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Buffalo Bills Consensus Draft Grades
The Frankish Reich replied to Victory Formation's topic in The Stadium Wall
I've always answered the endless debate - do you draft the best player available or do you draft for need? - this way. Bad teams always have to draft the best player available (with a possible exception of QB). Good teams always have to use the draft to fill specific needs. We did what good teams need to do. If you look at some hypothetical measure like "future value added" or some such unquantifiable thing, well, I guess we're in the middle of the pack. If you look at some hypothetical measure like "win expectancy added over the next 4 years," I think we did pretty well, since you'll have more talented young players taking roster spots from less talented old players. -
Bills 4th Round Pick : Deone Walker - DT - Kentucky
The Frankish Reich replied to Simon's topic in The Stadium Wall
https://sports.yahoo.com/article/meet-desmond-watson-464-pound-131042065.html https://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?64272-Could-a-morbidly-obese-goalie-shut-out-an-NHL-Team Looking forward to seeing it. Hey, MLB had to ban "little people" after Bill Veeck had the nerve to try it. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/1010838/2019/06/05/the-tragic-spectacle-of-eddie-gaedel-baseballs-only-3-foot-7-pinch-hitter/ -
So does economic protectionism/tariffs encourage home-grown USA innovation? The case of Tesla says "no." Tesla: the clear leader in EV technology until a few years ago, including battery/charging technology. Not anymore. China-designed/built BYD and now others are the industry leaders. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/chinas-catl-claims-to-beat-byds-ev-battery-record-with-longer-range-on-a-5-minute-charge.html#:~:text=Tech-,China's CATL claims to beat BYD's EV battery record with,on a 5-minute charge&text=While revealing a set of,five minutes of charging time. Protectionism has allowed Tesla to rest on it's laurels. It's only new model in recent years is the silly/poorly made/niche market Cybertruck. So protectionism somehow has allowed - encouraged - Chinese companies to lap the field. A cautionary tale, not that anyone in the current administration is heeding that caution.
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Completely off topic: I found a strangely empty $5 car wash about a 20 minute drive from where I live. It’s in a weird industrial area. Competitors are more like $12 - 18 and more crowded. Excellent sit in the car type you get pulled through. Owned by people from a faraway land who speak a language I can’t quite place. Front for some illegal activity? Why so cheap? I will continue my investigations while keeping my car clean.
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Shedur Sanders Make To Round 5? (Poll) - UPDATED x 3
The Frankish Reich replied to boyst's topic in The Stadium Wall
Sanders may be our first case of a guy whose earnings potential was far greater while ostensibly an amateur. -
Shedur Sanders Make To Round 5? (Poll) - UPDATED x 3
The Frankish Reich replied to boyst's topic in The Stadium Wall
Since I live in Colorado, I saw a lot of Buffs football in the Coach Prime era (a whole 2 years). This is the point. He has athletic talent, at least a pretty good arm, and can succeed in the right offense. But inability to read defenses led directly to the inordinate number of sacks he took. It’s hard to imagine that a guy with his athleticism would take so many sacks, but that’s where it is. The social aspect of this is that once NFL GMs decided that he wasn’t a Game 1 starter, they had to address whether he could fit as a backup. And he obviously failed that test for, well, obvious reasons. -
Trump ❤️ Tariffs
The Frankish Reich replied to The Frankish Reich's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
China: no negotiations until you withdraw your unilateral tariffs. Trump: wait a minute, "someone spoke to someone, I can't tell you who" Markets go up. Insanity continues. -
Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
The Frankish Reich replied to The Frankish Reich's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Here's what I think happened: as usual, the unfocused/hyperactive Trump let his minions at HHS/remnants of Education work up this very powerful letter, much like he lets Big Balls and his friends make demands at other agencies. Nobody vetted it for legality. It made a whole host of outrageous demands totally unrelated to combating antisemitism. Harvard got the letter. It was from people with ostensible authority to do issue such a letter. They took it seriously, they brought in counsel (including former Trump hero Robert Hur), they all decided the demands were clearly unconstitutional, they decided to fight. Only then did DOJ/White House lawyers look at it. They told Trump, yeah, it's pretty indefensible. So they said it was a draft, it was never meant to be sent out, how stupid are Harvard lawyers to think that something as sloppy as this letter was meant to be a real demand? Why didn't they pick up the phone and call someone important to say, umm, "you didn't really mean to send this out, right?" But there it is. They sent it on letterhead signed by people purporting to have authority to make such demands. And the idiotic letter virtually assures that Harvard will win this fight in court. And these are the people who said the Biden administration was incompetent. -
