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Not quite true but close enough for anybody who isn't self-employed or has a lot of actively managed investments, especially with tax software like TurboTax. I've always done my own taxes, and my taxes have been somewhat complicated at times. Well, originally, slavery was meant to be legal and women weren't meant to vote. Oh, yeah, and all the freedoms we take for granted like freedom of speech and religion weren't meant to be protected either since they weren't in the original Constitution either but exist because of amendments. The "pristine" original Constitution barely lasted three years.

That makes long-time Bills fans experts in recognizing how incompetence in the FO/ownership results in incompetence on the football field.

Andrews led the Ravens to a record of 1-3, he completed 64.9 of his passes for 1081 yards, 3 TDs and 4 INTs. 82.6 QB rating. The three losses were by 1 point to the Packers, 1 point to the Rams, and 3 points to the Steelers in OT. The loss to the Packers resulted from Harbaugh deciding to go for a 2 point conversion to win the game rather than kick for a tie to go to OT. The Ravens biggest loss was a 21-41 thrashing by the Bengals when both Jackson and Huntley were out. I think this was a covid game.

This is what you wrote: "I do think Lamar has gotten more love in the media than Josh even tho I believe that Josh is better but that’s the extent of my bias against him. ... Besides the fact, if what you said was true AT ALL, why wouldn’t I pick the easier target of Kyler Murray? Way more topical and relevant. Or was that a part of my insidious plan to throw you off the scent?? " The media "love" for Jackson ran high at the beginning of the 2020 season because Jackson was coming off his MVP season after leading Baltimore to a 14-2 record while Allen was coming off a sophomore campaign in which he showed significant improvement and showed flashes of what he could become. During the course of the 2020 season, the media's view of Allen changed dramatically in response to his great performance while Jackson's standing with the media stayed static. Allen was touted for MVP by some media members. During 2021, Allen has been lionized by the media, Jackson not so much even before he was injured. Your statement about Jackson vs Allen was only valid until the beginning of the 2020 when Allen rewrote the narrative with his play during the season. Today, I doubt that any media members outside of Baltimore believe that Jackson is a better QB than Allen. Your statement about Murray implies that the media gives him a pass. Maybe they did last season but they surely haven't done that this year.

Did you stop following mainstream sports media after 2019? Of course the media loved Jackson in 2019 when he won the MVP and the Ravens went 14-2, but in the last two years that statement has simply been untrue -- and especially in the second half of 2021. Moreover, claiming that the media doesn't criticize Kyler Murray only underscores your ignorance. He's been called out repeatedly on sports media in the second half of the season as the Cardinals collapsed. In fact, following the debacle in the wild card round, several commentators have crucified him, questioning if he shouldn't give up football to go play pro baseball. You are generous. What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? Jackson only played 11 full games and his team was 7-4 in those games. He was injured in the 12th game after making only 4 passing attempts. The OP basically accused of Lamar Jackson hiding behind an injury based on nothing of substance on Jackson's part. I think I'd call that "making stuff up" which is pretty malicious IMO. If anybody is going to question anything about Baltimore's 2021 season, then he or she should be questioning Harbaugh and the rest of the Ravens' brain trust. Harbaugh deliberately declined to go to OT twice by going for 2-point conversions after his team got to within 1 point of their opponents. If the Ravens win one of those games, they make the playoffs. It was the Ravens' decision not to put Jackson on IR which was entirely reasonable but it surely wasn't Jackson's call.

That Jackson didn't dress for those games means that the coaching staff made the decision for him. Lamar Jackson is a difference maker and leader on his team almost on a par with Mahomes and Allen. He's not as good a passer as those two young studs, but he's more than good enough. He makes a difference to his team in ways that Baker Mayfield doesn't. Baker's been a big disappointment, and his well publicized injuries are more of an excuse by his fans. The plain fact is that Lamar has improved significantly as a passer and as a QB since coming into the league while Baker is still making the same mental mistakes in his fourth year that he was making two years ago. I say that as somebody who was a big Baker Mayfield fan in the 2018 draft.

