NFL 2017

[Ed Anger]

BRB

[CountDeMoney]

Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney, an N.F.L. Force and Link to Football's Past, Dies at 84; Prince of Darkness Bilichick Extends Reach

[MadBurgerMaker]

Todd Heap accidentally killed his daughter while moving his truck.  Just awful.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19161911/todd-heap-accidentally-hits-kills-3-year-old-daughter-moving-truck

[CountDeMoney]

The Heaps lived a few blocks away from me when they were in town, saw them often.  That whole family moved as a unit.  So horrible.

[dps]

Accidentally killing your own child would have to be about the worst thing that could ever happen to a person.

[jimmy olsen]

Pats have a ton of cap space this offseason.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/england-patriots-sign-more-free-212211673.html

[Berkut]

Todd Heap accidentally killed his daughter while moving his truck.  Just awful.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19161911/todd-heap-accidentally-hits-kills-3-year-old-daughter-moving-truck

Jesus, that is horrible. That poor family.

[derspiess]

League decided against doing video on the Surface tablets this year.  Still haven't figured out a way to reliably push HD video out to 16 devices simultaneously without bottlenecks (it's a lot trickier than you might think).  So we're continuing with just still images.  Two or three years ago we thought paper pictures might be gone by now, but certain coaches have spoken up loudly enough that they are here to stay for the foreseeable future.

[CountDeMoney]

That's a shitload of video to push down the pipe.  I was thinking maybe live streaming could work, but how do you freeze frames, coaches' clicker, rotate views, etc?  Gotta be a wireless bandwidth nightmare.




At least black and white with zip lines, you're only worrying about the same shit they worried about in 1981:  wind and rain.  Old school is the best school when it comes to reliability.

[derspiess]

That's a shitload of video to push down the pipe.  I was thinking maybe live streaming could work, but how do you freeze frames, coaches' clicker, rotate views, etc?  Gotta be a wireless bandwidth nightmare.

It sort of works if you hook the devices up via a USB ethernet adapter.  But then it becomes a logistical nightmare to move the tablets back and forth.  For wifi, sometimes it's a stretch just to get still images out to all the devices without much delay.  We figured that three NFL players-- sometimes just two-- can effectively block a wifi signal if they are standing between the tablet and the antenna.

At least black and white with zip lines, you're only worrying about the same shit they worried about in 1981:  wind and rain.  Old school is the best school when it comes to reliability.

Yep.  I'm not aware of any team that has totally stopped using paper pictures on the sideline.  But several have stopped using them in the coaches booth-- we set up tablets on the countertop in front of them-- all hardwired and plugged into a constant power source, so no wifi or power issues.  Plus I guess that is where a lot of the younger, more tech-forward coaches tend to be.

[jimmy olsen]

Aaron died doing what he loved, killing people.

[Ed Anger]

With that hang time, he could've been a punter

[jimmy olsen]

With that hang time, he could've been a punter

Damn, and I thought I was being brutal.

I bow to the king.

[alfred russel]

Aaron died doing what he loved, killing people.

We are all a product of our environment. Hernandez played college ball with the Florida Gators, then he joined the Patriots. With influences such as those, I assume his parents must have been saints, because otherwise I would have expected him to kill a lot more people.

[derspiess]

If only he had been a part of the wholesome Miami program