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Fingon

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  1. Holmes will probably stick, but I can easily see the Bills parting with the others.
  2. There's a close to 0% chance that Marcell is cut before 2019. $7 million in dead cap is doable, but $22 million isn't.
  3. Rex thought that a defense should be able to run any play or coverage to confuse an offense. The problem is that they ran so much different **** that the defense never became good at doing anything.
  4. Seems like a one cut power back, which is probably a pretty good compliment to Shady. My only issue is that it doesn't seem like he has the top end speed that we've had there in the last few years. Gillislee and Williams were both backs that could take it the distance.
  5. Maybe this signals that Robinette is going to serve in the reserves? That would allow him to play while also allowing him to fulfill his duties.
  6. Then we franchise tag him, which is only about $2 million more than his option would have been. The difference is that we don't have to decide on the franchise tag until after this season.
  7. I think you also have to factor in how little the Bills are paying for receivers. Sammy has around a $6 million cap hit this year, and Andre Holmes is something like $2.5 million. IMO, I think they invest some of the money they saved on Robert Woods into the TE position.
  8. Honestly, we need to fire the hot dog vendors. I've seen the same guy there for 17 years, and if the Bills are going to be serious about winning then they need to clean house.
  9. Standard protocol is to fire your GM at the end of the season, hire a new one, and then fire the scouts at the end of the draft. Doing it this way burdens your GM with a coach he didn't hire, and draft picks he didn't make.
  10. Hopefully not, as Polian has some pretty big mental issues going on right now. Old age has taken a bigger toll on his mind than it does on most people his age.
  11. White and black people have done nothing for us for 17 years. We need a team of Samoans.
  12. Sorry, but the Pegulas would make themselves out as fools if they fire Whaley after the draft. Proper protocol is to fire the GM after the season, and then fire the scouts the Monday after the draft. What you don't do, is let your GM lead a head coaching search, and then fire them a few months later. Any serious GM candidate is going to resent not being able to hire their own guy. Firing Whaley now is broadcasting to the rest of the NFL that you are ****ty owners.
  13. I wouldn't take a web job with the Sabres. They're notorious for !@#$ing people over, or at least they were under Ted Black.
  14. His suicide means that he is no longer a convicted murderer: https://mobile.twitter.com/deancoyne/status/854651898930110464
  15. The Bills are spending a lot of money on the current campus. They're just going to put it in the ECC parking lot across from the current stadium.
  16. It would be a good pickup if he's cheap. Tons of potential with very little risk.
  17. The problem with this theory is that cutting McCoy would result in an $8 million dead cap hit. Cutting Shady this year would only free up $1 million in cap savings, while leaving us on the hook for $16+ million in dead cap over 3 years. Cutting him next year with a Post June 1st designation would allow us to spread the dead $8 million over the last two years of his contract. Doing that would give us $5+ million in cap room next year. http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/buffalo-bills/lesean-mccoy-5916/
  18. Wood is the 8th highest paid center, and his play is right around that level. The only thing I see the Bills doing is converting salary into bonus to reduce our cap hit this year.
  19. I just don't know why Haley would want to come here. He's the OC in Pittsburgh.
  20. Thurman tweeted these after McDermott's press conference: https://twitter.com/thurmanthomas/status/820037748534878208 https://twitter.com/thurmanthomas/status/820038489383272449 https://twitter.com/thurmanthomas/status/820082796806934528 AVP is Alex Van Pelt, SG is Sam Gash, but no idea who TH is.
  21. They can block for a lateral move, but the Bills can add an assistant head coach title to get around it.
  22. Full control of the 53 man roster + practice squad? Doesn't seem likely that the GM wouldn't have final say on draft picks/free agents.
  23. Whew lad! Another one: RESULTS:Thirteen patients were included. After 3 months' treatment, patients reported improvement in general health perception (p = 0.001), social functioning (p = 0.0002), ability to work (p = 0.0005), physical pain (p = 0.004) and depression (p = 0.007). A schematic scale of health perception showed an improved score from 4.1 ± 1.43 to 7 ± 1.42 (p = 0.0002). Patients had a weight gain of 4.3 ± 2 kg during treatment (range 2-8; p = 0.0002) and an average rise in BMI of 1.4 ± 0.61 (range 0.8-2.7; p = 0.002). The average Harvey-Bradshaw index was reduced from 11.36 ± 3.17 to 5.72 ± 2.68 (p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS:Three months' treatment with inhaled cannabis improves quality of life measurements, disease activity index, and causes weight gain and rise in BMI in long-standing IBD patients. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22095142 Still waiting on anything that contradicts any of this. Oh, and : :A comparable proportion of UC and CD patients reported lifetime [48/95 (51%) UC vs. 91/189 (48%) CD] or current [11/95 (12%) UC vs. 30/189 (16%) CD] cannabis use. Of lifetime users, 14/43 (33%) UC and 40/80 (50%) CD patients have used it to relieve IBD-related symptoms, including abdominal pain, diarrhoea and reduced appetite. Patients were more likely to use cannabis for symptom relief if they had a history of abdominal surgery [29/48 (60%) vs. 24/74 (32%); P=0.002], chronic analgesic use [29/41 (71%) vs. 25/81 (31%); P<0.001], complimentary alternative medicine use [36/66 (55%) vs. 18/56 (32%); P=0.01] and a lower short inflammatory bowel disease questionnaire score (45.1±2.1 vs. 50.3±1.5; P=0.03). Patients who had used cannabis [60/139 (43%)] were more likely than nonusers [13/133 (10%); P<0.001 vs. users] to express an interest in participating in a hypothetical therapeutic trial of cannabis for IBD. CONCLUSION:Cannabis use is common amongst patients with IBD for symptom relief, particularly amongst those with a history of abdominal surgery, chronic abdominal pain and/or a low quality of life index. The therapeutic benefits of cannabinoid derivatives in IBD may warrant further exploration. Turns out about half of those that suffer from IBD are lifetime users of marijuana. Doesn't seem like the vast majority get by without it to me. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21795981
  24. "Nuh uh, you're wrong" I also think you mean double blind, and they're over in some pile waiting for the DEA to approve them. Small clinical trials point you in a direction for further study. It just so happens these small clinical trials line up with what the pharmacology says they should do. You can say that marijuana doesn't help with crohn's but the studies and pharmacology available say you are wrong.
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