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If this gets messier Trump, for his own good, should ask Congress for at least authorization for military activity. If he goes it alone, this potential mess will be all his. Iran does have the potential to put the squeeze on him by threatening the flow of oil, if they are smart enough to push that button Trump's life gets way more uncomfortable

I seriously doubt Beane is refusing to pay the man. However, very few players (Allen and Mahomes aside) get to simply demand their salary. It appears Cook has attempted to do this on social media. He must be willing to negotiate. We have no idea what is happening behind closed doors. He may be privately engaged in earnest negotiations. I have no doubt the Bills are making serious offers. We'll see where it lands.

The esteemed barrister that goes by the handle ChiGoose, has already declared the action blatantly unconstitutional. Turrentine is, therefore, wrong.

Well, he's the former Russian president, so... Is he any less truthful than Trump?

Agreed! And let’s also reiterate the TRUE origins of this Iran-Israel-U.S. conflict, lest the PPP warmongers try to obfuscate otherwise: the 1953 coup in Iran and the 1948 Nakba. I’m anti-American Empire, not pro-Iran. I am in favor of national sovereignty and human rights while against unnecessary wars and collective punishment. My first instinct of distrusting government claims of WMD’s is a consequence of growing up in the post-9/11 era. What you deem to be a sign of mental illness is what I consider to be a sign of basic intelligence. No, I don’t believe we will see the evidence in under 10 years or ever. As a concerned American citizen, it’s not that I need the specific intelligence made public to me. I just need various trusted third parties to see the evidence in private and then to publicly confirm that the claims are legitimate. I’m a girl, actually, but thank you for your kind words! You’re a good poster, too. This forum could use more people like yourself who can sustain political discussions and debate. Also: I’m a social democrat and not a communist or even a socialist, but don’t expect BillsFanNC to ever understand the distinction. The “comrade” in my name is a tongue-in-cheek thing. P.S. A friend of Muppy is a friend of Commie Kay! I hear ya, but I’m just super pessimistic that the current Iranian regime can be ousted without American boots on the ground. Moreover, I’m far from confident that a replacement regime would be any better for the world or for Iranians. Love ya, Mups! << hugs Muppy >> << punches Leh-nerd because…reasons >> “Imminent” = on the order of days or weeks or months, not a year or longer. There has been ZERO evidence suggesting the danger was imminent. Trump and Netanyahu opted out of diplomacy way too soon for, I believe, reasons that I’ve already articulated. You’re presenting a fork-in-the-road situation as if both choices are of approximately equal caliber in rationale. What happened to the Leh-nerd who is uber-skeptical of government power, the establishment, the deep state, and what not?? You seem to be suspending a lot of your innate distrust when it comes to this particular dilemma.

He's a cartoon character. I never took anything Daffy Duck said seriously - just enjoyed the entertainment. The same holds true with the cheetah.

How much do you owe on your house?

Aside from being Russian - this is how you know everything he just said is complete bull ***t That should also confirm an anti American anti Trump bot writes his posts.

Which brings me to my questions. How much is the players responsibility and how much on the coaches during a game. Also, specifically concerning the "everybody eats" scheme of Brady's, how much influence (play by play) does he have and how does he call it. If he has little influence than it's all on Josh and the players. Of course, that holds true on both sides of the ball.

So Josh Allen is the best QB? phew, lol. I appreciate the work done here. Josh had a better O-line play this year, but as far as "sack discipline"--he was far and away the best at avoiding sacks--mainly because of his legs and savvy. His sack% is a half of Mahomes's and about 1/3 of Burrows. Mahomes is an elite scrambler though. Burrow, not as much. Jaden Daniels will be a superstar. Caleb Williams isn't long for this league. He will be in the Justin Fields pipeline to journeyman soon. The Bears draft Fields, after his rookie season the Bears ownership dumps the GM. Hire Poles. Picks Williams. Commanders ownership dumps GM and hire Peters. He takes Daniels. Which team had 100 year old owner? lol. imagine being a Bears fan. No better than Cleveland. "Slaughterhouse of Dreams"...

Dawkins - Although at times he looks like the Michelin man, he gets the job done and no one has Josh's back more than he does. He also has a great personality. Honorable mention to Shakir, he needs more passes going his way. I think Dorian Williams takes a big leap this season.

