oldmanfan

Time for the O line to start playing

Ok boys, let’s matriculate the ball down the field!

I remember that one well. That was after an 0-6 pre-season too.

Don't know who he is. Don't care what he says.

I see no reason why he’d regress.

Absolutely. I wish some of the younger folks here would have gotten the opportunity to watch the AFL teams.

It’s my team, I’ll pick who I want. I watched those teams and Cookie was a fantastic runner.

He and Wray Carleton flip flopped a bit. Cookie was my Bettis type RB.

Most memorable for me was 1980 finally beating the Fish, and helping carry the goalposts up to Ralph’s box (yes, alcohol was involved). But the best game I ever saw was the ‘74 opener against the Raiders.

Damn, I forgot TE. So I have to take Carleton off the roster and add Ernie Warlick.

Let's keep going, hit the wrong button QB: Kelly, Kemp RB: Simpson, Thomas, Gilchrist FB: Braxton, Carleton WR: Reed, Moulds, Butler, Diggs, Beasley, Moore (Rashad),Tasker O line: Hull, Joe D, Shaw, Ballard, Peters (starters), McKensie, Barber, Bemiller, Ritcher, Wolford (backups) D line: Smith, McDole, Sestak, Washington (starters) Smerlas, Schoebel, P Williams, Hughes, Day LB: Stratton, Fletcher, Bennett (starters), Conley, Talley, Paup, Jacobs (backups) CB: Egerson, White, Clements, James, Byrd, Odomes S: Saimes, Greene, Poyer, Hyde ST: Bass, Moorman, Ferguson

Oh man, this will be tough. Let me give it a shot: QB: Kelly, Kemp RB: Simpson, Thomas, Gilchrist FB: Braxton WR: Reed, Moulds, Butler, Diggs, Dubenion, Tasker OL:

I'm too busy right now, but plan to semi-retire in 2022 so I'd consider it then.

No. Sorry, but no.

Right there with you Shaw. I have to believe God is benevolent enough to give me one Super Bowl win before I die. And maybe a Stanley Cup. At least I have '64 and '65.

Best of luck to the young man. Thus gives him an opportunity to play more.

The Afghan thing hit me hard. We have a group of Neanderthals in my city trying to burn books and take us back to the 1930’s. And my lab associate has been on maternity leave all summer leaving me to do all the cases for 3 months with no time off. So I’m tired and cranky. Thanks for the message.

I can send you a link from a group where I live protesting against CRT/DEI. It is going on all over. Open your eyes and ears. I apologize for apparently seeming insufferable but I am tired of the lies and the BS. Better employee retention rates for one.

God you are ignorant. You replied to the guy asking about how DEI applies to a health care organization and that you hoped it didn’t mean it applied to the treatment of patients but to hiring. So in reply under your response I wrote it does not apply to patients and then went on to explain how it does. I then expanded my answer to address it in schools because that’s where all this crap started. How the hell can you run a company if your reading and comprehension skills are this lousy?

I know it’s preseason but we need to stop these up the gut runs.

I was replying to the guy you replied to who asked how diversity training has helped health care. You said to him you hoped it wasn’t health care but hiring practices. Thus my comment. So stick it.

Be good for Josh and some other vets to knock a little rust off. Want to watch our young linemen more today. No injuries please!

No it is not the practice of medicine. If anyone actually denied care to a patient based on race in our network they’d get bounced so quickly their head would spin. Where DEI benefits our organization is helping all employees understand you can sometimes exert unconscious behaviors or biases that can negatively impact the workplace and thus impact our care of patients. You kind of give away your own bias about lumping DEI together with CRT by focusing your question on race. DEI does not do so; DEI helps understand that we need to recognize potential biases against anyone: women, men, LGTBQ community, immigrant populations, difference in employment status, differences in socioeconomic status. And yes race. I’ll give you an example of where DEI has helped our organization: relationship of doctors and nurses. We had an issue with some docs just ripping nurses to shreds (male or female) because they viewed them as underlings, as uneducated. When DEI education was introduced as mandatory every year, docs realized their implicit bias. Relationships between nursing staff and physicians improved. Our patient care improved, patient’s evaluation of their care improved, and that improved our Medicare receivables. My point is that DEI and SEL (socioeconomic learning) is much more that race. Much more. You ask how it can affect schooling. Because kids should understand that they all get a shot at a good education, that biases against their fellow students are not healthy, and because when their education is completed and they enter the work force understanding that will be essential. I can give you a couple practical examples. The city where I live is middle to upper middle class, and about 80% of students are white, 5% Asian, 10% black, and the remaining other minorities primarily Hispanic. Many kids are well off economically, but about 10% of the total student body is on assisted lunch and other programs because they are too poor to afford things like lunch or backpacks or other learning essentials. DEI teaching in our schools has helped the more affluent kids understand the difficulties of those classmates, and in return we see the more affluent kids on their own start programs to raise money at football games, choir concerts, and such to help out their fellow students. Those students benefit from that, they have a better attitude towards learning and thrive. It’s a great thing to see. The schools aren’t perfect yet. There is still bullying based on race, kids are still called the N word. My daughter before she graduated was teased because she’s Asian, and people would assume she was smart and that her parents made her study 8 hours a night, not knowing she’s adopted. But overall by inclusion of DEI and SEL principals in the schools we see a more inclusive learning environment where the contributions and talents of each kid are celebrated and rewarded. So that is why I keep talking about the DEI and SEL concepts. Because I see value in them, and because I am tired of seeing people who are not proponents of CRT lump everything together. I have read some on CRT and it has nothing to do with the other concepts. CRT is a theory and theories are just that. My impression of CRT is that it reminds me of scientific papers that I review and reject; that the authors have a theory and then seek to bend data to fit their theory, rather than let data drive the formulation of a theory. I suspect the original proponents of CRT did just that, and as such I’m skeptical. Sorry for the lengthy reply, but I hope it clarifies my position. Go Bills!

Exactly. CRT has nothing to do with critical race theory and should not be lumped in with it.

Stop with the nonsense. I said infection and hospitalization rates are going up in the 18-38 age group and specifically said mortality rates are not going up at the same rate. Grad level stats classes; I don’t need to defend my math abilities to someone who can’t read. I think McD would disagree based on his press conference yesterday.