That Aud Smell

Should such an occurrence be reportable? Reported?

Since, AFAIK, I'm the only poster with whom you've interacted on this thread on the topic of trolling, I infer you're talking about me. So I want to add for clarification: I don't see the content of posters I've blocked (and, when I see it quoted, I try not to read it).

Good observation(s).

Love the reveal video - this is fun.

Still wish I could find a recording of that WGR listener who called in with his "I Roll Four Lines" song in ~2006 - he sang it in the style of Johnny Cash, from the perspective of Lindy Ruff.

can i get quick reminder on why this is? thanks.

Granato’s greatest accomplishment, imo. Granato’s saving Dahlin may actually prove more consequential, but the moving Thompson to centre and developing him there was absolutely masterful.

Disagree - although I haven’t willingly looked at one of his posts in a long time. We may have differing definitions of what it means to troll a board. I edited my post to remove the request. I struggle to understand the “outsider” “unwelcoming” type talk that is posted from time to time. It’s a (largely anonymous) message board - not a high school lunch room. Have a take - don’t cost nothin’.

The idea that this contract could help the team’s cap structure is intriguing.

Just about every move GMKA has made until now has been the sort of move that the peanut gallery can murmur in approval and politely golf clap. This is the first move that feels like it involves real risk (?). I’m hoping and praying that they got this right. They have way more information than I do. I want to trust them. And like Fox Mulder, I want to believe.

*Stick taps*

I generally like that account. It gives me a sad that they’re calling this a wild gamble.

Zoinks!!

ha! Checks out. I won't say he is a tool. I will say that he often comes off as a tool. Especially on Twitter.

Ha. I noticed that as well. I'm not sure what he meant to imply. I inferred that he was just clowning a bit. He's a smart guy. He's a good writer -- one of the best in the local sports media business. And I agree that he can be a tool. He seemed well on his way to bigger platforms when he was with ESPN 10-15 years ago. And then he suddenly returned to Buffalo. That always struck me as odd.

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This is it exactly. The Bills are fun. Will they win a title? Who knows. They're fun. I think that's McDermott's tendency as well-- bend don't break. Give up field goal tries. Which I think can work most of the time. But it will fail you in crucial situations. The Bills won no close games last season, IIRC. Hopefully, the front 4 can create the sort of pressure that we haven't seen a Bills team generate since ... since ... Super Mario days?

Here’s a truth that will imminently emerge: The Bills’ cornerbacks are the team’s biggest question mark heading into a season where a Super Bowl run is in the plans. Colour me nervous that our CB1 is Dane Jackson.

It appears you misunderstand where I’m coming from. I explained my vantage in replies to Taro. I’m not hanging onto anything here. I doubt the truth will ever emerge out of this situation; I won’t be particularly interested in it if it does.

As in:

He said/she said stuff isn't the sort of thing that could have allowed the Bills to keep him on the roster in the face of what's being alleged. The criminal defense lawyer said it was a shakedown. If they had proof showing (or just suggesting) that this was a shakedown? Then maybe he's still on the roster.

thanks for a careful review of the information that's been made public. i think we were coming at the thing from very different vantage points. there's the old saying that the truth is at the bottom of a bottomless well -- and that is never more apt than in situations involving alcohol-influenced fights, assaults, etc. i don't have much interest in getting to the truth with araiza's situation, and i doubt anything resembling "the" truth will come out of it. my focus is more on the practicalities that the team faces in such a situation. there are billions and billions of dollars at stake for the league's and the team's intangible values (the ol' goodwill -- those warm fuzzy feelings a consumer has for your product). there's no way that the bills would put that asset at stake (or that the league would happily allow the team to implicate the nfl's brand value) so that a specialist rookie can get the fairest shake possible. i also think it was a factor that the league has somewhat recently figured out that its biggest growth opportunity in its existing u.s. markets is to make real inroads with female fans. whether single or married, women are increasingly heads of household and have control over gobs of discretionary money (that the nfl very much wants).

My point there was that there's none at this time, evidently. Otherwise, we'd have heard about it - officially or as a rumour. Timing is everything here. The team (brand) had a roaring grease fire on its hands with no signs of a way to put it out, other than to release the accused player.

It’s a family birthday tonight. I’ll read this later. I am humbled by the level of engagement by a poster I respect.