The Frankish Reich
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On 9/27/2021 at 7:09 AM, Nervous Guy said:
How do you feel about Doris Burke?
Since it always turns into "can female sportscasters succeed in calling men's sports":
Doris Burke knows the game and it shows. She's well prepared and doesn't seem to feel the need to ramble off topic. For basketball, I'd put her in the top 20%.
And for MLB: Jessica Mendoza takes a lot of flack, but I also think she does a good job. Plus while I don't necessarily agree with it, this comment about former Astros all of a sudden calling them out for the sign stealing scandal showed a nice independent streak.
For the NFL: well, sorry, Beth Mowins is just not good. Male, female, gender neutral, I don't care. She's not good at the job.
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Don’t get me wrong - I’m not wishing Tyrod back just yet. But when I looked at the schedule and saw that we’d get the returns of Fitzy and Tyrod in back to back weeks, I was looking forward to it. I have to assume both would’ve received warm welcomes. It’s the Buffalo way.
Chances the WFT and Texans win with their current AAAA level QBs? Virtually nil. Tyrod and Fitzy would’ve given them a fighting chance.-
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28 minutes ago, Rico said:
For Bills TE’s, you have to go to the Bills Alternate Universe.
1. Tony Hunter
2. Reuben Gant
3. Lonnie Johnson
4. Jan White
You made me look up a couple of those names. You know what? Reuben Grant had one really good season and a couple ok ones. He may make this list.
So might Paul Seymour who had 5 starting seasons clearing a path for OJ. etc. he was a 10/10 as a blocking TE, a 1/10 as a pass catching threat. Kind of the platonic ideal of a Lee Smith type.
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50 minutes ago, Logic said:
I think it would be a bit more interesting to talk about the all-time list of Bills tight ends. Yes, it's a motley crew.
Something like...
1. Ernie Warlick
2. Pete Metzelaars
3. Keith McKellar
4. Jay Riemersma
5. Charles Clay
Woof. On second thought, let's never discuss this again.Wow. That’s one of the lamest team all-time “greats” by position list you’ll ever find.
All Dawson Knox needs to do is continue playing like he is now through the 2022 season and he will be on this list. And that’s not meant as praise for Knox …-
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On 8/14/2020 at 11:07 AM, Deranged Rhino said:
That's why Barr said last night today wouldn't be 'earth shattering but would show where it's going'. And if he considers Clinesmith on the low end of the people he's got lined up, then that means the big boys are in big, big, trouble.
This hasn’t aged well. One minor character indicted a couple days before the statute of limitations ran out. So much for the “big boys” being in big, big trouble.
If only all those other musings of Deranged Rhino hadn’t been purged we’d be able to compute his batting average. I’d say it’s .000.
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I’m pretty sure our point differential now has us at a projected 2.9 wins in 2 games total. 😀
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Awesome. I love to see that. Let Lamar put it away for you.
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KC now at 70% win expectancy. So ... yeah.
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4 minutes ago, Mango said:
Question, do you go for two again?
Of course. No brainer now. But more importantly: this is why it was a bad decision to go for 2 the first time around.
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9 hours ago, All_Pro_Bills said:
You're in a plane crash in the wilderness. With no chance of being rescued for 10 to 12 months. You can get on one of two planes.
The first plane is full of red state people. People with hard life skills, farmers, hunters, military vets, carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and construction people, and other people with basic skills and more conservative views.
The second plane is full of blue state people. Bankers, entertainers and artists, sociologists, women, race, and gender studies majors, web app designers, people on welfare and social assistance.
You want to maximize your chances of survival. Which plane do you get on?
See, the problem with Silvermans's idea is the majority Blue state people she represents generally have no life or basic survival skills or the knowledge or ability to keep the fundamental elements of civilization working. Most of them would die in the first 3 months. The rest might start to figure it out. Keeping things working like the water supply, electricity, the communications systems, roads and bridges, garbage pick up. All that stuff they take for granted that are performed by the deplorables. When your power goes out in the middle of the night I suspect its not a crew of hard core Biden supporters rolling out to get it back on.
Ahh, but my United Blue States has a liberal immigration policy. I will fly my drywallers and plumbers and landscapers right over your United Red States to do that stuff for me. I'll give them temporary Blue Cards.
You and your Red State friends will have no homes to drywall or plumb and no lawns to cut and edge. You will have to form a migrant caravan in Tennessee and create an encampment under that famous crumbling bridge between Kentucky and Ohio to beg us to let you in.
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It isn't productive to respond to comments citing anecdotes ("I know a guy who ...") or conspiracy theories ("they" deliberately seeded US communities with COVID" or "it's all about making money"). People who make those types of arguments aren't swayed.
