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I coach football, and I think it's a case-by-case basis. My oldest son started begging to play youth football at 6 years old. I told him absolutely not. I love the game but I dont think there is a reason in the world for 6 years olds to be putting on equipment their heads can't hold up and hitting one another with it. I relented at 9, which I still think is too early. I will fully admit that part of the reason I allowed him to do it was because he has a good arm and I knew he'd end up playing QB. He's played for 5 years never had an injury and is the starter on his JV team. Last year he watched one of his O-Line members get a nasty concussion. The kids eyes rolled into his head. My son broke down after the game and thought about quitting. I even considered pulling him because what are we really doing here. My youngest son is a tall thinly built kid. He wants to play badly but he doesnt have the skill or body mass his older brother has. I dont see the benefit of him playing right now. He is a good baseball and basketball player and I'd rather him focus on those sports. Football is a fantastic sport that teaches kids a ton about work ethic and sacrifice. That said, you really need to weigh the benefits for your kids. Also, you have to be honest with yourself about your kid's ability and size. I cant tell you how many kid's parents Ive dealt with who think their kid is a NFL superstar in the making. Even at the youth and high school level its a dangerous sport. Dont send your kid to be someone's tackling dummy.

They lose because Patrick Mahomes is slightly better than Josh Allen.

I think the Colts, Titans, Raiders, Browns, Falcons, Patriots, Cardinals, Chargers, and 49ers are all worse or at the very least debatable. That said, the Bills have one equalizer when it comes to WR depth. Josh Allen. Seattle, New Orleans, Carolina, Chicago, Giants, Jaguars, Steelers, and Jets all have better wideouts with QBs who havent shown an ability to get the ball to playmakers on a consistent basis. There is no sense to look at a WR depth chart and compare it without also checking to see if a team has both an offensive line and QB to maximize the depth.

Thats fair. He 100% lost control of his emotions. But I dont think thats a huge surprise from him. He lost control of his emotions when he defended the City of Buffalo last year. He lost them again during his end of the year press conference last season. I personally dont mind it. The winning buys him some slack with me. It's football not politics. And what he was saying wasnt inaccurate.

The Panthers are 36-80 since Tepper took over, they literally havent had a winning season in 7 years. I'd say this regime has a bit more of a leg to stand on when they are critical of people talking negatively about their team. He was nicer than he had to be. The team just wont 13 games, went to an AFC Championship, and they are getting criticized by morons who wanted to draft Lepoopy Johnson from South Arizone State because he ran a fast 40. Meanwhile those same morons forget they just drafted a wideout in the 2nd round last year. Spent money on Josh Palmer and brought in competition for the bottom on the WR depth chart in Shenault. You can say they werent the right guys, but dont act like they havent made moves at wideout. If I were him I'd just stop giving access. At the end of the AFC Championship game people were complaining about the defense. He drafts defense which anyone with trwo brain cells knew he was going to do, and then the complaints start about WR. Do you guys remember what it was like to have a bad front office and coaching staff? Like really bad not just in your mind.

Its because they live in in a delusional world where Tee Higgins was going to be on the Bills this offseason.

The exact thing I said on this board over the weekend. They win all the time and score tons of points. Not getting a crap shoot wideout in the 3rd round isnt the reason they were going to lose this year. Id be annoyed if I was him as well.

You believe 14 or more guys drafted in this draft could push to start against guys that have already shown they are legit NFL talents? I guess this draft was better at WR than I thought.

Another wide receiver post? Now if you guys getting your panties in a bunch can please tell me which WR picked after #30 in the first round could actually start on this team maybe Ill get my protest sign too.

Right. But the claim was they did ZERO assessment.

We have no idea how Keon is going to be. He was a rookie playing a position that is amazingly hard in the NFL. He may be a bust but we cant say that for sure right now. If you think they did Zero assessment on Diggs I'd say you're sadly mistaken. You have to know if a guy can do all the things you need him to in your offense. How many big free agents have we seen become an absolute bust when they go to a new team? They scored more points than any Bills offense ever last year and you guys think the offense is going to be hampered because they passed on who exactly? Arian Smith? Jaylin Noel? If you were looking for Jamar Chase in this draft he wasnt there. It is an absolute absurd comment to say this team, who is one of the top two winningest teams in football over the last 5 years doesnt know how to assess talent. Please tell me who in this draft was going to beat out Shakir, Samuel, Coleman, or Palmer for snaps this season.

