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Absolutely cringe almost any time Peolsi opens her mouth. How are you that rich and can't afford properly fitting dentures? You gave Jon Adams 2 instances and I gave one back to you. I cringe that Trump tweets 30+ times in a day and our 70+ year old president gets into twitter beefs. I cringed when Obama was a Kenyan. I cringed when it came out that the DNC rigged the primary for HRC. I cringed when Clinton was impeached for getting a #### ###. I cringed when we went to war over WMDs. How about the obstructionism during Obama's tenure as president? Is that enough examples? Both sides are dirty. Neither side gets to pretend anymore that it is country over politics. That has been made clear by BOTH parties for at least the last 20 years.

absolutely and continue to operate this way because it is beneficial. Since we are on a Bills board I can use the example of the Patriots. Lose a first round pick here and there, fined a half million dollars, suspend golden boy for 4 games. Worth it for 6 championships and the millions upon millions (if not billions) they made while winning them and being the face of the NFL.

This is what I put in bold so yes I would say it does. You really truly think the Republican party does what is best for the country and not for the party itself? Really you truly believe that?

I bet they still made money on this. From the report: The $192.35 million penalty against HSBC Switzerland has three parts. First, HSBC Switzerland has agreed to pay $60,600,000 in restitution to the IRS, which represents the unpaid taxes resulting from HSBC Switzerland’s participation in the conspiracy. Second, HSBC Switzerland agreed to forfeit $71,850,000 to the United States, which represents gross fees (not profits) that the bank earned on its undeclared accounts between 2000 and 2010. Finally, HSBC Switzerland agreed to pay a penalty of $59,900,000. notice that it goes out of it's way to say not profits. Looking further: In 2002, the bank had approximately 720 undeclared U.S. client relationships, with an aggregate value of more than $800 million. When the bank’s undeclared assets under management reached their peak in 2007, HSBC Switzerland held approximately $1.26 billion in undeclared assets for U.S. clients. 192 million seems like a lot until you see that they were handling almost 10 times that amount. I can almost guarantee the new year will see increases banking fees for all HSBC customers. Just like At&Ts fines were passed down to the same consumers they took advantage of. https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/5/20949850/att-fine-unlimited-data-plan-fake-throttling https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/301680-att-switches-customers-to-more-expensive-plans-without-permission it’s particularly noteworthy that AT&T is rolling out these new plans in the very same week it paid a $60M fine to the FTC for lying to customers about the nature of supposedly unlimited data plans. According to a new AT&T document, mobile users with old Mobile Share plans now enjoy 15GB more data than they previously had. Mobile Share Value 30GB plans are now Mobile Share Value 45GB plans. Mobile Share Value 60GB is now Mobile Share Value 75GB, etc, etc. Sounds like a nice bonus, right? Not so much. According to AT&T: “Enjoy more data. Starting with your October 2019 bill, you’ll get an additional 15GB of data on your Mobile Share plan. This bonus data comes with a $10 price increase.” By all means though lets not worry about corporations and 1%ers but instead the imaginary welfare queens that are spending all your hard earned tax dollars...

You don't actually believe the bolded do you? The Republican position (just like the dems) is whatever will get them more power or allow them to hold on to power. Both sides do this. Perhaps you forgot about the supreme court appointment in 2016? https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624467256/what-happened-with-merrick-garland-in-2016-and-why-it-matters-now "Of course," said McConnell, "the American people should have a say in the court's direction. It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on the president and withhold its consent." There was no precedent for such an action since the period around the Civil War and Reconstruction. In a speech that August in Kentucky, McConnell would say: "One of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, 'Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.' " McConnell was not alone. The 11 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee signed a letter saying they had no intention of consenting to any nominee from Obama. No proceedings of any kind were held on Garland's appointment. Which was followed up by the sham Brett Kavanaugh witch hunt by the Dems.

Massive and I usually like him. We want to believe in Buffalo but at some point in time you have to beat someone. That was almost an exact quote. Then from the highlights you would think the Ravens dominated and then a quick oh they missed on 4th and 8 with a minute to go. You don't hear about it for the Vikings or Steelers. Pitt has one win against a team with a winning record (Rams) and the Vikings have beaten the Cowboys for their best win (hmm sounds familiar). In fact of all the current playoff teams only the Ravens and Chiefs have a strength of victory (sov) over .500. Going deeper there is only 1 other team with a sov over .500 and that is the Falcons. Every single team beats the "bad" teams each year, that argument to me, is just an excuse to not cover the Bills.

