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Nick Barnett wants a call from OBD
dpberr replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Nope. 100% accurate on the Posluszny trade. -
Nick Barnett wants a call from OBD
dpberr replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
This crisis has an obvious remedy. Trade for Paul Posluszny. -
Nick Barnett wants a call from OBD
dpberr replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I admit that I forgot that Nick Barnett played for the Bills. My vote for LB of the past to be brought in for the present training camp and future season is John DiGiorgio. -
The problem with cargo shorts is that they are too big, too baggy on any body type. I don't wear shorts or sandals so it matters little to me - just an observation that sometimes we men have a hard time finding appropriately sized clothing for our bodies.
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The top ten people you feel should be in the HOF
dpberr replied to major's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Reggie Ragland to have knee surgery; out for season
dpberr replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Wouldn't surprise me that much like Lawson, Ragland had an issue in college that was never properly addressed. Fowler is another guy who went down in Jags practice last year. It's just like all of the college pitchers who have to have TJS before they even pitch in the major leagues. Their arms are beat to death by the time they are playing rookie ball. -
July Movies: Star Trek, Jason Bourne, BFG, and Tarzan
dpberr replied to Mark Vader's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Saw Bourne against my better judgement. I found it boring and predictable. Unfortunately it was exactly what I thought it'd be. The same exact story with all the same plot devices. Not sure why they had to make another one. -
I think the whole Hilary Clinton for President train is all but derailed at this point. The convention looked good and the true blood Democrats who are going to vote for her regardless are feeling good but: WikiLeaks has saved the most damaging stuff for October. ISIS isn't going to stop. There will be unfortunately more attacks. She's structured to debate the Mitt Romney's of the world - scripted and predictable not Trump's style whatever you want to call it. The economy continues to go nowhere. Not even a tick up. The Sanders wing is taking it personally.
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I have to say - I didn't see that one coming. I actually thought the reporter and Dr. Scott's killer dead in one big murder montage.
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TOD 7/26: REX - love or hate him?
dpberr replied to BuffaloBill's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
How about annoyed? I think he talks too much. I think fans and players alike would all be thinking about last season differently if he managed expectations instead of creating them. I wasn't a fan of his hiring by the Bills. I think being fired by the Jets and instantly hired by the Bills provided no time for him to reflect and learn from what went wrong with the Jets. I think that's handicapping him now. He would have been a better coach for any team in the NFL with a year off. -
The scariest part of the upcoming 2016 season
dpberr replied to Jobot's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Scariest part? Same as it always has been for me. Games #3 and #4. The opposing team has a couple weeks of tape and knows what's coming. It is the game where you see the talent of both your players and coaching staff. It has been the barometer for the last several seasons IMO. -
Bills Cap Situation,Tyrod & Gilmore Deals, Future Outlook
dpberr replied to rquinn619's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Great article. I learned quite a lot. My only comment is that I'd be *real* surprised McCoy is on the team in 2020. I doubt he'll even be here in 2017. -
I've watched both seasons. Oddly also watched Falling Skies until the no good, VERY weird end. I think the people behind TLS sense apocalypse fatigue (Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, 12 Monkeys,etc.) and that's why in the second season they are moving into more geopolitical story lines. I want to like this show but it has gotten slow and it's odd how they've made Chandler into Admiral Jack Bauer. I think they need to give the President more to do than nervously wait around. They have this ship and absent the crazy British brothers with the sub, there's been few real naval threats to the boat.
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I suppose I should have put "invaded even more countries."
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In a way we did. It was only after the Iran-Iraq war where everyone started calling in billions of dollars of IOUs that Saddam got desperate and started invading countries. Sure, we didn't like what he was doing in Iraq in the 70s or 80s but we didn't do anything about it. FWIW, this isn't a case that Saddam was this awesome guy. He was a brutal dictator. However, I think the size and depth of the Pandora's box we opened up toppling him was greatly underestimated - and that's the same worry I have with Clinton and her desires for nation building. I don't know how the West and Russia contain Syria if Assad goes on top of what's already destabilized.
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Like who? He was pretty much the Middle East's primary anti-Islamic, anti-Shiite pressure bulkhead. He was enemies with the Iranians and their proxies, the Kurds, Sunni milita, Sunni insurgents (early days of al-Qaeda) and strong Sunni nations (Kuwait, UAE, the Saudis). The man barely left Iraq, leaving foreign relations to Aziz because he was too busy warding off all of the factions that have become household names today. If he was funding "terrorists" it was his own intelligence services. Saddam was the West's secular "main man" up until 1990. The biggest mistake Saddam made was he invaded Kuwait. The West couldn't turn a blind eye to that due to the massive Saudi influence and pressure that persists to this day.
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July Movies: Star Trek, Jason Bourne, BFG, and Tarzan
dpberr replied to Mark Vader's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Bourne looks *bouring*. I've seen all of the others but they have run out of gas. That franchise needs something else to do but battle neatly named government projects and distinguished actors looking grouchy in nice tailored suits in an office in NYC. I won't see Ghostbusters because it looks like an almost frame for frame reshoot of the classic. Old wine, new bottle. -
I see that Clinton is going after Trump's "Saddam killed terrorists very well" remarks. Although not articulated smartly, Trump is right. Guys like Saddam, Qaddafi and Assad kept the lid on the pot of all these Islamic jihadists and it was these war mongers like the Bushes and the Clintons who have effectively removed that firewall by removing bad dictators. However, those dictators served a strategic purpose to the United States. I watched the Frontline that detailed the run-up to the Iraq War and how the United States tried tying Zarqawi to Saddam. What an eye opener. The CIA analysts are going "there is no NO WAY Saddam would let a guy like Zarqawi run around Iraq" yet guys like Cheney and Libby insisted there must be a connection. With Clinton, I just see more international mess making and destabilization. She'll double down on removing Assad and then go for a big fish like North Korea or some field trips to Africa.
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Bill got foiled once again. The last thing that man wants is to be in the White House again with his every move watched.
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I love them but I have thought about divorce on occasion. I have been less interested this year. I couldn't tell you the why - just not into the team as much. I was a big Fred Jackson fan and since he's left, eh.
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Topic of the day 6/28: Best draft pick that never was?
dpberr replied to BuffaloBill's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Alvin Bowen from the 2008 draft. -
Topic of the day 6/27: What is your worst game day memory?
dpberr replied to BuffaloBill's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I'll tell you what game really stung to me - the Sunday, September 20, 2015, Week 2 game versus the Patriots. I suppose I had irrational expectations for that game. I was going into that game with the hope that we'd hang a big one on the Pats and that times had changed. And...they hadn't. -
Most "fans" wouldn't bother going to the stadium on Sundays if there wasn't any alcohol sold in the stadium or permitted outside it.
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If Trump would adopt an "END NAFTA" pitch to his campaign, I bet he would get a lot of the blue collar Democrats that otherwise would vote for Clinton.
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Welcome to the revolution. The EU is a cooked goose. Other countries will follow. It makes me curious as to whether the United States would ever quit NAFTA should Trump become President.