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We have been assured by supporters of Comey, Brennan and others that if there is nothing to fear, all will be well. I certainly hope no wrongdoing is discovered, and I for one will not be participating any “lock them up” chants, Facebook groups, nor will I purchase any “Lock them up” swag—-bumper stickers, t shirts, hoodies, onesies (Thank you, Bernie!) or the like.

Nothing in Dolphins land will change until Chris Grier and Mike McDaniel are gone. When a GM so consistently fails to adequately correct serious and recurring issues such as abhorrent offensive line play and rotting team culture, year after year, he's gotta go. When a team's culture becomes as toxic and rotten as the Dolphins' culture appears to be, it's time for the head coach to go as well. Everything starts at the top. The GM and the head coach who have resided over the team while it has descended to its current level of dysfunction have to be let go, or nothing will change. As long as Grier and McDaniel are in place, I will not fear the Dolphins, and neither will the rest of the NFL. Wake me when they have a GM, HC, or QB worth a darn.

Not a lawyer, so am asking. Have heard it speculated that the real fear CBS had was their employees biases being exposed via the discovery process should this case have moved forward as internal e-mails and the like would have to have been turned over to 47's legal team. Do you, as a lawyer, completely discount that take or is it a credible reason for CBS (and the others such as ABC that have settled) to do so?

This always reminds me of the classroom discussion of fear, and Shane Falco talks about Quicksand. Quicksand is exactly the way I feel it was like being in the drought. We were in quicksand. Shaw, I believe is reminding us of that feeling vs.now. We always have a shot, every year, but 31 teams are disappointed every year including us. Thanks Shaw as I appreciate it. It seems more and more popular to criticize everything about the leadership of the team, yet forgetting all too quickly the quicksand of 17 years of a drought.

Awesome. This is fun. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/06/elon-musk-america-party-split-republicans-fear-trump-allies/

Democratic Party voters are calling for a revolution. An insurrection, if you prefer that word. In any case, they want political violence. Another told Axios that a "sense of fear and despair and anger" among voters "puts us in a different position where ... we can't keep following norms of decorum." I always find it hilarious when a Democrat warns about "norms." These are the people who have been creating hoaxes about Donald Trump for a decade, sending the FBI after Catholics and disgruntled parents at school board meetings, burning cars in the streets while waving Hamas flags, and attacking ICE agents. https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/07/07/axios-democrat-voters-calling-for-violence-n3804535

The Eagles were more of the things that we feared when playing the Ravens than the Ravens were. Horrible match up for us. We couldn’t stick to the run game vs the Chiefs. Eagles had one of the best run defenses in the NFL. I don’t see it being close last year but not surprising some here think it would be.

Insurers don’t settle cases that have zero merit. Having been sued and having reviewed and testified as an expert witness in far more cases, an insurer will only settle if there are actual damages and they fear a jury award would be higher. After both plaintiff and defendant experts weigh in on paper or deposition, they typically decide to settle or defend the case. I’ve never seen a case where “nothing wrong happened” to warrant a settlement offer. They are loathe to settle “nuisance cases”. It’s not a good habit for them to get into for obvious reasons.

You stooges transact in fear, anger, and division - in direct opposition to your own self interest. Unless any of you are billionaires or 500 mill CEOs? Wage slaves parroting the ruling class's propaganda. Good job. Put another way, shatters the MAGA myth that minorities get preference. Thanks for pointing that out, MAGAt!

