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it was an opinion piece, not an article. I think it was your obligation to point to a specific policy or policies of the Biden administration that has or have raised fuel prices. Apparently there are no such policies.

It’s one thing to say it and another to mean it.

Ask Erik turner

He did, and he was denied. Which means the bills had no measure of control over him. Which means he can publish stuff like he did today.

a couple of additional thoughts: 1. I bet Bills PR really regrets not credentialing Ty Dunne. 2. Ike McKenzie did a lil’ dirty on Mc D today. Wow. 3. This is a far bigger PR catastrophe than the Doug Whaley presser. It may follow McD forever.

I don’t think one stupid anecdote is a fireable offense, and I firmly believe that part will blow over, but one has to be pretty exhausted/dumb/social moron to think using the work of the terrorists who conducted the 9/11 attacks as an aspirational or motivational device is a remotely acceptable thing.

McD is totally right about the friends part. However, if he saw where Chad lived (think Paulie Walnuts) and compared that to his own home (think Tony Soprano), then maybe he would have been a little gentler about it.

No way for most of us to determine whether it’s true. The Pegulas, however, can conduct such things as exit interviews and get people to talk.

McD has what one needs in a football coach. Smart enough to do the job, and dumb enough to think it’s important.

The 9/11 anecdote will pass. Give it a week and people will be talking about something else, whatever it might be. Don’t forget, at one point our owner was accused of making a pretty incendiary racial comment. Nobody has brought that up in awhile. The bigger issue is whether, 9/11 and Niagara Falls malapropisms aside, McD has lost/exhausted the locker room. If the answer to that question is yes, then it’s time to either change the players or change the coach.

Wouldn’t be any better there. Actually more rich d-bags at places like Nichols and Canisius. Now, for a football guy, St. Francis might be an attractive place to send a child.

From what I understand he had a son who was horribly bullied at OP High School. Times are different and I’d like to think that wouldn’t fly now. But I never would put up with that ess either if I was him. Life is too fragile and too short.

You want your team president to be detail-oriented, not banging the staff, and have enough smarts to get stuff done. Like the new stadium that already has an estimated $300m in overage costs. Nobody cares about idiotic stories and style points in that context. He really is the perfect type of person for that role.

Mularkey left in significant part because his kids were treated like crap at school because of their dad. Not cool.

Here’s an outside of the box idea. McD is nothing if not detail oriented. A good human, from all accounts, too. And trusted by the Pegulas. He’s be the perfect type of guy to be say, team president, and make sure that stuff like this new stadium thing gets done right when Terry’s out of town.

I gotta tell you - I hear about some of the stuff that happens around here and I wonder how these guys could be so stupid and irresponsible. I’m sure it goes on everywhere, but for whatever reason I feel like there’s been an extra layer of dumb over there lately. In an odd way, it makes me respect McD a bit more—it has to be hard to capture the attention of a bunch of rich kids, many of whom are not exactly the type of person you’d want to do your taxes, day in and day out for years. I read it as Leslie’s still on the payroll and Bills PR used him to plant the story. Maybe I’m wrong, but that was my impression.

The bet here is the team aged and a bunch of young guys and mid-level free agents got a little less desperate to prove themselves, a little (too) comfortable, and a little tired of the wound-too-tight guy in charge.

There’s too many weeks like that lately. Diggs is a volcano ready to erupt. Allen went through his largely self-inflicted nonsense last year that seemed to carry over into the spring. The Araiza situation last year. Nuking the OC in the middle of the year. Von Miller strangling (allegedly) his pregnant partner. I don’t think it’s just Sean; on a whole, there has been a mountain of drama around that team in the last two years and they seem like they either need to get angry and win some games or get a breath of fresh air. Another reason why I’m on the Daboll train if they make a change. Make it fun.

I haven’t read it—just the free parts—but I had a similar thought. There are a lot of guys who have been in that building with McD who were all too happy to throw him under the wheels of a semi. I wonder how many chimed in—and how many may pipe up—to defend him. From what I gather this piece is humiliating. And, this conversation makes me wonder whether he’s lost the room, and I think we’ll get a good sense of that in the coming weeks.

So the gist of it is rhetoric, the usual tripe about boogeyman “regulations,” and whining about the cancellation of certain permits for drilling offshore and on federal land. Meanwhile, in reality, American oil fields are producing at record highs and actually generate more barrels per day than Saudi Arabia. Enjoy! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/business/energy-environment/us-oil-production-record-climate.html#:~:text=The United States Is Producing Historic Levels of Crude Oil&text=Chart showing millions of barrels,13 million barrels per day.

Not the issue. I agree with you. The problem is finding someone capable of managing and tolerating that difficult and volatile personality.

I’ll add this. The Diggs piece is important, too. If he’s going to be here, and he likely will be on next year’s roster, whomever is the coach has to be able to handle that personality. From what I understand he is a handful. I’ll leave that point with this: Maddy Glab was right. Take it for what it’s worth.

This is where I’m at. He’s a good coach. He will succeed somewhere else. I also question whether he’s the guy to get us where we need to be. My hesitation in blowing him out is that we have to have an idea of his replacement before the move is made. I’m not all set on Ben Johnson or Bobby Slowik because they haven’t been in the big seat before and there’s on-the-job training that I’m not sure we have time for. My preference for next year, and others will complain about this, is Brian Daboll. He checks all the boxes - HC experience, respected in the locker room, excellent relationship with Josh, willing to accept criticism and input, knows the culture around here, and is wound way less tightly than McDermott. All of those things, in my view, are essential in the next hire.

You seem to be the one saying that the government has limited gasoline production and availability. So show your cards and point to the policy that has limited the market’s supply of that fuel.

Last I checked supply and demand largely dictated gas prices. Unless you're blaming the government for choking supply (which would seem bizarre, given withdrawals from the strategic oil reserve and increased domestic production), then perhaps you're secretly a proponent of a command economic model with respect to fuel production and distribution.