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Chase is one of the few receivers I’d trade Diggs for. I know it’s blasphemous to speak against your own superstar, but that guy is scary explosive.

I’ve only been to Buffalo twice, so I can’t speak on the hotness scale of the ladies there, but I often hear how unattractive they are. Why is this, do you think? If we take a large sample size like UB, what percentage of those young women do you think would be considered “hot”?

It’s likely so that anyone can play at any time, without the bounce of the basketball disturbing the people inside.

Both parents are civil engineers who earn a combined salary of close to $200,000/yr. The way you describe them is a bit disingenuous, “they don’t need to put on shoes to use the bathroom.” The article you referenced does a pretty good job of illustrating what Payton’s family life was like and why everyone who knew this kid was completely surprised by his actions. Were they also wrong in their assessments of his smarts, or intelligence? I have no idea. Again, I only shared their thoughts and referenced his parents’ achievements to suggest he likely didn’t have a low IQ (majoring in any engineering field is extremely difficult. I’d like to believe that I’m intelligent, but I couldn’t come close to hacking it in Comp Sci). The kid had them all fooled, he was living a lie. We can blame his parents for not looking closer. The speeding ticket outside of Buffalo should’ve brought questions for one. We know who Payton Gendron is today because of his evil acts. Don’t get it misunderstood, my opinions of the boy ARE formed because of what he did, but there’s an extremely long list of dictators and terrorists who carried faulty logic or beliefs in their evil plans, but the fault doesn’t suggest that all were of low IQ. That’s my argument.

Maybe you should learn to read because nowhere did I call him a prodigy. I have no idea who this kid is, only repeated what those around him have said about him “the boy is very intelligent. His parents aren’t some hillbillies from the sticks, both are engineers and well-off. Payton was going to pursue engineering as well.” My argument was that an idiotic belief system doesn’t necessarily equate to a low IQ. One can be intelligent in many other areas, but lack logical reasoning in another.

I have no idea what any of that means.

Heard the visor is not allowed.

Are you saying Payton is low IQ? Both parents are engineers, everyone surrounding him stated how intelligent he was, he wanted to be an engineer himself. I don’t think he’s low IQ, he’s just evil. Evil people can be highly intelligent.

Bates is a very athletic lineman. I thought brute strength was a weakness in his game, but he held up well in his starts. I don’t remember him being blatantly overpowered once and he went up against some good ones. Makes you wonder why it took so long for him to see the field. Backing up all the interior positions isn’t an excuse to me when he outperformed the starter at his job.

When asked about the energy Jordan and Shaq bring to the team, McD brought up Tim Settle’s name unsolicited as a guy who also compares, meaning he left an undeniable impression. McD said he wants it to stay on the field so it doesn’t become a detriment. Hopefully Settle can be found gold for the Bills, he was behind some real difference makers in Washington.

I liked the Chandler Jones comparison to Rousseau, similar size too. Jones wasn’t as fast as Rousseau, but he was more agile and explosive. Not by much though. But you’re right, maybe Greg becomes his own thing.

Taylor was a much twitchier athlete than Rousseau. Their RAS scores bear that out as well: Gregory Rousseau RAS Jason Taylor RAS

Instead of kneel downs you’d probably get QB sneaks to get that yard and the league doesn’t want to put its darlings in jeopardy.

Fitz is smarter and more charismatic than Brady, he just has a lot less talent. I think Fitz would be a more interesting listen in a broadcast booth as well, he loves his stories. Maybe Brady feels challenged by that, I don’t know.

Kind of strange Micah hasn’t met Kaiir yet. The entire team was in the same place a couple days ago, bonding together and with the good folks of Buffalo.

Some of the blame on this play also lies at the feet of Allen (no pun intended). Give TN credit, in their scouting report they were told “Allen always sneaks to the left,” so they lined two lineman on that side shoulder to shoulder, inches apart, and sure enough Josh still tried the sneak over there. Had he gone to his right, he likely would’ve walked in for the TD.

To be fair, you are the same person who compared a weather event to copycat humans by asking “would there be less tornadoes if the media didn’t cover them?”

And that’s what it boils down to right there. The right to bear arms supersedes all mass shootings and other forms of gun violence. Not sure that will ever change.

I also wish it hadn’t came out during a heated debate with someone else, people are more likely to say falsities under those conditions that aren’t immediately provable to bolster their argument. Has PFF responded? If untrue I’d expect them to go after Lewan for defamation.

The idea has to originate somewhere, so in that sense it’s copied. Apparently this kid live streamed it on twitch and lists the New Zealand shooter as one of his heroes. I guess my point is, do you think we’d have so many of these shootings if they never got coverage? I know it’s an impossible question because it couldn’t happen, but people copy what they see. You’re right in that they’ll find a way to express that hatred, but I have no doubt they love the attention of these mass shootings.

I meant social media too. Any medium that can broadcast these senseless acts to 330 million people, some idiot somewhere will see it and copy it and all it takes is one.

Sad and senseless indeed. Prayers to all those affected. I have to wonder, if these things weren’t covered so extensively in the media (not that I blame the media one bit), would there be so many mass shootings? We live in a copycat society. The guy in New Zealand was literally live streaming his kills. There were mass shootings before, like the sniper on the University of Texas campus, but I remember these things really taking off after Columbine.

The holding concern/discussion has been over the top IMO. Even saw an article in The Athletic with Brian Moorman talking about it. There’s far more chatter now than when Bojorquez was actively here botching his attempts.

Hey gator fans, or anyone else who has watched Elam for a couple years, how are his hands? Is he a ball hawk?

When it comes to the entertainment industry - acting, writing, music, sports, etc. - it will always be easier to fail than succeed. Actually, that holds true in any industry. There will always be more sob stories than successes, so if you’re thinking from that standpoint, then yes, the data is largely arbitrary, it doesn’t mean much. Most of these players are supposed to fail and it might not even be their fault, there’s just too many variables to success. We can look at the numbers Allen posted in college and declare “he will be a bust, because ALL the others before him have busted,” but we know that’s not true. The data gives you a predictive outcome based on the history of that position, so if Allen proved to be an outlier - as he did in this case comparative to his peers - then I do think it’s fair to say he defied analytics and I can’t say their process is “drastically” flawed… because it wasn’t, until Allen came along. You’re more than welcome to disagree, of course.