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I personally am more skeptical of the 9/11 "story" now more than I have been. I don't buy that some dudes in some caves in Afghanistan pulled off such an elaborate operation without a good amount of state assistance nor do I believe it took the United States a decade to find bin Laden.

He's good at the classroom part..building the plays, a plan. He's still learning when to deviate from the plan in the game when the defense has adapted to what he wants to do. He will need four plans for NE because they will adapt every single quarter. They don't wait till halftime.

Just as Rex was doomed to make the same mistakes in Buffalo that got him canned in NY, Gase will make the same exact mistakes that doomed him in Miami. If he isn't fired by mid-season I'll be surprised.

I'm curious as to whether the Bills rebounded when Daboll stopped running his play scripts and started calling plays based on what the defense was showing. His absolute allegiance to running play scripts is going to get the Bills in trouble (again). I'm not sure if 14 straight passing plays and running it up the gut from your own end zone with a 36 year old running back is arrogance or Jauron-esque stupidity.

The Patriots knew the Steelers plan before the first play. That team has the best business intelligence group in football. Can't be predictable against the Patriots. It all starts there.

I wish they'd bring that sweater back.

My Dewalt tools have held up really well. I also agree that Ryobi products are pretty good. The only cordless tool I buy is the drill and impact. My biggest beef with these companies is their planned obsoletion through changing the battery pack design for every new cordless line. That's why I'll buy a corded jig, circular, etc.

No because contracts mean something. They are important. Second, has there been a player who's forced themselves out of a contract, got traded, got a new contract, and fulfilled it? These guys just want to get paid and once they do, they aren't going to risk their lives for the money anymore. If I were the NFL, I'd collude against any player wanting to force themselves out of a contract.

I suspect the analytics nerds are behind some of these punter tryouts. We fans point to obvious decent punters who have been decent in football games. The Jonah Hills in the basement office are making the case for these dudes.

Disappointed but not surprised.

He's tired. The campaign is an endless grind. Constantly on the road or in the air and its long hours every day. He, like Bernie, doesn't strike me as a guy who's really in it to win it.

I'd agree - especially for two reasons. One, the Navy has effectively ended the careers of the commanders of boats and subs that ram into other boats and there was a significantly smaller losses of civilian life in recent times. Two, the Vincennes was exceptionally negligent IMO - not only did they overreact and shoot down a civilian airliner full of people, they were in Iranian territory when they fired those missiles. It was a complete disaster in how to run a boat. Can you imagine if that happened today?

The 2019 hysteria over topics like Iran, mass shootings and domestic terrorism really clash with US/Iranian relations in the 1980s, the mass shootings of the 80s and domestic terrorism in the United States in the 1990s. In the age of the Internet, we (and especially the media) pay even less attention to history. The US and Iran were shooting at each in the 1980s. We shot down an Iranian airliner filled with people! Mentally ill white guys were shooting up restaurants (McDonalds, Ruby's) in the 1980s. Nobody remembers Tim McVeigh or how messy Ruby Ridge and Waco got?

Out of the choices, I'd go with the Lions. I like the Jags but Nick Foles is only a *great* fit in an Andy Reid based offense. He's just ok in any other system for whatever reason.

I think states put targets on people's backs by requiring the big awards be publicized. The winners should have a say in whether they want their names to be public or not.

If the NFL was serious about making game day a true family experience, they'd get rid of beer sales. They aren't....and they aren't. The "Bills Mafia" is a moronic name for a fan group. If you need alcohol to enjoy football, you have a drinking problem. The NFL is beginning its fade part of the business cycle. The NFL would be better with less teams and a minor league system for not just players but officiating and front office to learn the ropes. However, the NFL will survive so long as there are athletically gifted poor kids willing to risk their long term health for scholarships and paychecks. Rex Ryan played a large part in ending the NFL careers of Mario Williams and Marcel Dareus.

Nope. He wouldn't want his legacy tarnished by a defeat. I figured he was out of this race because if he wanted to be involved in it, the DNC would have been far far more organized than it has been and not led by a middle manager from his administration. 2020 Dems are on their own. Nobody wants Clinton and Obama doesn't want any of them.

Shenanigans on the Falcons that high. Everyone has figured out Dan Quinn. That guy has never recovered from the Super Bowl defeat and it's been downhill ever since. It won't surprise me to see that team crater hard this year.

The Bruce Lee part was hilarious (IMO). I don't know why his daughter is upset. What I appreciate most, especially in retrospect, is the attention to the dialogue in his movies. So many memorable lines. I'm disappointed that we will never have a Winston Wolff or a Vega brothers movie.

Agree and felt the same way about him. He's way way way too top heavy. Those leg tendons are over-exercised and carrying more weight (arguably all muscle) than they should be. Those tendons are also now running routes, precise as possible, and that adds serious stress to them.

Hauschka is my vote. Something isn't right with him.

Are we talking characters or actors? The characters were likely cut from the same cloth. Stallone's Captain John Rambo and Schwarzenegger's Major Alan Schaeffer were both from US Army Special Forces units. Rambo, a member of MACV/SOG in Vietnam. Based on the movie, Schwarzenegger knew the dead guys they found in the helicopter as "Green Berets from Fort Bragg" which suggests he was likely a member of Delta Force. I give the the edge to Schwarzenegger's character. He's younger and he defeated an enemy who had the edge on geography, technology and strength with a heavy tree and some mud. Rambo was very good at taking on poorly trained Soviets in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

If Jay-Z can make the SB halftime show better, good for him. I doubt he does this deal with the NFL and if so, it's not for very long. He doesn't strike me as a guy who's going to withstand the heat he's absolutely going to get no matter what he does.

How about Scott Mitchell? He had three above average years for the Detroit Lions in the mid 1990s.

The Dolphins are like the LA Lakers. For decades, hubris has prevented them from doing a legitimate rebuild and resisting the temptation to do dumb things. People kill the Bills for their playoff ineptitude while ignoring that the *spend spend spend* Dolphins haven't won a playoff game in nearly 20 years (2000) and their last conference championship appearance was in 1992 versus the Bills. Hell, they've had just one winning season in the 10s.