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When I read columns like this, I think about the history of what I consider Bills "over" reaction. The firings of Polian and Butler were over-reactions to losses and those decisions had long term consequences. The overreaction to the events in Nashville in 2000 set the franchise into the controlled decent into terrain that was the 2000s. I know the loss hurts, but I hope the Bills take a very deep breath before "making changes."

I don't want any retreads. I don't want any curmudgeon old retreads either that come in and throw a whole new system at the team that takes players half a season to get a handle on. We don't need to do what Rex Ryan did to Mario Williams and Marcel Dareus. My vote would be to give Jim Salgado, the Bills Nickel coach, a look. You need new blood that can take the fundamentals of the Frazier defense and make it nastier.

My contribution: Leslie Frazier coaches scared, and frankly always has, and that's why he won't be a head coach. That was a moment in the game that demanded a bold strategic move, and he missed it.

It's off topic but that label makes me laugh every single time I see it. The dopey looking sheep. The need to repeat ivermectin in parentheses. The image you get of someone unleashing a torrent of bitterly cold SHEEP DRENCH on aforementioned dopey sheep.

Between this moon shot and a mediocre retread, I'd rather give McCown a shot. The Texans aren't going anywhere until the Watson "thing" is resolved, so why not? He will win a few games at the outset because nobody knows a thing about him.

Just as he did during the campaign, I speculate that he gets medical treatments, likely infusions of some kind, that takes several hours to complete, and requires significant rest afterwards. He wears out in between them. As President, he's not afforded the fatigue and naps that every other elderly man gets. In the first couple weeks of his Presidency where no one was allowed in the White House, he probably needed a lot of rest and recharge. This is also why he would disappear for days before Presidential debates and press conferences. He times these big public events up when he's at maximum physical energy and cognitive stamina. The rigors of the job require him to get them weekly. He's doing the best he can in this regard, but it's clear to see, it's not sustainable for three more years. It's not the first time .gov hid the health of the President from the American people, hence why it's extremely plausible they are doing just that.

I've had a satisfying experience buying equipment from a dealer (in my experience, Toro, JD, Stihl and Generac) after frustration with Home Depot purchased equipment that no matter how diligently you maintained it, always died. I had to get over a hurdle in my own head - buying cheap five times or spending more money once. For the longest time, I was committed to buying cheap, thinking I can beat the odds until I learned the lesson.

I like that more for the Bills defense. KC won't hesitate to pass, and that's exactly what the Bills want them to do.

A vote for Toro purchased from a dealer. Purchased one in 2015 and I've had no issues. It's quite the machine. It hasn't rusted, and the welds and shear bolts are strong. Welds are intact and I haven't replaced a bolt yet. I think there are differences in the Toros between the ones you get at the dealer vs the ones you get at the Home Depot/Lowes stores. I only use ethanol free gasoline in my small engines. I think it makes a difference. I've been told by several small engine mechanics that putting your typical ethanol-added gas into small engines just kills them slowly. It's just too much moisture.

I think he has a chronic illness that needs management. Health with chronic illness is peaks and valleys. In addition to COVID twice, he's had two illnesses over two seasons that were not disclosed that have kept him off the field.

Jerry Jones likes mediocre "company man" coaches he can control. I think Dak Prescott is just a newer version of Tony Romo. Good, sometimes really good, but no playoff success. There's no it factor there.

This deal won't be completed until there's a new governor. Plus, if you're the state, borrowing money is going to be an increasingly dicey proposition. Inflation control usually means jacking up interest rates where they can touch the surface of the moon. You could be looking at a 1981-esque economy in the next 1-2 years. The timing sucks.

Mock drafts you can do by yourself. The network probably turned Mayock loose - that was "his" thing they were paying him to do. Being a GM and drafting, you have outside influences - the owner, the coach, team brass, the scouts, player agents, the NFL, highly paid hallwalking team "consultants" for starters. You have a lot of people in your face, feeding you information, some of it right, some of it wrong, all of it biased. I think it's very difficult to "be your own man/woman" as a GM.

I think Kingsbury is in danger of getting fired. His teams just go flat on the back end of seasons, college and pro. This Cardinals team tonight was DOA. You don't sign all those expensive vets year after year to flame out in wild card games.

The storm of shortages have yet to really show up. Those will be in February and March. The media won't talk about it, but this trucker vaccine mandate at the US/Canada border is going to create problems the average American family will feel imminently.

The country doesn't need a rematch of Trump v. Clinton in 2024. It'd be nice to have two non-Baby Boomer candidates that aren't approaching 80.

Not his entire career.

He was a hot coaching candidate just a few years ago. I think there remains a prejudice against special teams coaches as head coaches, despite your John Harbaughs and Bill Belichicks. Joe Judge and his disaster in NY won't help matters - he was a long time ST coach that straight up failed. Bisaccia and Dave Toub (KC's ST coach) always get the interviews but not the commitment.

I have no idea why these Senators don't ask Fauci about the DARPA memo that Veritas "found" or otherwise received. That should end Fauci's career in government. I don't care about his salary or him personally. I'd care about preventing another lab accident, and that starts by ending the research money. You only do that by getting rid of the true believers who think it's ok to fund it.

This game will be close. Chiefs are a fragile team - they are like the Bills - punch them in the face first and they have a hard time recovering. You can run *and* pass on that defense, and their OL is down Niang. If the Steelers can escape the first quarter without a double digit deficit, they are in business. His receivers need to catch the ball. Their dropsies are a killer.

Epps is *somebody*. FBI, CIA, informant, someone. The man is either an agent or under protection. The man isn't trying to hide.

He is the human manifestation of the lazy sell out nobody expects to become.

I'm sticking to my Doug Flutie/Rob Johnson co-leading the charge. I want this to happen. Considering the decades long civil war on this topic, I feel such an event would bring the war to a close.

I watched the first two seasons. Designated Survivor had a hard time deciding whether it wanted to be Scandal, 24 or West Wing. The show had numerous showrunners, so each season felt differently story wise. I feel Designated Survivor and the Andre Braugher led "Last Resort" that was on ABC for a year suffered because they were high concept political thrillers on a network that wants to play it safe. You put Designated Survivor on say, FX, and the show would have been a lot more interesting. There was a day when the networks were cool with showing nuclear war (The Day After), the Soviets taking over the United States (Amerika) and the FBI in a running gun battle in broad daylight (Line of Duty, the FBI Murders, retelling of the 1986 Miami Dade shootout between the FBI and Matix/Platt).

Sidney Poitier stared in one of Hollywood's greatest comedies of the 90s, 1997's "The Jackal". The casting agent must have been so high he/she could touch the sun putting together this movie. In this comedy, Richard Gere has an IRA guy with terrible Irish accent, Bruce Willis plays a gay hitman from some foreign country with terrible accent. Jack Black has a small role as a weapons specialist. Sidney Poitier plays himself, looking bewildered, wondering what he signed up for.