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Definitely hope that's the deal... Here are quotes from NFL Press release: "Unvaccinated individuals will continue to be subject to a five-day quarantine period if they have close contact with an infected individual." "If an unvaccinated person tests positive, the protocols from 2020 will remain in effect. The person will be isolated for a period of 10 days and will then be permitted to return to duty if asymptomatic." https://operations.nfl.com/updates/football-ops/2021-covid-related-operating-principles/

I believe it does make a difference. I recall this summer when there was a rash of close contacts with Beasley, AJ Klein etc... There were all cleared to play after 5 days from the close contact event and available for the Green Bay preseason game, when we initially assumed that they would not be.

Have they disclosed if it is a positive test or close contact designation?

There must be 50 ways to hate Mike Vrabel...

That was Terrance McGee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKJc_CLRpc

I'm Mark Zuckerberg and I endorse this message... Get well soon anyway Bob!

I once had the ... "experience" of attending one of those "self help, self improvement" series of leadership training things that were popular in the 80's. Yeah... the 80's were tough on a lot of us ... 😬. Anyway, there was a prevailing question that served as the foundation of the entire deal... "What are you pretending not to know?" The theory goes that true breakthrough only occurs when we fully acknowledge and own that which we are pretending not to know. Breakthrough follows once that reality is confronted and addressed with action. I appreciate that this is not exactly behavioral rocket science, but the resistance to it amongst a group of 100 individuals was something to behold. The 2021 Buffalo Bills have me flashing back to those days. It appears that there is are a handful of issues that they and perhaps we (definitely ME) have been pretending not to know. The paper thin OL depth, the mediocre RB room and maybe, just maybe a lack of some non-Diggs explosiveness would all appear to be on that list. I was encouraged to hear McDermott's presser this week. If words matter, if only as a road map to intended action, then I believe that at least McD has stopped "pretending not to know" that a superstar QB alone can not quite take you where we all want this to go. So if coach has, as it appears, stopped pretending and confronted that which is staring him in the face, the reasonable question is what tangible, difference making action will follow? I am no X's and O's resource, so I am not going to pretend to offer a fix. Because hey... no more pretending... I can only hope that scheme, physical healing and resources on hand can be shuffled to an extent to make a difference. I think our best cause for optimism can probably be found somewhere between the above and the raised awareness of our limitations. I Urban Myer can jot down a defense to our offense on a cocktail napkin, let's hope McBean can decode the napkin with a sober assessment of where we are. If not, maybe we can send Belichick a table dance and a shot...

Nice! So you're saying it also caused the misery of 4 Super Bowl losses and years of sports therapy? Worse that I thought... lol. I love this team. Thanks!

Impossible debate? Possibly so, but definitely fertile ground for some nostalgic palms to the forehead. We have a few beauties to choose from. How do we dismiss Maybin, Patulski, Flowers, M. Williams, and even Willis McGahee for a curious move? But for pure boneheadedness, given the big picture, yeah... the Watkins trade/pick looks sufficiently horrible in the rear view mirror to merit the top of the hit list. Still, my personal favorite and close runner up blew up in their face immediately... To have the #1 overall, pick a linebacker (Tom Cousineau), refuse to pay him, and then run him out of town, (even out of the country) before he ever plays a down... that will live in infamy in my Bills psyche as the worst of all Bills draft moments or memories... At least they somehow came out of that same draft with Jerry Butler, Fred Smerlas, Jim Haslett, Jeff Nixon and Rod Kush. So typically Billsy Charles Dickens of them!

I so loved the Watkins pick and the trade that set the table for it. I was so wrong. Wow... It"s comical (sort of?) to look back back now at how heavily invested they were in this pick. One would assume that they scouted and vetted Sammy at length, and either didn't pick up on or maybe just didn't care about the reality that Sammy was a young man so deeply and so clearly troubled, that he was only a couple of years away from conversations with lizard people and spending time outside of his body... Geez... Nothing personal lizard people, but I will never publicly acknowledge you... OK?

Happy Veterans Day to all who served and sacrificed. RIP Dad. RIP Chuck. Miss you both so much it aches a little bit every day. Your lives meant the world to me. Your service meant everything to a grateful nation. Love and gratitude always!

