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It could have been worse. The Jests are still looking to find a real successor to Joe Namath whose last played for them in 1976 ... 44 years ago. Why wouldn't the Bills pick up Allen's 5th year option by this March? Jackson, Allen, and Mayfield have all earned having their fifth years picked up. At this point, I'm not sure that any of them deserve contract extensions before their fourth seasons, though. Darnold is the guy in limbo because the Jests team around him suck so bad -- and I'd including the coaching as well -- that who knows if his lack of improvement from his rookie season until now is his failure to adapt to the pro game or poor coaching or the lack of talent around him. Allen would have been in the same place as Darnold and the Bills would have been in the same quandry as the Jests, if they hadn't sacked virtually the entire offensive coaching staff in 2019 and brought in better coaches and then gone out and put some decent offensive talent around him. Even elite QBs need protection and talent to show their best. Consider Brady in NE in 2019 and Brady in Tampa in 2020. I don't think that Jackson, Allen or Mayfield have shown enough yet to warrant elite money, but I think that Allen would definitely be worth a $35-40 million contract if he continues this season as he's done so far. I think he's definitely good enough to take the Bills to a Super Bowl win, which makes him a keeper even if he's not Patrick Mahomes. That's okay. The chances of drafting another franchise QB immediately after losing Allen are probably slim to none. A better strategy might be to grab a QB that you really like in the first round even if you already have a franchise QB on the team. Green Bay did this in 2005 when they drafted Aaron Rodgers despite having Brett Favre. In 2017, Andy Reid traded his 2018 first round pick to the Bills in order to move up to draft Patrick Mahomes despite having Alex Smith. I think that too many people are jumping in to crown Burrow and Herbert successes based on about half of season in the NFL. Both have been impressive, but they're still rookies, and they may never improve significantly from where they are now. Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota come to mind. Of course it's better to have a good/spectacular rookie season than not, but it's not a guarantee of future success. Baker Mayfield looked to be the class of the 2018 QB draft class, setting the rookie record for passing TDs. Darnold was considered the next best. Lamar was an outlier because his success was due to his running. Josh Allen was easily the worst passer of the lot. Jackson and Allen have easily become the leaders in their QB classes, Mayfield hasn't improved significantly, and Darnold is struggling, which might be a function of the team he's on. (I'm not including Josh Rosen because he was lousy as a rookie and hasn't shown much since). Tom Brady dropped to the 6th round because he wasn't the starter at Michigan. Athletic Department politics dictated that Drew Henson, a star baseball player and QB, be the starter over Brady, who actually outplayed him when he got in to play. He probably would have gone much higher if he'd gotten a fair chance. Nowadays, a player in Brady's situation would simply transfer to another school.
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I've come to the conclusion that in the Trump-controlled GOP, the only part of the US Constitution that Republicans support is the 2nd Amendment, which they interpret to mean any nut is entitled to possess as big an arsenal as he can afford and can take it anywhere he wants, including into schools, churches, and polling places. Every other part of the Constitution is meaningless.
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I think that wholesale forgiveness of student debt isn't the best idea. I think that: the federal government owes relief to those who were the victims of scam schools by forgiving their loans. These schools lured in students by the schools' using access to federal guaranteed student loans as "financial aid". all other borrowers should be given an opportunity to "work off" part of their student loan debt. People in certain public service jobs should be eligible for forgiveness of up to 70% of their loans in exchange for working in those fields for up to 7 years. I would include teachers and educational support staff working in public and private schools and accredited trade schools and colleges, most health care professionals, professionals working for local, state, or federal government in non-elective positions (including law enforcement and military), people working in mental health and addiction counseling, etc. people who have been paying off their student loans but run into some kind of economic crisis and need to declare bankruptcy, should be allowed to have their remaining student debt included in their discharged debts.
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The federal government has aided and abetted predatory practices by private lenders by guaranteeing these loans and preventing these student loans from being discharged through bankruptcy. Furthermore, the federal government also allows for-profit trade schools and colleges that are nothing more than scams to qualify for federally guaranteed private loans.