Your assessment is that a coaching staff and front office with guys who have been around football for close to 40 years dont know when they see a good wideout? Is that really the hill you want to die on? The front office who brought Diggs here and drafted Khalil Shakir arent good at evaluating wideouts? I think some of you guys dont realize the percentage of wideouts who are drafted that ever turn into good wideouts in the NFL. Very few of the guys drafted this weekend have played in a pro-style offense. Only a select few can run a full route tree. Why waste a pick on guys who you have to teach football to for 3 years only to have them leave a year later?

Part of it is him not having elite skills and size that's true but if you want to argue that as of today he's a worse quarterback than someone like Jalen Milroe who just got taken in the 3rd round I completely disagree. I watched them both quite a bit last year and he is for sure a better player right now. He doesn't have elite arm talent but he has enough. He definitely struggles with lateral movement and pocket awareness but he also is very accurate and doesn't turn the ball over much. On top of that his output is incredible. Plain and simple the kid lost money going into the combine acting like he was already a top 5 pick. The combine is about answering questions. People wondered about his arm strength and he didn't throw. People wondered about his entitlement issues and he decided to act like he was above the process. Unless he was a shoe in #1 pick he should have went out there and earned it and he didnt. NFL teams want their franchise QBs to be football players first and foremost. Head down and learning. Setting the example for the rest of the team. They don't want social media stars, wanna be rappers, who already act like they earned it. Sanders should have went into this process acting like his name was John Smith but instead he got horrible advice and acted like a giant jerk. He has the talent. Teams don't want his entitlement. This should get interesting moving forward. Guys like Will Howard, Quinn Ewers, Kyle McCord, and Riley Leonard are all still there. The Sanders' family thinks Shedeur is a starter in the NFL. Will teams choose guys like Leonard who are maybe a little less talented but more coachable and willing to be a back up over Shedeur?

I am very much a Chrisitan however the way Easter is actually carried out is not a fun time for me. I wake up at 5am to get to sunrise service by 7am. Get home by 9am to cook dinner for 15 people. Serve lunch at 12pm. Exhausted by the time everyone leaves around 2pm but have to get to the in laws by 4pm. By the time Easter is done I've spent $300 dollars on the dinner, and another $300 dollars on Easter baskets for the kids. Wake up at 6pm for work on Monday still tired from the day before. That said, I do get joy from seeing how much my kids love it. To be fair, I am not a big fan of most holidays. I am incredibly tied to routine and anything that shakes it up turns me into a scrooge.

In reference to a pro-Palestinian extremist attempting to kill a Jew you said smart people can differentiate an attack on a Jewish person from attacks on Isarael. The issue being, it's the same sort of racist extremism that caused both issues. When Hamas kills Americans, whether it's on American soil or not, are they not killing Americans over ideology?

So, in your infinite wisdom you decided a group of Muslim extremists who are backed by Iran aren't interested in killing Jews? This despite leaders of both Hamas and Iran saying they want to wipe out Israel? Israel where the population is 74% Jewish. Maybe I am just a complete moron, but I think if you ask those non-Zionist Jews you mentioned if they want Israel wiped off the map, they may have a bit of an issue with it. As an aside, truly intelligent people dont have to tell others how smart they are all the time.

Not surprising from the guy who cries about wealth inequality all the time while being a millionaire with multiple houses.

Agree. Just take the degree away and call it what it is. Minor league football.

He's never been a big INT guy but show me someone who has played in this era of football that is. He's a good corner, breaks up a lot of passes, and helps in the run game. He's a loud mouth but he is a very good player.

I hope it works out well for you. In the meantime, you may want to work on understanding why you think Trump voters are less intelligent than you when some of the world's most intelligent and successful people voted for him. It's a very odd place to be in life to not be able to recognize other people's worth based solely on who they voted for. That sounds a lot like a cult member to me.

I am not going to bother to respond to the 4-5 guys in this thread that think they are more intelligent that 77 million other Americans. Your arrogance is sad, your allegiance to China over your own country is sick.

I cannot believe how many pro-China communists disguise themselves as American citizens. It is truly unfathomable and sad to me.

Agree with you. That part was stupid.

He's 78. Not sure what you expect. Biden was skinny but couldnt remember where he was or who the pants he was crapping in belonged to. You boys love your hyperbole and pearl clutching.

5.8 over a ten year period while reducing 194 billion in government spending and eliminating $880 billion in taxes on overtime pay. The addition of debt isn't good but it isn't owed to an outside country. Can you please now explain to me the benefit of owing money to China? Id feel bad about that if you weren't a sad little girl with an upside down American Flag as their avatar. You clearly have mental issues.