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6 minutes ago, FireChans said:
It’s a board game. Who plays games that are made inherently unfair?
Also, who would be so deluded to think that giving women players of a board game an advantage for a reason wholly unrelated to the fictional game to correct an injustice is a good idea? Should men get an extra turn at the Game of Life because they die at a far more alarming rate in the work related accidents compared to women?
If I was a woman, which I’m not, I would be outright offended that a game with a strictly level playing field, unlike real life, decided to change the rules to give me an unfair advantage. “Sorry you get paid less, but we’ll cheat so you win 12 hour games of Monopoly more!”
Nice message being sent. The makers of this game should be embarrassed.
Sure, I'm not saying it's the right idea for a game, it's more of the scoffing at the idea that there is or ever has been any kind of gender pay inequity.
Lets take a deeper look into the work related accident data. You do realize that so many of those positions were for jobs that women historically were either flat out not allowed to have or weren't able to get because of discrimination, right? The system has silo'd genders into certain positions for an incredibly long time, and we've only made a certain amount of headway to fix that. And that goes both ways, there's still a certain bias against men in traditional women-dominated fields.
But I don't know how anyone can possiby argue that men have reaped far more benefits from this than women have. Even after we've evened out the playing field in education...the executive/leadership/highest payig jobs across the board amongst all lines of work are still completely dominated by white males.
Unless you're going to say that you just think white males are smarter and more capable than everyone else...how would you not see that as problematic and believe that no steps need to be taken to drive equity?
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The argument over the exact policy is fine...but the idea that there is no racism or discrimination when it comes to these hiring practices is an absolute joke. There's just less of it than when it was at it's most extreme. That doesn't mean it's "good enough".
We have gotten to a place where we are most likely selecting the best players, but even that took time and addressing long-standing biases that black guys could be at what were always considered some of the most cerebral/leadership positions, such as QB, C, S, MLB. I'm not even sure we're fully there in that regard to be honest.
But we haven't even come close to creating equality for those cerebral positions in the coaching or especially front office worlds, and that's not just in the NFL. I believe the NBA only has 3 minority GM's and 8 coaches. I could be wrong on the exact numbers, just going by the last time I read up on it, I'm sure it's still pretty close to that.
Lets take the NHL for example...given the amount of white players in the game...would nobody at all question if most of the coaches and GM's in the NHL were black? I find that incredibly hard to believe.
It's also not just black or minorities...look at the coaching world for women. It's widely accepted for men to be coaching women's sports, whether it's for the scholastic, Olympic, or professional levels. Not even in the same world for women trying to coach in men's sports.
Look at Becky Hammon in the NBA. Future HOF inductee for the WNBA, has been a top assistant coach for the last 7 years in the NBA for Greg Popovich, one of the greatest to ever do it. Has had numerous great and HOF players on the Spurs openly vouch for her...yet it looks like the only shot she probably has is with the Spurs after/whenever Popovich retires while numerous male retreads get recycled over and over and over again, and young assistants for top coaches, even from Popovich himself elsewhere get opportunities over and over and over again.
It's a nasty cycle, we're in 2020 and we STILL have these issues. And somehow we STILL have people who are in denial about them. Embarrassingly for me...it's my own fellow white males who are at the forefront of that.
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45 minutes ago, FireChans said:
Oh yes. When you pass go, the women playing the game get $240, males get $200. It’s incredible.
If you're talking about it like an absurdity...I hope you're looking at the fact that males have essentially had that advantage in pay equity since...well...forever.
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I like Beane, good stuff for the most part.
The Gronk praising bothered me. Doesn't ANYONE in the organization care about one of the dirtiest shots we've ever seen that he landed on one of our best players? I mean I know we didn't do anything to fight back but to gush about him as a player and person is rough to hear. That guy is a piece of trash.
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Some of the comments here are troubling. Mental health issues are no joke.
If you want to slam Sammy as the bust of a football player he was here, that's fine. I never liked that pick and didn't really like him as a player and fought people here on the "decoy" nonsense.