"Jerry Jones won two championships with Jimmy Johnson before running him out of town. He won the third with Barry Switzer two years later with the team that Johnson built" is much more accurate. As the talent that Johnson assembled aged or left, Switzer was revealed for the fraud of a coach he was. Jones has won exactly 2 wild card playoff games (2014 and 2018) with a team that didn't have Jimmy Johnson's fingerprints all over it in the 33 years he's owned the Cowboys.

I agree. I think Allen's decision making has improved over the season, especially in the last 4-6 weeks. He's successfully mastered his natural inclination to be a gunslinger which is a really hard thing to do. Most NFL QBs, even great ones like Brett Favre, can't/couldn't do this.

I have a Cub Cadet 24" that's at least 5 or 6 years old. It a reliable hard working beast that handles big snows like today well enough while being easy to handle and maneuver in tight spaces. I do my driveway plus 3 of my neighbors' sidewalks as well as plowing a path in the backyard for the pup. It even clears the 2 foot ice berm that the snowplows put across my driveway. It has electric start and power steering, both of which I recommend. I don't have heated handles because I don't think they were available for my price range when I bought it. I would recommend those as well.

I don't think that most owners get a lot of media attention in the playoffs until the championship rounds unless their teams lay eggs ... or they're Jerry Jones.

Josh Allen's first two seasons ... 2018 11 games 52.8% completions 2074 yards 10 TDs 12 INTs 67.9 QB rating 49.8 QBR 89 rushes 631 yards 8 TDs 8 fumbles 2019 16 games 58.8% completions 3089 yards 20 TDs 9 INTs 85.3 QB rating 49.4 QBR 109 rushes 510 yards 9 TDs 14 fumbles There were a lot of critics who didn't think that Allen would become a good NFL QB much less one of the best in the NFL. It's a little early to write off either Tua or Hurts since neither has been a dumpster fire in their second seasons, just not Joe Burrow good.

Because the US is the elephant in Canada's room, genius! Your "poast" suggests that you suffer from the same shortcomings as the OP ... except that since you aren't Canadian, you're just infinitely more ignorant than the OP ... or living in an alternative universe where up is down and left is right. Another example of somebody's elevator not going to the top floor.

This is untrue. I don't "personally know a vaccinated family member that got the virus from another vaccinated person". All two vaccinated people that I know who got covid got it from unvaccinated family members. How does that prove that the vaccinated person got the virus from another vaccinated person?

Yeah, but an old white guy who's not particularly good at ANYTHING has to be a genius at governing everything, right? The First Amendment doesn't apply just to college graduates.

Four years too many. Ronnie was lucky to escape with her life, but she lost most the earnings from her songs as well as custody of her her sons. Spector killed his last girlfriend. He was in prison for that when he died of covid early in 2021.

I think there's a big difference between a first or second round QB who doesn't quite develop as hoped for but is a decent starter for several seasons, especially when playing for a mediocre team, and a first or second round QB who never develops into a good starting QB although he might have a good season or put together some good games. Brees was a second rounder who played well enough to be named to the starter for several years that the Chargers allowed to leave after he was injured because they had Rivers waiting in the wings. Alex Smith was the starting QB in San Francisco for 7 seasons (he missed 1 season because of a shoulder injury). He wasn't great but he wasn't a failure, just not as good as hoped for on a team that was pretty poor. He made the Pro Bowl three times on the Chiefs with a better team around him. KC traded him after they drafted Mahomes. Ryan Tannehill was much like Alex Smith: a decent starter on a pretty crappy team for a number of years. He was traded to a better team and blossomed. Mitch Trubisky failed in Chicago just as Wentz failed in Philadelphia. Neither one has much potential to become a good starter elsewhere because they both have failed to develop into decent starting QBs.

The Colts aren't the Bills during the Russ Brandon/Doug Marrone regime. I think that Fitz is very likely to call it a career. I don't think FO or HCs seriously consider failed QBs as serious "reclamation projects" because they don't seem to exist. Off hand, I can't think of a single "reclamation project" QB who has turned into a legitimately good NFL QB on another team in the last decade. By legitimate, I mean a QB who's successful as a starting QB for multiple seasons. I think in the modern NFL, the things that really separate good/great QBs from the rest aren't "fixable", ie can't be coached: leadership, drive/determination, decision-making, reaction time etc. Either a QB has these traits or he doesn't. Josh Allen, as poor a passer as he was early on, always exhibited these traits, especially leadership and the will to win. A QB can improve his mechanics (as Allen has) and learn from experience what to do and not do in most situations but some QBs just make the right decision more times than not and others do the opposite.

