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Perhaps they think labor peace is better for the game and fans long term than the minor gains they would be getting. When you are arguing that hundreds of millions isn't enough, I think the average fan would be hard pressed to take their side...or really the owners side. Millionaires vs. Billionaires doesn't really resonate with fans if that's the cause of them not playing and being able to consume the product.

If Damar Hamlin is a starter for the Buffalo Bills again, then Beane should be fired. &nbsp He is a goddam practicing squad player. He shouldn’t be starting on a team that’s supposed to be contending for a Super Bowl. It’s nothing short of laughable.

We always do. When you raise minimum wage. When you impose regulations. Etc. The horror stories of “ugh, you idiots are now going to pay 80% more for an iPhone” are just ridiculous. It’s not 1929 anymore. How many times have we said this. And like he says here and I agree - they’re neither a panacea nor a poison. The manufacturing long run goals are true; so is the desire for revenue and increasing leverage with competitors. https://fortune.com/2025/01/05/tariffs-donald-trump-us-economy-jobs-wages-producers-consumers/ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/different-now-tariffs-boost-u-205119631.html In a column in Foreign Affairs late last month, he argued that today's U.S. economy is much different from the one that was crushed by disastrous tariffs in the 1930s. The key difference is that America now has excessively high consumption, while it had low consumption and excess savings when the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was passed in 1930…. …But Pettis cautioned that tariffs are neither a panacea nor poison, because their impact varies depending on what the economic circumstances are. In the case of the Smoot-Hawley tariffs, they went into effect during the Great Depression, when demand was crashing as other countries were taking similar steps on trade. The U.S. also had the world's largest trade surplus and top global exporters with production outstripping domestic demand. Fast-forward to today: The economy is nearly the total opposite and is no longer producing far more than it can consume, Pettis noted. While tariffs act as a tax on consumers, they also essentially subsidize domestic producers, who can add jobs and raise wages that eventually lead to more consumption, he explained. But if U.S. firms were facing weak domestic demand, tariffs would make matters worse. And if the global economy couldn't absorb more U.S. exports, then tariffs would depress domestic production. "In this case, tariffs (properly implemented) would have the opposite effect of Smoot-Hawley," Pettis added. "By taxing consumption to subsidize production, modern-day tariffs would redirect a portion of U.S. demand toward increasing the total amount of goods and services produced at home. That would lead U.S. GDP to rise, resulting in higher employment, higher wages, and less debt." Since Americans are the world's consumers of last resort, tariffs would serve another purpose too: U.S. producers would no longer have to accommodate the needs of foreign rivals, he said. Rather than aiming to protect certain sectors or businesses, tariffs could counter the economy's "pro-consumption and antiproduction" stance. "In the end, tariffs are simply one among many tools that can improve economic outcomes under some conditions and depress them under others," Pettis pointed out. "In an economy suffering from excess consumption, low savings, and a declining manufacturing share of GDP, the focus of economists should be on the causes of these conditions and the policies that might reverse them." Manufacturing as a share of GDP has gone from roughly 30 percent in the 1920s to less then 10 percent today. https://prosperousamerica.org/u-s-manufacturings-shrinking-share-of-gdp-and-how-to-catch-up/

For me it was that time as well. (2001-2003( I was 22, living in Vegas, the team wasn't great, games were on early, and I had a lot of distractions. Now I was still there and a fan, but where I was at in life, they didn't get the time and attention I gave before and after the

Over and it won't be close IMO. I think our improved DL will make this statement. I'm thinking 30+

I saw Sinners recently and agree with your take about Hailee Steinfeld. She has that wholesome attractive vibe. But not gorgeous.

Nope, every single year there is a reason to be hopeful.. Now I did not watch full games at times during the drought because it was too painful knowing the outcome was prety much written in stone by halftime to often

And Hamlin was thrust into the starting lineup because of players retiring.

Who are the Bills?

