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For those who are too young to remember or who didn't follow football back then or just forgot, the Chargers Chargering goes back to the mid 2000s. In the 2004 draft, the Chargers had the #1 pick and Eli Manning was the prime pick. Eli stated he wouldn't play for SD, so the Chargers traded the #1 pick for the #4 pick and a carload of additional draft picks which the Chargers turned into a talent loaded roster. For several years, they dominated the AFCW and were always the #1 or #2 AFC seed -- and they almost always were one and done in the playoffs. Fans blamed HC Marty Schottenheimer. As their talent declined, the Chargers started missing the playoffs -- sometimes in very strange ways but frequently finding ways to lose games they should win easily -- blame fell first on GM AJ Smith and later, QB Phillip Rivers. All the usual suspects are long gone. The Chargers can't even blame the San Diego water supply since they've moved to LA, and they're still finding new ways to screw up. Chargers are gonna Charger.

Who died and left you boss? My question was for another poster who made a statement that he can't support. YOU don't get to deflect MY challenge to that poster with your whataboutism, so unless you have a response pertinent to my challenge to that poster's BS -- like providing even a single specific example of a "lefty journalist" inserting his/her "opinions and lies" into sports, including naming said journalist -- butt out.

Right-o. There are so many "lefties" inserting their "opinions and lies" into sports that you can't even give one example. Well, dude, I call bull manure. When you "get pissed off" about somebody spreading "opinions and lies" as "fact", you should in a mirror.

I'm rooting for the Browns over the Bengals. If the Browns beat the Bengals, the Bills can not only win the AFC, they will move up to the third seed behind Tennessee and KC by smacking the Jests I'd like to see Roethlisberger go out a winner but I'd also like to see Jason Huntley to win a game. He's a real feel good story. The Colts look flat. I hate the Raiders, but I think the Chargers are more dangerous so I suppose I have to root for the Raiders.

ROTFLMAO. How, exactly, are "radical lefty journalists" polluting the purity of sports with "politics"? What specific "opinions and lies" are these journalists spreading that "piss you off"?

Not happening. None of the major players in the stadium talks are considering a dome. Moreover, the only northern or midwestern teams with domes are Detroit, Indianapolis, and Minneapolis. That includes many stadiums built in the last decade or so. Think about it ... cold weather teams like the Patriots, the Jests, the Giants, the Browns, the Bears, the Packers, the Broncos and the Chiefs all have open stadiums. I think most cold-weather cities/teams building new stadiums opt for open stadiums because of economics. Not only are open stadiums cheaper to build, they are infinitely cheaper to operate. It's much cheaper to heat or cool smaller spaces like concourses, boxes, locker rooms, etc than a giant dome ... not to mention that for most of the season, most of those northern teams are not going to be playing in really cold or snowy weather.

Ignorance is bliss. Protests in American Sports Actually the first fly over took place in 1918 (during WW I) but didn't become widespread until after the 9/11 attacks. Playing the Star Spangled Banner before sporting and other events dates back to the Civil War. History of the Star Spangled Banner

Ummm ... even if there's no signed release from this guy's parents, wouldn't one of them had to have given permission for him to be photographed since he's not alleging he was kidnapped, just that his image was exploited. Obviously, his parents knew what they were doing since they told him. If the record company just took a photo of a naked little baby in a pool and the parents didn't know about it, then that might be exploitive. Of course, then the grown up baby wouldn't know he'd been exploited ... but he did know for years. My guess is that the guy's parents took a cash payment to allow their baby to be photographed rather than going through the formal steps of exchanging their signature(s) on a release in exchange for royalties.

IMO, this is like worrying about a giant asteroid is going to hit the Earth. It could happen but not very realistic. Media companies are like other companies, they exist to make profits, and they don't make money by unnecessarily alienating fans of their sports products. FOX SPORTS broadcasts three sports I watch frequently: NFL football, NASCAR, and Racing Across America (horse racing). Whatever FOX's political views, their politics don't bleed into their sports programming. I'm totally with Gunner Bill. Politics bleeds into sports through society not through media ownership.

This game isn't meaningless! The Bills will win the AFCE if they beat the Jests regardless of what New England does. It's also not meaningless for Indianapolis, LA Chargers, and Raiders. It's also not meaningless for Arizona, LA Rams, New Orleans, and San Francisco. It's not even meaningless for the #1 AFC seed Tennessee. If they lose to the Texans, they might lose their #1 seed. That's at least 10 teams that can change their playoff status depending on the outcome of this week end.

Change is inevitable. Deal with it. An extra game that actually counts for something beats the crap out of a meaningless pre-season game, so I'm good with an 18 week regular season.

Well said. It's especially ironic given that many of those same posters discounting Jackson's running ability lionize Allen for his. I think it's spelled H-0-M-E-R.

