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I love the Bills fan base for its spirit and philanthropy. I like the oddities, the rituals, the weirdness and the amazing menagerie of fans from all walks of life. I like how it's distinctly not corporate. However, the Bills Mafia name itself is just so dumb. I feel like it was created by people who have never opened a history book and for some, especially Italian-Americans, I can see where it's culturally insensitive and disturbing, given the Italian mafia's violent history, to see it so freely used.

Rams I hate the Rams. This franchise has been pretty successful historically despite having two of the worst owners in NFL history - Georgia Frontiere and Stan Kroenke. This franchise has jerked around multiple cities and multiple fan bases - Los Angeles, Anaheim, St. Louis and Los Angeles again. Frontiere should have never been able to move them to St. Louis in the 90s.

New plays and sets you haven't run before on both sides of the ball for every quarter of the game. If you approach a Patriots game with your same script, formations, etc. you will lose. They prey on "process" guys like McDermott on a tactical level.

I was right about Rosen. Although I think Josh Allen is a 21st Century Jeff George, he's worked on his accuracy and it's better than I thought it'd be.

If I was a Democrat candidate for President, I'd be horrified at what happened yesterday. Can't run a campaign on being "pro impeachment" and it's going to suck every single oxygen molecule out of the news cycle.

I think it'll be the opposite. They will remove Beasley and make Knox/Zay Jones beat them. I think they can live with the danger of bombs to Brown and Foster. If Allen throws for over 300 yards with deep strikes, they lost to a great performance by a young quarterback.

Chargers should stay in their current stadium or move out of CA. It's hard to fill that many seats in California, even in a shared stadium. The "cozy" NFL stadium of 30K or less seats is the future. I like San Antonio for a relocation. It attracts the Mexican football fan without having to put a franchise there which IMO would be an unmitigated disaster for the NFL. However, the Alamodome is terrible for everything. They'd need a new place.

First real test for both clubs. The Patriots are fragile (no depth) and the Bills play only half a game. The Patriots will make Zay Jones and Dawson Knox beat them by removing Cole Beasley from the equation. On offense they will try running it up the middle - a lot - and test the DTs since Edelman isn't 100% and TB really can't throw it down the field anymore.

That team played better under Gregg Williams last year. Kitchens IMO is another coordinator who's a great, bright coordinator but a mediocre coach. As head coach, he can't focus on what he did well last year with Mayfield and play calling.

The Bills offense will need to play all four quarters next Sunday and not be predictable. They better mix it up.

I agree with the OP. If the Bills are truely better, they should beat teams that on paper, have less talent than them. This Bengals game is going to be difficult. They will play with nothing to lose.

Yep. Nearly two decades ago! (That sucks.) Would 1970s values be relevant in 1990?

I personally wouldn't apologize if I were him. The groveling apologies are nauseating. Times were different. The West did not have the hyper sensitivity it does today. When do we start persecuting the Wayans family for White Girls?

AB is the hand grenade and the Patriots are the enclosed space. I mean good for the Patriots. They were complete fools to give this guy a contract. There is no amount of process or locker room personality that's going to fix that guy.

He needs to go to the CFL or XFL to prove he's still got it. He's delusional to 1) think an NFL team is going to expend a useful player slot on a guy who hasn't played a single down of professional football anywhere in years and 2) get paid anything above vet minimum because of #1.

Bills "mafia" is for dolts who have never opened a history book and likely had significant difficulty finishing high school. You are more likely to see Doug Flutie and Rob Johnson leading the charge holding hands on Sunday than the 12th Man being replaced on the wall.

He's another guy who will disappear once he's paid. There's no "I want to be the best CB in NFL history" fire there IMO.

I don't think she's gay. I think she's more in the Janet Reno sector where there were never any men or women ever discussed or discovered. It was amazing that it was never an issue for how high profile she was during the 90s.

Oh I don't think they'd stop funding their own "street" team. They see how effective the Shiite ones are.

I don't know if it's out of fear, sportsmanship or not wanting to reveal plays for upcoming opponents, but this whole "let's take our foot off the gas" second half offense will bite the Bills in this game. The Bengals have absolutely nothing to lose this year. Nobody expects them to do anything. That makes them a worthy opponent for all four quarters. No more half measures, Walter.

I don't put it past the Saudis to attack their own property (with no casualties of course) to get the United States a little closer to striking Iran. IMO, al-Qaeda and ISIS are their Hezbollah-like creations when they need to get dirty.

I think he has the ability. He looks to me like a guy who's tired of playing football. Same for Big Ben.

She's stuck. She's heard the criticism she comes across as the angry, shrill middle-aged "Karen" who wants to talk to your manager. So she's tried smoothing that out by not saying much at all. The Biden crowd (rich, white liberal retirees) want nothing to do with her tax ideas.

This is likely a hot take - Cory Booker plays nice because he's got a lot of skeletons in his closet (i.e. George Norcross and the gang in NJ) and IMO, he's always hid that he's gay. He knows African Americans and Latinos aren't going to vote an openly homosexual man into office, and that's why he goes to great lengths to not discuss it and now hide it (insta girlfriend Rosario Dawson). Buttigieg is in the same boat. I know it's 2019 but there are a lot of people in both parties who have strong views on homosexuality and aren't going to vote for a gay President. I don't think either party's base is there yet. Buttigieg's candidacy is testing it.

I've always thought that Ruger would be the biggest economic winner of the ban on ARs because everybody would just start buying Mini14s (and 30s). They aren't ARs and don't look like them but they do all the same things that the AR will do. (.223, semi-automatic, variety of magazine capacities) I recall after the FBI shootout in the mid 80s where one of the bad guys used a Mini, there was a movement to go banning those rifles at the time. FWIW, I saw that event as the watershed moment of the significantly "up-arming" of local and state law enforcement. After that, you saw police rolling out semi-auto handguns universally as service weapons, the 10mm round, carrying carbines in every patrol vehicle, etc.