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1 hour ago, UKBillFan said:
I can really sympathise with Kim. Sad fact, my feed for the Bills is slightly behind for the televised games so, if I read something bad is going to happen on here, I quickly turn off.
If I didn’t see it, it didn’t happen.
If I’m watching a replay, and I know we’ve won, I’m not so fussed.
Lol. I picture Wile E. Coyote holding up an umbrella as the boulder is falling directly above his head. I totally understand.
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1 hour ago, Greatdane21 said:
Should have signed Steven Carlson TE was browns top sprcial teams player and blocking TE
I think it's odd that Steven could not get a camp invite after he was cleared to resume playing. All I heard of was a June tryout with the Giants. He might have to seek an XFL opportunity.
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30 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
I think you're absolutely correct when it comes to big programs that send a lot of players to the NFL like Alabama
But how many players have been drafted from SDSU (open question, I genuinely have no clue)?
I could see where if a program has very few players drafted, when they have a guy who seems like a sure-fire pick he's a bit of a "unicorn" to them and the temptation would be to polish his horn
That may be an ill-chosen metaphor....
I looked it up. Here's the link. One of 4 in the last draft.
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2 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
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It says that at least two teams (where Maadi has contacts willing to talk anonymously) were aware
I dunno about "gag order" but what coach worth his salt is going to lower the stock of his players by offering negative information?
It is about who you know, and probably also where you hang out and listen.
Actually I think this happens often. Sure they want to promote their program but they need good relationships with NFL scouts to do it. Letting an NFL team get burned like this hurts their cause so they should be honest.
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6 minutes ago, Beck Water said:
Maadi is an AP writer for Tampa, similar to Wawrow here. Like other AP employees, they're required to have two independent corroborating sources before publishing (including twitter when presenting as themselves, an AP employee).
This was in the Lawsuit thread and I think upthread here, but people do miss these things.
Let me say up-front that if one of your points is that there's a bunch of holier-than-thou second guessing of the Bills going on with some members of the media right now, I would agree. But as far as the story being out there in the media:
Before the draft? Probably not.
Before the lawsuit came out:
Let's review the details that were in that latter:
Now, the story doesn't name Matt Araiza specifically. But it includes a lot of specific details:
-Player gave her drink and brought her to room where she was gang raped (unclear if player participated)
-Gang rape left her bruised and bloody
-Police report was filed and rape exam performed
So when the alleged victim's lawyer called the Bills and spoke with Kathryn D'Angelo then emailed, Matt Araiza's name could be subsituted for "player" in the LA Times story and handed off to the PR/Communications department for their "take" on how that would come across.
I don't think the Bills knew any of this prior to the draft. They have said they did not know, and that if they did, it would have taken him off their board.
I think it's a good question if they left any actions not taken through which they could have known.
I agree with Shaw66 that likely the Bills are asking themselves this question and some of their procedures will likely change.
I think it's all about who you know and what they are willing to say. I wonder if the SDSU coaching staff was under a gag order otherwise more NFL teams would have known.
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18 minutes ago, Sierra Foothills said:
To your first point (numbered above), it was reported in the Associated Press that there were teams that were aware of the Araiza situation pre-draft. The AP is a very credible news organization not least of all because they are a not-for-profit.
Are you now aware of their reports or do you choose to ignore them.
To your second point, I don't believe the Bills knew about the rape story pre-draft but other teams did know, thus the Bills fell short in this regard. It is binary, they either passed or failed. They failed. Is this too difficult to understand?
To your third point, Do you believe it's the job of a Bills beat reporter to scour for theoretical news surrounding the San Diego State Football program? If Microsoft hires an executive is it a newspapers job to vet him?
The story was vague about what they knew. It implied it was a general sense of a problematic incident involving him but not knowing the details.