None of that seems like that big of a deal to me, but I don't really care what the NFL or NFLPA does. Until it has a direct impact on my ability to watch Bills football, they can do all their squabbling and legal posturing they want. I'm just a football fan.

Overheard conversations vs. Official statement? Hmmm.... Let's see if the CPD comes out and denies it. For now, it looks like paranoia/blatant lying.

Not in the slightest. But that’s a real odd response bro.

As some have said, never disinterested, but after the McKelvin fumble ('nuff said) I gave myself permission to do other things on Sundays that didn't p!ss me off so much in the interest of preserving my mental health. I watched the games if there was nothing better to do, but I didn't plan my schedule around them. I maintained that approach until Allen's rookie season, and now Bills games take relative priority again.

He doesn't suck but he should be a depth player not the starter. Forrest was playing really well in 2022 and started 11 games then got hurt in his 5th game in 2023 and fractured his shoulder which sidelined him for the rest of the year. New coaching staff came in last year and as we know they have different opinions or different things he was being asked to do in the scheme so even tho he was healthy he didn't get a lot of playing time. I am assuming the Bills think he is a good scheme fit and expect he will be more like the player he was before he got injured. Considering their track record of DB coaching I'll defer to their judgement.

I’m honestly wondering why he wants to stay here after being unhappy about being on the sideline at the end of the Chiefs game. I’d be happy to just let him play for a big payoff next year. We could always tag him or let him walk if someone else steps up this year. Wouldn’t be disappointed if we Sidney him to a reasonable new deal this year either.

Always look forward to football season with my Bills. Can't say I've ever had a year in which apathy set it. May be different for me than some others. I never dedicate my free relaxation time to vegging out on the sofa with college ball, baseball, basketball, or hockey, so Bills' football is my guilty pleasure every fall. When I was younger I enjoyed basketball and hockey, but I just can't go halfway into it. It's all or nothing, so I don't bother at all. To me it's like a Netflix episodic series. You're either going to be committed to it 100% or eschew it altogether. No point is just watching 2 0r 3. Baseball? When we were kids, everyone watched the world series. There used to be afternoon world series games that we'd catch when we came home from school. My hometown Braves won the world series a couple of years ago. I couldn't tell you a single player on that team. That's how much I GAF. So, the short answer for me is that Bills' football season is for me like Christmas for kids. Always involved every year.

Vanpelt year. At the Sunday night game vs Tennessee. They won but I knew they were not going anywhere. Can’t remember if that was the Elvis Gerback, Billy Joe Holbert year or if that was the following.

Disinterested? Never. I’ve had NFL ticket since it started. I never miss a game. The rules when I got married were Sundays or football days. Do not schedule anything on a Sunday after 11 AM. My wife became an NFL fan and a huge buffalo fan. And Sundays were our day together. We had seasons from Bledsoe‘s first year until 2012 when my job changed and I lost all the travel perks which made it affordable to go. We still try to make it to a game or two every year. We have great friends from Canada that had seasons next to us. Good times. when things got boring, during the drought years, we came up with a silly game, called scoring shots. We’d pick a shot for the week, and every time the bills scored we do a shot. Well, there were a lot of games where we only did two shots. So we added turnover shots. If the ball was taken from the opposing team boom another shot. Well that didn’t work very well either. We added kickoff shots. So the beginning of the game and the halftime kick became another shot. That was about where we were OK with it. We were not getting hammered, and it just made those miserable games a little more fun. Well, then, Josh Allen came along. All of a sudden, we were drunk by halftime, and comatose by the end of the game. We had to stop playing the game. The kids still play it. Although, they’re not kids all of them are in their 20s and 30s. i’m just too old for that *****. 🤪🤪

Homey's barrages are what the "Mark Forum as Read" button was created for.

Simple, I’m disinterested after every loss starting early Monday through around Tuesday mid-afternoon. And then I snap right back into my cycle of dependency. Yes….it’s a problem, but I’m dealing with it.