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So the answer to this is that they went 9-4 in the 13 game gauntlet against Tampa, Toronto and Houston that was being discussed. The Houston series was really tightly contested. Two late comebacks for the Yanks, lot's of great pitching on both sides..........even the Astros combined no-hitter looked like the Yanks had taken a 3-2 lead in the 8th on a sky high Gallo fly ball to right that somehow stayed in the park when those rarely do.

Are the obvious examples of Kobe Bryant and Ben Roethlisberger with rape charges resolved civilly while they were playing for the teams they played their entire careers with not direct enough? I am open to the idea that you are just not smart enough to grasp the simple points I've made.......I've read some of your work here....you aren't bright. But fan bases will forgive A LOT. It's the reality. If you think what Watson did is some line that could never be crossed with NFL fans.........I think you are going to be disappointed. But you are probably used to that by now.

The other objection my usual trolls are having is that I am making a clear distinction between what Watson is accused of and murder. There simply is........both legally and in terms of public forgiveness. If Ben Roethlisberger and Kobe Bryant had settled "murder" cases civilly with the families of their victims.......... their careers would not have gone on the way they did after their forcible rape settlements. What Watson has been accused of is a lesser charge than that. People who think that 20 years from now Watson is still likely to be a social pariah if he goes on to a HOF career as a player are just kidding themselves.

Let me congratulate you for once again just jumping into a thread to be contrary with me and looking stupid by asking my point when it was in the very first post. Fans of other teams acting like Browns fans should be morally obligated to actively switch allegiances is self-serving and largely hypocritical. You and @GunnerBill can disagree with it if you want. I'm sure there are fans of other teams that could find something about the Bills that they would insist would be untenable to them. I just gave the example of a mass murderer being enshrined on the Wall of Highmark Stadium. You could argue that it has desensitized fans to the heinous crime. I see more young men "ironically" wearing the Mitchell and Ness OJ jerseys every season. Most people see them and laugh or scream "Juice" etc.. Saying he is shunned is a far cry from the reality at the stadium. Cornelius Bennett forcibly anally raped a woman in a Buffalo hotel room, served time for it, and he isn't shunned by the fanbase either.

You are all over the place........but clearly unaware that OJ was subsequently tried and found accountable for the murders in civil court. If you don't know the facts.........don't argue. As for OJ being shunned..........well, he's still on the Wall of Fame so apparently you've confused the actively "shunned" with turning a blind eye.

Like what? Deliberately using alcohol to get women to lower their inhibitions? Outright date rape drugging? I assure you that independent masseuses getting into compromising situations and feeling pressured to have sex is a lesser overall societal issue than those things. Really it is. This is a very weird f*cking case that literally doesn't have a lot of real world implications.

Yeah we'll have to disagree that he's done more good than bad in free agency. Somehow he had just one good "value" free agent in his first 4 offseasons..... Daryl Williams.........which he totally negated by extending him and then eating a pile of dead money just 12 months later. By contrast Whaley had gems like Lorax, Tyrod, Zach Brown, Incognito, Gillislee in 2015 and 2016 alone. A couple pro Bowlers, a DPOY candidate, the NFL's leading tackler and a guy who lead the league in rushing average and 3rd down conversions. Beasley and John Brown were very good signings. Not AS GOOD of value.......but the closest thing under Beane........to the values that they got in Poyer and Hyde a few months prior to Beane taking over. Morse has been good but they paid very top dollar for good. Addison.......he had some production but at a high cost. After that it's been all busts and some significant overpays for reserves. That list is long, most fans just choose to forget them......and it's easy to do so because Josh Allen covers up a lot of warts. The subsequent re-structures of bad deals like Lotulelei and Butler have also been costly. Pay cuts are hopefully something he matures out of doing. Those don't work. Beane has significantly underachieved in UFA so far. Hopefully the 2022 class changes the ledger.

Yeah Royal was the gem of a very large free agent class of total scrubs. When asked to explain why they signed all these nobodies Levy noted that they were trying to model themselves after the Patriots. Cluelessly following a blueprint of a plan that was actually built heavily upon knowing what plays the opposition was running courtesy of sign stealing. When you know the offensive play call.........yeah.......you can put any CB in........even a receiver like Troy Brown........and he can make plays. Each successive Levy/Brandon GM'd team got less talented until they totally bottomed out in year 1 of Chan Gailey. Where we will disagree most likely is that the 2018 Beane class was was just as bad as that first Levy group. Murphy and Lotulelei gave them a few better snaps than the likes of Royal and Peerless Price but the spending in 2018 dwarfed the pittance that Levy spent on his scrubs. Even relative to the salary cap of both era's. Two truly terrible, organizationally harmful free agent classes. The two worst groups of Bills signings since the inception of UFA.

