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Davis is easily worth 5mil/year imo. Anything beyond that is hard to sell. With the right signing bonus, I can see him sticking with Buffalo at an affordable rate. Otherwise he's probably a FA at the end of the season.

I like this lineup, but I’d like to keep Poyer another year for the veteran presence and depth.

It’s allowed once the QB leaves the tackle box.

Was out of the tackle box, could’ve easily just thrown it away. Damn.

Good drive so far. Using up decent clock and converting that third down. If we can get a TD drive and leave the chiefs with only 1-2 minutes, then we might be up 3 scores by halftime.

Whitner would be proud of Dodson’s backle form 😂

Same. Although if it's a 1st round pick, then I can see some fans getting upset that we didn't use it to draft a WR lol. But for me, a balanced RT would really help reduce the load on Josh's shoulders more than a WR could. WRs are just flashier. 100%.

I liked the pick on draft day and I'm glad it's borne fruit. If we draft another lineman of similar caliber in 2024, I'd be very happy.

This makes me wonder if there's something in the rules to prevent this kind of thing. Something similar I always thought of was how there is no play clock on kickoffs. Is there a penalty for not kicking the ball off within a certain amount of time?

Indeed. Simple carbs in general are best consumed in minimal quantities unless you are very active and need the extra calories. Otherwise it just gets turned into fat.

According to Texas law: Third-Degree Felony Assault If you cut off the normal breathing patterns of a member of your family as defined by law (i.e. if you strangle your girlfriend/boyfriend) to the point they cannot breathe, then you could be facing a Third-Degree Felony assault charge. Additionally, if you assault a member of your family, including your spouse or significant other, and if you have had an assault family violence conviction in the past, you could face a third-degree felony assault charge. The penalty range for a third-degree assault conviction is no less than 2 years in prison and up to 10 years in prison; also, a possible fine not to exceed $10,000. ... So, unless he had a domestic violence conviction in the past, the only way Von could be charged with this crime is if he strangled his pregnant girlfriend...!

There's a reason why I used the qualifier "when" in my second sentence. The government doesn't always represent the citizenry at large because the government isn't infallible. People who are support democratic government believe it's better to get government to represent and work for them again than to downsize and eliminate government. That is not anything close to autocracy. Additionally, the figure you offered is total spending on both parties. So how does that support your claim of autocracy squarely falling on the Democrats? It's not like the Republicans are the party of the common person and don't get disproportionately enormous donations from corporations and big businesses. I completely hear you when you say this country doesn't represent the average citizen as much as it represents a small elite group. I see it too. But you completely lose me when you try to make it sound like the Democrats have an exclusive monopoly on autocracy and oligarchy. This ultimately isn't a partisan issue. It's a "haves and the have-nots" issue. Reducing this to a partisan issue is not only ingenuine, it keeps one half of the have-nots at odds with the other half. Kinda like we are doing rn lol.

Most if not all Democrats do not worship the state as if it were infallible. Rather, it's that they tend to have faith in democratic government when it represents and serves the needs and interests of its citizenry. Autocracy by definition is rule by autocrats, a small, elite group that serve their own needs at the expense of the rest of the citizenry. Autocrats maintain their power with openly overt coercion, not subversive Big Brother ideology. Conflating being pro-government with being autocratic is an incredible false equivalency, and a pathetically simple-minded one at that.

Even if the Bills had rotated their decent stable of pass rushers with perfect timing, I don't think they could've gotten sufficient pressure on Burrow with just a 4-man rush vs the Bengals offensive line. The defense did get several batted passes at the line and sacks during these blitzes as well. That part of the game plan was working at times, and had the defense been playing with a lead it probably would've worked even better. Alternatively, if the Bills had abandoned pressuring the QB entirely and went to a 2-man rush, the Bengals would've simply turned to their running game. The defense got out-muscled in the trenches in the playoff game last year, and that was probably on McD's mind for this game given how gut-wrenching it was to endure. Rushing 5-and-6 in relatively broad, nonexotic blitzes has the added effect of beefing up your rushing defense at the point of attack. So schematically I do understand the approach, all things considered. It just didn't pan out.

According to the first five pages, there seems to be an even number of folks blaming the offense or the defense. Based on that, I think I'm gonna blame both lol.

What about which side of the field to take? If wind is going to be a factor, it might be better to have it at our backs at key times.

Backwards incomplete passes count as fumbles.

Interception coming?

That’s probably game.

Belichick can be very good at scheming for Josh. Play contain on your defensive line with a pressure look pre-snap, and all you need is for 1 guy to get close enough to Josh to start him running into the containment lol.

When they said NE hadn’t scored off of a turnover, I already knew they were gonna score 😂

Think Peppers was playing the underneath flat and Josh didn’t see him, but he closed the distance fast. As I was watching the play, I figured Josh would hit the RB underneath.

Awesome. I know this little tidbit you mention might seem obvious to folks who bet regularly, but for me this clarified a lot. I instinctively knew the purpose of oddsmakers was to craft the odds so that the house always wins regardless of the outcome, but the overall principle that guides the oddsmakers in this process was eluding me. Thanks a bunch!

If that's the case, then that's fair. But when I first asked, you did say that the decision making to responsibility ratio was worse for your college experience than it was before, so I had to press the point.

Gotcha! The +/- thing makes sense now with both the $82 calculation and the "easiest way" numbers. Thank you.