But some of the personal stuff here is pretty cruel. Dude was in his early 20's with what sounds like significant mental health issues. Lots of people with those problems self-medicate, especially from underserved populations where you don't really know what to do with all of that.
Hopefully whether all that stuff is real or not, the dude can keep the mental clarity he supposedly has now. Even if he's just tricking himself with some of his philosophies, there's no harm in trying to turn negatives into positives.
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36 minutes ago, Giuseppe Tognarelli said:
What kind of job do you have where you can use your home network, or your VPN work network allows you to be on YouTube or sports sites?
Don't most have VPN's that allow that?
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YES!!!
Obviously we'll see what happens with Corona, but if it's cleared and there will be fans there, I'm down! I currently live in Los Angeles.
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17 hours ago, Ralonzo said:
Don't rewind to :28, yeeeesh
Haha yikes, I just saw that. I don't know what that was.
17 hours ago, Cheektowaga Chad said:Fromm this past season and fromm 2 years ago are completely different players.
Not sure what exactly happened. Maybe it was surrounding talent maybe it was a scheme change.
That's a concern to me as well. It didn't feel like he got better as his college career went along. Although I really only saw him in "big" games so I wouldn't know the entire scope of what his seasons looked like.
I've come around more to the pick though. I did want us to draft a QB, I am not in the camp of fully trusting Matt Barkley off of one good game he had against a bad team when the rest of his career he hasn't even shown to be a reliable backup, I definitely wanted some competition for the backup role and even possibly a potential contingency plan for Allen in case he doesn't take the leap in year 3. I personally don't think Fromm is high-potential enough for the latter, but I think he could be a solid backup, which would still make that a good pick in round 5.
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This is mostly about the salary dump, which is huge.
Honestly though, even though that draft was stacked...I don't know how much I can rail on the former regime for taking Dareus. He was a total force in college and he had everything physically to be a really impactful stalwart on the DLine. To me it's still tougher to find those guys than WR's.
I tend to be in the middle when it comes to the draft being evaluation vs crapshoot. For the most part I think it's very tough to tell who will adapt to the NFL and keep/elevate their motivation. I don't blame the logic in drafting Dareus though, at the time I was fully on board.
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38 minutes ago, Success said:
The record isn't good, and there are no moral victories - but few coaches were able to limit Brady as consistently. I think McD's defenses were very effective against their offense.
Honestly, the thing that bugged me about that article was "pathetic Bills Mafia." I get that it's a troll, but I will put our fans up against the current crop of New England fans any ol' day. They actually have long debates on their boards about "are you rooting for Tampa or the Patriots now?" And they're easily the softest fanbase in the world at this point - no way a lot of those younger fans would make it through the kind of drought we went through, which actually strengthened our loyalty and resolve.
That kind of shot from a lame Boston fan is silly. And the writer should know better. He lived through plenty of years (actually decades) of both the Pats and Red Sox being "tomato cans." One of the wonderful ironies of Boston sports fandom for me is how much they hated the Yankees & their fans for years, and now that's exactly what they are.
Definitely agree about the shot at Bills Mafia, the best fanbase in all of sports. I honestly think he was purposefully trolling, he probably does know better.
The part about McD though is exactly the problem that I think exists in most evaluations of him. That would be nice if McD was just a defensive coordinator. But the head coach has more responsibility than that. I wasn't as bothered by being 0-4 vs the Pats in the first two years as I was losing both this past season because both of those were winnable games. That was not the elite Brady of years past, and it really wasn't that good of a team overall. Miami came into NE and did what we couldn't basically a week or so later, and they're in year 1 of their rebuild.
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Obviously a troll article...but I think the shot at McD is honestly a fair one.
0-6 vs the Hoodie, the last 2 coming in a year where the Pats were not very good, and hasn't really shown any kind of improvement with his game management skills in 3 years. I like our talent, but am concerned about this guy's ability in big moments and if he is the kind of coach that can battle with the best.
