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"Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information." https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/what-is-journalism/ I'd argue that the Buffalo News no longer employs journalists, just the same run of the mill talking heads generating opinion that have replaced all the television news. Fun question: When is the last time you read an article from either of these two gentleman that was - from start to finish - news without opinion folded into it? Again, it gets to my point about pay walls. You're not paying for news. You're paying for opinion. Two different products.

AFAIK, he has GBS without the strep complication. My purpose of posting that was to explain that Fridge may not necessarily be able to lose weight like other retired players can. The disease attacks nerves, reducing mobility and the medications used to treat it - such as long term steroid use- often encourage weight gain. Steroids in particular are often an unwanted entry into other diseases like diabetes. Not only are unable to exercise and move like you used to, but you're also putting on weight at the same time. I credit all the former players that in many regards, get healthier after playing. You're "old" in the NFL if you're 34 but in real life, you're in the younger, prime years of your life.

Fridge has GBS. Frontline treatment is corticosteroids. The combination of that disease plus that medication makes weight loss nearly impossible.

I found his decision odd. Had money in New England but better career prospects here considering he was in the free agent wilderness before the Bills signed him.

I don't care if the Buffalo News has a paywall mostly because most off the news is already out there with other sources reporting it and I can only read so many talking head opinions on the same issues. Take away the opinion pieces and they don't have a lot of unique content. Opinion and hot takes aren't news to me. As for 2BD, I've changed my bookmarks to hit the forum instead of the front page. I too find the numerous paywall articles tedious, so I skip the front page altogether and read Bills news from a variety of sources using the Google News tab.

SI couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a webpage or old-timey magazine so they limped along trying to do both. SI couldn't even find a web address that wasn't 25 characters long. The tipping point was when smart phones became mainstream and they were still teasing their magazine content via the web instead of going all in on the internet.

He's still an idiot for sh**ing where he eats. I never understand why anyone, male or female (...Nashville mayor) does it. My biggest complaints about him was not firing a lot of the hall walkers that plagued the team for years and his disastrous input into coaching hires. (Williams, Ryan)

I use it.. You can't beat the efficient delivery component of Amazon Prime. I ordered a nearly 100 lb. piece of equipment from Amazon and had it in 48 hours. Other vendors would sent that ground freight and I'd be lucky to have it inside of a week. IMO, they will use drone deliveries for rural deliveries. At some point, everyone will have a 3x3 pad/storage locker in their yard somewhere that will have an RF signal where a drone will open it up with the RFID and deposit your package. Whoever comes up with the efficient drone delivery system will be a billionaire because today it's Amazon, tomorrow it's groceries, pharmaceuticals, etc.

I'd go back to the 1990s. I miss the red helmets. I like putting the city flag on the jersey, however. That's a neat idea. I'd add that.

I joined in 2010 and one of the funnier threads was the Mario Williams saga. The wide range of emotions, spies in numerous Buffalo-area restaurants, the Bills NSA division tracking airplanes and any and every vehicle Buddy Nix may have or currently owned. Runner up would be the rumor that George Seifert was spotted at the airport. Probably the first time I saw the "OMG Jump to Conclusions mat" pulled from the closet and used.

I wear a "classic" watch. It doesn't *track* anything but time and it doesn't do anything but tell me the time.

I saw it and I thought they did a good job fitting *everyone* in this movie. Thanos makes for a compelling villain, perhaps the best of the Avengers series - he's not bad just to be bad. Since new Avengers are coming aboard, it makes sense that some have to fade away in 2019. (Ross Marquand from the Walking Dead is in this movie. You won't spot him though but he got the role based on his talent for voice impressions.) As a sidebar: How many Jurassic Park movies can they make? Every movie revolves around A) the island and B) dinosaurs on said island.

In my completely "not backed by science" opinion, I think the effect you see is from pundit overload. It's just like watching too much cable news with all the talking heads. There's so much yelling, so much contrasting opinion, it makes people irritable and makes essentially what is a a human resources decision by a billion dollar company feel so personal. We are getting beaten to death with talking head opinion on television, radio and the web, especially around the draft. THREE networks televised the NFL human resources fair. Sports talk radio and reporters are primarily in business of instigating conflict, not reporting news.

I have faith in his ability. The potential problem will be creating a QB controversy that gets in the heads of both McCarron and Allen. Bills need to give McCarron space to succeed and Allen space to just watch and learn.

Attitude. Rosen is no fighter and he's soft. The arrogance is a facade for that mental softness. Rick kid, born into wealth, playing football in posh Los Angeles. It's about as un-process as it gets. I don't like the Allen pick but he himself is a grinder. Had to work hard to even get to play for Wyoming. Middle class upbringing. There's mental toughness and work ethic there and willingness to do what it takes.

I liked the old days where you had just two dudes sitting at a 4x6 desk that had a helmet, some note cards and an amazing array of telephones and telephone equipment.

I wish Phillips, Flutie and Johnson would all mend the fence, ESPN does a nice 30/30 on it and Flutie and Johnson lead the charge at a Bills home game. I was convinced the last piece was the necessary piece that had to happen to appease the football gods to end the drought. The football gods do not approve of a team benching a quarterback for a non-injury reason. We saw it again when Peterman replaced Taylor in SD last year. That hubris is severely punished. The fact that RJ still holds onto this in 2018 speaks volumes about why his career didn't go the way he and a lot of people thought it could.

They are all weasels. After the election, I stopped watching the talking head opinion shows that have replaced the news - and feel a lot less stressed. I think each network is good at stirring up those basic of emotions and giving everybody the sense that the world is constantly on the ledge looking at Armageddon because it's good for business. If cable news went away for an entire year worldwide, the world would be a different place. There's no news on TV anymore, that's the irony. The media makes you work for the real stuff - the best you can do is read plenty of various sources and draw your own conclusions.

William Devane with a hilarious non-fatal injury involving a gold bar falling from the sky. I like him - just think those commercials are beneath him and he needs a reminder.

RJ=Uncle Rico meme in 2018

Do you mean a character we'd like to be? If that's the case I'd go with George Peppard's Hannibal Smith from the A-Team. My favorite character of all time though is Billy Bob Thornton's Lorne Malvo on Season #1 of Fargo. Runner up is Michael Emerson's Benjamin Linus from LOST.

Yes. No question.

Remember the scene in Breaking Bad where Mike tells Walt about the dangers of half measures? Fox and the NFL should watch that scene. Getting rid of color rush jerseys and photocopying your Sunday crew into Thursday nights are half measures to solving the problem: The NFL is the only entity that really wants Thursday night games. Fans don't want them. Players don't. Obviously above average sportscasters don't want them either. The best thing about Thursday night games- the little movies before them - will probably be polluted by some disaster that involves both Rob Riggle and Chris Hardwick.

It's boring. Tells me the on-air NFL talent resource is indeed finite. Does the world really need this much Terry Bradshaw?

Yes! Good call. When I was typing my post yesterday, I was thinking of who is the heir apparent to the Ermey/Dye wing of actors. Only guys that came to mind was Lance Reddick and Colin Salmon. Fortunately those guys are already in control of the "we need a 6'+ tall *black* military guy" demand.