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Yes, he is. He would have to sit out 2022.

I think this is my position as well. People can and do change all the time, especially when they're young adults who have to suddenly face the consequences of their actions after having hardly ever been held accountable before. Hunt was 22 years old when the incident was videotaped. He should have known better but maybe domestic violence was the norm in his family/environment, and nobody ever told him it's wrong. If Hunt has learned from his mistakes and changed his attitude and ways, he deserves to be judged by who he is now and how he behaves now not four years ago.

They will likely climb over the 5 foot rail fence, using the rails as steps, because that's what goats do. Growing up, we lived on my grandfather's farm for a few years before moving to our own. My grandfather was retired from farming but he kept a collection of animals, including goats. Mostly they were "pastured" on staked chains that were moved daily as somebody up thread mentioned because they wouldn't stay in their outdoor pen). We had one that we made into a pet and she followed us around like a dog, but she could go where none of the dogs could go -- up the wooden ladder into the hay mow. Goats climb. Personally, I'd clear the trees/brush myself if I had a decent sized tractor with a bucket or forks. It's more time consuming than hard. Just be careful when cutting down trees. No tractor, I'd probably hire somebody clear it.

I think that by the time 2018 rolled around, long time Bills fans like myself had been fed a seemingly endless of menu "project QBs" from Rob Johnson to JP Losman to Trent Edwards to EJ Manuel to Tyrod Taylor to Josh Allen for so long that many of us were just of the "here we go again" mindset. I know that's how I felt about Allen when we drafted him. I refused to emotionally invest in Allen during his rookie season because I figured he'd bust just like the others had even though his leadership and his willingness to do whatever he needed to do to win put him on an entirely different level from his failed predecessors. His passing skills as a rookie were terrible and his decision making seriously suspect. I still find it amazing that the Bills actually did find that 1 "project QB" in a 100 who actually becomes elite.

I thought that Dick Jauron would be a good coach. After the 2006 season, I thought that JP Losman would be a decent NFL QB. I thought that Doug Whaley was a good GM. I was unimpressed with McDermott who seemed too much like Jauron. I was also unimpressed with Beane since his background at Carolina didn't seem to include player evaluation. I thought that Baker Mayfield would be the best QB from the 2018 draft class, and that the Bills had given up too much to get Josh Allen.

Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties in New York and Warren County in PA are filled with Amish communities. Young Amishmen driving buggies while impaired, driving buggies recklessly, racing buggies on roads, etc while not common, happen with some frequency in this area. Adolescents and young adults are gonna do what adolescents and young adults do, regardless of culture. The Amish recognize this, and tend to give their young people significant leeway until they formally join the Amish church.

If you're so smart, why are you wasting so much time feuding with anonymous posters on a football message board ... over how smart you are?

Good teams aren't going to maintain/improve their rosters by signing bottom feeder FAs. They get their "cheap" players by doing a good job drafting on Day 3s.

The early part of the Drought wasn't on Brandon. I think he joined the Bills about 2005 after overseeing the dismantling of the Florida Marlilns after they won the 2003 World Series (which resulted in the Marlins significantly increasing their profits). He was put in charge of the Bills after the firing of Tom Donahoe IIRC when Marv Levy was named as a figurehead GM while Brandon held the purse strings and Jauron ran the team on the field.

Don't worry, It's not going to happen at 2:22 pm either. That's 14:22 on the 24 hour clock.

I guess your view of Brandon depends upon what you consider "good intentions". His "good intentions" meant maximizing profits while doing just enough to keep butts in the seats ... like conning fans into believing the Bills were actually trying to improve the team on the field. Two best examples -- signing FA Mario Williams and Terrell Owens to "star" on teams that were filled with JAGs, especially at skill positions, and coached by bottom feeder coaches. Excuse me, but we do know what kind of person he was. He sexually harassed female employees and he then lied to his employers about it. Sexual harassment means that he used his powerful position within the Bills/Sabres organization to impose himself on women who worked for the Bills and/or Sabres. It's NOT the same thing as having a consensual relationship with a co-worker because it's based on coercion. It was a tough situation for female employees who worked for the Bills and/or Sabres, especially the ones who attracted Brandon's unwanted attentions, but Brandon got what he deserved for both the sexual harassment and his lies to the Pegulas.

Crime is crime, sweetpea. Penalties are different for different types and severity of crimes but they're all crimes. Moreover, Flores didn't just overhear a conversation but was propositioned to take part in a crime. As for supposedly "private texts", nothing committed to any media is truly private. That was true even when the only media was paper. At least back in the "old days", you could burn embarrassing notes and letters. Today, if you put something out on the web, you have to assume it's permanent. If you're stupid enough to commit to any kind of media something you wouldn't want the entire world to read/see, then you deserve whatever consequences come from that being publicly exposed.

Darnold is a terrible QB who's not worth wasting a roster spot on. If he wasn't a top 5 draft pick, he wouldn't have been on any team's active roster last season. I'd look for a younger backup QB who's showed some promise like Kyle Allen or Gardner Minshew or Tyler Huntley. I don't know if any of these are FAs but these would be the type I'd like the Bills to look at: guys who can be at least competent starters for a few games.

Generally, people who want to bribe somebody else to do something illegal do so privately, including people who plan robberies, murders, terrorist acts etc. I guess you're good with that.

