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It was just high school Josh talking smack and making jokes using controversial terms with his friends never realizing it would capture a much wider audience. Many of us did it back then. It's beyond me, in seeing how he conducts himself and the love and respect his teammates have for him, that you can't figure out he grew up since then.

Maybe the NFLPA will demand the NFL hold the Haslams responsible also. Scumbags.

Beyond more legal trouble, I feel indefinite is needed to hold Watson accountable for owning his mistakes and getting some kind of counseling/treatment.

Thanks for your perspective, I can only say it should have changed our ultimate mission and length of time there. I can certainly agree about Sec of Def, though the change in administrations certainly exacerbated the debacle.

Trump has his share of blame also, but the entire operation was rotten from Bush through Biden. While women's rights and education took a huge, temporary leap forward, we failed as a nation to facilitate a better way for the population of Afghanistan. They were so quick to abdicate to the Taliban. All 4 presidents failed in their own way. You can be stupid and focus on the one(s) you hate, or try and learn the real lessons of failure so we don't repeat them. Then he should go ahead and kill more of them. Starting with the Haqqani leadership.

This is the most important thing getting glossed over. Wasted 20 years and how much money and back where we started? The Taliban broke their word to us. We should have a drone war over there to perform assassinations of their senior leadership and raze any terrorist camps until the Taliban make changes. From the link: Zawahiri's "death is undeniable proof that Afghanistan is a safe haven for al Qaeda's top leadership," said Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and editor of the Long War Journal. "He was sheltered, in Kabul, by the Haqqani family, whose top leader is also one of two deputy Taliban emirs and the interior minister of Afghanistan." Roggio was referring to Sirajuddin Haqqani, who has worked closely with al Qaeda and, according to a U.N. report, is "a member of the wider al Qaeda leadership." He's been wanted by the FBI for planning an attack that killed a U.S. citizen. As interior minister, Haqqani can issue passports, giving him the ability to allow terrorists to travel in and out of Afghanistan. "The strike will be touted as a successful counterterrorism operation," said Roggio, "but it really highlights the failure of two decades of Afghanistan policy, which culminated in withdrawal last summer." Since the U.S. withdrew its remaining troops from Afghanistan last August, neither the Taliban nor al Qaeda have renounced their alliance, and waves of extremists linked to both groups have come to Afghanistan. Roggio has detailed how the Pentagon continues to downplay al Qaeda's strength in the country. The group is currently running training camps across Afghanistan. Weeks before Zawahiri's death, the U.N. said al Qaeda's "leadership reportedly plays an advisory role with the Taliban, and the groups remain close." The drone strike "doesn't change the fact that Afghanistan is a petri dish, growing threats to the region and beyond, because al Qaeda and ISIS have uncovered a space there," said Hoffman. "This is the only strike we've taken in about a year. So that doesn't mean the war is over."

Your point is that Steeler fans are all spoiled idiots oblivious to the difficulty of finding a franchise QB, which I am here to tell you many are not. There's plenty that understand the lean times ahead but delaying it on a washed up Ben was more unacceptable. I can respect that.

I probably don't know as many as you but the ones I know were more than ready to move on from Ben. 2 years ago.

As disgusted as I am by perv Watson, you are right on with this. Equally important in my mind is almost all these women involved settled for cash and no admission of his guilt and ran with it. I guess their individual horrors had a finite price. 24 cases, all very similar circumstances and behavior. No criminal charges were brought, have to assume a lack of evidence, but I feel like convincing a jury in a civil case was pretty much a slam dunk. Despite the hurt feelings, feelings were assuaged by quick, lucrative payouts. I hope the NFL pushes for more. What I really hope is the NFL changes the rules and finds a way to come down hard on the Browns. Teams shouldn't be able to negotiate contracts when a player is facing a criminal situation. I firmly believe scumbag Haslam gave pervert Watson the guaranteed deal to empower Watson the financial support to pay everyone off and be minimally accountable. The saddest part for me is Watson is not accountable to correct his behavior and the Browns tampered with the entire process. Would Watson have been able to pay everyone off without the new contract?

Ok, who are some specific examples of each? I can think of Baker Mayfield as an example of starting hot then fizzling, so we'll see how he goes this year. Beyond specific examples, how do you separate blaming coaching staffs versus the QB not having the mental fortitude and/or processing abilities to be effective?

Always amazes me after a QB like Darnold washes out, people will say the Jets ruined him, a la EJ Manuel and Trent Edwards. Manuel moved on to the Raiders and Chiefs before retiring. 4 coaching staffs saw him, he simply wasn't an NFL QB. He does hold the record for only QB to lose in 4 different countries though! (US, Canada, England, Mexico)

Can you really say anything about how injury rate affected the Texans in 2020 or did they just suck regardless? There's no clear trend with increasing injury, it's just a cluster of spread data with San Fran and Dallas as outliers. Not like it follows the drawn line in any way, hinting it's an incorrect analysis. "Right now, few public metrics capture the impact that injuries can have on a team’s on-field performance. " https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-pff-data-study-war-adjusted-injuries-lost The point of the article is to use Bayesian statistics to predict how much teams W-L records have been affected by injuries and ultimately attempt to predict how records will be affected by sustained injuries in-season. It's a valiant but seemingly feeble attempt as they tie it to pre-season records. Gotta start somewhere though. I can find zero basis for the "we're due for a rash of injuries" you seem to feel the data supports. They do make the point with a chart that injuries are random and unpredictable so I guess you can claim karma but they don't deal with that here. Injuries have 3rd least affected our W-L record compared to preseason. Great. I feel like their time would be better spent comparing injury rates between established teams with consistent coaching and training staffs versus teams with high turnover of personnel and/or coaches year-to-year. I would guess poor training staffs and players being out of position or confused due to inexperience and/or new Coordinators would have the biggest impact on injury rate above baseline.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-62276831 https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/lightning-ignites-fire-wind-turbine-225448407.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/burning-wind-turbine-spins-smoke-corkscrew-in-texas/vi-AAZTci3?li=BBnbfcL File this under Albwan refusing to admit he's wrong.

