Ted Thompson Pre-Draft Press Conference

[CaptainKickass]

Pre Draft conference...Post Nasal Drip. Whatever.

HEY - FREAKIN' NFL!!!!

I COULD REALLY USE SOME FRIGGIN FOOTBALL RIGHT ABOUT NOW !!!!!


AAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!


Regards,

The Captain.


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[Waldo]

Completely unrelated to anything.

Right now at 10:00 ET on the Science channel, build it bigger is doing a thing on the Cowboys new stadium.

My brother designed the roof and he is interviewed for a part of it.

You'll see where my user name comes from.

Check it out.

[swede]

Completely unrelated to anything.

Right now at 10:00 ET on the Science channel, build it bigger is doing a thing on the Cowboys new stadium.

My brother designed the roof and he is interviewed for a part of it.

You'll see where my user name comes from.

Check it out.

Did you have an opportunity to hack into his CAD program and make it leak?

[cpk1994]

Completely unrelated to anything.

Right now at 10:00 ET on the Science channel, build it bigger is doing a thing on the Cowboys new stadium.

My brother designed the roof and he is interviewed for a part of it.

You'll see where my user name comes from.

Check it out.

And here I thought you were named after Waldo Geraldo Faldo.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Completely unrelated to anything.

Right now at 10:00 ET on the Science channel, build it bigger is doing a thing on the Cowboys new stadium.

My brother designed the roof and he is interviewed for a part of it.

You'll see where my user name comes from.

Check it out.

Did you have an opportunity to hack into his CAD program and make it leak?

All I know is that when that stadium is done, I'll be taking the Cowboys in my dead pool for when that giant TV falls on their sideline.

[Waldo]

Nah, if it doesn't fail almost immediately after being hung, it's not going to. That's not how steel works. Steel doesn't lose any strength of significance as it creeps or ages, only rust would really be a real threat, as there is no cyclic loading of the scoreboard (at least of significance) to cause failure in the long term (a la a bridge). The minor shifts in building that effect the loading and loading from maintenance workers is insignificant enough that it could easily take billions of cycles. If it's going to fail from poor design, it'll happen in the first 15 minutes.

Steel is remarkably effective at holding itself up. It's strength:weight ratio is exceptional and its properties are very predictable. You can design to a high degree of precision, with a built in 60% overdesign factor of safety via the steel code. Plus the design loading for a structure like that is typically a major earthquake during a major hurricane, an absolutely ridiculous case. The towers that I've worked on have had bomb blasts, airplane hits, plus the earthquake/hurricane as the extreme design cases, normal loading isn't even much of a factor in design, it is a starting point, but public structures are designed far beyond that.

Engineers learned their lesson with the Hyatt walkway design (the last non-intentional/non-weather event major building failure in the US), the Oklahoma city government building, the World Trade Center, and the Superdome.

[RashanGary]

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Ted Thompson traded last years 7th round pick (#237) for New Orleans 6th round pick this year (#187).

This is the type of move I'd like to see more of. He moved up 50 spots for free. Well, he has to wait a year to make the pick, but this is the type of move GM's that are not desperate make.

New England is constantly getting extra picks in the following year for picks right now. They almost won the SB two years ago. Maybe they would ahve won it if they would have taken an impact player instead of trading into the following years draft, but probably they wouldn't be where they are if they didn't make those types of moves. It seems to me that the best teams aren't just focused on right now , instead focusing on the big picture. Yesterdays big picture thinking is what won the Steelers a SB right now, for example. The best teams are consistently good, giving themselves more shots instead of selling out for one desperate shot.

Ted oozes a winners mentality, even when he speaks in general terms and even if some people can't see it for the life of them.

[Bossman641]

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Ted Thompson traded last years 7th round pick (#237) for New Orleans 6th round pick this year (#187).

This is the type of move I'd like to see more of. He moved up 50 spots for free. Well, he has to wait a year to make the pick, but this is the type of move GM's that are not desperate make.

New England is constantly getting extra picks in the following year for picks right now. They almost won the SB two years ago. Maybe they would ahve won it if they would have taken an impact player instead of trading into the following years draft, but probably they wouldn't be where they are if they didn't make those types of moves. It seems to me that the best teams aren't just focused on right now , instead focusing on the big picture. Yesterdays big picture thinking is what won the Steelers a SB right now, for example. The best teams are consistently good, giving themselves more shots instead of selling out for one desperate shot.

Ted oozes a winners mentality, even when he speaks in general terms and even if some people can't see it for the life of them.

I agree with your post and your general take on TT, except for the fact he oozes a winner's mentality. I, personally, think TT's approach is the winning way and that the arrow for this team is pointing up, but TT doesn't have the confidence I would associate with a winner. A quiet confidence maybe, and sure of his method, but not a brash confdence. Instead, he withstands the criticism from fans and the media and never says "I told you so" back, which I think I respect him even more for.

[RashanGary]

I agree, bossman. I can see the strength in him and so do a lot of people, but there are also a lot that see something else. He doesn't use the cookie cutter management style taught at seminars that is proven to lead the weak and ignorant. He has a style that is true to himself. People don't follow because of a false bravado but follow because they know he's good at what he does and good in his intentions (that is people who work with him and know him, not the crazy fan minority that hate him or the pampered brat that tried to take him down but lost).