I'm not, no. I like Josh Palmer, I do. But if he is your main boundary down field guy to try and get defenses to fear your outside receivers and defend the full 53 and a third yards then you are asking more of him than has been asked of him previously. He doesn't have the reputation of Amari Cooper who he is replacing either. So he isn't going to affect defenses even on plays where he doesn't touch the ball. He will have to prove he is a viable threat in that role for teams to respect him. Is it possible? Sure. I don't think it is in any way a given though. And Elijah Moore is a nice floor raiser, with a certain skillset but again there are significant limitations in his game. As for Keon. I'm in you gotta show me it. Go read my posts about him right back before the draft, hell before the combine in 2024. The exact player I described is the player that was there on tape in the NFL as a rookie. Maybe he takes a big jump, but unless the Bills are willing to commit to him as a full time big slot type (and they won't because they have Shakir) then the same weaknesses that are on his film are going to hamper him I fear. We had a more explosive downfield passing game when we had Singletary and Moss. I'm fine with bang average backs like those two if the passing game is dynamic. Indeed that is my preference for how the team be built. But right now, it isn't built that way. If the Bills don't extend Cook before the season and their passing game can make more explosive plays no relying on Josh in scramble mode I will be all in on let Cook walk and draft another mid round back I promise you. But I am sceptical about them having done enough for the passing game to make that step. Yes. TFLs are bad for running backs. You want fewer, not more. He was second in the NFL. Only Gibbs was better at avoiding being tackled behind the line. And while of course blocking plays a part in that Cook was only 14th in the NFL in terms of yards before contact and was only a tick above the league average. So I don't think it is as easy as saying "oh its just the oline". The reason James Cook avoids tackles behind the line so well is he has ELITE vision for a running back. He sees holes that a ton of guys would miss. And he will find a way to get to that hole and pickup 1 or 2 where another back misses that hole and is dumped for a loss. And I'm sorry Johnson and Davis are not as good as Cook at that. They're not even close. Singletary is bang average. He's been a starter and lost it in three places. I don't know what you are seeing. He was good at wiggling around in the backfield making a guy miss then getting tackled by the second guy for a loss, sure. He isn't nearly as good as Cook at the quick movement of his feet to find a crease. Doesn't have the vision. Doesn't have the quick feet. That's why one is a back with two thousand yard seasons in the last two years and the other is likely battling for a roster spot on his 3rd team in three years. There are deals to be done with Cook that make sense for the Bills. Even if the AAV on it looks high. But yes, it would require Cook to be willing to leave the team flexibility. What he wants, presumably, is a bit of security beyond this year if he is going to play this year (which as I told this board when you were all speculating in spring - he 100% is going to) and what the Bills want is a bit of flexibility beyond that. I don't expect him to sign a long term deal with the Bills in camp at this stage but I can see a short extension that gives him some security and the Bills some flexibility as an option. Or he could just play without a deal. But he is going to play. And if he is healthy he is going to be the 2nd most dynamic player on this offense again. Then not paying him after 3 thousand yard seasons gets even harder.

spoken exactly like a guy who has never had a sister mother friend or GF sexually assaulted. It is Precisely due to folks who think like you that women fear going forward.. doubts Doubts DOUBTS always. without any basis but a post on a message board. you are calling her out Bully for you. @-@ SMH

Trickle down theory! The lefts strawman that will never die. Go ahead and claim Thomas Sowell's decades old offer to generously compensate anyone who can cite anywhere in the literature where an economist putting forth the trickle down theory. You can't. Because it doesn't exist. Works great for leftists as a fear mongering strawman though. Here's your trickle down ..

Exactly. She reported the incident immediately after it happened. She didn't stay quiet on it. It wasn't her choice to drop the charges. She posted about it a lot, and always wanted to get justice. 5 years ago, he wasn't a famous college player or an NFL player, so it obviously wasn't about money. But now that she has a chance to get some kind of justice, she's pursuing it in civil court since she couldn't in criminal court. ***Personal Anecdote Below*** I dated someone who was attacked & SA'd outside of a college, and she dealt with it for YEARS. She never stopped trying to get justice for it, and it wasn't until the guy did it to 2 x more girls over the next 3 years that he got caught. Then my gf was finally able to cooperate with the police & identify him, but unfortunately it took years. By that point, the 2nd girl who was attacked was suffering from extreme PTSD from the incident & ended her own life. Afterwards, we found out it is was a gang thing, and guys from that gang found my gf lived & would leave threatening notes on her car, tail us in cars late at night, and even showed up at a friend's party. Each time, we called the police, which was a whole ordeal that continued this cycle of fear & intimidating for years. We moved twice, got new vehicles & eventually it ended, but all of this was because one guy decided to r**e a girl outside a college dorm, then proceed to do it multiple more times. My gf & those other girls were unable to get any justice for a long time, but imagine if the attacker wasn't charged & suddenly showed up on TV as an NFL draft pick. How would that feel to see someone you KNOW did something so horrible, something so traumatizing, something that makes you feel violated to your core, being rewarded & happy? Probably pretty pissed off, and you'd want to get whatever bit of justice you could. Not saying Hairston is guilty or passing ANY judgement on him. I'm just saying this is a completely reasonable way for a victim to respond, especially if they have no other options.

