Hapless Bills Fan

I agree. I expect the Bills want him back at vet minimum, and he wants a raise. But, he's been in the league for 5 years, and he may also be looking for a place where he has an option to start. The Lions have Tracy Walker and Will Harris at the top of their Safety depth chart, although currently I think they've got like 6 safeties on the roster. Would that be his chance to compete for a starting role?

Bojo had a few episodes of these adventures in 2020 as well, as I recall.

I'm not sure that's a great analogy. There are specific behaviors that are pretty well established to make driving your car more risky - driving while under the influence, driving while excessively fatigued, excessive speed for the road conditions, and so forth. You can do a lot of driving outside a bubble without getting into the riskier behaviors. For an airborne contagious disease, there are pretty well-established risk factors. Indoors > Outdoors, duration of event, size of gathering with larger > smaller. You can do a lot of living outside a bubble without getting into the riskier aspects in the face of an airborne contagious disease, just as you can do a lot of driving. I think it's an interesting study that they could identify a spike in the communities. Conclusive, no. The authors acknowledge a valid point that they can't tell it was the game per se or behaviors around the game (gathering pre-game for food and drinks etc). If good enough quality contact tracing were available, I think it would be interesting to compare infection rates in Buffalo in the people who attended large outdoor "watch events" that were set up by various restaurant districts vs. the people who went to the game, and were required to be tested beforehand and masked. My guess would be that the pre-game testing made a big difference to safety, but I don't know. The dog thing intrigues me - that dogs can be trained to detect covid-19. It would be pretty cool if people could be screened on entry by something super-quick like dogs and those "flagged" given a backup rapid test. I'd like to hope it will all be a moot point by September because enough people will be vaccinated to cut transmission rates way down, but who knows?

That would be a contrary view to most in the profession of medicine and science. It would typically be listed in the top 5 or 10 along with NE Journal of Medicine, Nature, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, and Annals of Internal Medicine.

*blink* *blink* For the past year, my own eyes have beheld, and not as a stranger - the contrary I will not broaden with examples here

I'm still seeking more insight on Josh Allen's claim that he's got 25% body fat.

Congrats on the jab!

With all respect, the situation strikes me (uh...) as different. In the case of Ray Rice, we had a video to watch as evidence. In the case of Watson, we have allegations. The allegations may be true and supported by external evidence (friends or colleagues the massage therapist talked to contemporaneously), they may come across as credible, or they may be unsupported and come across as un-credible. I'm sure if there were a video of Watson behaving indecently during a massage appointment people would judge him. Large numbers of accusations have been proven to be incorrect in other cases. For one example, the Little Rascals Daycare case. I know that's different - that was children, not adults - but the point stands, that people's memories can be influenced by a number of factors including coaching. There are others, both ways - the Duke University Lacrosse false accusations, the case of "Marie" from Lynnwood WA who was raped but then coerced by detectives into recanting her story and saying she made it up - but when the serial rapist was caught after committing several more rapes, he had photos of her proving that her original story was true (Lynnwood police were found to have labeled 21 percent of rape cases as "unfounded", five times the national average for similar communities) I'm not saying this is common or likely, but it does happen which is why I choose to reserve judgement and wait for the process to play out, even despite the large number of allegations with a similar story.

I thought Hardy's career was over because he stunk? From WIki: "After his quick start, although he played with a high effort, he struggled with his technique and his production dropped. He finished as the team leader in quarterback pressures (32) and was second on the team in sacks (6), with only three coming in the last nine games. Hardy also drew the ire of coach Jason Garrett due to inappropriate tweets, frequent tardiness as well as being a bad influence to the younger players on the team which resulted in the Cowboys not re-signing him after the season." When you got a star who may be a bad influence or have "baggage", the team is motivated to work around all that. Once the star dims, the baggage appears larger. Hardy was also arrested for Cocaine possession in 2016, which may have been a problem the Cowboys FO knew about in 2015. Indeed. I would prefer to just say, both actions (if true, in the case of Watson) show suckitude as human beings. I don't see the value in debating levels of relative suckitude.

Believe me, I'm wondering the same thing

The NFL is planning full capacity too I'm pretty sure science is the same down South.