What "standards" are being eliminated by getting rid of the Wonderlic? The NFL doesn't have a minimum Wonderlic score to be eligible to be drafted. The Wonderlic measures academic test taking skills the potential draftees have already mastered. It doesn't measure much else. "Native intelligence" isn't measured by the Wonderlic test (or the SAT or IQ tests). Psychologists, scientists, and educators have been wrestling with the question of "what is intelligence?" since the late 19th and early 20th century, and they haven't really found a definitive answer. What is known is that simple standardized multiple choice tests pretty much measure only what the test creators value which might or might not coincide with what the test takers value.

We don't know how good Trubisky is as a backup because we haven't had to use him to play for Allen with a game on the line. Trubisky played well enough as a sophomore to make the Pro Bowl: 24 TDs, 12 INTs, 3223 yards in 14 games. His next two seasons were unimpressive but not horrible. He performed significantly better than any of the failed first round QBs whose names have been mentioned in this thread.

Why? I haven't seen anything in Jones' play that suggests he'd make a decent backup QB. I'm not a fan of bringing in failed first round QBs as backups. First round QBs get every opportunity to succeed, but they don't perform very well. That says to me that a failed first rounder is unlikely to improve significantly because he couldn't figure out the pro game.

It doesn't have to be in early in the draft, however. Totally agree. Even great QBs need protection and targets. Allen has targets but he hasn't always had protection. If the Bills had a better OL, the running game would be better even without better RBs, and that would afford Allen better protection when defenses have to be worried the run.

I disagree. DB is a position where teams regularly find talent in the mid and late rounds ... and sometimes even from the ranks of UDFAs. First and second rounders frequently start as rookies while DBs taken later in the draft may take a few years to become starters, but they can end up just as good. I think that other than QB, a team can find starters anywhere in the draft if they do a good job scouting college talent.

It's medical expenses and long-term care support which is worth tens of millions over the life of a 5-year-old child. It saves KC millions in legal fees and avoids the bad publicity from a civil lawsuit. For the little girl and her family, they get immediate support rather than having to wait years for a civil suit to wind through the courts. Best solution for an awful situation. BTW, Britt Reid is facing felony DWI charges so he's not "off the hook" for his actions.

Bull manure. The NFL has had its rules in place since the preseason. Rodgers chose not to get vaccinated and instead used some kind of "alternative" that obviously wasn't effective. It's not any kind of conspiracy on the part of the NFL but simply arrogant stupidity on Rodgers' part.

Wilson's situation somewhat parallels Allen's first year with the Bills in that he's a high pick from a somewhat lesser collegiate program who has been rushed into starting before he's really ready for the NFL. Allen improved markedly after his first season when he started working with Palmer and the Bills replaced QB David Culley with Ken Dorsey, so I think that hiring a mentor specifically for Wilson is a no brainer. For all the resources a team invests in drafting a high first round QB, stinting on coaching for that young QB (which I believe the Bills did in 2018) is proverbial "penny wise, pound foolish" thinking.

I think that the problem with Mahomes may be that because of his great early success on a team loaded with offensive talent he simply hasn't mastered many of the QB skills he needs for success now that there's less offensive talent around him. His own raw talent and the talent around him masked Mahomes' shortcomings, but now they are starting to surface. His problems seem to stem from recognizing coverages and decision making which are common problems from QBs much earlier in their careers as starters. He doesn't seem to be able to find alternatives to his first or second receiver choices nor to have the patience to throw underneath coverage -- he's always looking to make the big play even if it's not available.

Several commentators thought the same. They think that this was a "trap game" for the Bengals since it came on the heels of their big win over Baltimore and their showdowns in the next 2 weeks against the Browns and Steelers.

Not to mention the GOAT of backup QBs, Ryan Fitzpatrick.

My takes ... A divisional opponent on a six game losing streak that you butt whooped earlier in the season is an upset waiting to happen. This is just the way the NFL is. While all the pundits and fans were yapping about the Bills "laying a fifty burger" on the Carp, I was fearing exactly what happened in the first half: Miami would sell out to keep the game tight. Specifically for this past game, I think that the Miami turn over late in the first half when they looked to be driving for a TD to take the lead just before half time broke their spirit because it reminded the Miami players that their team isn't nearly as good as the Bills. It was a "here we go again" moment for the Carp players and fans when it seems that Fate or God or whatever is against them. How many times did Bills teams in the Drought years put up good fights early against NE only to fail to score on a drive deep in NE territory late in the first half ... and get spanked in the second half, sometimes mercilessly? Part of the problem with the OL in the game was because Spencer Brown was hurt and didn't play, necessitating switching some positions including moving Feliciano to the opposite side.

I had to ROTFLMAO at the whiney ignoramus who claimed that other teams and other QBs didn't/don't run up the score ... and used Brady, Brees and Mahomes as examples.