Oh so you think that if OJ were accused of murdering two people WHILE HE WAS STILL PLAYING "plenty of fans would have been up in arms about him being on the team"? Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt on that. It's really hard to have a discussion when you don't see the vast distinction between slaughtering a couple human beings and paying women to get them into compromising circumstances and hopefully perform certain sexual acts with you. Even if the creep did it 50 times. Using premeditated tactics to get women to have sex with them when they might otherwise have not planned to is probably how half of the people on TSW were conceived. Some of you I'm absolutely CERTAIN that was the case. It's creepy and increasingly punishable behavior but whether people want to admit it or not the bridge between there and what Watson did is much closer than the one between Watson and a double murderer. Which is ultimately why Watson's deal went right to civil.

Royal didn't catch the ball with one foot out of bounds.........the clumsy bastard caught it with one foot easily in and continued to take a full stride out of bounds when all he had to do was have the coordination and presence of mind to drag a toe. Like basically every other skill player in the NFL possessed. You can go entire NFL seasons and not see a single player botch an easy TD like that. But for him, just catching the ball was half the battle. I've never heard home team announcers blast a player for being so terrible as the Redkins radio team when he was there. And that was BEFORE Marv Levy paid him. As time went on Bills opponents stopped even covering him. It was pre-All-22 days but from the seats the sea would part defensively when he entered a zone. He was like Draymond Green behind the 3 point line in a Warriors game. Alone.

Doc and I never agree on anything and since I've almost always been proven right he is compelled to troll my takes with fact-less, detail-free snark. Bottom line with Gronk is that it was a dirty, unsportsmanlike thing to do. Anyone who has played a lot of competitive sports has likely been cheap shotted. Maybe by friends even. Gronk gave a sincere apology, he was suspended, White missed ZERO time. The Bills have since tried to acquire Gronk. Facts. The Gronkowski family and their G&G Fitness business have been a fixture here in WNY for a long time. He's not some random dude who is unrelatable, his career success should be a point of pride(and is) to a lot of WNY'ers. It's a shame he was never a Bill, if only for the fact that we've basically never had anything close to an All Pro TE let alone arguably the greatest ever.

Browns fans can make the same argument about not honoring Watson. We root for our laundry, he's just one of a group of around 100 people in the Browns organization after all etc.. And then there is the argument about separating the player from the person. The money aspect isn't very compelling as long as the player eventually produces. Lotta' ways to justify a blind eye. Show me a fan base that doesn't do this and I will show you a group that doesn't care as much about their team as Buffalo and Cleveland do.

Very rough first CFL series for Kelly. Takes a bad checkdown for 2 yards, misses a throw on second down, and then gets blasted from behind for a sack to turn it over on downs and gets up and motions at the receiver like he was supposed to cut off his route. I wish the kid luck but even if the overall talent on the field isn't nearly comparable to the NFL the CFL game is an adjustment for QB's coming from the US game. He's going to have to show enough and be enough of a good teammate to stick around for a season or two so he has a chance to establish himself.

The drought was absolutely brutal.......people who downplay it are full of sh*t. And I'm certainly not here to defend DeShaun Watson, I hope he gets banned for a long time, but there is hypocrisy from any Bills fan who thinks Browns fans should feel compelled to quit their team while the Bills still honor OJ Simpson with his name on the Wall. The double standard is strong.

You immediately going to the "no one is forcing people to take opioids" defense with nary-a-caveat spoke volumes about your narcissism, doctor. And the only reason I've known the origin of your name is because you've answered the question on here why you go by "Doc" as because you are an anesthesiologist multiple times. Nothing about "inside jokes" until you get called out for feeling a little self important. Funny how you have a lot of short posts when you are trolling on TSW but when YOU get personally critiqued for a change you start expanding. Your insistence that White wasn't wearing pads on the play where Gronk hit him in the pads and helmet is a good example of why you should probably stick with the more-is-less based approach to posting. White wears a significant amount of pads for a defensive back. The huge shoulder pads and full back cover have always been a signature of his.

