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Yes, it was. I remember the pictures of the firetrucks and the firefighting equipment encased in ice.

And Chip Kelly proved once again that listening to the fans is such a smart move. // sarcasm off Revisionist history. McDermott didn't have much choice. Allen was definitely not ready to start an NFL game at the start of his rookie season. He wasn't ready to play QB in the NFL when he first replaced Peterman as a rookie. He didn't know what he was doing. After he was injured and forced to sit for a few games, he came back and played much better, but not particularly great. His leadership and running ability were his biggest assets. As somebody else posted, Allen didn't emerge as a quality NFL QB wasn't until part way through his third season (2020). More revisionist history. The Philly FO (Lurie and Roseman) fired Andy Reid and hired Chip Kelly because Reid went 4-12 in 2012 after going 8-8 in 2011 and making the playoffs in 2008-2010. They canned Kelly with one game remaining in his third season after the Eagles went 6-9 as HC.

Tonight, December 27, at 8:20 pm, the Buffalo Fire Department will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of five firemen in a massive propane explosion in a warehouse at North Division and Grosvenor Streets which was just east of downtown and just north of what is today Larkinville. At the time I lived in the Grant-Amherst neighborhood about 7 miles from downtown. The explosion shook my house. Two civilians, Al Arnold and his mom, Jessie, were also killed in the massive explosion. Al was a friend and classmate when we were at Buffalo State in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so this sad anniversary always hits me hard. Buffalo Propane Explosion

This isn't the same old Ravens. They got a new DC last season. It didn't seem to work out great because Lamar was injured a lot last season. The Ravens sent OC Greg Roman packing for this season and brought in Maunken (sp?) as OC and upgraded their WRs to improve the passing game. Lamar is no longer a running QB who can throw but a real good passing QB who can also run really well, much like Josh Allen.

I suspect that Quinn didn't change his defense because he simply couldn't believe that the Bills would continue to run the ball ... and run the ball ... and run the ball some more. On the fourteen play drive in the third quarter, the Bills ran the ball 13 times. In the 2020s, what team does that, especially when your QB is Josh Allen????

It's not just a Canadian "secret". The young woman whose murder inspired this documentary was from the Northern Cheyenne Reservation which is Montana. The last time I looked, Montana is a state in the United States. One thing to note is that your statement is a misogynistic and racist excuse to dismiss a serious problem that exists in the US. White women who are not involved in prostitution and/or drug trafficking go missing daily all over the US. Most are never found. Many of those whose remains are found are found years or decades later purely by accident. In my corner of New York State, Chautauqua County, there are three very well known cases of women who vanished in the last half century and have never been found: Patricia Laemmerhirt (1976), Lori Ceci Bova (1997), and Corrie Anderson (2008). All were white. None were involved in "dangerous lifestyles". Corrie Anderson was a librarian at Jamestown Community College with a little boy, whom she never arrived to pick up. Her "dangerous lifestyle" was probably having an ex-husband and living in a predominantly rural, densely forested area where bodies are easier to hide than in a more urban or suburban area. This is nothing but more racist bull manure.

The game is supposed to be free on Amazon Prime.

I don't think Boyle is significantly better than Wilson but maybe for 1 game he can play just well enough to inspire the Jests D. If they can get after Tua, they might have a chance.

IMO it's pretty clear that the Jests don't have much of anything in Wilson. If he wasn't a #2 overall pick, he'd be a third stringer ... or hanging out on a practice squad. The more he plays, the clearer it becomes that he lacks the intangible traits a successful NFL QB needs. I think the reason that OJ is in the HOF is that he was inducted long before he murdered 2 people. Rose wasn't yet in the HOF when he was charged with cheating.

Talk about allowing an inmate to run the asylum: the Jests hired Rodgers' buddy, Hackett, to run the offense and Cobb and Lazard to play WR. Of course they'll keep Aaron's fanboy.