So what you are saying is this style of winning IS sustainable? I keed. I saw an interesting stat about turnovers: The 2016 Patriots became the first team to win a Super Bowl with less than 25 takeaways. They had 23, but were plus-12 and finished third overall. Only seven Super Bowl winners have ever finished with a negative number in the turnover category, with the 2015 Broncos (minus-4, ranked 19th) being the last one. Currently the Bills only have 16. The Niners, Patriots, Steelers, and Seahawks have already reached that threshold and all look to be playoff bound. There are 16 teams that have a positive to differential and only the Redskins, Cardinals, and Broncos have a losing record. I found that to be the most interesting stat looking around.

I think and emphasis on think.... They were debating going for it on 4th down and wanted to discuss it while still having time on the clock if they went for it and converted. The Ravens had no timeouts so I think the thought was kickoff with 25 seconds and they will likely kneel it down or at the very least not have time to make anything happen. I don't agree and thought a fg was a no brainer there but I imagine that was the line of thinking.

I'm a season ticket holder and have been for 5 or so years at this point. You have all seen a lot of what I will post but here is my view from the nose bleeds. Sidibe has improved quite a bit this year. However he shouldn't be a starting 5. He is better around the basket but he is still too skinny to do any real damage down there. Would be a great big to have coming off the bench. Dolezaj hasn't improved since his Freshman year. What's worse is he now has so many boneheaded fouls. His trademark hustle seems to have disappeared. Of everyone he is probably the person I am most disappointed with this year. Eli Hughes is my favorite player on the team. However he isn't someone that will dominate a game or take one over. He is a good player and starter level in the ACC but he isn't a #1 option on a team. Buddy Boeheim should be at cornell with his brother. He is a good shooter but his athleticism leaves a lot to be desired. He could be a really nice 6th man of the bench however I fear he will be eaten alive once ACC play starts. JGIII plays with enthusiasm which is nice. He and Buddy play well with each other but having both of them on the court at the same time leaves the guards lacking elite athleticism. The moment doesn't seem to big for him which is nice and he is only a freshman so I won't be too hard but again I fear what will become of him once ACC play starts. Boeheim has a very short leash on Guerrier and Goodine which is frustrating to watch. They don't get any benefit of the doubt and immediately look to the sideline when they make a mistake. Buddy and JG have no such worries. I really like Jesse Edwards. He is very slight of frame but you can see the skill he has. Cuse is lacking elite players and has an entire team of guys that would be served moving down a peg. This is going to be a long year. Usually they are playing cream puffs right now and nobody sees how the season will shape up, this year they have kind of been thrown to the wolves. Hope it is good long term but this is going to be a long bumpy road. Iowa, Penn State, and Ok State are not even the tops of their conferences and they had their way with SU. This team might only make it to 12 or 13 wins. Seriously.

I am with you. This week feels like a Bills win. Ravens are hot but last week they showed signs of cooling down. I trust the defense to do some of what SF did last week and contain Lamar. Lost in all of his hoopla is the fact that he only threw for 105 and ran for another 101. 206 total yards of offense. Now I know the weather played a factor but so did SF defense. I think the Bills pull this one out. I also think the Chiefs win in NE. I'm also drunk on the Kool aid but that's what being a fan is all about. The Bills control their own destiny for once. Let's. Go. Buffalo!!!

For the last week I avoided making a lamp post but I had something funny happen on Thanksgiving. I am a Bills fan because of my mom and her family as she is from Olean. Thanksgiving I watched the game at my parents house and my Mom and I celebrated a lot. My wife doesn't care anything about football, however she respects the Sunday game day and I get to watch the games uninterrupted (no small feat with 2 small children). After watching the Bills destroy the Cowboys she asked the next day about the super bowl, where it was, and if the Bills had a chance. I told her it was in Miami and she asked if I would like to go. I jokingly said if you let me go to the Super Bowl you guys can go to Disney for the week and I will drive to Miami for the game. Without batting an eye she said deal. Now my wife has been asking about the Bills, Josh Allen, if they can beat the Ravens this weekend (I didn't even know she knew the Ravens were a team!), and what they need to have happen to clinch the playoffs. 9+ years later she finally cares. All it took was promising to spend thousands of dollars on a vacation! Hopefully she doesn't learn the disappointment we have felt too many times lol.

