SouthNYfan

I'm pretty sure there are quite a few NFL players who would disagree with your IQ assessment. Sherman, Fitzpatrick, and Luck are a good start.

I treated a 99 year old d-day vet at my pt clinic last year at my PT clinic. Op I'm talking Omaha beach front line vet. I asked him about the kneeling. His answer? "I didn't watch my buddies get shredded by German machine guns, blood and guts in the sand, so some jackoff could tell somebody they didn't have the right to protest. I fought for their freedom to protest. I find it disrespectful for what I fought for to tell them they cannot protest. Should they do it at work? No. They shouldn't. I get that. Don't tell me the kneeling is disrespect though." Everybody has a right to feel whatever they want is disrespectful, that's all well and good, but the same people pissing and moaning about the disrespect to the flag are also usually the same ones wearing flag t-shirts, drinking beer with it on the cans, wearing American flag underwear, which are all against flag code to begin with. Protests are fine, and but disrespectful in any way as far as I'm concerned. When the former ranger on kaeps team came to him and suggested he kneel instead of sitting as a way to be respectful but still get his point across, kaep willingly did so, as his intent wasn't too be disrespectful. True disrespect almost always goes hand in hand with intent, which kaep showed he had no intent to disrespect by switching from sitting to a knee at the behest of a vet.

No tears, but goosebumps def for some of the "real life stuff" (Ie. Kelly Hof/Hunter, Kevin everitt walking, things like that)

This gif still makes me giggle every single time. Do not put him and "Blake the fake" in the same sentence.

I wonder if it was when he kicked the window, the one he was trying to jump out of, naked.

He will start week 1. Then be on IR by week 3.

Yes that's definitely a challenge! If you weren't doing heavy impact then I'm sure you didn't mess it terribly. Let's remember that when I say "not resting" and letting it heal, in talking about KB, who went back to playing in NFL games without it being healed. That's much more detrimental than just riding the bike:)

Sorry it seemed it John. I really thought you said did you hurt your chances for most optimum recovery to become an NFL receiver lol. I'm so used to sarcasm here I just assumed as much. Good luck with your repair. I honestly am damn good at my job, if you have any general questions about your recovery you can feel free to PM me, I'll help where I can

I didn't know that drafting a QB wasn't a plan.

Nice try with the sarcasm/condescension. I'll actually give you an answer though, you know, based on my knowledge of knee injuries. If you tear a meniscus, "hobbling" around on it, playing on it, or just walking on it in general is not great for it. The more you walk on it/perform heavy activities on it, the more impact and trauma the area sustains, leading to more inflammation, which leads to breakdown of the joint integrity. When you have chronic inflammation in the knee (or any joint, but particularly synovial, weightbearing joints, such as the knee) you wind up causing structural damage to it. Playing with a torn meniscus, without resting and letting it heal on it's own (which takes generally 4-6 weeks of inactivity, just walking at most), is akin to driving around on a flat tire, grinding your rim on the pavement. It's not good for it, and it has a high chance of doing more harm than good with "trying to play through it".

At least until he recovers from his knee surgery. Love that our #1 and #2 guys both had off-season knee surgery, and one also tried to jump out a window naked.

I dunno, Tyrod likes that dumpoff.

I think he's been into Josh Gordon's drug stash.

It said "bad things come in threes" Does that include pick #3 (darnold) busting?? ??

I think mccarron will start because they don't want to kill Allen early on, our first few games are brutal defenses. Unless Allen looks like a pro bowl player from the get go in preseason, AND the oline looks like it clicks immediately when all the new faces (which I don't see happening), I don't see him starting early on.

Or if McDermott lost a bet ??

Very interesting. I believe that it might already be in their contracts /CBA in regards to that, such as playing on Thanksgiving/etc as well. I wonder though what would happen if that player decided to not play those days, right? Would he not get paid? Interesting thought. My job is in a medical facility. We aren't open weekends for PT. If we started opening weekends I'm sure I couldn't tell my boss "sorry, I have church". Interesting conversation though.

His signing makes sense the difference. He VOLUNTARILY signed that contract. Nobody "messed with his money" The Bills didn't cut his pay without asking permission.

He. Signed. The. Reduced. Contract. Nobody "messed with his money". Sadly, probably not. Why would he sign a contract he wasn't okay with?

All fair. I'm on board with everything you said. I think, as I said, my biggest concern is that of the oline. Your top two players suddenly retiring is a monkey wrench. There was most likely no form of plan in place. Yes I dumped a few absolutes that I prob shouldn't have, but even if they aren't absolutely going to be worse, I think it's pretty apparent that the most likely outcome is a regression. I mean, sure, miracles happen, but the objective "absolute" that I kind of went with was that, on paper, they are worse, and that's what's should be expected. "Hoping" they will be as good or better is not the same as saying you "think they will be" as good or better than last year.

Exactly.

But your point makes no sense. NFL contracts are signed with the caveat that they are not guaranteed. The Buffalo Bills are well within their rights of honoring the contract by cutting somebody, since that's part of the deal. They also are within their rights to ask the guy to renegotiate the contract, just like he was within his rights to not accept the pay cut, which he chose to accept. It's not inconsistent at all to think that he should have honored a paycut he agreed to.

I totally misread dude. Sorry about that

Benjamin has now suffered a torn ACL on his left knee, and had a meniscus tear on his right knee. These are not minor, and in regards to a knee injury and long term performance a meniscus tear which was played on for another 6 weeks, instead of being handled immediately, is more than likely going to be a mess (I'm not pulling this out of thin air by the way, I'm a PT and deal almost exclusively on the rehab of athletes). So, yes, we might see a miracle and he's good to go, but more than likely we will see a dropoff for him. You are correct regarding the defense, many were wrong, and who knows, maybe im wrong, but on paper the surgery for KB, the lack of talent at wr last year which wasn't addressed, and the likely dropoff on the oline with just the unplanned promotion of some backups, and the huge uncertainty at QB, is that most likely our offense will see a regression, and that's okay, but my initial point was people who are recognizing this and being concerned are being called negative, being told that the offense has no need for concern, which is just absurd and basically "homerism" to not think we have legit concerns on offense this year.

Please tell me what was incorrect about what I said? It's an absolute fact that he didn't have to sign the contract. Nobody forced him to sign. I fail to see what is incorrect about what I said.