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That's where I think you're getting confused. The senate intelligence committee didn't use their assessment. They examined it to see if it was truthful, reviewing every single person involved and every piece of information those intelligence officers used to make their assessment. They were examining the validity of that ICA and came away with a general consensus that they trust the conclusions it came to.

Huh? Would you rather they not examine the people who wrote the assessment they were reviewing the accuracy of? It's not like they relied on those interviews to get their information. The Senate intelligence committee is doing their own investigation. They talked to 100's of different people and reviewed every single piece of information, classified or otherwise, that went into the ICA and even the information that didn't. 100,000 pages of documents. They've been extremely thorough. I'd have been more worried if, in their review of the ICA, they hadn't examined the people who actually wrote it.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?435050-1/senate-russia-probe-expanded-looking-possible-collusion Full Press conference from the heads of the senate intelligence committee updating on the Russian election probe. I tried to transcribe the first 5 minutes or so as best I could, since it pertains to the discussion we were having here. It's probably easier to just listen yourself, but here it is anyway - They conducted over 250+ hours of interviews, almost 4,000 pages of transcripts, almost 100,000 pages of documents reviewed. It includes highly classified intelligence reporting, emails, campaign documents & technical cyber analysis products. They've held 11 open hearings this year that touched on Russian interference. Their staff has worked 6 to 7 days a week since January to get to the point they are at today. So far in the interview process, they have talked to everybody that had a hand or a voice in the intelligence community assessment. They reviewed all the supporting documents that went into it and in addition the things that were thrown on the cutting room floor that they may not have found appropriate for the ICA itself. They interviewed every official of the Obama administration. They interviewed individuals from around the world. They've come to a general consensus among members and staff that they trust the conclusions of the intelligence community assessment. But they won't close their consideration/investigation of the ICA yet in the unlikelihood that they find additional information through the completion of their investigation.

Yeah I knew it was an automatic loss once overtime ended. That's what I was originally going to post, but I went with "oh boy" instead, not wanting to jinx them.

Yup. Knew we had zero chance once it went to the shootout. Drouin made Lehner look freaking silly. Deked him right out of his pads. He was beat on the first shootout goal too, it just hit the post. I was hoping Lehner improved in the shootout but I knew it wasn't likely. He has sucked at it his entire career. Last I looked he was just about dead last outmof 90+ qualified goalies.

Welp, it's going to a shootout.... oh boy.

I'm good with this. No reason to force the C on someone. Let it happen naturally. I think Housley said they would rotate the 'A's, too. Also, I'm very interested to see how Eichel handles the #1C role. He damn well should be our #1C for that price tag... it's not like he hasn't already been facing the other team's top lines at times already. But I'm excited to see him take on the role full time. It could help O'Reilly too. Having him face more 2nd line competition could really give his game a boost. Bylsma gave him every single tough minute he possibly could. He kinda rode ROR and Risto into the ground. ROR had that back injury to start last year, too, yet Bylsma still had him taking like every damn face off. It's gotta be tough to heal from a back injury while twisting and contorting it to try and win a FO. I know he refused to use it as an excuse, but I honestly wonder if he was ever truly 100% last season. I'm hoping to see more of that ROR from his 1st season here. He was still great last year, but that first year he was unreal. Can't believe the Sabres season starts today! This is the best time right now. Both Sabres and Bills games on. I love it!

I like it. I want an even keeled coach that can keep a positive demeanor and inspire belief from his players even when things aren't going perfectly. Tyrod recently spoke about the different mindset of the team this year. Said that they don't let anything rattle them, even when things are going badly during a game. Said how they don't lose the belief/confidence that they can win if they just continue to stick to their game plan. I think much/most of that has to be attributed to McDermott. I think teams kind of tend to take on the personality of their head coach and in this case that seems to be a really good thing (so far).