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1 hour ago, JoPoy88 said:
When you say “no one in the media knew about it” I’m assuming you mean NFL media? Because I agree with you there. But the LA Times (also media) have been looking into this for several months at least.When did Matt get connected to it in any published account? Where was the info to be had? If a rumor like this were posted here, it would quickly get removed as have others. Who are the people in the know who are willing to talk? Most have reasons to keep quiet. Investigators, prosecutors, coaching staff, college administration. The LA Times June story did not connect names to the incident.
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Aside from the filing of the civil suit, is Matt Araiza the punter vs. the Rams? Yes? The timing of the filing could have been much worse if it were September 7th or sometime thereafter in the middle of game preparation. Lucky to be done with it now.
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With rampant campus rumors and an extensive history of social media references, should any sports reporter worth a salary, have uncovered this too?
People generally dont spread gossip and rumors to total strangers. Best to go to a bar near the SDSU campus, get a haircut or rent a taxi/Uber. Bartenders barbers and drivers will talk.
If the Bills had no trusted connection to staff at SDSU, They were probably told not to talk about it.
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If Matt Araiza lied to the Bills at any point, I think they release him right then and there.
Here's one scenario. The Bills likely have their own private security who took Matt's statement of events six weeks ago and went to investigate and largely corroborated his account. This would explain why he is still on the team. With pending litigation, only one side is talking which is a bad look for Matt and the Bills. The woman has a lawyer to do her talking so there is no reason to talk to her directly. The big problem would be that even if the Bills are confidant in what they think they know, a legal system resolution is too slow and the optics are too horrible and one sided to make patience a tenable strategy.
One version might be that she lied about her age just to fit in to the scene, consented to relations with Matt, chose to go into the house and bedroom on her own afterwards and Matt had nothing to do with what happened thereafter. Another version might be that Matt acted as bait, spiked her drink, and actively facilitated events to allow his friends to assault her semiconscious self. In the latter, Matt needs to go to jail but if it were true I doubt he'd still on the team at this point.
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14 hours ago, TFBillsfan said:
Assume Bills only keep two QBs. Allen and Keenum. Is it a given Barkley goes to PS?
There was no logical reason to bring Barkley back other than they want him in their QB room as the Davis Webb replacement. A shocker if it doesn't happen that way.
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2 hours ago, Not at the table Karlos said:
Supply and demand. Everyone knew this was gonna happen once we got better
Vaccine requirement and the closed border tanked last year's resale market. The return to normal access, expectations and the backloaded home schedule boost demand for the early season home games. Market forces create the extreme jump.
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21 minutes ago, wppete said:
Why? How would this backfire? I’ve got nothing but respect for Dawson right now in this horrible time.My sarcasmanotometer isn't always well calibrated but someone suggested that Dawson and his family might prefer to grieve in private and that the PUNT foundation donations might be somehow intrusive. We see Dawson reaching out to share a link to a livestream of the memorial service and suggesting this an attempt to share their collective faith with a larger community. So, sarcasm detected there.
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9 minutes ago, davspo said:
Done. It's just what we do!
Whatever anyone might choose to donate, know this. It will be combined with hundreds or thousands of other Bills Mafia donations to send a much bigger message to Dawson and his family that we share some small measure of their pain and want them to feel that some good may come from their family tragedy. That's a powerful thing. It is one of the best of what we do.
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Cover1 did this going into the 2021 season. There is much evidence that Zack is an asset to the Bills pass offense.
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Check out the Youtube of OBL from Friday. He was trying to make a point about Bernard but kept calling him Benford. Someone corrected him, he checked the roster and got it right for one sentence and then resumed calling him Benford three more times. Maddy Glab inserts his correct, full name twice before she finishes two sentences. The look on Frelund's face was one of total befuddlement. CTE is real and Tasker had as many full speed ST collisions as any of them. I totally hope that is not the case. Steve is at his best when storytelling as in many cases he has probably told many of them on multiple occasions. 19:36
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On 8/7/2022 at 4:24 PM, Warcodered said:
Sounds like there needs to be better security around the tunnel.
