The Frankish Reich

And Shakir breaks a tackle to prove me wrong!

Has anyone other than Cook broken a tackle tonight? And that includes Allen

There's a really good argument that Dick Jauron did more with the talent he had than McD is doing with the talent he has.

Exactly. This game will not prove anything about the relative merits of these teams. I hate, hate, hate football on Thursday. Eff college, just play on Saturday night.

Oh man. This is getting ugly

Don't give up so quickly.

Rousseau? MIA this year. Bernard? Didn't we think he was, like, good last year? Or better than Edmunds? The DTs: disappeared, or injured. Bosa: pass rush, yes; subpar Von against the run. Benford: injury risk = injury reality. Milano: playing out the string. Epenesa: already in his decline phase? Without ever really being good?

Worst Bills defense ever? No. I checked. 1971. The year I became a Bills fan. Worst scoring defense in the entire NFL. Balanced out by the worst scoring offense in the entire NFL. How an 7 year old became a Bills fan that year is an eternal mystery.

Probably. At least in the McD years. I'd have to think about those 1980s teams though.

Let's end the first half thread on some unconventional wisdom: our defense hasn't been good since Terrell Edmunds left.

Agree - everyone else is expensive and/or on the downside of his career.

Good Lord, our defense is awful. And how about zero pressure on Mills.

Someone said John Lynch last week. I laughed. And then I thought, hey, not so crazy ...

I don't know when he turned into a bigtiime hitter, but I'm glad he did.

Too fast! We put the ball right back into the legendary Davis Mills' hands.

I was about to say Ray Davis isn't fast enough for kick returns...

I actually like those high gloss red helmets.

That one always struck me as weird, since even a brand new lawyer would know better. But there's a whole host of other problems, some of which may warrant outright dismissal. And I think that's where we're headed.

Congratulations for making it. I think I mentioned before that I was a teaching assistant as a grad student a lifetime ago. The most involved/best students I had were in a night class with mostly "nontraditional students."

I thank the NFL gods for scheduling a crap game that I had no interest in, thereby allowing me to avoid this.

I don't know enough about this Connor Grubb thing to comment. I do know enough about Michael Brown to say that it was a tragedy, but I don't think the cop who shot him was guilty of any offense.

I take care of my similarly aged mother, but only for a few weeks at a time. My siblings help more than me. I do the George Costanza's father "serenity now!" thing several times a day. But every night I'm thankful that I have that time with her.

One word (well, technically two): J6. Four words: Peaceful Transition of Power. The sins of GWB (and even more, Cheney) are fairly commonplace in our country. The sins of Trump were not, and hopefully are not.

Notice the responses to my post. They are "responsive" in name only. Absolutely no one bothers to justify how the reproduction of Trump's signature by some mechanism (maybe an autopen!) is any different than Biden's use of the autopen. Actually the Trump situation is worse, since he disavows any knowledge of some of the high-profile subjects (CZ) that his machine nevertheless pardoned.

He's a good politician. I've watched him a bit over the last few months. He's young, dynamic, not afraid to say what he thinks. Getting over 50% in NYC was a significant achievement that reflects those skills. I'm thinking that Trump has a grudging admiration for someone who is this good at Trump's own game.