ndirish1978

Is this another vote buying situation or legit?

https://nflpa.com/posts/daily-covid-testing-is-the-key-to-a-full-nfl-season Here you go. This thread will inevitably get shut down, but this letter from JC Tretter echoes concerns raised about the lack of daily testing this year. I think it is noteworthy.

Now that he's on the tail-end of his career he wants defenses to get tougher so Qbs won't have a chance to match his SB record.

It's a nice litmus test: If we can't beat the Steelers there's no reason to think we can beat the big boys to get to the SuperBowl. In regards to the article written by this obvious troll... don't feed the trolls. Parrino and Talbot had a conversation on their podcast about how writers and sports personalities are dying for clicks and they know Buffalo has a rabid fanbase online, they court clicks by writing garbage like this just to get people to spread the word. I'd recommend not clicking on the article and thus supporting this troll.

https://www.nflbeast.com/news/2021-practice-squad-primer-everything-to-know-from-the-rules-to-the-eligibility/ I did a quick readthrough of this article, I'd recommend it to anyone with PS questions. 16 total players Up to 6 veterans 4 players may be protected every week 2 players can be called up to the active roster and then revert back to the PS after the game, this is expandable to 3 players for a covid-related emergency

For some, this is their personality. Most downers are unhappy with their own lives and take out their misery on other people. Some try to engage others in complaining about others in the office or work situations - in my experience it is best not to engage, just smile say something nice and excuse yourself. Doom and gloom people -try and set the tone for all your conversations with them. Be polite and positive and let them know through your actions that you are someone they can count on to get your work done but it's not worth the time to try and befriend them, they will drain you of your energy.

I watch Thursday, Saturday, Monday games and depending on my Sunday: Bills + 1 or 2 games.

Who is going on IR tomorrow? McKenzie, Sweeney Phillips before we re-sign Hollister and Ferguson? We might IR Stevenson tomorrow too.

Preparing the presser to announce we traded Bobby Hart

He requested his release presumably cause he was buried on the depth chart. I dunno if he's going to want to walk back into a building where he used to be a #2 just for the practice squad.

Smoke requested his release, probably because he was buried on the depth chart. I dunno if he'd be a happy camper here on the PS.

Something about the way this was presented made me laugh.

I would presume that labelling something as "Breaking" indicates that you are the one who broke the story and doing so when you didn't break the story is considered quite unprofessional. She's getting dragged in the comments for not sourcing Wawrow and she just keeps stating that she got the information from her own sources.

In summary, this was never a real story and the media was bored and needed something to report.

If you watch any of his podcast appearances after leaving he relished the "heel" role while here for some reason. Once you establish that kind of persona people only see you as the persona and they will be against you.

MLJ was a solid reporter, sorry to see him go but wish him the best

I haven't watched game film looking at him specifically, has Tremaine gotten any better disengaging from blocks?

By the end of this year I wouldn't be surprised if he was our #2.

This is one of the dumbest trades I've ever seen. They took HALF of Trevor Lawrence's snaps away for the duration of training camp and gave them to Minshew in this sham of a competition, then traded the one person who is adequately prepared to be that team's backup for essentially nothing.

I'm pretty sure you're confusing Fairburn's background with Matt Parino's. The incident was because Fairburn reported on team messaging that was on screen in the locker room that he wasn't supposed to

If they were to cut Roberts, do you think we pick him back up?

This makes a lot of sense, thanks for that insight. To be clear, I'm not questioning the medical professionals, whom I have zero reason to distrust or cast aspersions on. My issue is that I mistrust the league and I don't believe they care about anything more than making money so I don't look at announcements that they are consider changing a policy as an update to changing medical conditions. The political side has been mismanaged. If they wanted everyone vaccinated they should have just mandated it and worked something out with the NFLPA, instead they penalized players with things like telling them they couldn't have endorsements without being vaccinated. I don't believe that removing an endorsement from a player could be considered being made with health concerns in mind.

I agree that there are medical people in place trying their best to do things based on the evidence at hand. I do not believe these people are alone in setting league policies though. I believe they make their set of recommendations and the league makes their policies taking the experts reports into account along with their own set of executives. The desired outcome was a 100% vaccinated league, they set out to do that with a carrot/stick approach. Carrot - no mask, fewer tests, can visit family and friends; Stick - Mask, daily tests, no family visits AND no endorsements? I agree that the word entirely was a poor choice, should have been significantly influenced by perception.

Daily testing would be a more effective tool to protecting the season. If anyone wonders if the NFL's policies are based entirely on perception, this hollow attempt should verify this. Assuming this passes (which it won't), according to current regs, you would have everyone walking around with no social distancing inside without masks, getting tested bi-weekly and being allowed to interact with people outside of the team "bubble." With this situation you could have a single breakthrough case walking around spreading the virus for 2 weeks and no one would be the wiser. Again, my issue with these policies is that they are based on perception, not prevention. Truly preventative policies in this situation are inconvenient. The Bucs went beyond the league's policies and banned players from leaving their hotel on road trips because it's obvious that the NFL only wants cover from blame and not to actually protect players.