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This is a bog standard internet joke and I am not offended by it at all. But you just jokingly asked another poster for pics of his daughters. In the same thread that you called for another person's firing over a similar joke. Maybe think on that a bit?

That's fair. Thanks.

Well, it's actually not Sullivan's fault that I'm being exposed to his podcast. That's Aaron Quinn's fault, in a very direct, literal sense. I would not have known that Jerry Sullivan even has a podcast were it not for two people who I follow on Twitter.

If only we had a RB who could make himself available in the passing game. Or a TE with receiving skills. Oh well.

My perspective on Jerry Sullivan may be colored by the fact that I live in South Dakota, so I don't get local news unless I seek it out. I subscribe to the Buffalo News, and I watch some of Cover 1's stuff, and I spend some time around here. That's basically it. I don't remember when Sullivan left whatever paper he used to write for (BN? D&C?). I read his stuff for a long time and mostly enjoyed his sense of humor. Sure, he was negative all the time, but there weren't many things to be positive about during most of the drought years. Somewhere along the line, it seemed like something changed with him. I don't expect sports journalists to be fans of the team they cover, and I'm all for critically evaluating players, coaches, staff, owners, etc. But it started to feel like Sullivan just hated the team on a personal level, and I found that off-putting. I have no idea if Sullivan actually hates the Bills or not, and I wouldn't blame him if he did (lots of people grow to hate their employer, and it wouldn't surprise me if sports reporters grow to hate their beat team on a long enough time horizon). Regardless, his columns started to come across to me as criticism-for-the-sake-of-criticism and I started passing them over. I don't think I've read anything he's written since the Pegulas bought the team at least. I wouldn't have thought about Jerry Sullivan at all today if a couple of guys from Cover 1 hadn't vomited him all over my TL just to show how virtuous they are. But then again, I literally never encounter this person. I never see him on television, and I don't read whatever paper he writes for. His stuff doesn't show up on this site. Obviously locals are a lot more invested in Jerry Sullivan than I am. I don't get it, but I'm not from the area either.

Yeah, I had forgotten about that one. I thought Jackson's comment to that fan was unprofessional (why go after some rando on social media?) but the performative outrage was ridiculous. I'll grant that this is similar.

I think you might have me confused with a different poster. I don't like Jerry Sullivan and I can't recall defending any other media figure any time recently. In fairness, maybe I'm just forgetting something.

I don't think anyone anywhere actually finds his comments offensive. They just don't like Jerry Sullivan and they see this as an opportunity to drag the guy. Which is fine, up to a point. I haven't had any reason to think about Jerry Sullivan in years, and his schtick had gotten extremely stale by the time he disappeared to wherever he is now. Feel free to dislike the guy all you want. But I'm not buying the idea that you're actually bothered by the substance of his commentary on men and women.

His comments are fine. "Women like to go shopping and men like to watch football" style jokes are never leaving our culture, because men and women are different. This kind of stuff isn't offensive, and nobody would be talking about any of this if it was anybody besides Jerry Sullivan.

Eh. I haven't read anything by Sullivan in a very long time, but this wasn't offensive at all. I assume people are just bent out of shape about this because of the speaker, because this is run-of-the-mill "family sitcom" humor.

I don't mind signing Beasley. Fine, whatever. But if we're this desperate for a slot receiver, what does that say about Shakir? More generally, we are desperate at CB, and Elam is sitting on the bench. We are desperate for better RB production, and Cook barely sees the field. We're signing guys off the street to play WR, and Shakir is just standing around. What the actual hell?

Couldn't disagree more. The Jets were keying on the run, which is why we were completely unable to gain any yards on the ground. Putting the ball in the air on first down was a good, calculated risk that more or less ends the game immediately if Knox hauls that pass in. More generally, it is always acceptable to put the ball in Josh Allen's hands in key situations. Handing the ball off three times isn't terrible, but that's how Dick Jauron would finish the game with Kyle Orton or somebody under center. It's fine to give the ball to your RB and hope to run as much clock as possible if that's the talent level of your offense. That's cowardly and against the odds when you have a QB like ours.

