The Frankish Reich

You don’t survive being “the most talented team in the NFL” (commonly heard until about a month ago) and “the favorite to win the Super Bowl” (heard everywhere preseason) and then not even winning the AFC Championship for more than 2 years. Next year is it for Beane and McD. Fair? Maybe not. But that’s life in the NFL.

What, that’s asking too much?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/nyregion/george-santos-marriage-immigration.html Just as I called it about a month ago. Gay man marrying a foreign woman typically indicates immigration fraud. If investigations show that that is likely what happened, will THAT finally be enough for the Republican power brokers to call for this fool’s resignation? Will ANYTHING be enough?

Leslie Frazier haters, remember that Rex Ryan is the antiuniverse Frazier: - fat white guy; skinny black guy - loudmouth know it all; calm, quiet tactician - all blitzes and stunts, forcing the action and gunning for the big play; all bend but don’t break, let ‘em kill their own drive.

I don’t disagree with you. I’m just accepting that it’s a generational thing that I will never understand. The Gen Zs are just simply not bothered by a lot of the artistic integrity stuff that seemed to be important to me.

You mean keep Shaq Lawson?

One comment about a gas tax: historically it has been a very good example of a use fee/tax. The more you use our highways and byways, the more you pay for their upkeep. EVs now cause that to be decoupled. So either use more from general tax revenues for Highway purposes, or find a more fair way to tax road usage. It may be mileage, it may be more. toll/transponder roads, etc. no such thing as a free lunch.

Not gonna lie. A part of me is dying to know what cockamamie theory he’s promulgating about the Chinese balloon and the lesser balloons. Aliens? The beginnings of our own military coup that will restore Trump to the presidency? Some George Soros Jewish mind control thing? But really, one Bills forum ought to be enough for anyone. EDIT: I’m out of practice. No doubt a test spaceship fueled by that stuff Hillary extracts from babies. Or is it Patton Oswalt that does that. I can’t remember.

All I know is he would get unreasonably testy when I used a line like that on him ….

A struggling would-be screenwriter in a basement apartment in Pacoima?

Oh, they have a clue all right. My teenage daughter loves Rihanna. Loves her for being a celebrity, for being a queen (not of the drag type) for making tons of money and living her best life. She doesn’t really love her music; I mean, she knows it if it’s on the radio or a Spotify playlist, but doesn’t actively seek it out. She loves the brand. And she couldn’t care less is Rihanna is lip-synching an entire show or if all the music tracks are prerecorded. She probably wouldn’t bother to go see some kind of 1990s “Rihanna unplugged” show with Rihanna sitting on a stool crooning her hits dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt. That wouldn’t be a spectacle. That’s what the kids love. A spectacle. By the way, she (and her friends) also like other music that she streams - actual songs written by actual songwriters - but unlike my generation it’s not an either/or thing. I wouldn’t be caught dead at her age listening to some pop garbage. My tastes were too “elevated.” Or so I thought. This generation? Not interested in being music snobs. Maybe that’s a good thing.

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There’s obviously serious doubt regarding whether Tua will make it back. And if he does, he may be one more concussion away from the end of his NFL career. Miami strikes me as the perfect fit for Carr - they are in win-now mode, Carr gets rid of the ball fast, and they have no one internally to turn to. Jimmy G or Carr? Slim pickings. I’d take Carr. Who knew that you could monetize (and charge a pretty penny) for sitting alone in the dark.

I hope Miami doesn't realize that he'd be their best option for 2023.

He says he was assigned to the NSA, so if he’s telling the truth he knows something about signal intelligence. Why shoot it down if it’s no risk? His take: because WE will learn a whole lot more about China and its surveillance programs/capabilities by shooting it down over the shallow continental shelf/ocean, where it can be easily retrieved and analyzed. That is, a whole lot more than China would have ever learned from the surveillance itself. The fact that the Navy has already retrieved the business end of the balloon lends credence to his theory (he says that part is pretty much a piece of cake for the Navy).

I’m not Tibs, but … I’m light of what Putin has said and done over the last year, why would you believe anything OTHER than Putin is trying to annex the whole of Ukraine? The “limited eastern provinces” action was there for the taking. It is highly doubtful that Russian tanks rolling into and staying in the Donbas alone would’ve met with this type of resistance. No. It started with bombing of major cities and a campaign of terror accompanied by tanks rolling straight to Kiev. I tend to believe a tyrant when he says what he’s going to do and then proceeds to try to do it.

I don’t know much about this guy (apparently a regular on a news network I rarely watch) but I found this to be the best explanation so far of what China is playing at and how it isn’t much cause for concern. The China part starts more than halfway through. The first part (Ukraine) is interesting too.

Specifically re: Rex. I pray that he never gets another NFL job. He was a joke in Buffalo, clearly just cashing the checks and doing the minimum by his second year. Sean Payton likes those “blitz from all directions and hit ‘em hard” defenses, and he doesn’t dare hire Gregg Williams again, so here we go. The Rex and Rob show is landing in that mile high air. They’ll both need oxygen.

There’s that. And the feeling that this is all Andy’s show and Eric is a clipboard carrier. Not gonna lie, there’s maybe a tiny bit of racism there too. And weight-ism. Daboll’s a fat guy (and of course Andy too) but the NFL is moving toward super fit guys. In related news: Sean Payton is said to be considering Rex Ryan for his DC. Fat guy (other than long tenured successful fat guy) = loser franchise.

Do I have to answer that? Ok, I will. McAfee in something other than the wife beater is preferable to Favre. But Favre on a tractor is worse than McAfee in a wife beater. Kind of a rock-paper-scissors thing.

I was that rare Lee Smith defender during his two stints here. We could have used a Lee Smith this year to help hide the inadequacy of Spencer Brown, at least on some plays.

I like this fake Damar. Looks like he could hit the weight room and maybe even make the team. Give him number 3A, as in Alternate.

https://www.scribd.com/document/573619172/Luna-Stripper-Document-POLICE-REPORT

I don’t have time to dredge them up now, but equally fair are the old articles questioning Biden’s bs stories — the Wash Post actually did one about the infamous face-off he had with the legendary “Corn Pop” (conclusion: there was a person known by that name, but no one remembers young Joe going mano-a-mano with him)—and articles about Bill Clinton putting a spin on his personal story. All successful politicians do this. They write books that nobody reads—books that are a blend of half-baked policies (“we need an America that works for the American people” or something similarly vacuous) and embellished personal narrative (you’ve got to “overcome obstacles” even if you were born into wealth and privilege). By the way, the Wash Post said nothing about Luna being anything other than a waitress at a gentlemen’s club. Others have reported that she may have done other things there too, and it’s not a wild fantasy given that it coincided with a time in her life when she was modeling for men’s magazines, etc. Someone here suggested that I was saying she was a prostitute. No, unless you think everyone who may have modeled in a bikini is a prostitute; I will grant you that others may be more familiar than me with that whole scene.

Because I read it, and it was fair. I assume you're only reading criticisms of it - much like this criticism of a WP article on Tim Scott (I'll read that one and I'll let you know). This is kind of like reading movie reviews, not seeing the movie itself, and then having an opinion about the movie. Are you saying my wife was a "waitress" in a "gentlemen's club?"