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I am not sure if Cooper is still a #1 caliber WR, but if he can create more than six inches of separation and have a pulse, he is an instant upgrade over Curtis Samuel.

Gabe Davis with a red zone touchdown? Am I in the right universe?

Most of us had tempered expectations to start, but the 3-0 start had people excited again. I think the start had mostly to do with catching the Dolphins and Jags at their worst possible times. This team is a lot like the Squads from 2014-2019. Good enough to beat the bad teams and maybe even make the playoffs, but not a serious enough contender to be a Super Bowl threat and likely to lose most games against the top 10 teams. I see 8 to 10 wins as being realistic. Hopefully this is just a quick rebuild and a stronger second run in Josh Allen's career is ahead.

They lost because around the beginning of the 4th quarter, I had a sudden gut feeling and calm reassurance that they would find a way to pull the game off. Things seems to always go opposite of what I expect in those situations. I apologize to everyone, and will try to be more pessimistic next time.

I think that they get in the playoffs, only because the rest of the AFC east is atrocious and eight or nine wins might be enough. Make no mistake though, this is a rebuilding year. This team is like the squads from 2014-2018 where they will beat up on mediocre teams but crumble against the top ones.

I was one that thought the low risk, grab a few low key options and see who steps up strategy might work, but I see today that it hasn't. I understand the risk since we needed to clear cap space, but they took the risk on the wrong players and it didn't work out. Hollins will never be more than a #4 WR and Samuel is invisible. Buffalo needs to trade for a WR and comb the practice squad for someone who better fits the system. Samuel and Hollins are Sherfield and Harty 2.0. Outside of Shakir and Coleman at WR, everyone is immediately replaceable.

If we wanted a chronic whiner, we would have kept Diggs who was at least more talented.

"The Bills failed Josh Allen? Do the Bills have to go to summer Josh?"

Hopefully, but I would like to see him get cut by the Rams and signed cheaply by us before that epic turnaround.

It sucks getting rid of popular players, but so far the numbers show that it was the right choice. Age and injuries caught up to White and you could see a decline in Poyer last year. Just because our current safeties are not playing ideally does not mean that Poyer would have done any better.

I figured that Allen would spread the a ball around like he did after Dorsey last year and that the WR's would do just fine, but I expected there to be a little bit of a learning curve to start the season. I guess if you count the first half of week 1, maybe those two quarters were it. The offensive line has been the pleasant surprise on the offensive side of the ball. I haven't really seen Allen get pressured and the running game is effective. Probably the best line that I can remember since the first two Super Bowl years in 1990 and 1991.

Buffalo put themselves in that position by never drafting at QB until they absolutely had to. Granted, 2010 to 2015 was a rough stretch for QB draft classes, with 2012 being the only decent year, but by 2012, it was clear that Fitz was average at best. We could have drafted Russell Wilson or Kirk Cousins in the mid-rounds, but instead, we traded up for T.J. Graham, who was nowhere close to being an NFL-caliber WR. By the time 2013 came around, there was no QB on the roster after we moved on from Fitz, and we pretty much had to draft a QB. It did not help that the 2013 QB class may be one of the worst ever. Your best options that year were Geno Smith, who was seen as a bust until he resurrected his career two years ago, and Matt Barkley, who we all love but was never more than a backup. Buffalo definitely could have got a QB later, but their strategy was sound. They traded down once, and the rest of that draft was one of their better ones in the drought era. That year, Robert Woods, Kiko Alonso(Got us LeSean McCoy), Marquise Goodwin, and Dustin Hopkins were also picked. I never blamed EJ Manuel, it was just the the perfect storm of bad timing and terrible decision making in previous years.

Nope not here. I invest a bit and do not mind the occasional calculated risk, but there has to be some type of upside and common sense when you choose what to invest in.

I'm not far right. I am in the center. I try to only get my news from stations that are the same. Allsides is a good resource to differentiate between networks that are truly in the Center such as News Nation or the Hill and left leaning networks who lie about being Neutral like CNN. I used it to expose your source as left leaning. Not sure why you were referencing that, but anyway..... I am sorry that it blows your mind that not only MAGA's see through the BS of the mainstream media and the far left M-A-R-X-I-S-T-S! Yes, that's right. I am referring to the extreme politicians on the left as Marxist. Who cares if no politician explicitly calls themselves Marxists(of course they won't if they value their jobs.) some of the beliefs of the extreme ones line up with it. That's where you were trying to passively aggressively redirect to, yesterday wasn't it?. Oooooh you sure would have gotten me there. Hope you enjoyed your golfing today.