Pre evil OJ is awfully tempting, just for the incredible aesthetic athletic beauty, and thrill of watching him run again. But with this team, he's likely just back to being pre Lou Saban, decoy OJ, and that wouldn't help anyone. Kent Hull leaps out of the mist to me as the man I wish would walk through that door today. He was a stud and an anchor for the entire line. He made the average guards next to him pretty darn effective at the same time. Joe D, Main Man Reggie McKenzie and Rueben all merit consideration, but at the end of the day, Kent Hull all day, every day. Just imagine where that Tennessee QB sneak goes with Kent in front of Josh. It would have been straight ahead into the end zone in all likelihood. Time travel and resource retrieval! Hell yeah... what a great Wednesday. Isn't it amazing anything's accomplished today? Could we use Bobby Orr? Bonus Round: I'll always have time for Isaiah Robertson just to hear him sing "I've got a feeling" one or two more times. Plus, I've become curiously curious to know exactly how Isaiah would handle the tricky task of having himself paged in a restaurant in the age of cell phones.

I can appreciate your journey, OP. In 50+ years of watching this story unfold, I've been all over the map with the extent that I let my Bills habit form my emotions. In the end, I think that I finally arrived at a place of serenity and renewed enjoyment with it all, once I learned to view it as just that... watching a story unfold. Like you, and really like so many of us, I have great memories of watching and going to games with my Dad. We had season tickets for many years. I laugh and remember that for a long while, the only question of relevance on most games was "How many yards did O.J. get?". Because really, that WAS the story of interest in those teams. But, of course the storyline eventually and ALWAYS changes. I remember being disillusioned at different times; O.J. got traded, #1 overall draft picks flipped us off and went elsewhere, the string of Super Bowl hell and of course the drought etc... As we move through life, hopefully priorities also change. And I had to come to terms with the reality that I'll never get those good times with my Dad back, but I finally embraced that I do get to keep the memories. Chasing new memories is an acquired taste I guess. For me, learning how to keep and value those old memories without a need to duplicate them was not easy, but eventually it arrived. It's rational to feel differently about the the things that we once valued so highly. I still laugh and smile when I think about my old high school and college friends. But I have limited interest in hanging out with them much any more. I'm good with it. So why are The Bills so different? They clearly are for almost all of us. Because when they win, it is a rush. It's brain chemistry and psychology 101. Endorphin storm = Good! When we let our fear of losing get out of balance, it can limit and overshadow that potential rush. So we start to lose interest out of fear of being disappointed, fear of not getting that rush... it's a puzzle that we either solve or just lose interest in. For me, maybe out of coincidence, the final piece of that puzzle came the year I retired, which by lucky coincidence was the year the drought ended. It happened that I had just moved into a brand new house on the west coast of Florida in the first week of Sept 2017. I was more preoccupied with real life stuff like moving in, learning a new city, and then learning what in the hell to do in the face of an incoming Category 5 hurricane as Hurricane Irma was beating a path it appeared, directly at said new house. This was the early morning hours of the 2017 opener vs the Jets. Somehow, I learned all the proper prep, no doubt going overboard with it, but hunkered down for the storm, expecting power and satellite reception to go out some time during the game. Somehow both stayed on throughout the game, and The Bills won a very vanilla, boring game. It was a nice diversion and gave me something to smile about. Of course... the power went out later that evening and stayed out for a miserable week. But The Bills had once again given me something to smile about and played a nice role in a memorable, yet otherwise miserable time. That season (and life) unfolded in typical roller coaster fashion, as we know and in the end, I was at a delayed Christmas family celebration on New Years Eve what Tyler Boyd scored that TD. I lost my S**t in a spectacular way that literally frightened half of my family and myself with my way over the top reaction. I didn't know that little kid was still in me. Since that time, I've enjoyed the he** out of letting that little kid breath again. It's been fun. When they win, and fortunately that is a lot right now, it's high times in my head again. And when they don't, I just turn the page and see where the story goes next. I wish you well on your journey Red King! It's just a story. Let's see where it goes next. Back in 2017, Hurricane Irma took a last minute turn and spared me and my house too much grief. Nobody knows right now what the next turn in this season is going to be.

"I tried to walk into Target, but I missed." - Mitch Hedberg

From Robert Kraft's personal suite?

So many good choices. Gotta go with one more. Sing it for us Bobby...

“When you say it’s going to happen now, when exactly did you mean? See I’ve already waited too long…”

If you're looking for Dennis Weaver, then no...

I wondered about this last week when Allen didn’t get the Offside call he was motioning for on a play that ended up blowing up on him. It seems like the refs kind of let him hang himself out to dry on that play as if they resented all the plaintive pointing at the line …

2021 = 1989? It sure feels the like the same script.

Queue Jim Mora sound byte… Playoffs?

Cole just coughed...

Just once before I die, forever I've cried Still saying the same thing so many years later But hey, I am greedy, so I need one now to prove I've lied Cuz I'll need another a year later, just before the ventilator. Look out Trevor, it's time for Poyer and Hyde.

I'll take this right now!