transplantbillsfan

How is it that no one is talking about this????? We lost 140,000 jobs in Trump's final full month as President. Our Unemployment rate is incredibly misleading and still really bad at 6.7% because it doesn't account for MILLIONS of workers (especially women) who simply dropped out of the workforce because they either gave up looking or had to take care of their families. Trump is going to leave office losing more jobs than he gained. When was the last time that happened? And even before Covid, the manufacturing industry was going into a recession late in 2019 into 2020. Donald Trump might be the worst President in American history.... too bad so many of the people who were in this thread talking about how great he is are no longer here to defend an economy in shambles largely because of him.

I disagree. I thought the Colts were the best matchup for us in round 1 and it played out that way for us, too. The Titans and Chiefs both have better ground games and mobile QBs. And we saw what Cleveland did to Pittsburgh in round 1, already knowing they have an incredible ground game with Chubb and Hunt. It's the playoffs and I'm just not expecting a blowout any week. I would love it every game were one, but it's just not realistic to expect that once we reach the postseason. The Colts are a really good team, but we were clearly better. I thought this little tidbit in the Buffalonews was interesting: https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/bad-field-position-bills-win-over-colts-was-one-for-the-millennium/article_5eb94098-541e-11eb-b0f3-03eb4f5b3647.html Add up all of the drives, and the Bills’ average start was 163 yards worse than that of the Colts. Despite that, the Bills won 27-24. According to Elias Sports Bureau, it’s the first time in 18 years a team had that big of a field-position disadvantage and won a post-season game. That was the worst field position game I think I've ever seen us play, yet we were in control for most of the game. We were up at the half and up by 14 in the 4th quarter. I kept praying Roberts would just take a knee in the EZ on kickoffs. I'm not saying coaching wasn't good, but it had it's flaws. I think Daboll stuck to the ground game for WAAAAAYYYY too long, for instance. But to me, this was all an insane game of utterly terrible field position for us. But we overcame that. Josh overcame that. I don't think we'll have that atrocious a field position game again.

This is a great point... Rivers has that vet savvy to get rid of the ball quickly. Jackson's strategy is often to hold onto the ball. I'm nervous about our pass rush, but our issues against Indy may have just been a product of going against a QB getting the ball out of his hands so quickly.

This year I've actually been getting irritated on almost every play Allen goes under center other than the 3rd and 4th and short where we QB sneak it. I feel anxiety because I anticipate handing the ball off to an RB. I'm sorry but this team wins or loses with Allen. Moss and Singletary just aren't very good and the 2 or 3 yard gains just don't net anything that Allen can do with his arms and legs. Keep an RB in the backfield and occasionally run it to keep them honest, but we ran the ball way too much in the first half against Indy. I also really wish we'd eliminate QB designed runs. RPOs are fine and tell Allen he should absolutely run on passing plays vs. man coverage if everyone's covered and he sees an opening. But our designed QB runs have NEVER been all that effective over the past 3 years. Of course... his designed QB runs have been more effective than running our RBs... so I guess there's that...

Why is Wade ineligible to be brought up? That special designation he had for the Practice Squad was last year, not this year. Am I wrong about that? I thought this year he's just on our normal Practice Squad. I don't think McDermott made a mistake.

Buffalo should win. I'm not supremely confident we will win, but we should. We're the better team in all 3 phases. Nonetheless I'm a longterm Bills fan and have a healthy amount of respect for any NFL team the Bills play.

Might as well beat the best if we wanna be the best. Let's be honest... if we're able to win the Super Bowl (please please please!!!) beating an underrated Colts team, the Ravens, the Chiefs, and whoever comes outta the NFC.., there's absolutely no questioning our legitimacy long-term.

I didn't want the Ravens in round 1 because I felt they were the toughest out other than Kansas City. However, that doesn't mean I think the Ravens are better than us. We really honestly should still win this game. I'm hoping the round 1 squeaker serves as a bit of a wake up call specifically for our D and our D gets back to the form it was in for the end of the regular season. Regardless, this might be the best game next weekend. Primetime on NBC????

Our D was underwhelming overall. He had a key tipped pass that led to an incompletion. This is a stupid thread. Milano is one of our 2 or 3 best defensive players.

I don't think anyone actually believes ALL of the bad things happening with Covid is Trump's fault. If your interpretation is someone believing that Trump is responsible for EVERYTHING Covid related, you should ask them. My guess is they would say they don't blame him for everything. However, Trump has made things worse, and thank you for acknowledging that.

If you hold Trump accountable for his rhetoric for Wednesday, then his rhetoric is also partially to blame for how rampant Covid is in our Country. You must be able to acknowledge that, at the very least. But it's game day... GO BILLS!!!

You do an amazing job of twisting words and cherry picking. You should become what you seem to hate: a politician. and... is this a bizarro world where @DC Tom is honestly trying to play the victim????

