Sundancer

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Forbes articles are not credible. You could write for Forbes--they sold that brand out to anyone who wants to put paragraphs together. No offense to that guy but just commenting on the website.

The Bills lack a true #1 WR and won't get him this year. But Zay isn't that guy and I'll take their current depth over Zay. "Pissed" was in response to the Raiders forum post about how "people in Buffalo are pissed he's gone." I was echoing that post and correcting the idea that anyone in Buffalo would be mad about with respect to Zay. I don't really care that he's gone at all (who would?). It was just a bad pick. ***** happens.

What I like the most about Josh is progression. There will be bad games (Pats) but he's doing things this year he wasn't last year. Accuracy way up, throwing the ball away, hero ball slowing down (obviously not gone), taking sacks instead of launching impossible passes...and all the things we know remain: arm strength, leadership, 4th quarter/clutch, shakes off the bad plays, teammates love him. The biggest issue right now is what he does in broken plays. He's as likely to make a SportsCenter highlight as throw a cringeworthy INT. But even that looks better to me. Josh looks like a guy developing a floor like Jake Plummer (4th quarter stud, incredibly fun to watch, loses games with bad INTs sometimes) and an upside at Favre. They are still filling in some pieces around him (like a big body target WR, a RT, and a more reliable TE) but it's coming together and a lot of that is his ability to make people better. The fact that he was drafted as a 2-3 year project and he just finished his 16th game to me puts him right on track. Mayfield on the other hand may be what his negatives were coming out of college. Maxed out his potential. Teams may figure him out. The GM there did the exact wrong thing in investing a ton of $$ in a skill position lunatic and not spending on the line. The anti-Patriots strategy. But the Browns gonna Browns. Niners D is one of the better ones in the NFL, but Mayfield looks bad by any measure. His commercials are funny though.

I am pissed about a bad pick in 2017. I could care less about his departure because it doesn't affect the offense (except by making it better in that they won't be wasting snaps when he's on the field). Raiders fans reading this: No one in Buffalo cares that he's gone. His stat line last year was the result of him being the only WR who was on the team in game 1 and game 16. Imagine if Hunter Renfrow was your #1 WR, he'd also have 650 yards (41 yards per game) and 7 TDs, but you wouldn't be satisfied. That's how Zay was last year. He was the default WR. Drops, catches with body, no RAC ability, no downfield speed...all the negatives in his college scouting report were right on--total college system WR. But he is a good young kid and I hope it works out for him. Williams, McKenzie, Roberts, Foster are all guys I'm fine seeing out there over Zay. And AJ Green.

Some Raiders fans think they got Jerry Rice. http://www.raiderfans.net/forum/showthread.php?3908-Raiders-acquired-WR-Zay-Jones-from-the-Bills-in-exchange-for-a-2021-fifth-round-pick "Catches everything thrown his way." "Can run a go route." 0 for 2.

They are not in the same league as those teams. But they are winning close games despite losing the TO battle every week. Last year they won early way on the lopsided end of turnovers. If they start generating turnovers, look out.

It wasn't last year. He lost big body WRs and that's hurt but he's more efficient this year. It will come.

We are on the same page, two posts apart. The Pats are a 20 year dynasty and have had one dynastic player, with only a few elite players along the way around him.

Watch has two models, one works without Bluetooth/phone connection.

Going to have some misses, because that always happens, but the Bills are being built a lot like the Patriots. Lots of short contracts, lots of good players. Almost no one elite or irreplaceable. If they keep the coaching in place, the system will not be changing every 2 years and all the cohesion will build a winner. I love what Beane is building with players and contracts, and McD is building with team culture. This team may not be quite ready to make the jump to the playoffs because the offense is still in progress but the foundations are laid.

The INT was ugly but I don't remember a single ball off target. A few smart throwaways, a few drops, and a few on target balls that defenders knocked away at the last minute.

70+% completion with a few drops and several intentional throwaways. I am not sure he had an off-target throw. He didn't light it up but it was the best game he's had as QB. Smart slides and even sacks. Even the INT was not as bad as I thought looking at the replay above. Yeldon looks a mess on that play. Stopped twice but he may have been trying to find space on the broken play and then thought it was going to Beaseley.

I love that they are winning and yet can't seem to generate any turnovers, opposite of last year. But they will need to play better.

I hope the fans and coaches give him room to grow. He is going to have some more bad games but every line trends upwards and we all knew he was a project. Today's game showed him learning the lessons of taking care of himself. I also loved the throws at WRs feet on blown up plays. Very Bradylike and I've never seen him do that before.

You old jerkoffs could have settled the slave thing, and made my life A LOT easier. Instead, you cowards tabled it so that I got to deal with it 80 years later. Thanks a lot. Founding fathers, founding shmathers.

Isn't that the state without women?

Consumption tax, for me, is a baby step in the right direction. It makes the taxation fairer and the system simpler. It doesn't solve the problem of government bloat (except at the IRS) or the willingness of everyone in Washington to spend my money freely.

This sounds pretty good to me. Rather than taxing people just because they generate money (the premise of which is that we are all slaves), how about a tax on goods consumed? I kind of like this. IT simplifies a lot, and if you don't want to be part of the "system," you don't have to be: don't buy things (ha ha). Really though, the guys in the bunkers in Colorado would never have to pay taxes again, which should be their right. Rich people pay more, because they consume more, which should make Dems happy. Poor people pay less, because they consume less. The losers, like in a flat tax system, are the accountants. Who's with the G-man?

What is the point of your flood of law topics?