My friends are the drivers these days, and they don't like walking, so we park close to the stadium and tailgate while the traffic clears. That's great when the weather's decent but not for late season games when there's negative wind chills.

Not a bad plan but you might consider parking on Sheldon Road off Abbott. Sheldon is the road between the Abbott Road Animal Hospital and the Mobil station at the corner of Abbott and Southwestern. There are all kinds of small private lots along that road (at least there were the last time I parked there about 7 or 8 years ago). It's a good walk to the stadium, but leaving is the best part about those lots: you turn away from Abbott when you come out of your lot and follow Sheldon to the first cross road (Brompton Drive). If you take a left onto Brompton, you'll be at Southwestern at the next stop sign. Take a right to go into Hamburg. If you take a right onto Brompton, you'll end up on Mckinley Parkway. A right there takes you up to 179 and the Thruway. A left takes you to Southwestern where you get a light to turn right onto Southwestern.

Cry me a river for the Jests. Between 1967 and 1985, the Bills racked up 13 losing seasons, 5 winning seasons, and 1 8-8 season. Between 1967 and 1972, the Bills won 4, 1, 4, 3, 1, 4 game(s) each year. .The Bills lost 12 games in 1976 and 11 games in 1977. In 1984 and 1985, the Bills racked up a pair of 2-14 seasons. Between 1967 and 1985, they won 97 games. They made the playoffs 3 times and won 1 WC game. Between 1967 and 1985, the Jests racked up 10 losing seasons, 5 winning seasons, and 4 7-7 or 8-8 seasons. They won 129 games during that time period. They made the playoffs 5 times and won the Super Bowl after the 1968 season. Oh, and BTW, the Bills failed to make the playoffs from 2000 through 2016, which is 17 seasons, not 10.

Excellent find! The two hosts outlined EXACTLY the Chargers remarkable ability to "***** defeat from the jaws of victory" despite all their talent over the last 15 years. Sunday night's game was more of the same ...

The difference was that unlike the Bills, the Chargers only made to the conference championship once (2007). 2004 - 12-4 -- lost to the Jests in OT in the WC game - coach: Schottenheimer 2006 - 14-2 -- lost to the Patriots in the divisional round after bye for the WC - coach: Schottenheimer 2007 - 11-5 -- beat Titans in WC, beat Colts in divisional round, lost to Patriots in the conference championship - coach: Turner 2008 - 8-8 -- beat Colts in WC, lost to Steelers in divisional round - coach: Turner 2009 - 13-3 -- lost to the Jests in the divisional round after bye - coach: Turner 2013 - 9 -7 -- beat Bengals in WC, lost to Broncos in divisional round - coach: McCoy 2018 - 12-4 -- beat Ravens in WC, lost to Patriots in divisional round - coach: Lynn They also missed the playoffs 4 times while going 9-7 between 2005 and 2020, including losing 3 of their last 4 games in 2005 and 2014.

Are you referring to me as "low info"? Well, when it comes to "low info", you certainly know what you're talking about. You're rebuttal is a gigantic FAIL because Bryan Curtis' Twitter rant is just a litany of his grievances against mainstream social and political thought bleeding into sports reporting. He's pissed off because newspapers and tv/radio outlets don't advocate for the NFL team in Washington, DC to keep its racist "Redskins" nickname; the continuation of the exploitation of amateur athletes by colleges and universities; or banning LGBT athletes from sports. He also doesn't like that sports journalists report on athletes making/taking right wing political statements or actions that subject them to criticism from the Left but he's okay with the opposite. Curtis also whines about journalists daring to express their own political views on Twitter, although that's which is EXACTLY what he does. He's the quintessential right wing pot whining about left wing kettles. Curtis doesn't mention a single instance of a currently employed "leftist journalist" spreading his/her ideology on mainstream media, either print or video.

The persecution of white Christian heterosexual males by Blacks, non-Christians, gays/lesbians/transgender people, and women has been so egregioius ...

I think they should watch the Bills highlights lowlights from the Dick "Play Not to Lose" Jauron era to gain some perspective. Urban Meyer is available.