HardyBoy

The point of this argument is not opinion, it is a fact. It is about racial injustice. Do you agree? Also, what are your thoughts on the Washington team's name? There are native Americans saying they are offended...by your logic you have to be supporting the name change, no? So do you?

Does the endowing a piece of cloth with personified values and bowing before it remind anyone else of the false idols Moses smashed and caused people to wander in a desert for 40 years until all the guilty grew old and died? Also, standing at attention for 2 minutes while a song plays and a flag waves once a week does not absolve any sins or remove the fact that a person acted in an un-American way (stepping on other's inalienable rights, by somehow thinking theirs are more important than any other American's, for example). I love this country, my family escaped the soviet union in the 60s and 70s, having lost basically everyone in WWII. My grandfather served 9 years in a siberian labor camp for saying communism couldn't work because of human nature, to the wrong person. As they dreamed of a place to see their children raise their grandchildren in freedom, they did not dream of a flag. They dreamed of ideals. That is America, ideals of the highest order. Not a piece of cloth that we endow as an idol. I understand everyone might not share my opinion, and the flag might be how they express those ideals, but to those people I challenge that American ideals are so much larger than even a flag that covers an entire football field. I just ask that you take some time to reflect that potentially you may be limited in your ability to honor those ideals with a symbol incapable of holding all of them.

Yeah, it almost looked like, and reminded me of a basketball pick and roll...cool play design.

They finished first in rushing last year and tenth in scoring offense: https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/2016.htm

Correct, I am not saying the defense sucked, I'm saying the offense was very conservative, and if the defense sucks, then it would have forced them to get more aggressive. This essentially same offensive personnel finished in the top 10 last year in large part because they were aggressive and playing from behind/knew they couldn't stop anyone.

Haha, I know, was going to put that in the OP, and I was aware of the similarity as I was starting the thread! That said, there are times when a defense will allow a team to score on purpose to get the ball back, or a team intentionally gives up a safety. I guess my question is more, does a close game with poor field position lead to more conservative play calling, where if you get behind schedule, you play safe and are ok with punting until you get scored on and then get aggressive to flip the field?

By not allowing points, it kept the offense in bad field position without the urgency to play less conservatively. Hope the d plays like this every week, but could they have played a part in the offense's approach?

Here is some info on the 'free' internet and what it truly costs...they even mention how much 'free' costs at the end of the video...I'll give you one guess (this really is an interesting video, highly recommend): https://youtu.be/5pFX2P7JLwA

^ this and this

538 shares their data for a lot of their stories on GitHub. That specific one isn't there yet, but if it doesn't show up in the next few weeks, can't hurt to send an email or tweat, bet they would share. https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data Plenty of youtube vids on how to use github, and you can load datasets directly into R (theoretically, I guess I need to watch more youtube!).

Piper, Piper, the red, red worm woke last night to the sound of the storm her words were words I sailed upon

Sending positive vibes, hopefully the time over Cuba turned this more into a storm surge threat and less of a wide scale house damaging storm due to near cat 5 wind. A lot of tornado warnings though in the ft lauderdale area...stay safe. The 11am update just said it's moving straight north, which is putting it directly over Marco Island.

Getting to watch the bills had to be a motivator for a lot of people as they evacuated (definitely was for me), so let's open some doors, couches, bar seats for those of us in the community displaced by Irma. Anything in Huntsville, AL? Also, guessing a bunch of people would want to know about groups in Atlanta.

I've never gone to OTW in my life, so it was basically hidden from me...that one person it could have helped, but missed the thread...it was me ...thank you though for pinning there, but still think it should have been in a much more prominent place as well.

Apparently my response to the first thread that got merged wasn't strong enough, so hopefully this gets some attention. Seriously, way to allow the main board to help the community. I don't want to be part of a community that treats one another this way. And before you say I'm overreacting, this is what I did in the last 21 hours after pulling an all nighter to board up my house, rescue my 3 cats and dog, all while leaving my wife and 5 month old at the airport, not knowing if I could find gas, or if the roads would be packed beyond belief and I would be stuck in a house that likely isn't making it through this, and I'm pretty sure I got step throat along the way. There was some very helpful information in that thread and if one person on this board could have been helped by this thread and wasn't because of your small rule governed moral mind, that is on you you small hearted loser. I sent my wife this text around 9 tonight after having super spotty cell service going through back road Georgia and Alabama on no sleep...what did you do today !@#$?: Got here about an hour ago...21 hours total, 16 of which was today (started at 4:20 this morning), and only took two breaks today on 5 hours of sleep, 7 total in the last 48 hours, two of which were on the plane, and the rest in the hotel with a dog that barked at every sound and extra barked at anyone walking by. https://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/196099-a-place-for-those-directly-in-irmas-path/

Tell us when/if you're safe. Let's support those in our community directly impacted. I'm evacuating to Huntsville, AL. Live in Ft. Lauderdale, house built in 1956, but got a new roof last year. Depending on the path, thinking minor damage or total loss. Wife and 5 month old are in Rochester (we were visiting family), I flew back Wed, pulled all nighter and jumped in car Thursday at 9am, made it to Orlando by 3pm and grabbed a hotel to wait out traffic (36 hours no sleep). Jumping back in car in a few and hoping at this time of day I zoom through leaving Orlando and Atlanta, and it's an easy 10 hour drive. Stay safe everyone, my love and thoughts are with you all, and let's stay connected here once we get back if anyone needs help cleaning up...go bills

Got about 4 hours of sleep, dog keeps barking at people walking by in the hotel, going to try and get 2 more hours, but traffic looks decent and I have 10 more hours to drive, so might take off.

Can someone explain how a roll call evacuation solidarity thread got fing consolidated into this geneneric trash thread?!?! I've been up 36 hours straight, my house literally might not be standing monday, and one of the few bright spots for me and a number of people on this board is tge buffalo bills. Whoever consolidated this thread is an fing dick, who should go bannon himself. You lack empathy sir, whoever you are.

Nice, finally, a south florida show!!! Just hope this storm isn't too bad that it impacts a show in December...fingers crossed

Driving out of Fort Lauderdale to a friend's place in Huntsville Alabama, and getting to watch the Bills is a huge motivator as I drive...go Bills!

Because slapping kids, oh wait, just the boys, is a positive tradition...ironic

A song shows you are patriotic? Wow, you might feel powerful, but very clear you have given up your power to the propogandists. This country is built upon ideas, ideals, morality and the notion that one has free will to control their own selves as long as that does not impede on other's rights. Nothing else, and anyone who goes against that is unpatriotic, period. You have allowed your tv, and the people behind it, to strip you of the ability to see those incredibly powerful ideas, and have them replaced by their talking points that you parrot back like a sheep. In their place they insert a symbol, a flag or a song, that triggers their pre-conditioned response out of you. Go watch the Manchurian Candidate (the original), the anthem your Queen of Hearts.

Yes, they need to do that!!! Throw them all in a tank, and then, tank!

How much of passing lanes is game planning, oline adjustments based on that plan and audibles when faced with a defense that will make a batted ball highly likely? I get the oline on the heals thing, but my guess is most people complaining (me included) havent the foggiest idea on proper oline technique, specifically when it comes to game planning, which is not happening in the preaeason.

They are only playing like 5% of rhe offense, and without game planning. You really need to watch one on one who wins, not how the team plays together. Especially when there is a blitz and they have no hot reads installed, because again 5% of offense no game plan. What would your posts look like with only the letters [K, T, A, N] allowed...well we know for some here it wouldn't be such a huge difference.