The Frankish Reich

I am eagerly awaiting the latest "Benford vs. Elam CB2 Reps Thread" Over/Under: 120 pages.

LOL is way overused. But LOL!

Just not the same without the zeroes ...

Yeah, i thought that was some kind of attempt to bypass the bad word filter, but now it's just funny

Bingo! Real Boyfriends of Buffalo is the best show going at this moment.

You'll see that here, or anywhere on the internet. Everything is meta - people don't post "news," they repost someone's politically charged hot take on the news. There are still some very good deeply reported stories out there, but the number of news outlets that have the capacity to do really good, long investigation journalism is minimal now.

Pretty damn fast! It's interesting because there's no apparent reason for Diggs to be upset about anything. I mean, if it was a contract thing we'd know. If it was bringing in a Hopkins and Diggs feels slighted, like he's not a true #1, that'd be obvious. He's just pissed off about something and nobody's saying. I enjoy the speculation. I kind of like the "I know a guy who knows a guy" stuff. Football is a diversion, and right now I'm happily diverted.

Unless it's the Bills fan from Dunkirk. Off topic: has the value of the land I bought near Darien Lake quadrupled in value yet?

Would you have 3 women in 3 different hotel suites in the same hotel, all at the same time?

So the playbook had Diggs blocking on a lot of passing plays? It showed Diggs' routes but had an asterisk saying *to be used a maximum of once per game?

Can we just undo the trade and get Justin Jefferson after all?

2020: the guy cares so much about winning, he actually gets such intense butterflies that he throws up before every game! 2023: the guy is the anti-Joe Montana, he's a bundle of nerves, throwing up before every game!

Well, I have no idea about whether your sources are credible or not. But the general take? Yeah, that makes some sense.

Unpopular take: Adam Thielen was actually the #1 receiver for those Vikes teams.

Saved me a trip to urban dictionary.

Jerry Sullivan? No. I don't think he's lying. But didn't literally every Bills fan say something like this: "Diggs is a great addition, but let's hope that he leaves that diva behavior behind in Minnesota." I suspect he's giving "Fitz told me" a little more weight than it warrants.

True. But that was in the days when the media left a politician's private life alone, unless it was the classic "caught with a dead girl or a live boy." More recently: We've seen things that are public, are clear and obvious, that violated long-established behavioral norms that would have traditionally destroyed a politician, now seemingly irrelevant to voters.

Like Fitzy would ever let himself be dragged into this? Maybe Case Keenum or a career journeyman with a 25 Wonderlic, but not Fitzy ...

If only I were a former local newspaper Bills columnist. Oh, the fun I'd be having now: - Matt Barkley told me Josh Allen wouldn't be the humble country boy forever, and that sooner or later he'd go Hollywood and want out of Buffalo - Doug Whaley told me that Sean McDermott is a fine Xs and Os guy but that he wouldn't ever be seen as Super Bowl quality leader - Rex Ryan told me that Leslie Frazier couldn't hold Buddy Ryan's jockstrap

The Diggs Heel Turn does make the June doldrums a little more interesting, doesn't it ...

I wonder what other said-to-me-in-confidence, completely unconfirmable revelations ol' Jerry will be sharing with us.

This is getting downvoted, but deep down inside I suspect most of us believe it's true.

Teams go through a cycle. They start young, everyone is hungry for success, they bond through struggles and see the rewards of what hard work and perseverance will bring. The Bills had that magical moment from the time Diggs arrived until some time last season. Then that idea of everyone pulling in the same direction, everyone sacrificing individual stats/attention for the good of the team started to erode. I just watched the Nuggets win the NBA championship. They are where the Bills were a couple years ago, but with a better ending to their season. They're my NBA team, and I probably should be more optimistic. But in my head I know that this era of good feeling won't last forever. In fact, if a couple key guys leave for more money this offseason, and things start a little rough next year, the whole Ted Lasso thing will become a distant memory. Just look at this scene from Miami after the Nuggets lost Game 2 at home. "Uncle Jeff" Green, 36 years old, veteran of multiple teams, has the team over to his Miami house for dinner. A magical moment - Peak Nuggets! Everyone pulling together to say it's all right, we got this - that I somehow think won't happen again.

Right. Over. Your. Head.

Who would've thought that the righties are now in favor of their own form of ESG investment.