leh-nerd skin-erd

If you don't find a line somewhere, a place where you simply will not allow yourself to go emotionally, or you're bound to end perpetually adrift. It can be on the far left side, you wouldn't be the first and you won't be the last to court the extremes, but this commentary makes you appear unhinged. The story goes that many people knew of the abuse, knew of the drug use, knew he was apparently just a drink or two away from being yet another man of privilege calling the fixer to take care of the dead body in the wine cellar. The truth is he was too valuable to lose, so they participated in the fraud up to the point it was released. The amazing part is that the truth was so devastatingly obvious that the news broke and he resigned in less time that it took to watch the funny family on blackish wrestle with the breakup of their family. It's literally in the details of the story that broke prior to his resignation, and yet you choose to push on in blissful ignorance that the democrat AG who slapped the women around and was protected by his loyal subjects, replaced the democrat AG who has been accused of corruption, and he replaced the guy who was the democrat AG who was held up as the beacon of all that is righteous by those who knew he dabbled in money laundering, sex trafficking across state lines and tax evasion. All the while, you're claiming the r party would close ranks?? It's ok to hang out in the shadows, but have some pride.

"I engage in consensual role play" is the post-woke excuse most closely related to the pre-woke version of "She wanted it.".

I try to put my personal feelings aside on these allegations, including for a guy like this who strikes me as power hungry politico and first class dbag of the highest order. My one caveat is if the statement in response to the allegation includes phrases like "tickle fight"..."simulated drowning" or "I never used a closed fist", I begin to assume guilt. Role play. My God the guy went to Harvard and he came up with "role play".

exclusively ran the Wildcat with a tall guy dressed up like Josh Allen.

Shivers like McCarron's wife bikini shivers or shivers like Rosie O'Donnell topless calendar shivers?

I always enjoy the read. Kudos for dropping kerfuffle. That said...I think you're working awful hard on this "dogwhistle" thing. Rosen was selected with the 10th pick of the draft, only 9 guys went ahead of him, 200++ after him, and he was the 4th qb overall. Forbes is projecting his rookie contract to be worth nearly $18 million. For all the positive attributes he brings to the table, he is not--as far as I have read or seen--a sure-fire-can't-miss player. NFL ready, yup, got all that, but he's not Peyton Manning. It's sensible to consider all aspects of the player when evaluating him as a prospect, and certainly attitude and the consideration of how he might fit in your scheme is 100% fair and certainly not nefarious. We all know teams can miss, but I see this as really quite the opposite of a dog whistle...it's a pronouncement by 9 teams that they wanted someone other than Rosen, for whatever reason revealed or hidden---and as importantly, the 10th team who bet strongly on him, f the prez hat notwithstanding.

Fair point. He certainly will be hammered by his enemies for the flip flop, and when you provide a quotable quote you get what you get. Trumps response will be: i was elected on the platform of "draining the swamp" and believe in seeing things through. When i made that comment, i was under the mistaken impression that all the people in charge at the highest levels of our law enforcement agencies were objective, unbiased and ethical. That turned out not to be the case, as the former FBI director applied different standards of justice for different people, made unilateral and unprecedented decisions on who to prosecute and who to let walk free, and established a scheme to leak classified information to the press and been has been less that truthful in the aftermath, going so far as to hire members of his scheme to invoke attorney-client privilege. His successor at the FBI was terminated for unethical and politically motivated behavior, our FISA courts have been abused to allow for unprecedented surveillance of American citizens purely for political gain, leaving a trail of ruined reputationsand tattered reputations in its wake. Special Counsel Mueller has spent millions of dollars and hired the most aggressive attorneys he could--virtually all of whom donated to the Clinton campaign, the candidate who benefited from Comey's manipulation of the law, and the candidate who funded the absurd dossier that started this mess. There is no end in sight. i have stated my position publicly for over a year now, and nothing is going to change. Given the potential for more political manipulation on a series of overly broad and potentially manipulative questions--leaked to the media for political effect---on the advice of counsel I will invoke my right to protect myself. I believe it is well past time for America to move past this ugly time in our history. Hashtag Sad, and God Bless what we all thought was America. " I'm working on getting this under 140 characters as we speak.

The stupid tweets in and of themselves are much ado about nothing. I'd think if they were an indicator of his true feelings at age 21 or 22, they wouldn't have to go back to tweets he sent as a bored kid from Mrs. Jacobs's 4th period History of Western Civ class. His recent teammates, including one currently on the bills, seem to think highly of him. Add to that the mass marketing of Eminem and Dr Dre rap music, and its little surprise a kid could stumble into a controversy like this. I felt the same as you about Rosen, though less about him being soft, more about him being overly arrogant. I get the argument that how he carries himself might be indicative of a true leader of men, but I think not every know it all ends up as an effective leader. Now of course I have to hope he's an abject failure because we passed on him. I'm small minded that way.

i would be thrilled if he excersized his rights as a citizen and refused to answer questions. It would a lesson in civic responsibility to remind the rest of us that we have rights, and should excersize them where warranted. If mueller has the goods on him as you seem to think, a convo is largely irrelevant.

