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  1. 2 hours ago, Gugny said:


    https://www.statista.com/statistics/476461/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-legality-of-shooters-weapons/


     

    “100 of the mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and December 2023 involved weapons which were obtained legally; a clear majority. Only 16 incidents involved guns that were obtained illegally.”

     

    They don't disclose what they consider "obtained legally" to mean.  They also parrot the popular misconception that it's easy to obtain guns through the mythical "gun show loophole".  Private sales can happen depending on the state, but people aren't selling their private collection pieces to gang bangers from the big cities.

     

    I've seen "obtained legally" counted as meaning ORIGINALLY obtained legally, as in purchased new from a dealer and not smuggled into the country directly to the black market.  This means guns that were stolen from a legal owner, then get used by whatever gang member does a shooting gets counted as a "legally obtained" gun.  They also count when someone passes a background check they shouldn't have, because screwy policing led to stuff not getting properly logged into their permanent records.

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  2. 16 hours ago, Bills!Win! said:

    They’re all there to celebrate the same thing. How can gun violence be involved? I just don’t get it 

     

    16 hours ago, boyst said:

    there are reports of another suspect trying to force their way into the nearby IRS building. FBI SWAT and Homeland are rushing to that area.

     

    As for why this or understanding it - mental illness is not easily understood.

     

    It's called gangs.

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  3. 7 hours ago, Awwufelloff said:

    You could have just said we got outcoached 

     

    Coaching didn't make us be missing half our defensive starters for any given game.

     

    Coaching did hurt a little playing man coverage 10 yards deep on 3rd and 4 against the Bengals, but he's gone now.

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, Chicken Boo said:

    Is everyone done crying yet?

     

    There will never be a MVP with an 11-6 team that has committed 23 turnovers, unless they've broken a record of some sort.  It's just not happening.  

     

    Dude, Josh collects records like Pokémon cards.  Shall we book a weekend in the conference room to go over the list?  He also already has more gear being displayed in the HoF than most people already in the HoF.

  5. 1 minute ago, bobobonators said:


    How is it wild? It has to do with the game day experience. The song is not a classic and has no bearing to anything Buffalo, so why continue playing it every home game? Is the song deserving of being a Bills tradition on gameday? It’s a valid question in my opinion. 

    No, they do not. 

     

    People who are determined to be miserable will find any and all reasons to be miserable.  I bet you're the guy all the coffee shop workers roll their eyes about when they see you walk in.

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  6. 8 hours ago, balln said:

    Yea I remember Dawkins having a wing eating contest for the OL before bengals game… akin to this

     

    dunno- Olympic athletes don’t do this ***** - I guarantee Tom Brady or Peyton manning didn’t do this crap.  It’s 100% , 24/7 focus leading up to competition. 

     

    Lol are you kidding, Olympic villages (the "camps" the athletes stay in during the games) are the most debauched and hedonistic places this side of Caligula's birthday party.

     

    You sound like you'd be a nightmare manager to work under, because people are HUMAN and the stoic 100% of the time serious professional thing is NOT what most people function best with.  You're exhibiting confirmation bias by citing the 2 QBs you believe lived that lifestyle (while hilariously getting the Olympic athletes wrong) and ignoring everyone who didn't.  Counting the hits and ignoring the misses as they say.

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  7. 1 minute ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:

    Social media police are out of control … I just finished serving a three day ban on Facebook for something I posted … in 2016! 🤬

     

    This was an automated ban the instant I posted it.  I wasn't even given that warning alert that "what you're about to post may be bad yadda yadda".  Worst part is when you try to appeal and explain the context, they only give you enough room to type like one small sentence.

  8. I'm glad embeds work because I'm waiting for my "violent speech" ban appeal on Twitter to go through lol.

     

    I was responding to people saying Josh leaning back a bit was proof of a fake slide, so I said "Do me a favor for science. Run full speed towards a brick wall and then try to suddenly stop or cut 90 degrees along the wall without leaning. Report back to me how many teeth you lose."

     

    Of course I'm not literally saying to run head first into a brick wall (my point is that you will naturally lean to stop), but their automated system took it as a threat or whatever lol.

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  9. I believe the Music City Miracle was a legal lateral. 

    I believe the second fumble in this game was out of bounds by touching his helmet.

    I have no problem calling out dirty hits by Bills players or bad ref calls that favored us.

     

    That was nothing close to being a fake slide, nevermind a blatant one.

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  10. 2 hours ago, cd1 said:

    But... Do you think he should just "man up" and play tough guy? Would that not send a message to defenders to give it their best shot?

