harmonkillebrew

I think the only thing holding us together as a nation is football. We can all agree on it and come together to cheer our team, without reference to political party

He called them animals and not human, just the other day. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-expected-highlight-murder-michigan-woman-immigration-speech-2024-04-02/ rapists and murderers https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-rapists-murderers-crossing-border-calls-biden-not-visiting-disgraceful-1598228 "They're destroying the blood of our country. That's what they're doing. They're destroying our country," https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-doubles-immigrant-blood-remark-says-never-read-mein-kampf-rcna130535 (Which is why he gets compared to Hitler) There area tons of other examples. He's not talking policy choices about immigration, he's peddling hate. See other comment. He did say "peaceful" but lots of other stuff Yeah, "deplorables" was a regrettable mistake that ignored serious concerns of Trump supporters. And it ultimately killed her bid. Trump was a new phenomenon then and poorly understood. ..... still I didn't know Trump supporters were so sensitive over that one word. It's not like she called them "rapists and murderers"

They're not lies. But the facts are a bit grey in areas, which is why they need to have a full trial. He told the crowd he won, the election was stolen, go fight like hell, but then go to peacefully and patriotically. I guess no one heard the peaceful part. NG was authorized, but by Trump to protect his supporters. There were 4 hours between Capitol police request for NG backup. Its not exactly clear what happened, but it is clear that Trump did nothing to make it happen, despite people requesting him to do so. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/politics/national-guard-january-6-riot.html you're either being purposely deceitful, or just repeating what you heard. "on" J6 is a technicality, but nice try. Capitol Police Brian Sicknick died the day after Jan 6 after being attacked by the mob Ashli Babbit was shot while trying to break into the Capitol Rosanne Boyland was trampled to death by fellow rioters Kevin Greeson had a heart attack while storming the Capitol Benjamin Phillips had a stroke on his way to the Capitol Three other Capitol police died by suicide a few months later, from the trauma I admit calling him Hitler is not helpful, even if his policies and tone are reminiscent. There are better ways to discuss policy differences. However, fascism is resurgent around the world and Trump's penchant for hobnobbing with dictators is concerning.

At least he was attacking the candidate and his policies, not an entire segment of humanity (like immigrants or Muslims)

Go watch Reagan, G HW Bush or even McCain or Mitt Romney debate. They didn't vilify immigrants and call them criminals and murderers. No one ever proposed a "muslim ban", not even after 9/11. No president ever incited his followers to storm the Capitol to try and stop the certification of votes. Newt Gingrich used to be the poster child for Republican hate and vitriol, but he is pretty friggin mild in comparison to Trump. The tenor of our politics has gotten so much worse than it ever was, despite relatively minor problems in comparison to the past. There is no Vietnam War or civil rights movement, for example. Now the politicians are the ones creating the problems and stoking the flames. Biden also deserves his fair share of blame, but he's not been nearly as bad as Trump over the past 8 years.

When Trump came on the political scene he ratcheted up the hate and vitriol. He attacked immigrants, muslims, disabled people, etc... He hasn't really stopped or toned it down. If anything it's gotten worse. He incited the January 6 riot and then refused to call in the national guard to stop it. Policemen serving our nation died. His supporters even said they wanted to hang his own VP. What's the old saying: "you reap what you sow". Trump has sowed hatred and violence his entire, brief political career and his followers have taken their cues. So, it's not particularly surprising. Now, unfortunately, Trump has brought the entire political system down into the gutter with him. The Dems are also now frothing at the mouth to dispose of Trump and their rhetoric is often just as inflammatory. Politicians have taken what should be civil policy discourse and turned it into a life or death struggle. And the people have followed suit. It's totally ridiculous. You want to know what real struggle is? Go to Sudan, or Gaza or Ukraine, or go spend a night in a Rohingya refugee camp. This country doesn't need to be fighting in this way over relatively minor differences. We've created false divisions and are all up in arms over relatively nothing.

Not sure if you're just trolling here.... - Ain't no one trying to ban freedom of speech. Hate speech (Nazis) is allowed in the US as opposed to other countries - Gun control is needed and can be done while respecting the 2nd amendment. It's about how to interpret that age-old clause from another era - Immigration is broken. there should be more open immigration for Latinos, but Congress refuses to increase the numbers, so people do it illegally. It's complex but Libs want a more human solution - Everyone wants a nanny state. Libs want more environmental protection and conservatives more police and law and order. - Rekindle racism?? Have you forgotten which party supported Jim Crow and segregation and which states still only vote for that party? Muslim ban, anyone? I don't see Libs peddling in race-based hate - I'm pretty sure conservatives love law and order - that means complying with the government by any means necessary. You know who doesn't like complying the government - anarchists Most of these are policy issues with a lot of grey area that should be part of a normal civil discourse. Its just nuts how people in the US have created these false divisions between "libs" and "conservatives" and political parties, when really we're often talking about the same thing, just through different lens. There are no real deep-seated ethnic or geographical grievances (unless you're Black, then you have some legit grievances), so we fabricate new labels so we can have an excuse to fight.

