?

http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2013/01/we-now...ystem-that.html And for that, we got a 60 day reprieve on cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

The guys I like right now (and we're obviously limited in how much we can actually know about anyone, especially other teams' coordinators) are: Bruce Arians Mike McCoy Jon Gruden

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 02:09 PM) I just don't think that anything with more regulations will make much of a difference. Maybe a magazine size regulation. But honestly, anyone willing to plan and commit mass murder will find a way with illegal weapons or home made bombs. We keep saying that, but then people commit mass murders with weapons acquired legally or easily enough that those purchases/acquisitions could have/should have been restricted. Many (not all) mass murderers do so with some sense of impulse and may not be able to carry out plans that are too elaborate. These are also outsiders, generally, so a kid who plays video games in his basement and has Asperger's probably doesn't know how to get in touch with illegal gun/bomb dealers and makers.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 3, 2013 -> 01:35 PM) I found this to be a really cool look at the average value of a first round draft pick for comparison with the value of signing a player that costs you that pick. Interesting look. The funny thing is, I'm still undecided. Certainly a player by player decision. I'd probably rather go with those odds rather than pay Nick Swisher over $10M/year...but maybe I wouldn't feel that way if I really needed outfielders.