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NARC If you sent me to Colombia, I would have won the entire drug war in under 60 minutes. ?

You'd think these guys in this era of #metoo, video everywhere and endless examples of nothing good happening after midnight in bars/hotels/casinos, they'd exercise a hell of a lot more situational awareness and stay the hell home and do whatever they are going to do...there. If you're making millions of dollars or on track to be a multi-millionaire, you don't need to be in these places. Ever.

I'm still firing Castillo, Robiskie....and I'm adding Crossman to the list.

Packers are in trouble. They have so much money tied up in Rodgers that they have little room for failure in the draft. He goes down and they are a Top 3 pick in the draft. That's the margin.

The parents of a co-worker lived in Estonia pre WWII. When the Germans invaded, they made his father fight for the Wehrmacht - or else. When the Soviets retook the Baltics, the German Army abandoned these Estonian residents and the Soviets made these guys now fight for them - all the way to Berlin. After the war, the Soviets send the survivors to the gulags. A lucky few manage to make it to the Allied lines and immigrate to the United States.

I never used that message board. Historically, I'm probably 99% affiliated with TBD, 1% with BR. I haven't visited the official site all year. This is my site for Bills breaking news, content and opinion. Nobody breaks the Bills news faster than the fans on this site.

I love that they choose a picture of a handgun WITH suppressor as if they all come with suppressors...because you know, it's easy to get one, especially on those 2 for 1 Black Friday sales.

GM and Ford consistently make a lot of AWD SUVs. True. Here's my point - They never made a line of AWD cars to compete with Subaru. Yes, a certain model of Focus is AWD, but you drive to ten dealerships, the majority of "Foci" are FWD. You know when you step on a Subaru lot, those are all AWD cars. You don't need to special order it or ask the dealer where he can find an available AWD Focus. VW is catching on by committing to an AWD Golf (finally) but they too are two decades behind. They should have been banging out the AWD Jettas and Golfs to compete with the Legacy and Outbacks. The days of the elderly driving around in battleship sized Buicks and Chevy Caprices is long over. They want AWD cars. Millenials want AWD. Anybody who drives in winter conditions will take an AWD or 4WD if it's in their budget.

Pat Shurmur and John Harbaugh are good as gone IMO. Shurmur's team is listless. I think the Baltimore owner wants a new direction. I think this year is going to have a lot of vacancies. Everybody wants the next Sean McVay.

Imagine the state of the US auto industry if the US government did not have that high tariff on pickup trucks. I agree with many here that General Motors should have been allowed to collapse in 2008. I'm still surprised Chevy and Ford could never make a vehicle that'd compete with a Subaru with better performance.

I'd find a better OL and WR coach before Crossman. Special Teams could be better but at least they've looked reasonably prepared. The OL and WR looked absolutely lost the first four games of the season and that's on the coaching. Those units were not prepared for the regular season by a country mile.

I really didn't like the movie. Nothing new. Essentially the Rocky IV storyline re-gifted to 21st Century movie masses. Cooler story would have been the elder Drago mentoring Creed.

I doubt California officials disagree with Trump about forest management tactics and strategy. However, being politicians and bureaucrats themselves, they probably loathe being called out in public about it, even if it's deserved, and that's where emotion takes over the logic. My guess is since the state has been ridiculously broke for nearly 50 years and has had drought for that long (it seems) it's an easy thing to cut. Nobody likes fire in an area without rain, right? We have similar debates in Pennsylvania. The forest lovers scream at the idea of controlled burns. They scream at logging to promote growth of the understory.

Have to play within the rules of the game. I'm not saying you abandon "where" the linebackers play but you replace them with safeties that can tackle and it turns into a basketball strategy where you have man coverage on everybody. You just get carved up in zone anymore. Too many gaps. Linebackers are too slow and heavy to play that short area in a man/man scheme. Safeties and corners are going to have to evolve in tackling and the new generation of these players will have to enjoy tackling a lot more than the current crop does.

IMO, the game illustrates the "Brandon Spikes" problem that plagues the modern NFL defensive schemes. They are all (including Wade Phillips) concocting defenses for an NFL that's on its way out. I was surprised at how easily gashed the Wade Phillips defense was last night, personally. Last night was essentially the Maginot Line versus German armor in World War II. A defense brilliantly designed for combat of the past up against the combat of the future. The defensive mindset has to adapt to what you saw on your televisions last night. No more linebackers. No more zone coverage. No more lining up your four pass rushers on the line of scrimmage. Somebody will come up with something radical to countermeasure.

Every organization has a "process." No successful company just wings it. The catch is that sometimes the process isn't working towards meeting goals. This is the test of any leader. Some leaders are stonecutters in that they believe that if they just hammering away at it, things will eventually work. There's little discussion in whether the process itself needs tweaking. On the other hand, some leaders will have a neurotic tendancy to tweak details at the first sign of trouble. Before you know it, the process no longer looks like the process and you're in an ocean of doubt. Was the process at fault or all the changes I made to it? It's part art, part science.

Yes! I thought that was a fun "hey I know that guy from..." moment. The Walking Dead should certainly do more of those. Last time I saw him, he was getting his ass kicked by Shane in the Punisher.

Everybody is a one hit wonder in today's NFL with injuries, free agency and the far advanced business intelligence/analytics that figure out the gadgets like RPO. No team has repeated as champions in nearly 15 years. Being a champion in the NFL is more like winning the lottery of luck. The windows of opportunity are so small.

It wouldn't shock me, if the season turns mediocre to poor for them, that all three (Bill, Tom and Gronk) all call it quits before the 2019 season. Outside of Brady, the team legitimately needs to restock in many areas. I could see Belichick simply becoming the full time GM. Brady has nothing else to prove. Gronkowski had to be coaxed to play yet another injury-filled season. Doubt he'll do it again. Greatness is always finite.

For me, that'd be a competitive football team. I'm ok with that.

You hit the nail on the head IMO. That's the reason these fires turn into the apocalyptic infernos.

The Bills organization is much larger than the people you see on the field on Sundays. It's hundreds of employees. It's easier to pay the bills when the Bills are competitive and winning football games. Paying bills gets harder when fans don't show up or buy merchandise because the team isn't competitive. You aren't going to make a lot of money when your tickets sell for $5. That's all I ask as a fan - be a competitive football team. Do what it takes to win. That's what you're in the business to do. Winning=making $$$ for everyone involved.

You really only had to do one thing to stay competitive. Sure, you could have fired Juan Castillo and/or Terry Robiskie (still tempting) but lets' say you didn't want to be that dramatic. All you had to do was under no circumstances play Nate Peterman again. You start Allen and get to trying out a better backup quarterback post haste. The season may have been different if you didn't have the countless Peterman implosions.

Prescott is Tyrod Taylor if he played for the Cowboys. Both quarterbacks have trouble seeing the whole field and progressing through the reads. I certainly could see a Cowboys future with Prescott on another team.

My guess is he will take a year off, do some broadcasting, and wait for an opening. He will see what happens in Green Bay, Seattle or even a place like Arizona.