All_Pro_Bills

The majority of voters in Chicago lack the critical thinking skills necessary to figure out that if they just stopped electing public officials, mayors, legislatures, prosecutors, judges, etc., that allow this type of thing it would end. That's why liberals insist on bad public schools. The last thing they want is to be confronted by a population of citizens and students capable of applying critical thinking skills.

It is none of our business and if we minded our own business the Minsk Accords that established a peaceful compromise most likely would never have been violated and there would have been no conflict. Ukraine is of no consequence to US security interests. Never has been, never will be. Maybe its important only because the corruption inside the country has been a major income stream for the Biden's and their associates? You can swallow all the war and nation building propaganda coming out of Washington, presenting themselves as hero's of democracy, you'd like but at some point even the most clueless among us has to accept the reality these neocon/neoliberal nation building interventions have been complete and utter failures with the only benefits going to those selling and marketing instruments and weapons of war while leaving the US taxpayer with trillion dollar debts and the predictable trail of death and destruction. This is another of the long line of failures that has left another country in shambles and our nation's standing in the world order weaker. And with the conflict with Israel and Hamas/Iran likely to continue for who knows how long, my bet is the crew in Washington is losing interest in Zelensky and company and like a child at Christmas is bored and ready to play with their next shinny new toy. End of story.

You consistently lay claim to history in many arguments but ignore it here. So I'll point out the historical error in your argument. Historically, its not Ukraine's land. That land was part of Russia for centuries. It was transferred to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic by decree of a series of Russian dictators. In 1991 the Soviet Union ceased to exist. And the legitimacy of and power to enforce those decrees died with the USSR. It wasn't some democratic process that brought those provinces under the rule of Kiev Quite the contrary. Just the opposite. The Minsk accords were agreed to which keep those provinces under Ukraine but provided a high degree of autonomy to the region. So far so good. And that expression of democracy and civil resolution to the situation should appeal quite nicely. But under Obama by the Maidan coup and then under Biden, we stuck our noses into a civil war. By massively arming one side, Biden's crew torpedoed the Minsk agreements that kept a relative peace and in the process totally screwed up the entire world economy and weakened our standing as world leader. The long and short of it is, its none of our business what country those provinces choose to align with or not. The citizens of those provinces being ethic Russians prefer being aligned with Russia. The other truth is the majority of Ukrainians in the western part of the country could care less if those provinces are aligned with Russia or Ukraine. Unlike naive Americans mindlessly waving Blue and Yellow flags endorsing and supporting bloody and senseless warfare, they're quite aware of their country's history. Many have fled the country to avoid the war and conscription. I just don't see why Americans think the citizens of Ukraine should have any obligation to fight and die over some piece of dirt because their bought and paid for government officials and powerful oligarchs in the country along with officials in the US and NATO decided to send them off to war in some failed attempt to weaken Russia.

Peaceful? The Ukrainian government was shelling and attacking civilian targets in the Eastern provinces since 2014. I should add, for some interesting perspective and history on the evolution and changes in the moving and shifting borders of Ukraine I recommend reading this blog item from Stockman. Starting at the heading "Next On Deck – The Ukraine Disaster". https://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2023/11/28/how-american-neocons-wrecked-the-middle-east-and-ukrain/

Sadly Putin isn't doing anything remotely different than any other leader of any country previously or currently engaged in warfare and most likely anyone else in the future.

That's pretty close I think. These Queers/Progressive are quite devious. In their quest to destroy traditional Western culture deception is their weapon of choice. They could care less about the plight and suffering of Palestinians. The old proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". What they have mastered is the art of seizing opportunity. And the opportunity here is to get themselves in the spotlight by attaching themselves to someone else's cause. Even if a large number of members of that cause, here Islamic fundamentalists, would like nothing more than to.torture and kill them. What they both have in common is the previous mentioned desire to kill Western culture and society. Once the hoopla fades into obscurity they'll move on to the next cause that gets them attention.

Perhaps its unintentional, but do realize you're also describing another situation? Jeopardy answer.... What is US DHS?