The other thing that nobody has mentioned in this thread is that there is a lot of preparation during the week for the more spontaneous playmaking that spins off these systems. I think particularly the system the Bills run. When you have a guy like Allen or Mahomes who is talented and who has played in the same system for multiple years, during the week the coaches are talking to him and he's talking to the coaches about opportunities they see on the field. When the defense is doing one thing or another they will agree that the quarterback has the option to modify what's going on the field to take advantage of opportunities. The run pass option is the formal embodiment of that kind of play, where the quarterback more or less on his own simply chooses to take a different opportunity in the play, even though the running back and the entire offensive line is executing something different. Something different. Occasionally after games, the more experienced quarterbacks, including Manning and Brady, will talk about the fact that a play that worked during the game was actually a wrinkle that they had talked about during the week of practice, a wrinkle that the quarterback was free to take advantage of without anyone having actually called for that play. I remember having heard a a Patriots linebacker describe one important play that the defense made in a significant game during their run. It was something like a third and seven and they needed a stop. This guy and one other defender, after the defensive play was called, acknowledged that the better way to run the play would be to switch assignments. They did it, and they got the stop. The interviewer said to the guy, "I bet Belichick was pissed off about that." The guy responded, "Not at all, that's the kind of thing that Belichick expects players to be able to do."

'We Came, We Saw, He Died': Democrats' Breathtaking Hypocrisy On War Powers Ed Morrissey After last night's strikes on Iran, Democrat politicians reached screeching levels of hypocrisy over Donald Trump's decision to act rather than wait for an Iranian nuclear weapon deployment. Chuck Schumer demanded action from Congress, as did Hakeem Jeffries. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez led calls for impeachment. Practically every Democrat on Capitol Hill -- with the notable exception of John Fetterman -- rushed to promote their "authoritarian" narrative about Trump. All of this venting reveals very short memories on the port side of Capitol Hill. Fourteen years ago, they couldn't get enough of presidential strikes on a nation in the very same region. Remember Hillary Clinton's chortling over the fall of Moammar Qaddafi and the role she and Barack Obama played in it? "We came, we saw, he died," she raved to Leslie Stahl after a joint US-EU bombing campaign decapitated Qaddafi's regime, and left a failed state in its wake {snip} The wisdom of that Libyan operation is not the issue here. Neither is the wisdom of last night's operation, although the Iranian nuclear-weapons program certainly has far more connection to American security than Libyan rebels did in 2011. The issue at hand is the hypocrisy of those who cheered the 2011 operation, but who now insist that such use of American military forces without Congress' approval is somehow illegal or unprecedented. https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/06/22/we-came-we-saw-he-died-dems-breathtaking-hypocrisy-on-war-powers-n3804046

Obama said he wanted to use censorship? Just stop, I feel guilty now for picking on you

I suppose the Japanese high command was patting themselves on the back on Dec. 8. What comes next is a mystery.

What in the holy hell are you talking about? You're going back to your Billsy level halucinations. You're equating our government pushing private companies to restrict free speech (the deplatforming outlets that ran with the Hunter Biden laptop story back in 2020, and the deplatforming of Dr. Bhattacharya for his views regarding covid in 2021 as prime examples) with people asking the government to not sponsor artists like Maplethorpe? Interesting take. And one of a comparison of apples and kumquats. And you know darn well that what 44 is calling for is for the government censoring views that challenge it. A reimagining of the Disinformation Governence Board if you will. The fact that you can't even admit that you know that's what he's calling for tells us one of 2 things about you. So, have fun with it.

Quick comment, as normally I read entire threads before I weigh in (I don't have the chance right now). Just general atmospheric statement, based on experience: many, many, many things go bump in the night. So, I suspect we publicly know a tiny slice of ground-truth, and the related operations. This would include not only precise BDA, but also (potential) follow-on ops, across any spectrum one might imagine. I'll eschew any political comment. Out here, DSK

Of course it was terrible. He’s an awful speaker. I was speaking in jest since his Al-Baghdadi is known as objectively one of the most embarrassing speeches by a POTUS ever. So yes. This one was better. Seems like at least this time they gave him the phonetic spellings on his teleprompter. “We love you God.” 😂

When did I defend Iran? Please be specific.

If this is true, we will never ever hear it from this administration. Im not sure how this can be confirmed - or what Drunken Pete says can be confirmed - until they either continue building a bomb (and from the rights on here, they are a country of dimwits, so unlikely) or they don’t.

TWO-TIER JUSTICE: Princeton refuses to punish masked students who hurled slurs at Jews.. No other victim group would get so little consideration. https://www.campusreform.org/article/princeton-refuses-punish-masked-students-hurled-slurs-jews/28091

You are correct (again) OB "Vance says U.S. 'not at war with Iran, we're at war with Iran's nuclear program' President Donald Trump said Saturday night that the U.S. had dropped bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites, the first time the U.S. has directly attacked Iran" (NBC News). https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/vance-says-us-not-war-iran-re-war-irans-nuclear-program-rcna214329

I thought when they traded back into the first round it would be for Nick Mangold, What do I know. Ngata and Mangold would've been a helluva first round.