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On 4/29/2020 at 8:41 AM, C.Biscuit97 said:
He is going to one of those guys who isn’t very good, will have one good drive and some people will go crazy for him, will suck every time he plays after that, but will stick in the NFL for a long time because the coaches like him while they pray he never plays.
seems like a good dude and I liked him on QB1. But I see no upside for a college game manager who was the worst NFL talent of the 3 qbs Georgia had.
but it will be awesome when this thread gets pumped after he leads a td drive in the 4th quarter of a preseason game against the Lions Peterman or Tuel style.
Sounds kind of like Matt Barkley. Dude had 1 good game for us against a bad team and has somehow been solidified here as a high quality backup in spite of the rest of his career.
I didn't love the Fromm pick but I was 100% all for drafting a QB to create some competition for that backup spot. I wasn't nearly as sold that we had a good backup situation in place.
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35 minutes ago, Logic said:
1. Everyone wants to believe the Bills got their first choice.
2. Dugger was never a very popular choice among the majority of Bills fans for whatever reason.
It's mostly this. It's a weird coping mechanism that I don't think is really needed.
There are so many teams in the draft that don't get the #1 guy they hoped for at their pick, but no GM is going to say that, so I think fans are conditioned to believe or just want to believe that the draft always works out in the most optimal way.
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16 minutes ago, BillsFan692 said:
The song is eminem right? Yeah like who even likes that multi platinum recording artist, @$#% is trash! (lol)
He's awesome overall, but I had never heard that one and it's gotta be the worst one I've heard from him.
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I kind of like this dude and I understand the connection with the song title...however that song sounded awful. I'm usually cool with Eminem but his voice sounded really annoying on that track.
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Just now, Process said:
Well our new kicker has never hit a fg over 50 yards, soo...
Haha, yikes, I didn't realize that.
I guess I just assumed we took a big leg if we were drafting a kicker.
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I like this a lot, our kicking game needs a total revamp. We can't keep going with a kicker where a 50+ yard FG is a complete non-starter.
Hopefully a punter is coming too!
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2 minutes ago, MAJBobby said:
So your saying a BU. Good. Seeing that is what we wanted from a 5th round QB
Id be more excited if I thought he had good BU potential.
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I like this draft but not this pick. This dude is not an NFL QB.
I was a proponent for drafting a 3rd QB if a guy had some potential and athleticism that could be molded...but this guy has a very low ceiling to begin with.
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17 hours ago, Freddie's Dead said:
Josh Allen isn't the acid test, McD's game management is. Let's hope he doesn't boot another first-round playoff game against an inferior opponent.
Yes!
Hopefully there is some accountability if McD's game management keeps costing us. Not sure how the "he's a new first-time coach" excuse can still apply to Year 4.
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On 3/19/2020 at 10:31 AM, Mountain Man said:
We have one of the best backup QB situations in the league, why are people obsessed with changing it?
Barkley is cheap, a great locker room guy who supports Josh Allen, good enough to survive a few games and is accepting of his role.
I don't want Flacco but I think to say we have one of the best backup QB situations is a reach. It's basically based on 1 game Barkley had last year vs the Jets vs the entire rest of his career.
He's not a terrible backup but a 3rd QB with upside or that's better is definitely not something I'd object to.
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I like it.
If you're truly "going for it", you gotta shore up Special Teams too. Like someone else here said...now we also gotta address the punting situation.
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5 hours ago, Binghamton Beast said:
Yeah, I'm going to lean on the side of Beane and McDermott....you know, two guys that know Norman's game inside and out and how he will fit into the Bills scheme.
Sure, kind of like Kelvin Benjamin
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Very badly needed, I think McDermott is a good teacher of the game but he is straight trash when it comes to game/clock management. Like almost unbelievably bad for a guy who just finished his 3rd year. I'm glad he at least recognizes it and hopefully will give up some of those responsibilities. As we've seen with Andy Reid, for some it's not something that ever really becomes a strength.
Change to Rooney Rule?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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This too. The programs for the league need to run parallel with a ground-floor effort if we're ever really going to have any kind of equity in this space.