Logic

I just wanted to point out that evidence of non-binary people and different forms of what we now call "transgender" people have been found back as far as 3000 B.C.E. in Mesopotamia. Their existence pre-dates Christianity. Non-binary people have been found across multiple continents and cultures for the past 5,000 years. Look it up some time. It's actually pretty fascinating. I think many Americans -- I dare say even the vast majority -- think of transgenderism as a new phenomenon, but it is not. At all.

Dearest @boyst, Do feel free to keep tagging me from now until the end of time whenever a new lunatic shoots at somebody. I know it was wildly upsetting to you that someone new came into your frothy-mouthed right wing echo chamber and dared to challenge your trans-hating rage party. Of note: there is still no concrete evidence that Robinson's actions were motivated by leftist ideology. Just because JD Vance and Kash Patel say it doesn't make it true. In any case, no amount of tagging me will change the fact that over the past decade, the majority of mass shootings in America are statistically, verifiably committed by cisgender white men -- not trans people. It also won't change the fact that over the past decade, right wing extremism accounts for the majority of domestic terror incidents and fatalities caused by domestic terror in the U.S. I trust this message finds you well. And by "well", I mean "hanging out in the PPP, finding new reasons to be angry at those awful Antifas and trannies, who you suspect for being the ones who put mustard on your burger yesterday even though you said 'ketchup only'". Happiest of autumns to you and yours. All my best, Logic

Me come Sunday

Me stepping into this thread to see what people are saying about Ben Johnson and seeing what it has become instead

Thanks for sharing that. This was always the most likely outcome. Why rush them back for a Thursday Nighter on four days rest when you can try to get by an inferior opponent without them and then give them 10 days to heal?

How does "crushing a division opponent at home, putting the Bills at 3-0, the Dolphins at 0-3, and going into a mini-bye week as the 1-seed in the AFC and giving big Ed and Matt Milano some time to heal up" sound to everyone else? To me, it sounds pretty ***** good.

I agree. The Dolphins know that their season is on the line, and that they can play the Bills close (because they've done it before with this QB and this coach). Thursday night games are also weird and fluky sometimes. I'm not predicting a Dolphins win, but I also don't think this game will be nearly as easy the Jets game. If the Bills DO dominate the Dolphins and make them look hapless and hopeless, it would not surprise me to see a coaching change after the game.

Where Hawes transforms the Bills offense is this: They can use him as the "6th O-lineman" in jumbo sets, but he's an actual threat to catch the ball, unlike Alec Anderson. I could be mistaken, but I don't believe I've seen the Bills roll out a 6OL package yet this season. I HAVE seen (especially against the Jets) a good amount of 12 and 13 personnel. Hawes is Lee Smith Jr. For the Bills to say he was the best blocking tight end they've EVER evaluated, and for him to already be getting this much time on the field...you know he's special as a blocker at that position. Dawson Knox is set to make $17million next year. Given the realistic constraints of the salary cap, people aren't wrong to say that long term, Hawes' presence could spell the end of Knox's Bills tenure. Going forward, a Hawes-Kincaid duo at TE could indeed be the thing. And if Hawes is able to develop the receiving part of his game? Look out, man.

Dorian Williams, Shaq Thompson, Keonta Jenkins, come on down!

No such thing.

This is exactly what I thought after watching it. I hard heard that it was from "the creators of the Office", but once I saw Mike Schur's name wasn't on it, I became less enthusiastic. Greg Daniels is funny and a great creative mind in his own right, but I think a big part of what made The Office what it was is Mike Schur. I don't associate Greg Daniels nearly as much with that brand of comedy. On the flip side, speaking of Greg Daniels... I HAVE been enjoying the King of the Hill reboot. Good stuff.

Three Pro Bowl players drafted immediately after Kaiir Elam: Tyler Smith, Tyler Linderbaum, and Jermain Johnson II, right in a row. Ouch. George Karlaftis, Kyler Gordon, Breece Hall, George Pickens, Trey McBride not long after that. Double ouch. Hindsight is 20/20, every team has misses, and the Benford pick helped. But man...imagine adding any of the above players to the current Bills? Yeesh. Ah well. Ya win some, ya lose some.

I was an enormous Office fan, and saw that this was by one of the makers of the original (Greg Daniels), and it exists in the same "universe" as the Office and has Oscar as an accountant again. I gave the first episode a shot and did not find it funny. Like...at all. I'm willing to watch another episode or two and see if it finds its footing, because I see that it's gotten good critical and audience scores and has already been renewed for season two. But so far? Yeesh.

I like how multiple the Bills offense is. Sometimes, they're a powerhouse run team. Other times, they use short, controlled passing to matriculate the ball down the field. Other times they wing it downfield. They can run, they can pass short, intermediate, and long, and Josh can run it. They're an incredibly difficult offense to stop because they can do so much well. I like that they've started with a touchdown in both games so far. Starting slow was a real problem for them in recent years, but not so this year. If they can continue to start fast AND keep doing the "gathering info on how you wanna play us defensively, then adjusting to it and beating your gameplan in the second half" thing, they'll continue to be hard to stop. If I have to pick nits, I'd say that I'd like to see a more effective marrying of play-action to their run game, and more frequent use of play-action in general. I'd also say their screen game still stinks. Overall, though, it's hard to be anything but happy with an offense that averages about 30 points a week for over a calendar year now.

Yesterday's game reminded me so much of a typical AFC East game during the Patriots dynasty years, with the Bills playing the part of the Pats. A plucky upstart team with a new head coach, coming off a big week 1 moral victory, with a new QB that has everyone hopeful that "this year might be different!". Going against the five time defending division champs, a well-oiled machine, marching in to town with their franchise QB. Just like all those Pats dynasty years, the team that runs the division put those thoughts to bed quickly. They repeatedly and methodically stamped out any hope the upstart team's fans may have had, and reminded everyone just how big the gap is between a team like the Jets and a team like the Bills. Yesterday's win reminded me of those Pats years because it was...ho-hum, in a way. It was unspectacular. The Bills simply played sound fundamental football in all three phases, allowed the other team to make mistakes, and beat them convincingly, because they're better and more disciplined at playing football. The franchise QB didn't have a particularly memorable day, there was maybe one SportsCenter worthy play all game (and it came from a running back). It was just a good old fashioned three phase, fundamental boot whoopin. During the Pats dynasty years, you had to play almost perfect football to have a shot at beating them. Nowadays, you have to play almost perfect football to beat Sean McDermott's Bills. The Jets didn't even come close to doing that yesterday, so they lost convincingly. The Bills, to me, look to be in midseason form. They just look like an operation that's been doing it for years, has certain standards and expectations, and a certain way of doing things. They look like a well-oiled machine, who can beat you on any given day with either a passing or running game, defense, special teams, or any combination of those things. With their field general star quarterback, their motley crew of "do your job" receivers, their good play in the trenches, and their (mostly) no-name, "do your job" defense, they reminded me exactly of the dynasty era Patriots. Feels much better to be on this end of things.