Dr. K

Two seasons. The Bills did not score a defensive touchdown in 2018, nor in 2019. They are way overdue.

Until the Bills win more games, they are a 3-win team. I've been a Bills fan far too long to take anything for granted. They started 5-1 in 2008 and ended up 7-9. They started 5-2 in 2011 and ended up 6-10. And if there ever were a season when you ought not to count your chickens before they are hatched, this Covid-19 altered season is it.

I don't know how some fans lay it all on the coaches when the players just can't do the job. Plus, the Rams were on fire, and you have to give them some credit.

Right. I can't argue with that: it is a problem. But on the evidence of the first two games, I think there is reason to expect the offense to score more than it has in the past, and that includes in the third quarter. We''ll have to see. I think the Rams game is a big test.

The Bills offense ran 8 plays in the third quarter, on two possessions. One of them started on the one yard line after the goal line stand. It's not surprising that they did not function well in that circumstance. The big problem was that the defense could not get off the field, letting the Fins grind out long, time consuming drives. I would not draw too many conclusions from this so early in the season. If the offense had more chances in the third quarter, I am confident they would have gotten it moving, as they did in the fourth.

I'm wearing his shirt.

The Bills did not score a defensive touchdown in the previous season, either--none for either 2018 or 2019. They're overdue.

I was skeptical that there would be a season, and I'm still crossing my fingers that Covid does not abbreviate it, but I'm very glad that there will be games played. I could use the distraction. So you may consider this to be some crow eating. Yum!

Thank you, and for all the years you've run this forum. It's a service to all of us.

Thad Brown didn't tweet this. Somebody named Danielle did.

The only time I've ever been in court was when friend got pulled over for reckless driving. I was in the car with my date, he with his. We were all sober and he was absolutely not reckless driving. My friend contested the ticket and in court the arresting officer lied through his teeth about what had happened. I was only 20 or so, and it was an eye opener about how the police can lie and the judge and the legal system will automatically take the cop's story, without evidence, as true.

I've visited Frostburg State. Was there last fall. Two of my good friends are professors there.

Citizen Karen

My respect for Diggs's intelligence just went up. He's no fool.

This history of the post-Civil War era is a myth. The federal government got out of managing the South in 1876; Reconstruction was over. There was no Federal oversight after 1876. In Plessy V. Fergusson the Supreme Court said it was okay for the South to install public segregatation, validating the Jim Crow laws that were passed. In the ensuing decades, as whites took over the South again and repressed Black rights and prevented Black voting, as lynchings swelled and whites rioted to throw out Blacks in Wilmington, NC and Tulsa, OK, THAT's when all these Confederate monuments were erected, to re-assert white supremacy and repudiate any federal interference in the Jim Crow South. Propaganda films like "The Birth of a Nation" (based on the novel "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon) and "Gone With the Wind" popularized the myth that so many white Southerners (and Northerners) have continued to propagate until now. I have lived in the South for 38 years now. I think it's a good thing that finally this myth is being blown to pieces.

The team spoke out immediately in the strongest terms, the NFL officially spoke out about it, Jackson has had to issue two different apologies after this first less informed one (just like Brees) and met with a local rabbi to discuss what he can donate and work with the Jewish community. The Anti-Defamation League spoke out as well and urged Jackson to educate himself about anti-semitism. This doesn't sound like people are ignoring what he said.

I support Black Lives Matter. We have a chance here (Black and White) to alter race relations in the U.S. for the better. It's long overdue. The NFL is a place where men of different races have to work together to succeed. It's inspiring when they do, when they come to respect and treat each other as brothers. I'd like to see that carry beyond the field of play, and among the rest of us. If it matters, I am white.

I never hated the Pats until the Belichick/Brady era.

So it's okay to wave the flag at every opportunity, but if somebody silently kneels they have desecrated the game.