     

    Just maybe - Josh is sending a message that "if you mess with me - I will try and make sure you get caught".

     

    Maybe Josh is trying to make sure the refs notice.

     

    Even with all that - players STILL take cheap shots. I don't know about you guys, but I don't like other teams players taking cheap shots at our players.

     

    About the flopping, it's important to point out Allen only embellishes ACTUALLY ILLEGAL hits.  He's not out there flopping if you look at him the wrong way.  I see it like sure it's possible to depend on the police happening to notice that my store was robbed and do something about it, or I can call the police and bring it to their attention.

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  11. 4 hours ago, Ethan in Cleveland said:

    It was a bad call because it looked like hit Allen on the head when in fact he never did.

    The game is too fast for the on field officials. Every play should be reviewed by an independent ref with video. 

     

    4 hours ago, Meatloaf63 said:

    except it doesn’t matter where you hit a sliding qb. They will call any contact especially from the waste up.

     

    Yeah I was going to say the QB is ruled down the instant he start his slide so it doesn't matter. 

     

    And if the defender supposedly started his hit/left his feet "long before Allen slides", I have to point out that he would have been targeting Allen's knees.  You should NEVER need to leave your feet to make a tackle anyways, it's just bad form.  You lose any ability to let up or protect yourself/others once you go airborne.

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  12. 12 hours ago, thenorthremembers said:

    Noticed this a ton this year.  They are into their kick before the ball is snapped and it's hardly ever called.

     

    They are abusing a misinterpretation of the "repositioning" loophole.  Supposedly, as long as the snap gets off before that rear foot lands down, you can't prove they weren't legally repositioning.  Which is ridiculous because anyone with working eyes can tell that they aren't repositioning when they do that but they get the egregious benefit of the doubt.

  13. 1 hour ago, fergie's ire said:

    Orlovsky pointed out that most of the time the Bills just left Parsons unblocked.  We'd run the other way and he'd get lost in the wash.

     

    Cowgirls: "Haha, Parsons will take Allen down, and Bland will pick him off!  You won't be able to pass on us!"

    Brady: "Your terms are acceptable."

    Cowgirls: "...what do you mean by that?"

    Brady: "..."

    Cowgirls: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!?"

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  14. 12 hours ago, Blackbeard said:

    Very brutal.  And not condoning the hit like that.

     

    What was his other option though?  Slow down and then hit him? (NOT being sarcastic)

     

    The problem is defenders always wanting the big HIT.  Not tackle, not down by mere contact, they want the big punishing HIT.  

     

    With the receiver diving like that, he's already going to the ground so all a big hit accomplishes is an attempt to jar the ball loose.  Problem is a pass breakup by decapitation is easier than actually having to make a more skillful, less career shortening and less highlight reel making play.

  15. 8 hours ago, motorj said:

    I'd say it's perfectly fine, defenders are trying to sneak in a hit to get into Josh's head, Josh on the other hand is getting in their head saying if you sneak him then you're getting a penalty

     

    I used to hate the embellishments until I made that realization.  There are few things in football that I hate more than late/unnecessary hits, like drilling a guy on the ground when even minimal contact with a pinky finger would count for the tackle.

     

    Pass rushers LOVE to push the envelope and test how late they can hit the QB after the ball is gone even it it's just a push, if only to "get in their head".  Josh is just calling attention to late hits from boundary-testers, to get in their heads instead.  Make them afraid of getting a technically valid (if "ticky-tack") penalty and maybe they'll stop going for those late hits or even subconsciously let up when going for a legal one.

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  16. 2 hours ago, BillsShredder83 said:

    sure "Dolphins could literally take the next three games off, and still win the division by just beating us" is technically true if we were to also lose out.... but why make this point lol youre essentially just saying they have a lead

     

    No, even if we win out and they lose out (to go into week 18 with 1 more win than them), week 18 is still for the division title due to tiebreakers.  Because of their current lead, nothing that happens between now and week 18 secures the division title for us without playing week 18.

  17. 17 hours ago, Breakout Squad said:

    Innocent 100% like nothing happened. He deserves another chance. I don’t think he would come back to the Bills after we released him tho. 
     

    Bills really had no choice but to release him. The details were so grotesque initially it would’ve been a massive distraction. 

     

    Even Cleveland would have released a punter with those allegations.  He wouldn't go back to the team that went out of their way to draft him, and tried to hold off on releasing him to wait for details to come out?  The team got dragged through the mud for not cutting him sooner, so I think he'd understand and appreciate that the team resisted letting him go.

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