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Potential side effects will probably be known or knowable. Long term effects are likely less clear. Well, unless you’re counting a very high probability of not getting COVID-19 (for a while, anyway (sounded like these would be needed annually?)).

My point there being: The State won’t mandate the vaccination, but you won’t be allowed to send your kid to school without it.

I doubt very much that there will be government-compelled vaccination programs. OTOH, we can be assured that the network of normal, ordinary services on which citizens rely -- from public to private to in-between -- will all be conditioned on a proof of vaccination. So those who choose not to get vaccinated will be making a very difficult choice.

The timing is such that people are bound to grouse that Pfizer held off on making its announcement until after the election. I'm not buying it, for a few reasons. Among them: (1) Pfizer had been forecasting a mid-November announcement going back at least as far as late September/early October. (2) The financial incentives here are so huge that there's NFW a company (a public company, btw) would delay an announcement any longer than they absolutely had to for scientific/legal/regulatory reasons.

It's fun to have a team that has both the coaching and personnel, on the offensive side of the ball, where you feel like they're in the mix with how the modern game is being played. They knew that the Seattle pass defense was horrible. So they went after them, relentlessly. And Seattle did what they could do to adjust -- among other things, you saw Jamal Adams pleading with Carroll to just let him loose on the QB. And they did get to Allen quite a bit. But that didn't matter yesterday. Some luck factored into that, I think -- there were a couple of fumbles that Allen didn't lose. Fingers crossed they can get the W next week, and then gear up for a stretch run. Arizona is a very fun team to watch fwiw.

Not going to happen for us. This thing is headed in the wrong direction, and in a bad way. Too many vulnerable people in our annual Thanksgiving Day roster.

Mendola, a 46-year-old East Amherst native, has been a coach with the Buffalo Jr. Sabres and also served as assistant director at the Academy of Hockey, where, according to the LECOM Harborcenter website, he was tasked with “leading and managing the creation, implementation, marketing and servicing of all LECOM Harborcenter Hockey and Academy programming.” Mendola has also been executive director of the Buffalo Jr. Sabres’ Under-20 team in the Ontario Junior Hockey League, and at times, worked as an on-ice coach for the Academy of Hockey. Mendola played college hockey at Rochester Institute of Technology from 1992-95. Prior to joining the LECOM Harborcenter staff, Mendola spent 15 years in the retail banking industry, including multiple positions with HSBC Bank USA and First Niagara Bank. +++ I wish him well. It's an underwhelming hire, though, given his background and pedigree.

That’s fair. There’s something very specific going on right now. The Bills are regarded as on the rise; the Patriots are similarly descending. But. ... Is it true? I pray so!

I’m thinking about Sunday’s game way, way more than I have thought about any other Bills game in a long time — from an anticipation standpoint. It’s weird. And it was instructive to me to talk with my youngest about the game. He was like, “the Bills should win walking away - the Patriots are trash - it looks like Cam’s back to being bad, they have no one at receiver, and their defense isn’t very good either - they’re slow.” He just doesn’t have - nor is he buying- the full force and effect of the Belichick bogeyman. And I want to believe. I want to Billieve.

Something about the academies, for sure. Was his dad with Navy?

This is a valid concern. Maybe Belichick will come out and have the Pats run a military academy style triple wing option. (Hat tip to the Pardon My Take guys for that joke (maybe not a joke).)

Bring it on. It cannot be any worse than what we've endured for the past ~decade or so. It just can't.

Man, e-justice for our squirrel brethren and sistren - that emoji is tiny and looks more like a rat than a squirrel.

Well, strictly speaking, it’s more: Even when they don’t play especially well, good teams win games against inferior opponents. But good teams playing poorly will lose to superior teams, for sure.

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Sheesh. It occurs to me: There were a bunch of horse sh1t calls in that game. More than your average - maybe even both ways (?). That crew seemed like they were winging it.

Hard to disagree that the play calling was poor in the redzone, as was the execution. But, again, scoring no touchdowns and never punting the ball? That's just weird. As for taking a deep shot: (1) We didn't have John Brown in the lineup. That matters. (2) We should probably applaud the fact that Allen was taking what the Defense was giving him -- that's exactly what the Bills need him to do. I was encouraged to see Allen dinking and dunking like he did. The CBS broadcast was horrendous - I waited in vain for some context on that "penalty."

What a painful game to watch. But a win’s a win. I also agree with what Bulldog said in the post-game show. It seems sort of fluky (flukey?) that the Bills failed to score a TD because they moved the ball really well. And Allen looked good, as he should have I suppose. 300 passing yards, 60 rushing, and a 70% completion rate. Beat the Patriots.

This is a good take on the Zemgus deal — it’s clear that Krueger really values him. We’re hitched to RaKru for the foreseeable future, so finger crossed that he’s right about the Latvian Locomotive.

I asked a similar question upthread.

I dunno. I just saw his big beefy ass body falling on someone for a TFL or sack last night, and I was like: That dude can fill space and move a bit. And for a fresh second, I thought maybe he overlapped with McDermott in Philly - but I don't think that's the case. But now that the Eagles won, and given that 6 wins will likely be enough to win the NFC (L)East, I am less confident that they'd be willing to move him.

^ Had the Eagles lost, I was hoping for a Fletcher Cox deal.

Yeah, about that. (I mean, I am positive that he saw some zone in the first 4 weeks? (Eek))

Thanks. I guess my question is whether there's clinical data tending to show that as well for this virus. My tiny non-scientific sample involves stories I hear about several cohorts of college kids. Right around the time of everyone being sent home in March, I heard several stories of college-aged kids getting pretty sick (all fully recovered, as far as I know) and, to boot, there weren't that many cases being talked about. Then this fall, the stories are more along the lines of dang near err wun getting the virus (well, in Ohio anyway) and no one's really getting that ill.

Is there science associated with that being the case at present? Because anecdotally and non-clinically, that squares with what I am seeing, hearing, knowing in recent weeks, months.