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"The failed bet laid by President Donald Trump to ignore science and prioritize his political goals early in the pandemic, revealed Wednesday in fresh detail by new Jared Kushner tapes, is backfiring in devastating fashion at the critical moment of his reelection bid." Trump response to coronavirus
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Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 27, 2020 - the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy claims that ending the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the major accomplishments of the Trump administration. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. October 28, 2020 - 227,701 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1028. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-27, 2020: 800 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 October 27, 2020 - 226,673 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 20, 2020 - 221,078 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 13, 2020 - 215,995 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.
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Sean McDermott is the 2nd Best Coach in Bills History
SoTier replied to LB48's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Saban came back to the Bills to coach from 1972 through the first 5 games of 1976 and made a star of OJ Simpson (in 1973 Simpson ran for 2003 yards in a 14 game season). In 1974, he got the Bills into the playoffs for the first time since 1966. -
It's fueled by the upsurge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations that have spooked investors. It's the third day of major decline, and wasn't unexpected. Undoubtedly, we'll soon hear Covid Donnie on his Pandemic Hotspot Tour bragging on how great the stock market is doing now that his administration has ended Covid pandemic, which was really all a hoax anyway.
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This is absolute bull manure. Democratic socialism has never morphed into communism anywhere. In fact, numerous western European nations have swapped captialist and social democratic governments repeatedly in the 65 years since the end of WW II. Communism has always been imposed upon a society/country by a small oligarchy of ideologues, just like fascism, both of which are simply forms of dictatorship. Democratic socialism has proven completely compatible with political democracy. You obviously know nothing about European societies not European history. I suggest you do some reading on it before you start blathering about it. Moreover, don't give me this bull manure about the US having "an influx of people who want to change our society, not support it". Just say it. You don't like brown people from Latin America or black people from Africa or the Caribbean or more brown people from Asia immigrating to the US. The very same xenophobic nonsense you're spouting about today's immigrants is the same xenophobic nonsense that nativists in the late 19th and early 20th century spouted spouted about my Italian, Polish, and Jewish immigrant grandparents when they came to this country around the turn of the 20th century. They were full of crap then, and you are full of crap now. If the middle class is shrinking in this country, it's NOT because of social programs or immigrants but because of forty years of pro-wealth/pro-business government policies that have shifted the tax burden off the wealthy and onto the middle and working classes while depressing wages, gutting social supports for the poorest Americans, and limiting real access to opportunity by transferring the cost of public higher education from government (which is where it was for about a century before the 1980s) to individual students and their families.
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Sean McDermott is the 2nd Best Coach in Bills History
SoTier replied to LB48's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Not to mention Chuck Knox. -
Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 27, 2020 - the White House Office of Science and Technology claims that ending the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the major accomplishments of the Trump administration. October 23, 2020 - US recorded a record of 83+k new cases of the coronavirus. The number of hospitalizations is the highest since June. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. October 27, 2020 - 226,673 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 938. October 26, 2020 - 225,735 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 496. October 25, 2020 - 225,239 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 344. October 24, 2020 - 224,899 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 905. October 23, 2020 - 223,995 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 944. October 22, 2020 - 223,051 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 830. October 21, 2020 - 222,221 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1141. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-27, 2020: 800 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 October 27, 2020 - 226,673 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 20, 2020 - 221,078 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 13, 2020 - 215,995 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.
