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Very thoughtful, good neighbor, midwest family values on display again. I always wished that someone would have shown such a kindness to me in my last years prior to retirement...

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Tasker was on air for several days last week. He appeared remotely from Alaska and sounded like he was on the way back from a pretty good cold, flu or something. He was not on the show yesterday and they acknowledged that he was absent as he was traveling back from Alaska. No idea what he was doing in Alaska... But he seems otherwise fine and very Steve Tasker.

Yes. Yes. And oh F*** yes. I lost my best friend to leukemia back in 2013. And it ripped a piece of my soul away. Whenever the Jets visit the Bills, I always think of him in a bittersweet painful memory. The Jets played in Buffalo the Sunday after he had passed on a Friday night. I spent the day watching the game with his wife and helping her rip out some carpet and replace with hardwood. We were both so lost, we couldn't think of anything other than to just dig into some project to keep us occupied. The Bills, although not very good, tore up the Jets that day. So there were a few smiles mixed in. A couple of years prior, I had taken his wife to her first game. It was the New England game in 2011... Yeah, the one that Buffalo won. My late friend was not able to be there as he was at home enduring the after effects of chemo. We had him on speaker phone for huge chunks of the second half and as we walked out of the stadium so he got to feel the euphoria and the insanity. I watched every game for more than 20 years with that man and miss him dearly. I smile now during every now every game and think of how much he would be loving this team. And for me, he is in fact very much a part of it still. So please hang in there Renko. You will smile again. A quick aside, ironically I just spoke with my late friend's widow last night and am planning a visit back to Buffalo to visit her next week. We have both moved on to different and happy places in our lives and the just plain fantastically good memories remain, and they do get celebrated. Be well Renko. Your journey is yours, but you are definitely not alone.

Just don't let him anywhere near the Caesar's Palace fountains...

This was so impressive. How great was it to see The Bills on the delivering end of one of those answers? The look on Mahomes face from the sideline revealed so much about the moment.

So my subconscious had a wrong Josh nightmare, the prequel? The drought was tougher on me than I thought.

Do I remember Josh Freeman as a Bill for something like 1 game or was that a just a very strange bad dream to have?

Aside from the content, which had all of the flavor of a low budget arm chair Nick Wright essay contest, that thing looks like it was coded in 1997 and published with a pirated, out of support copy of Front Page. Things like this give me further appreciation for the quality of TBD, and the TBD community as a whole. These truly are good days.

You had one job...

This feels like we still can't have nice things even if we have nice things.

Have the sweaters started making suggestions yet?

This has become such an impressive, well run organization. I love the consistency in making the right moves at the right times. Can Beane moonlight for a few months at the foot of Washington Street?

This is definitely in play. There is an implied "be careful where you tread" that can be palpable when pondering a topic to post. Personally, I signed up in 2010 and lurked for many years prior to that. I barely contributed much until recent weeks, not out of lack of interest, but simply out of lack of interest in being "the old guy in school". Recently, and ironically, a thread dealing with what was perceived as posting third rail, death... pushed me to a point where I just stopped giving a flying "f" what flies back at me. I felt I had something important to get off of my chest and just posted it with full knowledge that the shelf life of that thread would be very short. And yeah... it vanished almost immediately. But that experience altered my perception of this board. I immediately found my posts to existing threads felt uninhibited. It's kind of embarrassing to admit. I am a well educated man in my 60's and retired from a career of several decades in which I didn't back down from much in the way of personal interaction. And yet, I have found myself watching my "P's and Q's" on this message board for a team that I have loved and cheered for since I was a boy. I think that is something for us all to consider when jumping on the first opportunity to show up a fellow poster. I've probably been guilty of it once or twice in my own few posts over the years, but really its kind of a sh**** way of being. And really, the obnoxious have such a small minority of posters that it barely merits the place in our psyche that many of us, myself included have afforded them. So Chandler, no beefs with the mods whatsoever. You guys have your hands full. I get it. To answer your challenge I'll just leave it with the immortal words of Lou: "I just want us to do the job that we're capable of doing". Yes, "We got to get it done". Enjoy the spirit of Lou:

Sure sounds a lot like the game planning clinic the Giants put on in Super Bowl XXV.

The offense has been a surprise in style so far, but probably shouldn't have been. They have evolved in every year Daboll has been here. Keeping in mind that he is a New England coaching tree product, it makes perfect sense. If you think about New England's strongest teams during Brady's run, they could, and they did attack teams how ever they wanted, based on the opposition's personnel and the situation. They often changed stripes mid game, going from passing circles around a team to running the ball down their throats (with a cast of very effective and unspectacular running backs) at the snap of a finger. I think that Daboll is intent on rebuilding that perfect beast here. And I think that we may be in for a treat as his creation is starting to simmer into something special. When you pair that with the defense that Frazier and McD have put together, you have to feel good about the direction this team is headed. This is an extremely difficult team to beat. Sunday should be fun to see.

Winning at Pittsburgh in '19 on Sunday night to clinch playoff berth over most immediate challenger to playoff berth was pretty nice. Yes... Duck Hodges. But Steelers were driving to the playoffs with him until we derailed it. One of my favorite moments of this Bills run came in that game when the stadium audio queued up "Renegade" during time out before the Bills took possession in 4th quarter with Steeler defense looking to ice the game behind fans whipped into a frenzy by the their signature song. How did Buffalo respond? By Bills players dancing to the song on the field, making it their own and driving to the go ahead score. That was a statement. This year's team hopefully makes a similar and bigger statement this week. As an aside, big games against K.C. will always make smile and think of Scott Norwood giving the tomahawk chop and gesturing to them to hit the road after hitting big field goal during playoff game. Right drug Scott... wrong dose🥴.

Emmanuel Sanders for the win. You can see the chemistry building by the day with he and JA. If Taron Johnson plays, something special from him on D?

The good news is that it appears that New England may have taken a delayed release version of this drug. But the better news is holy sh**, they took a LOT of it.

The Colts simply played us a down to the wire playoff game and stand (barely) at 1-3 and the QB they went all in on has not one, but two sprained ankles. This is some weird kind of football voodoo going on here.

Too rare. Speaking of... I think this is topic relevant, but did anyone else notice Tiki Barber raking Josh over the coals for his intentional throw away sideline pass to Diggs. Tiki kept saying how wildly inaccurate and overthrown the pass was. That was the intent! Pretty sure It was an intentional dump to avoid sack...

All regular humans and the entirety of math itself just wiped their brow and then their smug grins got wiped for good measure, and nodded yes!

Butler/Lewis/Cribbs* would like to send drinks to your table. * for Cribbs as he was not technically a WR (even if he was most dangerous of the trio).

Did I take a wrong turn on the internet and end up in church?