Dr. K

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.

Jeepers, guys! Calm down.

I could not care less.

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.

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.

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

If Shanahan defers, SF wins 22-19.

Gotta give it to the Chiefs. I hate ‘em, but they are tough. Mahommes is a killer.

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.

That's what we need. More of this crap.

All these people freaking out about Taylor Swift, coming up with absurd conspiracy theories, would be funny if it weren't so pathetic--and revealing of oceans of unfocused rage.

Better concentration on catching the ball and he'd be amazing. As it is he's an asset anyway.

What you said ["We want <x> to win, see what you can do."] amounts to a conspiracy in the league offices. Refs make lots of bad calls and miss lots of obvious penalties. It's the nature of the game and of their job. They can be influenced for and against a team by the crowd. Some refs are incompetent.The league should have full time professional refs. But the fact that some players and fans (including me) will say a team "had to beat both the opponent and the refs" is not evidence that games were fixed. I could more easily believe that some individual refs might be paid by gamblers or the mob to make or ignore particular calls (as has happened in pro basketball) than that the league would throw a game to Kansas City because of Taylor Swift. That is idiotic.

If by "fixed" you mean the outcome of games is consciously determined by some conspiracy in the league offices, this is beyond idiotic. But the United States if full of people who believe idiotic conspiracy theories right now, so I guess believing this would just be more of the same brain-dead business as usual.

I remember being flabbergasted back then that they fired Polian when in my opinion Levy needed to be shown the door. However, I'm one of those who is not convinced that firing McDermott is going to result in a better result for this Bills team. I actually think McDermott is a better coach than Levy. Those 1990s Bills teams were loaded with talent, more talent relative to the rest of the league at that time than the current Bills are relative to the other AFC teams.

Lamar Jackson = complete fraud

If it weren’t for broken plays the Ravens would have nothing.

The Ravens are frauds.

Go away. It's not my job to waste my time trying to convince you when you are incapable of being convinced.

Chiefs will lose to the Ravens—as have in every playoff game they have played after beating the Bills.

Mike Garrett killed us in the '66 title game.

My back hurts.

Bills 31 Chiefs 27

And there are no yellow flags.

My experience tells me that whenever anyone begins a sentence “Sorry to say…” what comes afterward is something that they are not at all sorry to say, something they have been eager to say for a long time, just waiting to throw into the face of their listener. I think that this is 100% true for this grammatical construction.