Probably going to consider reinstalling that tunnel canopy they used to have along the wall or something like it. Totally remove any opportunity for bad idea, impulsive moves like this. Gonna need extra control measures if the Browns come to play with Watson as their starter.
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2 minutes ago, colin said:
iirc, josh had some group scrub his social media prior to the draft and they didn't have an issue w anything (or they had some stuff deleted but some of the tweets that got him in trouble weren't on the problem list or some such).
the more i see on this kind of stuff the more convinced i am that what is done/said is not as important as what is said/done by who to whom.
Two older, white men nodding in agreement. Context always matters but is seldom sought.
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Nuance of race relations, social media, language and context is difficult for adults to manage. I do not expect teenagers to have a grasp of it. The use of that word amongst peer group white youths to refer to each other is odd to me, but it's likely a cultural influence of things other than outright racism. I do not listen to rap, but the context of the lyrics is a likely source. At some point, most of us see a day when we wish we could share some words of wisdom with our dumbass 15 year old selves.
Here's a thought I have often had. Who released those Tweets just prior to the 2018 draft? The timing of it makes me think it is either (1) an agent hoping to drive his QB further up in the draft or (2) a team that was hoping for Allen to fall further down the board where they might have a shot at him which would make the Bills among the list of suspects. It would be some real Machiavellian, 3D chess to which no team would wish to admit. If it was just a random person who knew Josh and had some grudge against him I doubt they would have waited until the eve of the draft.
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26 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
I think it is that he was a power rusher in college and the Bills have tried to turn him into a totally different player in the pros and want him to be a speed rusher. It is the only reason why I am not yet ready to write AJ off because while it is year 3, it is basically year 2 of trying to be this guy. If he doesn't work out I think some of that is on the Bills.
I think this is right. BBB seemed to express some regret that the Bills could not manage his weight loss during the summer of 2020 due to COVID restrictions and suggested that this hindered his readiness for his rookie season. The Bills' players are regularly showing big year 3 improvements and I would not exclude AJ from this at all. He has looked to me like a player that needed to develop more upper body strength to compete with the bigger bodied OL on a regular basis.
As far as the change in body type, I think back to his poor combine testing and how it hurt his draft stock. I'd bet his athletic score would be much better now (sure would be worth knowing) and the Bills seemed to have a plan for him from the get go. Important year for AJ.
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I think Thad is jealous that Cover1 does a better job of team coverage than him. Maybe other beat reporters feel that way too. Greg knows salary cap management better than most any NFL full time professional reporter/host/writer. Eric can break down film better than most of them too. The comment about it being a fan site seems to be an attempt to belittle their content.
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On 7/25/2022 at 11:01 AM, Solomon Grundy said:
Josh is everything Fitzy wanted to be as a QB
Their attitudes toward the position are much alike. Take chances (not always well thought out) to make plays even if it risks your own bodily health, be a great teammate including taking the heat so others don't have to, engage with fans/media on a personal level and let your own quirkiness shine. Yeah, you are highly paid and the most important player for your team every time you step on the field but there is no reason to act like it. Josh can make plays that other QBs won't even attempt because they know they can't. Not Fitz. He was a QB that stretched the limits of own capability and it earned him an improbable 17 year, 9 team run in the NFL.
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4 minutes ago, julian said:
Maybe he’s been working out with Josh, according to Poyer on the Tyreek Hill podcast Allen is currently 260 LBs
People use the 237 number that Josh had at the combine but we all know that can't be true anymore. I described him as probably a bucket of wings shy of 250 now but 260? Maybe that's when fully padded.
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Ozzy - HalfTime Act
in The Stadium Wall
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I am a pretty smart guy but I am music dumb. I know what I like and I have high standards but can't explain why. There is this guy, Rick Beato, who has a Youtube channel that features music of this era. He is about our age and is from Fairport which means it's likely members here at TBD have some personal connection to him. He dissects great music down to it's elemental parts in an attempt to demonstrate what makes it great. I feel smarter after watching his material. Here is an example:
What makes this song great
Not much of what I hear today measures up.