This was posted before the draft about 3 weeks ahead if iirc. The trade written down is confirmed to be the trade that was in place with denver after the draft. I won't die on a hill saying this is for sure true but there is a lot of smoke there.

Yeah I missed it originally but someone mentioned it in passing previously and I remembered finding it on Reddit. Googled Reddit Bills QB Draft Board Leak and found it. The proposed trade with Denver was confirmed as the deal that was in place if Chubb didn't fall which lends even more credence to the rumor. Given how the draft played out (confirmation bias I know) I think even more that it was true. I am shocked this wasn't a bigger story pre-draft as it could have wrecked their plans!

I posted it at one point in time I'll try to dig it up... Hope this works:

Yeah give me 100% all by itself. I'd still pick it. I'm not putting 5k down but I will be betting Bills money line more money than I want my wife to know about (although even a dollar is more than she likes lol)

27-20 Buffalo

Why are you so quick to say the Ravens have more talent? The Bills defense is 3rd in yards Ravens are 9th Pass Defense Bills are 3rd Ravens are 13th Run Defense Ravens are 6th Bills are 14th Bills are 3rd in ppg and Ravens are 5th Bills have a higher ranked passing offense in ypg Ravens lead in points per game and rushing yards per game for offense and rushing yards per game for the defense. So of the 8 major statistics (total ypg, pass ypg, run ypg, ppg for both offense and defense) the Ravens are better in 4 and the Bills are better in 4. Ravens are the media darling right now and deservedly so. Buffalo is going to smack them in the mouth and take that mantle. 100% Did I say that yet?

100 mother*****ing percent!!! The Bills are going to take another step towards the national spotlight! Ravens played a tough niners game that they eked out a win on a last second field goal. They won't be as up for this game as Buffalo will! Bills had a longer rest period and are at home! The Cap will be electric after Thanksgiving! Nobody Circles the Wagons!!!

“I felt like our first year, you try to get away from the ‘here we go again’ moments in the game when you’re trying to build a foundation,” McDermott said. “And at some point, once you establish that, it’s, ‘O.K., we can win close games and come back from some of those moments.’” Best part of the article (I know nobody actually reads them but they should...) This is what some Bills fans are still working through this year. The Bills have done a lot of things this year: Beat Cowboys, Giants, and Redskins (Super Bowl revenge tour) Beat the Titans on an illegal forward pass call Won a nationally televised game These aren't the same old Bills. I think that is what made the Cowboys game so big. In the past they would get embarrassed on that stage. Cowboys on the road, on Thanksgiving, after the league had to apologize for poor calls against the Patriots, Jerry Jones chirping, short week, #1 offense, #6 defense. You could feel the broadcast was set up for an easy Cowboys win over the over rated Buffalo Bills. So many shots of smug Jerry Jones, Tony Romo talking them up, Emmit visiting in the booth. Then something happened. The Bills won but they didn't just win, they dominated. No comeback, no sweating out the final possession, and a shot of Jerry Jones with head buried in his hands. These aren't the Bills we watched bumble through season after season. They aren't an automatic w on the schedule. They are a team that the good teams don't want to face. Shed the BBFS. Let's go Buffalo!!!

Im not doing the math myself just using the numbers you gave. Does that mean 32 super bowls have been won by guys outside of the top 20 for 300 yard games?

He obstructs the receiver without making a play on the ball. That's pi imo. I don't want to argue minutia though on such a great day so I will bow out here. Go Bills!

Agreed you could hear the disappointment. He did catch himself a few times but it almost made it more noticeable to me. Still best in the business but today, in a dominating win, i expected better from him.

I disagree with the rest of your post but this part the most strongly. Defender never turned his head around and impeded Knox's attempt at a catch. Clear pi by rule.

Since we played miami twice them winning would increase our strength of victory by more wouldnt it? Or does it still only count once?

I am with you on all of this. As you state none of it can happen without them losing to Houston first so that is what I am rooting for. I don't think they will but I will be rooting for it! Only one I disagree with is Browns over Steelers. Browns are hot right now records be damned. The Steelers and their third string qb are more likely to fall apart imo.