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Of course not. He's been a top 10-12 QB in this league the whole time. He has a crap O-line and a questionable cast of receiving targets in a terrible scheme. Many QBs look like a dumpster fire in those circumstances. Tyrod has looked AVERAGE despite dealing with those circumstances. There are things he doesn't do very well, which is why he'll never be a top 5 or top 8 guy. But he's plenty good enough to win with.

Look, I'm going to make a statement here that has nothing to do with politics, despite its unfortunate tangential relationship to the current state of US affairs: Trump is a moron. He's always been a moron. He will never not be a moron. He's been understood to be a moron for decades. DECADES. He drove an entire football league into the ground. He's been lampooned and satirized as an icon of corrupt, selfish idiocy since at least as far back as the 80s. He bizarrely tried to claim credit for the Pegulas buying the Bills when that whole thing was going down. He's that kind of moron. Whatever misgivings you might have about the Pegulas, the current situation is much, much better than it could have been.

After this season there will be grown men and women who have not had a Bills playoff appearance occur in their lifetimes, and the Bills are no closer to achieving a playoff appearance than they have been in at least 15 of those seasons. "Growing a pair" is insufficient.

They inherited a talented roster that was a good coach and defensive coordinator away from a serious playoff push. They proceeded to gut the roster and ruin last year's 7th-best offense while making no improvements whatsoever on defense. The excuses need to end.

SO HAS TYROD This is seriously insanity Our offense was great last year. Tyrod is probably in the #10-#12 range of QBs, and that is PLENTY good enough to win with. He'll never be a Brady. Few QBs are. The best part about committing to a QB of the caliber of Tyrod Taylor is that you have free reign to take flyers on guys until you hit on one that you think can be a top 5 guy, and there's simultaneously no pressure to play the new prospect but also no big shock or surprise when you finally part ways with the vet.

Wait, what? So you're cool with them harrassing more minorities, even though it is demonstrably not yielding results, and you want them to do MORE of it?

Anybody pretending that "Inmates running the prison" is a common phrase (hint: it's "asylum") and that the usage of prison had nothing to do with the players being black needs to do some serious introspection about why they so desperately need to deny the existence of racism in American society

Then you need to clean off the lenses you're looking with. You can disagree with methods, you can disagree with proposed solutions, but if you look into what their concerns are and come away with the impression that there are no problems with the treatment of minorities, and particularly of black people in the US then you are objectively wrong. That is not a matter of belief. That is not a matter of interpretation. It's a shameful fact of American identity that we need to own up to and resolve.

Ding ding ding But I'm sure they're just whiny, entitled primadonnas and not grown men with beliefs and life experiences and passions. How dare they do anything but bleed for our entertainment.

You do know that they do this, right? Maybe not all of them, but a not unsubstantial portion of them. Kaepernick in particular has been putting his time and money where his mouth is, which you might know if you actually respected people of color enough as human beings to look into why they feel the way they do.