Artful Dodger

Yeah. I was 30, and a few years ago I was beginning to doubt whether I would live to see the Bills make the playoffs again, much less be contenders. The current Bills' team was worth the wait and I think they're as good as some of the Bills' teams which made it to the Superbowl 30 years ago.

I counted 81 claps in 2 minutes before I got too exhausted to count anymore. His longest extended period of clapping was 19 after a defensive stop; his shortest was just a single clap.

McDermott got the Bills to the playoffs with Tyrod Taylor. He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

Instant replay has significantly reduced my enjoyment of the game. The refs are afraid to make calls, and it slows everything down. Some human error is OK as long as it's distributed fairly. It also gives fans stuff to complain about.

The clean shaven look is a big improvement. But quarterbacks should look like Johnny Unitas.

Allen did not have a good game, and the Bills still would have won against a very good Cardinals team except for a freak play at the end. He did what he had to do to get the team the win. It's not on him.

The Bills have an extremely competitive quarterback who is capable of willing the team to victory. Is that a measurable statistic? The Bills are "lucky" that Josh Allen is their quarterback.

The top two Republicans had around 45% of the vote. Below the presidential level, there was a lot of unexpected Republican strength probably to counteract the perceived nuttiness of the left wing of the Democratic Party, so this it will be an uphill battle for the Democrats to win both Senate seats. Even if they do, it will be 50/50, and conservative Democratic Senators like Joe Manchin in West Virginia might break away from the party on some of their more controversial ideas such as packing the courts or eliminating the filibuster.

The good news for Democrats is that if Trump pulls this out, the blue House will be able to impeach him three or four more times. I wonder how many countries they think Trump collaborated with this time. It will be cathartic for them.

Can you please share what you think the parallels are? I'm in my mid 50's, and people have been talking about this for my entire life, but I struggle to see what the parallels are. There are no hordes of Visigoths at our borders and we don't drink from lead pipes. Also we have a pretty good system of government which ensures a peaceful transfer of power every four or eight years.

The Bills are in a sucky division and probably just need to go 4-5 the rest of the way to win the AFC East.

No justice, no peace. Also, I need a new flat screen TV.

The defense got its mojo back because the team was playing the New York Jets.

The most dangerous position in football is to be the first string quarterback with Fitzpatrick sitting on the bench behind you. You might as well dodge traffic on the interstate or stick your hand in a hive of bees. I give the rookie two weeks at most, he'll have some sort of fluke injury, and Fitzpatrick will be right back in the starting lineup.

Am listening on the radio. So weird not to hear crowd noise in the background.

Marv Levy. I'd ask him about his experiences in WW 2 and ask him to tell his joke about the reason that Germany lost WW 2 is because "Hitler couldn't win on the road."

The Bills look as if they've got two good backs already. Does any team in 2020 need the deepest RB stable in the league?

The most dangerous position in the NFL is the starting QB position when Fitzpatrick is the backup. Tua should thank his lucky stars he'll be sitting on the bench.

Weren't the women working in the parlor in their 40's and 50's? I'm no expert, but there's probably not a lot of demand for middle aged sex slaves.

Yeah. It tells me he doesn't have a large ego. He just wants to win. Marv Levy used to say something like, "It's amazing what you can get done when no one cares who gets the credit." Both Levy and McDermott are really smart coaches, and not coincidentally, neither has a big ego.

One of McDermott's biggest strengths is that he's smart enough to be willing to reach out to people he can learn from. When he first became coach, he went out to dinner with with Kelly, Thomas, Reed, Smith, Tasker, etc. to try to get a sense of where they thought the team had gone off the rails.

She's a good choice for Biden. She's attractive and demure, and her hair smells really nice.

Players are going to get sick. They'll be quarantined and they'll return a few weeks later. And then assuming recovery grants you some sort of short term immunity, the players won't have to worry about getting it again, at least until after the season is over. Finally, COVID-19 isn't that big a deal if you're 24 years old, especially if you're a professional athlete in great shape. So there may be players out for a couple weeks here and there, but hopefully there will be a season.

In addition to the obvious privacy concerns, what I worry about under such a system is that the Federal Reserve would attempt to force people to spend by gradually removing funds from bank accounts via negative interest rates. For at least ten years, the Fed's repressing interest rates has punished savers. In future recessions, under such a system, policy makers would undoubtedly see negative rates as a tool for forcing people to spend to get the economy moving again. What you don't spend, you would lose, via negative interest rates. If they go ahead with this, and because it's a terrible idea I'm sure there's a lot of support for it (because there are few adults running our country right now), I assume people would move to alternative forms of currency, like Bitcoin.