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All excellent points. I'll add some thoughts of my own to your points. #1 Universal health care would result in Americans paying more in taxes but saving more in health care costs. It would also be a tremendous boost to entrepreneurship, small businesses, and people working in the so-called gig economy as well as in other industries that have traditionally not provided health insurance like agriculture or restaurant industry. #4 No cost at point of use trade school and public college. From the 1860s when the Morrill Act established land grant public colleges and universities until about the 1980s, public colleges were supported almost entirely by taxpayer revenues. When I attended Buffalo State in the late 1960s and early 1970s, my tuition was a token amount of $200 per semester, which went to the State Dormitory Authority to pay to build new dormitories. Tuition at the CUNY colleges in NYC was free to city residents. SUNY and CUNY weren't unique. Most states had similarly token tuition at public colleges. Many community colleges around the country didn't charge tuition, either. My graduate tuition at the U of Nebraska in the mid 1970s was about $300 a semester. Free or almost free tuition at public colleges is not some radical socialist idea but an American tradition. We need to resurrect it. One point I would add is that I would hope that a new administration and new Congress would address agricultural policy, which essentially dates back to the original New Deal and favors corporate farming over family farms. I think that in addition to supporting farmers producing staple ag products like corn, wheat, soybeans, and meat, there needs to be programs to encourage and support produce farming in diverse areas (including within urban areas), as well as programs to assist the transfer of farming enterprises from older farmers to younger ones.
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Most of the EU countries as well as Canada practice what American conservatives call "socialism", primarily universal health care and social programs to support low income citizens and retirees. Norway -- and maybe Sweden -- have much more expansive social programs. Yeah, people pay higher taxes in those countries but their standards of living and their political freedoms and processes aren't impinged upon because these countries are "socialist". Why isn't there a mass exodus from the EU countries today when they're largely "socialist" as opposed to when millions left those same countries in the late 19th century and early 20th century when capitalism was the economic system there?
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Anyone Watching Melania?
SoTier replied to Trump_is_Mentally_fit's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I agree totally. I believe that Melania not only renegotiated her pre-nup, I think she also negotiated to get Barron more money (in his trust fund I would assume). -
I can't possibly imagine how such an insightful poster such as you could possibly get banned from a site run by DR. I don't agree with many of your points but at least you've given some points to discuss. We need to get back to discussing issues with civility and listening to each other rather than just throwing bombs across the morass. Basically this is it. Nothing gets done unless/until the coronavirus is dealt with. If a stimulus program isn't passed in the lame-duck session of Congress between the election and the swearing in of the new Congress on January 3, it will be quickly passed in the new Congress. It should have been passed months ago, and has magnified the economic misery of the pandemic.
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Local attorney trying to block sale of home to Tre White
SoTier replied to YoloinOhio's topic in Off the Wall
Tre isn't being sued. It's the real estate reps for the seller and the seller. If this hadn't involved a Bills player, it wouldn't have even been in the news even in Buffalo Business First. My guess is that Tre is purchasing this house with/for family, so ilikely by the time they decided to make an offer on the house, it was already under contract, but instead of being honest about it, the seller's agent tried to con the buyers into upping their offer. When they didn't, the agent and seller tried to sell the house to Tre. -
Are Patriots done without Brady, Sure seems that way
SoTier replied to North Buffalo's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I think NE would have been done WITH Brady given everything else that's happened since last season. Just maybe not so obviously. -
Local attorney trying to block sale of home to Tre White
SoTier replied to YoloinOhio's topic in Off the Wall
Why is this even news? I mean, even in Buffalo Business First, why is this even news? This is simply a shady real estate deal on the part of the real estate broker/firm/sellers. -
Now, I don't give a pile of dog poop if you want to call me names, impugn my motives, reply with memes or youtube videos or whatever, but I draw the line at smearing me by quoting me and then changing that post to fit whatever agenda you have. Not being a snowflake, I can take care of myself in ideological tussles, but I will not have my words altered so that somebody seeing that altered post in the future might think that I actually said something I didn't. I've had two posters do that to my quotes in the last week, both excusing themselves with "FIFY". Well, dudes and dudettes, you best not try to "fix it" for me. My words be mine, and don't mess with them. I don't care if you're supporting me or dissing me. Changing quoted statements is against the TOS and I will PM you a warning about it once when I see that you've done that, friend or foe. Do it again, and I will report you for it. If other posters want to accept others changing their quotes, that's their choice. I'm not policing PPP, just my own posts. I don't care if you rip what I have to say to shreds, but don't quote me and then change the wording of those quotes to pretend I said something I didn't.
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Ummm ... how can a prediction be a "hoax"? What do you think will happen when Covid Donnie loses and refuses to accept it?
