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  1. I agree, Shaw. Reading the responses confirms that if there's one resource that fans on this board have in abundance, it's arrogance.
  2. We'll have to agree to disagree. I'll just suggest that there is no guarantee your new head coach is going to have the qualities that I bolded in your post and leave the floor to you. I only wish I didn't have to hear the same complaints every day in every thread.
  3. I find this funny. I'm 73 years old. In my experience, the younger you are the more impatient you are and the less willing you are to admit that life is not simple. I'm not on "the good ship lollipop." If you'll go back a few years you'll see that I was one of the most skeptical of McDermott's "Trust the process" mantra in his first years. I think it's possible firing him might work out for the best, but it seems to me that those who are most eager to do this underestimate how hard it is to do what McDermott has done, how many times in life dumb chance prevents a desired outcome, and have a fantasy in their heads that "if they just hire X, then we will win a Super Bowl." For this particular old dude, the repetitive raging that fills this board (and this particular thread) seems characteristic of men (mostly) who cannot face complexity.
  4. It's very clear that they want him to say, "I'm a terrible head coach and I'm resigning." If he said, "I take total responsibility for the 13 seconds loss," they would not be satisfied, of course, unless the next sentence is "I'm a terrible head coach and I'm resigning." That's the only thing he could say that would satisfy them. And they'd still be cursing him as he walked out the door.
  5. The endless ranking on McDermott, in which the same people say the same things over and over again, and nobody raging that he should be fired has said anything new since the 13 seconds game--or at least in the last year--makes me never want to come back here again. The few who want to talk about other things relevant to the Bills and not ride their hobby horses to death keep me coming back here to check in now and then. And the repetitive anti-McDermott whining drives me away again. You can't begin reading any thread without eventually running into the necessary quota of bitter complaint that McDermott will never win a title/is a fool/is arrogant/is lazy/is too conservative/has lost the locker room/is surrounded by his yes-men, yada yada yada. Maybe he should be fired. I don't know. My instinct and life experience tell me that the world is not fair, that time and chance happen to us all, that the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, that even brilliant people make mistakes, that leadership takes many forms, and that finding success is not as simple as these people insist. But apparently there are a lot of Bills fans who have never been wrong in their entire lives.
  6. You are psychic. Of course, two out of three threads on the board turn into McDermott bash threads. It could not possibly get more tiresome.
  7. Sure. Let's do that. But not everybody will be able to, so I don’t see this as any solution. In the presence of so many lethal weapons, there will always be enough bad actors around to commit such atrocities. I think the number of weapons and the type of weapons are the fundamental difference between the US and other countries.
  8. Mental health issues are a problem in every country, but no other country on the planet has the problems with gun deaths that the U.S. has. You can't solve this through "better access to mental health treatment" though I am all for that. 350 million weapons in the hands of citizens are the problem. It's too easy for bad actors to murder the people around them. The numbers can't be reduced unless you reduce the number, availability, and lethality of the weapons in our country.
  9. Patriots a 10 Cowboys a 10 Dolphins a 10 Jaguars an 8 Jets an 8 Titans a 7 Chiefs a 6 Bengals a 5 Steelers a 5 Chargers a 3 Lions a 1
  10. Gotta give it to the Chiefs. I hate ‘em, but they are tough. Mahommes is a killer.
  11. I hate to see it, but I feel like the Chiefs will win this one. Even though they’ve been outplayed, they’re only 7 down.
  12. That's what we need. More of this crap.
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