In honor of this post, I'm going to try to keep an eye out for (1) and (2). The broadcast should show these players most of the time at or around the snap. Not sure why so many people are assuming this post is a joke. If you watch this team every week religiously, you almost surely pick up on stuff almost subconsciously. There was a period a few years ago where "Josh in shotgun" was a called passing play 100% of the time (granted, this is kind of common with rookies and raw 2nd year guys). For pretty much this entire season so far "Cook on the field" means he is either getting the ball or he's running a pattern -- he never stays in to block. And that's just play-calling tendencies. It wouldn't surprise me if individual players had their own tells.

We would all be a lot better off in many aspects of our lives if we stopped seeing every conflict as having a "good guy" and a "bad guy." This particular episode is like one of those times in Lord of the Rings when the orcs turn on one of their own. We don't feel bad for the poor orc who gets eaten, but we still realize that the orcs doing the eating are not heroes.

I have a very low opinion of Dan Snyder -- who doesn't? -- but there's no legitimate reason for this to be the subject of a congressional inquiry. If we want people like Dan Snyder to refrain from abusing their power, maybe we should start by asking our elected officials to refrain from abusing theirs.

For the record, I've never been a big proponent of signing him. I'll get behind it if the FO does get his signature on a contract -- I'm a fan after all -- but this feels like a distraction that we don't need for a player that I'm not sure is worth it.

I still can't believe that game actually happened. The Raiders looked like they were going to blow the Rams out of the building in the first half. This went from being a boring, kind-of-sad game for 55 minutes to being one of the crazier results I've seen in a while.

I legitimately don't understand how a guy can just show up and start running an NFL offense. Sure I know it's simplified, but still.

Can someone please do a cleansing ritual or something at that location? I can't handle this curse anymore.

Kelly came back into that game and threw a TD with a broken collarbone. I know this sort of thing would be frowned upon in the modern NFL, but it's one of my all-time favorite Jim Kelly memories even if it was in a loss. My wife and I got engaged over Christmas break when we were both in college. We spent a bunch of time together (obviously) and she wanted to me to out one afternoon to hang around with some of her old friends from high school. The Bills were playing that day, so I told her thanks but no thanks -- I really want to watch this game. I remember that day. It was January 3, 1993. I don't think we would have made it to the alter if I had spent the afternoon with her high school buddies.

The last few years have convinced me that the biggest division among humans isn't Republican vs. Democrat or urban vs. rural or religious vs. secular, but people who mark their beliefs to empirical reality and people who don't. If you think that losing Von Miller is roughly the equivalent of losing Jerry Hughes, you're just wrong. I don't whether it's because you're new to football, or if it's because you're addicted to wishful thinking or what, but you're objectively mistaken. Miller is a first-ballot HOFer who offensive coordinators had to account for every time he was on the field. His presence made everybody around him better. Now, it's not like Oliver and Groot suck or anything -- they're very good! -- but there are increasing returns to scale on pass rushers, and losing our best one is going to have an outsized effect on the overall performance of our D-line.

Oh come on. They cut him because they didn't want to deal with busybodies in the media who rushed to judgement. Can I have a million dollars? If it's really not that big a deal, then you shouldn't mind tossing me a spare million. On the other hand, if you wouldn't voluntarily part with a million dollars, then it's kind of gross to hand-wave somebody else being robbed of that.

If it's actually influenza, they won't be fine on Sunday. That said, when most people say "flu" they really mean "the common cold" and yeah of course they'll be 100% by Sunday if it's just a bug.

Like I said, I understand why they took the pragmatic approach and threw the player under the bus. That doesn't make it right -- it was certainly unjust.

I was disappointed in the way the Bills handled this (presumption of guilt). I get why they did what they did, but I'd have preferred for them to be better than that.