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Oh, just wait. Tariffs and a worker shortage will work their way through the system. Keep going after those agricultural workers. Just like the socialist, you will learn, nothing comes for free.

Right, that's probably the only time communism could work is a small community of people sharing everything. If there was an apocalyptic event and a town survived and the doctor was just as important as the farmer and they shared everything that could theoretically work assuming the biggest guy in town didn't start hoarding the food and killing anyone who questioned him, which is how communism always goes. So the argument that there was not enough people for it to work is silly. The problem is usually there's too many people not doing their fair share and trying to scam the system while other people have to work harder to pick up the slack.

This conversation supports the notion: The college system doesn't grow enough QB's to quality stock 32 NFL teams. About 10 teams have to field some real schnooks. This is why I view NFL expansion with a wary eye. QB play in an expanded league will be dreadful.

That's a good question. But to get there you have to decide how many true franchise QBs there are. I mean how many guys would you say "here is a player you could take and build a team around and him being on the field will get you X amount of extra wins"? Obviously Mahomes, Allen, Jackson and Burrow. Then some of the younger guys possibly who still aren't fully proven like Bo and Daniels. But there are plenty of guys with franchise QB contracts I don't consider true franchise QBs. A few older vets like Stafford. Dak to me is the one that comes to mind. Plenty of people love him, and when he's on he's great but so often I see him and think he's pretty pedestrian. Goff has been great the last few years but is he really a franchise QB? I love Baker and defended him a lot here when people were writing him off but again, not sure he's true franchise QB material. Lawrence is in no way shape or form a franchise QB, other than his contract. Tua actually proved something when you see how bad that offense is without him. He's a system QB who runs that system perfectly in the right conditions but we all know what happens in bad weather and when he has to improvise. He's like a comedian who is great when he's sticking to a script someone else has written but goes to pieces when he has to ad lib.

They absolutely did. From day 1. The crazy racist POS lunatics had been completely marginalized in this country - if they ever had any influence at all that hindered ANYONE from making it in this country. We were a true post racial America. WE ELECTED AN UNKNOWN BLACK MAN NAMED OBAMA PRESIDENT 7 YEARS AFTER 9/11. There was NOTHING that needed “calling out” at all. Nothing. Unless your goal was zero cases of racism - much like Covid that’s just not possible. But shocker that’s what the left “wants.” It’s great for their political aspirations. Racism is always there! It is. But it’s among white elitist liberals especially the women. The most racist people on earth. So Obama turned the obscure into “oh it’s all institutional you see.” There is complicit bias and that devolved into literally everyone is racist. He was an absolute disaster. He set this country back years. But Trump’s win has swung us back to normalcy. Sorry if that offends you. I’m sure it does.

I’ve had it with this concept that Obama/Biden “divided” you on race. They called you out on your bull#### and you couldn’t handle it at all.

Oh, well if he messaged on it… His Administration betrayed Americans by opening the borders, divided us on race & gender and tried to other the unvaccinated. Unless the point your making is that all politicians lie, no idea what the importance of that post was.

You'll find this exact reasoning in several medical journals. Gay race communists have captured all of our formerly elite institutions.

Some of the strike zone calls this year have even Angel Hernandez like 🤨. Truly egregious. And if you complain you get tossed by the guy? The challenge system seemed to work in the preseason and then it was scrapped for further study or whatever and Manfred is now hinting it will be in place next year. I say bring on the robo-umps! The Hawkeye system can make split second calls in tennis for the past 10 years. No reason they can’t make it work for baseball. 🖕the umpire union protecting these thin skinned pigs. I watch or listen on radio to a fair amount of Red Sox games.

I’m sure PFF can make up some BS subjective system to grade Beane’s sensitivity.

