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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:24 pmPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:08 pmJerzylvania wrote:Idzequitch wrote:The Texans have now added Rex Burkhead to the jumbled mess of running backs on their roster. No slight against Burkhead, but the words "jumbled mess" are perhaps some of the best to describe the football team in Houston right now. Some of the best, that is, if one avoids all the naughty curse words
And finally, Cleveland is not a "bum" NFL franchise. About every twenty years there's gotta be a new "bum" team which fails year after year after year. Welcome the latest member, the Houston Toxins.
So Houston, good luck with financially surviving that (which you dealt yourself) deep in the heartlessness of Texas. Also, just a heads up, signing AB and moving to San Antonio and calling yourself the San Antonio Browns will not help either. Trust me, Janis McNair, nix that idea right now.
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 3:51 pmJerzylvania wrote:Welcome the latest member, the Houston Toxins.
So Houston, good luck with financially surviving that (which you dealt yourself) deep in the heartlessness of Texas. Also, just a heads up, signing AB and moving to San Antonio and calling yourself the San Antonio Browns will not help either. Trust me, Janis McNair, nix that idea right now.
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:36 pmLuminesa wrote:Kowani wrote:NFL says it will stop assuming Black players start out with lower cognitive functioningThe NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias.
The practice made it harder for Black retirees to show a deficit and qualify for an award. The standards were created in the 1990s in hopes of offering more appropriate treatment to dementia patients, but critics faulted the way they were used to determine payouts in the NFL concussion case.
Wednesday’s announcement comes after a pair of Black players filed a civil rights lawsuit over the practice, medical experts raised concerns and a group of NFL families last month dropped 50,000 petitions at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia — where the lawsuit had been thrown out by the judge overseeing the settlement. Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody later took the unusual step of asking for a report on the issue. Black retirees hope it will include a breakdown of the nearly $800 million in payouts so far by race. They fear the data will never come to light.
“Words are cheap. Let’s see what they do,” said former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, whose wife Amy Lewis led the petition drive on behalf of NFL friends struggling with cognitive problems. Jenkins, an insurance executive, has so far been spared.
According to the NFL, a panel of neuropsychologists formed recently to propose a new testing regime to the court includes two female and three Black doctors.
“The replacement norms will be applied prospectively and retrospectively for those players who otherwise would have qualified for an award but for the application of race-based norms,” the NFL said in a statement issued Wednesday by spokesman Brian McCarthy.
Lead players lawyer Christopher Seeger, who negotiated the 2013 settlement with the NFL, said earlier this year that he had not seen any evidence of racial bias in the administration of the settlement fund. He amended those remarks Wednesday, apologizing for any pain the program has caused.
“I am sorry for the pain this episode has caused Black former players and their families. Ultimately, this settlement only works if former players believe in it, and my goal is to regain their trust and ensure the NFL is fully held to account,” Seeger said in a statement.
The NFL noted that the norms were developed in medicine “to stop bias in testing, not perpetrate it.” And both Seeger and the league said the practice was never mandatory, but left to the discretion of doctors taking part in the settlement program. However, the NFL appealed some claims filed by Black players if their scores were not adjusted for race.
“If it wasn’t for the wives, who were infuriated by all the red tape involved, it never would have come to be,” Jenkins said of the attention being paid to the issue, three years after lawyers for former Pittsburgh Steelers Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport say they first raised it.
The binary race norms, when they are used in the testing, assumes that Black patients start with worse cognitive function than whites and other non-Blacks. That makes it harder for them to show a deficit and qualify for an award. Henry and Davenport, for instance, were denied awards but would have qualified had they been white, according to their lawsuit, which Brody dismissed in March, calling it an improper “collateral attack” on the settlement. They have appealed the ruling.
More than 2,000 NFL retirees have filed dementia claims, but fewer than 600 have received awards, according to the most recent report. More than half of all NFL retirees are Black, according to lawyers involved in the litigation.
The awards so far have averaged $516,000 for the 379 players with early-stage dementia and $715,000 for the 207 players with moderate dementia. Retirees can also seek payouts for Alzheimer’s disease and a few other diagnoses. The settlement ended thousands of lawsuits that accused the NFL of long hiding what it knew about the link between concussions and traumatic brain injury.
This is a major step in bringing real racial equality into the NFL. Nice.
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 4:36 pmEllbonnia wrote:Jerzylvania wrote:Welcome the latest member, the Houston Toxins.
So Houston, good luck with financially surviving that (which you dealt yourself) deep in the heartlessness of Texas. Also, just a heads up, signing AB and moving to San Antonio and calling yourself the San Antonio Browns will not help either. Trust me, Janis McNair, nix that idea right now.
I can't stop thinking about UT's metaphor with Houston selling its soul for a single (now-tarnished) World Series title; now I'm just wondering how much longer will they have to suffer in the depths of mediocrity for pretty much all of their sports franchises as a result.
Ranoria wrote:Jerzylvania wrote:
And finally, Cleveland is not a "bum" NFL franchise. About every twenty years there's gotta be a new "bum" team which fails year after year after year. Welcome the latest member, the Houston Toxins.
So Houston, good luck with financially surviving that (which you dealt yourself) deep in the heartlessness of Texas. Also, just a heads up, signing AB and moving to San Antonio and calling yourself the San Antonio Browns will not help either. Trust me, Janis McNair, nix that idea right now.
Imagine only being able to win 4 games with one of the best pass rushers/the best run stopping DL ever and a top 5 quarterback who has a solid left tackle.
Just insane. And they’ve got maybe one of those guys left. This is gonna be ugly for them.
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:56 pmPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 7:50 pmAmeriganastan wrote:Julio is finally free of Atlanta.
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:26 pmUnited Kingdom of Poland wrote:Ameriganastan wrote:Julio is finally free of Atlanta.
sweet jesus did Atlanta get fleeced
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:55 pmUnited Kingdom of Poland wrote:Ameriganastan wrote:Julio is finally free of Atlanta.
sweet jesus did Atlanta get fleeced
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2021 9:46 amPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 7:00 amPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:10 pmPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:17 pmPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:20 pmPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:18 pmJerzylvania wrote:They always get fleeced. Last year Ravens got a second rounder out of them for TE Hayden Hurst. The Failcons are called this name for more than one reason.
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 3:29 pmNorthern Connecticut wrote:Atlanta got more than fleeced, they got absolutely scammed. I mean they already sucked enough last season, and now. This means no ones gonna stand in the way of Tampa this season, (with Brees gone and all). And what about Texans, don't get me started on the Texans. They self destructed this offseason, Cut Duke Johnson, cut JJ Watt, apparently Deshaun Watson is a sex offender now, where does it end?
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