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Cry me a river for music industry moguls. Like the NFL, I love the product but I understand that there's a lot of unsavory manure that goes on in the production of the music ... and the artists who make the music are too often given the shaft by the people in power.

There were six QBs taken in the first round in 2024, and of the ones who played as rookies, all of them seemed to do better than most rookie QBs. My guess is that 5 or 6 QBs from this class are NOT going to become franchise QBs. When it all shakes out, I think it's likely only 1 or 2 become high level franchise QBs but 1 or 2 others could become decent starting QBs, so it's likely that this might be an excellent QB draft. It will be hard to beat the 2018 class with Josh and Lamar on track to be future HOFers plus Baker and maybe even Sam Darnold being very good franchise QBs.

I think you protest too much. Since the Chiefs seemed to be getting favorable calls from the refs before Kelce and Swift got together, it's hard to make this claim stick. When the Pats were dominant, they seemed to always get favorable calls. I remember when the Dolphins were dominant in the AFC in the 1970s, the refs seemed to always favor them, especially when they played the Bills. Are good teams favored by the referees? As Bills fans, our answer is "yes", but maybe this is all perception. Do Jests or Fish fans think that the Bills are favored by the referees? AFAIK, there's never been a study of whether referees do favor better teams over lesser teams or if it's all perception.

I do not understand the negativity so many posters feel towards Swift. I get that some might dislike Kelce because he's a Chief, but it seems that most of the animus is aimed at Swift. She is a supremely talented young woman who has made it to the very top of her profession in a cut throat industry. She also is a tremendous inspiration for girls and young women all over the world.

That mostly works ... as long as your subs are realistic.

Will we find out more about Tre White's injury via Hard Knocks tonight? He's not been put on IR, so he's on the active roster.

Quality over quantity. Maybe 2024 ends up that way, but we won't know for a while.

I have found that the best place to get reliably tasty recipes is foodnetwork.com. They have numerous recipes for tuna noodle casserole, including the classic one from the Campbell Soup Company: Classic Campbell's Tuna Noodle Casserole. This is the one that I grew up eating.

It's common for the surgeries on the eyes to be a little different from each other. My second surgery (right eye) felt a little "scratchy" at first but it's fine. The laser surgery in office, if necessary, only takes a few minutes. I was able to drive myself home afterwards.

Some drafts are just like that. I think the 2000 draft was also notable for lacking in many outstanding players.

Cry me a river for the Fish.

Players today know their worth. They also know they have a small window to secure their post-NFL financial futures, so they are willing to play hard ball with ownership, especially when they play positions where salaries have exploded in the last 2 or 3 years. Trubiskey looked significantly better in the pre-season than he did in Pittsburgh or even last season with the Bills. I think that the Bills roster is considerably better than many on TSW think it is, and Trubiskey helps make it better. He's highly unlikely to be able to win 5 or 6 games if Allen was out, but I think he could lead the Bills to 3 or 4 wins out of 6 games, depending upon the opponents. I don't think any team with a high caliber starting QB like Allen could ask for much more if their backup QB has to play a string of games.

Thanks for the definition of INCEL. Since I spent 2/3s of my life in the previous century, I'm sadly ignorant of current slang. I finally figured out that something that's "dope" is really good.

I only went back to 2018, but the Jests tradition of picking busts goes back decades.

All Bills fans want a Super Bowl win, but most realize that there's no guaranteed path to getting it.

I don't know about. I think the Jests might just be the most inept QB evaluators in the NFL. The Jests traded 2 2018 second round picks and their 2019 second round pick to Indy to take Sam Darnold at #3 overall in 2018 ... with two future NFL MVPs, Allen and Jackson, still on the board. Then they gave up on Darnold and traded him away to Carolina after 2020 so they could use the #2 pick in 2021 on Zach Wilson. In 2023, the Jests traded picks #13, their second round pick and a sixth rounder for Aaron Rodgers, the Packers #15 pick, and a fifth round pick. Wilson was traded to Denver in 2024 for a sixth and a seventh round pick. In 2025, they signed Justin Fields as a FA for $30 million over 2 years. In 2024, Darnold took the Vikings to a 14-3 record and made the Pro Bowl.

Is there evidence that the Bills never made an offer to Dolac? He was an UDFA, so he could go to any team. Maybe he always dreamed of living in LA. Young people in their twenties frequently want to move elsewhere, especially if they've gone to college in their home towns. I went to Nebraska for graduate school for that very reason. I remember the "bad old days" when the Bills rosters were sprinkled with numerous undrafted players. Rarely they hit the jackpot -- OLer Jason Peters is a future HOFer -- and occasionally some became pretty good NFL players like DB Jabari Greer and RB Fred Jackson, but most never became more than backups. I think the currrent Bills simply don't have room on their roster for many UDFAs. IIRC, the MAC was more highly considered by NFLers 20 plus years ago than it is today. Pittsburgh took Ben Roethlisberger in the first round of the 2004 draft.

Injuries are a reality of the game. Every team gets them. Maybe the Bills get their share in setbacks early, and get everybody back healthy for the playoffs which would be a big positive!

I also think that a young QB who aspires to becoming a HC, working with a great QB in an excellent organization would be a priceless apprenticeship. Both Kevin O'Connell and Kellen Moore are among the former QBs who never did much as players but learned the game as backups.

I don't think it ever was intended to "help" bookies. Just the opposite. It would prevent gamblers capitalizing on knowing that a player was definitely or unlikely to play in a game when most did not, and betting accordingly. It also lessens teams' ability to hide how available players are for upcoming games.

2025 is the two hundredth anniversary of the very first project in the US that used public monies an infrastructure project. It was the Erie Canal, aka at the time "Clinton's Ditch". New York State footed the entire bill. The canal opened up the entire state west of the Mohawk Valley. What had been economic backwaters became boom towns as the canal terminus moved west between 1817 and 1825 when it reached Buffalo. In 1825, Buffalo had a population of about 2500 souls. By 1832, the population jumped to 25,000. It was one of the richest cities in the US during the first half of the twentieth century. Why do you assume that the Bills won't find a successor to Josh Allen? As long as the team owner is committed to winning football games rather maximizing profits, it's likely the team will find some success on the field. Most NFL teams do. FTR, most of "the general public" has been priced out of buying season tickets in most NFL stadiums for a couple of decades at least, and that includes the Bills.

OLers don't count. The talking heads haven't anointed Brown a "elite", so he isn't in the minds of most fans. If the Chiefs could have found themselves even a decent LT in recent drafts, they'd probably have 5 Lombardis in a row.

Some people can't trust themselves to be optimistic, so they walk around fearing everything is a sign of trouble to come.

I don't believe that the CBA requires that health/injury information be made "public knowledge". The CBA may require that players sign waivers and give their teams their medical information, but that doesn't give teams the right to release that information to the public without the individual player's consent. I think that Vrabel has a right to be unhappy with someone telling the press the severity of the injury.

I will say that Mitch has looked better this pre-season than I expected. I don't think he's starter material, but I think he'd be okay for a game or so.