The Bills weren't a crappy team for so long because they weren't bad enough to get top five draft picks. They were crappy for so long because of the way the team was run. That was on Ralph Wilson who hired Russ Brandon to maximize profits at the expense of winning football games. The Bills found plenty of talent in the draft and in FA but they seldom retained their top young talent beyond their rookie contracts. Under Brandon, the Bills developed 3 players who became All Pros -- Jason Peters, Marshawn Lynch, and Stephon Gilmore -- and let all of them leave, 2 by trade and 1 by FA. They also made questionable HC hiring choices (Jauron, Marrone) while hiring low end assistant coaches. Pegula's early attempt to hire his own HC resulted in the Rex Ryan disaster, which is why Pegula ceded control of the team over to Russ Brandon. The Bills' rut of mediocrity was only broken in 2018 when the Pegulas finally sent Russ Brandon packing (for non-football issues) and turned the running of the team over to Brandon Beane. The next season, Beane and McDermott sent all of the offensive assistants except OC Daboll packing and hired better ones. This is when they actually hired an experienced QB coach to mentor Josh Allen. Under Beane, the Bills have retained most of the top young talent that they've drafted rather than sending them on to help other teams make playoff runs. Teams like the Jags, Jests, and Giants have been drafting in the top 5 and top 10 for most of this past decade but they are just as far from being contenders for anything but more top 5 draft picks as they ever were. It's unlikely that they are going to improve significantly unless something changes in the way the teams are run.

Disappointed fans like to find scapegoats. We've seen the same BS here vis-a-vis blaming Leslie Frazier for the Bills loss to KC. Some people simply don't "get it" that getting to the Super Bowl, much less winning it, has a lot to do with luck. Sometimes that's flukey plays, sometimes key injuries, sometimes mistakes, and sometimes it's just somebody coming up with a perfect game plan or a perfect play that's executed perfectly (ie, the Philly Special).

You not only can't do math, you ignore facts to build your negative narrative. The Bills have had double digit win seasons the last three years. They have made the playoffs 4 times in the last 5 seasons. They just missed the playoffs in 2014 with Kyle Orton as their QB. In the 8 full years that the Pegulas have owned the Bills, the Bills have averaged 9.1 wins per season with only 2 losing seasons. I'm going on sixty years as a Bills fan, so I'm not only old, I know what hopeless looks like in regards to the Bills. I remember when the Bills were non-competitives with the rest of the NFL for about a decade. I remember going zero-for-the-Seventies to Miami. I remember Dick "Play Not to Lose by Too Much" Jauron's joyless gems like losing to Cleveland 6-3. I lived through Wide Right, the Music City Miracle and the Drought. I'm not going to keep whining about the current Bills losing in OT in one of the greatest playoff games ever. It happened. Move on ... and be happy that the future for the Bills is a whole lot brighter than it is for most of the rest of the NFL.

I was actually more surprised by how bad the bottom feeders were than I was by the Bills being in the top half of the league. The bottom feeders, with the exception of the Browns and Bucs, have basically shown no signs of improvement for a decade: Jags averaged 4.2 wins, the Jests 5.5 wins, and the Giants 6.1 wins. These 3 teams had only 2 playoff appearances (1 for the Giants, 1 for the Jags) in the last 10 years. None of them had more than 1 season with a winning record. IMO, the only thing that changes the scenario for these teams is regime change, which usually means ownership change. When you look at the list, the Bills are sandwiched between two Super Bowl winners (Eagles and Rams). There are numerous other teams that have made the playoffs multiple times (including a couple of SB losers -- Falcons and Bengals) in the 75-90 win range with the Bills, and the Bills are in a really good spot with Allen on the roster.

Nope. It's not an accident that the sportsbooks have made the two teams with the best QBs in the NFL as Super Bowl favorites. Allen and Mahomes put the Bills and Chiefs half way up the mountain even compared to good teams without proven top QBs such as the Bucs, Saints, and Steelers.

I agree with you about the Roman Catholic Church and science ... I taught biology, physics, and earth science in Catholic schools many, many years ago. The RCC formally accepted the theory of evolution more than 70 years ago. Most mainline Protestant denominations (Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, etc) have also made their peace with modern scientific theories. The conservative Christian denominations that insist on literal interpretation of the Bible are the religious groups that don't accept modern science.

The Bills added the biggest piece of building a Super Bowl contender via the draft: an elite QB. The Rams had to trade for a better QB because the QB they traded up to get in the draft turned out to be not good enough. All teams have misses with draft picks, with FAs, and with trades. No player comes with a guarantee to be a superstar.

Last year, Tampa Bay went "all in" to sign Tom Brady and it paid off. This year, the Rams went "all in" to trade for Matthew Stafford. Both teams had solid pieces behind them and then added some extra talent, most notably the Rams. I think that's the lesson here: if you have a good team, going all in for a top QB is worth it. I think that this pattern wouldn't be possible for most NFL teams to follow for a number of reasons. Some teams already have top QBs. Some teams in need of a top QB don't have the cap room to acquire one. Bottom feeder teams lack too many supporting pieces for a top QB to help them become SB contenders. Mostly though, the biggest impediment for following the pattern that the Bucs and Rams used to succeed is that truly top QBs seldom become available. The only truly top level QB available at present is DeShaun Watson. Maybe Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson might become available at some point, but that's iffy. Most off seasons, there are no truly top level QBs available in FA or for trade.

Not weird, just a product of boredom creating the need to create a LAMP thread to gain attention.

Congratulations!!!!! You have proven that the world cannot end on February 22, 2022 or even February 22, 2222 because time never lines up ... 2:22 AM is actually 02:22 using the 24 hour clock 2:22 PM is actually 14:22 using the 24 hour clock 22:22 on the 24 hour clock is 10:22 PM using the 12 hour clock

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