Seahawks Think Colin Kaepernick Is Overqualified To Play For The Seahawks. The Seahawks have found another backup for quarterback Russell Wilson. It just won’t be Colin Kaepernick, who apparently is too good for the job. Seattle’s new man behind the man will be Austin Davis, who has 1. Davis joins another undrafted free agent, Trevone Boykin, as Wilson’s understudies, at least for training camp. Boykin had backed up Wilson last year. Davis was last seen getting cut by the Broncos in December after not playing a down in 2.

The Seahawks had Davis in for a visit two weeks ago, right around the same time they had Kaepernick drop by. But their decision to opt for Davis instead brought renewed attention to what head coach Pete Carroll had said Friday, when he told reporters Kaepernick is “a starter in this league.” Because who needs a starting- caliber QB to be a backup when there’s a perfectly fine career backup out there who hasn’t thrown a pass in two years?

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The natural assumption to make here is that Kaepernick wanted to be paid like a starter, and that Davis represents a hefty bargain by comparison, especially for a Seahawks team with just $1. NFLPA records. But Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk and Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report both shot that notion down, and Kaepernick has been busy today retweeting those reports: As I said a couple of weeks back, it’s reasonable to assume Kaepernick is jobless because of his decision last year to protest police brutality by taking a knee for the national anthem.

But “blackballing” would imply an agreement from all 3. Most teams are too risk- averse to put up with any potential for “controversy” for a player who won’t see the field unless things go very wrong. But, for now, the NFL appears to be fine with portraying him as overqualified and underqualified at the same time.

The hackers behind a massive intrusion into HBO systems have released a month’s worth of a senior HBO executive’s emails, dumping a “publicly accessible link to. A new study published on July 20 in Current Biology suggests that elephant seals are able to recognize the tone and rhythmic patterns of their rivals’ calls. Port Manteaux churns out silly new words when you feed it an idea or two. Enter a word (or two) above and you'll get back a bunch of portmanteaux created by jamming. The Seahawks have found another backup for quarterback Russell Wilson. It just won’t be Colin Kaepernick, who apparently is too good for the job. The Hollywood Reporter is your source for breaking news about Hollywood and entertainment, including movies, TV, reviews and industry blogs.

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Elephant Seals Know When Their Opponents Are Talking Shit. Yelling at each other online is a beloved human tradition. Other animals like to shout at each other too, they just don’t have the luxury of a screen separating them. But of all the petty creatures in the animal kingdom, it turns out elephant seals might be most like humans when it comes to talking shit. Free Download Photo Editor With Special Effects Software. A new study published on July 2.

Current Biology suggests that elephant seals are able to recognize the tone and rhythmic patterns of their rivals’ calls. Just as it is with people who squabble online, maintaining dominance is very important to elephant seals’ social order. A team of researchers spent weeks studying an elephant seal colony in A. The team changed the rhythm and timbre of the call, and presented two modified versions back to the seal colony, in addition to the original. When the researchers played the original alpha male call to ten “beta” males, the non- dominant seals scrambled away in fear. When they played their edited versions, however, the beta males were unafraid when the changes in the beat were more extreme.

Therefore, the researchers concluded that the beta seals understood that they were not hearing the alpha male’s call.“This is the first natural example where on a daily basis, an animal uses the memory and the perception of rhythm to recognize other members of the population,” co- author Nicolas Mathevon of the Universit. Humans can do this too, of course.“There have been experiments with other mammals showing that they can detect rhythm, but only with conditioning,” Mathevon added. In general, elephant seal calls sound like a broken car. But while they might not be the most elegant musicians, elephant seals need to understand each others’ calls so that they don’t die.“It is possible that maybe the ability to perceive rhythm is actually very general in animals,” Mathevon said. Competing for females, the males fight very violently, even to the point of killing one another. So it’s very important for them to accurately recognize the voices, to be able to choose the right strategy, to know to avoid a fight with a dominant male, or even to start a fight with an inferior one.”Of course, there are some limitations here. This study only analyzed one colony—maybe they were just some really socially- conscious elephant seals.

More research is needed to determine weather or not all elephant seals can understand pitch and the “beat” of other elephant seal “speech.”Anyway, while elephant seals aren’t the most eloquent species, I’d still rather listen to their caterwauling over any Chainsmokers song.