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Dude, don’t say the quiet part out loud. Loss to the titans confirmed now. Thanks man...

I know people hate to admit it, but Bill Belichick deserved to be on the coach of the year list. Dude lost how many starters this year, including Brady? Edwards-Helaire ahead of Herbert at the moment. He has been absolutely lights out. Cam over Big Ben as comeback player. People thought he was toast 5 weeks ago. Career over. Nothing left in the tank.

Meh, they are really hot, don’t get me wrong, but I have a sauce or two with pepper X. One is the last dab xxx redux. It’s actually one of my favorites. It’s definitely not a “Dip your French fry in” kinda sauce. But I throw 4-5 dabs in a bowl of chili and it’s really good. Or if I make salsa, I’ll throw some in. I have some ghost pepper sauces too. Some are really tasty. Others aren’t. The sauces you really have to look out for are the ones made with distillate regardless of pepper. Basically you can take say 50 peppers and condense them into a droplet. Da Bomb is a good example. I love hot sauce but I am not a hot freak where I am always chasing the dragon to see how much heat I can handle. Depending on the prize I could maybe toss down 10 ghost pepper wings. I can get through 5 of the suicide or whatever wings at Duff’s. But that’s tough, and maybe once every few years just to see if I can. 😂

I generally agree with you under most circumstances, but yes the league should approach this collectively. The Titans, in theory could have single handidly tanked the entire league last week. And with the way the Raiders are behaving they are lucky they have not yet. So yes, if Cam goes to a party, catches Covid, comes to practice, spreads it, then yes, it is the team and the league. Now we are talking about losing games, make up games, TV contracts etc. Once you start messing with TV contracts, you are in a world of hurt. That is when we start having a cap of $175M. So yes, Cam could, in theory, crash the cap to $175M all by him self. That said, I think the new release from the league two things. 1. They came dangerously close to shutting down this week, at least temporarily, and they are trying to get ahead of that happening down the line. And 2. They are very clearly telling the Raiders specifically to get their collective shirts together or they will start ripping games, draft picks, etc. from them. I think if the Raiders keep this up, teams should have the opportunity to opt out of playing them all together. I think the Bills should have had that option this weekend. If the team can't operate in a way that opposing teams feel comfortable not risking their own health, then that is on Vegas. They have had such a blatant disregard for safety and viability of the league in a pandemic from the top down, it is embarrassing to watch. Titans seem to be a bit tight lipped at the moment. For everybody's sake, I hope they stop testing positive. If they get back in house and test positive again later this week. It should not be a reschedule, it should be a forfeit.

And you both beat @YoloinOhio

I would consider moving Edmunds outside and Dodson to MLB here. Unsure it is necessary against TEN especially given their situation, but most definitely a healthy dose against KC. I have a feeling Edmunds will play a bit faster on the outside.

I would love to see Edmunds do nothing but play like his hair is on fire. Basically either only dropping into coverage or gunning it into the back field. The last two weeks, anything regarding misdirection has him frozen in place. Seems to be a 3 year pattern now. I am not calling the guy a bust, or terrible or anything. But he HAS to make a huge jump in that part of his game still or the staff needs to put him in a better position to succeed.

To your point on Edmunds. In addition to defense across the league being pretty bad, I think Edmunds is getting picked on a bit. I have not spent a ton of time with the all-22 this year, so maybe somebody smarter than me can confirm. But it looks like Edmunds is hesitant to diagnose, and gets some safety help incase he misses a step, which leaves the CB's playing a bit off to save the big play. That said, when Edmunds is quick and correct to read the play, he is a good fit. He is just too hesitant too often. I would not be opposed to trying to get another MLB in there next year and moving Edmunds outside where he can just play big and fast.

Dude, I was thinking that yesterday. He has surpassed rotund and possibly surpassed portly.

I loved it, it was also ballsy. Raiders swallowed that up early in the game if I remember correctly.

I have not disagreed much with you this year on these this year but to me this game was too many flashes of old Josh. I think you are a bit too high here. He almost had a couple of plays where he was had they gone a little differently they could have been on the "not top 10" this am. Imagine he fumbles on that hand off to Singletary, that 3rd down sack a few minutes prior becomes a laughable play as well. We got lucky there, big time. I am most concerned this week at his ball placement and how long he is holding onto the ball. I would love to see them both get back to where they were 2 weeks ago. So far after 4 games, Allen's big offseason issue needs to be processing the field quicker. Or at least getting rid of the ball sooner. We don't see him often get the top of his drop and release. Otherwise I am thrilled with him so far this season. Raiders game gets a B from me.