Yeah, this thread is going to be productive of topical, constructive football-related discussion. I'm borrowing @Chandler#81's gift for predicting these things. As someone who has participated in peer-reviewing papers for scientific journals, the thorough review process does not involve visiting the author's labs and reviewing all of their primary data. That's way above any reasonable expectation for a journal. During review, you take the data at face value, and ensure that the data support the conclusions and that references are cited appropriately and correctly. It's the author's responsibility to ensure the integrity of their own data - it's always been that way, and when they could not, the authors acted correctly in withdrawing the paper. The Lancet was, and remains, one of the premier journals in the medical field. Don't have to believe NYT, link to Lancet paper included above.

Now let me understand this. You're talking about this, I presume: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/lancet-retracts-major-covid-19-paper-that-raised-safety-concerns-about-malaria-drugs/ar-BB152ZkP The paper was withdrawn, not because the conclusions were wrong, but because the authors became unable to independently verify the data, which was sourced by a company called 'Surgisphere': Therefore, the authors did the embarrassing but scientifically ethical thing, and asked the Lancet to withdraw the paper. The Lancet complied. Yet somehow, The Lancet and the authors taking responsibility and behaving ethically, gives them "zero credibility" to you? Seems bizarre, but You Do You. Gentle reminder: try to keep this focused narrowly on football and this study, the Lancet credibility question is relevant because they are the journal publishing the study.

Lancet study suggesting link between spike in area covid-19 cases and >5000 fans attendance at Football Games. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3805754

You know, this really should be a football relevant topic that we can have a discussion about, but if this is the reaction, I guess the answer is still "no". Science seldom proves anything. Scientists are a cautious bunch. We're the ones who get asked "what color is this house painted?" and say "the two sides I can see appear to be blue". So "suggesting a causal link" but not proving it, is about the best we can do, but it should at least be given some attention and not dismissed out of hand. If you look at the actual article, they tried pretty hard to account for those other causes https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3805754

No, should not, given the recent CDC study doing weekly testing of 4,000 HCW and showing that vaccines prevented 90% of all infections, not just symptomatic infections. You not infected, you can't spread disease. I also haven't gotten deep enough into it to see whether they looked at the impact of testing all the attendees as the Bills games did. Not sure on the humor there? Lancet is one of the top medical journals, has been for decades? Yeah well, I just put it back. I may get shot down for it, so those who would like to see that can beat the rush and buy tickets.

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-reduce-jpeg-file-size/ I think we all would welcome visual proof that Josh Allen is lying about his 25% body fat

Bino-photography is a Thing, Sherlock. Don't bogart those views of Allen - be a good friend and share. Yummy?

What do you all make of this? Thoughts? Some of mine: 1) Remaining gaps. Safety: The one guy I still see as a FA that I thought the Bills would like to re-sign or replace is Safety Dean Marlow CB: I'm also a bit surprised they haven't added anyone to compete at CB. DL: I guess I'm also surprised there haven't been more moves there. Perhaps this is a clue to the Bills draft direction, looking for DL or CB? 2) The number of OLmen who've been signed seems crazy to me. I really hoped the Bills would draft a top C/G to develop, and the sheer number of OLmen now on the roster makes this seem unlikely to me. Thoughts? 3) Corey Bojorquez is still a free agent. Huh. So much for leading the league in average punt distance. Guess teams must be looking at a different overall picture when signing a punter. Either that or he has an inflated sense of his own value that the market doesn't accept. 4) So are Kenny Stills (WR) and Darron Lee (LB)

That's....sarcasm, right?

Color me skeptical, but I can be educated...say more Do you buy Kyle awarding him the point there?

OK now to additional controversies - Josh was asked to describe Cam Newton and said he's like a "Transformer", that he's huge. Said that he came out to Cali to throw with Stidham and some of the Patriots WR and he felt small next to him. (Cam is listed on Wiki as 6'5", 245. Josh is listed as 6'5", 237 so that's a little hard to fathom) Here's the controversy: Josh said "he's got like 5% body fat, I've got like 25% body fat" Truth or Lies? Pictures of Josh with his shirt off are very scarce. This is big. C'mon TBD, we gotta delve into this one.

This is actually a question I've been curious as to the answer to. @SDS?

Now we're getting into the REAL meat of the interview. I can't believe that Josh successfully defended "Yummy" and "Backpack" as "not bad songs" and Kyle Brandt gave him a point for it. That should be highly controversial IMHO and Brandt should take a LOT of flack for that decision.