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If your irrefutable proof is "Carl Sagan told me on a TV Show", then I will need further convincing. I'm open to all rational arguments.

Having a voice doesn't absolve you of being an Idiot.

I agree with all this. I would be shocked if we don't draft a baller edge rusher next year.

The whole point of this thread is that Star is a LIABILITY. He's obviously not.

So we're a Top 5 Overall Defense and a Top 10 run Defense and you want to, what. What, exactly. Just curious.

All the criticisms of the Bills basically fall into one category: "Duh". We all know Allen is a work in progress. We watch the games too. We know we need to score more points consistently; we all know we need another WR to produce other than Smoke and Beasley. We know we got a potential TE star in Knox, if he, hopefully, will just stop being a rookie and settle down and catch the easy ones. We know that Milano is the MVP of our defense, one of the absolutely most underrated players on the planet; Before the season, I predicted 11-5. Looks reasonable. Let's just stack the wins, and let the rest of it sort itself out.

All you red-blooded American Men. This is the question. Is this something we should endeavor to change in humanity, or something we should honor?

I think you overestimate the value of the WR's. Think about it for a minute: how many sure-fire WR's do we have on our roster? You want to trade them away?

A very well articulated point. Still, Foster is a lock. Because he doesn't have the value of Bradford or Alex Smith.

Yes, it seems like a small thing, but that's the kind of small thing that differentiates a winner, imho.

I wasn't referring to you, actually. I'm a big fan of your posts. I should have quoted others. My bad. That being said, I think Foster is an absolute lock. For an UDFA to have contributed as much as he did last year, and then to all of a sudden just throw him to the curb... doesn't make sense to me.

Yeah. I just watched it again. You're right. Too close. He just headed for open field.

Did you notice Sweeney last game? When he caught the second pass and he hit the ground and the ball popped out and he got it back? He was PISSED that it wasn't a totally clean catch. That's the best sign I can think of, as far as 7th round rooks go.

Foster is NOT getting cut. Be serious, people.

Last year, even when Allen f'd it up, it never was because he lost his cool. He just f'd it up like a rookie. It just seemed like he needed the experience, and the requisite supporting players, to be successful. Watching him in these last two preseason games: he seems completely under control. Finding Beasley and taking what the defense gives. Now, granted, so much easier in preseason, but still: he and the coaching staff have obviously made it a priority for him to become more efficient with the short/medium yard gains. To take a positive play when it is offered. So far, so good. How could it be more positive really? Yeah, sure, pump the brakes, but why? I say: Allen is cruising nicely along at the speed limit, and is showing he knows when to accelerate and pass in the fast lane. Just like any excellent driver/QB should.

Confirmation Bias. Your kids aren't a big enough sample size. There are hundreds of millions of people in this country, a lot of them that raise their children in the same values that they were raised. Also, your 10 year window is very shortsided. If you had said 25 years, then maybe, possibly, who knows?

There's several billion of us. All the gates.

Billions of people. Including you and me. If even a fraction of us rose up and stormed the gates, the game would be over. Why don't we? We all know why. Whether we admit it or not. Security over Freedom. The question is: Is this something we should endeavor to change in humanity, or something we should honor?

This is not hard to understand. Prescott is next up. Not because he's so great. He's going to get paid, ESPECIALLY because he's the Dallas QB. Also, because Jerry Jones is not getting any younger! Jerry's gonna mortgage the "future" just watch.

Leland Crowe is a former lawyer turned PI, who got disbarred for punching a California Supreme Court Justice who happened to be having an affair with his wife. Sounds like a bummer, and it was, but he's really more at home as a somewhat shady, gray area investigator, doing jobs for his former boss, the one that fired him after the brouhaha went down. As our story begins, he's finishing up a case for said boss in a seedy area of town, and just happens to stumble upon a blond woman atop a car, fallen from the heights above. He also sell pictures to the tabloids, and the picture that he takes of the mysterious blond lady ends up sending him down a rabbit hole of intrigue... Jonathan Moore is one of <i>those</i> writers. You know, the really unsung ones, the excellent writers who don't bank it commercially, but are lauded by their peers and their dedicated, albeit smaller, subset of fans. He's known for writing sophisticated mysteries that bend the noir genre this way and that; his last three novels form a lose trilogy of stories set in San Francisco over the course of several years (with the last one being in the near future, with a sci-fi slant). "Blood Relations" is a more commercial offering than any of these last three; first of all, it's in paperback, where the last three were hardbacks. But second of all: it just has a more fluid thrillery pace and really sucks you into the story. Which is great, but what sets Moore apart from others is the really adept block-stacking of his story-building. Everything unfolds in as organic a way as possible. The telling of a PI investigating a case could never really be realistic, but the way Moore leads you through the happenings and introduces the clues give the reader a very clear sense of the stakes at play. There's never any point where something doesn't make sense, or seems unearned and shoehorned in. Details that would be passed over by another writer are introduced and made relevant. All this speaks to the technical strength of the writing, but Moore also has great style, atmospheric and tactile; I haven't read a lot of the classic noir novels, but Moore's style really feels like genuine noir, and not a facsimile. Like his previous novels, "Blood Relations" introduces some elements that are outside of the traditional crime scope, but in this case, they're not really genre elements as much as they are scientific ones, albeit perhaps stretched to give a plausibility that they might not realistically have. The biggest criticism that you could have here is this kind of stretching: in doing so, Moore introduces elements and situations that teeter on the edge of being too convenient. But that's okay in the end, because Moore is such a fine writer that the novel never suffers for this ambition. Which is a hard act to pull off, as being a stickler for such things, I often find writers shoot themselves in the foot when their reach exceeds the story's grasp. Recommended for neo-noir fans, especially those who like sophisticated, genre-bending type tales. You really can't go wrong here.

Hi. Haven't read anything about Epstein. He was done for. Because that's what I would have done. The End.

I will eat an avacado whole if we trade for clowney. Not gonna happen.

Yeah, you just hit the nail on the head. Elton John is richer, but Billy Joel is richer, ya dig?

IDK I feel like Billy Joel is criminally underrated in this day and age. He had something real to say. I mean, "We Didn't Start The Fire"...

He's trying to angle for more guaranteed money. That's all this is about. This isn't the NBA.