No worse on the fanbase than hiring Dick Jauron or Chan Gailey was on Bills fans while simultaneously playing QB's like Losman, Edwards and Fitz. Both situations were basically a 3 year guarantee of failure to anyone who knew how bad those coaches had been at their prior jobs. I think we have a tendency to downplay the dumpster fires here and exaggerate them elsewhere. Football will go on in Cleveland. Maybe being the focal point of the hate of media and opposing fans will galvanize the fanbase like being a laughingstock did for Bills fans.

You are a narcissist who wants people to call him "Doc" even when you are away from the job. People "like" you prescribe opioids to people who think that title means they always have the best interest if the patient in mind. Dismissing that accountability by saying that nobody is "forcing" people to take them is incredibly cavalier of you. An embarrassing statement, IMO. As for your description of what happened you missed the full pads and helmet aspect. Which is not in the least a small part of it. Without those it's a much different injury potential, the most likely of which are facial. With White's arms and the ball underneath him it was a downhill trajectory and Gronk slid right over top of him.......as the helmet is designed to do. The equipment factor matters A LOT. And no, I wouldn't be laughing it off........but I wouldn't have been anymore hurt than White........I would be telling the guy that if he can hit me high(a penalty), I can hit him low(legal). Had to do that once to a guy who flat out punched me under the chin at the LOS when I was a gunner on a punt and talked sh*t like he'd done something that was part of the game. Should have heard him b*tch and moan(and cry) after I ended his football(and subsequent basketball) season. I injured him again(inadvertently) the next basketball season when he tried to jump over me for a totally uncatchable errant pass on the sideline Poor gimpy bastard. Sean something. The football injury looked something like this:

Seems I "struck a nerve". White went into concussion protocol and once the suspension was announced he was taken out of it. Never missed a snap. You can ask him on twitter if he calls that a concussion or just a precautionary move (with no intent to influence the punishment, of course). And that's great news that the medical profession is off the hook for the opioid crisis..........I wasn't aware that no one was forcing people to take opioids. I guess we're "not embarrassed" buddies now.

You really don't like having your attempts to troll ignored, do you? "Embarrassing" is something like the opioid crisis in America and the role of anesthesiologists in creating it. An explained opinion about the biomechanics of a hit after the whistle in a football game.....that resulted in no injury......meh.....not embarrassing. Should I expand? Or is your appetite for discussion sated, Doc?

The greatest risk of injury in this type of collision between two very strong individuals is by hyperextension.........so exactly that, yes. The ground prevents the whiplash effect. And any grown man should know instinctively that hitting someone in the chest or shoulder area in a fight is a wasted punch. And that's effectively what Gronk did.......he drove a forearm into his fully padded upper back/shoulder area. He'd have been more likely to hurt him striking him below the pads. Why people think that there was any notable degree of likelihood that White was going to be injured there just shows how little they know about contact sports. Some of you watch too much wrasslin' if you think that hit was incredibly dangerous. Incredibly disrespectful yes..........likely to cause paralysis.......gimme a f*cking break.

It was very unsportsmanlike of Gronkowski but the exaggeration and wailing by thin-skinned, Patriot-weary Bills fans was 100% about the disrespect. Much more dangerous collisions happen on the field of play all the time. The nonsense about the hit potentially hurting White is ridiculous. Tre White is a f*cking yoked up beast not some 100 pound weakling. Pushing him in the back from behind while he was standing up would look much less disrespectful but be more likely to injure a player than piling on him at shoulder level when he's flat on the ground and his body can't move far. Anyone with the basic awareness that comes from having played contact sports knows this is correct.

I don't think you are going to find a lot of "Buffalo Bills places"..........the Bills are just part of the fabric of the community........there are public displays of affection for the Bills all over but it more like that........little bits everywhere. As people have mentioned, the things to visit are places like Niagara Falls(including the more touristy Canadian side) and a great state park like Letchworth and, of course, all the regional food places. The stadium is nice to visit and the Bills store is open year round there but you will find that when you roll up that it's a huge parking lot and stadium dropped into the outskirts of a middle class neighborhood.

Some people just don't know what's good for them. Just like the acetic acid in vinegar improves cognitive performance and slows dementia........as does reading my takes. Drink this @eball, give your liver a drink off.

I've only eaten at the north location once and it was great.......wings were at least as good as EA. And the north location is MUCH larger. The EA one is tight quarters and probably going to be packed full on weekend. I've had to walk away from the EA location rather than wait a long time to be seated. Excellent wings but wings are good all over in WNY.

Here's your ration for today. It will get lighter each day until you admit Peters is a HOF'er.