I cant' believe people are still talking about communists and red bastards, etc... there are no Communists left. If anything, based on the Communist Manifesto, Trump is more communist. Except he's not, because he's a a fascist populist.

to be carved into the side of a mountain, it has to has to have been a major jerk. There are a number to chose from in the era of futility, but I'm going with: 1. Rex Ryan - worst coach in team history, set the team back after insisting on transitioning a solid 4-3 to his preferred 3-4. I'd put Russ Brandon up there with him fo. Doug Marrone comes in a close second for being such a jerk. 2. Russ Brandon - for basically causing the entire era of futility, with bad coaches/GMs and draft picks. Tom Donahue is a close second, but I at least appreciated the effort by bringing in Bledsoe. 3. Willis McGhee - the Toronto comment will forever keep him on our sh!t list 4. Rob Johnson - we would have won the SB that year with Flutie. He was such a bad fit, Cali surfer dude. I thought about doing a combo of the big busts - JP Losman/EJ Manuel/Mike Williams/Aaron Maybin - but it's hard to blame a guy too much for being a bust. Besides Maybin they all seemed to try. There are probably a few good candidates from the pre-Kelly era too.

Cook has the POTENTIAL to be top 5, but he needs at least 2 more years like last year to pass Fred, Shady, Travis Henry or Marshawn. Even Kenneth Davis is, at the moment, more of an all-time Bill. Cook is like CJ Spiller at this moment in his career. Exciting to watch, but has to put it together year after year.

When you watch his tape, Coleman feasted on college-level CBs that he could out muscle. That s%$* won't fly in the NFL. He's going to have a steep learning curve and will need to perfect his craft quickly, b/c his lack of speed will allow CBs to quickly recover from any initial moves. Claypool has the talent and measurables to succeed. He wasn't a 2nd round pick for nothing. He balled out his rookie year too, but it's the maturity and consistency which has since been a major issue. Which is stuff that will show up over the course of the season, not at your first OTA with a new team. However, If he gets his head on straight he could be due for a resurgence. It was a good flyer to take. But the fact he's the most consistent WR so far is just as damning of the other WRs. Either Claypool has really put it back together and is just excelling, or we're in for some growing pains.

He could easily still cut bait on Claypool, Hollins, MVS, Hamler and others, just like he should have on Sheffield and Harty and gotten someone who could make a real difference. But you're right, he won't.

This is probably what they're waiting for to re-sign Hyde. I don't think we add to the WR room after all the mediocre signings of late. But CB depth would be wise

It really hinges on Davis, who is entirely unproven in the NFL - particularly his pass blocking abilities. His college tape looks good, but to anoint this the best backfield in Bills history is a bit much. Damien Harris and Latavius Murry were better, more proven backs at the start of last year. Didn't end up working out all that well. Not bad in terms of vet leadership, but not really very explosive. Cooks is a really good starter, but he needs to be spelled. He is not the biggest guy and has had his ball security issues. Hoping Davis picks up pro protection schemes quickly and turns into a great backup.

Guys still have to get open. It doesn't help Josh if he's continually having to go to his 3rd/ 4th/5th read cuz 1st and 2nd are covered. Sacks will go up. You can't mask quality with quantity. We're taking a chance that guys will either step up or reverse their career trajectory to date. No one, besides perhaps Cook and Kincaid, are proven and even those guys have only one year of demonstrated success

Sounds like McDermott is pretty optimistic with Claypool, so doubt we do anything June 1. More likely, wait and see what happens in camp with this ragtag group. The MVS signing gave me more hope and if Claypool has his head on straight again, we could have a pick your poison type WR committee, where a different guy steps up each game. It will certainly be harder for DCs to gameplan for us to take away our one strength (considering we don't have one!) He'll need to play where Kincaid plays though, lined up inside against LBs or slot WRs. He'll get manhandled outside by bigger NFL CBs

Kincaid is going to have 100+ catches this year

I'll admit it, Bernard was a pleasant surprise at MLB. But he ultimately didn't hold up a full season, as an undersized MLB. A risk we will run every year. But I was right in that we still didn't do enough to get over the hump. We needed a better option outside of Gabe Davis and Harty and Sheffield were not it.

Sorry, not buying this one Shaw. A record 7 WRs went in the 1st round (3 in top 10). 0 RBs The franchise tag for WRs is $21.8M. For RBs it's $11.9M. Where you're right, is that NFL success is driven as much by work ethic and learning the crafts of the trade as it is speed or other measurables. Mid round guys have the talent and if they have the work ethic they can excel.

Not mad about moving on from Diggs, except we didn't really do so. We replaced Davis with Keon and Diggs with.... no one. Hoping Josh can raise the level of others around him.

They actually play slightly different positions - Knox and Kincaid. Knox plays on the line and Kincaid plays the move TE role. They could actually be co-starters.

We're going to play alot shallow concepts - either RB, TE or WR. I like the MVS signing in that he's a proven outside guy that can at least be a threat to keep Defenses from attacking the short zones on every play. We will need some diversity in route trees, getting depth on each play, in order to allow the under stuff to thrive. Keon might bring some of that, but we'll need a faster outside WR to step up too, either Hamler, Hollins, Claypool, or MVS. It's still not inspiring a lot of confidence, but the MVS signing gives me a little more hope.

Diggs not being Diggs at the end of last year is as much Brady as anyone else. He also consistently drew the best CBs or double teams, leaving options open for Shakir and others. Despite that all he still had over 100 catches and 1100 yds, only 3rd most catches in a season by a Bills WR ever. We will miss him. We needed an upgrade from Davis, but it ain't MVS

Bills made a conscious decision to not prioritize WR this offseason. We'll see if it works. Coleman does not = Diggs MVS does not = Davis Samuel is the only upgrade, over Harty Hollins = Sherfield They're definitely going for the committee approach. But I'm worried the threat of the explosive play, big chunk (15+ yds) is pretty much absent, meaning D's will stack the box making it harder to run and do much with the short passing game. It will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Agree. He adds an element outside that wasn't there before he signed. Not a #1 or even a #2, but can keep Defenses honest