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http://m.cbssports.com/s/36902/PowerRankings?platform=webappBest power rankings out there.

Haha nice.. I did write it down earlier in the thread but my score was a little to generous to Mr. Luck and Co. Still, 1 down, 15 to go... whats the prize of the prediction competition BTW? Do we get bumped up 2 Sabres logo's?

Knew Luck would throw 2 picks :ph34r:

Loss vs TEN? Dayum....

Care to take a gander at which 8 are losses?

Agreed. This is crazy. And this.

Ill lateral... er forward pass... Indianapolis W 28-24.. Luck, who bragged ..erm...bluffed ...about being impervious to blitzing, but has surprisingly mediocre results outside of lackluster division, throws 2 picks. New England W 21-17 Bradys head inflates beyond ambiguous league regulations, gets him thrown out at half time when marcel dareus calls for a measurement after late quarter sack @ Miami L 19-13 One of those games where the Bills Run up yards but tyrod comes down to earth, throws 2 picks, one lost fumble for touchdown. makes you want to destroy TV NY Giants L 21-17 Quarter season panic ensues after T Mobile has trouble with his connections, Eli throws 3 TD, all of them to OBJ who catches one with his toenail. @ Tennessee W 38-17 Total destruction.. Marcus terrorized by Marcel, throws a TD in garbage time Cincinnati W 24-17 The pandemonium gains steam again as Dalton gives gingers a bad name. Jacksonville (London) W 22-18 In the game with the most non-football sounding score ever, the brits get a treat as the Bills, minus Mccoy, sneak away with a late TD Miami W 30-21 Rex gets revenge, Tyrod has 17 pass attempts, bills still put up 400 yards, 250 through the air. Suh gets suspended after kicking ryan tanne-hill when he's down @NY Jets W 21-7 Geno Smith, coming off a 250 yard performance, remembers 2014... Jets D not the same without Rex.. even with Cromartie and Revis who suffers significant regression. @ New England L 31-17 The Bills first blowout defeat of the season..... The bills hear audio of the Kim Kardashian Sex tape throughout the entire game... NFL claims it was hackers in China @Kansas City W 28-14 Pretty much the same as the last 2 times these two teams met. .Except this time Tuel isn't playing, and Healthy Mccoy doesn't fumble while crossing goal line. Houston W 17-14 Much closer than Bills fans, now in total ecstasy, care to witness, Tyrod has an injury scare.. EJ comes in and goes 2-14 for 140 yards and 2 tds... @ Philadelphia L 27-17 Fans who already bought Super Bowl tickets shutter in terror as EJ can't match up with Eagles, and "Racist" coach @ Washington W 28-3 Redskins, gunning for that #1 pick, make EJ look like Marino, Bills D like well.. 2015 Bills D. Dallas W 23-13 Romo's fingers get cold, brains slows down.... Tyrod returns... Jerry Jones motions to ban football in cold weather. NY Jets W 10-3 Bills, already a lock for Afc East Champ, and already out of Conference race, sit starters, still win against, Jets with Tim Tebow at QB.. Brandon Marshall Committed for BPD Ending 15 year playoff drought with a bang, Rex and the Bills muscle their way into the playoffs with a snarl reminiscent of his Dad's 85 bears. Mike Ditka Endorses the team, Health Miller becomes lead NFL reporter after correctly predicting entire AFC standings, Bills set NFL record for Sacks and Jack Eichel stops awkwardly loving on Torey Krug... Bills 12-4

I like Fred and everything he represented but regardless of whether Whaley made informal promises to him or not, he is an NFL player and thus held to the same scrutiny as anyone trying to make the team, and will be evaluated similarly by Seattle or whoever he aspires to sign with next. You can't build a team on emotional attachments or feeling indebted to a player for his contributions to your community. Fred was well compensated over his tenure, both financially, and from the city (maybe even nation) wide outpouring of admiration, and seems to have a pretty enviable life. I think hell be OK.

I just feel like these are separate issues that have been conjoined for the convenience of Bradys case. So the NFL justice system is flawed, its true. But it was already collectively bargained, so if you are going to amend it, you can reference this case, but not use it as the sole determining factor in a case regarding tampering and blemishing the integrity of the league. IMO Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

Totally nonsense.... Berman cites the NFL's not setting specific disciplinary boundaries regarding deflation of footballs, the lack of "proof" (despite the fact that it was established within the CBA), not being transparent enough with Brady's camp etc... Essentially he ruled on the matter of undue process. This is death of justice/values/truth by semantics to me. It was clear Brady was lying, that he was communicating with locker room officials, that he was aware of the deflation of the footballs from the very start. From that obnoxious press conference where he quaintly dismissed every question with sarcasm to the radio interview where "he had heard it all now", his behavior told it all; he was clearly hiding something. He had a multi billion dollar institution behind him to obscure the facts, smear his accusers, and run the essence of the case so deeply through the mud that true north became completely indistinguishable as it often does in these circus parades. It went from "The Patriots cheated again to "Roger Goddell does not have the authority to be judge jury an executioner", and actually, he does.. or he did, based on the damn CBA that the NFLPA agreed to. Pathetic...

Interesting about Atlanta, tho I'm pretty sure he didn't need to take another job to be attractive to ESPN. BTW... Dear Seasoned vet, How do prediction threads fare on this site? I'm thinking of starting one (I REALLY LOVE PREDICTIONS) but won't if there is no market for it.

Good post. Nice observation regarding the highway motif. Maybe its to say: there is the left handed path, the right handed path, and the middle path. The handed paths start out maintaining an illusion of linear progression, but dictated by their nature, eventually lead to a revisiting of trodden ground (same mistakes in life, perhaps returning to experience the same life etc.) It is only the middle path which leads to the escaping/ overcoming/ exodus of the chains of this world/suffering/the circle in a spiral, the wheel within the wheel... aka enlightenment, attainment, conscious evolution/ freedom

Sorry if you covered this already, but what do you think about the cop-driver and the Facebook war?

Im saying this because we all have this tendency as emotional beings and I believe it is helpful... even essential.. for the betterment of of our society, for us to practice withholding decisive judgement until the entirety of any story has unfolded (In Life, Logic, Math, Physics). After all, it is literally what humans as an entire species have been attempting to reconcile since the renaissance, and it is the stuff that destroys our capacity to expand ourselves beyond the confines of our current understanding (or limitations in the case of the more physical sciences). Haha.. Yea practically speaking I would take the Nagles too.

Degrading an abstract idea through semantical analysis will always result in your favor because you decide the terms and manipulate the circumstances for your favor. All I'm saying is its a dangerous way of thinking. But yes actually, a cop who abuses his power and does not act in accordance to the rules of objectivity ... aka becomes a champion of his own causes, and begins to (ab)use his powers of authority to unlawfully exert his will.. then yes, he is as dangerous, in a sense, as someone who acts on dark temptations despite knowing the acts are wrong (vague), because both of these fictitious characters arcs lead to abuse and misdeeds and both pose a threat to the well being society/ proper functioning of their surrounding community.. whether you have a bias towards the cop because you envision him to be the superior entity before examining the facts of the situation is your prerogative.. but its a fundamentally flawed one.. purely from the perspective of reason that is.