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Josh is a running back for that play. He's not down by contact, nor is he trying to give himself up. In fact he keeps fighting for yards. You can't lead with your helmet, so it's not legal and should be a penalty by rule, but just like DPI and holding, a lot of that goes on every game and is not called. If we don't want Josh taking shots like that, he has to stop running those QB draws.. Simple as that. It's not a clean football play. Can't lead with the crown of the helmet. So by rule, it's a foul. But you're correct that RBs are hit like that constantly and it's not usually called unless the player is "defenseless"

Maybe one reason the parents are so reactive about it, is that they failed to take all care they reasonably could? Like the dad and son were considerably ahead of the daughter or something?

Practice squad. Huh. When we re-signed Cole Beasley to the Practice Squad, it didn't have very good results. Hopefully this results in something better. Apparently, Deon Cain, WR, from the practice squad. Each team gets 2 practice squad call-ups per game, who revert to the PS immediately after the game without needing to clear waivers or be signed to the 53 man roster. Each practice squad player can be called-up 3 times.

This sounds like a believeable account, except that why would a father let a belligerent drunk push past him and have access to his medically fragile daughter? Would you be like "hold up fella!" and get between him and your daughter? And if you're going down stairs and your daughter is behind you and your son, wouldn't you be in a position to catch her and break her fall? Maybe I don't "get" the geometry of the situation?

The thing about Bills mafia is, you know if we felt that would bring us victory, parents and kids would line up to be chosen.

There's bruising, then there's bruising.

Geez, fans really ought to be able to attend a freakin' football game without passing the He-Man Test of Carolina Boyst Tough Guy I personally think the Bills/Stadium bear a lot of culpability for apparently not modernizing their snow removal (if it's still largely done by hand and not with the snow blowers Green Bay uses), thus leaving the stairs so slick it's easy to fall. They really need to do better. I may write them a Carefully Worded Letter about this. PS you can ditch the "probably".

I've looked into it, and Hope Rises is a legit nonprofit with very high % of their funds going to the people they support. So calling it a media/fundraising organization kind of mis-represents it a bit, IMO It is true the founder is a reporter, and that if they didn't have that connection their story might not have gained so much traction. I don't think the family is making extraordinary claims. I think that's AB with the "fan threw little girl down the stairs" tweet is the extraordinary claim, but they can hardly control AB when coaches and football organizations failed to be able to do so.

Now that would be too far. I can understand the family of a girl who has battled cancer, relapsed, and battled again going for a chance to see their favorite team play close to home, even though it's a school night and the weather sucks, because when you're in those shoes, you just don't know if you'll be able to do it next year or next decade. But if they take her to a mosh pit I'm Done with them.

I disagree with it being a money grab. The GoFundMe has been there for more than a year, and the girl/family are evidently known to a respected reporter and founder of a legit nonprofit Hope Rises. I think the family legit had a bad time after trying to give their 49ers fan daughter a "bucket list" experience, and are upset about that. We have no way of knowing how slight a bump it was. It could have been a bump that was deliberate and harder than it needed to be because the guy is a jerk. But, at a crowded event where the stairs are "fall on your ass" slick without any bumps needed, that doesn't amount to assault charges either.

If I were guessing....I would guess that the family filed a police report, but police told the family that after review of the video, it didn't appear that there was enough evidence to support charges since the stairs were so slippery people were falling without any pushes, all night.

Did I speak to the contrary? But I would like to point out there are different ways to show that which are less susceptible to being abused. For example, one could donate to Oshei in her name, or send a note or a card wishing her healing and health to Hope Rises in her name I personally think this story is legit that she has cancer and the family will use the money to defray medical costs and bills, but the potential for someone to create a story around a go-fund-me and not be legit is certainly there; sadly, it has happened

I could be wrong, but I don't see it as much of a mystery. Phillips is at his best as a penetrating DT. He wants to go after the QB like he's a hungry warthog and the QB is covered in steak. So he leaves too quickly and doesn't maintain gap integrity. The Bills defense depends upon the DL getting pressure on the QB, but not so quickly that they lose their gap and become vulnerable to the run. They need to be aggressive, but not TOO aggressive, which is a fine line thus a tough "ask", and one reason why our DLmen don't rack up as many hits and sacks as some other teams.

