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Every single person in Congress is one big failure. Biggest collection of failures in the entire United States. Eight years to think about changes about how to make it all work better for the average person. Democratic President, Democratic Congress create and pass a crap plan. Republican President, Republican Congress can't agree on how to fix the crap plan. Crap plan keeps on being crappy.

It's an art, not a science. I only speculate that scouts fall in love with athletes first, football players second. Their elite athleticism compensates for their lack of hard and soft football skills at the college level. An over-reliance on "metrics" can blind you to the lack of necessary skills that they need to be successful at the professional level. The Bills especially have been enamored with athletes that are terrible football players. (J.P. Losman, James Hardy, Aaron Maybin, E.J. Manuel, Marques Goodwin and C.J. Spiller come to mind.)

Jericho, CBS: The show's heaviness of nuclear bombs, false flag operations and the Second American Civil War were too heavy of topics for CBS, pre Walking Dead era. Show had some superb writing and actors. Person of Interest, CBS: Level 400 TV watching about the dangers of sentient artificial intelligence and the ability and often inability, to control it. Lights Out, FOX: Lasted only a season but was about a washed up boxer one punch away from being seriously injured but can't resist getting back into the ring.

ESPN is the Sears of sports media. They know it but can't come to grips with it. Their business model and brand are dying. Telltale sign is this wholesale insertion of the cheaper on-air talent and increase of the cheap talking head airtime. They need "somebody" to say a lot of "something" so why not get it at the cheapest price point possible.

We really should stop discussing this guy's "reporting" about the Bills.

Domestic violence is not a "one time" thing. There's no such thing as "I just punched her that ONE time." One day you're Joe Mixon or Ray Rice or Josh Brown. Another argument, another bad mood, you're Rae Carruth. I think the NFL's sensitivity to this issue lies in what they know happens and has happened with players and this issue - and what the fans do not. The NFL took rather severe "indirect" action against Rice and Brown - and that tells me Mixon isn't going to play in the NFL.

Hey if NFL owners aren't giving Kaepernick a chance over some kneeling and social commentary, there is no way that they are going to bring aboard a guy who's on film punching out a woman. My prediction: No NFL team will draft or sign him. They don't want the hassle or the baggage.

They torture al Qaeda prisoners in some black site prison with an endless loop of Mike and Mike saying "Subway Fresh Take Hotline". Then they move onto Dixie and the Midnight Runners.

Any word on eliminating the ESPN and Fox Sunday shows? How about all the announcers? How am I supposed to make truck buying decisions without Denis Leary and generic, non threatening bearded Chevy guy advising me 30 times per hour?

At least it'd be different. Unfortunately the real life Islamic terrorists have made the TV ones look rather pedestrian.

Whaley is ok. He's excellent with existing players - the trades and free agent signings. He's terrible with drafting would-be players. I've wondered if it were reverse, would we view his tenure differently?

Giap made my list because there aren't many battlefield commanders with his resume - outlasting or beating back three world powers in three different decades with essentially the same peasant army with small arms. His adversaries, regardless of decade, had fancier hardware, more of it and it got deadlier with each adversary. He was also smart enough to know Vietnam was enough. Agreed on Grant. I picked Petersburg because that was the decisive battle for Richmond, and thus the war. So long as Richmond survived, the war would continue.

Some consideration for: Erich von Manstein: Perhaps the "best" overall general in 20th Century warfare. Vo Nguyen Giap: Outlasts the Japanese, beats the French and United States over three decades in Vietnam. Ferdinand Foch: French General, World War I - he saves the Allied bacon three times - at both battles at Marne and the one at Somme. Ulysses Grant: Terrible President, but he saves the Union from certain battlefield defeat but IMO, his most important battle was at Petersburg

Want: Adams, Safety Don't Want: Any QB Dark Horse: Howard, TE Think: Lattimore, CB

Eh, you could say the same for All-Pro Bacarri Rambo that day too.

Renovation Realities on DIY. I enjoy watching people and their plans undone by a lack of patience. Lady Gaga. Have always had a thing for her.

I don't have an issue with his protest. I do have an issue with his diet/conditioning and dedication to the game, which I find lacking. He fell off the tracks with no Jim Harbaugh around and the Bills already have their hands full with Dareus.

No to trading back. No to trading back for a quarterback.

I agree. Might be where he turns sides. The most interesting character by far this season has been Simon. The actor who plays the character, Steven Ogg, has a talent at playing mustache twirling bad guys.

Aaron Maybin gets my vote. I don't fault the Bills for picking Mike Williams however. I recall that both he and Bryant McKinnie were both considered can't miss offensive line prospects.

Stephen A. Smith is carving out quite the niche as an actor on General Hospital.

I will make a prediction. Rex will last exactly one year. He won't like the neutering surgery that ESPN requires of it's so-called "opinionated" talent. I'm convinced they gave Mike Ditka an actual lobotomy. Now, you can yell and wear suits one size too small but you can't say anything "bad" about the NFL, it's teams or its players.

I liked it, didn't love it. I would have preferred more action, less family drama. The finale was weird. All that...for that? Eh. Bad guys ended up being your run of the mill generic terrorist guys. Between 24, Homeland, Six etc., TV needs to invent some new bad guys. You can only do so much Jihadi, Chinese or "Russian Mob" bad guys before it gets boring.

1. Red helmets 2. Old end zones 3. The season opener would be a handout of the 90s-era Bills hats. 4. Fred Jackson leading the charge. In uniform. There you go. Secret plan unmasked.

The Bills signed who they wanted to sign. If they wanted Justin Hunter back, they would have squared that contract away already. That being said, I expect Justin Hunter back on the Bills for opening day.