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I'm sure that's a big part of his concern, and likely wouldn't offer the $300k to a retiring cb. on the other hand, LeSean seems willing to share his opinions freely and his comments don't strike me as sarcastic or insincere. Good point on other Bills players. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. And it does seem that RI is all over the page emotionally on this.

Shady seemed to be in his corner.

look, this feels like a trap. i don't think he's ever been murdered but he never said he wasn't. all this legal mumbo jumbo about contexts is confusing. I'll just sign the damn pledge.

I emailed Mike on the issue of murder at work and whether or not he supports it. He is" adamantly opppsed to it" and called it "bad". He feels strongly that murder should not take place on the job. He also suggested that if you find yourself murdered at work, you should get the police involved as soon as practical. Fwiw he seemed sincere.

i don't know. I think some people are conditioned not to think beyond what the guy can do for the football team, because what they really care about is the performance of the football team. anything that can impact that, or take away from the goal, or impede progress is naturally a matter of debate. Additionally, some people take it personally when a player voices an opinion that conflicts with theirs. it's complicated, like spending your money on tickets to see an artist who politics for a candidate you find despicable. Or like arguing with your best friend who disagrees with you about whatever the political flavor of the day is. Seems pretty straightforward to me. On the other hand, JR putting it out there works for everyone if he delivers, and he looks like a slapdick numbnut if he washes out.

what is it, as an "independent", that has you more enraged at the lies and deceptions of this prez vs any of the previous leaders? Or the lies of members/prior members of the Senate /House ( McCain, Reid, etc)? Or prior candidates, Clinton etc. is it a stylistic concern? Have you aged into it? Or is it just the last 2 years or so that have you frothy?

Except, of course, we don't really know what, if anything, he had to rise above to achieve what he achieved. Perhaps he chooses not to share his struggles, perhaps he had none and he benefited solely through white(walker) privilege. Hard to say, but yeah, it's fair to think he had it all, or if not all, most, and if not most, more than some.

I followed ya.

five figures with the cents or without? it matters.

I've done it. Just takes time and commitment!

Trump went to CNN for better coverage; was denied. Kushner and Sinclair make an agreement; both sides say totally normal, nothing different from any other network incentivizing a candidate for interviews. Then Trump ramps up his CNN fake news schtick around the time he strikes this "extended deal" with Sinclair, who were already known to be conservative-leaning and doing "must run" stories. So the message of Sinclair Local News affiliates doing the must run on "don't believe a lot of what you hear out there, but you can trust us, the reliable Local News" -- that sucks. We should expect better from presidents & journalists than gaslighting the public, this lame attempt at "don't believe anything you hear unless you hear it from me." It's ridiculous. The major obstacle to solving such a problem is the intense partisanship, as evidenced by most of the replies in this thread. This isn't even close to the same thing, B-Man. The Sinclair video shows actors reading a script, while pretending to still be your friendly Local News reporters. Your video shows CNN and MSNBC using the words "concerned" and "propaganda" talking about this story. Uhh, yeah? No sh*t? It is propaganda and it is concerning. The fact that you think this is somehow the same is exactly the partisan problem I'm referring to. why not just summarize by saying "MY GUYS AREN'T THE PARTISANS, YOUR GUYS ARE THE PARTISANS!".

Hillary is most definitely the "Some of the cities that are diverse excluding married white women and Not West Virginia" president! She's also the "Almost First Female President" and if not for the choices made by people that voted, she likely would have been the President that was actually elected. As Almost First Female President, she should write some pretend executive orders to pretend shape the pretend future in the diverse cities that helped her win pretend office!

i would have thought it a colloquialism but I'm really hung up on why you thought of asshats and pastures. My sugar must be low.

this may be one of the worst trash talk idioms I've ever seen. asshats and pastures?

