HardyBoy

I don't think he was at all talking about fans that had to leave early for reasons unrelated to the score of the game in any way. Leaving a two score football game with almost half a quarter to go is kinda wild...like I didn't even consider turning the game off...if they had gone up to make it a three score game then sure, but it was a two possession game with plenty of time to get two possessions. That's who he's talking about...not the people that leave every game or concert before the end/encore to beat traffic...30% of the stadium does not do that unless it is a blowout and it just objectively wasn't a blowout at really any point in time...the bills had two three and outs back to back earlier in the game, why not the ravens?

Might have been why they didn't go for it there

Allen was out of the pocket, once a qb scrambles, illegal contact past five yards isn't a thing anymore... was a really good defensive play I texted people I almost thought Coleman should have stopped, but what if there was a tip... then there was a tip on that 4th down play and he made the catch... crazy!

I mean both my kids have high functioning autism and I likely have it too (undiagnosed) and I definitely have adhd that wasn't diagnoased until my last year of college and my wife has adhd and wasn't diagnosed until into her 30s. Getting diagnosed with that stuff, especially for women is really challenging, because a lot of the early research was done on disruptive boys in classrooms and girls on average don't present their symptoms that way... I'm also not gossiping, I'm highlighting the things that people make fun of Taylor Swift for are things that certainly are present in people with autism and neurodivergence more generally https://www.yourtango.com/self/signs-taylor-swift-may-be-autistic-or-neurodivergent

Haha, hold on let me go put on some top 40 country real quick...I need me some non-formulaic music and lyrics... Lol, that said, i don't disagree on Swift, though admittedly I don't know much about her lyrics and such, like I really can't speak to them being genuine. Of course I see a bunch of live music from bands like Phish and grateful dead tributes and Billy Strings and other jammy stuff...most of those bands don't have stylists and such driving narratives, but my guess is basically all music on popular radio these days does and I dont think Taylor swift is any more egregious in that compared to others, though she might be more successful...she also reportedly has autism, so some of the feeling that she lacks genuiness might be coming from that as opposed to her not actually being genuine, because honestly she does seem pretty genuine a lot of the time, just sometimes the non-verbal social cue type stuff feels a bit unexpected somehow

Oooh...can someone in here please tell me how I should be thankful for LiveNation and Ticketmaster?

Some of these movie commercials aren't exactly ideal for an 8 and 5 year old watching before 9pm I'm not usually too concerned with stuff like that, but some of these are decently scary for a 5 year old...

Oh get out of here with that...$522 can be used to get a really nice used guitar that you could have for the rest of your life and pass down to people. Plus the price of the sunday ticket in the rest of the world is a fraction of what we pay here. Please next tell me how the price of insulin or epi pens are no big deal because it's some much smaller amount when spread over a much longer time span...and ignore the fact that they are gouging people here when they aren't allowed to do it other places.

I'd be more curious as to why their customers decided to suddenly start stealing 20% of Hershey's chocolate bars...

I mean ensh$tification is a real thing...the issue is we're being turned into the product, not the consumer. They're also coming in, stealing the market by offering super low prices and getting rid of or buying up any competition that might exist and then once that is achieved, they jack up prices on customers and turn the customers into the product and then using excess cash for stock buy backs and then laying off employees This is a lot more nuanced of an issue than you're making it out to be...like there is a social contract aspect of this whole thing...like $20 for a cd back in the day, when the money mostly went to record companies and the musicians got saddled with signing bonus debt and loss of control of the master recordings (aka their music) Look at spotify...artist make like .0004 cents a stream or something insane like that, but the record labels still get a significantly larger piece per share.

Shakir is making more money than Cook... I'm not comparing him to Chase If having workhorse style backs significantly decreases career longevity and in turn allows teams to point to workhorse backs and say their careers are short...who made the rule they needed to be workhorse backs? If Cook makes it into a third contract...he's had a lot less usage going all the way back to college...also, I'd argue the Bills aren't using a running back by committee as much as a running back by situation...much like pulling receivers off the field for different personnel packages and such...also, #1 receivers are on the field for a lot of snaps, but they're also decoys a lot of the time/run clear out routes to help other people get open

Shakir played 54% of snaps last year...Cook played 45%

Virtually nobody can handle the rigors of the position. Yes there are a lot of people who can do 70% of what an elite running back becomes because you play them 70% of the snaps...what if you played them 50% of the snaps and got 100% of their ability for a much longer time? Why do they need that many carries? I think the bills have shown with Cook that it doesn't need to be that way...and they aren't spending a lot on Davis or Johnson at all. But yeah, the long line of talent is not better than or as good as the best running backs, unless you grind the best running backs into the ground with too many carries.

