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They do still have a "doubtful" designation which means "unlikely to play" (not sure of %) But yeah, if there's actually no chance that the player will play, calling them "questionable" (or even doubtful) would likely call up an NFL investigation

Along with your execrable taste in what football shows you suck down your optic nerves into your skull, this post epitomizes why I normally don't engage with you. You are totally unable to acknowledge valid points. Whether that's because you're unable to process them, or whether as a posturing technique in debate, I can't tell. I could respond to your points, but why bother, when you'll only move the goalposts and re-define what you're saying - first the Bills D has been healthy all season. No, they haven't been healthy all season, they lost key players for the entire season - well that doesn't count, because it's a "reasonable injury to cope with". Sheesh.

Why don't you saunter off and 'enjoy yourself' watching Nick Wright and other clickbait trolls then, if you find them so authoritative and interesting? Considering that the week before they lost an all-pro CB who appeared to have returned to form....and then in London they lost an all-pro LB and their best DT, AND they were all lost for the season or most of the season (DQ did come back) - - that seems like an "OTHER THAN THAT, Mrs Lincoln, how did you like the play?" kind of statement. Since that might go over your head: if you put together a great D and then lose the best player at every level for the season (or close) 1/3 of the way through, you can't just subtract that game out and say "oh, but they've been healthy all season". They've been missing 2 key players all season (and one most of the season). And by the way, that 3rd string QB had just helped his team win 3 straight against two teams that were fighting hard for the playoffs, and against the Ravens in a cold monsoon rain. Let's not act like we can just average a team's performance over the entire season and tell who they are in late Dec/January. The 3rd string 'Reindeer' was rocking a 118 passer rating and a 3:0 TD:INT ratio coming into last week's game.

I give up You work it out for yourself. (Hint: the NFL has requirements regarding injury reports)

Yeah, I don't think it's a coincidence that the Bills suffered a huge rash of injuries playing Jacksonville on what was reported to be Astroturf over cement in London, and then suffered a second rash of injuries playing on a field that doesn't have under-field heating. It would have started off a bit flexible because it was covered by snow and a tarp which both insulate, but by game time it was probably cement-hard. Part of that is the Bils D is built light and fast. So to be able to hit stick, they go for the "A: in the F = MA thing. That means they're gonna hit the cement at high speed and if they hit wrong, Bam.

Um. What has to happen in order for an effective pass rush to get home? Think about it.

LOL why would you think the Bills would be in a hurry to let the media (and Andy Reid) know? They gave him a game status - "questionable". Let everyone find out 90 minutes before the game.

It's been a minute since I've been there, but I thought the bottom of the upper deck was ground level? So they aren't going to take the upper deck into the lower bowl, just to the bottom of the upper deck and then out the tunnels? This isn't a great photo but

I mean, I think that's the plan, but we all know that weather is so predictable, and the weather in WNY in winter is the best-predicted of all

That's exactly it. Nickelodeon has a Guide to Football, and they broadcast games with their own effects (like a slime explosion after scores. These "slimelights" give you a pretty good idea. https://www.nick.com/video/3r0aci/nfl-slimetime-slimelights-from-week-3 They're going to broadcast their own version of the Superbowl: https://www.nick.com/video/slbdep/nfl-slimetime-it-s-the-actual-super-bowl-on-nickelodeon And yeah, the whole idea is to help get the young generation more interested in football and teach them about it: https://www.nick.com/stories/e5355l/nickelodeons-guide-to-football-nfl-slimetime If kids enjoy it and have fun with it, where's the harm? The Bills social media team did well with it, the whole thing where they pretended to not know who it was for, and then Kyle got slimed and rubbed his slimy cap on Allen and faceprinted him with slime. Well played, Bills media! Sometimes taking a 5 minute fun "break" helps you re-set and focus better, that's why college dorms have ice cream socials and "silent dance parties" and so forth.

Wait - wat? I think you're reversing cause and effect on the wing thing. Saffold said there were "uncharacteristic things" going on in the week leading up to the Cincy game. The wing party was Dawkins attempt to help guys change their mood and reset for the game.

They may be working on the idea that you can never be sure Mom Nature won't dump another load? And fans in the lower bowl can pelt the players with snowballs, so they want to take away their ammo? Mitch Morse indicated the Steelers sideline was getting pelted with snowballs pretty good. It's notable that Mike Tomlin apparently didn't freak out and complain to the refs and ask them to stop the game like McDaniel did. Probably just told the players it's a snowball, turn your back and keep your hood up. I see Reid using that as an opportunity to try to derail or disrupt a Bills drive in some way, so I'm all about clearing out the ammo. The "snow showers" when the Bills scored were super-cool though. If they get the place cleared, those will be missed. For someone who asked up-thread: Evidence they are using chutes to help clear the seats

Do you think the Pit would be satisfied to be fed with wings and pizza?

