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Silver lining, at least it's not made from the water from the community sinks at the Ralph... that would probably exceed the acceptable upper limit of urine content, even for Bud Light.

Better than the last time we saw him when he was moving in the wrong (opposite) direction relative to the ball that was bouncing around on the turf.

Bills mafia should send him a birthday card with that video in it wishing him many more TDs for his birthday.

Awesome play, but I don't think technically that was an interception... more like a purse snatching.

Is it, though? Of our WRs, Coleman’s been available all season…

No one here gets out alive

This one helped send us to the SB.

At least he wasn't doing them on the back of a horse...

I heard it was because McDermott was jealous that TBD referred to Brandon as Big Baller Beane and a wizard but referred to him as McClappy.

Or you can be a complete and utter moron who is given a team laden with HOF talent out of the spite of the owner for his previous HOF coach who kept stepping into his spotlight. Better?

I will go on record now, Miyagi-Do Karate, no do math... (psst, there are only 4 games left).

I remember back to back seasons when the Bills were several games into the season before they even punted. One of them was the season we opened with the Rams coming off of their SB win.

This just seems like tempting fate…

Guess those shopping carts will have to find their own way back to the front of the grocery store on Monday.

Does it make me a bad person that I really want to make a Jim Irsay/Sauce joke, or a good person that I’m fighting like hell with myself not to?

The practice of sandbagging baseline testing probably actually started in collegiate sports and filtered up to the pros. The protocols for return to play and the research behind them originated from academic neuroscience programs at institutions with large sports programs. I know several of the researchers personally. When it’s really obvious, they have players redo the testing. Players also withhold information on the sidelines during the evaluations, and if they are lucid enough in the moment, they try avoid calling any attention to the fact that they hit their head. It’s easy to tell if someone loses consciousness, is posturing, has nystagmus, is ataxic, has motor instability, or is confused enough they can’t answer questions. Determining if they have a headache, ringing in their ears, dizziness, nausea, photophobia, etc relies on the player being forthcoming. It’s an imperfect system without a simple fix.

Let me play devil's advocate. Where is there actual suggestion of malfeasance and/or negligence? Contrary to what 90% of people on this board are professing to know with certainty, hitting one's head and pointing to it does not constitute a concussion. Assuming the team physicians and independent neurological consultants followed protocol, and assuming there was no OBJECTIVE evidence of a concussion despite multiple assessments, including a reported assessment in the locker room at half time, what justification do they have for then holding a player out of the game? The league protocol doesn't suggest they hold players out on the suspicion despite a negative assessment. Higgins himself, after the game, said he underwent multiple assessments that he passed, and was then asked if he was comfortable with returning to play. This is not a compound fracture that is diagnosed with certainty the minute it happens. There is no fool proof test that identifies all concussions. Unfortunately, many of these instances become clearer with hindsight. For reference, here is the NFLPA response to the Tua incident with the "back injury" that outlines changes made to the protocol pretty clearly. Assuming Higgins had no concussion symptoms, and there were no "no-go" findings on his assessment, there was no medical obligation to hold him out of the game based on the current league protocol - https://nflpa.com/posts/concussion-protocols-where-we-stand-now.

PLEASE, take my username and password for @Virgil's "A Few Thoughts about the Bengals Game - OnlyFans Edition". I DON'T WANT IT ANYMORE. I thought the name was peculiar, but then "Fans"... NFL... maybe it makes sense... it wasn't what I was expecting...

Forgot about that (coping mechanism?)

The first taste of the Belichick misery that was to haunt us for over a decade and a half...

It's a list of players out for the season with injury. 🤷‍♂️

🤔... 🤔... wait... I can see it now... his name... it's on a list somewhere... next to... Hoecht... Carter... and, I think, Jackson?

If that’s the case, then maybe as a team with SB or bust aspirations we deserve an experienced DC instead of a puppet learning on the fly. 🤷‍♂️ Just a thought.

I make be wrong, but on the replay I don’t think it was a clean exchange on the second fumble, either. It looks like it took a second to get it secured. Don’t know how much that played into it.