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It changed the emotion of the game for the defense and Bojo bailed out their field position on the punt.

I thought Josh was deported to the XFL.

He covered up the ball better on that run.

My point is that had he caught it I am not sure he would have been inbounds.

That wasn't the best throw to Knox, had he caught it he might not have been able to get his feet in bounds. Josh has not looked good in the first two drives.

This game was always going to be a hard game, first off away games are always tricky. Toss in the fact that the Browns are a talented but underachieving team and you have a lot to deal with and a game that is far from a gimmie.

It was horrific on the first drive but it has clamped down since.

Wow good punt and some luck on the fumble losing more ground.

Could be but the offense needs to at least shift field position and give the defense a break. The offense needs to show up a bit for the defense a score here would be huge.

Gruden has the Raiders in a nice spot. Extra draft capital coming from the Bears, a good amount of cap space, you are already paying your QB so no need to plan for a future cap charge, and a coach/GM being allowed to build their vision. They might not make the playoffs but they are developing a young core of players along with vets with gas in the tank that could have them ready to be a serious player in 2020 in Vegas. They have 2 first round picks and 2 third round picks (although no 2nd rounder) to supplement a young core. While also having enough cap space to add some quality players. They could easily finish with 8-9 wins on the season and have an avenue to add to that roster. I didn't expect much from Gruden (I thought he would be out in 4-5 years with maybe one winning season) but he might be setting up the Raiders for sustained success for at least the next 2-3 seasons.

I don't care if the Bills go 10-6 and they do so by beating the Browns, Dolphins, Broncos and Jets while losing the other 4 games. Granted not winning 1 against the Cowboys,, Ravens, Steelers, and Pats would sting but just get to a healthy record and the playoffs is a huge positive step for what the coaching staff and GM are trying to build. Unlike the Bears who bankrupted their draft picks and screwed their cap position in 2018 to try and win with a young QB the Bills are set up to have 84 million in cap space (Possibly 102 million if they cut Kroft and Murphy) and their full complement of draft choices. This team isn't a finished product. The team can afford to take care of their young players while also adding a couple of pieces via free agency. Overall the team is in a good spot to sustain winning the next 2-3 seasons while Josh is on his rookie deal. So as long as this team can get into the playoffs on a good record the season is an unqualified success.

I don't think anyone is bothered by continued economic growth. But in 2006 someone could have been saying that the economy is being propped up by deficit spending mainly used to fund a war and tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation in various sectors and a bubble in the housing market. Would your retort to them have been why does growth bother you? Someone in 2006 would have been right to say the growth is a positive but what is causing it isn't going to last. Trump's economic growth was promised to be 3% and higher for multiple years. The best he got to was 2.9% (a high Obama reached) and that was with lower than usual (for positive GDP growth times) interest rates, huge deficit spending, and massive deregulation. There are huge bubbles in consumer credit, auto loans, student debt and various other credit cycles that aren't sustainable and unlike 2008 the interest rates are being held low which means that the stimulative effect of lowering rates will not be in the feds tool box come a possible recession. We have seen this script play out in 2008. Deregulation and sugar high tax cut deficit driven growth will always come with a big crash. When you don't have demand increases to justify expanding business your growth will be based on buyback and dividend increases funded by tax cuts. But once the tax burden gets normalized there is no room to grow. With the money from Trump's tax cuts and the increase to the military budget alone the US could have forgiven student debt, financed public college for all, and partially funded a infrastructure overhaul bill. All things that would have had a true stimulative long sustained impact on the economy. Instead we just juiced the stock market for a couple of years.