Great catch. Love how they assume that their propaganda laden fact checks are final word. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/atlanta-journal-constitution

Again, what i said was clear. I meant that 01/06 to the Dems is what the Reichstag fires were to the Nazi's. You have a right to disagree with me, but you are not going to trip me up, change my mind or make me rethink my statement. I meant what I said. You are trying to come off as some type of expert, but I see right through it. Book smarts means nothing if you are not able to carry on a basic conversation without overthinking and getting bogged down in semantics to the point where it is impossible for you to stay focused on the subject. Yesterday was fun, but I think I will move on, have a good day.

If you thought that I was calling the entire left Marxist, that is a you issue with reading comprehension. I can't help you with that. I explained Jan 6th and the Reichstag fires twice and I do not acknowledge your redirect because it was not relevant to the conversation. What part of "Jan 6th is to the Democrats what the Reichstag fires are to the Nazi's" was not clear? If you need more context, Google is your friend. My point was clear.

It isn't, both sides do it. I am not a MAGA, I just hate the far left and the media a little more. Jan 6th was bad, but it is no worse that Chaz, the BLM Riots, the two assassination attempts, and the attacks on Pro Life health center by Jane's revenge terrorists after Roe V Wade was overturned. It was a protest gone wrong with some extremists taking advantage of that. At no point what there an actual threat for an insurrection. What Trump said before the riots on Jan 6th is not different than what comments that Schumer and Biden said before Trump's first assassination attempt. The only difference is in how the media spins it.

Absolve me from naming marxist D's? Get bent. I am under no obligation to do that. You took a word that was not the main idea of my point and tried to go down a rabbit hole so that you could site google links that fit your narrative and than try to accuse me of not being credible. I do not do redirect questions. Stick to the topic next time. You hand picked Marxist because you wanted to get bogged down in semantics and completed ignored the rest of the conversation. That is childish behavior. I decided to stop engaging after that. Enjoy your evening.

I am not interested in a Google battle. We could ask passive aggressive questions all night to each other and hand pick our favorite articles with our personal spin so that the other side can react with a passive aggressive eyeroll until 3 am and neither of our minds would change. Long story short, I base my opinion on what I observe and what I hear from opinions from all sides. You get your opinion from mainstream media. Orange man bad cause the news says!

CNN, NBC news, Fox and other similar stations focus on appeals to emotion, gossip and telling us what we should be outraged about. When you tell people everyday that the opposing candidate is a threat to democracy like CNN or NBCNews does, or put in a seed of a fraudulent election like Fox did in 2020, eventually some nutcase will go vigilante like we have seen in both Jan 6th or the assassination attempts. Yes, my statement is nothing to be confused about. Jan 6th is to the Democrats what the Reichstag fires are to the Nazi's. They are using it as a blanket excuse to justify suppressing opposing views. It is as simple as that to me. Whether or not you agree does not change my opinion and hand picked propaganda with a leftist spin won't either. You probably assume that i am a MAGA but that is not the case. I traditionally vote libertarian and independent in elections. I personally see the both the Marxist far left and the Christian Nationalist far right as equally crazy and dangerous. The only difference is that just one of them is being pushed as the norm by the media. To me the media as it is in the US is a much bigger threat to this country than either party. "My information comes from what I read." In all fairness, most people would say that and this is exactly why the media presenting one political party's ideology as neutral reporting is so dangerous to the US.

Come on now. We both know that this is a lazy spin that leaves out a lot of other facts about the assassins. Not one word in that reply is an original thought. If I wanted CNN's recap of the topic, I would have gone on their site. What is your real opinion on the topic?

Reichstag fires. It is all you have. Your party tried to kill the opposition twice. That is worse. Deflect, minimize and gaslight all you want, that is the truth. Period. I blame the MSM on both sides of the spectrum for both Jan 6th and the assassination attempts. We need to go back to news instead of media entertainment.

July 13th, 2024. September 15th 2024 Two assassination attempts on a Presidential Candidate is a lot more serious than a media sponsored photo-op of a guy in a Viking helmet running around in in the capitol building almost four years ago. Get some new material.

Classy. I will take that as you conceding the argument due to having no thoughts of your own to add. Sounds like I took away your entire playbook when I asked you to not include mainstream media propaganda in your reply. Fair enough, but because you acted like a child, I reported your post. You are the perfect representation of your party. Have a nice day.