HardyBoy

His rugby highlights look amazing, right?

An inside run game with Singletary, two tight ends and a fullback is crazy exciting. If you have a back who can set up runs in space, with two unaccounted for blockers, you're taking potentialy 20 yards in chunks. Also, I've said it before, I'm big on Wade. I think he has the same set up ability as Singletary just with different angles, though tap the breaks a moment, having to only beat one guy on a very hard to defend angle, and a full field open after isn't really fair. Might be hard to sneak him on the practice squad, especially if he showing film he's quickly picking up the angles through the rest of preseason. Kroft, Knox and Sweeney, blocking and catching as an onfield unit, and hopefully Croom makes the team on special teams, because he was a solid target last year and has been developing as a TE, is exciting. You could totally put the four of those guys with any of the backs and this gets exciting. Holy crap, we have Shady. I think a more nuanced style would do better, because the three backfield blockers would have the time to reach the key blocks, but it's easy to forget Shady McCoy somehow! Of course we'll have to see how the the oline prefers to play, that will drive a lot. Very excited to see the run plays this year, if Ford is RG and good, it's the best oline the bills have had in a while.

First preseason game...love the passion, but timings are going to be off, could lead to mistakes by players not at fault (have mor seen the game yet. Some of these guys are going to be determined by the 4th preseason game, not the first. Love the feedback on the negative plays...I'm not gonna have a chance to see the thread for a bit tomorrow..any chance you could quote this and give a few of the highlights? I literally saw two plays, and they were the Singletary run in short yardage (you know the one, unless there was another), and his catch on the next play. That run proved he's got plus nfl vision. Holy crap! If Singletary can translate his vision to the NFL right away...I'm not overreacting, he's not there yet even close, but his ceiling is Thurman right? Or maybe a Travis Henry, hit the hole type with better vision, patience and set up.

So to recap, you dropped a non sequitor whataboutism, coupled with an unsupported ad hominem and then crickets when I didn't take the bait? Taking it you cannot show me peer reviewed, statistically significant research, where I can look at the method section and the statistical analysis applied on said research to back up your point of view then? In that case, care to share what you are actually basing your ideas on then? Actually forget all that, I don't have time for this the way I expect it to go (I'm open to a constructive conversation though). One last thing and you don't even need to answer this question, but what objective evidence/proof that you are wrong would it take for you to change your mind on this (what it would take for me is in the second paragraph)?

Interesting, so basically, people were drawn to newspapers because of the national news, which now they can get elsewhere, valid point there. Long form investigative local reporting, in the form of a monthly print and online magazine would work in some places. Shoot, I lived in Boston and they had several of those that I would read on the bus...actually I think the Boston Phoenix just went out of business when I left to move to fort lauderdale, but if I recall there was much more to it than readership. Yup, Boston Phoenix died because a lack of national advertising, not due to low readership or lack of local advertising. https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/03/14/boston-phoenix-closing I remember reading people saying it was too adversarial a press institution and it turned off national ad sources, but I could be misremembering...the readers were there though, I like I said, I think they were speaking truth to power with well sourced and with high journalistic standards and got dropped as a result.

Ok, show me the evidence then.

It's literally their last remaining readers footing the bill as they die. What I don't get is why they haven't spent the money on vibrant local social networks. Obviously easier said than done, and my guess there is a business there for someone to develop out their with some venture capital money, but my have a hunch facebook and google are buying those companies before they have a chance to compete.

