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Unfulfilled expectations is the source of a lot of fear, anger and pain in life. If you think about the times you've felt the most angry, the source of it is likely an expectation you had of something happening or not happening, and the opposite of that occurred. I often find people who couch their enthusiasm for the Bills do so out of not wanting to experience the physical pain of disappointment, because they feel it deeply.

I think the Shapiro/Mastriano race in PA is a lot closer than what's reported. Rasmussen and Trafalgar both have it at a statistical tie.

I think Zeldin as governor would make Adams a better mayor of NYC. Adams needs the political cover Zeldin can provide from Albany to do what's necessary to get crime under control in NYC.

I'd like the Bills to get another offensive lineman - no more Greg Van Roten please. I think Josh Jacobs from the Raiders would be a shrewd addition to the backfield.

This is a clever attempt by the vaccine manufacturers to escape liability once the emergency declaration expires, if it ever will. I suspect they've been told that it expires sometime next year, or with a Republican held Congress, they end it. I also suspect the VICP isn't going to cover COVID shots. Money talks - if the government isn't going to put the shots in that fund, you have to think real long and hard about putting that product into a child's body. I don't think states will bite though because if you mandate it and something goes wrong, there's no federal fund to handle the lawsuits like there is for the other vaccine shots and parents turn to the mandating body for compensation.

Terrible technique as a route runner, which is the big problem, and why the Bills will never trade for him. He's still out there every Sunday playing street football. He either doesn't take coaching well or the Steelers haven't tried. I'm going to assume the former.

Less broadcast is more, NFL.

The Boston University facility has BLS-4 laboratories, where I hope is where this research was conducted. I think articles like this only provides more credence that the OG Covid was made in a lab.

Teams don't rotate DL like the Bills do, and that's the key. The whole Eagles MO is to exhaust the defensive line and linebackers by running at them 50 times a game. They have the most rushing attempts of any team at this juncture - 225. Falcons are second with 202, Browns third with 198.

Contracts. That's what is wrong. His contract doesn't permit the Packers to build the quality team around him. They are forced to build a cap-efficient team around an aging, expensive QB, with his salary alone at 13.3% of cap. For comparison, Josh Allen is at 7.9%. They've also held on to the oft-injured Bakhtiari too long. He represents the next 6.2%. They are grossly overpaying Preston Smith, the next 5.3%.

Most teams on that list are pretenders, feasting on mediocrity. The Ravens should trade Lamar Jackson before November 1, and spend the rest of the season seeing what they've got in Huntley. It is obvious to me that coaching isn't helping Jackson make better decisions, and the team may as well get some draft capital if they can.

Understood. For me, I don't think lying about an extramarital affair is a crime against the country. That's censure territory for me. I don't think the cases against Trump were particularly strong. Shouldn't prosecute Biden for being a bad President. Of any Presidents in recent memory that likely deserved an impeachment proceeding IMO was Reagan with Iran/Contra and Bush with the Iraq War. I find it impossible a President wasn't aware or signed off on the plan that weapons were going to Iran, especially in the 80s when we were constantly tangling with them in the Persian Gulf. The absolute lack of any WMDs being found in Iraq meant that the US went to war under a false pretense.

Clinton shouldn't have been impeached. Trump shouldn't have been impeached. Biden shouldn't be impeached. This whole impeachment as a political weapon has to stop. America doesn't need to impeach every President going forward. If Congress wants to, go censure the President.

I'm happy to see this. I think he's going to have a lot of good plays as the season progresses.

She's never impressed me as a politician. She's a lot like Nikki Haley - a transparent phony.

6 games at least. There are serious consequences for assaulting someone. Can't discount this sort of behavior. If anyone of us shoved a store employee or bartender like that, we are headed to jail.

I'd bet $20 he ends up at Nebraska.

The NFL has no patience to sustain the losses, and they will have a difficult time finding owners there that will have the resources to sustain the losses. NFL Europe hemorrhaged a $400 million loss by the time the NFL closed it down. Not a single team in that league made any money in any year of existence. The NFL Europe games they do now make no money for the league. IMO, the NFL would better spend its money developing a farm league in the United States/Canada for management, officiating, coaches and players. They are the only professional league in North America without any sort of minor league infrastructure.

I'm going to guess that this divorce has nothing to do with football, but with Brady wanting to be more involved with the son he has with Bridget Moynahan. He probably wants to move to the Hamptons, or is there a lot, and after hanging out in NE for a long time and then moving to FL for him, she's had enough.

The nascent OPEC/Russia/China/India bloc is going to be the big story in the coming years as they will most certainly take a deliberate shot at replacing the dollar as the reserve currency.

Cardinals draft athletes, not football players, and spend years trying to make football players out of them. Kyler Murray case in point - exceptional athlete, not so exceptional football player. Andy Isabella is an athlete - quick and fast. However, he hasn't evolved as a wide receiver - running routes, catching the ball the ways you need to. You absolutely need to be a technician as a slot receiver, and he's not.

Tip of the hat to OP for an original post. Was fun to read.

The federal flood insurance program was broke back in 2010. It's now *super* broke. The reason is Congress doesn't allow FEMA to raise rates on repetitive loss properties or buy them out. It's not for a lack of trying - FEMA was set to jack the rates up to equal the risk in 2012, and Congress stepped in and stopped it. The problem is that owners of repetitive loss properties do not pay for the risk of having a property in a floodplain or flood-prone area. They keep receiving cheap flood insurance even if their house has been destroyed ten times by flooding. I'm not suggesting the government ban people from living in these areas, but it is fair for them to pay what the risk demands or have the government have the opportunity to buy the property.

We have rare opportunities to agree, but on this one I agree with you. After Katrina and Sandy, the federal government should have stopped insuring residential property that is in 100-year floodplains and well-documented 100-year storm surge areas. If somebody wants to privately insure those, go for it. I know that is crippling to places like New Orleans and coastline, but how many times have the taxpayers rebuilt homes in these areas? How many people have died because they stayed in homes in these areas? I've always found the "it's climate change!" argument ironic because whenever there is money to be made, we all keep building homes in deserts, in floodplains, etc. and we never revise the rules to prohibit it.

Jaguars-Eagles game Saw this in person in crap conditions, and it wasn't pleasant. I'm not a fan - go for family. Takeaway: The Eagles can run the football like a team from the 1980s consistently, and unless you've got a defense that can stop the run for all 4 quarters, they will eventually break your back with 60 running plays. They have a stonecutter mentality with the run game - they will eventually break through.