Robert James
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1 hour ago, Saint Doug said:
Provide a link to this “black national anthem”, what this “black nation” is, how does one get citizenship for it, and a pathway for other “races” to have one as well and I’m all aboard.
Follow the link in the initial post to hear the black national anthem. The black nation (which is a figurative expression) is our fellow citizens of color.
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1 hour ago, Beast said:
So, should there be a white NA played before hockey and baseball games since whites are dominant In those sports?That might have been appropriate if whites had been enslaved for centuries, and then disenfranchised, lynched, subjected to Jim Crow, subjected to segregation, ghettoized, and discriminated against systematically for the next 150+ years. It could also be argued that the National Anthem in a sense is kind of a white anthem, since it was written to celebrate a country ruled by whites at a time when slavery was completely legal.
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1 hour ago, JerseyBills said:
I see alot of comments very upset and saying they're done with the NFL. Is this further dividing things?
I personally don't have a big issue with it but I don't like politics in my sports.
Thoughts?
It seems completely appropriate to me. People across the country are collectively recognizing the centuries-old problem of racial inequity and taking actions to address it. Seventy percent of NFL players are black. Playing the black national anthem before the first game of this NFL season is a fitting way to acknowledge the problem. And advocating for greater equality is completely patriotic.
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13 minutes ago, Augie said:
Honestly, my problem with it was they are on the job. I don’t care what they do off the job, within reason of course. If the NFL doesn’t care, I don’t care. The NFL seems to have changed their tune on being “pro-player”. I don’t love it, but I can’t hate it. Change needs to come.
Riot or loot, you belong in jail. Peaceful protest to your heart’s delight.
If you see it as an issue between the employer and the employees, then you should have no problem. Here's what the Pegulas had to say when Bills players kneeled:
"Our players have the freedom to express themselves in a respectful and thoughtful manner and we all agreed that our sole message is to provide and to promote an environment that is focused on love and equality."
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Does Buffalo include Orchard Park? Either way, yes.
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2 minutes ago, YoloinOhio said:
He’s the 4th nfl player arrested this week. I feel like these guys are in their hometowns much more than they normally would be this year and it’s no coincidence some are finding trouble away from the structure of the team environment. It’s not an excuse obviously.
I shudder to think what I might have done if someone had handed me 10+ million dollars when I was 22.
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6 hours ago, LabattBlue said:
Does this mean he is not a “process” guy?
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It all depends on what his off-season goals are.
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12 minutes ago, QB Bills said:
They both picked Allen. What's the big deal here?
I think the problem is that Josh Allen is generally ranked much higher in quarterback ratings. Comparing Josh to the bottom of the heap is insulting.
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5 hours ago, MJS said:
Jim Kelly
Bruce Smith
Thurman Thomas
Jack Kemp
OJ would be up there if he hadn't had ... off the field issues ...
I'm good with OJ being up there in this context. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson enslaved countless human beings, and they both undoubtedly had many of those human beings worked to death. Nonetheless, they made the real Mount Rushmore, which focuses narrowly on their accomplishments as presidents. I think OJ's accomplishments as a Buffalo Bill secure his place on the Bill's Mount Rushmore. Unless, of course we wanted to do an upgrade on our Mount . . . .
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11 hours ago, Inigo Montoya said:
According to Sportrac, https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/cap/ the Bills have $33,299,716 left in the kitty right now. That number does not include the contracts for Quinton Jefferson, Taiwan Jones, Dean Marlowe, or Tyler Matakevich. I have no idea how much their contracts will count against the cap. The Jefferson signing alone is reported to be a 2 year deal worth $13.5 MM. I have no idea how that breaks down into the cap, but I think it's probably safe to say that will bring the cap number down to at least $29MM.
We need to have some money in the till to sign our draft picks. Last year people threw around the number $8 MM to get that done. This year we have no 1st rounder so maybe we can cut that number in half and say $4 mm for draft picks and that brings us down to $25 MM.
Most GMs like to carry about $8-10 MM into the regular season to deal with injuries and other opportunities that arise. Not sure how much Beane likes to keep in his back pocket. We also have several players that we all anticipated that the team would tender new contracts to this off season like Dawkins and Milano that have not been resigned yet. I'm sure Beane would also like to carry some of this year's cap forward into next year (he carried $22 MM over in cap space from last year).