The real loss is all the local minutia, from high school sports, to the city council bond allocation meeting. That said, high school sports coverage is probably super interesting these days. I graduated high school (roc area) in 2002 and played soccer and lax, and we basically had the box scores in the D&C that coaches would call in, an article on your team and maybe over the course of the season you would you would get an article or two in there. Then you had your local town paper that covered all your high school's sports, so your team would get coverage that way more regularily, but a lot of it was just recaps, with some good quotes and observations for sure (biggest draw was the picture honestly, but I was pretty cool to get talked about in there). That was pretty much before social media, and definitely outside of basically anyone under 30 at the time. Now you have three generations of people well versed in the technology and have access to ubiquitous social networks where more people are on now than subscribed then to newspapers. I have to think you can get all your high school content on a facebook page, twitter, instagram, and through podcasts. It's just so different now. I missed the start of that phenomenon likely by seven years or so before all three generations were really at the right part of the adoption curve to have a true social media community to use for gaining information. Being in the Oregon Trail generation is so crazy sometimes, just things where on either side of me things are completely different, but I grew up in my formative years with it starkly both ways or in the middle or changing and blending. All that said, my real point is the biggest loss is going to be local municipal functions not being covered in an investigative manner. It's super important for the long term to keep people making long term decisions accountable at all levels to ensure they are keeping the people who will be paying for those decisions for the next 30 years firmly and primarily in their decision making. Not sure if you saw the water main break we had in fort lauderdale, but it came out that we need 20 billion dollars in infrastructure work over the next years, and we need it urgently. It should never have gotten to this point here, and I think a ton of it the lack of a powerful and objective local news system that everyone follows and acts upon the stories each election...a well informed electorate I suppose.

Do you have actual evidence of this outside of a few potential anecdotal examples? Like actual data that shows a significant number of young journalists take their stories directly from cnn, and are trying to further their own "agenda?" You're smearing an entire generation of writers, so I'm assuming you have some actual evidence, or did you just hear this and repeat it from someone who might be you know, lying to promote their own agenda...

I believe he's considered a freelance writer if you look at the staff...probably only has a contract to provide in season content based on the availability of the athletics nfl season budget.

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html Here is the definition of fair use from the copyright.gov website, and it doesn't seem like a grey area to me...granted you are right that I have not looked at how this gets applied in the case law (wouldn't really know what I was looking at if I did either), but again, I genuinely don't see where the nfl would have a case based on that definition. Of course the judicial system has been bought by corporations, so maybe somehow the nfl successfully argues that it would impact them long term if this was widespread, but if that argument is looked at objectively, I think it very clearly fails to block fair use. Reason is, the nba allows people to post any highlight they want for the most part, without requiring it be covered under fair use even. The interest in that league is growing insanely, and I've read articles where the data shows a causal link between the ability to repost highlights and the leagues growing popularity. Therefore, using a 30 second clip of a 1 hr video of an event that actually happened, where you use the clip as a canvas for your original work and commentary sounds like the very definition of fair use. I haven't watched this yet, so it totally could say I'm a dumbass and of course what cover1 does violates copyright law...we can find out together Question: does the creator of the content get view counts when a youtube link is embedded like this and any potential ad revenue if the video is monetized?

You're right, it really doesn't my bad on the long tangent. I'm still clearly working through some residual feelings of a lack of control that I had in that entire situation, and it being hurricane season again brings some of those feelings up pretty strongly. Honestly, I felt it should have been stickied to the top of the main page. If there was an insane blizzard with 5 feet of snow forecasted to hit right after a crazy ice storm in Buffalo (knock on wood this never happens), I would damn well hope there was a thread stickied on the main page as well as a resource for people to get information. More people see it on the main page, and it is a lot easier to find. I understand we can't have a thread stickied for every incident, but 6m people were evacuating, and moral support within our community would have gone a long way.

People are saying his content is meh, because they personally dislike him. That could cause people to not go to his content when they read that here when they otherwise would have, because of...right, personal reasons. The guy has current players spending time watching film with him...are they doing that because they think his content is meh? 1) As far as the press pass, it's up to the bills, and as long as that's truly the case then fine, even though they are much more than just a blog. If instead it's really because the nfl is pressuring them, how is that not some type of anti-trust violation or something along those lines (the teams are supposed to be independent entities I thought). 2) I think it's very clearly been established in this thread that what they do over there is covered under fair use. It's literaly the same thing as someone taking a thirty second scene from a movie, breaking it down and turning it into a half hour youtube video (both are film study :)). Also, there is no copyright claim to be made, because if there was the nfl would have stepped in already. They aren't some tiny operation flying under the radar, and I'm sure there are people in the nfl office that have variable compensation based on the number of copyright claims they can get opened. Also, I get the sense that some people in here would relsish if that happened to him, and his dream died, which is unsettling. Now, there have been music companies that have put in copyright claims on people teaching others how to play a song in a video lesson. Mind boggling, but it's different because they are playing the full song there, so I could sort of see that, but here it is the same thing as an analysis of a movie scene and that is allowed.