I understand. My question was rhetorical. Its a collection of really poor decisions and a weak support system to save him from himself. Unfortunately not the first athlete to throw away that amount of wealth. And he wont be the last

I totally agree. This article reminded me of the articles/lists that PFF would put out in its early days where its "analytics" would "prove" that some mediocre QB who was only starting because the team didn't have anybody better on the roster was actually a top five QB. I don't know what magical "analytics" the statboys are using but it smells a lot more like subjective opinion than numbers to me. Career-wise, Payton has certainly gotten good mileage out of his single SB appearance, but this is 2025 not 2009, and the NFL is a different league today than it was. Certainly McDermott was the better coach than Payton in last year's playoffs. I fail to see the relevancy of Tomlin's 2008 SB win, Payton's 2009 SB win or John Harbaugh's 2012 SB win to these coaches' ability in 2025. I think Herbert is doomed with Harbaugh as HC and Greg Roman as OC. Harbaugh had Roman as his OC in San Francisco before he departed for Michigan. Now he's hired him again. I disagree about Herbert. I think he's been the victim of crappy coaching his entire career, and it's only gotten worse with the new regime. I think what Roman wants him to do doesn't fit his skill set or his temperament. Harbaugh hardly made "the best out of a horrid group of skill players and a QB that isn't uniquely talented enough to overcome it"; he created the situation by forcing Herbert into his system rather than modifying his system to fit his QB. BTW, if you think I dislike Harbaugh and Roman, I plead no contest. Roman was the OC in Baltimore from 2019 through 2022. He failed to develop Lamar Jackson as a passer. In 2 seasons under Todd Monken, Lamar has become an infinitely better QB as demonstrated by his superlative stats in 2024. Teacher! 🖐️ Teacher! 🖐️ I know!!! 🖐️ I know!!! 🖐️ It took Andy Reid only 6 seasons to make the Super Bowl, 14 more seasons to actually win a SB! Are you buying the Bills? I didn't realize they were for sale.

Eric Adams is probably the best option of the three, but I don’t think he can beat Zohran with Cuomo and Sliwa still in the race. He’ll also need to build up a semi-competitive ground game. You can’t just scream “Socialist! Jihadist! Communist! Anti-Semite!” from afar and expect anyone outside the PPP MAGA nursing home demographic to take you seriously. My guess is that the race will come down to the working-class minority neighborhoods, and so I really like Team Zohran’s odds. He’s refined the AOC 2018 playbook that enabled her to take down Joe Crowley. Oh, and I’m now hearing rumors of corporate donors pressuring Cuomo to stay out of the general election. So the establishment Dem fear is both palpable and justified, in both NYC and throughout the rest of the country. Trumpian and Israeli politics are absolutely factoring into these political dynamics, but demographic breakdowns in the NYC mayoral race polling data suggest more fundamental economic fissures in play…fissures that were equally emergent in the polling data during the 2016 and 2020 Bernie primaries.

I agree in a sense. The vast majority of the left, the useful idiots, absolutely have not thought about it at all and they never will. But the puppet masters certainly have. Radical climate agenda, racist DEI, wide open borders for illegal alien criminals, sexualizing children with trans crap, free Palestine etc.... These are all insane causes that the Democrat party of ten years ago would never accept as fringe issues let alone fully embrace as wedge issues. The long march through the institutions is coming to fruition and they've got an orange menace to rail against to help justify all of it. And useful idiots lap it up.

Cuomo may run as an independent in the general election, however, which would divide the anti-Zohran vote between him and Eric Adams (independent) and Curtis Sliwa (Republican). This reminds me of the 2021 Buffalo mayoral race in which Byron Brown defeated India Walton in the general election as a write-in candidate. I’m also reminded of the 2020 Democratic primaries in which all the centrists consolidated under Biden after Bernie won in Nevada. Note the strategic lesson here… Nevertheless, I’m pleasantly surprised with last night’s results (shout-out to Staten Island…WTF LOL) and now feel that Zohran’s campaign has potential to grow to an indomitable electoral majority by November 4. Having recently canvassed for Zohran in Manhattan and Brooklyn and The Bronx, I can say that we have plenty of room for growth with working-class minority communities. Lots of people have still never heard of Zohran, but they do recognize the Cuomo name. Zohran has 4 full months now to work his Obama-like charisma and keep championing his economic message with implacable focus. The weather here is hot, my friends, and so is Zohran. The thirst for water is high, my comrades, and so is the demand for pragmatic solutions to economic market failures under late-stage neoliberalism.

This is going to be entertaining. The only certainty in the whole thing is that when failure comes, it will be because of racism and have nothing to do with ideology.

I work as a judge. Job description would mainly be deciding if someone is guilty or not and sentencing when it comes to criminal cases (we do not have a jury system) and deciding who owes who money and who gets custody of a child when it comes to civil cases.