As others have said, I take this as a teachable moment. If racism is to be reduced in the U.S., it's a matter of changing the hearts and minds of white people who have not seen how their behavior and attitudes might be contributing to the problem. This is a chance for Jake Fromm to learn and to demonstrate by his actions and behavior toward other people, white and black, that he understands, and it's a chance for those who were offended by these remarks to forgive. I'm encouraged by what Lesley Frazier had to say about this. If there's any place where a white person has a chance to forge a good relationship with black people, and to understand across racial lines, then an NFL squad, where white and black have to work so closely together to achieve success, is as good an example as there is. I hope that the players and coaches, both Fromm and his teammates, will work toward that goal. The burden is mostly going to be Fromm's but it will take white and black together to make it work.

I think the U.S. is a great country and is exceptional in many ways. The flag, however, has nothing to do with the military or with soldiers or with wars or armies. It is a symbol of the nation as a whole. In the beginning the framers of the Constitution did not even want a standing army because they thought having thousands of soldiers in peacetime would present a threat to the government and freedom (as it's been proven in many countries, where the army is often involved in coups and political infighting). It's only been since Vietnam that we have had these huge displays of flags and soldiers at sporting events in the U.S., to the point where many people have come to automatically associate the flag with the military, and to think that waving the flag at every possible opportunity is the only way you show your patriotism. I think it's a sign of our uneasiness about patriotism that we have come to insist on all of these public displays, and to treat the flag as if it were a holy object. If a country is secure in the love of its people, if it is a foregone conclusion that it stands for equality and justice for all, then it does not need to shout about the flag at every public opportunity. To make an analogy to faith in God, Jesus said, (Matthew 6:5), "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites. are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and. in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." In other words, when your faith is strong, and you are confident in the rightness of your belief, you do not need to go around in public making a big deal of how much you believe. To do so is ostentatious, can even bespeak a kind of paranoia, and become a kind of bullying. For example, the largest and most organized displays of public patriotism I can think of in the 20th century took place in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. When somebody silently kneels during the national anthem, or otherwise uses the flag in protest, they are not dishonoring the nation, they are hoping to hold the nation to account for injustices done under that flag. We may not agree with them, but to get bent out of shape about it is a sign of insecurity or desire to dominate.

The recent Drew Brees/national anthem thread got locked before I could post this, and since I went to the trouble to write it, I thought I would post it here. I think the U.S. is a great country and is exceptional in many ways. The flag, however, has nothing to do with the military or with soldiers or with wars or armies. It is a symbol of the nation as a whole. In the beginning the framers of the Constitution did not even want a standing army because they though having thousands of soldiers in peacetime would present a threat to the government and freedom (as it's been proven in many countries, where the army is often involved in coups and political infighting). It's only been since Vietnam that we have had these huge displays of flags and soldiers at sporting events in the U.S., to the point where many people have come to automatically associate the flag with the military, and to think that waving the flag at every possible opportunity is the only way you show your patriotism. I think it's a sign of our uneasiness about patriotism that we have come to insist on all of these public displays, and to treat the flag as if it were a holy object. If a country is secure in the love of its people, if it is a foregone conclusion that it stands for equality and justice for all, then it does not need to shout about the flag at every public opportunity. To make an analogy to faith in God, Jesus said, (Matthew 6:5), "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites. are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and. in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." In other words, when your faith is strong, and you are confident in the rightness of your belief, you do not need to go around in public making a big deal of how much you believe. To do is ostentatious, can even bespeak a kind of paranoia, and become a kind of bullying. For example, the largest and most organized displays of public patriotism I can think of in the 20th century took place in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. When somebody silently kneels during the national anthem, or otherwise uses the flag in protest, they are not dishonoring the nation, they are hoping to hold the nation to account for injustices done under that flag. We may not agree with them, but to get bent out of shape about it is a sign of insecurity or desire to dominate.

My two cents: I hate this idea.

If this is an accurate profile, the man is seriously troubled and needs help. I feel sorry for him, but he's also scary, a potential danger to himself and others.

Denver. The win was great. But Scott Norwood missed two easy field goals and an extra point in that game. It was the game in which I realized that if the Bills ever came down to the last seconds and needed a field goal to win, Norwood was going to blow it.