HardyBoy

If he was out somewhere holding hands with his boyfriend, and tmz was there, what exactly do you think happens? If he was doing this for attention, it would have happened already. He likely wants to go out in public and didn't want someone else to come out for him by breaking the news.

Trashing his brand with who?

I stopped using it entirely (not installed on my phone), but it was great when I first started using it (i was a fairly late adopter) and followed a very few people. Best personalized and curated newspaper ever at that early point. Then followed more and more people and turned into a fire hose of stuff and made it hard to find the real good content, and real easy to waste time making dumb comments to people, so I quit. Ironically, it is a really good way to deal with legit issues you are having with a corporation. You will get the attention of the organization if you do it right, and someone will reach out typically.

Thank you for cutting me off, got sucked in there for a bit! Genuinely, I don't even know what I really think about the situation yet. Wanted to try the argument from Beasley's point of view on for size as devil's advocate, and ended up digging in on it a bit more than I planned. Oh boy though based on the points people made here he's gotta be getting blasted on Twitter.

Cool, so you think morality and treating others morally is dependent on their making the right choices? That is a very, very slippery slope. Who decides what's right? And no, the protocol is for covid19 safety, one of the options for which is vaccines. The other is not getting vaccinated and following much stricter guidelines. Those guidelines are not sufficient to protect the players that they are design to protect to a pretty significant degree...I'd argue getting vaccinated is way less risky (with what we know right now) than the risk of an unvaccinated player catching covid from a vaccinated teammate. Also, he would be right to say this if he was vaccinated too. There is a potential gap in the protocol. If you don't want to let unvaccinated players play, fine make it a rule. They didn't, they implemented a protocol. That protocol is insufficient. I would be sticking up for a teammate/coworker at work if my company said everyone had to come in and protocols allowed vaccinated people who are not socially distancing hang out with unvaccinated people without masks. Did we suddenly stop caring if someone making a dumb choice gets sick and passes it to an unvaccinated pregnant woman, young child, someone not able to get vaccinated? Or was it that some people only cared when they felt the innocent person would be them or someone close to them?

Health and safety protocols are not vaccine related though. That's like saying we're not going to talk about concussions, and then say a player is going against that if they suddenly said helmets were no longer a requirement for some players. There are people who cannot get vaccinated as well, even if they wanted to. Also, you can't force someone to get vaccinated...that is a given, just is what it is. With that as a given, there is still a moral responsibility to look out for people. For all we know, he is diligently socially distancing and still has not seen a bunch of family because he is choosing not to get vaccinated. Or maybe he's doing none of that, I have no idea. You don't get a pass on being a moral empathetic human who follows the golden rule because the person in a specific situation made a arguably dumb decision case in point: Oh wow, you walked out on that thin ice and fell through...ooof that was pretty dumb wasn't it...yeah, you read the sign and ignored it didn't you...ok well that's on you, but good luck with that...

There is zero chance this changes if he keeps it in the locker room. This is not a question of discussing the value of vaccines publicly. He's talking about how the policies enacted by ownership and the union leadership, in which he had no input and no amount of in locker room talk would change are putting him and his family at risk.

This isn't anti-process. He's concerned about the health of himself and his family. Have to imagine McD puts family over team in the hierarchy of importance.

Was anxiety an auto correct?

meh, it's day 1 of mini camp and no idea what lead to the picks, good throws/bad throws, on the receivers/qbd, etc. That said...hahaha poor dolphin fans!

Everyone's allowed a loud wrong take every now and then. Alright, the Hopkins, yes Dustin Hopkins, decision wasn't the worst in years and I did think of Carpenter right after I posted. That said, Carpenter began regressing to the mean basically the following year in the end and Hopkins is on the way to be a top 15 kicker for a decade. Beane kept Bass this time around, in a somewhat similar situation.

Hopkins was by far the bigger miss and forced the Bills to spend a valuable pick on a kicker. I am a huge Bass fan, but you could almost make an argument that the Bills traded Teller because they spent a 5th on a kicker (edit before it gets called out: Bass and Hopkins were both 6th rd picks), and needed to trade teller to get back the extra pick in a way. Granted, i think Beane knew he wanted to trade a first for a valuable receiver at some point and figured he would need the extra pick for Teller to make the trade work...I doubt it was random that the pick received for Teller was later used in a trade, guessing that was on purpose. Anyway, forget all this other talk of misreading talent...Hopkins might be the biggest talent miss, where the player went on and did great elsewhere that I can recall in many, many years.