10 million illegals and free loaders that can work but have been abusing the system. ”I have a “back” injury.” Waste. Fraud. Abuse of Medicaid. Get it gone. Chris Murphy is mad that is a good thing. MAGA!

These points need reinforcing, as I sometimes get the impression that the average Bills fan suffers from short-term memory loss and / or mild dementia. His deer in the headlights moments have been too frequent and their impact has been too severe, and they heavily outweigh his game day tactical nous and ability to problem solve in quick time when encountered with a high pressure situation. That said, he is a great Monday to Saturday coach who is surely one of the best in the NFL at building a great culture and instilling an uncompromising team ethos into his players. And he is a high character human being. If I had a kid who played football, I would love him to play under Sean. But, sadly, the fact remains that he is something of a game day dud. There have been too many instances for this to be ignored. As a Bills fan I obviously wish him well. But in the race to achieve the ultimate goal of bringing a Lombardi to WNY, he simply does not have all the necessary tools in the tool box.

This thread is about the NYC Mayoral Race… can you hop off Trump’s D for five seconds?

The split of who contributed more in that arrangement is overwhelming toward Brady, and yes, Josh would have been just fine in Chicago. Guarantee it. As would have Tom somewhere else. They both didn't need somebody else to tell them to put in the work. This isn't a guy playing in a Bill Walsh mastermind system. Both are primarily defensive coaches who stressed not screwing up. With Josh, so much to the extent that it nearly screwed HIM up.

They have had it at some of the more casual events. Like Historic Racing Event etc. Vintage Racing from my visits years ago 65 mph speed limit 😋 and no passing. Get behind a line of Porsches though and the track opens up a bit lol Station wagons and mini vans welcome. Great place indeed The Gorge is really the jewel though for most folks !

The "borders aren't real and also borders are racist" crowd sure thinks borders matter when it comes to dumping foreign invaders in some third country. Everyone is a blood and soil nationalist for the people they actually care about.

That graph above is from Krugman's blog. I've been involved off and on with immigration enforcement and policy ever since I got sworn in as a lawyer. I'm a realist. Neither political side has embraced realism for more than a few moments. Democrats typically think that because most immigrants, legal or illegal, are hardworking and generally law-abiding (save for that illegal entry), it follow that enforcement of immigration laws is bad. Republicans typically think that illegal entry is an offense to the very concept of a law-abiding nation, and that strenuous enforcement will right that wrong with little or no cost to Americans. In fact, they think it may be a net benefit. The reality is ... the reality. We have an illegal immigration system in America, and the American economy has come to rely on it. Both Republicans and Democrats need a dose of reality here.

The evidence is what I laid out. As to the "why now," I think it is obvious, and it isn't strictly my opinion, it's from listening to countless discussions with Israeli officials, mostly ex ambassadors and others involved in dealing with this while living there and undergoing these relentless attacks. To respond to the question, I think the Oct 7 2023 inhumane barbarism started it. Prior to that, things were kind of quiet by local standards. Hamas and the Palestinians enjoyed employment within Israel and the Israelis mistakenly thought that at long last there could be some kind of coexistence. Then we witness the most barbaric attack in modern history. Babies killed, families butchhered and filmed, and a host of other unimaginable atrocities. Israel responds by attempting to finally eliminate Hamas, which is nothing more than a murderous org taking intl relief and converting it into an underground weapons delivery system. Hezbollah chips in, and hundreds of thousands of Israelis have to leave northern Israel. The entire country is involved in supporting their defense. The economy is no longer functioning with so many displaced and so many reservists away from their usual careers. Hamas gets set back and then the brilliance of Hezbollah getting severely castrated by the beeper thing. Syria collapses, as the Israelis use that to destroy existing air defenses and create a corridor through there to Iran. That was a big deal, and I pointed that out at the time. Now you have a very reduced capability from Hamas and Hezbollah, and the Iranian weapons program still a major threat. Not just nuc procurement, but a massive ballistic missile capability. Guess what? They've got a clear path to Tehran after decades of threatened and backed up murder. They've had scores of human assets inside Iran preparing for this moment for years, and the activated them, building drone launchers and other offensive weapons from within. Air defense eliminated, The timing was perfect, as was the execution. It is the dream scenario for the west, the middle east countries wanting to live in peace and anyone else who is sick and tired of the worst regime on earth.