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@The Frankish Reich this seems logical to me, but I'm just a regular guy making his way through life. What say you?

There's plenty of true reporting. Maybe not a ton of deep reporting, but that's not really as much on the media as it is what people say and how often they talk. Investigative journalism? Yeah, not much, but there's not much of a way to do that in football. Reporters only get access at PCs, there are NFL rules about what can be reported and what can't. In every field public figures have learned how to keep reporters away. What are they gonna do? The science of public relations has taken over and public figures don't take risks or reveal much. This does indeed result in a lot of shallow stuff, boring stuff. The NFL doesn't seem to mind.

I was at the practice when Kolb slipped on the mat. People started checking Twitter on their phones because we all realized he wasn't on the field. That didn't end his career though. He got hit in the back of the head during a pre season game causing a concussion. That's what ended his career.

A local reporter challenged me to a fight once when I told him the University of Buffalo wasn’t an official nickname for UB. Hamilton and Harrington were block machines the last time I was on twitter.

That game was the light switch for me in going from casual fan to hardcore.

It was common knowledge here at the time that the Panthers believed that. Do you really not recall that? The whole thing caught Bills fans and the Buffalo media by surprise. It wasn't a Buffalo generated narrative but pretty damn obvious, pretty damn quick in hindsight. You gotta' remember the context here was the Bills being Billsy. The idea that they would keep Whaley around for a year or two even if he didn't seem to mesh with McDermott was entirely plausible. That had been the case with the two prior HC's Whaley worked with. The sham McBeane pulled off was actually very clever. Get the intel you want from the scouts you trust. That was the only way they get the finished board and evaluations. Like I said.........the flaw was McD allowing KC to trade up for a QB in your spot. It's likely blocked them from reaching 2-4 SB's.

True story... I go from MSNBC, CNN,FOX, news nation everyday to piece together some remote semblance of truth. And yet I still feel misinformed... media are nothing but political spin doctors.

Tough day for many but as Roundy has said ad nauseam, unfortunately, “follow scotus”.

Are you under 60?

After the last 5 incredibly fun and entertaining seasons, the only reasonable expectation now is to go to the superbowl. Anything less than that will be a letdown. I will still enjoy the regular season and all the drama; but let's be honest, the Bills are at a level where anything less than the SB is familiar territory. I am most excited about seeing how the draft class and offseason free agents improve the Defense. I am also interested in seeing the new offensive FA additions. I am somewhat indifferent about special teams.

Why not FireChan2.0? The upgraded version. I thought Chans was an odd choice at first, but used to it now I nominate @muppy!!

So after urging Terry to sign Rex and him turning into a disaster within two years…

Everyone is making great points. I think I'll start a podcast about it.

I saw that interview, it was fantastic. Simple yet brilliant observations.

Then he should bust out his checkbook and give his money away. So sick of this ***** narrative. You want to give reparation, you should volunteer into a 5% tax for blacks.

The reparations discussion is a ploy to try and regain African American voters. Trump received more African American votes that any Republican in the last fifty years. The democrats know reparations are not feasible. How will they force 342 million people to take a DNA test? What about people who have both slave and slave holder DNA? What about American ancestors of the African tribal chiefs who sold their people into slavery to start with? Do we include reparations for ancestors of white slaves from the Barbary Coast from ancestors of slave holders from North Africa? Do we stop at American slavery, or do we include ancestors of Jewish people who endured the Holocaust? American ancestors of people subjugated by the Romans, Ottomans, Chinese, Egyptians, and Mayans? Where does it stop? Find me a person who didn't have an ancestor persecuted at some point in history, you're going to be looking awhile. The mere mention of reparations is a complete and utter scam to attempt to convince African Americans in poverty that there is a golden ticket waiting for them. Corey Booker is either a complete idiot or a total scumbag.

Everything in life is cause and effect. The reason media is the way the OP observed is that there’s very little true reporting or investigative journalism being done. That sort of thing takes lots of time and costs lots of money. What we have instead is people just spouting opinions or repeating other people’s opinions. With a plethora of outlets competing for attention each story burns red hot for a week and then the circus packs up and moves on to the next car accident. The only remaining question is whether it’ll reach such a critical mass that it completely folds in on itself and/or explodes in supernova.

What's good for the goose ... https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2018/12/18/a-look-at-the-low-key-texas-judge-who-tossed-obamacare-shows-a-history-of-notable-conservative-cases/ Both sides play the "choose a favorable district/get a national injunction" game. Democratic groups invented it; Republicans perfected it. It is a good decision in general, but the missing part is this: if individual judges can't issue nationwide injunctions, the Supreme Court is going to have to get a lot more efficient at reviewing policy changes quickly. Since we don't have that, the immediate outcome will be lawsuits on birthright citizenship in 90+ federal districts, no doubt with conflicting rulings. Born in north Texas to illegal immigrants? Not a citizen. Move west to NM? Bingo! Citizen. Unworkable.

He's just mad that Trump's nomination for the federal appeals court in his state is a Bills fan.

I was at the "No Punt" game in '92 in San Francisco, and I saw what had to be the longest run after catch for a touchdown by Metzelaars in his whole career. I couldn't believe it.

I’ve often wondered about that. I’ve never played a professional sport and certainly not at the NFL level. What’s it feel like for the 3rd string QB to sit right next to Josh in the locker room knowing that he makes more for throwing a single pass than you’ll make all season?

Lots of companies pride themselves in having a flat management style. There’s probably way less that don’t. My point was that President is a legal/business/corporate term. Corporations are required to designate someone as the President. If memory serves, they’re also required to designate somebody as the Secretary. But the latter term doesn’t mean they’re supposed to bring the President coffee. 😉

Politics aside, this ruling is logical. I am not sure how it makes sense for someone at a lower level to be able to have enough power to universally override the higher-ups ruling at will if they do not like it. We can't do that to our managers and supervisors at work and Josh Allen couldn't override Beane and McDermott on a free agent signing after it has been done. They should still have a complaint or appeal process, but now it is more balanced so that judges on either side can't use frivolous stall tactics in the name of partisan politics..

Meh, who cares? The owners run a business together and some call it colluding. The players band together but they call it unionizing. Edit: I would care if there were some sort of advantage or disadvantage for the Bills, but I don't see one here.