Put it all together and it looks like we are sitting at $25MM right now and still some of our own young players to sign, we need an emergency fund for the season, and will probably want to carry some cap forward into next year. It looks to me that we are likely done in free agency this year. Any big signings would require that we dump some significant contracts to make space.
I think Beane followed his successful free agency strategy from last year. Expend some capital and grab one big name free agent at our position of greatest need, Morse/Diggs, and then shop for mid range free agents who provide a good possibility of an upgrade at their positions.
Thanks for the thoughtful breakdown -- more than we usually get from mainstream reporting.
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Doug Marrone is staying in Jacksonville according to CBS Sports.
Jaguars website confirms that Marrone will stay for at least one more year.
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Great article, but already posted below.
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Even more shocking are the ears of the guy on the left .
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Duke Williams. Very close in height and weight, fast and elusive. Plus, he isn't doing anything else right now.
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Sports Illustrated MMQB features an article about "Takeaways From the NFL on Thanksgiving." Josh Allen and the Bills are each referenced once in the subhead, but the body of the article makes no mention of any Bills player, and the only reference to the team is one use of the words "the Bills" is in a link to the game stats.
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Josh is more Jekyll. His true identity is an enormously-talented, hard-working young quarterback and team leader. He definitely has his Hyde moments, but they are the aberration. In fact, he's much better than Jekyll. Jekyll drank his potion with the specific intention of getting his Hyde on. Josh is working very hard to tame is Hyde.
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27 minutes ago, Bferra13 said:
How is that hilarious? Kid was most likely drunk and made a bad decision trying to impress people. What if that was a family member of yours? He may have broken his neck.
I young man making a foolish decision at the urging of a crowd, and another crowd here mostly crowing about what may be a very serious injury. Both very disturbing and sad.
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9 hours ago, BillnutinHouston said:
Let's not be pots calling the kettle black. Our own logo is leading with his head.
Our old helmet was too passive. Our current helmet is leading with its head. Maybe an upright buffalo in pass protection mode?
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40 minutes ago, BeefCurtns said:
It has to be the best Josh holds the ball for 45 minutes every pass.
True, but you also have to consider what the O-line is facing. The Patriots understood Josh Allen's weakness and tendencies, and so they brought some heavy blitzing. A quarterback proficient at making quick reads would have been able to exploit this.
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7 minutes ago, MacGyver said:
Yes, they still suck until they prove otherwise with wins. We all know and understand this, right?
Agreed, but they have one of the best defenses in the league. Hard to square that with the fourth worst roster in the NFL.
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This is the process. Keep working, even a the margins, looking for ways to improve. Doing something versus doing nothing.
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This one's on the coaching staff. Yes, Allen's a rookie, but they should have been working on the triple scramble, 40-yard, cross-body, cross field throw a bit more.
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I'm pretty sure that won't work. I lived in Europe, and my game pass account was different from the one I use in the U.S. Also, game pass would recognize if I signed onto my Europe account while in the U.S., and would deny access to live streaming. I'm pretty sure game pass will see it's a U.S. account, and will provide the access granted in the U.S. or deny access all together. On a side note, I found that if I used a VPN and routed my Internet through a European country, I could watch live games on my Europe account while in the U.S. I was surprised the NFL hadn't closed that loophole.
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NFL to play black National Anthem prior to Star Spangled banner
in The Stadium Wall Archives
Posted · Edited by Robert James
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The Powers that Be over the past 200+ years: Black people count as three fifths of a person; enslaving black people is perfectly legal; okay slavery is not legal but black people can't live in white neighborhoods; separate but equal; black people can't vote; okay black people can vote but good luck getting to a polling place; black people can't marry white people; black children can't go to school with white children; okay black children can go to school with white children, but we're going to make it very hard to live in white school districts; what's with these black people, why do they live in these horrible neighborhoods; we need stricter policing; etc., etc., etc.
Black America: Black Lives Matter; Give Us True Equality!
The Powers that Be: Stop being so divisive!!