Yeah, it would be good if they could somehow implement heightened security to avoid that 'Cuz we both know someone will try

I don't think you can toss someone in. They have to go willingly, for the Good of the Team.

Love how she sync'd up the beat to the juking I believe I saw he was clocked at 19:33 mph

Now we have Edgar Allen Poe Fanfic Poetry about The Pit

Bernard must be catching naps in the training room, working with trainers who are treating him in shifts Bernard listed as "DNP" but he was out there with a jersey on, walking across the field house and doing some stretching. He didn't look too lively though, unlike Smiley (Taron Johnson) Also caught a glimpse of Benford in the distance.

I think this is one of those situations where some of the pundits (Orlovsky knows ball) are looking at the injuries on the Bills defense, and saying "no way can a one-armed LB, a practice squad LB coming off his couch, a backup nickel, and two backup CBs contain Pacheco, Kelsey, and Rashee Rice To which I say "We Shall See, Zorn. We Shall See."

Not only that, but someone said he was running the scout team defense. So he wasn't even practicing with the starting D.

I wish I'd been day drinking And not in the Mike McDaniels "Stupid Tshirt Slogan that Everyone Knows is Fake" sense, in the "No, for reals" sense.

Yup!!!!! Now do Elam...."This guy is useless, he just got trucked. What now, DPI? What a bust, waste of a first round pick...." *two plays later* "KAIIR! That guy can Ball, Man! Way to go!"

My take for whatever it's worth, is "Nah". For one thing, it's not clear that it's a "super virus" to anything in the wild. There are a number of things that, if you're forcibly infected with a significant amount, might kill you but that aren't particularly good at spreading on their own. For research on a potential vaccine, we have the published genetic sequence of this ***** (Genbank Accession #MT072864) and the beauty of mRNA vaccines is, that could be all we need. It's worth having a look at that, and someone probably is.

These days, I'm this kind of GDT poster.

It's always nice to do a little digging before one propegates fear mongering headlines, and while putting "create" mutant coronavirus isn't as bad as some, there are a lot of them out there. Yeah, I've been following this. Here's the paper if anyone cares https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.03.574008v1.full Note that biorx server is NOT a peer reviewed journal. They didn't invite other scientists to look at their study design or results and critique. That matters. Bottom line up front: it appears real. there are legitimate and real concerns about this kind of work, but the result of this is likely not as alarming as headlines are making it sound. Snopes does a pretty good job dissecting it. https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/01/18/chinese-mutant-covid-19/ First, it's not Sars-CoV2 the virus that causes Covid, it's a pangolin coronavirus GX_P2V that's like a "cousin" of Sars-CoV2, isolated in 2017. Second, the virus mutated while being propagated in cell culture, this wasn't genetic engineering to cause gain of function. As Snopes notes: "The virus mutated from its original isolate, but it is a bit unfair to claim that the scientists "created" the virus. Since coronaviruses (and viruses in general) are known to rapidly mutate their genetic instructions, it is unsurprising that the virus used in the study mutated from the time it was isolated. In the paper (and in prior research by the same group), the researchers note that this particular variant of GX_P2V contained the mutation because it had better adapted to the cell cultures in which it was grown." In simple terms, mutating is what RNA viruses do...they're slobs (technical talk: RNA viruses have a naturally lower fidelity of replication, so they incorporate 'mistakes' more often. Mistakes that provide a competitive advantage to the virus = mutation) Third, the genetic engineering took place in the mice, who were given gene to express the human receptor proteins Covid binds to and uses to enter cells (technically: hACE2). But of course, that's all the humanity they gave the mice; we don't know how that genetic change affects the murine immune system or how high lethality in hACE2 mice would translate to a human population, or even.....a larger number of mice because.........wait for it..... Fourth: we're talking FOUR mice. They injected FOUR mice, and they all died. "All died" is bad, but four is a damned small sample size. I want to know what the mortality rate in these mice is, in their transgenic mouse facility, under normal conditions. Lots of other questions. Last but not least, there's a fair amount of moral indignation in the scientific community over this whole line of research and its risks vs. potential learnings and possible benefits in the first place. Rightfully so IMHO: If it would persuade China to for-real start treating wet markets like a problem and to crack down on the black-market trade in pangolins and pangolin parts, it might do some good. That's all I got for ya right now @BringBackFergy, hope it helps. If anything unclear, ask.