Trump ❤️ Tariffs
The Frankish Reich replied to The Frankish Reich's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Here comes the Trump Administration see-saw effect again. Paul Krugman on how - even if not intentional - it gives a huge advantage to the economic oligarchs: The content of his remarks aside, what was Bessent even doing at this event? Senior government officials aren’t supposed to be helping investment banks entertain their clients. First — and why aren’t more people saying this? — what the hell was the Treasury secretary doing giving a closed-door briefing on a significant policy change that hadn’t yet been officially announced? Isn’t that a setup for large-scale insider trading? Indeed, attendees at that conference surely made market bets before Bessent’s remarks became public. And since when are major policy announcements by government officials made off the record to closed private-sector meetings? One even wonders whether Bessent was announcing policy or making it: Did Trump back him up only after the fact? Bessent's remarks were kinda sorta private and kinda sorta public. But his suggestion that the China tariffs were unsustainable again moved markets, and the JP Morgan Chase folks who invited him got that info at least a minute or two ahead of anyone else. Do you think they traded on it? If you don't think that, as the old timers used to say, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you. -
Activist (Marxist) Federal Judges
The Frankish Reich replied to BillsFanNC's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
And in this case the “rogues” were named Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett. -
Trump ❤️ Tariffs
The Frankish Reich replied to The Frankish Reich's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
This is a feature, not a bug. One man exerting such enormous economic power is not what the constitution contemplated. But Trump loves it because businessmen large and small must come suck up to him to get privileged tariff treatment. -
Pope Francis
The Frankish Reich replied to Joe Ferguson forever's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
You do know that there’s a group of Trump-loving evangelicals who consider the Pope to be the antichrist -
What nonsense. The NYT has the names of the precise people included on the latest Signal chat. And if Hegseth is saying that disgruntled former employees “leaked” this, well, doesn’t that presuppose that it was a leak of an actual thing rather than a made-up story? Last time he did this Jeff Goldberg called his bluff by releasing the actual screenshots. I suspect we’re heading that way again. Appoint an overgrown frat boy to head the nation’s most important and largest Department …
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Trump ❤️ Tariffs
The Frankish Reich replied to The Frankish Reich's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
So making things in China and importing them to the USA is bad because it disincentivizes companies from making things in the USA. Making things in India and importing them to the USA is good however, even if it disincentivizes companies from making them here. -
Pope Francis
The Frankish Reich replied to Joe Ferguson forever's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Agreed. Despite what some think around here, I'm a law and order guy. I understand fully Pope Francis' attention to the plight of the immigrant and our responsibility to care for him. I also understand that my support for tighter immigration policy during the Biden years was in conflict with that. What I can't agree with, under any circumstances, is the deliberate humiliation and dehumanization of the immigrant. Things like gloating over photos of deported immigrants in those CECOT cells. Every Holy season the Pope met with prisoners. He didn't call for their immediate release. He just wanted to recognize their humanity. I don't believe any Christian - or anyone - should be going out of his way to degrade others, no matter what they've done to offend our laws or harm others. That is the message for me. -
Trump ❤️ Tariffs
The Frankish Reich replied to The Frankish Reich's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
My how times have changed. Vote for Trump, he brought us the Strongest Dollar in History! -
Pope Francis
The Frankish Reich replied to Joe Ferguson forever's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
It was refreshing to see Hollywood take the different currents in Catholic theology and doctrine seriously rather than as some purely personal or political matter. I think I'll watch this again as the conclave convenes. -
Trump ❤️ Tariffs
The Frankish Reich replied to The Frankish Reich's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
That is the idea. Do you think that if Trump had campaigned on "we need a weaker dollar" he would have won? His badgering of Jerome Powell is also part of this. Cheap money, lower interest rates, goose the economy today, blame the inflation that comes later on ... Joe Biden?