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On 2/16/2024 at 1:12 PM, BillsShredder83 said:
wording makes it sound adderall
That was my first thought as well.-
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McDermott is a Super Bowl caliber coach.
Gabe is a good WR2.
The first receiver we draft will be a bust, but the second receiver we draft will be Gabe 2.0 with an identical ending.
Our first-round defensive back pick will be a perennial All-Pro.
Gilliam is more than worth his roster spot and makes the team better.
Bass rebounds and will have consecutive good seasons.
The 2024 offense will be more balanced and geared towards heavier formations (12, 21 and even 22 personnel) with a focus on the play-action pass. -
4 minutes ago, Buffalo Bills Fan said:
A neighbor of mine went from Patriots, to Buccaneers and now to Chiefs lol
Wow. Sounds like he has zero self respect lol.
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Looks like the psy-op at halftime was a fake to the back. Maybe Tay-Tay makes her diabolical play-action pass during the postgame?
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On 2/6/2024 at 3:31 PM, dpberr said:
Gym class today isn't the wide world of sports menagerie that it once was. I had wrestling for several weeks in gym from 5th grade to senior year. The gym teacher did his best to pick a kid of similar weight and you'd go wrestle for a few minutes like gladiators surrounded by your classmates. I feel like some kids joined wrestling because of the exposure to it in gym class.
I enjoyed gym class. Got to play dodgeball, basketball, football, baseball, tennis, field hockey, gymnastics, track, field, square dancing, archery, riflery and bowling all in one action packed year.
You learned you were good at some things, terrible at others.
Gym was my least favorite class by far. Being forced against my will to run a mile at 8:30am is not my idea of enjoyment.
That being said, I know a lot of people who got a lot out of sports and the life lessons they can teach. I respected its inclusion in the curriculum even if I don't have an athletic bone in my body lol. -
42 minutes ago, boyst said:
He is a pro athlete. Most of them are narcissists or have narcissistic tendencies. Especially at the "skill" positions.
And especially wide receivers.
Mahomes is basically a QB with the receiver diva mentality now that I think about it...-
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On 1/30/2024 at 11:13 AM, US Egg said:
See folks Joe’s got this, err…never mind.
Hmmm... was there something that happened in the Middle East between September and January that might have changed their calculus?
Maybe it was in October? Maybe something in... oh idk, Israel? Whatever could it be... 🤔 -
15 hours ago, Thurman#1 said:
On Wild Card weekend they went 1/2 on those.
I also wonder about what is meant, precisely, by "middle." My guess is that some people mean between the numbers and others between the hashes. Maybe others attempt to divide the field into equal thirds.
The guy in the article is probably referring to between the hashes. It's easier to quickly check that way.
In week 3, Allen hit one that went 26 air yards and was in the middle of the field. (NextGenStats).
https://nextgenstats.nfl.com/charts/single/pass/team/2023/3/josh-allen/ALL529264
In Week 5, he hit one that was 45 air yards in the middle third was completed.
Week 10 21 yards in the middle third completed but not within the hashes.
I also think this isn't really a fair comparison without looking deeper.
If one guy threw 20 passes to the deep middle, 80% of which were between 20 and 25 yards long, and another guy threw 20 passes to the deep middle, 80% of which were over 40 yards, the fact that the first guy was more accurate than the second doesn't mean he's a better thrower to the deep middle. It just means he threw passes that were easier to complete than the 2nd guy did.
It's an interesting stat. Worth a further look, probably, but I don't have more time to do that.
How wide is a football field anyway? And the hash marks? I'm honestly surprised I don't know that off the top of my head. -
26 minutes ago, JakeFrommStateFarm said:30 minutes ago, JakeFrommStateFarm said:
Is it just me or does she have that same Stephon Diggs twitter energy?
If so, it might be a match made in heaven! 🤣-
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5 hours ago, BillStime said:
So Tay-Tay is just a pop star and her effect on the election laughable at best.
But she's also a threat to democracy.
Oh yeah. The Republicans have their own versions of Tay-Tay too (but not in a "threatening to democracy" way). They should consider going on tour to swing states exclusively, since Republicans genuinely care about all Americans and not just staying in power.
Sounds like a plan. Maybe call it Plan A as a direct challenge to Plan B and other forms of reproductive health care. -
48 minutes ago, RunTheBall said:
I think Mahomes is a better QB, but Allen is a better QB/leader for Buffalo.
The way I've always liked to phrase it is that Mahomes is the better QB, but Allen is the better football player.-
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Well done and worth the watch regardless of the author's point.
