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This is the issue with trying to legislate abortion though. You can say you agree with that approach but the existing laws are not making it clear to healthcare providers what they are able to do. So there will always be cases like the 10 year old rape victim forced to cross state lines because of difficult to interpret laws. And you can say the whole thing will eventually work itself out but I don't think 50 states worth of legislators will ever completely figure it out. Politicians just want to score political points with their base. They don't care about nuance. Medical science is hard and requires nuance. Legislators shouldn't get between a person and his or her doctor, nor should they try to legislate away bodily autonomy. Every fetus is inherently a threat to the mother's body and health. You can scoff at that description if you want but it's true. A woman should always be able to weigh that threat and make her own decision about her body.

Crowder took 2/3 of his snaps last year from the slot, 1/3 elsewhere. He will be our primary slot for sure but in a pinch he can play outside.

Her face looks way too much like Zach Wilson's face. It's frightening.

Brandon Staley made some of the dumbest coaching decisions I've ever seen last year and almost single handedly denied the Chargers a playoff spot. If he trusts his team more this year they will indeed be one of the best in the conference.

He is A backup, not THE backup. He's far down the depth chart. Hermes explained it in his post above. If anyone believes that the Bills' contingency plan for Diggs or Davis going down is to simply give Kumerow their snap share, they're deluding themselves.

No he isn't.

The NFL already made their case for a full season suspension. Sue Robinson is not deciding the suspension length. She is merely deciding if Watson's actions are punishable under the NFL's personal conduct policy. If she finds in favor of the NFL she will recommend a suspension length but the NFL will ultimately make that final decision. I can't see why they would do anything other than a full season given that they have made the case for it already.

How could a reporter have any clue what the independent judge is thinking, just one day after the final briefs were submitted by both sides?

That report has been misinterpreted. First of all we're talking about the legal definition of force/coercion which is not the same as the layman definition. Secondly the report stated that the NFL didn't provide evidence of force/coercion, not that the NFL found force/coercion didn't occur. That's a really important distinction that most media outlets are not reporting correctly. The only evidence of force/coercion in the legal sense is the individual testimony of some of the women, and a he/she said testimony is not real evidence. The NFL obviously presented their case that Deshaun Watson took advantage of these women and presented some evidence of that. The force/coercion report is, I think, a red herring put out there by Watson's camp or the NFLPA to garner public sympathy for Watson's cause. The media in general does a poor job of reporting legal matters with the nuance that they deserve.

There have been a lot of recent attempts by Watson's camp to float stories that discredit the allegations. It's blatant and gross, especially for the journalists that unquestioningly feed it to the public.

In the year 2022 you just called Allen Robinson a top 10 WR. Put down the hot take machine gun and take a breath.

Practically identical situation to the Buffalo shooter. Red flag laws need to be strengthened everywhere. A 22 year old with a history of death threats has no business obtaining a gun legally. These things are preventable.

That's after they got stopped on 5 consecutive drives to start the game, one of which ended with a pick, another of which ended with a fumble returned for a TD. The issue in that game is that Pittsburgh's offense did nothing with the gift handed to them by the defense and once KC starting scoring their will was broken. Imagine if our defense had stopped them on 5 drives in the entire game, let alone 5 consecutive drives to start the game. It would have been a Bills blowout. You're not going to convince anyone that the absence of our best defensive player, one of our three elite players last year, had no impact on a one score game that ended on an admitted mistake from the #2 CB. You can use literally any argument or any numbers you want. I don't care about a different game from the prior season. The premise on the face of it is absurd and you know this.

I'm not sure that's true. If he was an elite physical specimen I would expect him to stop Leonard Fournette behind the LoS when he has him dead to rights, rather than instantly getting driven back. He looks like an elite physical specimen but he doesn't play like it. Like I said he's really big and fast. His length is the one thing I'll say is truly unique about him.

I would agree more with his "uniqueness" if he was also a violent player, someone that almost never missed tackles and imposed his will on anyone that got in his way. That violence combined with his range and speed would make the mental flaws easier to ignore. As it is he's just big and fast and exceptionally long. He's capable merely of executing his "invisible role" in this defense, never rising above it.

I don't think Edmunds is that unique. He's an elite athlete who has struggled with the mental side of football. That's an entire genre of NFL player.

Based on some of the moves they've made this offseason I think they are already in the process of doing this. Same on the offensive side of the ball. The Bills are not going to be stagnant. They are making intentional moves to keep their scheme more flexible than it has been. They do NOT need a MLB with Edmunds' athletic gifts to build a successful defense, that's crazy. McDermott has built several successful defenses with a wide variety of players.

So you're saying Edmunds plays like a little girl? Jeez man, I've criticized him, but take it easy.

Every defensive line rotates. Offensive lines don't. The 2nd string DT and DE is more important than any other 2nd stringer on the team because they aren't just backups, they are rotational starters. So yes of course we spent money on DL depth this offseason. We lost most of our DL starters from last year. On the OL we only lost Williams. Stop looking at roster building in a vacuum. Quessenberry. He is a decent backup option if Spencer Brown doesn't progress.

Sure, and having top 10 players at every position on the field would be ideal. But that's not how roster building works. You use the resources available to you to build the best possible team which means you have to make a few sacrifices at certain positions. Every team has a hole somewhere. RT isn't a premium position. We have a promising 2nd year player with high upside and a decent veteran. Ideal, no, but it's satisfactory for a less important position. And if that situation is what you can point to as the biggest weakness on the roster that's a sign that the overall roster is in really good shape.

Well let's see what Spencer Brown looks like when he isn't a raw rookie from a small school, after taking a year off from playing football. He was never even supposed to play last year. I think he hit the rookie wall hard, which isn't surprising, and was completely gassed by the divisional round. Every team in the league is relying on some of their young players to take a step. It's a normal part of roster building.

Yes but he doesn't look natural playing the position. There's something awkward about his play. It reminds me of EJ Manuel, very robotic and always trying to remember the little details instead of just doing them. The best players are instinctive. If you're thinking about what you're supposed to do you've already failed. His pure athleticism makes up for some of his mental flaws but good offenses have turned those flaws against him and I haven't seen any signs that he's suddenly going to develop the necessary instincts to raise his level of play. Big and fast doesn't cut it in the NFL. The history of the league is littered with elite athletes that never learned how to play football.