whatdrought

Well *****. Levi played well last week and if Hyde isn’t right Marlowe will be missed.

I said last week that I felt confident but didn’t want to pick a score. Same feeling this time, but more confident. I think we win, and I’m not sure it’ll be all that close. I also expect our defense to continue to show us that we have the pieces to make a run.

Not that it’s about this in any way, but I’m curious if this is the kind of thing that gets Josh on the Walter Peyton man of the year radar? I remember Watt won it in a landslide after raising money for Hurricane Harvey relief, but that was more his actions, less about the community supporting a player.

I was actually just wondering about him last night... I was hoping he’d take a step this year after he showed some stuff early last year, but obviously he hasn’t gone anywhere... I was also hoping Harry would turn into a monster 1 tech.... my judgement might need some help.

I doubt the Denver game gets flexed to Primetime, though the Dolphins might get flexed if it’s got playoff implications.

Yeah, and it’s a great idea. whatever happened - our guy is the man.

Oh yeah! I have no issue with it at all. I just had a moment where I was like “wow! It’s so cool that it was exactly $17,000.00 and he could do that to make it half a million and oh wait that was probably planned...”

Okay, I love this, and I love Josh, and I love that we’ve raised this much money.... but the odds of this with the 17k to half a mil feels staged. 😛 I’m sure he donated 17k, but I question the spontaneous bit of them posting the tweet and being exactly at $483k.

feels like he’s already there? Bledsoe and Tyrod would be the only others in the conversation.

Why are we cutting out what we did against the best offense in the league? We’re tied for 6th in diff, but it should be tied for 5th due to that garbage INT call against the Rams. (Indy also has a gripe from last week)

Wow. I forget about that some times...

“Hold my beer” - Tennessee

Indianapolis is gross.

meh, not sure those guys count. They were backups but they didn’t stay backups. The best part of their career wasn’t as a backup. I swear, Jadaveon Clowney would be the best defensive player in NFL history if he had 50% of the work ethic of someone like JJ Watt.

I will say, Rivers hasn’t lost his timing. So many times I expect him to get hit but he gets the ball out just in time.

Is Reich the best backup QB in NFL history? Feels like Foles has his name in the ring for the SB run... He looked relaxed on that one...

Has he always shot-put the ball like that and I just never noticed? It’s so ugly.

Phillip Rivers is a duck hunters dream...

I just don’t understand how the Colts said: “yep! Phillip rivers puts us over the top.”

Where has that been proven? The Rooney rule was built on the idea of forced, inorganic diversity and it clearly doesn’t work for its intended purposes or else this current rule wouldn’t be necessary. The problem is starting point: You either believe that teams will do what is necessary to win, including innovation, in which case equality will be king. Or you believe that there is a league wide problem with discrimination - either explicit or implicit (conscious or unconscious) in which case you need action. This is action. The problem is that it won’t work, like the Rooney rule didn’t. So the question becomes, is this problem - this theory of systemic oppression (and they do believe it is systemic because they’re trying to chance the system to address it) of minority candidates actually a problem at all, and if so - how do half measures help anything? Let me take it past the hypothetical: do you believe minority candidates that are more qualified are passed over because of their race? @Hapless Bills Fan - thanks for your response (not quoting to avoid length) - do you think there are minority candidates who are the best fit being passed over because of bias (conscious or unconscious)? And if this does happen regularly, why not offer teams 1st round picks to fix this? Doesn’t the argument exist that acknowledging the problem and making it clear that they believe this racism is happening, and then slapping a band aid on it make it much worse?

But why is it about race? If it’s racist, conscious or unconscious, fix it... if it’s not then don’t make it about race. You can’t have that cake and eat it too.

Surprised that article didn’t include anything about the donations? It referenced the Seahawks game, so it was written this week, maybe before that blew up, but I would have expected them to go back and edit it. Maybe they didn’t get permission from Josh?

Prompted by someone mentioning the fans response to Norwood after the miss, and looking at some articles from then, I’m curious... what do you think happens in the following 3 years is the kick goes in?

So funny that the donations are the same $$.... it was $17 then for the drought, right? I saw that in an ESPN (or something along those lines) feature and it about made me cry.

Right, but the problem is that it's not about creating initiatives for all "out of circle" candidates - just minority ones. Right, but there are bad coaches of minority and white persuasion. It happens. The new blood argument is fine - but we're seeing that happen because teams want to win. Again, McCarthy and Rhule stand as huge examples to that. Why does race come into that question? This goes back to where our discussion started - if it's systemic racism, then why is two 3's too much? If this is about minority candidates being passed over because of their skin color, and this rule will help solve it (or the Rooney rule, etc) why not make it first round picks?