I recommend it. -
Maybe Brady should switch to defensive coordinator if he's that good at coaching incomplete passes.
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13 hours ago, Roundybout said:
No kidding! That's awesome. Best of luck in your studies.
When my wife started her internships she got into malpractice law, but she actually ended up in housing and property law.
I used the law library a couple times when I took a property law course for my masters, and yeah I thought it was a bizarre layout. My wife usually studied on one of the top floors in O’Brien which was off limits to anyone without a swipe card (coincidentally a great place to make out too, but I digress…)
Yup, the 7th floor has a special area for law students that is only accessible with a swipe card. I do most of my studying there too. And I agree that it is a very strange layout.
That's also hilarious because I thought the exact same thing about the upper floors lmao.
Thank you for wishing me luck. Again, the aim is to be a patent prosecutor, but my #2 choice would be real property and wills, trusts, and estates. That's generally my strongest area (at least according to my grades). I really don't want to be a litigator at all; a courtroom just isn't for me. On the other hand, I could see myself become a local town justice in my later years.
Best of luck to you and your wife as well buddy. Mens sana in copore sano! -
14 minutes ago, MJS said:
People are just having fun with it. Nobody is seriously so bothered by it to care that much.
It's funny you say that! As it turns out, I just might happen to have a bridge in PPP to sell you 😅-
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1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
and that's a bad thing?....was she attractive and gave you no notice?
Huh?
It's not a bad thing, it's just humorous if you understand the underlying dynamics like @Roundybout presumably does.
She was one of the people who came to college more for the parties than for the learning. Her friends and her got shooed out because she admitted that they were used to Capen Library, and Capen is the Wild Wild West compared to the law library. You can't just mosey around giggling loudly in the law library without at least getting a dirty look from some gassed law student on their fourth 5-hour energy shot of the morning, as she quickly found out.
Her looks are completely irrelevant, but I didn't find her physically attractive. In addition, the school spirit types just have a different kind of peppy energy that I don't match well with. I like the quiet, shy, nerdy types with big hearts and fat cats. -
2 hours ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
I've been giving this some thought. The average SAT score to get into a good engineering school is about 1200. Half of that is verbal. Therefore, the applicant should have already shown verbal proficiency in order to get accepted.
It should have been honed in college. If not, that's on the school. They shouldn't be graduating students who can't write or speak well.I agree that Engineering majors are often very different thinkers than pure science or arts majors. Clarkson was just up the road from St Lawrence. Very different culture and skill set; very different people. But every college grad should have facility with the English language imo...
I got a 1270 on my SAT, of which 590 was the verbal score. But if I showed you some of my writing from when I was 17, then you'd probably be appalled (and it's okay if so, because I definitely am lol).
I'm autistic and wasn't even diagnosed until after I finished my undergrad (partly because I am deceptively high-functioning, especially on things like standardized tests). One of the definitive symptoms of autism is basically being socially and verbally 'tarded, so my communication skills while growing up were below average. Because I was undiagnosed, I never received support for my special needs in my youth. This even screwed me out of advanced-placement classes on three separate occasions, going all the way back to first grade (and I still remember that first doubter's name, too: Mrs. Blackburn
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In addition, some of my greatest insights into writing didn't even come from English class. For example, learning beginner-level communication in a new language actually helped me write more fluently in English at the intermediate level. English is a messy, hodgepodge language, and there are many ways to communicate verbally that can be readily understood by a native listener, but aren't correct in writing. Many of these bad habits were so second-nature that I didn't even notice them. My eureka moment in English actually came from a rudimentary exposure to the comparatively well-defined and logical structure of French. Up until then, I was convinced that I'd never be a good writer. But then I realized that writing is a lot like math; since I was already good at math, I could also be good at writing!
In summary, I think communication skills take time. They need to be nurtured and cultivated. Some take longer than others to blossom. Setting specific standards that must be met after so many revolutions around the sun is arbitrarily unfair to those who might fall far from the standard mold, like I did.
I still know I can do better and am constantly trying to improve. I think that brevity might be a good place to start, don't you? 🤣
PS - Up to 40% of my ChemE class were not native English speakers. Their writing was usually atrocious (like worse than Google translate at the time), and most if not all of them still got their degrees.-
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4 hours ago, Roundybout said:
Oh sure, my girlfriend at the time (now wife) did law school on north so I was over there a lot. I actually did most of my research and assignments in Lockwood Library rather than Abbott Library on South, which was always filled with annoying med students lol
I graduated a few years back. Always glad to meet another UB alum
Congrats on your marriage! What kind of law does she practice?
