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It amazes me these teams continue to overlook the quality special teams NFL coaches out there. (e.g. Dave Toub)

I did not like the pick because of those accuracy issues. I figured he'd be Jeff George where he'd throw for a billion yards but have a completion percentage of 55% every year. I am impressed with his play, football intelligence and his attitude. Bright future ahead.

He should have been fired a lot sooner IMO. The offensive line looked lost in preseason and the first half of the season and that's on the coaching. I know the OL did not have All-Pro talent this year but in many of those early games the OL performed poorly because they were often not where they should have been and that's a fundamental lack of understanding the where/why/how of the play. These unit coaches need to be great teachers and communicators. I hope Robiskie and Crossman are next. Same problem.

If he's too lazy to coach in the NFL, he won't last in the college game where the season is year round and your boss is a board of impossible to please trustees.

I agree with you on Bloomberg. I don't understand why he can't find something else to do with his money. The Democratic Party has some significant internal problems. One, the Clintons aren't going away. Two, the establishment (Biden/Pelosi) aren't going to relinquish their positions to this younger socialist crowd who think they are the heir apparents. Three, I'm sure Democrats will want to investigate Trump eight days a week but I can see the Clinton/Biden donors putting a kibash on that because the weapons you use today are the ones used on you tomorrow. If the Democrats spend the entirity of the Trump presidency investigating him, the Republicans will return that favor and at some point you have to wonder if you're the Democrats, do we really want that? Are we setting ourselves up for a future where every President gets investigated by a Special Counsel over something?

It wouldn't surprise me to see the Bills make a stronger than expected run at Bell simply because with his pass catching ability, the Bills may not need to invest the serious $$$ into the WR and TE positions in free agency that they might have to otherwise. A Bell/McCoy backfield tandem has some interesting potential. (I have no issue keeping Lesean McCoy on the roster.) I like your Paradis pick. I wouldn't invest resources in free agents on the wrong side of 30 - especially 32 year old TEs.

IMO, Gronkowski's retirement is a foregone conclusion. The Patriots need a few "down" seasons to really retool that entire team. The margin of "getting by" is razor thin at this point. You're not winning championships with a nearly 42-year old quarterback so other than nostalgia, I don't see the point of the Patriots continuing the charade.

You know what one area the government could improve with their heavy hand of regulation? School physical education. It is an absolute farce today.

Players can have down years.

I think he's been tried and found guilty in the court of public opinion. I realize what he's accused of doing deserves serious jail time but has he ever been convicted of any of the accusations?

The Dolphins are an enigmatic franchise to me. Just can't seem to put the right coach and players together. They have the weather and the money and still have only managed three playoff appearances since 2018 and all three of those were wild card games.

Space Force is essentially trying to operationalize Battlestar Galactica. I'm pretty sure that's the entirety of the white paper on the subject.

He's the Bill Cowher pursuit of the present. IMO, he won't leave Michigan without at least a national title game, win or lose. I think that university means more to him than the NFL.

My parents are both in medicine. Not only was the "magic" of sex presented in clinical detail, the details about STDs were too. With pictures.

She's going to discover that her so-called supporters will forget that she's even in Congress by the end of January. She's also going to discover the Queen B's of the Democrat party aren't going to do any favors for her either.

My gripe with the police is they spend a ton of money on equipment and personnel but not enough on the training. Not only the lack of training but the lack of the proper training. The lack of training leads to panic. When you hire lots of former military servicepeople, the lack of the proper training fails to override that incredible military training to neutralize a threat in the most decisive, fastest way possible. We had a rookie police officer, on patrol alone, that shot an unarmed man five times despite having a baton, the spray AND a Taser at his disposal. While he was a rookie police officer, he was a veteran of two tours in Iraq. In a moment of stress, that military training and combat experience automatically told him to draw that service weapon.

I wouldn't stop there with the gaming industry. Let's talk about the "micro" transactions. Let's talk about the parents letting their children become "career" gamers, competing in tournaments across the country for big prizes.

For the life of me I don't understand why the Democrats do not give Trump his wall money. They are once again desperately trying to win a battle at the cost of the war. It's a win-win. Trump shuts up about his wall and the Democrats can claim they are pro-border security. They get that table chip to negotiate whatever it is they want to do with Obamacare. All it takes is a single case of an illegal immigrant murdering an American citizen, scenes on the televison of a caravan just streaming into the United States unabated or a gunfight between cartels and American law enforcement to turn that into an absolute disaster for the Democrats in the run-up to the 2020 election.

Assad's regime is no shining light of hope on any hill or mountain but the world doesn't need another Libya. As I've gotten older and hopefully wiser, I've thought about the tradeoffs between two lousy choices: keeping a terrible regime around versus removing it and letting the anarchy reign. What would happen if we didn't screw around in Afghanistan in the 1980s? What if we didn't invade Iraq? What if we didn't destabilize Libya? What happens if the West ends up destabilizing Syria?

Hats off to the OP for the dutiful math homework. What intrigues me is whether the FO will change its approach with any new developments in New England. I'd think optimally if you are the Bills, you want to be the heir apparent in the AFC East if the Patriots signal the start of a rebuilding phase. You don't want to be the loser of that arms race because your process says "five year plan" but your window is telling you it's now.

Before the draft, I thought Rosen had a quitter's mentality. At the first sign of struggle, he mentally folds - and fast. There's nothing about his rookie season that has made me change my opinion. On the other hand, I thought guys like Allen and Mayfield were fighters. They will keep firing, won't quit. My issue with Allen is that he'd end up being a throwback to the 90s where he'd throw for over 4,000 yards, barely at a 60% completion rate. I didn't know what Mayfield would do because I fully expected the Browns to send out Tyrod every game if he could walk.

Can you imagine the controversy if Foles pulls off another miracle Super Bowl run?

Retaining Barkley as the backup is a no-brainer to me if Daboll is the OC next season. If I'm the Bills, I try not to outthink the room on this one. With the abandon Allen plays with, it's likely Barkley will see some playing time.

The 2018 Patriots team reminds me a lot of the 1996 Bills.

He is the textbook definition of a system quarterback. He thrives in an Andy Reid system for whatever reason. Pedestrian in any other system.