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Does anyone else just feel less tension about this game? To me it feels like the Bills are playing with house money on this one. I know it is a home division game but sitting at 3-0 with a team that has depth and talent it feels like it isn't the end of the world to lose this game. It is more of a where does this team stand type game in my mind. How does Josh perform against what could be the leagues best defense. Just how good is the defense against one of the better more disciplined and effective offenses? It comes off more so as excitement rather than trepidation or a feeling of dreading what a loss would do for the prospects of the team.

Snyder is a frustrating bad owner because he is always willing to spend the money, much like James Dolan he wants to win but he can't get out of his own way to do so. If Snyder would just stop meddling in the teams affairs from a football perspective they probably would have had much much much more success in the past 20 years. Once again if an owner is cheap that sucks but you at least understand what is handicapping the team and know that winning isn't on the owners list of priorities. However if you are so thirsty for win but you are the problem then the solution is frustratingly obvious to everyone except the owner.

Analytics in football isn't as great a tool as in baseball and it is even more limited than basketball analytics. However Analytics in football is a piece of the puzzle any organization is using. Billy B isn't going over the analytics himself but he has a guy for that obviously every team does.

Josh always reminded me of Cam with a bit less speed (but still good speed overall) I think Josh is going to have some ups and downs this season but he is also going to be on a lot of highlight reels too. Hopefully they just let him rip against the Pats no need to be conservative on offense just play aggressive.

Kraft also sided with Brady over Bill when they had to make the decision on Jimmy G supposably. Belichick allegedly wanted to trade Brady for picks and a starting caliber piece and move forward with Jimmy G. Kraft wanted to try and win as much as possible with the more proven Brady. I don't think so since they cut him.

Some of those playoff losses were on Manning in at least 3 or 4 losses the Colts defense surrendered 21 or less points. But in general they did rarely post a good defense.

Brown is going to have to sort out his legal issues and his mental issues before a team takes a chance on him. No one disputes his talents and he isn't at an age where he would be considered to decline just yet. But you can't have legal issues and be a tremendous #######. I hope for his sake he gets some help or gets humbled.

Mahomes is smart enough to take over the offense more and more as he gets more starts. Peyton wasn't Peyton his first few years. I think Reid is underrated as a coach but has weak points to his game. However I think Mahomes is just so unreal that he can win despite only having a good not great coach. I never really liked Dungy as a coach esp for Peyton but he was good enough.

Odds are that the team will likely have some off years (only making the division round) once Mahomes gets paid and they have to compromise on other aspects of their roster. But then once they manage the cap hit and take a year or two to rebuild the roster they will be back in contention. It all starts and ends with a QB and you keep your amazing QB at all costs. Hopefully we are talking about Josh that way soon.

Kind of similar to Peyton's Indy run in the mid-00's. The team and his play were so good that eventually one year they would win it. Mahomes is a freaking cheat code. Just completely unreal. I think he at least gets one title by the time it is all done esp since he has 2 more years on his rookie deal which makes the Chiefs able to keep talent around him longer.

I miss when a lot of other channels would counter program with content during halftime. Don't get me wrong J-Lo is keeping it tight at 50 and Shakaria is easy on the eyes too but it is always nice to have some options.

Knox has had one good game and Tommy Sweeney hasn't lit the world on fire. Don't get me wrong I like both players and I think they have a future in the league but I am not ready to anoint the team as having two great TE's just yet. Both will have their ups and downs. I see Sweeny as a solid back up TE, a bit of a do it all guy. Knox I could see as a top 10 TE in the league or a lower end starter. He has to develop a lot and I can see him disappearing a lot this season against better defenses.

Trump met with the Ukrainian president in an official capacity as president. A meeting with a foreign leader to discuss matters is by definition an official act.

There are channels through the justice department to go through if Trump wanted this investigated. He went straight to the Ukraine a country the US has power over to expedite the process to use Ukranian resources for political gain. Thus using his position as president to ask for a political favor. Thus breaking the law regardless of Biden's guilt or innocence.

Once again Biden being corrupt is irrelevant to wither or not Trump broke the law. Yeah throw Biden in jail, I don't care to defend Joe Biden but the corruption charges against Biden being true or untrue do not factor into wither or not what Trump did was illegal.

“the intangible right of honest services.” 18 U.S.C. § 1346. The theory is that by performing an official act in exchange for personal gain, a public official defrauds his constituents of his honest services

Asking a foreign government for a political favor.

First off I never implied that running for office makes you immune from prosecution. My point was that by the letter of the law what Trump did was illegal. It does not matter if what he was investigating was valid or not. If the charges of corruption are legit and there was a justification for it I honestly wouldn't care if he asked the justice department to look into it. I really try not to be a partisan hack mainly because the Dems outside of a few old school FDR types only virtue is being less ***** than the GOP. It would in my mind be more so about the validity of the case. My take isn't that Trump should be thrown out of office for this as it currently stands. My take is that by the letter of the law what Trump did was illegal. Bill Clinton lied under oath thus doing something illegal but was and should not have been thrown out of office. My stance is more so that this needs to be investigated further and then we can make a decision as to if not this warrants more serious trial by the Senate. However you simply cannot say with any legitimacy that what Trump did was not illegal.

You cannot ask a foreign government for an item of value for political gain. That's what he did. Trump could have asked Congress or the Justice department to look into the matter but he wanted Ukranian resources on the matter and used his position as president to do so that's illegal.

It could very well be that Joe Biden is corrupt but that doesn't make what Trump did legal. "Being Right" does not absolve Trump at all. That's not a defense. You can not ask a foreign government to take a call with your personal attorney on a political matter. Trump broke the law and released a memo proving it. His personal attorney admitted it. I feel like if this was Obama in 2011 asking for dirt on Romney from a foreign government you wouldn't feel that being right on the matter would absolve him.

There are serious engineering challenges that come with LST Reactors, it isn't as close to being a proven concept as many of it's ardent proponents would lead on. I don't think I have ever promoted it as a cure all so maybe someone else was a really ardent supporter. My position on the matter is that more R&D dollars should got into developing the technology as the possible benefits of it would be tremendous.

He asked the president of the Ukraine to take a call with his personal attorney about the Biden matter ("get to the bottom of it."). I literally don't know what you could defend on that.

Nuclear also has some environmental risks given that it produces toxic waste that you have to find a waste to store. However I agree that newer forms of nuclear such as Thorium based nuclear energy that are both safer and produce less waste should be a big part of fighting climate change. But the aversion to nuclear from some people looking to fight climate change is not an admission that the whole thing is a scam.It's more so an over estimated fears of the risks and environmental impact it has.

That's changing given the value a implementation of running backs in the passing game. Do it all style RB's like Bell, Barkley, and Gurley have tremendous value as they represent home run threats on the ground and via the air. Gordon however falls into a weird value slot. He certainly is top 10 at his position but not near the top 5. He brings value but not elite value. He is a good player at a position where good's value is not very well valued. So he will be seeking elite value in his contract but his team and other teams would rather save the cap space for other positions and take the dip which isn't as dramatic.

Yes he asked the president of a foreign government to take a phone call from his personal attorney regarding digging up dirt on Biden. Did you not read the transcript? There literally does not need to be a quid pro quo.