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Their arms dealers - the Chinese and North Koreans, and I wouldn't be surprised if Iran is North Korea's best customer. Their proxies and friends - Lebanon, Qatar, Afghanistan, Syria Bordering countries wouldn't like the vacuum created by a country suddenly without any government.

The world will be lucky to avoid a world war because you've had US Presidents who thought better of going to war with Iran and I don't feel confident this White House has that same attitude, and neither the capability or desire to keep Israel from dropping a nuclear bomb on Tehran, after they make Gaza a parking lot. Iran is assuming the US and the West will restrain Israel, like they always have, and I wouldn't be so sure of that now. You need the Russians to talk to Iran, and well, that's not looking feasible. The US, Israel and Saudis know you can't invade or occupy Iran successfully, so the next best thing is to flatten Tehran, and to be honest, besides those in our own government who'd love to take out Iran, the Saudis would secretly cheer that on as well.

Similar seasons: Negative: Cocaine Josh can still make surprise appearances. The Bills still don't know how to use running backs. Make the game harder by using the TE position largely for blocking. The offensive game plan remains one dimensonal - it is still the Stefon Diggs show, and when that gets shut down by any team with a decent CB1, the Bills have nothing. Positives: The defense is nastier and consistent. It just wore out yesterday. The young players who get consistent game time are really, really good.

This year is the Super Bowl run. You're either all in this year, or you wait until 2025. Injuries make the mountain steeper, but you can't punt this season. 2024 is the remodel year if they want it before the new stadium, where a lot of names will leave as OP detailed, and reloading cap space where possible. The Bills aren't resigning any player 30+ and likely going to try to get out of White's contract. I wouldn't be surprised to see them take that dead cap hit. 2024 will be a lot of cheap contracts and rookies/second year players getting a lot of playing time. You want a Super Bowl caliber team in that new stadium, and it will have many new names.

Even prior to the season, I've been of the opinion that his seat is deceptively warm like Tony Dungy's was in Tampa prior to the Glazers hiring Gruden, and Jim Mora in Indy prior to the Colts hiring Dungy. The Bills are a *very good* team but can't seem to get over that hump. I think he's in trouble even if the Bills finish with a winning record. Another early departure from the playoffs could be it. Here's why: Yes, the Bills are enjoying sustained success, but the Pegulas do not spend all of that money to be "very good", and with each passing year, you're using another year of Josh Allen/Stefon Diggs prime. You'll have squandered Von Miller's time. You also want the team on an upward trajectory heading into the new stadium. Much of what has kept the Bills out of the Super Bowl is fundamentally tied to organization, strategy and coaching. As it pertains to this year, this team is loaded up for a Super Bowl run *this* year. The money has been spent, the players acquired, and again you've got bizarre organizational issues that fall to the head coach and his coaching staff.

The NFL won't ban the tush push until teams start using rugby formations on 1st, 2nd downs consistently.

I blame the coaching staff to a degree for Elam's play and Kingsley Jonathan exhausted a lot today. This isn't Madden - you can't shelf guys for games and then ask them to instantly play an entire game and also do it well.

The James Cook experiment needs to end. So much waste with those runs up the middle. Harris should be RB1. Coaching today was terrible.

I don't understand this team's fascination with James Cook. Play calling has been terrible today.

I'd be interested in knowing what kind of antibiotics you've used. The only antibiotic that works for me are the quinoline class drugs. The weak sauce penicillin antibiotics that urgent care and primary care doctors will prescribe usually dent an infection but doesn't completely kill it. Also make sure you're not Vitamin D deficient.

That made me LOL "Rogue dietitian 2: Countin' calories while countin' bodies"

Craig Ferguson wasn't too shabby with his show that ran from 2005-2014. He had interview skill was on the level of Carson, IMO. He had the right idea - he got out while on top, before he got stale. Fallon's show broke the mold with the games and skits and The Roots as the house band, but even that runs its course without a refresh, and the Roots haven't done anything in years. The 90s were an awesome time for late night TV. You had breakout stars like Arsenio, Conan and Craig Kilborn and fantastic disasters like Magic Johnson, Chevy Chase and Howard Stern. Stern's show was a harbinger of what was to come - not a lot of people found mainstream Howard all that interesting.

