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👍 Whew!!!!

Let's hope this has the OPPOSITE effect of getting put on the Madden Cover....

I hear there's a shot you can get for that. 😉

Love how most of Florida is getting the Bucs game. Suck it Phins!!!

Ridiculous. McD isn't going to demote Daboll after ONE game. Yeeesh Graham - really??

Excellent article - thanks for posting. A well reasoned SOBER perspective on what happened on Sunday and potentially a glimpse of what we may see more of...

Give it time Someone will chime Personal liberties be mine

Buffalo fights for the win Miami is closing the gap Haikus are fun

But does the NFL own the stadiums themselves? I'm honestly not sure, but I don't think they have sole ownership of the stadiums themselves where they can call all the shots. I THINK (and I could be wrong) that in many cases the stadiums are either co-owned or rented by the local municipalities or some other local entity. I think only a few stadiums are owned outright by the team owners.

In theory I would agree for consistency's sake, but unfortunately, the NFL's authority doesn't supersede local health directives. This isn't an attempt to thwart people's personal liberties - it's an attempt to quell a PUBLIC HEALTH issue. Plain and simple.

Clearly Erie County decided enough was enough since the honor system definitely broke down. I guarantee you they knew this decision would be controversial and would absolutely upset a lot of people. But from their perspective, they had no choice but to try to protect people from themselves - for the COMMON good! Many folks aren't happy about it, but it's still the right thing to do. We are still in the middle of a pandemic here folks. This isn't normal (hopefully) and NO ONE is happy about all the hoops we have to jump thru to try and get thru it. If we all do our part, the sooner we can get back to living how we are used to. And yelling at each other over the usual stuff... (Can Josh ever stop fumbling? Is Die Hard really a Christmas movie?) Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

I suspect this thread is headed towards another "pause" shortly....

There's a difference between a mandate for the general public (at any level) and a mandate as a term of employment (military of private sector). Conditions of employment can change (and they often do) based on changing circumstances. It's not unprecedented.

Darn details and facts. Funny how they always get in the way..... It's just so much more fun to just yell "I'm gonna sue!" Oy

Try reading the news occasionally...

Probably the most important question in response to the OP's take is.... Does Mitch have ANY experience holding for punts??? If he does, maybe it's something to consider, but doubt the coaches really want him spending valuable practice time working with special teams.

Yes. Beat me to it. 🤪

Ding, ding, ding!!!!!

For the folks who have done their part to help quell a PUBLIC health issue, not a PERSONAL choice issue, but a public one that affects everyone, this comes as an "about time" announcement. Empathy and understanding for folks that don't want to to get the jab, let alone go see the Bills in person, is loooong gone my friends. Sorry folks, but for all the pain covid continues to cause (physical and financial) this is just the way it's gotta go. You can hate whatever organization or entity you want but the VAST majority of folks know it's the right thing to do. I applaud OBD on this one. Honor systems are a joke. I for one WANT to see fans in the stands - just not having to worry about a ton of them getting sick! Went to a concert down in DC recently where you had to show proof of vaccination to get in and still wear a mask while inside (city order). You know what happened? Everyone still had a freakin' awesome time!!! No issues, no worries, no complaining, no fuss. I'm sure I'll get lots of snarky responses, but you know what? Don't. Care. Go Bills!!!!

Clearly the fans were stuck in preseason form here as well. We ALL need to step up our games and stop making the silly mistakes that fans make that clearly cost the team on the field. C'mon guys - get with it!!!! 😉

It was my fault. I was supposed to fly back home to upstate NY from DC on Sunday morning but the flight was cancelled at the last minute with no other flights until late at night, so rented a car one way and drove home in 6 hours getting updates on my phone the whole way - not the safest thing to do I might add. But more importantly I wasn't there to fly my Bills flag from the front porch (which I do EVERY game day). So sorry, this one's on me. I won't let it happen again!

Maybe we just need to understand that Josh is going to have a bad game here and there. ALL - and I mean ALL QBs have 'em. Just sucks that it was on opening day for sure, but it's unreasonable to think he'll never make any mistakes and play error free though out the season. If he starts stringing together a bunch of bad games, THEN I'll start to get concerned. I suspect we'll see a better Josh against the Fins next week....

Absolutely!!! I am VERY aware of that these days as well. When I see most other QBs passes, they just look slower - even when you can tell they're trying to throw hard. Some folks call it arm arrogance - whatever - I call it Awesome!!! So much fun to watch! 100% Agree! That's his killer desire-to-win attitude.

I don't know why, but this pic from the Diggs-14 website made me chuckle.

Better be good stuff - or he'll get run out of town for sure!! 🤪