Oh I get that it's a physical position... I'm talking about who says they need to get 350 carries a season? Look at what the conversation around Cook was during the contract negotiations...he doesn't play enough % of plays

Says who on it being the nature of the position?

I was just watching something on Shaun Alexander and how his body broke down basically right after signing a big contract extension. I also think Ricky Williams falls into this category as well. Both of their teams gave them on way way way too many carries...so much so that Williams decided he needed to take some time off to rest his body in order to essentially survive, and then the amount of vilification he received from that...it was wild and the attacks were extremely personal on him and yeah, it wasn't cool. What I'm saying is that teams often use their running backs in unethical ways that contribute to their bodies breaking down and then turning around and saying see, the position is not worth paying...except they're largely causing that to happen

Got me thinking in terms of a player like Dequan Jones...he's not able to dominate anymore and make plus plays regularly, but perhaps he's able to allow you to play a scheme and that has value as well (perhaps significant value). Like if he's still able to anchor against double teams and not get pushed out of the hole, that then allows everyone else to play better because they're able to do what they need to do within the scheme and structure of the defense and then they can make plus plays because they are capable of making them within the structure of the play. Like Bernard improved so much when he had Jones playing well and same with Oliver...not everyone can be Josh Allen or Aaron Donald and play outside of scheme and dominate, very few can, but there are many players that can be excellent within scheme and you need teammates that can maintain scheme to do that. I guess that's a long way of saying maybe it doesn't matter so much if he's not playing at an elite level still, if he can allow them to be confident he can maintain his role within the scheme consistently.

Sounds like there are questions/ evidence he might already be in decline fwiw

Don't forget how losing a game against an nfc team can actually help your playoff odds...

But he's an ex panther

The defensive injuries have been absolutely brutal for the bills in the playoff games against the chiefs. Like imagine going from Darrell Revis or Champ Bailey (Benford is really really really good) to a non-scheme fit player who didn't get the first team reps in practice, in Arrowhead in a sudden change situation...and a coach who is going to anticipate every adjustment you're making. How was Andy Reid's scheme against the Eagles? Now that said, maybe McD being from the Jimmie Johnson tree helped because Andy Reid has so much familiarity with that style? Not the overall defensive design, but the underlying super granular concepts

Yeah, people didn't watch the video and started making assumptions. Except they did it with a guy Joe Marino) who watches a crap ton of tape on players all over the league and is one of the most consistently objective voices out there. This is the Bills Squad episode from the draft where they talk about Walker and Jerry O breaks down why he thinks it was likely an awesome pick and insane value...sounds like everything Jerry said is coming true and this is where Marino's mind started opening up that he was hopefully loud wrong on that pick and the grade he had put on Walker (without the medicals and not being a doctor, sounds like Jerry O has significant background in that stuff not just as a player, but through medical sales post career and through coaching/having kids that play): They start talking about Walker at 21:45 in the video and it really is an extremely excellent listen, highly recommend to everyone.

Don't they have like 8 for the whole season they can designate to return and those two players on cut day count for the season total?

To be fair, it looked more like a push to me than a punch, he just had to swing higher and farther...like Davidson had just pushed his head a moment before... I also only saw the replay once and one angle to be fair, maybe it was a punch (I didn't watch the game)

He literally said in that specific video that he is being proven wrong and has been being proven wrong all summer long, and if he does prove him wrong he'll be extremely happy and that he's rooting for him. Also, on one of the first episodes of Bills Squad, Jerry O was explaining the injury to Joe and how it explained the entire drop off his last season in college and how it's an extremely common injury for nfl lineman and how nfl strength and conditioning coaches are great at handling and managing it...how in college the focus lifting is just to do as much lifting as possible at the highest weight possible...in the pros it's much more targeted and not about ego. Basically with that injury, Walker isn't able to do squats, and that likely explains the weaker lower body muscles and how especially after next off season when he gets a full nfl off-season with nfl strength and conditioning coaches we should see a big body shift...Jerry O said the back injury wasn't that concerning and Joe M was basing basically all of his thoughts on how he was being impacted by an injury that was no managed properly and was very manageable long term (it's not one that ever heals I guess). Joe Marino started changing his opinion at that point and said he was cautiously optimistic and hoped he'd be proven wrong...I guess this makes me an "everydayer, lol" but I think your take on Marino calling out Walker to protect his ego is flat incorrect... but you'd know that if you watched the video in the OP