DFT

Whoa! I didn’t even get an invite to the combine....

Yep! Awful stuff.

There are two tests... entry test is the nostrils and the “further” testing (for surgeries, etc.) they extend 5 inches and swirl in each nasal cavity. The second is not pleasant, even for titans, bad boys and pounders of Genny Cream Ale.

If you’ve never experienced the current test, you don’t know how welcomed this news is! #brainpoke

Our coach and staff were humble enough to reach out to a perennial winner, HOF and SB winning head coach to talk through their opportunities. Why is that news-worthy? Because it’s a first for this organization. Here’s a coach who’s won where few have. Despite his clout and the right to be egotistical about what he’s done, he’s still hungry, driven and humble enough to ensure his areas of opportunity (experience) don’t go without effort to rectify. This is the first time I’ve seen a winning coach for the Bills make a move like this. Either ego (Ryan, Marrone, Gailey, Williams) or ineptitude (Jauron, Mularkey) has prevented it in the past. Closest I’ve seen (Lynn and Schwartz) was experience issues. This is very impressive to hear in my opinion.

His running mate can do very much the same, but is considered a power back by many who didn’t watch him. Zach Moss is gonna wow the fans. A guy that physically imposing shouldn’t be able to move the way he does. One of the most exciting and severely underrated elements of the Buffalo Bills this year will be the ground game in my opinion.

Agree 100%. But there’s an annoying little disturbance in the force that can neither be reasoned with nor made to understand truths beyond the fiction he propagates. So instead he just posts a bunch of random spam that he doesn’t actually believe in, but 14 year olds gonna 14, so...

Thanks for the posts, DR! This is incredible for the world. This should be a MAJOR focus of approval, but it’s not even a trending story due to coverage. Sad. Side note - Imagine being so awful and miserable in your real life, that instead of celebrating a life-saving accord (regardless of its involvement with Trump), you instead either discredit the man behind it or spam a friendly message board with willful ignorance and stupidity... Imagine being “that guy”? I wouldn’t be able to look at myself if I was that poor and morally bankrupt. Thank God for the ignore list!

Even more hilarious is that the MSM is barely covering this incredible and historic event. I say “hilarious” but it’s sad. But that’s what that group has become. Sad.

I’ll guess Barack Obama. Totally serious.

To someone who doesn’t believe in the same thing, sure it may seem that way. But your hardline stance on the matter makes you just as intolerant as the person you’re condemning.

Correction... that’s the application you WANTED. Another application is to apologize because he honestly knew he was wrong. He did that. So he did apply what he was speaking in a follow-up convo. Just not to your liking which is fine, but not fine enough to say he’s wrong. Side note - It’s totally ok seeing from your perspective - and several quality posters here do. I’m not at all trying to demean that. But I don’t see it that way. Appreciate the conversation staying respectful. ?

Boooooo!

He wasn’t asked for an explanation though. He was asked his thoughts on what’s going on. His answer was a profession of faith (quoting the Bible). The interviewer wanted him to relate it to his insensitive comment (as do many of the posters here - which please know I don’t condemn at all.). But if you go into a conversation expecting to receive a specific answer, ask question(s) that direct the conversation. Don’t condemn a guy for answering a general question with a faith-based answer (not directed towards you, Gunner)... Is that really where you want to be when Jesus returns? ?

Not everyone understands a kippah or hijab, yet how much less significant does it make it to the person wearing it? Personal acts of faith (non-violent of course) don’t need to meet the expectations of people. Quoting Jesus whether a person agrees or not is an act of faith. It should be respected.

He was asked his thoughts on what was going on in the country. He gave what he felt was a solution rather than belabor any narrative. He’s apologized already. Maybe we could all take a page from the ol’ Biblical playbook and practice forgiveness. And to the bolded part above, declaring a stupid comment as an act of “hatred” instead of youthful stupidity is gross. And lastly he gave you the application of the scripture when he profusely apologized. You missed it because you were too focused on his answer to a completely different question.

#winning

He’s a great person as well and I think that needs to be echoed in this thread. Incredibly respectful and is extremely well-versed and knowledgeable. Agree with that sentiment 100% even if I don’t agree with the context of the Fromm questioning.

Good post! I’ll raise my hand to this as a former coach. I had to quell many an inappropriate conversation in our locker room because as players, you’re brothers to the core. As such, your tolerance for what comes out of your brother’s mouth may be more lenient than it should be at times. Even in jest, some of what I’ve overheard in my time coaching as “accepted viewpoints” makes me cringe even to this day. From high school to the collegiate level, you’ll find no greater a place for unchecked freedom of speech than a winning team’s locker room - save for maybe a long-standing community barber shop. It’s at the NFL level that this changes instantly (and for good reason). Unfortunately there are a lot of great coaches in the world, but few that seize the teaching moment when these conversations occur (myself included).

Some of the open dialogue in this thread and the civility within the conversations is among the best I’ve seen from most public forums. Kudos to all on that. To quote White Goodman... “There’s a good energy in the Gym!”

Truth, my friend!!!

“While I do believe he feels bad, I didn’t hear anything other than the predictable responses we are used to hearing 2 months after that text was aired out, I’d like to hear from him why that “elite white people” comment was wrong & what he’s learned about minority communities” Marcel and I are in the same field. My advice (which may not be worth a Canadian Pesos), is if you want more specific answers ask more specific questions. What Marcel asked was answered. The degree of which can be debated. But reading Marcel’s follow-up thoughts and speaking only from a journalistic perspective... The answers we seek lie in the questions we ask. My opinion...

You bring up great points and some I don’t agree with, but always appreciate the grace in which you share! ?

I don’t think you and I are going to agree and that is totally OK. So let’s just agree to disagree.

You really had to stretch the actual conversation to fit all of the things you were expecting from the conversation. So if I’m to look at that intelligently, it looks like you were expecting something to come from a conversation just like the reporter was expecting. That’s not wrong. What’s wrong is condemning Jake’s response because it didn’t fit what you were expecting. He still deserves to have his faith respected just as he deserves to be expected to respect others.