And even during the times they are supposed to be working they each have a palm-sized device that lets the outside world flood into the team's facility: a smartphone.
Coughlin has said in the past that he and his coaching staff have studied Millennials and how they process information. They are trying to adapt to the way young players think and learn. That goes for everything from having playbooks on iPads to playing music during warmups which engages a desire for them to multitask (stretch and listen at the same time). |
I like your slogan better. This is such bullshit, I go through the same crap with my kids. Time to work, then time to play
Attention is so splintered now though, I can't imagine all the input flying at teenagers and 20 somethings and trying to make sense of your life, your hormones, your dreams, girls, your profession with all of that shit to keep up with. We had it rougher physically and probably mentally from an ego standpoint (we got beaten down to nothing and built back up) but from a stress standpoint, kids these days are just overloaded. I would NOT want to be a kid in this age, it seems overbearing and awful.
I've never been eager to retire, but the parent/administration/entitled-kid axis is profoundly discouraging. B is the new F, and all that…
Funny that the Giants are doing it to connect with the younger players on the team and get more out of them and how they process information. Maybe they have a new Dr. Joel around to help from the psychological standpoint in understanding the 21+ year old athelete.
To his credit
To his credit
It's incredible to see the way he's evolved. It's precisely this evolution that converted him from a very good coach to a Hall of Fame coach.
Coach Walsh, Catholic HS...
And that was basketball...
Enuff said.
"You guys are Stupid!" "Stop playing grab ass"
A tough, tough man.
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Attention is so splintered now though, I can't imagine all the input flying at teenagers and 20 somethings and trying to make sense of your life, your hormones, your dreams, girls, your profession with all of that shit to keep up with. We had it rougher physically and probably mentally from an ego standpoint (we got beaten down to nothing and built back up) but from a stress standpoint, kids these days are just overloaded. I would NOT want to be a kid in this age, it seems overbearing and awful.
I seem to remember being a teenager-20's in the Thirties and Forties (WW II in there, too) and having hormones, dreams, girls, etc., etc. When do you think all those things were invented? In the 21st century?
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Until we puked, then we got yelled at for puking on the field, then we moved fields and got yelled at for messing up two fields. When we left practice well felt like whipped dogs but damn if we wouldn't run through a brick wall for our coach.
Attention is so splintered now though, I can't imagine all the input flying at teenagers and 20 somethings and trying to make sense of your life, your hormones, your dreams, girls, your profession with all of that shit to keep up with. We had it rougher physically and probably mentally from an ego standpoint (we got beaten down to nothing and built back up) but from a stress standpoint, kids these days are just overloaded. I would NOT want to be a kid in this age, it seems overbearing and awful.
I seem to remember being a teenager-20's in the Thirties and Forties (WW II in there, too) and having hormones, dreams, girls, etc., etc. When do you think all those things were invented? In the 21st century?
To write off the course changing impact on mankind that the internet, and everything comes with it, has had on the generation of children that are being raised on it is naive.
Yeah, you dreamed about girls in the 20's, 30's, and 40's, but did you have the ability to pull out a tiny movie screen out of your pocket and see them get plowed by three dudes the moment the impulse struck you?
I've never been eager to retire, but the parent/administration/entitled-kid axis is profoundly discouraging. B is the new F, and all that…
Respect. I would not want to be a HS teacher now.
Completely on board with these thoughts, Brett. The collapse of the distance between urge and stimuli is not a net positive at all.
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old man's Playboys, or scrambled cable at 2 in the morning hoping to see an unscrambled nipple for a split second.
Completely on board with these thoughts, Brett. The collapse of the distance between urge and stimuli is not a net positive at all.
Britt, not Brett.
I would of never left the house...
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Until we puked, then we got yelled at for puking on the field, then we moved fields and got yelled at for messing up two fields. When we left practice well felt like whipped dogs but damn if we wouldn't run through a brick wall for our coach.
Attention is so splintered now though, I can't imagine all the input flying at teenagers and 20 somethings and trying to make sense of your life, your hormones, your dreams, girls, your profession with all of that shit to keep up with. We had it rougher physically and probably mentally from an ego standpoint (we got beaten down to nothing and built back up) but from a stress standpoint, kids these days are just overloaded. I would NOT want to be a kid in this age, it seems overbearing and awful.
I seem to remember being a teenager-20's in the Thirties and Forties (WW II in there, too) and having hormones, dreams, girls, etc., etc. When do you think all those things were invented? In the 21st century?
No, don't be a scallywag, that's not my point. My point is contending with those has ALWAYS been an issue, but now on top of the usual kid things, you lose your privacy, you get bombarded digitally with facebook, twitter, instagram, snapchat and whatever else is out there. You have to keep up in class and between class and not miss a beat. If you didn't see the latest monkey falling out of a tree video and everyone's laughing you're out of the loop and as a teenager nothing is more alienating.
My point is that kids now get no breaks, none, there is no sanctuary from ridicule, prying eyes, judgement, evaluation and information. Even school is tougher, there is no more hunkering down in class or on the field as there used to be because SOMEONE can be watching, recording, observing at all times. It's overwhelming for adults, imagine being a scared teenager trying to make sense of the stuff we always had plus all this shit.
I still remember watching certain movies not because they were any good, but because they had one "good" nude scene in them. Sad fuck that I am. ha
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We had cinemax for my later teenage years.
I still remember watching certain movies not because they were any good, but because they had one "good" nude scene in them. Sad fuck that I am. ha
+1. Actually, +everyone.
I even notice myself (I'm 30), I can barely sit and watch tv without being on my phone half the time. I don't however do it in social situations while interacting with others. My attention span has definitely gotten worse though.
The truck was to turn to another channel and flip it back really quickly. You would get a full second of nudity. Heaven
Add in a bunch of horseshit political policy not allowing students to fail, and teaching to a test and...
Well, here we are.
I was on vacation recently and just thought of how 15 years ago, you went away, and you were gone, disconnected....now....there is no escape from the daily events.
Add in a bunch of horseshit political policy not allowing students to fail, and teaching to a test and...
Well, here we are.
Yeah ok joking....
I remember on the old wood grain Cox cable boxes that I was able to descramble porn for a split second. Then my cousin showed me how to press two buttons repeatedly on the remote to prolong the descramble. Thus, the downfall of my video game career... Damn thumbs.
You forgot about National Geographic which was always good for a nipple shot or two.
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about your post about scrambled cable...ha, ha. Different time.
that may be the #1 Freudian slip on BBI of all time
Hahaha!
it was a great time.
even then. I had comparatively shitty quality (26 now). The kids now have it TRULY made, but I consider my age group the first frontier (maybe second)
Due to business, I am on my smartphone a lot, yes. But I don't use my smartphone to "play" with folks or share ridiculous photos and the like.
Focus. Presence.