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I don't mean know them as in personally, I mean know them in the ways you listed. Let me throw out another hand grenade. If your defense is so complex that it's prohibitively difficult for defensive backs to learn, the league is geared towards the proliferation of passing, and this defense continually fails you in the same way in key moments, is the defense the problem? Particularly in a league where injuries are inevitable, you have a salary cap, and a low roster count. That's a discussion for a different thread though.

I'm not "playing into it" at all. I'm pointing out that I can't recall one of these mass shooters ever being in an intimate/loving relationship with another person. As far as the trans element, no, I'm not going to ignore it. It is a sign - a sign that lonely, disaffected young people are attracted to some kind of magic cure for their misery. It will all be ok when I am treated as a female. That's no different than the other misguided attempt to find community in a group of militaristic racists online. These things aren't what we mean by "community." The are a sign of a sickness in our society. One of the nice young lawyers who worked for me (who wasn't at all religious) asked me some time ago about what I thought about sending her kid to Catholic school. My kids were in Catholic schools at the time. I noted that there were many non-Catholic kids in the school, and I did praise them for providing some moral compass to kids. And with a tone of "but for the grace of God I go too," I said that maybe that's why school shootings don't seem to happen at Catholic schools. But I knew it was too good to be true.

doesnt count if she cant see it!

As always, he’s the last to jump on the pile… Bills need a FO that runs a business, not a charity

Sorry but I am not real familiar with you but is this sarcasm?

News,

The founding of Hamas Hamas was founded in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Gaza Strip during the first Intifada. Its goal was to create an Islamic state in historic Palestine, leading it to oppose the secular Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Israeli support for Hamas The claim that Israel created Hamas is more nuanced. While Mossad did not create the group, Israel did support Hamas's early growth as a counterweight to the more powerful and secular PLO.

I figured you couldn't come up with one. It's quite possible that Poyer was the best veteran safety on the market that wasn't on a team's 53 man roster already. Plus, he knows the playbook in Latin and you get the benefit of him teaching a guy who really needs it like Cole Bishop.

Well yeah, don’t really expect them to pick up Micah Parsons.

Ahhh yes the always reliable msnpc

That's pretty weak. Sanders took a bunch of sacks and looked pretty bad last time he was out there. He was also able to start a game. RGIII with a freezing cold take right here.

It's "Systemic Libnut-ism."

This is really good but I don't think it's completely correct. What you are correct about is that sometimes when these guys are called on to play, they can be liabilities. Where you're incorrect is when you say the reason those guys get signed is because McDermott and Beane know them, in the sense that they're bringing their buddies back. That is not why these guys get signed. McDermott has things that he values above everything else. Not in any order, but they are teamwork, competitiveness, continuous improvement, growth mindset. He dislikes above almost everything failure to execute a play as designed. Notice that all these people we're talking about are on the defense. That's because McDermott's defensive philosophy is an integrated team philosophy. The defense has to work as a unit, and when it works as a unit, he believes it can be most effective. It's a human machine. Working as a unit means each player does his job and relies on the other 10 to do theirs. When one guy doesn't do his job, when he makes the wrong read, takes the wrong first step, doesn't drop properly into his zone, whatever, then the machine malfunctions. If a guy does his job but simply isn't quick enough to play the position really well, McDermott is okay with that, because the machine is still functioning properly, just not at peak effectiveness. (Notice that the Bills don't do this on offense, at least not at the skill positions. Gabe Davis came in for a talk, but the Bills didn't sign him. What wideouts have to know to fit into the offense is much easier for a stranger to the system to execute, so the Bills didn't value his experience. Davis was like Hyde, White, Poyer, Phillips - a multi-year starter in this system, but that just isn't as important on offense than defense.) It isn't easy for players to learn their roles in this defense and execute them regularly. That's why we see so few rookies start in this defense. Benford got rookie playing time out of necessity. Bernard barely saw the field. Because it isn't easy to execute the defense, when the Bills need a defender on an emergency basis, the best guy available from the Bills' point of view is a guy who's already done it. That's why White and Jackson and Lewis and Phillips and Poyer and others. On top of that, as others have pointed out McBeane want those guys because they can help the young players get up the learning curve faster, which means that a talented guy may be able to get on the field faster. We've heard, and we saw on Hardknocks, that White was spending a lot of time with Hairston at training camp. White understood that if he could actually play, the Bills would be happy about it, but whether he could play or not, he had an important role getting Hairston up to speed. So, yes, McDermott and Beane know these guys they sign, but they don't sign them because they know them. They sign them because the guys they've had on the team before know how McDermott wants them to play and have shown they can do it.

Meh….2023 7th rd pick

WTF is wrong with Benford?

Minneapolis Church Shooter ID'd, Disturbing Videos Suggest Potential Motive Matt Vespa https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/08/27/minneapolis-church-shooter-reportedly-identified-as-transgender-n2662424

They pay an entire scouting department to answer that question. You're telling me that group came up with Poyer as the top option? If that's the case, that's a different problem.

The whole "Incel Mentality" (which you are playing into here) is part of the problem.

Just a massive coincidence that their lowest scoring games of each postseason nearly perfectly correlate to the games where they allowed the fewest amount of points and that their highest scoring games also correlate to the games where they allowed the most points. What are the odds? It’s certainly not by design that the Chiefs scored TDs on the first two possessions against Baltimore and then ran the ball 32 times when the Ravens offense couldn’t score for 8 straight possessions. What made it even weirder is that when Baltimore kicked a FG to make it a 7 point game, the Chiefs were seemingly miraculously able to put together a 6 play, 50 yard drive before kneeling down deep in Ravens territory. By God, Kansas City scored 17 points in that game, so if the Ravens had scored 18 the Chiefs would have looked like fools as they knelt down on the ball for an 18-17 defeat.

What veteran?

I remember Steve Cristie. when Did Tyler Cristie play for the Bills?

NFL shouldn't have gone below 8 games

Not projecting in the least, just pointing out what you're really after. Just be honest about your intention. Predictably I think you're trying to outsmart Christians by asking how we can support violence when Jesus is supposed to be a God of peace and love. The problem with that is Jesus is also a God of righteous anger. As a Christian I believe the Bible is the living word of God. And the Bible makes its stance on the enemies of Israel very clear. Or as you pose it "Would Jesus Like Israel's Campaign Against Palestine." To answer your question, yes. Jesus was there when God sent plagues against the people of Egypt. Maybe if Hamas was more up on their Bible they would have known this was coming. You ask if "Israel could do anything to anyone for any reason, and you would accept that because of the Bible?" I dont have to accept what Israel is doing. The ways of the creator of the Universe are beyond me. I will likely never fully understand the plan. I detest the suffering of children. But is Israel not supposed to defend itself? “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” – Genesis 12:3 “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10 “For this is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘After the glorious one has sent me against the nations that have plundered you— for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye.'” – Zechariah 2:8 “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the Lord. – Isaiah 54:17 “So pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.” – Psalm 83:15 “For the nation or kingdom that will not serve you will perish; it will be utterly ruined.” – Isaiah 60:12 “I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; there I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among the nations and divided up my land.” – Joel 3:2 “This is the plague with which the Lord will strike all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.” – Zechariah 14:12

and OL Travis Clayton