BREAKING: USC QB Caleb Williams has DECLINED to medical examinations with teams at the Combine and did not sign off on having his medical records shared with all teams.
Williams is believed to be the first combine invitee ever to decline an examination, per CBS. pic.twitter.com/ipHqfxNBYJ
Originally Posted by Pablo:
It’s completely normal to think this way. It’s also completely normal to want your kids to potentially marry someone of the same race in the hopes your genetic characteristics get passed along
Oh, now you’ve gone and done it!
Jk, I know a lot of people think this way so I’m not going to change any minds, but it is important to note that you’re only passing roughly 25% of your genes to your grandchildren regardless. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Oh, now you’ve gone and done it!
Jk, I know a lot of people think this way so I’m not going to change any minds, but it is important to note that you’re only passing roughly 25% of your genes to your grandchildren regardless.
If anything, I think culture is the biggest thing when it comes to that stuff.
I'm half white half Cuban, but I identity more with ny Cuban side and that's the culture I grew up with, and that my kids will grow up with (my wife is also Cuban).
I'd love it if my family's culture stays Cuban, but it's not a big deal by any means. [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
My kids will always be taught that bullying is never ok.
I don't really think anything else can be done outside of that. This idea that we can control the rest of society is just nonsense.
It goes a long way with your kid if you try though.
There are obviously gray areas and extremes when it comes to not fighting all of your kid's battles and not being helicopter parent, and not being outraged at parents and the school... while also teaching your kid how to stick up for themselves and so forth.
But, a little effort towards making things right and going to bat for them (depending on all the things, obviously) can go a long way.... hell the kids of the bully may even thank you.
I mean... wouldn't you want a teacher to inform you if your kid was being stuffed in lockers and what not? [Reply]
Originally Posted by CapsLockKey:
Eh, I think he's just attempting to make a brand for himself. Can make a lot of money off the field by being quirky and different because people notice and talk about it. Dennis Rodman paved the way for it in the 90s. No one was giving endorsements and media hype to a defensive rebound specialist who can't shoot when he was in Detroit until the dude started dying his hair crazy colors, piercing everything and wearing wedding dresses. He suddenly became a celebrity and banging chicks like Carmen Electra because of that.
Dennis Rodman could get rebounds like no other that was his only role on the team outside of getting the ball to Jordan and Pippin. He accepted his role on the team doing that. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bearcat:
It goes a long way with your kid if you try though.
There are obviously gray areas and extremes when it comes to not fighting all of your kid's battles and not being helicopter parent, and not being outraged at parents and the school... while also teaching your kid how to stick up for themselves and so forth.
But, a little effort towards making things right and going to bat for them (depending on all the things, obviously) can go a long way.... hell the kids of the bully may even thank you.
I mean... wouldn't you want a teacher to inform you if your kid was being stuffed in lockers and what not?
Ohh I would absolutely be in top of things if I had concerns that my son was the one being bullied (or potentially getting bullied). [Reply]
Originally Posted by RedinTexas:
When you're winning, it's colorful. When you're losing, it's a distraction and harmful to the team. He's going high in the draft to a bad team. It's not going to be considered colorful when they're losing.
When winning you can let the mold grow on your shower shoes. [Reply]
There’s nothing clear about it. Baker and Kyler’s issues aren’t that they’re short and the best QBs aren’t the best because they’re tall.
You’re overrating height like a lot of people do. Same with arm strength. It’s way overblown.
Lol yeah all those short qb's drafted 1st have struggled for no reason obviously!!..them being weak throwing over the middle because they can't see well has nothing to do with it clearly :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
Ohh I would absolutely be in top of things if I had concerns that my son was the one being bullied (or potentially getting bullied).
My parents are crazy non-confrontational (I somehow don't think that's an issue for you :-)), so their solution was telling me to just ignore it.
And if you don't know anything about bullies... they don't really care if you ignore them. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bearcat:
My parents are crazy non-confrontational (I somehow don't think that's an issue for you :-)), so their solution was telling me to just ignore it.
And if you don't know anything about bullies... they don't really care if you ignore them.
Originally Posted by staylor26:
If anything, I think culture is the biggest thing when it comes to that stuff.
I'm half white half Cuban, but I identity more with ny Cuban side and that's the culture I grew up with, and that my kids will grow up with (my wife is also Cuban).
I'd love it if my family's culture stays Cuban, but it's not a big deal by any means.
Idk shit about your ancestry but I’ve been to Cuba and I’ve been around a lot of Cubans in America so I know there’s a good chance your shit is pretty mixed up anyway. It’s really not uncommon for Latinos to not look a lot like some of their grandparents and that’s pretty normal.
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
Lol yeah all those short qb's drafted 1st have struggled for no reason obviously!!..them being weak throwing over the middle because they can't see well has nothing to do with it clearly :-)
You realize you have a sample size of two, right? Bryce Young was drafted last year. We cannot determine much about him at this point.
Do you have proof that they struggle to throw over the middle because they can’t see? [Reply]
Drew Brees is both short, slight of build AND had a relatively weak arm and you couldn’t name 10 QBs in the history of the league better than he was.
Dan Marino scored like a 14 on the Wonderlic and Brett Favre was obviously a total dumbass. The only positive note about Tom Brady coming into the league was that he had a plus arm.
Height, like intelligence, or arm strength is just one piece of what goes into making a good NFL QB. [Reply]
