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Great question, but be careful what you ask for with that question on here. You’ll feel the full wrath of the resident Drew Brees’es. The “well my grandaddy served and I’m steaming mad about this” crowd. It’s sad after all this people would rather spend all this time and energy fighting and deflecting vs. stopping to actually listen and ask themselves whether we have a legitimate race problem in this country.
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Gee, thanks for throwing a bone. That’s mighty white of ya! It’s sad you think one black president makes up for 400 years of oppression. One who continues to be undermined by his successor and droves of white people to this day. Rolling back any progress he was able to make. In fact, it’s another example of what happens whenever black folks taste a little success in this country. And you said I had no idea if I was talking to someone white, Black, Hispanic, or Asian. ?? Oh, and by the way, it’s not just me who feels the Merriam Webster definition needs a little updating. I know it’s not Fox News like you’re used to but here you go if you care to read it: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/06/09/us/dictionary-racism-definition-update-trnd/index.html (now that’s a mic drop ?)
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Goodell Admits NFL Was Wrong Not to Listen
Blank Stare replied to K-9's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
For anyone still on the fence about the pervasiveness of racial inequality in this country, I encourage you to do a little research on Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers, and a little gem called COINTELPRO under J. Edgar Hoover. It’s not the first example in US History, but explains a lot about how we got to where we are today psychologically. For anyone looking for the cliff notes version: https://mobile.twitter.com/clairewillett/status/1266894029498675200 They sure as hell don’t teach you that in the history books. At least not where I’m from. We’ve been conditioned for a long time to react the way we do to these situations. It’s time we wake up, acknowledge it, educate ourselves, and become part of the solution. -
Goodell Admits NFL Was Wrong Not to Listen
Blank Stare replied to K-9's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Good first step. -
Josh Allen is training with Bills receivers in Florida
Blank Stare replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Thanks. I wasn’t sure based on Gelber’s wording. Would’ve been interesting if Josh had been throwing to both. Again, not because I want AB. Just interesting. -
Josh Allen is training with Bills receivers in Florida
Blank Stare replied to HappyDays's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Anyone see Gelber’s response to someone asking about AB? He said “He worked out with AB yesterday”. Wonder who he was talking about Allen or Diggs. Not at all advocating for AB, but an interesting comment in light of last year. Anyway, good to see him getting in work with the guys. Especially Diggs. -
Any interest in Everson Griffen
Blank Stare replied to falgobofu's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
I’d replace Murphy with him in a second, but I think it’s pretty telling he’s lasted this long and we haven’t shown interest with the Leslie Frazier connection. -
In my mind, cap management is a given. A constant. However, keeping everyone you want to keep is different than keeping everyone you wish you could. You always hear the GM/coach-speak “Boy, we’d really like to keep everyone”. Obviously, you can’t. But you can prioritize cap dollars for anyone you truly want to keep around. It comes with drafting successful players. Time always tells whether you made the right call with your cap allocation choices. Texans and Niners absolutely could’ve kept Hopkins and Buckner around, but they decided to allocate their cap dollars elsewhere. The organization didn’t look at it as a strong enough “want”. Again, when I say you can keep anyone you desire, I said nothing of the consequences. How strong is the desire? ? Yes, bad example. Rather than running from it and delete it, I’m comfortable just making the edit and acknowledging that mistake. It happens. Agree. Bad example to use.
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I don’t think we are in fundamental disagreement, but I think you may be misinterpreting my comment. Of course they won’t keep everyone, but they can figure out a way to keep anyone they really want to keep. Will that come with sacrifices to other areas to make it work with the cap? Sometimes. But they, like any other team, can keep anyone they really want to keep. I said nothing of the potential consequences for who they choose to keep. I’m constantly reminded of the Saints with this topic. Years ago, we heard a lot of “They are up against the cap, there’s no way they can sign Jairus Byrd or X player without the cap catching up to them.” All these years later the Saints have remained competitive and kept most of their core players together. Besides GM and coaching staff continuity, the most successful teams are able to identify their franchise QB, keep core players, infuse the roster with cheap young talent, and effectively manage the cap. The Saints have all of those things in spades and have never really had to “pay the piper”. Look, I get it. As Bills fans we aren’t accustomed to a competent GM and coaching staff, but we finally have that folks. It can be done. Enjoy the ride! Edit: I just looked up the Saints record the last 10 years or so, and yes, they had a few 7-9 seasons sprinkled in there. No one is more familiar with 7-9 than we are, so maybe not the best example I could’ve used. But, even in those 7-9 years I never remember them being flat out terrible. Plus, with the Falcons and Carolina, they were in some pretty tough divisional matchups.
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The Draft is a total crap shoot...
Blank Stare replied to Inigo Montoya's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
This is completely fair and I don’t blame you after the misguided moves made by the previous regime. If we were picking #9 again this year, I would’ve been completely against trading that pick for Diggs. As good as he is, you don’t trade top 10 picks for anything other than QBs. Fortunately, I think the Bills would’ve also been out for that price since we could’ve had our pick of any of the top WRs. It’s crazy what a difference 13 picks makes on how I view a deal. Either 9 or 22, it’s nothing more than lotto tickets. Diggs is still a proven great player, but I wouldn’t trade the #9 pick. -
The Draft is a total crap shoot...
Blank Stare replied to Inigo Montoya's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Right on ?. Innocent mistake. It happens and I’m not usually that guy. -
The Draft is a total crap shoot...
Blank Stare replied to Inigo Montoya's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
*Dante Fowler And, yes I agree. People (not on this board but in the media) were getting all worked up because of what we gave up for Diggs. Based on where we were picking, I’ll take the proven commodity all day. Especially at a position of desperation and on a reasonable deal (comparatively speaking). -
Buffalo Bills Embedded 2020 premiers 5/20
Blank Stare replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Never long enough. Love these things. -
Fitz’s or Wood’s?
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Now that would be something! ? He was wearing all that Bills gear after all.
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Are people really debating/criticizing the other driver for calling in Ed’s reckless behavior? Good grief. I’m guessing those criticizing it is because he’s a Bills player and this may impact the season. Football and/or the season mean jack if he would have hit and seriously injured or killed someone. No one should be making excuses for Ed. I’m sure he’s a fine young man, but he made his bed.
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Beane on The Pat McAfee Show Today
Blank Stare replied to DrDawkinstein's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
McAfee is great on College Game Day. Either it would be an epic success or a beautiful disaster, but ESPN should give serious thought to getting him involved in the revamped MNF broadcast in some way. I don’t know if he has the chops to pull off a two man booth setup, but definitely a 3 man booth if they go back to that format.