That Aud Smell

Also, hat tips continue for this year's draft class -- Kincaid and Torrence are both looking like they belong.

The turnaround was startling. Otoh, there's a gulf between the quality of the Jets D and the Raiders D. Otoh yet again, the Jets D didn't look too special against the Cowboys. Otoh yet again and again, there seems to be something about the Jets D that tends to confound Allen. And that's been true maybe even before Saleh arrived and the Jets had mostly different personnel on D? That big fella the Jets have in the middle is terrifying - probably the main reason that the Bills drafted Torrence.

Pffffffffffffffff. Swing and a miss, guvnah.

Hear, hear. What an incurable POS this guy is.

No bueno. Heal up, kid.

Awful story. That said: Who?!

Butchered is right. I think I know what he was going for -- something in the vein of "you kiss your mother with that mouth?" -- but, yeah. An insult that you would not repeat aloud in church is ... not saying much.

There's a significant part of any committed fan base that uses their fandom as an outlet for their frustrations, unhappiness with life in general. There's a STH who sits a few rows up and several seats over from where we sit at the stadium. The way that this guy just SCREAMS the most horrendous things about players, coaches, FO people when things aren't going the home team's way ... I just want to take him aside, give him a hug, and ask him what's really bothering him.

Because it's Babcock, first and foremost. The guy is an incurable a-hole. The players who came out and defended him appeared to have been towing a company line. Or perhaps they were personally okay with whatever it was that the HC did with their phones. There are apparently unnamed players who were not okay with what Babcock did -- taking their phones and perusing the camera roll (and DM inboxes?) for several minutes.

Has it been quoted? Is it the one where he’s suggesting that the Kaep/BLM stuff could be troweled over if the NFL could find an appropriate … black person* to serve as the face of the league on the issue? That’s how I recall hearing it. * I typed and deleted other terms here.

I recall reports of TP stepping in it - verbally - during the heat of the Kaepernick/BLM matters. Why would this surprise anyone? It would strike me as utterly ordinary for a horseshoe up his butt Boomer billionaire from Podunk, PA to say some dumb sh1t about black people agitating for civil rights. It doesn’t make him a bad person. It doesn’t mean he holds malice in his heart towards black people generally or any black person specifically (because they’re black). He’d just be a product of societal forces and norms with the potentiating force of ungodly wealth added into the mix.

I did not read this post.

And this goes to a point that @Cascade Youthmade about the plaintiff’s lawyers — very media savvy.

i was just reading what you wrote in that one post. and i recalled generally what you'd said previously. it seemed to me that you were moving past a posture where you'd withhold judgment.

yeah - that's an interesting one to contemplate. it's a fookin hand grenade, for sure. i appreciate the give and take.

It means that this --> has no if's or but's about it. Which yields a take that Trotter is acting in bad faith in order to defame Pegula. Which is sorta nuts, based on what we presently know (and don't know).

I tend to agree that the Bills will ultimately need to bring in a guru of some kind to get Allen under control and help him be the player he can be. Daboll and his team did a very good job with that. Dorsey was a part of that team, but, as the OC, he does not seem to have sufficient control over Allen. Agreed. I was texting with a group of friends -- only 1 of them a Bills fan -- and asked to whom Allen best compares as an NFL QB. I said Favre, maybe. Then someone else chimed in: Dude. Jim Kelly. And I was like oof.

I think you're speaking past each other here a bit. @PASabreFan may have his finger on a somewhat nuanced legal issue. Trotter is in a position to testify, under oath and in admissible form, that an unnamed media colleague said something in a meeting that was attributed to Pegula. He can probably (?) testify to that not for the truth of the matter asserted -- that Pegula said it -- but for the purpose of establishing that, in that meeting, a colleague related that (alleged) quote to other NFL brass and that, thereafter, NFL brass swept the matter under the rug. There are principles of hearsay here that I'm a little fuzzy on. But I think I have it substantially correct. See how that works? It's a clever bit of lawyering, tbh.

Interesting. Not terrible litigation strategy, btw. I mean -- it's out on the edge. But if your opponent is an absolute behemoth and has billions of intangible value tied up in its brand, it's a logical play. Embarrass the sh1t out of them and use that as a pain point. And if the extraneous allegation were found to have been made with knowledge of its falsity, well, then, there are remedies and penalties for that. I very much doubt such a claim would ever be proven, though. Speaking of being out there on the edge.

Hmm. Interesting. Fair deuce. It’s still a well-drafted pleading.

As stated upthread, the issue appears to be equally if not more about what the league did and didn’t do in response to the alleged statement being raised. The facts alleged on that issue are pretty specific. Trotter has big boy lawyers. Wigdor is a small shop, but they are Chambers rated. You only get that rating when the bench and bar agree that your firm is top notch. That complaint appears to be excellent work product. I’m assuming that the lawyers performed due diligence on what they view as the relevant facts.

It’s okay to say that it’s more than that, if that’s what you feel in your heart.

And thank God for that.

Yes, I’m familiar. I think in either instance, you’d need to prove malice. And I think those frothing for such a lawsuit harbour the suspicion that these claims are maliciously made.

Love reading/seeing you here. Twitter isn’t enough.