Erik has done film reviews over Skype with both Poyer and Alexander, so yeah, there's that for everyone saying he's got nothing to offer and taking what in many cases seem like personal shots at someone. Frankly, I have disagreed with Erik many times on various topics, and we've had really good discussions about it every time, so maybe look in the mirror? Erik and cover1 have put together a really cool, engaged and educated community of not just great fans, but also great people. Nobody gives you crap for wanting to talk about something that has already been talked about, and we talk about things not related to football all the time, especially during the offseason...it doesn't hurt the experience, it makes it better. While some of you might have that sense of community here, it largely left for me when I had the north east eye wall of a category 5 hurricane projected literally to go over my house. My wife, 6 m/o at the time, and I were on vacation, and I flewback home myself, pulled an all nighter packing up my house by myself, and started driving with my wedding albums, 3 cats and a dog in a toyota corolla. I had to leave my ukulele up north, and last thing I told my wife before I went into the airport was to make sure he learned to play it, because deep down I wasn't positive I wouldn't get stranded without gas out on the road. Before I left I started a post here for other people in my position as both a source of information and a place for moral support. I then drove 8 hours that first day, only made it to Orlando (from ft lauderdale, should have been 3). The next day I drove 16 hours straight with literally three 15 minute breaks, with four pets in the car. On those breaks I tried to find the thread to get some motivation and inspiration, because this was literally the most terrifying time in my life, but they were pushed down the wall...I thought. When I finally got to my destination, turns out the thread was moved off the wall...wasn't football related...no crap, but as someone who has been an active part of this board since 2008 I deserved better. That was one of the most hurtful things people who were supposed to be on my side have done to me. That might sound hyperbolic, but again, Irma was going to level my house, literally. If it hit as a cat 5 there was a really good chance I would not have a home to go back to, and I would be separated from my family for a really long time. How about instead of wishing ill will against someone who is doing something he is extremely passionate about, and doing it well, we focus on maybe making this place a little bit better, because the way that I was treated during that emergency was piss poor. By the way, there were great tips in that thread that got pushed off the wall that would have saved me a couple hours of driving and a lot of moral support that would have really helped me mentally.

Great point! I will go write up a contract for my imaginary drug dealer and hypothetical high price call girl saying that they agree to the terms of the contract, and I'll just show it to the judge and get off with no consequences...thanks for the tip!!!

Try to put yourself in his shoes. You are about to take a test, let's say a math test. You're not the best in at the subject matter, because you aren't able to come up with the answer as fast as others, but you have figured out a way to work around it by really understanding the concepts and using deductive reasoning to solve the problems just about as well, and in some cases better than those that just flat out were born really good already. So you sit down for the test, but instead of the typical 2 minutes per question, you only have a minute. You've practiced at a minute per question, but the questions were easier and the stakes were much lower. So you bomb the test. Worst ever performance. Are you ensured to never do well again, and you should just quit and type on message boards all day? No, you didn't fail because you weren't capable, it's too early to say that based on the sample size. You need to practice more to get how you are good at the subject to align with the increased difficulty of the subject. That is Nathan Peterman. He terribly failed a few tests, but showed consistent improvement in getting his skill set upgraded. No his arm will never win games, but he didn't di terribly because if his arm. Most of that was him being baited into bad throws, because the game was moving too fast. It's too early to say he's the worst ever, or maybe that's fair, so instead unfair to say he will remain the worst ever.

And before the Brady did it early comments...first of all it's Tom Brady, second of all, Brady had every single thing I mentioned Peterman not having.