Yeah I found that interesting. Especially because Housley just said this before the press conference - http://www.wgr550.com/articles/news/housley-wont-rule-out-bogosian-thursday "We’re going to evaluate that today, we might have something tomorrow, but obviously we’re going to have to have captains tomorrow in our lineup and we’re going to evaluate that today and we’ll see where that leaves us tomorrow.” Left me a bit confused. lol I think it'll be Eichel though. He seems to be looked at as the leader. I think last year when the whole team asked Eichel to be the one to deliver their message to Tim Murray in season ending interviews, it spoke loudly to that. "He's the leader of this team and we're all really excited for him," O'Reilly said. "He's the guy that's going to help us do something special here for sure. He's a massive, massive part of it." http://buffalonews.com/2017/10/04/teammates-reward-eichels-new-deal-massive-dinner-tab-will-no-15s-plate/

IMO, this is Eichel's team and it will likely only go as far as he takes them. It only makes sense to name him captain.

I'm pretty sure Lehrer struggled with breakaways in general. I couldn't find the stats right now. I'll keep looking. But I'm almost sure that he was well below the league average on breakaways in general. I know he has always struggled with shootout's his entire career. As of last December he was ranked 89th out of 91 qualified goalies in career shootout save %. It's a shame because he is a pretty strong goalie otherwise. His save percentage was 12th in the NHL. He just seems to struggle mightily on breakaways and shootouts.

It's already on snopes. They believe it was a strobe light in the window. There's another video from 2 hours before the shooting that shows that same flashing light in that same window and a police officer confirms that there is some type of strobe light flashing in a 4th floor window. Plus, like bdutton said, the windows don't open and it wasn't broken out like the shooter's windows on the 32nd floor. Edit - here is the link with the video showing that strobe light on the 4th floor hours before the shooting and audio of the police radio talking about that strobe light. http://www.snopes.com/second-gunman-shoot-fourth-floor-mandalay-bay/

Not sure this is really the right place for this but I didn't know where else to put it. I tried to pick an article that wasnt just one sided (in either direction). http://www.snopes.com/2017/10/03/united-nations-ban-death-penalty/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social 'U.S. Votes Against United Nations Ban on Death Penalty for Same-Sex Relations The United States joined 12 other countries, including Saudi Arabia and China, in voting against a United Nations resolution condemning the use of the death penalty to punish blasphemy, adultery, and same-sex relations. “The Question of the Death Penalty” passed by a healthy margin anyway, with 27 nations voting in favor and seven abstaining. The members voting against were Botswana, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, China, India, Iraq, Japan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.

https://mobile.twitter.com/GopherHockey/status/914882469001875457/video/1 Minnesota highlights. Has Mittlestadt's goal and 2 assists. That assist at 1:12, and the dangle & assist at 1:27. Wow! This kid has some sick hands.

Nice! I was hoping for the AAV to come in under $10M, but I figured that wasn't all that realistic on an 8yr deal, half of those being UFA years. Thrilled to have Eichel in Buffalo for 9 more years!

I hope he stays out starter until someone better actually legitimately takes the job from him.

IMO we were very lucky to land this guy. I consider him to be one of the very best D line coaches in the NFL. I guess there were quite a few other teams after him, too, from what I read/heard.

We have a number of coaches on this staff with ties to Andy Reid. David Culley as you already mentioned, and Sean McDermott is obviously from the Andy Reid coaching tree (worked for him for 12 yrs) Leslie Frazier was a Reid disciple from Philly. Reid gave him his start as an NFL coach IIRC. Juan Castillo worked under Reid for 13 years in Philly. Chad Hall played for Andy Reid in Philly. I wrote a long, detailed post on all the ties between McDermott and Andy Reid during the offseason, but I don't know how to go back and look through all my old posts to find it.

Hey, at least his people get to see him on TV now, right? lol

I realize I might be going way out on a limb with this one and some may call me crazy, but... I really think they look identical to the way the 2017 Bills did 4 games into the season. Anyone else see it too, or is I just me?