You're referring to Harry Reid and this ultimately happened because of Republican obstructionism... and I think it was also led by McConnell Yes... Democrats had a filibuster proof majority and the '08 election was almost primarily based on Healthcare. They had a mandate. They couldn't get everything they wanted, but it was a helluva lot better than what was before or the nothingburger of a plan Trump has. Please see Donald Trump Eliminating the ACA and preexisting conditions, making abortion illegal, giving the richest of our country by far the most significant tax breaks, trying to deport young people who might not be US citizens but know no other country and are upstanding non-citizens, making it easier rather than harder for civilians to get assault rifles and other automatic weapons, rhetoric exonerated white supremacists like in Charlottesville, etc. So disgusting

Why should liberals say that? In the past, I honestly felt that way. But Mitch McConnell has shifted my entire political belief system. Over the last 4 years Trump and McConnell and Republicans used every twisted power they could to get absolutely everything they could do in their power. The hypocrisy of holding the Supreme Court nomination after Scalia died for 10+ months and rushing the nomination of ACB after RBG died is just, frankly, absolutely disgusting. I would like the Democrats to get rid of the filibuster and pack the courts. When one party controls the House, the Senate, AND the Presidency, you have a mandate. Donald Trump and the Republicans kinda fumbled around when they had all 3 of those, but they passed a disastrous tax reform and tried to overturn Obamacare, but luckily didn't because of John McCain. Donald Trump is the most notable culprit when it comes to our country's divisive rhetoric for a long time now... and it goes all the way back to him propagating the conspiracy theory of birthirism with Obama. But... hey.... that's your President, right?

I'm going to quote my father-in-law and step-father-in-law here because I don't think this is a policy thing so much as a "stick it to da man" thing, which I'm seein reflected in some of your most recent posts as well: "He's an outsider who doesn't do things the Washington-way." Seriously. That's what I believe it boils down to. It's the essence of his popularity. And in terms of policy (to some degree, at least), his popularity primarily among the more institutional Republicans has to do with the sheer luck of being able to nominate so many federal and Supreme Court Judges. But that was just the dumb luck of being President for 4 years, and getting 3 Supreme Court vacancies with a Republican controlled Senate led by a Senator with no integrity who blocked so many federal judges during the Obama Administration soas to limit his own nominations along with blocking Merrick Garland after Scalia's death for 10 months and then pulling a 180 when Ginsberg passed. Really it's probably judges. Policy-wise that's why he's so popular. Funny enough because it was luck. I also think there are plenty of reasons that fall underneath that. White Extremists are probably 100% behind him, but no, I don't believe all Trump supporters are White Extremists. So many other roads to go down that aren't policy like "he says what he's thinking" or "there's no filter" or "look at his Empire..." etc. I'm sorry but with the ultimate unravelling of this week--just the final one (hopefully) of many--I think you guys need to just open your eyes.

I have a question: Do you hold Trump accountable in any way for what happened at the Capital on Wednesday? I think you're over at the other site, right? Good thing you're in an echo chamber with people who agree with you. You'd be banned by now for trolling like this. I was banned for much less.

Well said. I guess what just disheartens me is I really did think some of the posters who fled to that other site were people I enjoyed engaging with about both politics and football. Oh well. It's been a helluva week--and aside from the politics, I've been dealing with some personal crises that I won't get into--and ya know what? If the Bills win tomorrow, I will forget about politics for a good chunk of time. Sports truly is the great unifier. I know that because I travel every football morning to watch the games with my Trump supporting friend. Happy New Year! And GO BILLS!!!

Yes it was a real question. Soooo... the answer is no? No officers dead there. And I'm not trivializing them being shot, but my question was if any died.

Being "objective" relating to numbers correlating to the situation I provided you relating to Trump's last few months in office combined with his actual Increasing support among Republicans isn't objectivity, it's naivete, if not wilful ignorance.

Those Presidents were just better in their first terms than Trump. This was an interesting exercise, though. You doubted my statement and asked for proof. I provided requested proof. Then in an effort to validate your own beliefs you sought evidence you could use to counter that proof. There's a big difference between those other Presidents and Trump. It's Covid and our current Economy. We lost 4,000+ Americans today and have lost 375,000 since the Pandemic began less than a year ago and all Trump cares about are his false claims of a rigged election. 400,000 Americans will have died because of Covid under Trump's watch by the time he's finally out of office. Is there even a REMOTELY similar situation among the 3 cited 1st term Presidents? I appreciate the initial acknowledgement even if you couldn't quite sustain it, but it might be best to accept how terrible he is.

Police Officer just died due to injuries sustained during this riot. Did any police officers die during the BLM protests?

I told many of them to just ignore me. Evidently they came up with an ignore feature so not only could they not see my initial posts, but they couldn't see my posts when people responded to me. Their ignorance is their bliss. There are 2 sides to every story and the truth will obviously be somewhere in the middle, but you gave me a nice big belly laugh by saying I'm "swinging over there." Frankly, being banned from there doesn't bother me a great deal. I wish posters like @Foxx and @Buffalo_Gal didn't abandon this discussion board altogether because I really like both of them. And I really like talking Bills football with both of them. I think @billsfan1959 went over there, too... I feel the same way about him. And yes, there are a couple others... but a couple of them have chosen to straddle that board and this one, like you. Glad you stayed. Most of the other people over there simply aren't worth my time. But yes, part of my motivation going over there was getting Greg to live up to his bet. The fact that he didn't legitimately surprised me. It also put him in the category of not being worth the time.

Ya know. Over 4,000 people died today. There are almost 375,000 Americans dead. 400,000 Americans are likely going to pass away from this disease in less than a year. And SO MUCH of this is on Donald Trump. Any individual still calling this Pandemic a hoax should go play in traffic, but even the ones who did for the longest time initially are probably going to suddenly say it's real but shift blame to the states. These people are idiots... and they're probably largely over at another forum right now because they needed to go dark web to stay loyal to a treasonous bastard of a POTUS.

Wow.... so you haven't paid ANY attention, have you? https://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx 94% in September 94% from September-October 95% mid October (insane considering this was after that absolute debacle of a first debate) 90% in November AFTER the election!!! 87% in the first half of December which is just.....