My apologies for my part in any confusion. I was following up on the prior poster who made the Ryan Leaf reference. I thought it was kind of an odd leap and was really just goofing around with that. i was disappointed in the selection of JA but to be blunt I have no :/-$ing clue about any of these guys other than what I read. I watch the videos as well, but quite a bit of the context is lost on me because I know very little about x and o, pro style offense etc. Once he was selected, I read what I could, understood a bit of his story and think it's going to be fun watching him develop. He does indeed seem like a good kid, and let's hope for the best.

Ty.

Serious question--what did Russ Brandon do that caused him to resign? I have have no reason to doubt KPs ability to run the organization other than the obvious ones that stem from her appointment. Then again, I'd have no reason to doubt the ability of anyone else they selected, so I'm cool.

i wondered about that. Then I thought maybe there was a 2 decade moratorium on looking back. Then I remembered Ryan Leaf was mentioned and noted he was drafted in 98. After I cried a bit realizing 20 years of my own life has up and gone since Ryan Leaf was drafted, I got back to wondering about 1998. I was going to look at 1997, but I was so depressed thinking Josh Allen is destined to be Ryan Leaf, I just put on some Dave Matthews, sat in a dark room and pondered how cruel life can be for a Bills fan. i hope he's not Ryan Leaf.

why 1998? what's the magic with that year?

the.process.

you don't sound like a process-truster. in fact you sound like a heretic!

I'm no expert on intra-office relationships, but I am an expert on other stuff. Legalities aside, many times, with issues involve office interactions, things are not a problem until someone makes an issue of it. That seems to be a pretty consistent trend from place to place. When you dance of the forbidden dance floor, you take your chances.

I'm not trying to convince you otherwise. You're a fan just like everyone else. The OP chose the Bills-fan-path-less-traveled, given the success of the current management group over the last year. He acknowledged that they may well miss. These guys may fail, but they have a path laid out for success and I'm simply choosing optimism this time. They did go get their guy. They did move up again to get Edmunds who seems to be a well regarded prospect across the board. and so on....

Or, we could just wait until they fail and then jump on 'em. I think the op nailed some valid reasons to have hope---just a different way of looking at where we are. And there was a time when making the humble field goal could have changed the course of history.

I get the sense that Beane and McDermott would gladly deal with whatever social justice agenda Rosen might follow in exchange for delivering a SB championship to Buffalo. I think they are both wired to win, and if they felt Rosen was The One he would be a Bill right now. I am 100% convinced they felt Josh Allen was the guy that could deliver, relative to those available at that point. I've deduced this by looking at their actions leading up to the selection. Concussion history seems likely to have been a factor, attitude and how it would play with the team might well have been a factor (Beane indicated they consulted with the leadership council before selecting Allen, perhaps they did the same with respect to Rosen etc all?), frame etc.

Great post. Here's the thing...it seems that many posters on the board had Allen apparently as a long shot project, backup, 3rd round or later talent. It seems they had Rosen as the top talent in the draft, no ifs, and or buts about it. So, I can understand the fury and sadness that Allen was selected at all....but there's no mistake lots of professional football people disagreed with that assessment in spite of Allens 10th grade stats. I don't see how you reconcile that unless Allen delivers as a top tier about worthy of a top 10 selection. I was was struck by the video clips of past drafts with fans cheering wildly at qb's selected who turned out to be a bust. There were many, many of those, and we can only hope the team selected the right guy moving forward.

Pound for pound, the best poster in America. Thank you for your service.

and, maybe, people disagree with him, feel his perspective is the the wrong one, feels he shouldn't protest where he does, or feel whatever else they have a right to feel. which brings us full circle to why the owners have an issue that is concerning enough to have a secret meeting about, which reveals the reason many business owners probably would prefer their employees to do things on their own time, away from the office. and I read comments like those attributed to Chris Long about ck being on a roster. long has little skin in the game beyond this brief flicker of time where he is playing the game. He loses little, if anything, if things get worse for the nfl, or any particular team in general if they sign ck and revenue is impacted. I'd personally be more impressed with a guy taking a stand putting his money on the table. Make a statement, grab 5 or 6 of the highest paid guys on the team, set up a press conference and offer to pay ck's market value by renegotiating their contracts. Forces the owners hand, makes a REAL statement on how they collectively see the world, and the importance of supporting the players right to do whatever he wants in the stadium. Heck a great message would be to make him the highest paid player in the league.

Now I have to know what's in it. Peter King is the Steve Jobs of writing stuff.

if if you really believe that "time will tell the true tale", why are you throwing haymakers? And why throw haymakers if you're going to miss so wildly? The r investigation has been going on for 25%+ of your president's first term, and while it shows signs of slowing down, after roughly 10,000 leaks we've said good bye to one existing Nixonesque prez, one unbelievably qualified democrat Prezi candidate, multiple FBI high-ranking operatives playing games with the truth and exactly 0 Robert Muellers. Of those individuals, the easiest to dispatch is Robert Mueller, and he's still working away.