snafu
-
Posts
6,096 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Gallery
Profiles
Forums
Events
Posts posted by snafu
-
-
Homer Simpson
Michael Scott
Herb Tarlek
Archie Bunker
Cliff Clavin
… and Lucy -
Week 4: Buffalo Bills
-
The Mannings are way better than the regular broadcast.
I don't know if I'll watch them when the Bills are on, though. Definitely good when there are two random teams playing.
-
21 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:
Think the biggest thing for the Bills is that New England and Miami do not look as some (I include myself in that) expected to have closed the gap.
6-0 in division again is very possible. If the AFC West continues to beat itself up with 4 legit teams then it might come down to the Bills and the Browns for the #1 seed.
You could say the same thing about the Titans regarding their division.
Seems like they'll be in the mix for a top seed in the conference. Week 5 (KC) and week 6 (TEN) are going to tell us a lot.
-
1
-
-
Dolphins first and always. Don Shula was Belichick. Chair of the competition committee.
Then the Pats — who were so good they didn’t need to cheat, but they did it anyhow.
The Jets have never been our rivals. Except now and the SB years, we were the blue version of the Jets, and they were the green version of the Bills. Their fans are diehard and obnoxious, and so are we. The one difference is that they love to overhype their team — but they always know deep down just what they’ve got.
-
22 hours ago, B-Man said:
Heckuvajob, Joe!!
Those people fled Haiti and lived in South America for years and now they're going to be sent to Haiti?
Should have stayed in Chili.
-
1
-
-
Week 3: Cardinals over Jags
-
2 hours ago, Success said:
Not sure if this is appropriate for this forum, but I was curious what other Bills fans were thinking up to this point. It's hard for me to put in perspective because I have such a psychosis when it comes to the Pats. I was worried about Jimmy G, and even Stidham.
But the Mac hype is officially through the roof. When I'm on general NFL boards or twitter, it seems to be accepted that he is "the best of all the rookie QB's so far," and Pats fans think they got the steal of the draft.
Being obsessive about these things, I watched all of the passes from their 1st 2 games. There is no doubt he is accurate, and seems poised in the pocket. The main thing I saw was more related to coaching - they really set the plays up for him to succeed. He takes almost no risks at all. Most passes are short outs or check downs (not disparaging those things, because they can be effective). I saw nothing that made me think he could do what around 20 or so current QB's could do w/ that same coaching and in that system.
Which, of course, reminds me of Brady's early years. Brady transcended that and became a guy who could take over games and lead big comebacks. I can't help but ask, was that because he was developed properly, and can New England do the same thing w/ Mac? Or is Brady just Brady, and expecting the same progression for Mac is unlikely at best?
Naturally, I'm hoping we don't have a Montana/Young thing going there, and it's still extremely early. I'm just curious if anyone else has any thoughts on it so far.....
You just described a game manager.
Maybe some day he will become more than a game manager, but today, he's a rookie game manager. Why be afraid of the future?
-
1 hour ago, Crayola64 said:
His foreign policy is really tough to defend.
You want to take a stab at his domestic policy?
-
2
-
-
4 hours ago, Miyagi-Do Karate said:
Sort of a fun/interesting game. Who is the first NFL player that pops into your mind associated with these colleges?
1) UCLA
2) Miami
3) Notre Dame
4) Ole Miss
5) USC
1) Troy Aikman
2) Bernie Kosar
3) Joe Montana
4) Eli Manning
5) O.J.
-
2 hours ago, Tiberius said:
Ya, ok. You are going to believe what you want
I’m just trying to follow your logic. Follow along.
-
1 minute ago, Tiberius said:
Or they were pressured by Putin, something Trump tried and failed at
The article doesn’t say anything about pressure from Putin.Seems that they just agreed to stay out of the action. I guess they like Putin. And according to you, Trump likes Putin. Maybe Trump and Apple and Google are all Putin supporters together?!?!
-
48 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Putin and his cronies successfully threaten Google and Apple ahead of election
Looks like Google and Apple are Putin supporters.They'd never have agreed with Trump.
-
1
-
-
54 minutes ago, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said:
Confused 🤔
hard to make decisions when the Line isn’t doing well.
Yep, and on the other side of the ball it is real easy to defend when all you need are 4 linemen to create a mess in the backfield.
-
1
-
-
Week 2: Browns
-
54 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:
SMH...is there a measles pandemic right now?
54 minutes ago, Jauronimo said:Sounds like mandatory vaccination to attend public schools, private schools, and serve in the military has been highly effective.
You missed the point. There are people walking around every day who aren’t vaccinated against any number of diseases. Nobody prohibits them from going anywhere.
Frankly, I’m vaccinated and I don’t necessarily disagree with the policy. -
2 hours ago, SDS said:
it’s fine that you think that, but I also think it’s nuts that you think that. What in the world could possibly make you think that they need to check for every disease known to man or nothing?
Yet they don’t prevent people who have never received a measles vaccine (for example) from going places other than grammar and high school.
-
1
-
-
2 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:
Ya know, I watched the entire game from start to finish and never gave any of this a single thought. So there’s that.
The only thought I gave it was that the microphone levels were off. I really barely listened to the color commentary.
The Manning broadcast could be good, but why show them watching the game? What a waste of screen space. I’m not tuning in to watch someone watch a game — but I will listen.
-
I tell ya, we’ve had the memorial on all this morning since it started. Just going in the background on the TV while we go about our respective days. They’re up to “S” and I’m getting pretty broke up. These family members still feel this day so much and I’m there with them.
God bless those who left us and those they left behind.
-
Rams over Bears.
