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fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Absolutely the right decision by Romo, but man did he deserve a better close to his career. Feels so anticlimactic.

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fsif
Jul 18, 2003

This makes literally no sense.

https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/849236814854598656

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Sean McDermott is plastering Bills facilities with slogans that say “We just need some time, really!” and “We're a top 12ish team if things break the right way.”

https://twitter.com/buffalobills/status/849282456318603265

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Eli Wiggum posted:

I hope the Bills go 1-15

Not sure I could subject myself to staring at Sam Darnold's weird rear end face unless he ended up being a top 5 QB.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Promote Ian Eagle.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

I feel like I read some variation of this headline every offseason.

https://twitter.com/PP_Rich_Hill/status/849326192633270272

(Well, that or "Steelers cut Blount after substance abuse violation".)

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Cutler would be enough to make the Texans contenders. I know last season was a disaster, but I'm not really sure how he slipped into the Hoyer/Fitzpatrick tier of QBs.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003


A couple of Bills beat writers have said as much, too.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

evilweasel posted:

remember when the patriots almost went 19-0 :smith:

I pretty much Mercury Morris the first Pats loss of the year no matter how early because I'm terrified of this eventually becoming a reality.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

mcmagic is my favorite poster and I unironically agree with him like 90% of the time in both TFF and D&D.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

All he ever posts about is the Patriots so I'm assuming that's why

He posts about Rex, too.

And I saw this on my timeline and it still hasn't sunk in that Mike Glennon will actually be an unquestioned starter for an NFL team.

https://twitter.com/brewshark88/status/852987085678051328

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Looking forward to this season's convoluted "who engineered that drive, Todd Heap??" jokes and the subsequent dozen :drat: quotes.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Most Pats fans I know IRL are solid people, but every single one of them has pulled the "yeah, but I had to deal with them when they SUCKED."

Motherfucker I'm a Bills fan

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Also the 3-28 meme is particularly offensive because it's the most privileged fan base appropriating the underdog narrative.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003


Isn't this just a Pardon My Take gag?

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

What the gently caress

Jesus, what a strange life

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

AsInHowe posted:

He died doing what he loved, killing people

lol

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Oh god, I don't even care about the undeserved veneration Brady would get, I need a Trump tweet on the snub.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

How many more loving years am I going to be subjected to Gronk's lol zany hijinks?

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

lol Trump is going to single-handedly kill the tradition of championship teams visiting the White House.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

These Gators, man
https://twitter.com/Deadspin/status/854800793656057856

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Ah, I had a brief moment where my contempt for the Patriots fell slightly below critical mass because they served as a vehicle to humiliate Trump, but alas

https://twitter.com/patriots/status/854858415012806656

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Chilichimp posted:

Around 20 players didn't go.

Oh I know, and good on those players (except Tom Brady, obvi), but I was referring to the org working overtime to do PR for Trump.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Boooooo

https://twitter.com/hsimon62/status/855050482104107008

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

lmao here we goooo

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/855055509455593472

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Nixing the "every team gets a prime time game" rule is probably smart business sense, but I like my annual Titans/Jaguars shitfest or whatever. NFL catering to the freaking normies.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Bigass Moth posted:

Technically less people went. The problem is the NYT showed pictures out of context (no coaches/staff in the group photo) which makes it seem like a substantially smaller group. That is what fake news is.

Probably the wrong thread for this, but no, that is not what "fake news" is. It's either 1. the original definition of intentionally fabricated news stories designed to go viral on Facebook or 2. the new definition of accurate news that portrays Trump in a negative light.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Bigass Moth posted:

I'm sorry but posting the pictures the NYT did with the implication that 30 guys showed up total is indeed fake news since it is misleading and does not represent reality. You don't have to be pro-Trump to see how that might be the case.

It was misleading, yeah, but not "fake news".

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:

Intentionally misleading people by presenting things out of context to create a story where there was none seems like fake news to me.

I get that it's largely a semantic argument, but an error in initial reporting that is later corrected/given proper context is not "fake news". The term originally had an entirely different meaning, but it's been appropriated by Trump and allies to try and discredit legitimate news outlets.

https://twitter.com/NYTSports/status/854866272592461825

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

TBeats posted:

Why is this so important to argue either way lol

Seriously who gives a poo poo

I don't know, it's more interesting than BBQ chat and at least tangentially related to the NFL.

Not exactly much other non-draft stuff going on now anyway.

Bigass Moth posted:

It's really not important I just can't believe there was an argument about what fake news is in a loving football thread.

You brought it up!

fsif fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Apr 20, 2017

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

So, um, hm, maybe the Bills think about going tackle at 10.

quote:

Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Cyrus Kouandjio was involved in a bizarre incident with police not far from the scene of an accident Tuesday on Route 400 in Elma, The Buffalo News learned.

Kouandjio was not arrested, but taken to Erie County Medical Center for observation.

According to a police source, Kouandjio was found, not fully clothed, in a field after climbing over an electric fence. When an Erie County Sheriff's deputy went to detain him, the source said, the 6-foot-7, 322-pound Kouandjio yelled, "Shoot me!"

http://buffalonews.com/2017/04/20/kouandjio-involved-bizarre-incident-police/

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Aaron Hernandez once threatened to kill Ian Rappoport.

Ian Rappoport posted:

Yeah, there is one that I think about a lot. I would end up hanging around by [Aaron Hernandez's] locker a lot. He would do his interviews and we would chat. There weren’t a lot of guys that were just hanging out in the locker room, especially during those years, so we would hang out and we would talk. When we first exchanged numbers, he called me over and said, “Hey I just want you to know, you’re my guy. If you need anything let me know, I will help you out if I can. But I just want you to know, if you f— me over, I’ll kill you.” I sort of laughed a little bit, and I said, “Don’t worry, I got you, I’ll take care of you.”

fsif
Jul 18, 2003


What about Newsweek? http://www.newsweek.com/aaron-hernandez-hidden-sexuality-murder-police-587879

quote:

One of the notes left by Hernandez was to his prison boyfriend, who is now on 24/7 suicide watch, multiple law enforcement sources confirm. Hernandez’s sexuality would, of course, not be relevant save for the fact that an intimate relationship he allegedly had with a male former high school classmate was at the center of the investigation into Lloyd’s murder.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

This is kind of surreal to me for some reason.

https://twitter.com/ejmanuel3/status/855577240561623040

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Tom Brady is such a poo poo lol

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

This scandal won't blow up; it's slightly too complicated and the draft is this week.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

sean10mm posted:

Also I doubt a cartel of business vermin will launch a crusade concerning the proprietry of charitable organization finances or whatever. Deflategate was pushed because owners were mad about the Pats getting away with poo poo in the football realm; they ignored all the TB12 businesses shenanigans before and will probably ignore this too.

Yeah I always wondered why the TB12 poo poo wasn't a bigger deal. I guess there are much more gruesome skeletons in other teams' closets.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Hahaha Pats Pulpit.

fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Tom Brady is charging a charity millions to promote them. Best Buddies—or any other charity—would still take that deal every time, but it's totally scummy.

Raku posted:

Avoid nonprofits, work in a soup kitchen if you really want to help

There are great nonprofits out there that could desperately use more money for operations (see: the one I work for, heh). Just make sure the people in them are actually putting in the work and aren't just some vanity bullshit.

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fsif
Jul 18, 2003

Remember a year ago when rumors were swirling that the Pegulas wanted to bring Polian in for another run in the front office.

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