Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[mrMet]

I agree. I guess for me I don't see Fields as a guy that can win big without a great team around him. I was wrong about Hurts though so there's that.

Hurts has a GREAT team around him though…

 

[ACvol3]

Sorry been away all day...any updates on Donte Thorton? I saw his commitment is tomorrow

There’s a short video interview of him floating around somewhere. Seems really confident and matter of fact. Definitely a type A personality. Vol
also a video of him running a laser 4.43 40

 

[Jackcrevol]

Hurts has a GREAT team around him though…

That never hurts.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Kinda lost a little respect for him when he didn’t go to the hospital for hamlin… maybe something I didn’t know. But wouldn’t mind to see the Bills to win the super bowl after what they have gone through.

He is in the cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Only family gets to visit and only for short periods of time.

Would you rather see family or a teammate if you had almost died?

I know I would prefer family if I were there…

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

Rebuilding should start Monday in Nashville.

Fire the OC #1!
Lewan needs to be gone
Tannehill should be out

Get Baker Mayfield for a year of two and draft a QB next year. Not one in this year’s draft worth getting. Focus on OL.

HH and Darnell Wright. Might as well draft Hyatt and Tillman too. Would be a nice start. Keep Dobbs.

Would increase ticket sales too.

 

[volbeast33]

He is in the cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Only family gets to visit and only for short periods of time.

Would you rather see family or a teammate if you had almost died?

I know I would prefer family if I were there…

He also tweeted my qb at a video showing Josh Allen wearing a #3 hat and shirt into the stadium today…. People like to create drama where there are none.

 

[ACvol3]

He also tweeted my qb at a video showing Josh Allen wearing a #3 hat and shirt into the stadium today…. People like to create drama where there are none.

 

[bigl3327]

That's not a dose they give you if they intend for you to come off of it. I'm glad that you made a choice that you're happy with but I think we make too many people jump through far too many hoops for pain relief. You said something earlier that struck me. You said, "they were turning me into an addict." I have two minds on this: 1. Your doctor or nurse should've explained the difference between dependence and addiction to you because it's super important. Dependence will happen to anyone on a prolonged dose of opiods/opiates as your body adjusts to the extra dopamine. Addiction is not dependence but most addicts are dependent.

And 2. You were right, they were turning you into an addict but what I mean by that is that the rules, pill counts, blood/urine tests, forms, suspicion, guilt, and general hoops they put people through just to get something that will help them function treats them like addicts instead of patients. It's dehumanizing and it turns treatment into a sentence when someone is chemically dependent on a drug to make them feel functional but must jump through all those hoops and worry about all the things that go along with it or that medication will be removed from them and they'll not only suffer the pain they'd suffer without it but the withdrawal experience you describe.

To me that's absolutely unacceptable. People right now have to choose between being sick full time and their jobs - even ones that don't take drug tests have to worry about monthly appointments and taking off work constantly. That's not right. It wasn't always this way and it shouldn't be today. Recreational users will always be around and this does nothing but harm regular people while not affecting people who experimenting or using for fun.

Thank you for that explanation. I had never taken any kind of pain medication before that incident, and yes they intended for me to be on those medications for the rest of my life. I was wheelchair bound and medically there were no indicators that my condition would ever get better. I was 40 at the time. (I would eventually be on that dosage for 4 years in which they gradually increased the strength of the fentanyl patch)

I was at Walmart with my family about 2 years later, in my wheelchair. I ran into the father of the girl who I had taken to senior prom, who is a minister. He prayed over me in the middle of Walmart and proclaimed that I would get better and walk again. I am a man of faith, so I believed him.

Over the next two years, my body started making progression that none of my specialists could explain medically. They asked me what I was doing, but I had no answer as to anything I was doing differently. I was able to start walking again for short distances. I ran into the minister again. This time at Kroger. I told him what had happened since we last saw each other because he noticed that I wasn't in my wheelchair. He prayed over me again and said that I wouldn't need the pain medication anymore. That's when I decided to leave pain management.

I still live with chronic pain, but on most days my pain levels are equal to or slightly better than they were on heavy daily pain medication. I occasionally have periods of severe pain that basically have me bedridden, but that isn't the norm now.

 

[Christian Lowe]

I take Kratom and it works well for my normal pain level..it has been a Godsend, especially since the jackassess in charge haven't put it on the list...yet.

It doesn't help much at with extreme stretches like this....the only thing that ever touches it when it's this bad, is real painkillers.

It actually let up some this afternoon...finally..after 4-5 days.

Thank the Lord.

I still take subs for former transgressions with addiction. When I run out or I have insurance issues… kratom is probably the last stand between me and relapse. It’s amazing.

 

[Weezer]

Jimmy Holiday to Western KY.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

I can see practicalities in high risk occupations ie machining and welding on pipelines, mining, even police work.

But having a robot dog just bc I dont want to clean up crap?

Nah.

How about a robot dog to clean up your dog’s crap? Or to protect your smaller dog at noght from coyotes, etc?