Late round picks should not be starting at QB. Not with a terrible offensive line and no receivers or running game. He really never had a chance. Also, it sounds like Allen benefited a bunch from Anderson and Barkley, and if you look at the room when Peterman was here, there wasn't anyone really that could provide that mentorship. None of that takes away from his awful stats, but it does offer an opportunity for improvement.

I'm not linking to the pictures cause it will likely get me banned...if you're saying it was a frivolous lawsuit and have not seen the pictures of the burns, stop now and google it (nake sure there are no kids around, and brace yourself, it's really bad). If you have not seen those pictures, and are commenting about the case being frivolous, and do not go look at the pictures, and continue to think that way, you are an uredeemable dolt sheep. McDonald's went on a huge media campaign to tarnish this woman, and it resulted in huge changes to how people can hold corporations accountable. You now have to go to arbitration where the company wins like 90% of the time, and they have massive limits on damages that are in many cases laughably low. Do some research, tort reform is a huge power grab by corporations that achieved this through bribing elected officials through donations. She has black holes in her skin across her thighs that are mad deep. Imagine it was a car accident and it spilled on a babies face. Go look at the fing pictures and come back and tell me it was a frivolous case.

Any out of town weekends? Last year the Sabres played a Florida back to back (tampa Friday, south florida saturday) and bills/dolphins Sunday.

Because it's June?

And what type of people is that exactly? You hate Jim Kelly? By all accounts he was out partying the night before the Giants super bowl. You don't know this person yet you say hate him... And useless to society?! He is playing a game for you to watch. We'll probably run into each other at Packy's, but you sound a bit entitled. The guy can make a choice if he wants to play football or not. The team can cut him and fine him based on the terms of his contract. My wife ran was getting bloodwork last week out in I think Plantation, and there was a huge wait. She was sitting next to an older dude who started talking to her, because he could not keep from getting extremely angry if he has to wait in lines. He was a former nfl player who played 12 years in the league and was getting bloodwork to rule out other things, but drs suspect CTE...he's in his early 50s, if that. That is a dark lonely path he and his family are likely about to go down. The majority of current players are probably making about what he made per year in the 90s (guessing the current league min is around what he made as a high level player). Relax a second about how he is ruining your couch time. You don't know what's going on in his life, you don't know where his life goals are...maybe it's not to get spit out physically broken with a timer counting down to where he can't wait half an hour without getting outwardly angry.

I really think people are minimizing how he helped to evolve football. He is the Cam Newton, Donte Culpepper, Josh Allen, etc. prototype. He was also able to become a pocket passer when he lost his elite athleticism in the second half of his career. Hopefully Josh Allen can mirror a lot of McNabb. Also, interesting that both McNabb and Allen played basketball really well. Not sure what it means, but probably something.

I dunno, that was before all those guys except Favre really got there. They were all chasing the same thing and McNabb came damn close to getting it. TO getting hurt was huge. The offenses in the nfl also changed toward the end of McNabb's career, and for Brady it was at the peak of his prime. The Eagles offensive trio was crazy legit in 2005, two years before Brady and Moss. McNabb was a huge, terrifying part of that. That was the coolest offense I have seen in a long time, now everyone in the league does it. He was a complete mold breaker for the time, and the league had not seen a qb like that in my lifetime. Warren Moon and Cunningham were different runners and overall style of play. Culpepper is like McNabb. Cam Newton is like McNabb. Josh Allen is like McNabb. Only McNabb managed to reinvent himself as a pocket passer. Remember that? Remember how everyone said he had no chance and they had that offense, after losing in what 3 straight nfc championship games?! And they were all upsets it felt like at least. He was the qb on the best team in the league that went to 3 straight nfc championship games and lost in a one game sample size. Hopefully Josh Allen can be like Donovan McNabb in a lot of ways. He was the first modern in skill set quarterback...a solid runner who could also throw really well, that again, changed the damn league in a fundamental way. Stop looking at the stats. It was a pass happy offense in a non pass happy league. Getting there, but dbs could grab and you could get destroyed across the middle. I'm not saying definite hall of famer, but a lot of people are blindly saying he was simply good, and that isn't the case.

Any news on offset language? That's usually what holds these deals up, not a 'desire' to play.