So without responding to individual comments, here's the facts on serious adverse reactions to one of the vaccines (Pfizer). Note that certain serious adverse health events occurred in the placebo group too, sometimes with greater frequency. Because, well, sometimes people get sick, and the vaccine isn't the cause. That's why we do tests with a control/placebo group!
Serious Adverse Events
Serious adverse events were defined as any untoward medical occurrence that resulted in death, was life-threatening, required inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization, or resulted in persistent disability/incapacity. The proportions of participants who reported at least 1 serious adverse event were 0.6% in the vaccine group and 0.5% in the placebo group. The most common serious adverse events in the vaccine group which were numerically higher than in the placebo group were appendicitis (7 in vaccine vs 2 in placebo), acute myocardial infarction (3 vs 0), and cerebrovascular accident (3 vs 1). Cardiovascular serious adverse events were balanced between vaccine and placebo groups. Two serious adverse events were considered by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as possibly related to vaccine: shoulder injury possibly related to vaccine administration or to the vaccine itself, and lymphadenopathy involving the axilla contralateral to the vaccine injection site. Otherwise, occurrence of severe adverse events involving system organ classes and specific preferred terms were balanced between vaccine and placebo groups.
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The problem is this: no one will believe in you - I mean really believe in you - until you show you can knock off the champion. For literally decades it was the Patriots. Then all of a sudden it was the Chiefs. And let's face facts: with the exception of a few quirky games, we weren't in the same class as the Pats until last year, when we were suddenly in a class above them. Likewise we haven't shown the ability to stick with the Chiefs now that they are Kings of the AFC. One signature win, which can come this year in about 4 weeks, and the conventional wisdom changes overnight.
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1 hour ago, Buffarukus said:
yeah when you censor normal discord on a topic and ignore continued information like how natural immunity is much better then a vaccine so a huge portion of the population should be exempt from any mandate...any celebration of that science going on? sill wonder why people would be skeptical/scared? its more agenda based and less fact. this after a year and of half of flip flopping regulations, flat out lies, and cover ups.
yet half the population can't understand why there is skepticism from the other half or demanding answers that could help clear alot of things up. just a shut up and do what your told by way of threats.
Well, as a starting point it really wouldn't hurt to RTFA.
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Excellent summary for the nonscientist of the long history of research into the feasibility of mRNA vaccines.
As vaccine skeptics say, yes, this is a new technology in some sense. But in another sense they are completely wrong - we're dealing with a three decades + history of research and technology:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w
We should celebrate science and innovation, not be scared of it.
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13 minutes ago, TSOL said:
Joke all you want but i had it in October 2019, im not kidding. 3½ weeks of fever, low energy, vicious cough. No taste, no smell. I worked through it. I also know who i got it from.
Im not one to get sick except for every 4-5 years.
I was around my kids, my parents, my family.
Is it a stretch for you to believe that what we hear in the media is not always the full truth?
Well, it's in the realm of the possible, but highly, highly unlikely that what you had is COVID-19.
At the risk of being pilloried for citing wikipedia, I'll note that the wiki pages do a really good job of summarizing what we know about the timeline:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_2019
And if you hadn't traveled to China around that time, the likelihood is even lower.
There's really no way to know for certain since even a positive antibody test after COVID "broke" in March 2020 would be consistent with a later in time exposure. But if you had it in October 2019, you would in fact be the first known COVID 19 patient.
Where were you in September/October 2019?
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20 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:
If you google the Top 50 Metro areas in the United States, the WNY area comes in at #49.
Here's the list in descending order of population that do not have an NFL Team:
13 Riverside/San Bernardino
17 San Diego
22 Orlando
24 San Antonio
28 Austin
32 Columbus
35 San Jose
37 Virginia Beach
38 Providence
40 Milwaukee
41 Oklahoma City
44 Richmond
47 Salt Lake City
48 Hartford
Best choices here:
- San Diego: a sympathy choice, and there's money to be made with an NFL team in a vacation destination
- San Antonio: big growth area, more business friendly climate than Austin, a little farther from Dallas
- OKC and or Tulsa: would slice off some of the Cowboys' base, huge football country, but may have trouble diverting attention from NCAAF
- SLC: another huge growth area and about 500 miles to the closest existing team east or west
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2 hours ago, Gen2 said:
That's easy to type into a forum thread, but you have nothing supporting your statement. Let's paint a picture here;
As far as St Louis is concerned they didn't "lose" the Rams, they had the Rams unlawfully taken from them, they are currently suing the NFL because of the Rams move. Everything the NFL has done to squash the lawsuit so far has failed, and at this point it LOOKS like it will be going to trial (in St Louis). Let's just say, the NFL doesn't want their dirty laundry becoming public record through the trial process, and decides to settle out of court. I have no idea what kind of money would be involved, but for the sake of argument let's say 1.7 billion dollars. Now if St Louis would be willing to parlay that money into a new stadium and offer the Bills that new stadium for free, on what grounds would or could the NFL stop the move? Do you honestly think they would "black ball" St Louis to prevent the move knowing St Louis isn't shy about taking them to court??
this ^ is making too much sense for my fragile disposition.
