Simon

Nice. How long you on the beach?

So that really is you in your avatar!

I'll pin it each day if you do. I should be around more than usual this time of year as I'm currently getting my ass kicked by Lyme and Anaplasmosis

It also has nothing to do with training camp and doesn't belong here.

Let's keep this thread focused on Training Camp updates and actual news instead of using it to repeatedly rehash arguments that are already ongoing in multiple other threads.

Because not every ad, hype clip or video gag needs its very own thread. Now we have a place to put them. 👍

I've gotten into the habit at camp of making various tall rum drinks during the day, biting the top off a couple of these and then sticking them in my mug upside down and letting them gradually melt into it. 🤙

Only 10k. I'm hitting that cheap bastard up again next weekend.

I think it's funnier than hell that I can't tell if you're kidding

A B C We have a few camps on the shore of a secluded stretch of the Allegheny where we shoot every year. I don't think I'd have the stones to cut loose in a neighborhood with no margin for error.

It's good to let off a shot of steam every few years.

So you need me to pull your own quotes because you're so stupid you don't know what you did or said 5 minutes ago? You're dumber than a goldfish. Thanks for proving my point. You have no idea what my worldview is. You're such a spoonfed weak-minded parrot that you instantly assume that anybody who recognizes your pathetic hypocrisy must care about your mindless lapdog politics. When my country finally implodes, it will be spoiled-rotten little cheerleaders like you that caused it.

Yeah, and just last week you were literally rooting for leftists to jump off buildings. You are a pathetic, brainwashed, hypocritical, window-licking doucherocket.

Judging Biscuit solely on sacks is an extraordinary disservice to him; that dude was all over the football field. There were Sundays where I was convinced there were three guys wearing Bennet jerseys out there.

Even a 2" mortar would probably kill you if you did something that stupid with it.

Probably my favorite of all the lists, but one major quibble, and admittedly from a personal favorite perspective. Phat Pat Williams belongs on it; one of the most legitimately bad-ass sonofabitches to ever put on a Bills uniform, imo.

A terrible waste of good pyrotechnics 🤯

Those two were an absolutely textbook example of the difference between a tough, cerebral CB and a great athlete playing CB. Nate Clements was absolutely one of the best pure athletes to ever put on a Bills uniform, imo. When he was at the top of his game he was arguably the best CB in the NFL for a stretch. Unfortunately he was either lazy and hated homework or he was just dumber than a chicken. This wasn't necessarily an issue against average OC/QB combinations because he was such a good athlete he could recover from almost any misstep. But when matched up against smart offenses that knew how to exploit mistakes and tendencies, he could be taken advantage of at times. While he was one of the few corners you'll ever see that could literally affect a scoreboard from that outside reactive position, he was never smart enough to do it consistently and because of it never reached his full potential. Winfield was nowhere near the athlete that Clements was, and frankly it wasn't even close. But his smarts and his instincts made him a more consistently reliable defender. He actually got beat over the top a lot because he had to gamble to impact the game, but because he was really savvy about genuinely understanding down/distance and recognizing the concept of the entire defense, he very rarely got stung in those instances because offenses weren't set up or in position to take advantage of it when he did. If both had their A games, Clements was better simply due to his out of this world athleticism. But Winfield ended up being a better player in the long run because of his superior understanding of both defenses and offenses and situational football.

Could you temporarily mount a small strip of bird spikes on top of the mirror to keep it from landing there?

Saw a new one last week that I thought you'd appreciate: About a dozen of us were sitting around a very large, very late night fire and a couple people started roasting hot dogs and passing them around. One girl got handed a plate and instead of a hot dog, there was a Smirnoff in the bun.

It was only Guards

Annihilation was also an adaptation.

You're wrong and have no idea why

I disagree with this; I think you got several bits of good discussion from several other intelligent, thoughtful posters. Just because they didn't agree with you didn't make them wrong, make their opinions baseless or make their input garbage. It's OK for people to see things differently; there's no need to insult them for that.

I think it's a matter of the further we get into the cell phone era, folks become jaded and put less meaning and effort into it. Taking 10 whole seconds to type an accurate thread title is just toooooooo much.