GaryPinC

It was bad for Biden last night. Trump spoke in his usual meaningless platitudes, I credit him for keeping his angry narcissim in check and I credit Biden for trying to express his facts but every answer got more and more muddled the longer he talked. When I heard the debate rules just before it began, I couldn't believe the dems agreed to them. All alone, no notes, no outside interactions. After 3 1/2 years of carefully micromanaging everything about his public appearances to hide his feebleness and gaffes, suddenly this? I'm convinced it was a purposeful sink or swim test to pave the way for him dropping out. We'll see. Dems have a problem getting someone on the ballot in Ohio if they wait till the conference in August. If the stepdown happens, they need to project strength and a highly organized plan. Not their strength. They also need to not pick an extremist or Hillary Clinton and it will work. Uhhhhhh. Yeah. Come on Dems, get it together. PLEASE.

College is not the NFL. He was too much of a knucklehead to be great and his NFL career proves it, along with demanding more targets at multiple stops(without earning them) and leaving KC because he wanted a better chance to be a number 1 receiver. Horse crap. Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid? There's no better chance of becoming a number 1 if you're getting open and executing on the field. Sammy has never been dedicated enough to doing what it takes to be top of his profession. Somewhere between college and the early Pros he decided his talent was an entitlement. The NFL has seldom been his #1 life priority. His quote about people working their "little jobs" says it all. I know along the way he's had locker room vets and coaches try to help him as you suggest. But here he is. Too set in his ways? Just an excuse for knuckleheaded as his career comes to a disappointing close. He's never been accountable. Wrong environment, coaches, players, negative energy, blah, blah, blah. I respect much of what you post and know all too well you can't admit error in your opinions, so we'll have to agree to disagree about the shining vet-on-the-hill transforming naive Sammy looking for a mentor. I agree that he needed a mentor, but you have to actually want one. See how much knucklehead you can take, here's a whole lot of it: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2889029-what-sammy-watkins-believes

It's a strong argument you make, except for one glaring problem: Sammy Watkins is unique and a bit out there, a head case who fervently clings to his own ideas and has never been too willing to listen much to others. You want to argue veterans and leadership guiding him to greatness? He played three years in Kansas City, outside of 2 or 3 memorable games never distinguished himself as a premier receiver, despite professing to love Reid and be tight with Mahomes. A premier atmosphere for him to catapult to greatness but he never did, "choosing" to leave because he wanted a better opportunity to be a number 1 receiver. He would have come back to Buffalo for it. Boldin wouldn't have made a difference. Sammy was a career 400-600 yard receiver a year. It's clear from the article he likes to think big but seldom comes close. WRT McBeane, I remember Gilmore and Woods just wanted out at that time and who could blame them? I don't remember much about Darby but Dareus was another inconsistent, talented player that seemed frequently unmotivated. While you believe McBeane deemed Watkins and Dareus a threat to their regime, I believe McBeane viewed them more as a threat to the culture they wanted to establish and not worth the effort to try and coax consistently high performances. It's been almost seven years since then and judging by their careers I'd say McBeane were on the correct side of those decisions.

Certainly the losing culture in the locker room was no help, but it's clear from Dunne's article that Sammy was struggling with expectations, pressures from home, and horrors of his life growing up. It's clear as day in that article he was suffering from stress and depression and mired in self destructive behavior that he feels played a large role in injuries and tearing up his body. Over time he compounded it with self-isolation. It's questionable that a winning culture would have mattered. To his credit, he recognizes and admits it, family pressures were bigger for him than football. But I feel like blaming the poor Bills culture at the time is mostly off the mark and diminishes from the internal struggle he was trying to come to terms with.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations I would point out that vaccine was not significantly administered before mid-December 2020, and that vaccine doses administered peaked on April 12, 2012 when excess mortality was less than 5% of expected mortality. Excess mortality does not at all correspond to daily injections during this time frame.

Great post, thanks for the different perspective. I agree with you but would suggest there's one more critical component to winning a championship. Difference makers. When the lights are the brightest, so are they. And it's not just about talent. Downfield blocking to the whistle, pursuing with everything you've got just in case there's a tackle opportunity. Burning desire for the high pressure. -Milano back to 100% is huge because we saw signs that him and Bernard will work together well and amplify their respective difference making abilities. -Diggs quit on the team well before season's end and his poetic drop in the KC game symbolized his fall from difference maker. -Gabe Davis had his negatives but I will miss his supportive blocking efforts downfield. -Hyde and Poyer unfortunately aged out of being difference makers. -Out of all the free agents lost, Floyd would be my biggest loss as he seemed to elevate the play of the entire D-line. -Tauron Johnson kept. Difference maker. -Shakir and Kincaid both showed potential of becoming bigger difference makers this coming season. -Cook. Difference maker, especially if Josh would dump it off to him more! -Oliver came into his own as a difference maker this season. Now he needs help, hopefully Von can be at least give some. We really need our promising looking rookie safety to step up quickly this year. We'll see how the rest fall but I agree with you that it's not as bad as it seems because we didn't lose much in the way of difference-makers.

Then along came Beane the bidet. Problem solved!

