Doc Brown

It's a good predictor of the economy. Always has been.

I'm thrilled on what Trump did despite giving people heart attacks with their retirement accounts. China's economy needs to be aggressively weakened. I still want for the health of this country though for Congress to take back control of tariffs like they do on taxes. Imagine if an idiot like Bernie Sanders was president and did the same thing Trump did but actually followed through on tariffs for every country.

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Hmmm...must've read my post.

Problem is your team has to suck in order to have 14 to 16 1pm games.

People are used to one side benefiting from a policy at the expense of the other side. Especially in politics. Nobody wins in a prolonged tariff war though. Tariffs can be strategic. Especially one's that encourage other countries (including us) from stop trading with China. The tariffs should only be on China though which would encourage more investment in the US and other countries we trade with. Just a blanket tariff on almost every country (friend and foe) discourages that.

That's the only thing preventing me from saying it's not an impossibly. His play has dropped off since then too so it's possible we could get him at a much lower cost with incentives but every move they've made at safety since Poyer and Hyde left tells me they want to get younger at the position.

I wonder what changed since then.........

Saying that he's not going to go all out to protect himself from injury would not be in his best interest since he wants a huge payday after the season. Cook really impressed me last year with his excellent vision and his physicality to run over defenders on his way to the end zone which I didn't think he had in him. The two Chiefs games and the Seahawks game he looked like a running back possessed. My heart says he's earned a big contract extension but my head vehemently disagrees with my heart in that you shouldn't give an above average player at the running back position elite money. Especially if the RB isn't a bellcow back. My guess is he'll play well next year and then sign elsewhere and we'll get a 4th or 5th round comp pick for him.

Biden and now Trump are making libertarians an appealing alternative.

I hear what you're saying but Simmons was sitting their for the taking last year as a free agent all the way until mid August before signing with the Falcons. There were no reports the Bills were interested so I don't see why they would be now.

For those that give any credence to PFF he had an overall grade of 59.9 which was 113th out of 171 qualified safeties. I'd be shocked if he's on the Bills radar. It's not that unusual for veteran free agents will hold out until after the draft as teams look to patch up holes on their roster they failed to address in the draft.

Shoot. I really liked Watts if he fell in the 2nd round.

Just the naysaying left?? It's anybody who's taken basic economics. Good luck buying anything in the US that is made exclusively American.

Depends on who's talking. You're right. It can't be both. The market jumped today on optimism that Trump would roll back his tariffs promoting free trade and then came crashing down when investors realized the new tariffs would be implemented.

OK. I'll table it a week to see what happens. I have that forever stamp locked and loaded in my desk once we reach breadline madness though.

The funny part is it took them like three days to come up with a reason for hitting the penguins (and seals) with tariffs.

Freudian typing slip. Sorry about that. I'm sure they'll be wonderful well thought out agreements. The reasons the markets are panicking is the chaotic approach and nebulous messaging coming from the White House.

I'm getting a lot of mixed messages with this stupid tariff thing. One is that Trump is using it as leverage to make artificial trade deals. The other is he'll keep these tariffs in place in order to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. The other is he imposed tariffs to a country with only penguins living there who've been taking advantage of us for years.

True but you also have to maintain the offense.

I'm guessing for a center you can extend him for around three years $36m?

If Trump keeps up this stupid tariff thing. Forget violence. I'm ready to write a strongly worded letter to my Congressman.

Very difficult guy to predict. Thank God he is who I thought he was.

Only team to draft three RB's in the first round during the drought span. Those picks could've went to more premium positions. Glad those days are over.