She's hardly the only star living the Whitney Houston experience, where Houston was in love with a woman her entire career, despite marrying men and having a child. Whitney's family and "camp" did everything they could to keep her away from Robyn Crawford. My guess is that it's always been a thing, and then when she got real big, it had to be kept a secret. She's pop music now....but there will be the inevitable later career swing back into country music, arguably a more conservative leaning fanbase. I also think many might see her as a phony, with all of her popular music and videos centered around relationships with boyfriends. I think if she came out, she'd lose a lot of her brand. I don't think she, or her camp, want to risk the billion dollar machine to any spicy revelations, so it'll be another 20 years of "boyfriends" that have an odd fit, and they always seem to be far from where she lives, and there's never any marriage or children talk....

I'm convinced this is absolutely, positively a business arrangement with a pre-determined shelf life. She gets the heterosexual cover for her female relationships she's desperate to keep under wraps. He gets the inroads into broadcasting, television for himself and or with his brother. He probably wants a Michael Strahan or Peyton Manning type of career after the NFL, hosting shows. The wall to wall coverage of this suggests to me that this is his last season as a player in the NFL. There's going to be little oxygen left in the room in NFL broadcasting once Brady starts, and the Mannings are always lurking, likely waiting for a plum spot to open up. This guy has never dated women that look like Tay Tay. He dates women that look like Jordan Poyer's wife.

Pittsburgh has sealed its demise with their continued employ of Matt Canada. If the Bengals want to make the playoffs, they have to sit Burrow for weeks and let that calf injury completely heal. Throwing him out there just keeps him injured and the team losing games.

The Jets have to have one of the sadder coaching histories in the NFL. If you remove Al Groh, who coached just one season, they have had just two coaches with a record .500 or better. Parcells lasted three seasons, Baugh lasted two.

Siemian is likely affordable, willing to be on the practice squad and a Jet for just a handful of games. I'm suspecting Wentz and Ryan (and Colt McCoy) wanted too much money, guarantees, or refusing to be on a practice squad. Wentz *should* have a job in the NFL, but he's likely refusing to be on anybody's practice squad.

I don't understand what the Jets are expecting to see with Zach Wilson. I think he's had plenty of games to show what he does. I suspect his presence on the field is due to something stupid like the billionaire owner not wanting to spend money on a temporary fix.

I prefer Ken Dorsey over Brian Daboll. Daboll may be this genius of offense during the week when building/installing the game plan, but I think Dorsey is the better coordinator when it comes to adapting the offense from game to game and during the game, and what counts is what you do after getting punched in the face by the defense. Daboll was often way too beholden to his formations and script of plays, and I think that is why the Giants are not doing well this year. The defense knows what is coming, and he is not adapting/changing it up.

BB should have retired when Brady left the Patriots and leave the question of who influenced their dynasty more forever unanswered. I think he's in New England for as long as he wants. He (and Kraft) probably want that all-time victory title, but he's 31 victories away. If the Patriots keep rolling out these 8-9 win seasons, that's a long time.

This is what the Ravens players grade the facilities - (from that NFLPA report card earlier this year). They did fire their strength and conditioning coach before the season. They have a new one now. I suspect the Ravens do not have a great offseason program for their players, so they are coming in over trained, or improperly trained where ligaments and tendons were beat to death in off season conditioning and wear out OR they come into shape fat and not ready to play. Both scenarios create injuries. They haven't even gotten to Lamar's annual injury buffet.

Legitimately tore the time/space continuum in Buffalo, one of the most consequential decisions he ever made as owner.

She's a mess, but smart. With money. I'm sure there's money and NDAs flowing. Wouldn't be a bit surprised she makes guys sign one prior to a date. My personal conspiracy theory is she's a lot like Whitney Houston was - she dates women or a woman in secret, likely proximate to where the boyfriend "is" and she doesn't want that impacting her career. I don't think it'd matter much today, but back when Swift was a country star, that likely would have had consequences.

It'll be dead soon because advertisers will spend their money elsewhere, or save it for live broadcasts. ESPN is reaching that MTV inflection point where they will cut costs by running re-runs of Coach and White Shadow for like 20 hours of the programming day. Don't laugh - it's coming - they will market it as "retro" sports programming. For ESPN, this is not a conversation about quality programming. It's about cheaply filling airtime at the lowest cost possible, where the cost of filling the airtime remains below the ad revenue that comes into the company. These debate shows are cheap to run until the personalities price themselves out of existence. It's not that anyone cares what Stephen A Smith thinks, but for what ESPN pays for him, he soaks up *a lot* of that available airtime.