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    Bills sign Chase Claypool, Smoot, Jones

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    4 hours ago, Einstein's Dog said:

    Great, found a deal on a carcinogen.  Maybe next we can find some cheap asbestos.

     

    He's not going to show a poor attitude in camp, how stupid do you think he is?  It's once the injustice of Coleman getting more game time than Claypool starts to materialize, then the locker room cancer starts to form.  Various forms of this cancer have followed Claypool through his travels.

     

    We just had major surgery to clear the Diggs virus so forgive some of us for being a little jumpy when they introduce a toxin into the locker room 

     

    I think you're borrowing trouble.

    I don't think there's the slightest chance that a 25 yr old washout is going to walk into a room full of high character players and have any negative effect on them whatsoever.

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    McDermott Growth/Expectations

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    14 minutes ago, GunnerBill said:

     

    Nah he wanted them to interview Keith Butler from the Steelers. From the first interview the Pegulas were texting McDermott behind Whaley's back while he continued to run a process that he believed was still ongoing.

     

    I won't get into a pissing contest about it, but this is not true.

    They were certainly communicating with McDermott behind Whaley's back after he was hired, but McDermott was the guy that Whaley wanted them to bring in.

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    McDermott Growth/Expectations

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    1 minute ago, GunnerBill said:

     

    B) even if he doesn't in two hiring cycles so far Pegula hired guys other than his GMs recommendation.

     

    Rex and Marrone were overrules but the McDermott hire was Whaley's choice and ironically the first time he felt secure enough to really push Pegula into adhering to his recommendation.

     

     

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    Beer drinking traditions

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    3 minutes ago, DrW said:

     

    Lüttje Lage is very specific. Even the beer (which is low-alcohol, 2.5-3.0%, brown and pretty "malty") is only used for this drink.

     

    Would the proper pronunciation be something along the lines of "loot-jay lageh" with a hard "g"?

    Beer drinking traditions

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    15 hours ago, DrW said:

    In and around the German city of Hannover, where I grew up, we have a very unusual way to consume beer, called the Lüttje Lage

    I like this idea a lot.

    Would it still be considered the Luttje Lage if you substituted a different kind of beer or cordial, or does Luttje Lage translate to those specific ingredients?

    Beer drinking traditions

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    2 hours ago, Logic said:

    All I know is that, for whatever reason, in the circles in which I travel, after everyone toasts each other, it is considered rude or bad luck not to tap one's glass on the table before drinking. So it goes toast, tap, drink. Failure to do so elicits scorn. Why? I have no idea. Is this universal?

    Also, and I suppose this is only tangentially related...when I used to live on the island of St John in the U.S. Virgin Islands, it was very common to "Ice" one's friends. That is, to present them -- at a random, surprise time and usually in a creative fashion -- with a very warm (or hot, given the tropical temperatures) Smirnoff Ice, with the rule being that, once presented with one, the recipient had no choice but to drop to one knee and speed-drink the entire beverage.

    It's a dumb, sophomoric game, which proliferated on the island most likely because it's Neverland down there, and no one wants to grow up. I will admit -- I witnessed some pretty funny Icings. Drive-by Icings, toilet tank repair Icings ("Hey Ben, can you check the tank on the back of the toilet? It's making a weird noise". Boom. Warm bottle of Smirnoff Ice in there), Scuba dive Icings, etc...Yes, it's immature and silly. Yes, it was also usually hilarious to witness. And yes, a warm bottle of Smirnoff Ice consumed speedily is one of the worst things that can happen to you in the middle of your Wednesday afternoon).

     

    I've never seen the table tap, but I've been a party to and victim of many Icings.

    I was at the wedding of some friend's kids last summer and they had everybody leave the pavilion and go out for some fireworks and the couple's entrance, then when we came back in there was an Ice sitting at every single place-setting at the reception.

    200 people all taking a knee to pound a Smirnoff was fantastic theater. :lol:

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    Bills sign Chase Claypool, Smoot, Jones

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    11 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:

    I mean........they had never had a QB like Josh Allen.   Right?

     

    I'm as interested in the fact that Josh Allen has never really had a WR quite like Claypool.