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I expect it's many more than 10 Republican Senators who feel that way. It's probably only 10 who've actually voiced those fears and discussed it with their colleagues. I don't think that the election will be all that close, either in popular vote or in electoral votes that there will be much chance of Trump having a viable course of legal action. Even Republican pollsters are saying that Trump's got very little chance of winning. That doesn't mean that Trump wouldn't try the courts or that he wouldn't try to rally his Trumplets via social media to protest in the streets etc. Supporting Trump in refusing to leave office after losing the election would be the kiss of death to any politician. It would forever tarnish "Republican" with the "traitor" label, and doom the GOP's electoral prospects for the foreseeable future, maybe forever (ie, it would be replaced with another conservative party). If Covid Donnie is defeated and refuses to leave, I think both Congress and the Supreme Court will turn on him. The SCOTUS will throw out his legal appeals because they believe in the rule of law, and the House will impeach him and the US Senate will vote him out of office unless somebody can persuade him to resign. Pence will be POTUS until January 20, 2021. The GOP will then try to figure out how to rebuild from the political disaster that was Donald J Trump while the country as a whole will struggle to recover from the social and economic disaster that Covid Donnie visited upon this country. The new Congress sworn in on January 3, 2021 will pass a constitutional amendment providing for the removal of a POTUS if Congress determines that he's unfit for office and send it out to the states for ratification. It will be ratified, possibly in record time. The 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 25th amendments were all proposed and ratified in response to economic or political issues that arose shortly before their proposals. My guess is that it will be decades at least before the American electorate takes another flyer on a some wannabe President without some political experience.
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Easily, the most annoying woman in America
SoTier replied to Unforgiven's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Why is Kamala "annoying"? Because, like your hero Covid Donnie, you dislike successful, accomplished women who aren't subservient to bullies? Or because she wouldn't give a Internet tough guy wannabe like yourself a second look -- even in your wildest fantasies? -
2020 Election is officially Trump vs Biden
SoTier replied to transplantbillsfan's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
👍 👍 👍 Go, DeAndre!!!! The indignation of the Trumplets in that piece was hilarious, especially the one from the guy whining to the Cardinals on social media that he had his eight-year-old son with him. Trumplet Daddy is taking his kid to what is essentially a hate rally complaining that the kid was exposed to an obscene gesture ... priceless! That ranks up there with the Baby Trumps Ivanka and Jared threatening to sue the Lincoln Project because of their billboards in Times Square. Like most RW snowflakes these Trumplets can dish it but can't take it. -
Be smart and get your flu shot. Be smarter and wear a mask and practice social distancing. October 23, 2020 - US recorded a record of 83+k new cases of the coronavirus. The number of hospitalizations is the highest since June. October 22, 2020 - The National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University reports that between 130,000 and 210,000 deaths from coronavirus could have been avoided with a better response from the US government policies and crisis messaging. (Avoidable Covid-19 Deaths) October 13, 2020 - The U of Washington's IHME projects that more than 363,000 Americans could die of the coronavirus by January 1, 2021 and more than 394,000 by February 1, 2021 with the seasonal flu making the coronavirus more deadly. October 26, 2020 - 225,735 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 496. October 25, 2020 - 225,239 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 344. October 24, 2020 - 224,899 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 905. October 23, 2020 - 223,995 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 944. October 22, 2020 - 223,051 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 830. October 21, 2020 - 222,221 Americans have died of coronavirus with a single day death toll of 1141. Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 21-23, 2020: 777 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 14-20, 2020: 726 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, October 7-13, 2020: 851 Average daily deaths from coronavirus, September 30-October 6, 2020: 707 October 20, 2020 - 221,078 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 13, 2020 - 215,995 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 6, 2020 - 210,909 Americans have died of coronavirus. October 1, 2020 - 21,311 Americans died of coronavirus in the month of September, an average of 710 per day. October 1, 2020 - 207,808 Americans have died of coronavirus. September 1, 2020 - 185,594 Amercians have died of coronavirus. July 1, 2020 - 127,299 Americans have died of coronavirus.