According to the story: Thursday via text message, the woman wrote, "We’re fine. Things were blown way out of context. This is actually outrageous!" "No one assaulted anyone," she texted. "This is insane. And sad." She described the conflict as a "verbal disagreement" and "huge misunderstanding." The problem is she called the police, they responded, a compliant was filed, and an arrest warrant was issued. From reports there was physical evidence, things broken and bruises on her body at the scene of the altercation which the police would have observed and documented and collected. So saying nothing happened at this point after what I understand was an official complaint leaves the woman open to charges of filing a false police report. It would be another story if she just wanted to drop the charges but that would imply something did happen and leave Miller subject to potential disciplinary action from the Bills and the NFL regardless of whether or not she dropped the charges.

Its not hate speech these governments are concerned about addressing because the target of citizen anger is directed at the government. Officials want to define hate speech as any expression of criticism of their actions and policies along with calls for them to be held accountable.

The double-standard is directly generated by the result of the game. The Eagles won and the Bills lost. So regardless of their performances, the "blame" goes to Allen and the "credit" to Hurts. If that FG was no-good, or if by some act of God the Bills defense made a big stop at the end, the media would be praising Josh's heroic performance and flaming the Eagles over how their slow starts in first half over the last few weeks of the season finally cost them a game. My problem with critiquing these head-to-head QB match-ups is these guys are never on the field at the same time. It's not like two NBA power forwards going one-on-one down low for 48 minutes or a tennis match that goes the distance between two great players. Its Allen vs. the Eagles defense and Hurts vs. the Bills defense and on Sunday the Bills defense didn't get it done when it mattered most, twice.

The hindsight is 20/20 comments. That implies without the ability to fully know the outcome questioning decisions made without the benefit of that outcome absolves those responsible. In my time I've sat in lots of meetings with decision makers that made poor decisions and when later analyzing the disaster they caused invoked the "hindsight excuse". How could anyone have known the outcome would be bad? Well generally 3/4's of the people in the room knew it was the wrong decision, voiced their opinions and stated facts, and proposed alternative approaches to solving the problem or pursing some strategy or goal. But the leader, the person in charge, the person that made the ultimate decision ignored their input and their concerns and went ahead with the their approach or strategy regardless. And then when it went up in smoke said who could have known? When I hear McDermott go to the hindsight excuse I recall back to the other's I've heard firsthand use that one to absolve themselves from accountability. All of them saying "it's not my fault".

I think a problem is McDermott actually believes he's making the correct calls to win the game but fails to acknowledge that experience demonstrates his end of game strategy is flawed. And after each failure he's invoking the excuse of 20-20 hindsight somehow believing each loss that results from his insistence on doing it a certain way is a unique game time situation rather than just another example of the same pattern of blowing the lead. The message I get from these Sunday night or Monday morning press conferences is "its not my fault" and somebody else, either some other coach or the players screwed up. So next time we're in the same type of end game situations he's going to call it exactly the same and WHEN they lose, well hindsight is 20-20 and we need to get it right next time. If Pegula wants to waste another year or two of his life and those of the players and the fans hanging on to the hope the light is going to go on in Sean's head at some point and the team's fortunes in holding late leads is going to change then good luck to our owner and God have mercy on the rest of us!

For me its just a matter of managing expectations before, during, and after the game. Such as knowing after taking the lead late in the 4th the Bills defense was going to give up a score and OT was the most likely scenario. And knowing that 59 yard FG would have somehow, defying all laws of gravity and matter would have been good from 89. And knowing if the Bills didn't score a TD in OT the game was over as the Eagles would march down the field and get it into the EZ. And the next day waking up and thinking maybe next week they'll get it right!

We all want McDermott to be successful because his success means the team is winning which will lead to the elusive Super Bowl championship we all feel is within reach with what I believe is a generational talent like Josh Allen. But realistically does anyone believe its going to happen? I think Josh is in the same boat as Connor McDavid with the Edmonton Oilers. Both arguably the best individual talent in the league stuck on a team that underachieves in other areas of the game such as defense and coaching. While I've stuck with McDermott on its become too obvious after the Philly game that a change is needed. I'm not sure I can handle another season full of these last minute disasters.

All these Josh Allen conversations by sports commentators don't exist if the Bills defense can hold the lead for the same amount of time it took me to type this post.

