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Speaking of hoaxes, how's hydroxychloroquine treatment going these days? Someone I know has COVID, and I was debating whether to send them Lysol and bleach, or some HCQ gummies. Thoughts?

This isn't exactly true. The primary goal is to have everyone working at a livable wage.

There is an element of truth to this. Maybe Romney & Co. will work with Biden break the dam a bit. I think it started, frankly, with McConnell, and the gridlock has become worse and worse since. This isn't directed at you, it's just an observation in general. Because of the fervor of the Q part of the GOP base and the belief that Democrats are evil, Republicans (both traditional, Trump, and Q) are generally unwilling to compromise. On my side of things, there is a temptation (to which I sometimes succumb) to stick it to the liars and hoaxers and all of the people responsible for the mistruths and chaos of the past four years. Ultimately, though, the best path is compromise. On the COVID-19 bill, for example, Romney has a point. We should be more surgical with respect to relief checks. I agree with Biden, however, that this needs to be a much bigger bill than what Romney wants. Maybe they can come together (Romney et al. have to give more than Biden) and do something constructive. Time will tell.

Solid point. Now that it turns out that Antifa doesn't actually have an Air Force, and that "democrat-run" cities aren't in a perpetual state of flame, there isn't a lot to distract us from the treason of the losers who stormed the Capitol and those who continue to support them. I think we may need to start a Marjorie Taylor Greene Hoax List just to keep track of things that are real and things that are hoaxes in the eyes of the QOP. You don't have a very good memory. Sad. Must have forgotten about the storming of the Capitol already, too. Kind of like how Kevin McCarthy and pals have wiped it from their minds.

Considering that the very full dumpster sitting in his driveway has a mattress sitting on top of it, I’ll be surprised if he comes back to Buffalo. I figured he was gone when I saw that thing show up a week or two ago.

I agree with this, but I'll take it a step further. I wonder if we need a better short yardage back, too. One of the things I think we have to do next year is ensure that Josh Allen is not our best short yardage back. We had a couple of close calls this year -- the Bosa thing against the Chargers, and I think one in the playoffs, too. Nothing can derail a season like an injury to Allen.

Yup. Moss and Singletary are basically .250 hitters in baseball. No special attributes for either one; neither is fast, one is more elusive than the other and one is more powerful than the other. But neither is powerful enough, and neither is elusive enough.

Pay Milano now and kick the can down the road on Edmunds.

In hindsight, I suspect the team was a lot more gassed than people realized heading into the game. That, coupled with crowd noise (normally no big deal, but unique in the context of this season), lack of running game, hopeless inability to pressure Mahomes, was just a bad combination. We played on our heels basically the whole time. Next year will be different.

Totally agree on J Phillips. Missed his attitude and pressure very, very much this year. There are a lot of other things that are "wrong" with the D-line, but the absence of an ability to generate consistent pressure probably was the biggest one.

Time and experience.

Feliciano and Allen are TIGHT. And the line gelled when Feliciano returned. No way they let him walk if his contract demands are reasonable. Not a chance.

Brown is a goner. Q. Jefferson, Addison, and Vernon Butler might find themselves on that list, too. I'd rather give Brown's money to Milano. It's a no-brainer. The D-line will be rebuilt this off-season, as will perhaps the right side O-line (out of cap necessity, more than anything else; Feliciano may get Morse's money) and our RB corps. It's flaming obvious that we lost last night in the trenches.

He is a beast.

They help each other. Allen easily could have been Mayfield or Darnold or Rosen or Mason Rudolph. But he’s not, in no small part bc of what daboll has done. And Allen has helped Daboll a lot because a great deal of our success is attributable to off schedule plays that only Allen can make.

I'm feeling it, too. Dunno about two non-O scores, but . . . I just have this feeling that we are ready to roll. I expect a couple of forced turnovers. Can't wait to see what McD and Frazier put together.

Michah Hyde.

Like there was ever a doubt. I hope we test his processing speed with all sorts of fun stuff on Sunday. Robbers, feigned A-gap pressure, d-line dropping, zone pressure, traps. Let's see how fast he can sort things out.

He has value. And he’s played admirably in spurts this year. Watching the Ravens 300 pound beast at FB made wonder whether Zimmer might get a look at that role in camp next year. Every penny and every roster spot counts, and he might offer a bit of flexibility in that area if he sticks around next year.

I’m in my early forties. Been going to games with my dad as STHs since I was six years old. Skipped the playoffs because of COVID concerns. When the fan was shown on the broadcast bawling his eyes out after the Indy game, I got it. Told my mom that I would have been doing the same thing if I was there without my dad. Jeremy White’s piece was beautiful. I haven’t lived it, but I understand it. I hope he finds comfort, peace, and joy in this weekend’s game.

I was pretty surprised about Staley last night, but now it makes a lot more sense. Everyone thought the hire would be about Herbert. It's actually about Mahomes, and it's kind of smart. The best way to win the division is for Herbert to keep being Herbert, and for someone to crack the Mahomes code. Staley might be able to improve the defense much more than Daboll (or anyone else) could improve Herbert and the offense. So, having taken a step back . . . I get the hire.

After last night, yes. He’s earned it.

My bet is Dorsey gets OC, they bring in a senior offensive assistant with experience in EP, Chad Hall gets a nice raise for being awesome at his job, and Davis Webb is the QB coach next year. Pure speculation, but who doesn't like to speculate now and again.

Williams probably is insurance against an RB testing positive tomorrow. Jackson likely won’t play, but it makes me wonder if we’re going to take the chargers approach from a few years ago and play lots of DBs.

I'm gonna go with potentially Darron Lee. Stills seems less likely to me, unless something is wrong with Brown/McKenzie and they want someone with speed to run jet sweep/pop pass here and there. Speed at LB seems much more important to me in this case if we approach Jackson like we did last year. I can see us sitting Andre White, dressing Dodson in his place (ST takes a back seat here), and going either with Lee or maybe even Antonio Williams (less likely) in place of Gilliam (ST is really taking a back seat in that event). Bates probably could fill the TE3 role, especially if they're planning on running 4 wide much of the game. I suppose if the gameplay is really receiver heavy we might see Stills just so an injury to a WR doesn't knock us out of the game. But I kind of wonder if we're going to see Lee as a counter to Jackson. The Pats fumble, IIRC, was pretty bad. He kind of got flipped and the ball launched from his arm. I doubt McD trusts him.