leonbus23

Maybe he was quoting the classic Public Enemy lp, Fear of a Black Planet: Chuck D: Go back to Africa? DJ: OK, we're going to, uh (Ha ha) - believe me when we go to these phones, people are going to tell you to do just that, Chuck Hello?

Haha! Del Mar. Now that's a Buffalo town! Man, if PB is a trash hole, I don't even want to hear your description of OB, or worse yet, IB, or even worse than that, Las Playas de Tijuana! Advice: Stay in Scripps Ranch and watch it at home alone in your gated community. I also want to give a shout out to those who risk their lives (pictured below) to watch Bills games in the scummy trash hole aka Pacific Beach, California. You are true heroes.

I moved from San Diego and now live in Oakland, and go to the Northstar Cafe for Bills games. It's better than PB Local by far.

Blue collar doesn't mean anything. It's a dumb phrase attached to certain types of people based in how they look, act, and talk, but it's hollow. Who is not blue collar? The Dolphins, Chargers, and 49ers coaches? Why? Because they're not tough, gruff, mean, and demanding of their players? Seriously, the game, by its very structure, demands hard work, toughness, etc. It's blue collar, regardless. If Salah is so "blue collar" then why does he wear designer shades, drive a Tesla, get weekly manicures, and have a house in Napa County? Sounds like a bourgeois puff boy to me! Meanwhile McDermott lives in a humble two bedroom home in the old first ward South Buffalo, drives 2003 Ford ranger, trims his nails, and gets his glasses from Zenni. Now that's the salt of the earth proletariat!

Workers of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our inheritance to our spoiled suburban children living in Amherst! You just explained why poor people engage in black market capitalism and/or steal to survive. Interesting how shifting the context a tiny bit brings to light brute facts about poverty and crime.

A person who is now ten years old would have probably had enough intellectual awareness to comprehend the revolting mass of sewage that was the Tyrod vs Bortels 10-3 playoff game.

You got two different claims here. Maybe I know it either subjectively or objectively or both. But my supervisor isnt going to rate my performance on what I think about my performance in my own head. My supervisor should have something objective on which to base my performance and the performance of others. This helps to combat bias, prejudice, gut feelings, nepotism, cronyism, etc. in the workplace. Again, let's look at some standards to rate Dorsey and those with more or less experience than him. My overall point is that maxims or broad truisms do not mean anything.

Haha. Not too many lawyers. My main point is that the broad generalization that the lawyer made doesn't mean anything. Cherry picking the examples of Belechick, LeBron, Reid (and himself) is meaningless without an objective standard. His claim is about experience with the implication that it results in objective success. His claim gets muddled in subjective self-reflection with the LaBron quote. But it's decontextualized pathos speak. LaBron got DWade and a star teammate with the Lakers. Belechick got Brady. Reid got Mahomes. He got his dream paralegal (maybe). So, his maxim, really means nothing. That was my point. If he wants people to stop complaining about Dorsey, he should provide the data you provided, not espouse some grand truth about experience coupled with the bias of his individual anecodotal example that highlights his age and profession.

A universial maxim about experience, knowledge, practice, and subsequent success conflicts with objective data. In the NFL, many coaches get worse over time, e.g., Rex Ryan. Many lawyers do, too. Keep in mind that there must be some objective measure to serve as evidence of success via experience.

We'd be better off with Richard Dunn.

A successful screen pass for a board explosion

What do you get when you put a penny into the butts of each of the five members of the band Smash Mouth? Nickleback Neil Hamburger joke.

I agree. But aside from "a culture of fear, respect and brutal levels of hard work", there must also have been training and education, i.e., coaching the technical aspects of the game that prevents presnap and other bonehead penalties. Perhaps there is a mental aspect that's affecting the team. I guess I would want a group of players who are so well trained that mental errors that stem from a lack of focus or being frustrated, etc., would be rare.

It would seem that there would be an educational approach that would involve something technical in terms of execution that would be practiced repeatedly, rather than basic physical discipline. How did Belechick do it? Or any coach that had/has very few penalties?

It could be something besides jealousy. It may be the old tough blue collar mentality that some Buffalonians carry. It's like anything that's new, hip, a fad, or a bit glamorous is unacceptable, like a dome stadium with amenities...or Allen enjoying a bit of celebrity.

Orton

I've used an old pair of prescription glasses I found when we were cleaning out my Aunt Joanne's house in South Buffalo after she died. They blur the scores better than anything else I tried. Sort of a silver lining situation.

Van Demark

Rigged? No. Part of human error includes unconscious bias. If we look to sociological studies of unconscious bias, it seems to be a real thing. It's sort of like how people will wait longer to honk at people in expensive cars compared to people with junkers. (This was a real study.) In NFL, it could be referees calling less penalties on a successful coach and/or team compared to a crap coach/team. It would be very hard to gather concrete evidence to really support it without it being a tautological argument. Why did the Patriots win six super bowls? Because it's rigged. Why is the nfl rigged? Because the Patriots won six super bowls. On a side note, these arguments are used all the time. Why are people poor? Because they're lazy. Why are people lazy? Because they're poor. So, the bias against the Patriots and the poor serve as the foundation to formulate the tautological argument.

Choir boy = all American hero JJ Watt Typical NFL prospect = not JJ Watt.

Keenum and Trubiski 2 wins. Why no Thaddeus Cowan Lewis?

Like Springsteen said, "It's a town for losers. I'm pulling out of here to win." I left 21 years ago, but the mindset stays. All those lost super bowls and Stanley cups along with a decimated local economy produces a feeling of negativity that runs deep. Buffalo is a tough place for tough people, but it can weigh on the mind after awhile. Just one super bowl or Stanley cup would do a ton to alleviate that feeling.