    The suddenness and catch radius could be a boon to Allen; if they were to get on the same page, that could get real interesting, real quick.

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    Things that really piss you off when driving.

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    10 hours ago, Doc said:

     

    No idea.  The biggest idiots are the ones who do it to 18 wheelers.  

     

    The older generation of truckers were the best drivers out there, but the newer generation has become a bunch of self-indulgent jackasses.

    I won't brake check that kind of tonnage, but if they do something stupid I will time it so that I slide in front of them when approaching the base of a hill and then slow down enough to rob them of the momentum they're trying to build for it. It drives them crazy. :lol:

    Things that really piss you off when driving.

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    11 hours ago, Another Fan said:

    General consensus drivers have gotten way worse in the last 20 years? 

     

    I'd say absolutely.

    Between the ingrained entitlement, the tech distractions and the simple lack of respect for others, there are way more spoiled, clueless brats on the road.

    Even OTR guys, who used to be the best drivers out there, cannot be trusted anymore.

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    Rd 2, Pick 33: WR Keon Coleman, Florida State

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    21 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:

    Are you suggesting Davis should have sped-up/shortened his route to protect inside leverage? I see it more as Davis didn't convincingly sell/threaten to the outside, especially in light of Peterson's expectation for Davis to break inside. Was Davis supposed to read Peterson's cheating inside and underneath and then break outside instead? Or did Dorsey simply telegraph the concept with his tendencies and personnel alignments and Peterson slow-played it just enough to bait Allen? 

     

    Also some room to criticize the throw, given the DB's leverage. Mirror of the same basic throw he fired into Davis for their 4th TD in the 13 seconds game (just breaking right-to-left instead), late, low trajectory missile that's underthrown if the CB is trailing/anticipating.

     

    It was clearly an atrocious decision by Allen, regardless of whether Davis also blew the route.

     

    I guess I was just commenting on how frustrating it was to watch these guys play together for 4 full season and still never really ever get on the same page.

    I'm curious whether Davis will have the same issues going forward.

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    Rd 2, Pick 33: WR Keon Coleman, Florida State

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    23 minutes ago, BADOLBILZ said:

     

     

    The first read on that play shouldn't have been a slow developing TD shot play.   Allen made matters worse by staring Shakir down for all 2.85 seconds and then throwing a pass that was closer to being intercepted than caught.   Just a ridiculous situation to put themselves in giving the ease they were having at taking what the defense was giving them all day.   Stunningly reminiscent of Allen unnecessarily throwing the game away in overtime versus the Vikings in 2022.   Same area of field.......2nd and 10......1:18 left........in field goal range........picked off by Patrick Peterson.   

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Miscommunication #634 with Davis

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    Chiefs tackles busted for marijuana

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    27 minutes ago, chongli said:

     

    I'm consistent. If the speed limit is 80 mph in one state and 65 in another, you better go 65 in the latter. You have to adjust to the state.

     

    I think he's wondering if not "slowing down" makes you a bad person. Or just someone who broke a law.

    Cuz the two are not really interchangeable, imo.

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    Chiefs tackles busted for marijuana

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    1 minute ago, ToGoGo said:

    I don’t think it’s a non-story that the Chiefs keep staying in the news for negative reasons. 
     

    This is how empires begin to collapse. Often from within. 

     

    I don't disagree with this.

    But it also calls to mind another franchise that tortured us, had a first ballot HOF QB, and had a variety of implosions annually predicted as their fate; predictions which became so tirelessly repetitive that they evolved into an ongoing gag. :ph34r:

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    Things that really piss you off when driving.

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    13 hours ago, Pete said:

    cars that do the speed limit in passing lane, have cars continue to pass on the right, yet do not move over to the traveling lane where they belong.

     

    The inability to differentiate between the travel lane and the passing lane is a level of idiocy I will never be able to comprehend.

    If the right lane is a stretch of bad road and there is no other traffic around then I get it; I do that sometimes.

    But to be hanging out there doing the same speed as a car you're not even passing, while 5 people are stacked up behind you is stunningly stupid and you will get an intimate close up view of my bumper.

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