I have this sneaking suspicion that when things no longer make sense - having one of just 32 NFL teams in Buffalo, with Buffalo being roughly the 52nd largest market - they tend to get "corrected." And the correction here would be moving a team. Thankfully the vast majority of larger markets are taken, or they face obstacles like NFL owners and their territorial claims (Cowboys and Austin or San Antonio, Orlando and Jax or Tampa), or there's logistical problems (Canadian cities seemed a no-brainer until COVID hit). But there's money to be made by some group somewhere, and there's more of it outside of Buffalo than inside. Pegulas, don't give in to temptation!
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2 minutes ago, BarleyNY said:
Yes. And it looks like I pulled the wrong scale. You are correct. Here is the proper one for the NFL:
The Player Grading Scale:
100-90 Elite
89-85 Pro Bowler
84-70 Starter
69-60 Backup
59-0 ReplaceableOliver graded out at 72.1 overall. 78.8 run def, 54.6 pass rush.
Yes, it’s early. Small sample size.
Thanks for posting that PFF scale - I have to look it up every year when folks start referring to PFF grades.
I already referred to it on one of the O line threads - all guards and centers rated in the mid-60s, which is why I don't see a whole lot to be gained by swapping out a Boettger for a Feliciano, etc.
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19 hours ago, TSOL said:
I have been rockin the natural immunity for 23 months now.
Since mid-October 2019?
Are you Patient Zero? The guy who ordered the Wuhan Bat Stew two years ago?
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32 minutes ago, BarleyNY said:
Considered “average” among all players at the position - starters and backups included. It puts him 67th of 93 edge defenders after this one game. Still a very small sample size, however.
Are those PFF grades? I thought that their grades in the 50s were considered poor.
Not that I put much stock in a grade after just 30 snaps. Kind of like a MLB hitter after 30 plate appearances.
How did Oliver grade out?
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6 hours ago, Thurman#1 said:
Strongly disagree about your conclusion about Sanders. They threw long to him all game, and he was really open. He's a guy who can get open short or deep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR6QtSjNwEQ
Look at 1:07 and 2:01
Love the 2nd one where he destroys his guy with a route and then throws the safety away, subtly enough to not get caught at it.
Agreed. This is the weirdest, most irrational takeaway from Game 1. Before last season we would have all been decrying how Allen just plain missed a wide open Sanders. You know what? On Sunday Allen just plain missed a wide open Sanders. Doesn't mean bad old Josh is back. But it certainly doesn't mean Sanders was a flop.
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I like this thread. As someone noted, completely random. We need a completely random thread.
My contribution: given the blocked punt, why don't we use Star as the upback? I've never seen a satisfying answer to the age-old question of "why not sign a morbidly obese guy to be a hockey goalie?"
EDIT: I'm not calling you morbidly obese, Mr. Star. Please don't hurt me. You are just the Biggest Bill of the moment.
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3 minutes ago, H2o said:
Well, looks like I will never personally attend a Bills home game in my lifetime. Oh well.
Maybe the San Antonio Bills c. 2028? You can dream ...
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1 minute ago, Buffalo619 said:
Ticket prices will plummet. Is there a protest planned yet?
Will they?
With the phased introduction, I very much doubt it. If the "fully vaccinated" requirement were in place for the next home game, I suppose you'd see after-market prices go down since a lot of people would need to dump tickets right away. But let's track this. Would've been better to start yesterday, but today will do. Lowest priced stubhub tickets for the Dolphins home game Oct 31 (first "fully vaccinated only" game) are $90. Compare: lowest price for the WFT game a week from Sunday is ... $90!
Let's see if the 10/31 prices start to drop as non-vaxxers dump tickets. I doubt it ...
Who will be the next Republican Standard Bearer for 2024?
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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What I'd like to see: the return of a Republican Party that is committed to traditional Republican ideas. Strong on national security. Committed to free trade and free trade agreements. Concerned about deficit spending. Tough on illegal immigration, but committed to improving and even expanding legal immigration. In favor of less regulation. Committed to economically rational ways of addressing climate change, including a carbon cap and trade system (this was a Republican idea before some Democrats started to be in favor of it, at which time the Republicans recoiled in horror as they realized they would be in favor of a Democratic initiative). Tough on crime, in a manner that respects the division of power between the federal government and the state governments.
What I will see: the continued control of the party by the outsider faction that took it over in 2016. The faction that doesn't give a crap about deficits, that dislikes illegal and illegal immigration (immigrants?), that puts up barriers to free trade and wants to retreat from international agreements that support it, that wants to take credit for the key step in bringing the pandemic under control-vaccines- while bizarrely undermining the efficacy of those very same vaccines.