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Both of these are true and both of these are good things. Another benefit of a strong culture is that you can take in some talented players, who are maybe not the highest character players, and the culture carries them so that you can get the benefit of all their talent. The players police themselves, as it were. If you have too many of them, things unravel. It is like back in the day when people like Kelly used to talk about the over/under on the number of players you could have from the U. They were good players, so you wanted some of them, but you didn't want too many.

Speaking of Shavers making the team: "My wife is happy because now his wife stays around." I get that all the culture stuff will always be nit picked until we win a Superbowl, but culture matters. The WR market is crazy and Shakir would have gotten more on the open market. He chose to stay here.

Government should spend money on things that companies either would have a difficult time doing or would be dis-incentivized to do. The Eisenhower Interstate Highway system is a good example of this. We already had roads, but the system made delivering goods so much easier and more efficient. You can't really expect companies or farmers to build this road network. That leaves us with two questions: - Does the stadium help the community in other ways - concerts and the like? - Does it create or sustain jobs and economic growth for the area that would be lost if the Bills move? When it comes to the Interstate highway system, the answer is obvious. The burden should be on the State because so many companies are helped by this. When it comes to the NFL, the teams not only benefit the most from stadiums, but are most able financially to fund the infrastructure. Likewise, different locales recognize how their area would benefit enough that they try to steal teams. You have a situation where both sides benefit and the government and the NFL are on more equal footing. It is less clear cut who should pay how much. I think that is why you see negotiations going on where the government pays for some and the teams pay for some.

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I think many of us would say that coincidence is not the same as correlation. This. Sure, there are times when the preseason ends up looking a lot like the regular season. How could there not be? Random, dumb luck would say it is bound to happen, but there are too many examples of how it doesn't. Preseason is just not a good predictor. This is not a zealotry against deductive process. Just the opposite - it is bad deduction to come to a conclusion based on something that often doesn't correlate.

Said in the thread introducing an article by the other guy with the title, Hokie Smokes! 😀 Honestly, I think it would be natural for Astro to get a little bored. How many of these things has he written? Not that I took your comment as being overly critical.

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My problem is that, whenever I start to think about my good OJ memories, I begin to feel guilty about it. So, then I think - OJ, why did you have to do what you did? You were such a good player and such a seemingly nice representative of Buffalo and my childhood. That leads me to feeling guilty again, this time because I am feeling sorry he messed up my memories as if I was some sort of victim, when the real victims are the people who are dead and those that knew them. OJ is a difficult minefield for me to navigate.

"The KR Stars today are Frank Gore Jr., Daequan Hardy, with Deon Cain shuffling back there. Kick Returner would be one way that Cain could crack the lineup…If Cain is able. [Editor groans]." Top notch dad joke, even if the editor did hang a lantern on it.

Where an educated consumer is our best customer. Memory is a funny thing, but I swear they had a commercial in every Bills game I watched.

What is it that Marv Levy used to say? You can't be too young, too thin, or have too many UB linebackers?

Cam Ward was most likely going to start, which means this is not a huge deal. Still, Levis could have gotten into games if Cam stumbled, which would have been awesome. He plays high event hockey, as it were, and I am always on team chaos when it comes to other franchises.

He once voiced what I was feeling at the time when he told a ref on the way off the field in the Superbowl - "you've been bought."

He is not even running full speed, his head is turned toward the QB at the release, and his footwork is telling. He doesn't even have to settle under it. My point is he misread the throw and that is an underrated WR skill. We are going to disagree on this, which is fine.

I'm not saying that Kincaid didn't do those things. I'm saying that he runs 15-20 yards or so after the ball is released and this was not a laser throw Look at his footwork just as he enters the frame and you can tell that he didn't track the ball well. It looks like he slows down, speeds up, and then realizes his mistake and slams on the brakes. The majority of the time an NFL WR (and even Dalton himself some of the time) would have settled under the ball and not over ran it.