Using Median numbers is highly misleading. When factoring in inflation the real gain for workers under the Trump economy has been 1.1% compared to the average of 1% under Obama from 2011 to 2016 when the Recession ended. I would also challenge that if you took the temperature of the income gains, stock market performance, and GDP gains in 2006 under George W Bush he would have looked pretty dam good under those measures. But the cost of unfunded tax cuts and deregulation (along with a new factor low interest rates in positive economic times) always come with a bust cycle that is harsh. And because interest rates are so low (and only going lower) when the bust comes there is no soft cushion of lowering rates to help ease the bottoming out. They are having to lower rates now just to get above 2% GDP growth. QE and low rates might not solve the next very painful Recession. How many times does the trickle down and deregulation bubble have to burst for people to not cheer as the bubble is at or near its highest point? https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/americas/2019-10-31-trumps-greatest-economy-doesnt-mean-more-pay-for-workers/

I really don't give a ***** about respect form the national media. Get fat on these bad teams and by hell or high water get to 9-2 going into that brutal 4 game stretch. In order for this team to turn around their perception and culture I think they desperately need to get to 10 wins and a playoff spot. If it is solely done on beating up bad teams fine. That's how most teams get to 10+ wins anyway is by beating up on bad teams and teams they should beat.

Photoshop is a hell of a tool. Back in my single days I got fooled by a girl who used a combo of old photos and photoshopped photos and well lets just say that you can only fake so much in person.

I was on the Star is overpaid but does his role bandwagon but the run defense up the middle is what it is when he is on the field. I can see cutting him next year.

Make up, hair and lighting can be a big difference maker too. But honestly I don't really care that people get surgery to look better. As long as it looks good and you can afford it I don't see the big deal. However I will say that more often than not a lot of people who get plastic surgery will eventually go overboard with it. I dated a girl who got her boobs done at 23 and they looked good (she went from A to C cup) had she simply stopped there she would have looked great. But I saw her last year at age 28 she looked like a 40 year old Orange County Cougar. So much filler and botox along with an unnecessary nose job. I think a lot of women need to realize that botox and fillers are for when you are older looking. If you get them in your 20's or early 30's it makes you look older.

She clearly got a nose job, her jaw done and fillers. You can look at video of her in college and yeah she isn't bad looking but you can notice that her nose is much bigger, her jawline is different and her cheeks filled less. I really wouldn't have cared but I think she called someone out on twitter for their looks and every comment was mentioning the surgery she got. It doesn't in my opinion invalidate her but it is something funny to me esp given how many fawn over her looks.

Not as bad as I remember but you can tell she got significant work done

I have seen people on twitter with blue check marks that have 2k followers. The purpose of the whole Twitter check mark is for people famous enough to be impersonated. Someone with 2k followers is probably not someone with a large enough following to be impersonated. Bottom-line the Twitter check mark is meaningless, they hand those things out like candy now. As for Tomi she definitely would be jealous of AOC's looks if she didn't get that plastic surgery (seriously check out her "before" photo, woof.)

The teams two biggest needs outside of resigning some of their own talent to extensions or outright are WR1 and a prime time pass rushing DE. Unless Amari Cooper hits the market I don't see a true WR1 hitting free agency. But there do appear to be some quality edge rushers that might be on the market and the Bills will have the space to responsibly add a big time pass rusher while not jeopardizing their ability to resign and extend their own talent both in 2020 and beyond. Luckily the 2020 NFL draft does appear to be a good one for WR's according to those who track draft classes. So I think they can find good help at WR1 via the draft. Their other needs like a run stuffing DT and a OLB can be found for a more moderate price.

Trubisky is more than likely a bust. I thought they got him going to the point where he would be a startable QB on a good team. But he looks completely lost. I know the Bears supporting offensive talent has regressed but he shouldn't be that terrible. They are likely going to bring in a vet QB to "compete" with him next year and boot him out after declining that 5th year option.

31-24 Browns, away game against a talented underachieving team with a dual threat running back combo kind of makes me very nervous about the game. I hope I am wrong but I think the Bills will need to put up some points to win this game and the Bills offense can do that but I just don't think they will.

It is worth a try at this point.

I think the "impact" of this signing could be a positive however I am not so sure this is such a slam dunk as many here are thinking. Liuget was a beast on the Chargers but got released off of an injury. Then he got signed by the Raiders but was so ineffective that he got released. I don't hate the signing as I am not sure who else was on the market that could be better. But I just don't see him as a savior for the run defense either. Hopefully he helps improve the run defense but I am not expecting that.