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Used to live down the street from Joe Devlin growing up. He coached my then girlfriend's brother's tee ball team. He couldn't have been a more unlikeable person if he tried. He used to intimidate umpires and parents and was generally an insufferable jerk. He coached a childhood baseball team like a psychopathic meathead. Used to work at a country club that Pete Metzelaars was a member at. He had to duck to miss a support beam walking in the front entrance to the restaurant. He played a fair bit of golf in the offseason. Seemed like a nice guy, but I didn't talk to him a ton. If it wasn't for the fact he was 6'8" with bright red hair you'd never know he was there. He was was very quiet and unassuming. I ran into Antowain Smith at a mall once. I remember being surprised at how big he was in person for a running back. I used to run into Sabres players all the time in my 20's during my bar hopping days. I ran into Jason Dawe and talked to him so many times that he'd say hi to me if he saw me first. The craziest was running into Danny Gare at either Mother's or Fat Bob's one cold winter post-game evening. He was drunk and telling stories to me and my roommate of his time with the Oilers and how he told off Glen Sather. I can still hear him in my head saying "F*** you, Glenn!" as he recounted the story. He then signed a bar napkin and gave it to my roommate for an autograph unrequested. It was a bit surreal.

Define struggling... through 4 weeks they're second to the Chargers in passing yards per game, they're 4 in the league with 10 TD passes (with 3 others tied at 11), and they're third in the league in passing yards overall. They resoundingly beat LA, torched Tennessee so bad they pulled the starters midway through the third quarter, and put up 500 yards of offense in the flukey Dolphins game, 400 of which was through the air. The outlier has been a rainy game in Baltimore with a ton of dropped passes.

Pretty sure I could pass out on my keyboard and the resulting string of letters would make more sense and add more value to the board than this...

Omalu is a pathologist. The only way he'd examine Tua is if he had a piece of his brain tissue to put under a microscope.

Or it could mean the investigators were asking transparently pointed questions designed to lay blame, justly or unjustly, at the feet of the UNC and as a result the answers they received contained an element of hostility.

I could also clear it up pretty quickly by confirming that I was making things up, but that would take the fun out of it. I was hoping the absurdity of the post in combination with the fact it was made in reference to Tommy scouting the beaches for Giselle's replacement would have been sufficient. 🤷‍♀️

Am I making things up, or did Wes Welker just post a selfie of him jogging on the beach in Tampa with a big smile on his face?

Maybe if you would have repeated the reason to yourself you would have remembered, Charlie 5 times.

Fumbling your first carry for a coach who has benched vets for ball security issues in the past probably has it's own process to get through before being trusted again. Hopefully the Bills get out to a big lead in some upcoming games and he gets some meaningful carries to build his confidence back up.

I think Zach Moss was drafted to be Mark Ingram. What we got is Mark Ingram... if he was suddenly stripped of any and all field vision.

Maybe Campbell had the Raven's D on his fantasy team. 🤷‍♀️

Clearly Tomlin took the Bills to cover even with the -14 spread.

Diabetes?

Instead of being afraid of bad karma, I pointed to a picture of a bloody Chuck Norris and explained to karma why it should be afraid of bad Josh Allen... n'uff said.

You mean like an informed consent form that's required for most medical procedures? I don't know how NFL teams and their training staffs handle these issues day-to-day, but in the real world those forms are routine.

When they say "Tua will be OUT Sunday against the Jets", is this an update on his playing status or are they just predicting he'll probably get knocked unconscious again?

Coach, do your constipated Bill Burr impersonation.

It's ok, though. I kinda miss the losing.

I'm really concerned about Elam.

http://13wham.com/buffalo-plus/bills-latest-news/bills-release-final-injury-report-ahead-of-sunday-showdown-in-baltimore According to this Morse, Oliver and Bates cleared, as well. Doesn’t specifically mention Poyer (listed as questionable, but doesn’t speculate on likelihood of him playing) or Hart (who I’d assume would be available because he’s served his 1 game suspension).

Holding Tua accountable assumes he remembers what happened, which is not a given.

If you’re referring to the “choke out”, the same thing did not happen to Mahomes. He was taken out of that game. Chad Henne finished it. People were outraged because he played the next game. However, even if it was a concussion, if he had passed the protocol he could have played. IIRC, he wasn’t in the protocol because they determined it wasn’t a concussion and that was why people were outraged.

This is the part that makes me ask where the team loopholes are in this process. If Tua even enters the protocol, based on no-go criteria posted on the NFL website, he’s out. I have to think any independent consultant with the benefit of all of the information that fans had at their disposal, mainly the video evidence of the sequence, are not going to risk their livelihoods over a side gig and clear him even if his testing was normal. They’re obviously not replaying the sequence in the stadium like they did on the broadcast. Regardless, it was obvious enough that spotters should have caught it. Where’s the disconnect? It makes me wonder what is the jeopardy to their credentialing? Is there an agreement in place with the NFL that limits their liability in this position?

Lil’ Dirty’s a funny dude. Trying to convince someone the spelling was wrong in their tat. 😂 Love the banter between him and Diggs - “You steal your grandad’s hat?”

I question if he was ever formally put into the concussion protocol Sunday. Everything that has been said was that he passed the tests he was administered and wasn’t felt to have a concussion, but nothing I’ve heard from the team goes so far as to say he was definitely in the protocol. The language from the team on this in my opinion has been very loose. Had he been in the protocol, given the “go no-go” criteria stating any player displaying gross motor deficits on the field is a no-go regardless of their exam, how could they clear him. I find it likelier that something in the process broke down than that he didn’t have a concussion based on him hitting his head and his reaction to it on Sunday, compounded by last night.