I'm actually a student at the law school now (aiming for patent law myself) and I know exactly what you mean about Lockwood being a good place to study. As an undergrad, I distinctly remember when our tour group walked by the law library and the student guide said:
"So this is the law library. It's a bit quieter than Capen... (smirks). Like, one time my friends and I went to check it out and we got shooed away by the law students who were studying... so umm, yeah they're a bit more serious here. Enter at your own risk." She was definitely one of the pep-rally/school spirit/sorority types fwiw 🤣-
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1 hour ago, Joe Ferguson forever said:
i didn't knock engineering. I cast doubt on his assertion given that he posts here almost continually and that others here in the cult have lied about their career. Is it not true that many Engineering jobs are now gig jobs? My nephew graduated Berkley a couple years ago as a chem e and has worked a series of them with no permanent employer.
"difficult" is a subjective term. It takes very different skill sets to master and understand different fields. One is not better than the other but all undergraduate degrees should prepare one to write and communicate clearly, precisely and efficiently. it's not tommy's forte....
I guess I incorrectly attributed your suspicions of his claim to a knock on the profession itself considering the whole tone of the post. I believe you're right that engineering jobs are more gig oriented, but that's a general trend in the economy overall, and one perpetuated by employers seeking to cut costs for higher profits, so I didn't see the point in bringing it up fwiw.
While difficulty is subjective at some level, here's one objective way to gauge difficulty: the amount of hours the average student studies sorted by discipline. By that measure, engineering students put in more hours per week into studying than any other undergraduate field.
And fwiw, I always wrote and edited all of the group projects I had, primarily because the other 3 routinely loathed writing. They also tended to be more socially awkward than average, which doesn't help communication skills either. That's not to say I don't agree with your general expectations of education on one's communication skills, but like you said it takes different skill sets to master different fields, and most of engineering does not involve working on one's communication skills.52 minutes ago, Roundybout said:South campus? I did my Masters in Urban Planning at UB and I would duck into the engineering building every once in a while, mostly to use the bathroom when I didn’t feel like walking all the way to Hayes lol
North. I never got to see the old buildings at the South Campus
Most of my lectures were in Knox Hall or Furnas Hall.
That's funny about the bathroom shortcut though lol. When did you get your masters?-
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1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:
American.
I can’t tell you what Anti American is but I know it when I see it.
Not trying to be flippant I’m basically anti Communist.
If you're a troll, this is 5-star work and I'll just let you carry on.
The fact that I can't truly tell if you are is what makes it masterful.-
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On draft day, my preferred choice was Darnold. I thought Mayfield had bust written all over him and fit the Browns perfectly. Rosen felt like a trap and I wanted nothing to do with him.
I was concerned about Allen ever becoming an accurate QB, but his measurables and arm alone made him my #2 choice. By the time we picked at 7, I was over the Jets taking Darnold and happy that we at least got Allen.
I've never been more happy to be wrong about doubting someone. He fits the Bills and our fanbase like a glove (no OJ pun intended). -
1 hour ago, Big Blitz said:
To rally the rest of his base that is absolutely fractured (people like me that think this entire country is a laughingstock led by Communists aligned with China and this election is pathetic) to come back actively into the fold.
I'm a little confused.
Where are you on the political spectrum? Party affiliation? Some general political beliefs? -
6 hours ago, Tommy Callahan said:
I'm just seeing the left targeting uneducated people with an uneducated "starlet"
It is what it is
Mechanical engineering. Focus on automated cells lately.
Ahh very cool! Where'd you go to school? I got my ChemE at UB. (sorry if you mentioned it before and I forgot)
Also, it's a very strange flex to attempt to knock the most difficult of the undergraduate fields of study, @Joe Ferguson forever. Mr. Farley and I are not on the same side of the fence and yet I've found him to be very reasonable in our discussions. I tend to like the points you bring up, and you don't need to go below the belt to do so.
Granted, idk the history between you two. I just prefer genuine discourse to poo-flinging.-
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EDIT: On second thought, I can't actually figure out wtf is happening above so I'll withhold my sarcasm for later.
But to wit, it's a bit far fetched to think Kelce and Tay-Tay's relationship is a government psychological operation. Surely anyone with common sense realizes that's Tinfoil Hat Territory.-
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Matt Araiza signs with Chiefs
in The Stadium Wall
Posted
This clearly opens the floodgates to the premier free agents signing with the Chiefs on 1-year vet minimum deals in order to stack the roster even further. Suddenly everyone will put money out of their minds and focus on getting a ring.
The first domino to fall in this direction will likely be Gabe Davis.
Meanwhile, we will sign a punter to $20mil/year and extend McBeane into the 2040s.