It's the Mom. Her name is apparently Mikey Sherry (or she used both her and her husband's name to create the account, but it's pretty clear it's the mom posting.

Strangely enough, in actual news outlets featuring actual interviews, it doesn't. The family was on the stairs, a rowdy Bills fan didn't wait for them to clear but said "I'm gonna push through those 49ers fans", he bumped the father and son, then he bumped the girl who slipped and fell into a chair, bruising her ribs. He was a jerk and an #######, but not a malicious assaultive criminal from the sound of it. That's consistent with reports of people in that section who didn't see anything out of the way - people must have been getting bumped and slipping and falling all through the game, so that wasn't a happening that would cause fans to rise up and beat the crap out of the guy before delivering him to the hands of the law, like actually throwing a child down the stairs would have been. It's Antonio Brown tweeting about "Bills fan throws little girl with cancer down the stairs" and to some extent, the mom's original angry post about "pushed her daughter down the stairs" (moms of kids with cancer are allowed to be emotional and protective Mama Bears IMO but AB is just an attention *****

Cancer treatment is awful with thousands of dollars of deductables and expenses even good insurance won't cover So I have nothing against a family getting some $$ to help them with their battle But her Gofundme has gotten pretty plump from the incident.

The same article reports that the Bills have reached out to the family They kind of have to, there are articles in all sorts of news media about it now from the Toronto Sun to SI The reporter who originally tweeted about it, who works with Hope Rises, also reported that the Bills have reached out https://www.facebook.com/hoperisesnews/posts/pfbid02r69AddfD9WDJF59q4LTUDZtqNUTuCGpS9cfimFaa6SjLCuXS2iCb4cwZ7Q4QxaCrl

When you're a sports star with $173M career earnings so far, I guess you can afford it. Meanwhile some teachers clean houses to make ends meet.

That'd be why his snap count fell. But Sunday was kind of brutal for both DLs. Phillips has always been a + pass rusher from 3T and has to be given firm marching orders to mind his gap in the run game.

I was looking over their injury reports and they seem to have a lot of OLmen either out, or on the report many weeks. The Rams are good, don't underestimate them. You're welcome, we aim to please

Josh is smart, but I thought I read somewhere that he bought that house intending to tear it down and custom build

I think if McVay tries the run plays that initially succeeded for SF, he may be surprised. The OL on both sides of the ball were winning against the DL, especially at first, because of the footing. And McCaffrey is a special player. I mean, it's possible. The Bills were 6-6 at one point last season, won out, and won the division. So it's possible. As long as our guys stay focused, "humble and hungry", I don't think it's probable.

Josh doesn't live in Firebaugh any more. He had a smaller house in Orange County then he bought one in Monarch Bay in 2023. Monarch Bay is a gated community with a private golf course. https://thenew961.com/josh-allen-home/ It's still like 60 miles away from SoFi stadium and could take 2 hrs to get there. So I don't think they'll be visiting.

It's a valid point of view that for a game, on the field play should matter more than actions away from the field (Von Miller's behavior was not in the off season, it was during the bye week). That said, there's a lot of space between "don't commit domestic violence" and "be a role model off the field"

I got taken to all kind of late night stuff as a kiddo, but Hell woulda been renting out ice skates before I was taken to a night event on a school night. But when you have a child in remission from cancer....it does change your risk perception. We all live our lives as though there will be time enough; you can wait and take the 4 year old to a Bills game when they're 14 Once the kid has had cancer....you always worry it will come back. You have to live as though there might not be tomorrow for them. So if there's something rare and really important, like you're all big 49ers fans but can't afford to fly to San Francisco for a game, and the 9ers are playing in Buffalo....I can understand why you "seize the day". I think they shoulda picked seats in the family section, myself. But I understand why they went to the game.