I think they were just on the outside of taking a knee at the end of the game. They needed a first down to ensure taking would get them to the end of the game. After the timeout there was 1:34 on the clock. You can't run the clock out on 4th down because it is change of possession. Once they got the first down, they took a knee.

Allen had just come out of the locker room after coming off the field with a shoulder injury. I am pretty confident in saying that Josh's shoulder was a HUGE reason why they didn't try there.

I would assume a shortened season includes a reschedule. I highly doubt division games are going anywhere.

This has been discussed a bunch. Moving the super bowl is incredibly difficult given sponsors, hotels, security, etc.

I said something similar in an earlier post. I agree. They also shouldn’t replay games with no implication on playoff seeding against actual playoff teams. Now if a win guarantees playoff home field advantage, if it is the difference between making and not making the playoffs, or if it is the difference between picking 1st and 4th in the draft, go for it. Otherwise order those teams in the draft by win %.

At this point for a situation like the Titans, I think the opponent should have a commanding seat at the table when they talk about options for this. If the Bills feel uncomfortable going into Tenn. then the league shouldn’t try and force a game. If it can work for a week 18, then it works. If it can’t, then it is an L/W for each team. I would argue that the opposing team (Bills) should also be allowed to have some say in decision making when it comes to the way the Raiders have managed the situation. The organization is an absolute disaster waiting to happen to the entire league. If a team is uncomfortable going into their stadium after the way they have handled this, then that’s on the Raiders, not the opponent. McBeane and the Bills adding a full time bus driver that travels with the team sounds like it could or should be on the horizon.

I will second this. Even at sporting goods stores like *****, they are loaded with Giants, Jets, Pats gear, and have zero Bills gear. I even have a couple Cowboys flags in my neighborhood. It’s sort of wild. Just sort of thinking about it while I put it in writing. Feels like an untapped market for the Bills. SJF has been awesome for us, but it might make some sense to move camp up to the capital region. U Albany, Skidmore, whatever. The region has a million + people. Not sure I love the idea, but it’s not the worst one I have ever come up with.

I will bow out after this don’t want to derail and stay football specific. But this isn’t uncommon for any test for any illness. Even strep throat won’t test positive the same for everybody. HIV is an extreme example, which we have been testing for for decades. It takes a MINIMUM of 30 days or so to get a positive result for HIV. Even then, if you can push that time frame out an extra week or two, the better the test becomes. Just trying to provide color for other relatively common place tests.

Negative. Bills ply KC that Thursday. Raiders act like butt heads as an organization but we are talking about whether the Titans should forfeit to prove a point. Wild time to be alive. Haha

At some point you have to start either dropping games or forfeiting. So far the Titans are OK, drop Pittsburgh, flip their bye, play during the new Pitt bye. Bills, sounds like we would probably get a double bye (right before Mahomes!) and we can tack a game on at the end of the year. But one more game and TEN will either have to start forfeiting or playing less than 16 games. It depends on the scenario, but if the games in a "week 18" are truly meaningless in standings, draft picks, playoffs, etc. Just skip them. Why have a playoff bound Bills team go up against a Tenn team for no reason.

I’m shocked the league has not stepped in. Maybe it is a looming Gruden suspension given the issue with number of people in the facility, the fine, then basically mocking the league fining him to wear a mask. The Raiders could single hand-idly derail the entire season. Then what? Eff those guys.

1 and 2. I would keep all those as rules, then a standard rubric within each one (or general) and points are given out 1-5 for severity of language, behavior, etc. I don't see what you guys do as mods, but I would hope that a quick note or reply in a thread is enough to get people to cut their schitts creek when it comes to most "violations". Any act further is a slap in the face. 3. I do not think that anybody should ever be banned without access to view the page. Or the circumstance would have to be incredibly severe, like calling somebody the N-word or praising the KKK. Something wild that we never see on the board. 4. Just like anything else, points should expire. I wouldn't treat it like getting a DUI and never being allowed to teach again. 5. There should be an appeals process. Probably something formally submitted by the poster, reviewed by all the mods, voted on. In the event of a tie you, SDS, are the tie breaker as our own boss man. Thanks for all the hard work!

I don't think the map comes out until Wednesday or Thursday generally. https://506sports.com/nfl/

I am glad I got the ticket this year, what a bummer. I was surprised last week when we didn't beat out Giants v. 49ers given the injuries and how bad the Giants are. Cam/BB vs. Mahomes/Reid at least seems like it should be a great game. I will have Buffalo up on the projector in the backyard though.