The problem with this line of thinking is that it's likely that in a few more weeks there will be no point in Rodgers coming back this season. Wilson is simply awful, and his play has deteriorated over the last 2 games. There have been several unheralded rookie and/or UDFA QBs making their first few starts in the NFL this season who have played with more savvy than Wilson. Half way through his third season with 29 starts, he's no better at sensing pressure, at making good decisions, at seeing the field, etc than he was as a rookie -- and he wasn't very good then. My guess is that the decision to continue to start Wilson comes from significantly higher up the corporate food chain than HC Salah.

Exactly. They've made their big bucks, and now they'd like to get a ring rather than labor for more $$$ on a cellar dweller. I think that these FA veterans like to wait until after the trade deadline because it puts them in the best position to get the best deal from the team they like the best since there's no chance of any monster trade disrupting a team's prospects for the playoffs. I don't think either Joseph or Fournette were just lounging on their sofas. Staying fit is a way of life for professional athletes, and for older veterans who plan to sign with a contender well after the start of the season, staying in playing shape is part of the plan. The OLer who supposedly "came off the sofa" to fill in on the Giants' OL a couple of weeks ago stepped right in and held his own. He had to be in pretty good shape to do that.

It probably wouldn't have mattered because the Bills would have never re-signed him after his rookie contract ... the Bills under Russ Brandon and his minions never kept the really good players that they drafted.

^^^ I think Dablitzkrieg was being sarcastic.

Most DTs don't get a lot of sacks because they do the dirty work inside occupying blockers, enabling the edge rushers to get the sacks. Pass rushing DTs like Oliver are exceptions which is what makes them so valuable.

Let me guess, you think Jon Gruden was railroaded. Statistics pretty much prove that the NFL coaching ranks are a good ol' boy network, and since almost all of the good ol' boys are white, white good ol' boys get most of the opportunities, even those with mediocre resumes. The NFL itself has acknowledged this with their continuing attempts to see more African Americans hired as head coaches. At the time Brian Flores filed his lawsuit against the NFL and Broncos, Giants, and Texans in 2022, there was only 1 Black HC in the NFL. In 2023, there are 3 Black HCs in the NFL, the same number that were in the league when the NFL instituted the Rooney Rule twenty years ago. Those are pretty skewed stats given that 70% of NFL players are black.

Recency bias ... and Jests homerism run amok.

Apparently the Jests' guard McGovern displaced or broke his knee cap against the Pats, which sounds like he's done for the season, so the Jests were obviously desperate to bolster their OL. 😁

The scariest bad teams are always the ones on losing streaks ... and the longer the losing streak, the more dangerous the team.

Especially as Gano is good kicker, not a scrub off the waiver wire or an easily iced rookie.

The small flock of pigeons that infest my yard has been reduced by one. Some time this morning a hawk or falcon snagged an unlucky one, leaving a large bunch of gray and white feathers scattered around the far end of my backyard. Cooper's hawks and peregrine falcons are the most likely culprits since I live in a somewhat suburban area of my city, but as this is migration season, it could have been several other raptors less common to this area.

Well, of course!!! Garoppolo took the 49ers to the Super Bowl in 2019. They lost but at least he got them there, which is more than Allen has done! //sarcasm off

Well said. Aaron Rodgers has won 1 SB. I don't think that he's been to another. That's as many as Joe Flacco and Nick Foles have won. Peyton Manning, the best QB of his generation, only won two. His younger brother, Eli, who was an excellent QB but not nearly as good as his sibling, also won two, including one against the Patriots on the infamous "helmet catch". Football is a team game, and it's well balanced teams -- teams good at all three phases of game -- that have a lot of luck on their side, particularly in terms of injuries to key players -- that win Super Bowls. In the salary cap era, putting together a well balanced team when a team has to pay an elite QB is a very complex proposition.

I rolled a pickup truck many years ago and ended up with a concussion and neck sprain. It takes at least several weeks to heal the neck. Of course, Harris is a very fit 20-something. I was a nearly forty year old softee.

The last time I looked, there are defenses in every game trying to stop the offense from scoring. I've never seen any post of yours ever making an excuse for Allen. 🙄 It sounds like you're advocating some kind of revolution. Are you and your army of indignant fans going to storm One Bills Drive, take Terry Pegula hostage, and force Beane, McDermott et al to resign? Before Mahomes, Andy Reid was considered a coach who couldn't win "the big one".