 

[Weezer]

How about a robot dog to clean up your dog’s crap? Or to protect your smaller dog at noght from coyotes, etc?

It'll turn on you and rip your throat out once Skynet sends out Order 66.

 

[Jackcrevol]

How about a robot dog to clean up your dog’s crap? Or to protect your smaller dog at noght from coyotes, etc?

We all know aint no robot cleaning that nasty **** up. Beside my dog is 16, sometimes she falls in her own dook, bad legs. That dipshit robot wont know to clean **** up.

Coyotes are afraid of nothing.

Like Westworld, how long till the robots become self aware? **** that.

 

[smokeyhuntsgators]

Tennessee will land thornton and Lott. Gonna be a great day for the vols.

 

[Orange_Crush]

How about a robot dog to clean up your dog’s crap? Or to protect your smaller dog at noght from coyotes, etc?

Robot dogs don't crap. Just bypass the real dog. Own a robot dog. Bip, bam boom.

 

[smokeyhuntsgators]

As a Titans fan I actually agree and mentioned this midseason when it was clear our Super Bowl window closed.

Trade Tannehill, trade Henry, trade/release Woods. Keep the defensive unit of you can (Simmons, Landry, Tart, Autry, Byard, Hooker, Fulton, etc). Probably trade Cunningham.

Use the trade capital to rebuild the offensive line. Draft another WR and target a Rd 1 or 2 linebacker. You could probably get a 1st rd pick for Henry still. That's huge. Haskins looked solid against Dallas. Give him the reigns next season and maybe sign a FA or trade like they did with Demarco Murray before Henry became #1.

They'll have a pick around #10. That helps. If you get G Nate Davis and C Ben Jones back healthy and if their contracts are good that would help rebuilding the line. Petit-Freare was not terrible as a rookie, but not great. Will be good cheap depth with Radunz and you can use that Top 10 pick on a guy like Darnell Wright. Sign a FA or trade for a top notch LG and the line looks completely different next year.

If you get another 1st or early 2nd rd pick, take a WR. This is another deep class. They could pair Burks with another stud WR and that room looks solid next year with experienced players like NWI and you get Phillips back.

So you give Dobbs and Willis a competition going into next season. See what they can do, and if they aren't it you use your 1st rd pick in 24 on the next QB.

But I'm not a GM

Send this to Mike Vrabel ASAP!!

 

[bigl3327]

So Justin Williams- Thomas flipped from Stanford to Cal?

 

[SweetasSoda]

Thank you sir. I'm my situation, I consider myself blessed. I was given 5 months to live in 2014 after 11 unsuccessful surgeries due to an extremely rare clotting disorder. Thus the extreme pain management. For me, it's better to live in pain, than not be among the living at all.

May I ask what kind of clotting disorder? I have one also.

 

[RikidyBones]

Hendon Hooker?

Need the dolphins to swipe him in the third round. Tua ain't it and hooker would do well in McDaniels offense.

 

[SweetasSoda]

Same problem with it and it's cousin Gabapentin as every other scheduled pain killer...I can't take it because of my job.

With my diagnosis, I could get whatever painkiller I needed to kill this pain all day every day, I've been in pain management 7-8 times since the early 2000s..but I would have to quit my job and jobs up here are scarce...and it takes a lot more money than disability pays for me to do the things I love to do.

It is what it is...I am just a physical wreck. Like I said...I can usually grit my teeth and go on, but I always have these stretches of a few hours, a few days or a few weeks when for some reason it greatly escalates...it will pass.

Just pray for me...it will pass.

Praying. I can relate.

 

[bigl3327]

May I ask what kind of clotting disorder? I have one also.

Protein C deficiency. I've had DVT and multiple clots in my lungs (PE) on 4 separate occasions now. They have said that my case is one of the most severe they've ever seen. The Mayo Clinic said that I had the highest clotting factor they'd ever seen back in 2014.

 

[RikidyBones]

@Ulysees E. McGill what caused it? Bad luck? Injury? Work?

 

[SweetasSoda]

Have you ever tried nerve abalation (nerve burning)? I was on all types of medication and countless rehabs for chronic back pain. I finally found an ortho in Knoxville (Farragut) that suggested this procedure. It has been a life changer. I still have a little pain but my life no longer revolves around planning for when back spasms or sciatica pain might occur. One note….several doctors don’t like it because it only treats the symptoms and not the root cause. It was a no brainer for me.

I have heard of that but don’t know a lot about it. Never had a doctor to suggest it. But I will look into that. Thanks!

 

[Vol423]

Rebuilding should start Monday in Nashville.

Fire the OC #1!
Lewan needs to be gone
Tannehill should be out

Get Baker Mayfield for a year of two and draft a QB next year. Not one in this year’s draft worth getting. Focus on OL.

Baker Mayfield isn’t an upgrade over Tannehill. I can’t believe people still think he’s a good NFL QB.

 

[Orange.]

So Justin Williams- Thomas flipped from Stanford to Cal?

Great schools. I'm happy for JWill. Never thought about Berkeley raiding other teams' recruits but looks like they swiped him. Hope he does well.