The Bills made the playoffs because of the Dalton play and the roughly 15,000 minutes of football that preceded it (and the minute or so after it when Flacco had the ball). In the interest of brevity I did not calculate camp time and/or relative time invested in traded, cuts and/or acquisitions. Realism is fine, but ignoring the work that got them to the point where Dalton' s pass actually mattered seems silly.

#thepainISreal

i hear ya, we all have our lines in the sand. i was at the Wal-Mart yesterday and they were out of Spring Oreos. I was like "Later B•tchez". Hello Target.

again, fair points, as was the prior poster who suggested he might be the next Aaron Rodgers. I get that, and mentioned that possibility in my first post. I don't claim to have any, most or all of the answers. I think the potential for challenges is there, and would think the same thing of he wore a "F. Obama" shirt or "Crooked Hillary" hat, with the mindset being that he would debate anyone in the world about the need for an end to the overall of our national entitlement system or the need to end support for planned parenthood. And btw, while we're discussing it, it is 100% fair to draw parallels to successful NFL qbs. It is also fair to point out that for every brash, outspoken (or thoughtful as some see it) high end collegiate athlete who makes it to the top in the NFL as a "leader", there are a whole boatload who didn't for any number of reasons. If he goes to the Bills, I hope he's the guy who some of you think he can be. For me, there are warning signs.

Could be, and time will tell. I wasn't talking about his politics, I was talking about his demeanor. imo there is a fine line between having faith in your convictions and being a know-it-all. I think folks figure that stuff out, and maybe it will plays well in whatever football locker room he ends up in. I'll say this....arrogance can be tolerated and celebrated when you get lots of wins, but can be an irritant and be divisive when you don't deliver. I'm not much up in the Beatles, so I'm not sure about John's politics, but he was a hecka of a salesman.

Sure, it was an easy read. Why do you ask?

So, on the leadership issues as it relates to this commentary, Rosen strikes me as world class narcissist, and a self-absorbed rich kid who could be prone to alienating teammates (and fans, though winning chills a lot of that noise out). He also strikes me as Intolernat of the views of others, and I think that can cause friction when working with adults. To summarize....I think he sounds like a Trust Fund baby. Its not not even so much what he says, or wearing a dopey hat, much of what he's talking about likely comes from a good place, but I'm typically concerned about someone's leadership quotient when in less than 1000 words they've told me how enlightened they are relative to other people, how well-educated they are because like UCLA, how wealthy their parents are, how there's so much ignorance in the country relative to everything they know, but the real kicker for me was "I'll debate ANYONE" which always seems an awful lot like "I'll bludgeon ANYONE" with my opinions". then again, maybe he's so good no one gives a crap about any of that and he leads his team to the promised land. Hard to say. Oh and I gotta hand it to him on the Thuderbuddies reference.

absolutely true. i had a general rule that anything that could kill me on the spot was not for me. At least, where drugs were concerned. but I had friends who tried things and did all right as well, so I guess you gotta hope your luck holds out. Lies. Alice died, The End. (but excellent response!!)

i don't know anything about bad trips on acid...the effects of mushroom, ludes or anything psychadellic. I had family members who went down that road and never really recovered for whatever reason. i do have a friend who's college age son had a breakdown of sorts for some reason either not fully understoos, or not shared with me. 20+ days in the hospital, hallucinations, terror etc. Assuming my friend shared it all, they believe it was induced by stress and an adverse reaction to the copious amounts of potent mj he was smoking over the three months prior. also could have just been a manic episode due to hormone levels. anyway, good news is he recovered at this point, back in school, no more reefer and living clean. lets hope the best for ZJ.

football will come and go. Best of luck to Zay working through this situation regardless of what happened.

well, that's simply not true. he sucks at hiring if the changes in the admin are contrary to the model he chooses to follow. if he's following his business model, then the only real question is whether or not he feels he's successful in delivering what he wants to deliver. there was a time folks thought he sucked as a candidate...buy his plan worked to perfection. That IS a fact.