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I have been watching the pods he has been doing with Burmeister. They go into some depth there. Phil might be on the one tonight. The list is generated by posing the question that if he was a HC whose job depended on winning one game, which QB would he most trust? It's not over the next 1 or 5 years say like a stock investment. So, 18 is fair, imo, and saying that he could be much higher by the end of this season is where most of us are at, I think.

Or maybe that among the subset of human beings that are Americans of European ancestry, there is another subset, "the nonelites," who are not to be trusted with it. That's why the context of the tweets prior might matter to what was intended. She didn't release them in their entirety and at the time she called out his joke for using "elite" and not for being racially exclusive. They were apparently discussing gun control and maybe gun culture. The comment may have been within the context of the Southern White population only and not meant to be excluding the entirety of the remaining world's population. I do not get why the availability of a silencer would be funny in any context but maybe there was something texted prior that would give it some meaning. Anyways, this would be the interpretation that is the least offensive and as a Northerner I would no longer need to be moderately offended. As for the semantics of the words I offer this: Ex. I could say that I only use Heinz ketchup on my cheeseburgers That could either be exclusive of all other brands of ketchup or it could be exclusive of all other condiments.

Tyrod got injured vs the Titans making a long 3rd down conversion. I think he finished the game but it cost him time. He was very aware that it would make a difference and took a chance. EJ had to play against the Bengals and Jags in the next two.

Thanks. I think he will break one of those sometime in his career.

Think about all the kneel down, victory formation plays. There has to be at least a dozen or so of them. I don''t know who would bother to look them up. So 12 for -24 yards? That would make it 171 for 1234 and the the ypc becomes 7.21. This is fun, sort of the reverse of watching the grocery bill go down when the coupons get scanned.

But, if your the OC and you have the green light for a 4th and 1 play? Unstoppable play twice = first down? For grins I looked at Josh's career rushing attempts including the playoff game. I got 207 atttempts for 1233 yards for a ypc of 5.95. Subtracting 24 attempts and the minimum of 23 yards (we know its slightly more--he almost broke one in 2018 in a home game against the Jets or Lions for big yards, the Dallas play got 3 or 4) it maxes out at 183 attempts for 1210 yards for a ypc of 6.61.

Maybe it's been answered similarly but here's mine: Kneeling is not inherently disrespectful. Kids kneel at soccer games when one is hurt. A man might kneel during a marriage proposal, a knighting ceremony or at the altar before their God Almighty. It's likely Jesus had to kneel to wash the feet of his disciples. So, it's not the kneeling that offends. It's the act of protest. He is making a point that his emotional state of being is not the same. Question. What would it say about someone if they are more upset about kneeling as an act of protest during the anthem versus kneeling on the neck of a person in police custody until he died? The irony here is one for the history books. Brees is entitled to his opinions and emotional response to the flag and anthem. When we pledge allegiance to the flag we close with "....liberty and justice for all." We can't expect that all our fellow Americans should feel the same about the symbols of our country if are denied liberty and justice in equal measure simply by their race, religeon, gender or sexual identity. Brees equated the kneeling as disrespectful to the flag as do you. I know many who feel the same. One, who I consider to be a thoughtful person, gave Trump credit for "defending the flag." Personally, I don't think anyone who got five draft deferments, one with a phoney medical diagnosis, should be the arbiter of anybody else"s patriotism. Why his comment was a mistake is the circumstances of his team. I'd bet he has been through the issue with his teammates and peers more than once. He is more than aware of why it was done and how they feel. He could have expressed his emotional connection to the flag without crapping on those who protest and why they do it. He could have supported them and their cause as just apart from his own personal feelings.

I rewatched Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary back in January but made the mistake of binge watching it. It was overwhelmingly, depressingly educational. Too much so to do without some recovery between. That was the depth of how screwed up things could get and how poor leadership can get us there. Thank goodness despite what some wish to say, we aren't near that level of fubar yet.

Winston and Brissett? You're complaining that they lost their starting jobs to Brady and Rivers? And you're giving them credit for the production generated by the six who are keeping their jobs including Mahomes, Jackson, Wilson? How many times has Fitz been replaced? How many games does he start this year until Tua is ready and replaces him? Either you make a convincing case for being the long term answer for your team by your 4th season in the league or your're moving on. Black or white.

That's the one I was thinking of. Alphonse and Gaston lead the way.

Tyrel Dodson?

Thanks for the laughs. I needed some.

