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This is possibly even better than the Chargers one.

I have to post the Chargers schedule release video. They knock it out of the park every year.

It all started with us trading three 1st round picks for Sammy Watkins.

SNF against the Giants is so random.

I certainly don't. He missed some throws that I know he can make. But the one TD drive we had it was all him just willing the team into the endzone. It was crazy how difficult every yard of that drive looked, compared to what Burrow was seeing on any given drop back. I put the offensive performance in that game more on Dorsey than anyone. No easy answers for the QB and no counter to a strong pass rush is a coaching problem.

One source and I'm not going to say it's someone directly familiar with the situation, but someone that knows people who would be directly familiar. The more degrees of separation away from the original source the less I trust it, but the narrative lines up with what we know. Truth be told I hate this whole rumormongering crap that persists with celebrities. I know we like to think of Josh Allen as a god, but he isn't, he's just a 26 year old guy who happens to be super talented. He and Brittany deserve their privacy. High school sweethearts that break up in their 20s is not uncommon these days. No chance the breakup had anything to do with his performance in the Cincy game either, that's just people connecting dots for fun.

My understanding of the situation according to a source is that Brittany made an ultimatum - "marry me now or never." Josh said no, gave her a bunch of money and sent her off to California. All the other rumors about him getting someone else pregnant, their house getting trashed, that's all crap.

It takes MUCH more assuming to place the Jets above us. I don't have to assume anything to say the Bills are still the best team in the division - that's what we've been for 3 seasons now, and that's how it remains until a divisional rival actually dethrones us. Us being #1 is the assumed baseline until proven otherwise. To place the Jets above us, you have to assume a 40 year old QB coming off the worst season of his career, after an offseason where he openly admitted he already had one foot out the door, behind a suspect offensive line, is going to work out. You have to assume Nate Hackett is suddenly going to be able to call a competent offense with an over the hill QB. You have to assume Breece Hall will be the same player. Etc. Etc. I'm not confident the Bills are the best team in the conference, but until proven otherwise I am very comfortable saying they're the best team in the division.

LV isn't a SNF game, it's a normal 1PM. TB game is on a Thursday night, DEN is on a Monday night. One thing I like about this schedule, if true, is that our hardest games start in November. That gives Von two full months of recovery before we really need him.

This matches up with everything we've heard so far.

Finally!

I think it's a good choice. A possible up and coming team in a game that projects to be very high scoring.

General NFL fans know Nickell Robey-Coleman for being the offender in the worst PI non-call in NFL history. I wonder how many of them know he was part of an equally dumb call on the opposite end of the spectrum? Oh well, probably for the best. That loss cemented EJ as a backup or worse and helped bring the Rex Ryan era to an end.

Innocent until proven guilty goes both ways. It has not been proven that the woman lied about being raped. The DA is welcome to charge her if they feel they have enough evidence to convict her of a false accusation, which is a crime by the way. This is the weird legal gray area that no one wants to live in, but it's the best we have in this case - the woman is innocent, the men are innocent. I have my own suspicions about the true narrative that took place that night. But I haven't seen enough evidence to definitively ascribe wrongdoing to any involved party.

It's not your fault at all. The reporting around the allegation has been horribly mismanaged. The media did exactly what the plaintiff and her attorney wanted - they drew a connection between the words "gang rape" and "Matt Araiza." The pesky little details about what he was actually alleged to have done were inconsequential as far as the clickbait army was concerned. The juicier the headline the better. Why bother reading the legal complaint that you're reporting on?

She actually did not! Or at least it wasn't part of the official complaint issued by her attorney. This is the weirdest part of the whole situation that everyone glosses over. The complaint very specifically does not implicate Araiza as one of the alleged rapists. It says he "threw her face down on the bed" where the alleged rape eventually took place but there is no specific allegation that Araiza himself raped her. The attorney very carefully chose his words. As soon as I caught that missing detail in the complaint I knew something was up. My read on it at the time (and now I feel even more strongly about it) was that they were basically trying to use Araiza's name to bring attention to the case without ever actually alleging that he raped her, which indicated to me that they knew there was no evidence Araiza had anything to do with the alleged rape. He was just a convenient buzzy name they used to get the media interested. This was completely missed by everybody that reported on it, a reminder that almost no media outlet can be trusted to report on complicated legal matters. If you read the original complaint to the letter the only thing Araiza is directly accused of is statutory rape, and an offhand baseless suggestion by the plaintiff that she "thinks Araiza might have spiked her drink." He was never directly accused of gang raping her. I've seen no one else pick up on this and it's making me lose my mind.

This is the unfortunate reality of these conversations. On one hand you have very reasonable people who say "maybe we should let due process run its course before jumping to conclusions" and on the other hand you have people saying "BURN THE WH*RE!" People in that second group apparently don't understand the irony that they've become the very thing they're supposedly fighting against.

This is excellent satire.

With Schefter reporting it now, it feels inevitable that he will be signed by a team eventually.

There was a play in the first Miami game where a ball hit his hands in the end zone and fell incomplete. It won't show up as a drop because the CB got his hands in there, but it's the kind of catch most WR2s will be able to pull down. I don't want to boil down our failure to get the #1 seed to one play, but that one play quite literally may have been the difference. Similarly the play at the end of that Jets game wouldn't count as a drop because Sauce Gardner was there but again any capable WR2 would normally grab that one, and that one play too could have been the difference in us getting the #1 seed. If he's going to be our WR2 this year he needs to just make a lot more plays. Allen gives his WRs a chance. Diggs has often times rewarded him for this trust. Davis hasn't far more often than not.

My issue with this is what happens if the man and the woman are both super drunk? In that situation it appears the man is automatically to blame in most legal settings. To me that makes no sense. It implies that sex is something men do, and something that women have done to them. So if Araiza was drunk at a party and had sex with a drunk woman, you think that classifies as rape? I'll never come around to that kind of thinking.

All this evidence is circumstantial. What we know is she was drunk and had sex with a few drunk guys at a party. There isn't enough real evidence to prove what happened in a court of law. I agree that all the information points to a girl who either went to the party with ulterior motives, or regretted her decisions the next morning and decided to pull other people down with her. But there's no chance you could convince a jury that this girl intentionally lied about how consensual the sex was. Consent is already a rather nebulous legal concept. Trying to prove how an individual feels about how much consent she gave is just impossible. If you could prove she wasn't there at all for example or never had sex that would be worth a defamation suit. Trust me, I understand the urge to see justice done if this girl ruined several lives. But the legal system just isn't set up to manage these kinds of scenarios.

She was underaged at a party with a lot of alcohol. You will never be able to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that she consented to every sexual act that night. Any prosecutor wouldn't even bother filing charges. In a perfect world there would be some kind of justice here, but ultimately everyone involved will just have to get on with their lives.