JOE IN HAMPTON ROADS

that is not even remotely my point. Now youre just being contrarian. Because freedom allows us to be this different, we need a shared sense of patriotism to keep us from tearing ourselves apart. As long as we can all stand together to celebrate our shared sense of unity from time to time, we'll be OK. When that ends ... buy gold.

No, its not. The only thing still holding this disparate bag of conflicting factions we call America together is a shared sense of patriotism. We no longer worship the same God (if any), hold the same values, hang out at the same places, watch the same entertainment, etc. etc. We barely speak the same language anymore and sure as hell don't share a sense of filial kinship. The one thing we still have (for now) is a sense that at least we live in a country where our differences can be strengths, and we can come together to acknowledge our equal shares in an inclusive society by standing together as one for the National Anthem. By refusing to stand, he not only contributes to the decline of this shared ideal, he tells me personally he does not want to share his world with me, his fellow American. IMO, he's just being a privileged rich athlete trying to justify the fact he gets paid millions of dollars to do nothing of real value for society. And BTW, if America has lost Buffalo, we've lost the Nation. Joe out.

...especially if this story is true

I have to agree with this.

BINGO! well said

For all the doubters, let me translate DW's press statement: "TT is not the best QB around, he's not even the QB we really want. But he's the best QB available for what we are willing to pay and he's already here, so we're locking him in now in case he gets really good, but if not we have escape clauses that let us dump him anytime without losing our shirts." Genius. We are blessed to have DW. If only we could get rid of Rex...

"And I think Rex has learned from last season's mistakes and will make productive adjustments." what part of his personality or past performance makes you think this is true?

why no Incognito?

Except that it has overtly embarrassed the team.

that's a brilliant scene but I have no idea how that expresses your feelings concerning EJ.

lol yes he is laughing all the way to the bank. Although if I had his money I would drop the whole coaching pretense and be sipping margaritas on the beach in that heat. yeah but he's just trying way too hard.

why do we have a 38 page thread on a former player who hasnt worn a Bills uniform in years?

I wont argue with you there but I nevertheless I would have fired Rex after the London game, taken the losing season and higher draft pick, and hired a new HC in January. Wade Phillips anyone? I think that was Pegs' plan but Marrone wouldn't play.

A lot of the above flows from the previous regime's dictum that having a positive cash flow is more important than winning. Rex doesn't have that excuse. Whaley has been taking risks and coming up sevens more than twos and Rex has had everything he could reasonably ask for. I don't put much stock in ESPN but if this rumor is true it does go along with the Rex Ryan Circus Show. BTW it drives me crazy when people call him a defensive genius, whatever he did right 10 years ago doesn't work anymore and the fact he cant evolve his scheme makes me wonder if it was ever really his to begin with.

The people who do these lists take way too much account of past performance. Rex had his day and has been living off his success for years. He hasn't done anything of note lately and seems unable or unwilling to change his scheme. I would put him in the bottom third at best. agreed. too true. and boy they panned him, too

#staystrong lmao!

can we claim Sterling Archer off waivers? Sploosh!

what was the methodology? Was this created by a couple sports writers to sell ancestry.com subscriptions? And I can tell you why OJ isn't on the list. Editor said "we are not exposing ourselves to that debate."

The NFL does nothing for free. Nothing. Do not expect many military tributes this year. No, its advertising. Big difference. You don't have to buy into it. As well we should. I agree, but that's not the point. NFL is a business, they do not do things for free. Military has a budget for this. I'm sure 273k is a small part of the subsection of the subsection of the small part of the overall DoD budget it came from.

$723k is not even loose change to either the Govt or the NFL. Im glad the NFL came up short but the whole thing is overblown. It is advertising like any other product placement deal.

Patriots fans have their Robbie right now. It can be done. It starts with management that wants to win more than make money. I think we have that now...I think. Then you need a HC who wins by quietly studying the game and making adjustments to his system as needed. We dont have that yet. Then an elite qb and some supporting elite players. Good management gets the elite players and good HC does the most with whats left. It can be done.

This is not funny, because two of the three points are legitimate.

the problem with keeping EJ is Whaley has too much man-love for him. Whaley has done everything he can to eliminate threats to EJ's progression to Bills starting QB and he may or may not have given up after the London debacle. Just get him out of the stable so we can move on. Pretty sure Rex wants nothing to do with him.

And Pegs is cheap lol

lol I get it now. Agree to all.