I enjoyed Diggs' time here but am glad he's gone. It's been a while in coming. Thanks for posting, this story doesn't surprise me. I think Diggs wants to win and probably realizes his career is getting closer to winding down. I think he took it on himself to challenge Josh on his bad habits and probably got tired of it against Cinci and perhaps also sick of McD. Last season everyone, especially Josh, got sick of Diggs' approach. I definitely felt Josh was ignoring Diggs on the field when his stats were tanking. I love Josh but let's be real, he's very stubborn as a QB. Doesn't always go through all his reads preferring to force the ball and God help him he throws the wide open check-down. Obviously he's proven capable in certain games during Dorsey's time when they tried to force him to be more of a pocket QB. But he chooses not to see the entire field regularly. What worries me the most from this story and situation is maybe no one's holding Josh accountable anymore, not even Josh himself. That may be the biggest window closure to the Super Bowl.

Me also, I was convinced Diggs had to have an injury at first because the dynamic between him and Josh changed so abruptly. As games went on and things languished it seemed otherwise. He definitely seemed nonchalant and not invested in the playoffs. It all makes sense now and he's better gone. It ran its course. I wish him well and good luck Texans. Diggs jumped to the up and coming team again. Except he may be nearing the end of his usefulness.

Let's not compare Tauron to Pickledcrap. Poor Tauron!

With Columbus getting the Intel chip plant it will probably become a large tech hub in the coming years and distinguish itself even further from the other Ohio cities.

I've lived in Cleveland since the early 90's and you've described Youngstown as I've always perceived it. I don't think the country/city person is as rare as you think, count me as one of those! I live right on the edge. Good luck getting out. Best thing about Ytown (as a fly fisherman) is the Mahoning river with giant muskie and pike right in the city!

Any supporter of Trump supports incompetence. Likewise Biden supporters. Sad, incomprehensible news for you, the Republican Party has shifted very far right into brain-dead Trumpian moths that have driven this former conservative to be firmly independent. It's laughable how guilty and clueless you and your ilk are suffering the same mindless afflictions you tirelessly accuse left wingers of.

This was the thing for me watching on TV. He set himself, shifted around, then shifted to line up more directly behind the center. I watched aghast, it was so obvious pre-snap that even down a man the Chiefs easily stopped it. One of the stupidest attempts to execute I've ever seen on an NFL field.

Yeah, plus the guys' cars were parked outside. Game on the 7th, police and a lady of the deceased checked just before 10 PM on the 9th. Two full days. I mean, assuming everyone was messed up from drugs or whatever on the night of the 7th, this guy sees their cars still parked all day on the 9th and does he at least reach out to his buddies then, let alone on the 8th? Plus, if they were watching on the porch, how does he not at least check to see what's left out there to clean up? Something seems really wrong there.

Part of the whole rotation philosophy is I wonder if it disempowers our playmakers to some extent, psychologically. And the D-line looked tired the last half of the fourth quarter anyways.

In all this it's clear that Beane and McD's success plan isn't working and needs tweaks. Since they got here they've been preaching this rotational D-line and they tired out in the fourth quarter last night. Again. I fail to see any advantage it's gained us over other teams' D-lines. Disadvantages are cost and perhaps a dilution of responsibility and urgency to step up and make plays. We need playmakers on the field feeling the urgency to make a play. It's incomprehensible how AJK gets the start over Dorian Williams talent-wise. I knew it was trouble from the first moment. And our defense struggled to get properly set by the snap of the ball anyways. That's on McD for not getting his talent on the field and developing it. My wording is purposeful to one change I feel coach needs to make. Our FO has done well enough to get to the playoffs but they need to grow and change to truly win the superbowl. We are wasting Josh Allen otherwise.

Also notable in this interview was Morse mentioning that at 6 and 6 McDermott told the team he was easing up on punishing mistakes because he wants them to play more free and loose.

Thanks for posting this, the angle clearly shows the stutter. With the normal angle I felt he was turning his hips a bit to possibly fake a slide. But I don't have a problem with faking a slide. I've not seen a slide where the QB slows down to pivot or catch his balance then slides. A real slide is always from a running stride to maximize yards. Therefore it's up to the professional defenders to figure it out and they will. I hope certain fans will stop babying our sports.

Too lazy to source it but Kelly admitted Josh is more talented then he was.

That's just it, I don't think he'll manage to stay healthy entire seasons. His pocket awareness isn't great and he takes hits and falls awkwardly. He's just not good at protecting himself. Beyond that, I'm not sure he can play consistently enough when healthy.

I get what she was trying to do, and if she was successful for you, that's cool. For me, the rapid-fire long list of things comes off more as passive aggressive complaining. For example, she says to the effect: "Of course my family can come to your event whenever you need us during the season" is really a situation most of us face on some level. It's a petty gripe, and most of her video comes off as such. Even mentioning twice getting hit up for tickets, she's way too specific about each making it feel like a personal gripe. Feeble attempt at humor and arrogant IMO.

I understand how the first INT can be interpreted that way, but Josh was quickly under a tremendous amount of pressure and I felt it was more a desperate attempt to force a play rather than throw it away. Gabe was well covered if he had stayed where he was.

Crying about her difficult life from the custom-embroidered leather seats of her SUV. Cry me a river, sweetie.

I totally agree with you in principle, but have to support McDermott's decision. I'm okay with being so conservative this year because Josh has reverted to forcing stupid situations and turnovers too much. That last pass of the first half was even more painful then his turnovers and inexcusable for a veteran QB.