This was not "social media" available to the public. It was a private text exchange. Whether there is "other" stuff in the public realm but we have yet to see it. It's also curious that this young lady does not call him out on having made a racist statement. She calls him out for using the word "elite" and implying that he himself was.

I would want to know what that says before I could come to a conclusion. As a member of the jury in the court of public opinion, I'd want to know that.

Context always matters. I do not understand the context in this case. Do silencers have a racial or class context? I was never aware of one. Was this some sort of gun control discussion? By specifying elite whites was he excluding the entire rest of the population or was he excluding lower class whites only? I could list all the derogatory terms about lower class, rural whites but they may or not be considered offensive now so I won't. I saw some Tweet that implied Jake was saying that blacks should not have access to guns. Come on now. If you need to distort what was said to strengthen your point, then it was weak to begin with.

As a fairly average, somewhat struggling, middle aged, definitely nonelite white guy, I am only moderately offended.

Against the NFC East the Cowboys were +97. Add the Dolphins and it's +122 and a 6 and 1 record. Blowout the struggling teams and go 2 and 7 against the rest of the schedule. Many of the losses where the offense fell flat, NE, NO, Bills, @ Phi. I am more anti Cowboys than anti Dak. Many points in my post are open to the possibility that Dak could be more successful outside their team culture. The 2019 Cowboy offense was all about racking up points and stats against bad teams and failing against good ones.

It's not like we could see the entirety of the NFL back then, but it seemed like he was the pioneer of that sideline footwork. Toes in, arms extended and fall on his face to make the catch count.

I'm ok with it. Have an opinion and justify it with some rationale. He mentions his misses on his rankings from last year which is respectable. I think his take on the Diggs trade is way off. Tell us which one of the rookies that were available for the Bills to draft will be as good as or better than Stefon over the next 1, 2 or 4 years. The additional picks were mostly house money anyways and were not of much consequence. We have seen a trend where Beane likes to acquire extra draft capital and then use it to target the guys he believes in. His hit rate has been way better than most and the Bills are in the mix because of it.

This is deja vu all over again. He is +15 for his NFL career and 9 of that is from 2016. So, that leaves +6 for the last 3 seasons. The leader of the over hyped Cowboys with mostly underwhelming results. There are other QBs like him that did get paid for their stats but whose teams have never amounted to much. Once they get the big money it's not likely team results are going to improve with the added roster restrictions.

I have have not watched much of the Cowboys. For almost 5 decades we have had them forced upon us, the NFL viewing public, whether they were relevant or not. The networks need stars to promote to the public so I have always thought that Cowboy players benefited from the over hype necessary to justify their national profile. Somehow, I think it starts with their owner and his ego and filters its way down. For those that do not believe in the importance of culture to winning, I cite the Cowboys as evidence of what it means to be "talented" but not perform well in big moments. Something is wrong with their culture. I doubt it was all on Jason Garrett and I doubt Mike McCarthy has the goods to fix it. As for Dak, some anecdotal points about their performance last year. They were 1 and 3 vs. the AFC East. He threw for 463 yards against GB and they lost. He threw for 355 vs. the Bills and only had 7 on the board with 4:06 to go in the game. The Cowboys scored only 10 points against NO and 9 vs. NE and 9 @ Phi in a game to win the division. He plays in a climate controlled, retractable roof stadium. Passing stats come much easier there. Something is lacking in that team and while Dak may not be to blame in any way, he appears to me to be less of a winner and more of a stat chaser. He has started 64 of 64 possible which is notable and he might get much better results on a team like the Bills but I would not care to find out. Trust the process and see what Josh can produce this year. I am 100% ok with that.

Many talk about the easy schedule last year but that really applies mostly to the offenses they faced. Sixth seems high. I looked at the DVOA for last year's schedule and it seemed pretty balanced. 2 against NE vs. 2 vs. Miami. (#1 vs #32.) Top 5 Pitt and Balt vs. bottom 5 Giants and Bengals. Jets, Broncos and Eagles were top 13 vs. Cowboys, Browns and Redskins in the bottom 13. Titans were at 16. So, very balanced. But those who talk about how the Bills offense faced a weak schedule last year and it will be much tougher this year are talking fiction at least so says their 2019 DVOAs.

One Bills Live had the owner/trainer of the facility on. I think he said 3 other teams had already scheduled some future time there. They really have a complete facility there which offers a scaled down version of what the team's have minus the coaches, of course.

As a fan of this team you either trust the process or don't. I can't think of a more anti process move than trading Josh. So on to the next silly topic.

Should have made this a ppv event. Like selling bottled water in the desert.