BigDingus

Eh, I'd call this more of a lie, and yeah, he's definitely a liar lol

The stock market has been getting hammered with expectations of economic slowdown due to a large uptick in COVID cases again... PLEASE STOP GETTING COVID PEOPLE! You're hurting my money too now 😂

"...at a Las Vegas hotel..." Seems either Vegas or hotels (or both) is involved with these altercations. Athletes just seem to struggle when hotels are involved 😂

Ah, that explains it then. I know laws & regulations between states can vary pretty wildly, so guess it's not that surprising.

The only show I liked on Apple+ was Servant. Maybe I'll check out Ted Lasso now too. If it was cheaper than DirecTV, and there wasn't huge streaming quality issues (which sometimes I face on DirecTV), I'd be all for it.

No bail is definitely weird. I work at a jail in Texas (just got off shift), and I see bail for allllllll ranges of crimes, misdemeanors and felonies. Domestic Assaults usually start at $1,000 & a Class A misdemeanor, though I have no idea how Washington ranks their charges or what constitutes a felony. Still, you see people come in for child porn get $20,000 - $70,000 bonds set for them, murderers get $150,000 - $500,000 bonds set for them, so why did he get denied ANY amount whatsoever? I'm fine with him being arrested & sitting in jail until he's fully processed, but why he wasn't given a chance to bond out is very strange.

Too much money, but can't say he wouldn't be an improvement starting next to White.

That's weak... More like 3 positive returns on the Diggs trade, or 3 things that worked out well enough for the Vikings, but 3 reasons they "won" the trade? Clearing up cap space doesn't mean you beat out the Bills in the trade... Getting a solid replacement WR doesn't mean you beat the production the Bills got out of Diggs, getting rid of someone who doesn't want to be there doesn't mean the Bills lost the trade by getting someone who DOES want to be in Buffalo...

Considering that D-line had 3 x Pro Bowlers & top 100 NFL players, I highly doubt it. That line dominated to the point QB's like Rodgers & Manning (the better one) looked pedestrian. So much pressure, all the sacks, tackles for loss, etc. made a top 3 defense just amazing to watch. And after seeing last year's production without Star, claiming he will have no impact is pretty ridiculous. It was clear that his presence was missed.

As I said in the other thread, as long as it's the 90's era red helmet (not the redesign from the Bledsoe era), I'm all for it as it's the reason 5 year old me became a Bills fan in the first place. I have no complaints about the current uniform & helmet, but I'd love to see the 90's red helmet + our current uniform.

Hey, I'm with you there man. It's nearly impossible to even have a conversation about it without it derailing into political buzzwords & insults. Everything is either called racist, or it's seen as pandering/woke by the other side. It's just become a back & forth exercise in stupidity.

"No visor QB has ever won a Super Bowl." Eh... let Josh be the first then! No QB has ever won a Super Bowl for the Bills either. Don't we still hope Josh is the first? lol

No, you're right about how there's a lot to be proud of with the Redtails, but naming the team after them would be construed as swinging the pendulum too far back in the other direction, like an over-correction to appeal to another ethnic group. People would cry about it being part of a liberal agenda, call for boycotts (even though those same people probably cry about cancel culture), and have opportunistic politicians using it as a way to gain political favor by screaming about how "woke" the NFL has become. Even if the Tuskegee airmen were heroes & an inspiring story, the Redskin name was dropped due to being a racial issue. They're probably better off avoiding anything remotely tied to race, no matter how positive, in their name going forward.

What he said doesn't really bother me. To be as competitive as he's been, he sees everyone as competition. Saying "that mother f'er" in reference to someone isn't really that weird, nor is it insulting. Brady definitely has a huge ego though, but that just makes sense at this point. Kind of what I'd expect Kobe to sound like if he had ever entered FA. Prior to him, a QB having 4 Super Bowl rings was the best it got. And people would always say "but that was in the era before free agency!" like it wasn't possible anymore. Then here comes this "mother f'er" & just goes and gets SEVEN Super Bowl rings... forever ruining it for future generations like a prick lol Also, my use of "mother f'er" may be seen as a joke, but no.... I mean that in the most harsh, insulting, evil way possible 😁

I dunno, the Red helmets from the 90's before the crappy new uniform redesign were great. I always appreciated having helmets that weren't white like the classic Pats, Jets & Dolphins helmets. Easier for me to makeout our team vs the opponent as a kid. White always felt boring. Then again, I was a very artistic/visual kid, and the entire reason I grew up cheering for the Bills was because of their helmet & logo. It was THAT cool to me as a 5 year old growing up in Virginia watching their first game (Redskins vs Bills Superbowl). I could not understand how my family all rooted for the Redskins with that ugly looking logo & ugly colors. Then I got hooked to football & the Bills, basically obsessed. By the time the next season rolled around, I knew every player, had thousands of cards, and my bedroom was painted in Bills colors with Bills posters lol. Long story short, that Red helmet + Logo sold a small child on the Bills. I stood out like a sore thumb in a sea of skins fans, but damn I thought the Bills were cool.

