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    What is going on in KC?

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    Best case scenario. KC has a down year, Bills make the playoffs, TT is the real deal, trade the KC pick to a QB needy team for a lower 1st rounder and more future first and 2nd rounders. With a little luck, repeat above again and again.

     

    you should be embarrassed making such a ridiculous statement

     

    that kind of thing happens to OTHER teams

     

    what the hell were you thinking?

    McDermott on drought: "I own that.. I'm a part of that"

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    the only thing the new coach 'owning' a loong playoff drought does is acknowledge the elephant in the room. it feels nice to admit we all see it, but it doesnt do anything to get it to move the hell out

     

    theyve decided to eschew the tank and try to start building a winner from the start. frankly, i dont think they can do it with this roster. but if mcd wants to really own the playoff-less streak he can start by showing everybody hes the kind of coach that will build the kind of organization to get it done sooner rather than later

     

    so far so good as ive liked what ive seen out of him, but it dont mean nuthin until they start counting W's and L's

    Being a Bills fan helped me today and it taught me something

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted · Edited by Meathead

    Blacks have the tendency to think that every white person they come across don't like them because of their skin color and that's far from the case.

     

    thanks for sharing your story

     

    ive studied this topic on an amateur level for decades (also married and divorced a crazy black woman) and man are you correct

     

    by my estimation, black folks over-estimate instances of racism by AT LEAST 400%. that means for every 1 time they really do have do endure some racist white !@#$ being a dick, they are CREATING four more racist instances in their heads

     

    some guy cuts them off in traffic: racism. some guy doesnt nod hello as he walks by: racism. some woman clutches her purse tightly in a mixed crowd: racism. some guy votes for a blowhard charlatan: racist

     

    no wonder most black folks see racism everywhere ... they are manufacturing most of it in their minds

     

    as we continue to work hard to erase as much of the old-timey white racism as we can, we have to remember black folks have their powerful biases as well. that includes this dramatic over-estimation of perceived racism, as well as wide spread bias against whites that for some crazy reason we still hesitate to call racism

    Jeez, cut the OP a break. Tells a nice story and people are jumping all over him.

     

    true

     

    but lets keep in mind we as a culture just spent the last ten plus years mercilessly broadbrushing heartland whites as virulent racists by default.

     

    i grew up with those ppl, most of them indeed were horribly racist back around 1970. but that slowly improved over the next couple decades (too way too damn long) and finally flipped over about 1990. since then most whites absolutely have NOT been racist. we still saw a lot of racism simply bc theres 197 million whites to 38 million blacks, but the fact remains that whiteness FINALLY overcame their roaring bias (took them waay too long) as a percentage of population

     

    amazingly, since then its been an almost non-stop attack against whiteness as being 'racist by default'. in case you havent realized it yet, this is what fueled the election of an incompetent buffoon, a sea of pissed off ppl sick and tired of being labeled automatically racist when they know they (mostly) werent

     

    so bottom line is white ppl have a little bit of hyper-sensitivity on the issue right now, as we saw in this thread. give it some time, it will pass in due course once they get it out of their system

    Supreme Court to hear case on partisan gerrymandering

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    The Supreme Court declared Monday that it will consider whether gerrymandered election maps favoring one political party over another violate the Constitution, a potentially fundamental change in the way American elections are conducted.


    The justices regularly are called to invalidate state electoral maps that have been illegally drawn to reduce the influence of racial minorities by depressing the impact of their votes.


    But the Supreme Court has never found a plan unconstitutional because of partisan gerrymandering. If it does, it would have a revolutionary impact on the reapportionment that comes after the 2020 election and could come at the expense of Republicans, who control the process in the majority of states.




    thank god


    maybe we can finally end this ridiculous scourge on american political fairness


    the solution is computer generated districts. lets pray the sc pushes us in that direction:




    Merkel taking hammer to German/U.S. relationship

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted

    Trump's actions have 'weakened' the West, German foreign minister says

     

    Germany's foreign minister launched a scathing criticism of Donald Trump on Monday, claiming the US President's actions have "weakened" the West and accusing the US government of standing "against the interests of the European Union."
    Just 24 hours after German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Europe could no longer completely rely on traditional allies such as the US and Britain, the country's top diplomat, Sigmar Gabriel, went a step further.
    "Anyone who accelerates climate change by weakening environmental protection, who sells more weapons in conflict zones and who does not want to politically resolve religious conflicts is putting peace in Europe at risk," Gabriel said.
    "The short-sighted policies of the American government stand against the interests of the European Union. The West has become smaller, at least it has become weaker."
    ouch
    blunt blast of disdain for don and his vision
    cant say that i blame her. but still
    owwch
    i also find it hard to believe dons term will turn into anything but disaster. we will find out if shes and i are right or not soon, i suspect. still giving don that lightning strike chance in hell he grows the fk up and turns things around. c'mon miracle
    in the mean time germany has to move on. i can see that

    NFL.com - Beane Preaches Open Competition at QB

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

    Posted

    I love his long term plan for finding a QB in the draft.

     

    As far as an open competition this year... that was what I wanted when they kept TT. I was fine with bringing him back once it was evident they werent going to find better on the market and he took a pay cut. But I wanted him to have to compete for the starting job. Not just have it handed to him. I just don't think he's on that level at this point. And though he has exposure to it we've never seen him in this offensive scheme. Whoever executes that the best should start for this team. They are going to need to be able to throw the ball.

     

    All of that said... are they really going to split reps evenly between the 4?? That doesn't seem like a great idea.

     

    i just dont thing its realistic at all to say it will be an open competition at qb

     

    i mean c'mon, there isnt a chance in hell any of these guys are going to outplay him this early in their development. tj hooker is a vet but he simply doesnt have the capability to play at ty's level. do they really intend to pay him 15 mil to split reps with a bunch of greenies and a scrub?

     

    so it seems counter-productive to me to say its an open competition. nobody is going to believe that so it strains their credibility. even if they did try to have an open competition they are wasting valuable reps in a new offense when its virtually guaranteed that tyrod would win the opening round

     

    in the very short term it sounds good to say 'everybody earns their spot'. but once the reality sets in they better shift gears fast to allow ty to get ready for the season. unless they actually plan to tank the season they cant waste those reps for very long

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