I wish I could give you an answer. I don’t trust Washington republicans to get anything right. I just prefer their brand of ineptitude to that of Washington democrats. I do know that the fear mongering from the dems is standard issue. Republicans want to kill children and make old people choose between cat food and medicine, blah, blah. Been playing that tune for decades. I don’t know how anyone still buys it.

You nailed it. They love to demonize groups and get off on their suffering. Who the ***** isn't into deporting criminals. This is not that. Dems botched immigration no argument there. This is even worse policy. MAGA is driven by fear. Fear leads to cruelty.

Difference in viewpoint: Play it safe/ status quo Go down swinging/ take a chance My biggest fear in life, getting to the end and knowing I could have tried but didn’t. That’s a regret I don’t want. The closest ( albeit not perfect) comp we have to Josh is Cam. Josh does not play as a normal QB does nor his he used that way. I have zero expectations that he makes it to his forties. We are playing with fire and when you do eventually you get burned. My guess is he’s got till his mid thirties which means the clock is ticking to get a new guy in and give h a reasonable chance to win it all

Again, where is there war? And we were too afraid in the past to bomb inside Iran for fear of reprisal. That appears to have been unfounded.

Military-Industrial Complex now shuddering in fear as they figure out how to spend hundreds of billions of new dollars.

Pride Month is over, did you survive okay? Did you have your fear blanket and a copy of the Pulse Nightclub security tape? It’s gonna be okay, I promise.

Like typical MAGA you allergic to intelligence and any opposing viewpoints. it’s literally a party ruled by the emotion of fear. And lack of education or empathy. Oh yeah I know. Bathrooms.

It wasn’t that simple though because the transaction was years earlier. I don’t remember all of the specifics but knew it pretty well at the time. I had some contacts that were heavily involved (and that’s an understatement). Basically, a sale wouldn’t have been approved to someone who planned to relocate the team. From what I recall, the $400M wasn’t really an option because of some other language in the deal. The team could not be relocated until 2020 or whatever and the league would not allow an owner to operate in a lame duck situation. That’s why some potential buyers pulled out after getting more details that weren’t public. Ralph, Littman and crew put all of this in place with NY. The reporting back then was filled with 1/2 truths and fear mongering. I posted a bunch on it at the time of the sale and the info that I was getting was from those involved. Lol, back then, things didn’t stay as quiet on the inside.

As Mencken defined it: “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time."

For most coaches those blunders are things like "ah we ran on 4th and 1 instead of giving our QB a chance" where the thought process was defensible and the fan reaction was entirely outcome dependent. You're not typically seeing cases where the coaching decision was so bad that it effectively ended the game. In those cases the offending coach is usually quickly fired, like Matt Eberflus after the Thanksgiving game in Detroit last year. Another example to me was in the Ravens playoff game when we had our backup DL on the field for the entire final drive, which gave us no chance of stopping them, but luckily we got saved from that fatal coaching blunder through sheer luck on the 2PC. My fear with McDermott for a while has been that I think you need to win those moments at least once or twice in your playoff run to ultimately win a Super Bowl. I don't know if he just tightens up too much in those high leverage moments or what, but he has consistently failed in those moments in some pretty shocking ways. Some of the other criticisms of McDermott I can find some explanations, like maybe the defensive breakdowns in the playoffs really are just because of talent and/or injuries, but I can't find an explanation for those end of game moments.

For me both Oliver and Rousseau are at the good-not-great level. After that things get interesting. Bosa could return to his former glory. Or he could spend the season on IR. Who knows? I never watched Hoecht very much, but I know that he's a very smart and versatile player who can play DE, DT, and LB. That means when he's on the field, the offense doesn't necessarily know what defensive alignment we're in, assuming we switch him around. He could be an interesting X factor. Ogunjobi seems like he could be a good depth piece though PFF only graded him a 49.4 last season. And then there's the rookies. If everyone is as good as we hope, this will be the best DL we've had in a while. But if our fears materialize (Bosa is hurt, the rookies play like rookies, Hoecht's versatility is misused, Ogunjobi deserves his 40s PFF score, etc.), then our entire defense will struggle. I'm hoping for the best but right now it all feels iffy to me.

Nor was the "Trump has started WWIII" claim this past weekend fear-mongering hysteria ... Nor were any of the other times they claimed that over the past 9 or so years fear-mongering hysteria ...