Honestly, we need a multi-party, coalition system like Europe. I know most don't want to hear that, but here's why I think that. Back before electronic record-keeping and search engines, politicians could work a back room deal and stretch their party's platform to accomplish legislation and hide it deep in the Congressional Record. Nowadays it's extremely difficult as your own party will find that one instance and kill you with it in the primary. I feel part of Congress not getting anything done in recent years is because of the fear this visibility creates. If you had more parties, with only one or two crucial platform issues, then that would create less accountability for non-crucial issues and the flexibility of coalitions to get more legislation passed. I don't know how we could make this happen, especially because the reps and dems won't give up power easily at the state and local levels.

Yep, part of Frazier being too nice = not enough passion, aggression, fire and goal driven to be successful. And now his age also works against him. Think about McDermott and how in his first two years how cautious he was on offense and how much it's changed since then. Nice guy, but fiery, concise, and goal driven. Frazier's hit his ceiling, those in the league that don't see it, McD and the Pegula's trying to lobby him a HC job after last season sealed it.

To summarize his notebook: Gabby fell in the raging creek, hit her head and became extremely hypothermic as we failed to get back to our car because it was dark and cold. Made a fire, she was in extreme general pain, kept falling asleep but I was afraid she would die so I kept waking her up. Finally we decided the best thing to do was strangle her. And I'm killing myself not because of any trouble I might be in, but because I can't stand living without her!

Even more pathetic of you snowflake. But I'll play. Can you tell me the actual level of fraud in the 2016 election and how it helped Trump take office? And I'll accept your point that fraud allegations were going on longer but it contradicts your assertion that opinions of concern = fact of fraud. There have been multiple elections where widespread fraud has never been proven and thus not occurred. Trump had 4 years to ensure proper personnel to police the election, especially given the Q-driven deep state goofiness. Why didn't he get that done? If mail-in ballot changes were so unconstitutional, why did his "Kraaken" team of ###### lawyers not exclusively focus on this instead of machine and counting irregularities? Has any state or federal agency declared these mail-in changes unconstitutional? I've not heard a one. Finally, when you were of the flesh, I remember you posting on here emotionally creaming your pants repeatedly over the Barr appointment. Then once he speaks the truth of the election, he's part of the conspiracy. If you truly want to ascend to a better place, perhaps you should seek actual truth instead of delusional excuses. I agree with you, but she still handled it better than Trump has! He hasn't gotten past the denial stage. 😂

As much as I hate Hillary Clinton at least she handled the results with far more class than Trump.

Why would it be at an all time low when we learned in 2016 the Russians were meddling in our elections? Why would it be at an all time low when both sides and the press (right and left) made such a big deal about it leading up to the 2020 election. How did Trump get elected in 2016 then not in 2020 If there was widespread fraud both times? Even Trump's government agencies overseeing the 2020 elections said there was no fraud: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/its-official-election-was-secure Taking a poll of people's perceptions and opinions as righteous proof of fact? Completely pathetic.

My original point was to Promo who claimed the Bills were keeping Fitz at arm's length when my impression was the opposite. Beane did an interview with the BN I believe where he was all for it, had a conversation with Fitz and said something to the fact that it was up to Fitz. My impression of the situation agrees with you that both sides are open to it but the Bills are waiting on Fitz to move things forward.

https://www.wivb.com/jerry-sullivan/ryan-fitzpatrick-retires-shirtless-bills-still-a-buffalo-guy-at-heart/ "There’s also talk that the team might sign Fitzpatrick to a one-day contract and allow him to retire as a Bill. Fitz said he hasn’t considered it." Published yesterday.

How do you know Fitz isn't the one keeping this at "arm's length"? The Bills really seem to embrace their history so I wonder.....

Well, it is gay pride month. Seems like the same things were said about Nate Peterman

You've got some good common sense things here, but I think you're missing a big way to help with keeping guns out of the wrong hands. And it gets back to what you said about firearms/cars. I feel like you're not quite on the right track with this, but close. Full disclosure, now in my 50s, I've owned guns since my teenage years and fervently believe guns enable us the power to overthrow our government if enough of us so choose. It will never happen, but I consider a critical part of being an American. Anyways, for me the key is responsibility. There is little to no owner-responsibility to owning a gun. That is what is most insane. Red-flag and personal liability for securing your guns are great starts. There needs to be safety certification processes/cards that are divorced from buying a gun. Classes/certifications for: shotguns/rifles, handguns (concealed carry included), semi-automatic assault-style rifle, cannons, etc. Thorough background checks/personality assessments are included though still instant-check at time of purchase. Make people recertify, once a year for the assault rifles. Don't stop people from buying guns. Make them show the proper training card then they can quickly buy. How many of these mass shooters are even going to be responsible enough to take the classes and see it through? IMO, not many. And hopefully they can be identified during certification. Getting back to your automobile example, instead of looking at the inanimate object, let's focus on the driver. What if you didn't have to take any classes/tests and didn't even need a driver's license? That's pretty much how it is with gun owners.

Sure, and how exactly were they going to do that short of starting WW III?