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https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/buf/2016_roster.htm Quite a few of the starters are still around. Tyrod LeSean O'Leary Goodwin Robert woods Watkins Glenn Cog Miller Dareus Hughes Preston Brown Darby Gilmore Lawson Robey Coleman

Where does this team go from here? I guess we have to hope that Skinner bounces back after the worst statistical year of his career. Okposo also had the worse statistical year of his career but I am less optimistic that his game has much more upside. There is $15 million in cap tied up in their 23 goals and 42 points from last season. We have 5 UFAs in Simmonds, Vesey, Zemgus, Frolik, and Larsson none of which is a big loss. Olaffson, Reinhart, and Pilut are restricted free agents. So we hope Cozens is ready to go, Ralph and Skinner can get on the same page, Dahlin and Ristolainen come back from the offseason looking Scott Neidermayer and Chris Pronger, reshuffling the 3rd and 4th line provides a spark, and that after eye surgery Hutton can see the puck clearly from the bench while Ullmark establishes himself as a legit starter at age 28?

Is anyone else concerned that Cody Ford is starting at two line positions? I thought he struggled at times playing just Right Tackle. I really don't think Ford should be responsible for 2 or 3 linemen/pass rushers on any given play at this point in his development.

You stated that attacking someone's intelligence is the tool of a fool. You also called me a fool, thus attacking my intelligence. The natural implication now is that you are a fool. I'm not even mad. I'm just impressed.

You have a real talent for highly convenient interpretation of text. The point of that statement is virtue signaling by definition is a hollow, disingenuous act. Your view of this action and many others exposes your underlying bias, that Kaepernick's campaign and similar causes are of questionable legitimacy. Sentiments that you rarely pass up an opportunity to express. You view it as another fleeting cause celebre that organizations attach themselves too to win "woke points". Any support could have no other motivation than winning cheap woke points since the movements are without merit. You cannot accept that organizations act on matters of social justice in earnest. That's why you and others label it all incorrectly as virtue signaling. Virtue signaling is not a catch all for political statements you disagree with pertaining to social matters. When Brees wraps himself in the flag and waxes poetically about his patriotism why isn't that virtue signaling? Why aren't the "I support our troops" stickers virtue signaling? Blue lives matter? Pro life bumper stickers? This might be the most beautifully ironic statement crafted today.

You really can't suggest I am the one arguing the minutiae when your point revolves around the inner workings of EA's proprietary player rating system. Virtue signaling as a term needs to be retired. It is the bastion of cynical nitwits but you are free to continue to label anything in the realm of social justice as virtue signaling. I mean, what other motivations could a person or entity have for supporting ridiculous causes like Kaepernick's police brutality campaign, equality, and justice except trying to signal their moral superiority and elevate their public standing? I mean, no one actually believes this crap, right? It would be easier to accept the premise you understand and can identify virtue signaling if you weren't still struggling with homonyms.

The message needs to be disingenuous not the player rating. The message appears completely in line with the rest of EA's corporate policy and messaging. Is their corporate DE&I policy virtue signaling? They overrate players all the time based on their public image. Every year some rookie who the public loves gets an absurd rating because EA knows what fans want. Is the entire profit motive virtue signaling? Virtue signaling was a thin premise to begin with, the best example of which was viral slacktivism. People on social media changing their status to Kony2012, Paris backdrops, RIP Harambe and other cheap displays of outrage. The term is wildly overused and has no meaning when any public statement, action tangentially related to social justice is written off as virtue signaling. In the very link I provided, it has been argued that the act of calling out virtue signaling is a form of the offense unto itself.

Is it virtue signaling if the entity making the statement believes it?

I thought he compared Boehner to Netanyahu.

I have no clue. His last rating was an 81 and there has been zero film on him since. I do not know how they would adjust his rating in the absence of film and I haven't seen anything to suggest they won't update his rating in the event he gets signed and there's something tangible to base it on. Now I have an ask for you. Now armed with the definitions, make your case that a video game rating meets the criteria for virtue signaling. Weak.

Perhaps you are offbase on the original meaning of the phrase and describe things you don't like tangentially related to social justice or "political correctness" as virtue signaling like most everyone else who eagerly uses the phrase like a new toy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling The history of the term is based on cheap, disingenuous statements instead of any real commitment or action. Often it comes in the form of disingenuous outrage. The only outrage here is from all the man-children triggered by a rating in Madden. If you think putting the most polarizing figure in football in the game is a cheap action in this climate where social media is replete with calls to boycott the NFL, NBA, NASCAR, and NHL due to their support of BLM (ironically, by the same people who are outraged by #CancelCulture) then I disagree. If you think their actions are disingenuous, I would disagree. Looks to me that EA puts their money where their mouth is. Overrating the skills and attributes of a video game character because you want to align with their politics in the public eye, if accepted as virtue signaling, must be the most contemporary use of the term. I would say this is maybe "3rd level virtual graphical virtue signaling" at best which is now my phrase and I own the definition. @whatdrought happy now? Patience child.

Do your own homework, Sue.

The same way the people who coined the phrase defined it.

Peterman's first career INT was intended for DiMarco and bounced right off the crown of his helmet. That was memorable. The first of many.

Oh so it was a joke? Was it funny?

So if we had 10 fewer felons in ERie county would that open up a roster spot? I have never seen this logic before.

I'm convinced that no one actually knows how to use this term correctly. Over rating a player in Madden due to their politics because you think your market will buy it is not "virtue signalling".

Can you give me an estimate? Ballpark the number of felons?

Been there a few times. I never understand the logic. Do they assume that the other party is a fat liar too? Do they assume no one will notice? Or are they even dumber and think that once someone gets to know them a little bit over a drink they'll fall in love with their fat personality?

How many are there?

I thought you started training in MMA because your girl was gaining too much weight and the power balance was shifting?

Maybe we should wait for someone to actually crown Moss the next coming of Barry Sanders before condemning someone for crowning Moss the next Sanders?

Check out Palm Springs on Hulu.

I picked up John Brown in the 10th round, 111th pick. I grabbed Dawson Knox with my last pick. Singletary went 40th overall in my 12 man league. Top of the 4th.

Not butthurt in the least. You're a reluctant student and I am looking for ways to get through to you lest you waste your life making bad food choices. I figured a more in your face approach was suitable for the TikTok and TidePod generation.