Nice! Lax is really fun to play...so many different ways to be good. This league is super interesting in that they all travel together and play a bunch of games in one place...like a tournament each week basically. I think at least, I was reading about a new league that was starting a bit back and assuming this is the one, especially with the lack of a city in the team name.

Well said...I think people are still stuck in the old frame of mind of what failing to sign a free agent meant in the past. As someone else mentioned, Bills were the top competitor to the Cardinals. They offered the least of all the named teams. This tells me Watt wanted to come to buffalo, and the bills decided that the value they placed on the position was better spent on rookie DEs high in the draft, which likely accounts for the gap between the contracts. Yes, they literally failed to sign Watt...this is not the same as Gilmore or Woods not wanting to sign here being the cause for failing to sign someone. The bills controlled the outcome and it was their choice. Still they tried, just the non-monetary benefits didn't sound like they quite made up for the business side.

Do you think something that could help with that would be designing plays where the best way Knox could turn the play into a 30yd yac is if he attacks the ball as a way to use the defender's momentum against him? Seems like what you're describing doesn't happen if he attacks the ball to make the catch. If you're sitting out there waiting for the ball, I could see your hips start turning early, leading to your head to turn a fraction of a second early. I guess, is it it possible to attack the ball more even on a seam route, where he is bending his route a bit to give Allen a better throwing angle? No football relevant experience, but I played striker in soccer and we would bend runs all the time to create more space, give our teammates a wider passing angle and most importantly, allow us to be able to come back to the ball with suddenness...you wait for a ball in soccer instead of attacking it at the high point basically, your coach is gonna bench you pretty quick. Should the coaches say we love that you're being aggressive, you need to make sure that starts with the catch as well...attack the ball knox...go catch it instead of letting the ball catch you. Hopefully that's what he's doing this summer. With a ping pong ball, you don't wait for it...you figure out where it's going to be and you catch the fing ball. You reach out and hit the ball into your palm and use that momentum to keep control of the ball while you close your hand around it...if you're letting the ball hit your palm and then try and catch, it's most likely bouncing off before your hand can register and close. Hope that makes sense, my youngest is getting all four canine teeth and the last week and a half have been a trip, but gives me a chance to post on here at 4am!

Agree the analogy I used was flawed, but it highlights the larger point that my guess is a lot of people saying this is a companies right to do, would quickly change their tunes if it was something like a 2A issue...not saying you would at all, but it sort of reminds me of free speech should be protected at all costs...unless it's NWA putting out a rap album, then pearl clutching. The whole point of systemic racism is that institutions are taking advantage of once explicitly racist laws and policies in the past to save money. It's the fruit of the poisonous tree argument basically. If I buy stolen property from someone and have a reasonable expectation it is stolen ($100 PS5s aren't a thing), I don't get a pass because I was trying to save some money.

If it came out that people were charging more for health insurance for people who owned guns, because they could point to increased accidental death risk...Would that be an attack on gun rights or a company saving money?

Interesting, thought this interview would get more engagement. Someone like Norman coming to, and saying nice things about the culture within the Bills locker room is massive in my opinion. If he thought it was a negative place he would have said so/or at least not said something positive. Dude is not a fluffer who just follows cliche talking points.

Probably part of a larger pr strategy if I had to guess. Give their network the ability to prime a story, maybe start working on some subtle change management, test out some different word combinations to see what drives engagement through some AB testing, etc. Actually, they're probably reading this right now...

Yup, even the time Superman went into Bizaro World...brady was still a dick

Josh Norman does not mince words, and he had some very positive things to say about the Bills and several Bills players.

You can hire for potential as well though, no? I know potential falls into best for the role, but is often discounted when talking about situations like this. When I hire people, I typically look for skills that the person has no business having given their previous experience and job titles. Shows they are curious and eager to grow, learn and expand their skill set with all the tools available in their sphere, not just what is handed to them. Also tells me they likely have a chip on their shoulder because most likely they had to ignore people saying "why can't you just do it the way you're told" and likely have been undervalued for promotions and such because they try to solve root cause problems, not just do the minimum. Nit involved in too many hires, but have helped hire several incredible people that way, where I had to fight to get their resume out of a garbage can and bring them in for an interview and they blew everyone away.

That's what I think too, he's trying to set up an american football program in the UK as a long term vision.

Mike Gordon does a lot, but he plays a bunch of different styles, depending on the song.

Oh no, not the pink hats!