-
3 hours ago, ComradeKayAdams said:
My main problem is with the people who argue that European-style social democracy eventually leads to far-left authoritarianism…people who argue that universal health care is a slippery slope to the gulags. PLEASE tell me you aren’t one of those types. I’m already so triggered thinking about you typing “yes, Kay, in fact I am.” I’m supposed to be working on a report at work today, and now I can’t focus because of all the emotional turbulence you have induced in me hehehe…
Nah, that's not me.
-
1
-
-
The Bucs will win but they won’t cover.
-
2 hours ago, ComradeKayAdams said:
Yes, not being connected, which also ties directly into her political philosophy.
1. This is getting silly. Fidel Castro, like authoritarian leaders from all political orientations throughout recorded history, demonstrated serious anti-social behavior and a propensity for criminal violence years before obtaining power. India Walton has no such background. Furthermore, Castro had the power of the military to enforce his policies. A Buffalo mayor will not. Any attempt to prove that democratic socialism inevitably leads to far-left authoritarianism falls apart when Latin American politics are invoked. You simply CANNOT decouple their politics from the influence of American imperialism or from a whole list of other cultural, geographic, and economic factors (including Chinese mercantilism!). The common themes of violence and corruption in Latin American government transcend the left-right paradigm. For every Evo Morales mentioned, I can counter with a Pinochet. A lot of the pink tide politicians did great things, too, along with some less than great things. I think I’ll take a Lula any day over the social democrat lineup we have in American politics…
2. The argument in favor of public housing options is as much the position of a typical American liberal as it is that of a socialist. That has been my point. The unique “cancel rent” movement is in the context of COVID-19, where the government forced people to not be able to work. Consequently, the government should have been fully responsible for financially compensating the people for not working. Landlords and homeowners definitely SHOULD have the same pandemic protections as tenants. Otherwise, banks and super wealthy people can just come in and buy up all the financially delinquent properties. And of course that was the desired outcome all along, but I digress… Also, I have no problem with rent control measures in certain scenarios, but that’s yet another topic that I don’t want to get into right now…
3. I’m not a January 6 conspiracist. Trump’s argument was blown out in the courts. For the time being, that is good enough evidence for me.
4. Yes, we do.
5. You’re talking about communes now, while I’m focused specifically on worker cooperatives i.e. different ways individual businesses can organize their leadership and ownership structures. Otherwise, we’re not really in disagreement here. In the unlikely event India Walton wins, I agree that she wouldn’t have a mandate for massive socialism impositions. You are engaging in McCarthyite fearmongering here, however, because the office of the mayor is quite limited in the extent that business systems can be imposed whereby “workers own the means of production.”
Sure, of course. But a more interesting question: is it better to win with an asterisk** or lose with grace? To me, that answer depends heavily on India Walton’s (currently unknown) level of professional competence.
**- insert Bill Belichick joke here.
1. Castro is just as much a logical extension as any other long-term Marxist leader. People lose their freedoms. And please don’t ask for suggestions just to qualify any suggestion made with excuses like American Imperialism — especially in South America where American influence barely exists over the decades that include the Pink Tide years. I never implied that India Walton was going to start a military uprising. I said that one a Socialist come in then the manner of implementing policies becomes necessarily more and more draconian. Why have a dialogue if you’re going to focus on Castro’s violence. You asked for a specific time period. I specifically said Castro in his earliest of years — before any revolution or violence followed. Everyone starts small, Kay. Then when you didn’t like that example, I switched to Evo Morales. You said he “did some good things”. Well there’s a ringing endorsement if I ever heard one. And then you trotted out Military Dictator, Pinochet.
2. Public housing is an available option. I never said to abolish it. Again, you asked for an example. Public housing should be improved to the point where the government has enough credibility to tell any private property owner what to do or how to set a market. You didn’t address the mayoral candidate’s desired result of altering a free market other than to peripherally say that you support rent control. You asked for an example of a socialist policy and I gave you one. There’s a whole entire ton of housing topics and you stretched the conversation to touch on some of them. But you avoided this one.
3. I didn’t call you a 1/6 conspiracist. I was just pointing out the similarities in the 2020 election to this here mayoral race. You were grinding your gears about the tricks being played, and I was agreeing with you. Others think there was some shady stuff that happened in 2020 — and they sound a lot like you. You say the Federal Court decision is probably tainted by a judge who had a preferred outcome, and then hide behind courts to defend the 2020 results. For the record, I believe that Trump lost all on his own.
4. That’s nice.
5. If workers want to privately collect themselves to run a business or a million businesses, then that’s great. Why should the government be involved? We were talking and actually agreeing that Socialism can not be scaled up to fit any large model. And, Kay, I’m not engaging in fearmongering here. And since we primarily agree on this point, if I’m fearmongering then where does that leave you? You would not have asked Q:4 if you didn’t have a notion that any small city success will be used as a catalyst for the growth of your preferred political governing style. Why else would all the national news have reported on this but to hold Buffalo up as the example of a city that supports a Socialist — when it really looks like that’s nowhere near the truth. I’m not fearmongering, I just don’t agree with this governing theory and I’m trying to point out my reasons why.
Kay, it looks like we primarily agree on 3 of 5 of your questions. You haven’t acknowledged my Q:2 policy example yet, and we seem to disagree on your Q:1. Not bad!-
1
-
-
5 hours ago, John Adams said:
I'm 23 of them. Why do you think I suggested this?
PPP does not add to the community of TBD or the world, it detracts from it.
If it's a net negative, it needs to be gone or be fixed.
And you volunteered yourself to moderate. How about don't visit the PPP side of the site if you're so put off. You don't seem to show up on the football side.
Around the League Week 4
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted
I hope Tampa Bay wins 3-0.