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I missed this before. Just watched the presentations of the nominees and announcement of the winner on YouTube As Josh is coming up the stairs behind him, is that D Dawk turning to block the other presenters for Josh? LOL

yes, we traded a 3rd for Amari

(here for the sick Chiefs burn) TL;DR a die-hard Eagles fan wants to stay home and watch the Superbowl in decent privacy without distractions so she can scream, cuss, yell, and express herself. Her boyfriend says she's "selfish" not to attend his family's SB party and "spend time with him during the game". Redditor "Outrageous-Scene-290" responds: As a Bills fan, I can totally relate and I can't imagine the correct response "Get Your Own Damned Beer, I'm Watching the Game" would win her points with his family.

Who TH is Scott Kacsmar and why do we care? Tom Silverstein

Cooper is going to be 31, and I think it's possible he just doesn't have the speed or the durability any more.

I understand why you're saying that last. And I would say that the Bills should go into the season with the assumption they still need serious help at WR in FA and/or the draft - whether or not they think those guys are busts. Unfortunately, Beane and the Bills draft history say they are usually slow to pull the plug on their top-3-round picks if they show Something, Anything - flashes, occasional good game. Boogie Basham is the only one I can think of where the Bills moved on before the start of his 3rd season; Zack Moss would be another, moved on partway through his 3rd season, and I think that would be because he went to Beane and expressed unhappiness. We hung onto Cody Ford, to our detriment, for 3 full seasons. But I think both Coleman and Kincaid showed more flashes than any of those guys, so I'm thinking Coleman will get 3 full seasons to show what he's got, and so will Kincaid. It'll be interesting to see what the Bills do with Kaiir Elam, going into his 3rd season.

Agree. I like "Destiny is Calling Me" with JA diving for the pylon though.

I believe Chris was simply pointing out the historical trends in the voting - it's been literally more than a decade since the 1st team all-pro QB hasn't won MVP.

I see it differently. She wasn't Josh's high school GF, though the families knew each other. She hitched her star to his during his first year playing for Wyoming when he was predicted to be drafted in the 1st round (but decided to stay in school). So I believe he was already predicted to be a 1st round draft pick with at least $4.5M signing bonus and $9M overall (32nd pick) when they started dating. I don't know the woman, since she was with him for 6 years hopefully they loved each other and had good times, but purely looked at from 10,000 ft view it wasn't like Brenda Warner or Fred Jackson's wife where they stuck with their husbands when they were stocking grocery shelves or playing arena ball.

I think Allen recognizes that other players had great seasons and could have been considered the MVP I don't think Tom Brady and Allen are that good of friends.

I think Shady McCoy ought to get an "I told you so" When he left Buffalo he was like "He's gonna be great, You'll See."

Sam Monson and Aaron Schatz LOL

Military and civilian aviation share airspace and sometimes airports all over the.country without particular problems as long as they’re talking to the same controllers (which these were). Reading the ASRS and some other articles, it appears that near misses aren’t limited to the military helicopters, there are apparently civilian medivac helicopters which have been involved. I’m not down with finger pointing and assigning cause before an investigation is complete, so we’ll see how that goes. As a general issue, IMHO having a heavily used helicopter flyway which passes ~200 ft below the altitude a jet flying a stabilized approach will pass through on a standard approach to a heavily used airport just seems like a Very Bad Idea. It seems to me clearance for that helicopter route should be withheld while those runways are in use for landing. That’s an operational decision that goes above the level of the guys and gals manning the tower though.

FWIW, an aircraft on final approach to land at 400 ft AGL or less would normally not execute a steep bank as an avoidance procedure, for a number of reasons The normal procedure would be to gain altitude ASAP. This is called a "go around" and should always be an option to a landing pilot for whatever reason - cow on the runway etc. Pilot tells the tower "(Call sign) is going around", puts in the throttles to gain altitude, follows subsequent ATC instructions as to heading and altitude, when the plane is stabilized tell them the reason that choice was made "be advised there appears to be a large cow on the approach end of runway one two" A glance at the runway diagram of DCA would show that a plane turning away from the helicopter would be turning into the flight path for Rwy 1.

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-CRASH/WASHINGTONDC-AIRCRAFT/dwvkkwyzxvm/ Shows "Route 4" (the Class B clearance the helicopter received), the path of the helicopter, and the path of the airplane. The altitude clearance for Route 4 is "at or below 200 ft" in that area. Guardian article: On the helicopter track indicated on the map, it appears the copter deviated from Rt 4 towards the approach end of the runway. Caveat: it has been asserted that the helicopter was not broadcasting ADSB, which might contribute to the apparent "jagged" flight path and would certainly hinder both the controller and the pilot's ability to detect the confliction. I do not know the reliability of this assertion. ---------- This article details previous "near misses" from NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting Database, which is an anonymous reporting system maintained with the goal of improving safety: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/us/dca-plane-helicopter-crash-invs/index.html Chances are good that for every report, there are more incidents that were not reported. It's pretty clear that close encounters between military helicopters and civilian traffic landing at DCA are common enough that they have been "normalized" to ATC. The controllers rely upon the helicopter following the route they've been cleared to fly (below 200 ft, along the W bank of the Potomac) and following visual separation rules (paraphrase: "Do you see that plane?" "Traffic in sight" "Stay out of its way" "Roger") But basically, a helicopter flying its cleared route precisely has the potential to come within hundreds of feet of a landing passenger jet flying its cleared approach precisely. And especially at night, there is always the potential that the traffic the pilot confirms seeing is not the traffic the controller is pointing out. This blogger calls it IMHO: "We’ve basically seen the normalization of planes and helicopters flying hundreds of feet apart with visual separation, and sooner or later, that’s not going to end well, as it leaves virtually no margin." He points out: "It’s not like air traffic controllers can start restricting military helicopters and keeping them out of their airspace, without intervention on a higher level."

I think Beane's seat could be heated up a bit. I think it's probably more nuanced than "McD good, talent bad" I would say the aggregate talent level is above average - the Jimmies and Joes have to have something McD can work with. And above average is fine for defeating most teams. But there are two problems: 1) McD's defense depends upon everyone working together, and when you lose more than 1 starter, the interdependence that makes it work starts to break down 2) When we face the top teams, we need 1-2 "game wreckers", guys who can take over a game and change it. And we just don't have that on defense. We don't have a Chris Jones, or a TJ Watt, or a Maxx Crosby.

Yeah, it's just amazing how some people are hacked by someone who makes one craptastic post on one media platform then nothing else.

You are not wrong.

No

I'm concerned that the Bills "Tua'd" Benford - rushed him back from a concussion where he really should have had a week off. Ya gotta wonder if Elam had had the #1 reps in practice during the week and/or if the gameplan would have been built more around his strengths, would it have had a different result?

I thought that was a really tough catch for Kincaid at the end. But doesn't change your point. When the top receiver in the game for the Bills is Mack Hollins, we need help at receiver. In the big moment, our guys simply were not clutch.

Dude. The Bills D got 3 stops on the Chiefs - a fumble and 2 punts. The Chiefs D got 4 stops on the Bills - 2 punts and 2 TOD. One more stop. That's what it comes down to. It's hard to win championships if your defense can't get 4 stops.

Well he does like to push off

we need a middle finger emoji for you posting this @YoloinOhio. And you know I love ya. But in my dreams, it was holding on the KC Oline, so the Bills declined, and we're still going to the Superbowl