That could be true on some things, but every time I've listened to Simms the last couple years, he's been pretty darn consistent in regards to Allen. I have no idea what his other hot takes are, but with Allen he's been pretty willing to place him highly in any QB discussion.

I understand that's what we WANT from him, but he doesn't choose where he's drafted. If he's not dominant & is simply just a good d-linemen, you don't just cut them or claim they're a bust after 2 years. You continue building & developing into a stronger D. Josh was an even higher pick with even more $ & draft capital invested in him. He wasn't dominant in his first 2 seasons, not even close. But did he develop & continue to improve? Absolutely. Not Oliver's fault he's only better than everyone else on the line (with the possible exception of Hughes).

If the poll is asking just about his stats, then sure, I could see his numbers on paper not matching those of 2020. Pretty hard to put up 40+ total TD's while also throwing for 4,000 yards each year. But overall as a player I think he'll continue to improve. The year Mahomes won a Super Bowl he didn't have as good of numbers as he did the year prior when he won MVP. I doubt people call that "regressing" even if his numbers didn't hit 50+ TD's & 5,000 yards passing.

Both of them made too much sense here. Even if you think Josh will regress in 2021, how can you say with a straight face 39 other players are better than him when he was #2 in MVP voting? lol Hell, I think Josh will regress *STATISTICALLY* but still has room to grow even better, especially mentally. Each year he becomes a better leader, and the longer he's around, the more comfortable he'll be in the pocket. If the game continues to slow down for him, his decision making will improve even more. So if this is taking into account what they'll do going forward, Allen at 40 is even dumber than only factoring in the last 3 years. Maybe he means most non-Bills fans? I dunno, I've heard that a lot. But most of the people I've talked to are kinda in the same boat as me. They think it's very likely his numbers on paper will regress, but he as a player will get better. It's pretty hard to put up 40+ total TD's each year, so it's ok if he doesn't match that this season. What matters is how well he plays in those big games, stays healthy, and limits turnovers. That'll be more than enough as long as we can field a competent run defense (and maybe find a running game of our own).

If he doesn't replicate Aaron Donald numbers this year, he's a bust! Or not... He's already pretty solid. Any improvement will be nice, but he's done well.

It's also worth stating the evidence HIGHLY indicates that those who are vaccinated, even if they somehow manage to contract the virus, are exponentially less at risk for any severe symptoms, and very, very, VERY few are hospitalized. Again, people need to stop th inking the only 2 options are A) LIve or B) die. There's an entire spectrum of symptoms between those, many being life-altering & highly dangerous. You know what the vaccine prevents? Damn near everything on the severe end of that spectrum aside from just death. You could get vaccinated, be unlucky & catch COVID, but then just have mild symptoms & get over it. Or you could just get COVID without any vaccine protection whatsoever, and gamble with whatever symptoms, regardless of severity that you may incur. I'd prefer not to risk hospitalization or debilitating effects that I could've prevented. There's an inmate at the jail I work for who just caught COVID a second time. He passed on the vaccine because he thought since he caught it last summer he'd be good to go. Well now he's had 2 surgeries, had his eyeballs drained, has necrosis on his left wrist that almost killed him, and a host of other complications that came from his last stint with the virus. And guess what? Right before we sent him out to the hospital this morning for more follow up treatment, the jail announced we were offering another round of vaccinations on the 29th. I asked him if he'd like the paperwork to at least read about it, and he said "well I already caught it twice, so I doubt I'll catch it again. I don't think I'll need it."

Because they waited so long, even a mid-tier stadium is likely to cost close to a billion dollars, if not more (especially in NY). But the longer we wait, the more expensive it gets. Hopefully they pull the trigger sooner rather than later and just bite the bullet.

I'm not going to call out Beasley, but THIS mindset is the reason why this country is ill suited to face a crisis these days. The way the US is setup basically ensures that no matter what major crisis hits this country, we will not be able to effectively solve it. In terms of just COVID, people act like it's either A) live or B) die. No in between, no nuance, no other adverse or life-long effects that can destroy your health. People who are now having to get double lung transplants certainly lived, but would anyone claim they're perfectly fine now? COVID only has a 1-2% death rate worldwide, but to think this s the worst it could get is just naive. We had the luxury of arguing & whining & playing politics this time, but when that number jumps to 5% or 10% or worse, what then? You'd HOPE people would get their s*** together, but it's obvious we'd rather tear each other apart & fend for ourselves. I'm not even saying Cole is wrong. But in an extremely capitalistic society where so many of people can't survive without each paycheck, few means to fallback on, our medical coverage tied to employment, an economy that needs growth & profits, etc. people will not be able to just hunker down, sacrifice their livelihoods, and stay home. Beasley can believe what he wants. He's certainly allowed to, and I'll support him as a player & person. I'm just sad that it seems there's little reason to be optimistic if a more potent virus, or ANY major crisis, hits again. /rant

Technically this could backfire with a lesser, selfish player too. It won't happen with Diggs, he's too hungry, but someone else now could miss games and lose next to no money each week. Why worry about $58k game checks ($990k over 17 games) when you already got the other millions up front? Again, I have no belief Diggs would feign injury or something.

Nashville? I'm more disappointed he's not from Knoxville now