dpberr

I don't fault Elway for doing this. It's a shrewd move. When Chicago hired Matt Nagy, he retained Vic Fangio as the DC. Of course it's on Elway to make his head coaching decision in a timely manner. As an aside what Lynn Swann is doing to Kliff Kingsbury at USC is a different animal altogether.

It's too much when you get palpatations or can't sleep at night. Plus, three cups of black coffee is different from three cups of coffee loaded with sugar and cream. The latter is unhealthier than the former. It appears once you reach the age of 65, you gain a superpower of being able to drink black coffee all day with every meal no matter what's being served.

I voted for it to be retired. The team overuses it.

Robiskie wasn't a good teacher. Sure, the receivers, much like the offensive line, wasn't chok full of All-Pro talent this year but the mental lapses - the not knowing plays, the dropped passes, the poor route running - is a result of poor teaching. He failed to motivate/inspire Kelvin Benjamin to do anything remotely positive in a Bills uniform absent the preseason game against Carolina.

Here are my thoughts from a man who has persistently dealt with sleep issues. I would not recommend taking Tylenol PM for this issue. You don't want all that tylenol in your system. It really can beat on your liver. In the alternative, you can try OTC diphenhydramine (Benadryl) or doxylamine (Unisom). They aren't great for the body either, but less of an issue than the tylenol. Some people have success with melatonin. Some have success in taking a baby aspirin before bed. Aspirin, in some, has some anti-anxiety effect. I'd try to stay away from Ambien unless you get desperate. One of the strategies that works well for me is not eating for at least 4-5 hours before bedtime and cutting my caffeine consumption off at noon. You don't want your body processing a heavy meal or snack while you're commanding it to rest too. Caffeine obviously won't help you sleep. If you have high blood sugar or high blood pressure, you don't want these spiking at bedtime either. As you get older your body processes food and caffeine a lot slower than it did in your 20s. White noise also helps. I find white noise more addicting than any pharmaceutical but it can really make a difference. If you look at your phone in bed, a blue light filter is absolutely necessary. All that blue light radiating from your phone is telling your brain to stay awake.

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.