The Monday ESPN shows have been generally critical of Josh Allen. They've ordained Hurts as the new king of the hill at the QB position. Granted, Jalen is playing excellent football but the Eagles are a dropped TD pass and a miscommunication on a route between the QB and WR away from losing to both the Chiefs and the Bills. And in the case of the Bills, Hurts had the benefit of a better supporting cast. A better HC, a better offensive line, a better defense, arguably a better set of WR's and a better Placekicker that night who made a 100 to 1 shot from 59 yards out given the distance and conditions. In a head to head all other things equal I'll take Allen every time. What most of these cookie cutter commentators are they're failing to address is the Bills defense consistent failure to hold leads in the McDermott era. Something painfully obvious this season and a systemic problem. For a team with championship aspirations its a fatal defect. Orlovsky is one of the few commentators to elude to this problem. Josh Allen and the offense left the field after their final drives in regulation and overtime with the lead and the defense blew the game twice in consistent fashion. Something that's cost several games this season (and should have cost them the win against the Giants too). The finger needs to be pointed at the defense and the guy running the show on the side of the ball. Outside of Dan's breakdown of the defense, when are they talking about that subject on ESPN? And hold the HC/DC to account? The biggest and most consistent problem costing the Bills games and hurting the team.

I believe both Beane and McDermott report directly to Pegula. That would mean Beane has no authority to fire McDermott. But don't most teams have a structure where the owner sits over the GM and the GM sits over the HC?

On goal to go at the 1 you can jump Offside and cream the QB a dozen times and only get a 1/2 the distance each time. Until they change the rules to penalize intentional Offside with unsportsmanlike its on.

Hindsight might be 20/20 but foresight is necessary and lacking from the coach's thinking and actions. Say you think taking on an MMA fighter in a bar brawl is a good idea. What's more important? Thinking it through using foresight and dismissing the idea or using hindsight waking up in the hospital 3 days later? If our HC would just say I made a mistake or error and in the future I will correct it and make a better decision that's something I'd respect. But dodging accountability while holding everyone else accountable isn't good leadership.

I knew it was coming but I was also watching the game with my wife, the eternal optimist when it comes to the Bills. They could be down 24 points with 4 minutes to go and she'll stick to the anything can happen theory. Then blames the loss on me for bring "so negative'. I say I'm a realist as I point out historically how many times the defense has blown a late lead and the huge number of bonehead decisions our HC has inflicted on us. This backdrop leeds to an additional element of pain. But yes, I knew that FG would have been good from 80 yards if necessary, a rogue wind or a hawk swooping down to grab the ball and fly it through the goalposts would have appeared. If there is a God he must love screwing with Bills fans more than anything else. My message back is I want to speak to your manager. And I knew like the rest of us the only chance to win was a touchdown on the OT drive because while few things in life are certain one thing thst is, is the Bills defense will blow the game at the end. Sadly, the only person unaware of this was the only person that could make the decision to go for it.

After several seasons of consistently blowing leads at the end of the game the HC should fire the DC this week! On another note, at the end of last season I bought into the idea the problem was Leslie Frazier and I owe the man an apology.

The only way to stop the Eagles offense was to keep them and the Bills defense off the field in OT.

This defense just never makes the big stop against the top teams in these one-score games. How many times have we suffered through reruns of this outcome? The offense left the field with the lead inside 2 minutes in the 4th and in OT. But as usual the defense folds, not once but twice. I was yelling for them to go for the first down in OT rather than kick the FG knowing they'd blow the lead. We all knew they wern't going to hold off the Eagles offense if they touched the ball so going for the TD was the only chance to win What's wrong with Sean isn't that he's a bad coach. It's that his trust in his defense is misplaced because they come up empty over and over. Unfortunately he's yet to catch on they suck in the clutch. He's taken this team as far as he's going to, time to go.

I think the actual story is the couple was returning from Canada because the Kiss concerts in Ottawa and Toronto were canceled by the band. They stopped at a Casino on the Canadian side prior to coninuing back home. And the crash occured at the Customs checkpoint coming back to the US. Liam has it slightly incorrect. Perhaps Detroit Rock City was playing at the time too?

They revel in the cult-like belief while admiring their accomplishments represented by the dozen or so 10th place trophies and ribbons on display in their home. Their choice of holiday gifts for similar minded acquaintances are cherished items like an AFC and NFC championship game runner-up sweatshirt from 2016. Maybe they lost but they still have "pride".