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It is not the loss of the game. It is the fact that the loss revealed some very troubling things - chiefly: - The offense seems to lack all creativity. Very rarely is someone schemed open. - The play calling is befuddling at times (see the Knox and Moore plays). - We have a good run game, but we are running it often against stacked boxes - which makes everything harder. Either we refuse to take advantage of that downfield (Brady) or we can't (WR) or both. - This all works together to often put Josh in the position of having to make a play to keep a drive alive. Then, all it takes is one bad play, one great blitz by the defense, or one bad ref call for us to be stalled. - The defense has problems...but we knew those already. I'm bothered because the last two games have forcibly ripped the rose colored glasses off my face when looking at the offense.

Like I said, I don't want to believe it. To be clear, it is only Gen Z. I looked up and found the study: https://www.resumetemplates.com/nearly-half-of-gen-zers-have-mom-regularly-talk-to-their-boss/ It really does seem ridiculous. Unfortunately, my experience with my businesses is that 50% is probably accurate. I'm sure there are some fields where the number is lower, but I know a hiring manager for McDonalds who tells me her experience is that it is closer to 100%. I'm sure that brings up the average.

I agree, but unfortunately this is the direction of the world lately. In my generation we would have been mocked by even our friends for it. I have seen stats that look unbelievably ridiculous, as in about 50% of this current generation have their parents regularly talk to their boss. I don't want to believe it, but my personal experience says it's true. Helicopter and Snowplow parents make their kids weak and prevent them from truly growing up.

Bills 30 Cheats 24 Vrabel is a solid coach and a good hire, Maye is a rising QB, McDaniel might be a bad head coach but he is a good OC, Henderson is a good back, Diggs will get some plays. I would like to think this would be an easy win, but I know better. The difference between a great team and a middle of the road team is not that big, the Pats have shaved the difference a little, and it is a division game. This will be closer than we are comfortable with and there will be some overreaction to what that means.

Yes. He single handedly killed like 3 or 4 drives. He trips on the 4th down and we easily get the first if he makes his block. I distinctly remember one where he had a TE chip his man and he still let him by. He is not the end of the world, but it was noticeable. I hate to complain about the refs, but I agree completely. On the season, NO had committed a lot of penalties and we hadn't. I'm supposed to believe that the teams just switched identities and now we commit all the penalties?

34-19 Bills win. We wont break 40 because we will not need to and will be content running the ball. We'll be up 3 scores and the Saints will score a TD on their last, meaningless drive. They will go for two and miss.

I want to see more passes to Shakir and Moore - they both look dangerous with the ball.

Our defense struggles with covering speed. They back off too much. Tua absolutely could not throw down field. We should have squeezed them.

The weird thing is that I have never considered Micah unathletic. It might come down to definition. Are we really just talking about speed? He definitely had slowed down near the end. I just keep seeing in my mind the over the head interception at the goal line against the Pats, thinking about how he just decided to score as the hands guy defending the onside kick, him returning kicks, him playing baseball, being such a great safety, etc. He just struck me as a superb athlete. I know that his RAS score is not even close to being good and that Hancock's RAS is elite. Like I said, weird.

I did it while my grandkids were talking to me. 😀 Terrible Tua McDaniel Mostly Middlin Dolphins Drubbed Dude

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This is actually kind of important to understand Josh's reaction. If 90% of the stadium left and it was crickets in the stadium, no one would question Josh wondering what in the world was going on. If only 10% of the stadium left, Josh doesn't even notice. Somewhere in between those two extremes is a line where Josh, who believes and is fighting to win on the sideline, looks up and notices and is rankled by it. Honestly, if 2/3 left, I don't blame him for calling it out. Also, I doubt as many leave if this is a 1:00 game.

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."