But do we know if he bought these automatic weapons illegally? or did he just modify a legally bought semi automatic weapon or use a legal device to make it shoot like an auto? Sounds like he bought most all of the weapons legally from what they know so far, and that he had a legal bump stock style device - http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-las-vegas-shooting-live-updates-paddock-had-19-rifles-in-room-1506985512-htmlstory.html "Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas shooter, had an arsenal of 17 weapons in his hotel room, mostly military-style rifles, according to a law enforcement source. At least one of them had been modified with a legal “bump stock” style device that allows the shooter to rapidly fire off rounds without actually converting it to a fully automatic weapon, the source said. The devices modify the gun’s stock so that the recoil helps accelerate how quickly the shooter can pull the trigger. The devices are legal in the U.S. Paddock apparently bought the guns legally, passing the required background checks." This article explains what a bump stock is and shows a video of how it works (as well as other ways thenshooter could have turned legal guns into automatics) - https://www.wired.com/story/las-vegas-shooting-automatic-rifle/ Its still early into the investigation though. Let's see what they find out, and if the above info ends up being accurate.

I can not blame McDermott for passing on a QB at #10 in this draft. The way everything played out with the draft and what happened immediately afterwards, I think it's pretty clear he had a GM + an entire scouting & personnel staff that he did not have much trust or faith in. When McDermott took over the team he said that the job was available for a reason. He said usually when a team fires people that means it's "sick" and you have to examine everything, find the problem and then have the courage to fix it. He obviously diagnosed the GM and his staff as part of that "sickness". He was barely a few months into a job that he worked tirelessly the past 2 decades to earn so I can understand why he wouldn't want to basically bet his entire head coaching career on a top 10 drafted QB (that he'd be tied to for years) under those circumstances. Especially when he (most likely) knew that he wouldn't be tied to that front office staff and changes would be made right after the draft to bring in a people he trusted. Let's see what happens over the next few seasons before we declare passing on Watson a mistake. Same with Mahomes, who hasn't even played a game yet. We've seen plenty of QBs have a good stretch of games or a good season (or even two). The true test comes when coaches have a bunch of tape on a player and can design a game plan on all their tendencies +"weaknesses etc.

McVay is definitely a good story so far. I also like all the ex-Bills that play for the Rams. But this season (for Bills related reasons) I want them to do as crappy as possible. Next year, when we don't hold their 2nd round pick, they can win their division. Just please not this year! lol

Fair enough man. You seem to have done more reading and study on this than I have. I'll have to try looking into this more. Just to quickly address that link you provided - it doesn't actually redact that intelligence report. It's only saying that all 17 intelligence agencies didn't put the report out. The main 4 that I originally listed did. But it doesn't change anything about the actual report or that the other 13 disagree with the information contained. Unless the 4 intelligence agencies that worked on it say they were mistaken, then I don't see where that redaction is of all that much significance. It was just something Hillary Clinton said and the left leaning media ran with, which they later redacted. I haven't seen anything saying that the intelligence community disagrees with that ICA. All those quotes I posted yesterday were from the intelligence community and all of them seemed to universally back that report (and there were many more I didn't post, stating the same thing). If that position has changed since those quotes from June, then I haven't seen it myself and I apologize. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jul/06/17-intelligence-organizations-or-four-either-way-r/ (not 100% sure on this source, they've been ok in the past but sometimes tend to lean a bit to the left IMO. It explains what I mentioned above pretty well though) Do you have any credible sources saying that these other intelligence agencies actually disagree with the information in that ICA? I did read that ICA by the way, before I posted it. I'll have to dig more into this when I get a chance. I don't watch any of the main news channels (Fox, CNN, MSNBC etc) and try not to focus too much on all this stuff (as it drives me crazy when I do). I've just been kind of waiting for these in depth investigations to finish. But I hadn't read/heard anything about the Russia info from the IC being in question. Anyway... thanks for the nice response and sorry if I came off as combative in my last post. I also didn't mean it to come off that way.

Not sure if this was posted yet - http://www.buffalobills.com/news/article-1/What-theyre-saying-Bills-credit-leadership-and-big-plays-in-road-win/69d1e10e-8299-48fd-9136-a28dbbeb1b28 Head Coach Sean McDermott - Became the first Bills coach to win three of his first four games since Kay Stephenson in 1983 - This is the first Bills team to beat undefeated teams in consecutive weeks in franchise history Loved the players reactions for Pat DiMarco too, in that video of the post game locker room speech. This really does seem like a close group of players.