Artful Dodger

Definitely Gronk, and he could save money by staying with his folks while he's playing in Buffalo.

Harrison is the sort of player the Bills like. A good team guy, very bright, and a hard worker. He's also an improving player who looks as if he's figured it out. If they can afford him, they will keep him.

Practice makes perfect, and boy did he have a lot of practice.

Based on his performance in the two playoff games this year where he threw for 9 touchdowns, had a completion rating of over 75% and ran for 160 yards, Allen's ceiling is higher than any other QB in the league right now and maybe among the highest in NFL history. His intangibles are also off the charts. He's got great leadership skills, and his teammates literally are in awe of him. In big games, he's at his best, which is the mark of a great QB. As noted by others, he's been inconsistent. I think some of last year's issues were due to poor offensive line play during the first half of the year and the weather didn't help. However, during the Tampa Bay game, something clicked in, and in the second half, he took over the game just like that. I think what changed is that he finally figured out that he can play within his talents and easily be the best player on the field. Over the next several years, he's going to have to gradually dial back the running, or his career will be shorter than otherwise, but that's the only red flag I can see. While it's really fun to watch him elude linebackers and run over defensive backs, the Bills should game plan just enough planned runs to keep the defense honest. I'm a fan, and I try not to get too excited and remain objective, but objectively, he's really that good.

He's extremely bright, works and plays well with others, and has seen everything. Usually it's not the great players who make great coaches. Everything comes too easy to great players, and they don't get it. It's the players who struggled who make the good coaches, and that's Fitzpatrick, who worked hard to successfully maximize the limited talent that he had. If he wants it, I think he would fit in well with the culture McDermott has set up in Buffalo.

Good point. There's probably at least a half dozen franchises for which he has not yet been the starting qb. I think he would make a great qb coach.

Excellent idea. He could teach Allen how to grow a real beard.

$2 beers.

If true, somebody needs to get fired. Just when you think the decision makers can't get any stupider, they do.

No. This is the purpose of elections.

Don't you think the administration has already lost the military? This level of incompetence is almost beyond belief. Every decision they've made has gone wrong.

In Biden's defense, in addition to Afghanistan, he's currently dealing with at least three significant serious problems I'm aware of - COVID, accelerating inflation, and the porous southern border. While all but COVID are self inflicted, he's still got to deal with them. As more Americans catch on to the fact that he doesn't know what he's doing, he's also going to be dealing with a crisis of confidence in his leadership. COVID is of more concern to most Americans than the catastrophe unfolding in Afghanistan. So if he can get back some of his mojo by talking about COVID, it's all good, though it's a short term fix. The next time the incompetent and hysterical CDC Director he appointed opens her mouth in public, the Biden Administration's credibility on COVID will go right out the window again.

He's in the populist wing of the Republican Party, so he's a strong candidate to win his party's nomination in 2024. If he picks someone like Senator Scott or Nikki Haley to be his running mate, he'll neutralize the inevitable charges of racism the Democrats will level at him. Based on Biden's performance to date, I don't think he has any chance of winning a second term, even if he were to run again. The Democrats could very well put up someone from the populist wing of their own party which would make for a very interesting and very ugly election.

And the losing party will blame racism and voter suppression, not necessarily in that order. This is not entirely on Biden. although the unnecessarily large stimulus package in January didn't help. It's also on our Federal Reserve, which despite 5%+ inflation is still stimulating the hell out of the economy. It makes no sense whatsoever. I don't think there's any grownups left in Washington.

This is a tactic to divert the public's attention from the preventable disaster that's unfolding in Afghanistan right now. It appears to be working with Biden's shrinking base; I can't imagine anyone else falling for it.

That went downhill quickly. Because this happened so suddenly and the American evacuation has been so inept, the Biden Administration ought to be concerned about Americans not being evacuated in time and captured by the Taliban. It's possibly the Taliban will want to rub our noses in their victory, particularly if they can extract concessions from what looks like a weak American president. The Iranian hostage crisis remains in the living memory of many Americans, and I'm sure the Taliban haven't forgotten it either.

It's an attempt to distract from a colossal foreign policy failure by the Biden Administration. The general policy of withdrawal was probably correct, but the Biden Administration couldn't have handled the withdrawal any more ineptly than they did. Also, we've proved once again than "military intelligence" is an oxymoron. Did no one see this coming?

It's embarrassing when the president sets a deadline for pulling out of Afghanistan on September 11 (why in the world pick that date?) and then the American embassy is forced to close up shop weeks before the deadline when the Taliban capture Kabul. The good news is that Biden will punish the Taliban by not inviting them to next year's Paris Climate summit.

Much better ethnic restaurants.

He seems almost too good to be true, except that he is. "Your rash doing all right?"

Some bath salts or a nice dinner at the Outback Steak House.

I have to think things would have been different if the Bills had the sense to start Gibran Hamdan, the best Pakistani QB in NFL history, back in 2008.

In January, Congress passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus to fill a $600 billion hole in GDP. Not only did the bill stimulate demand, but it extended enhanced unemployment benefits which have encouraged people to stay home rather than go back to work. So they simultaneously goosed demand and restricted supply. Not surprisingly, we're getting inflation. And the chuckleheads at the Federal Reserve have been pouring gas on the fire. Inflation is already much higher than they expected, and they continue to print money to buy treasury bonds and mortgage backed securities and continue to keep short term interest rates at 0%. There are no grownups making economic policy in Washington right now. We're all paying the price, literally.

Biden nearly scotched the infrastructure deal just a few hours after all parties agreed to it by tying it to the budget reconciliation bill. Then the next day he had to walk that back. That was a very Trump-like maneuver. It pointlessly complicated matters, and it accomplished nothing. There must be something in the White House water that makes its occupants stupid.

He's bound to regress a little. Even the best qb's don't play at an MVP level every year. However, in his career, he'll have at least a few more years like the last one. If he doesn't regress and he plays every year like he did last year, he'll be in the running to be among the best of all time.