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Unfortunately, not really, no.

I think we have some major issues and we are going to have to get lucky.

That's basically the case for the majority of teams.

The unfortunate fact is that our division has had a very consistent, very good top team for a long time. The Bills have averaged more than 12 wins a season over the past 5 years and the Patriots averaged more than 12 since basically forever before that. Having an insanely good competitor in the division just sucks and reduce the margin for error that the remaining teams in the division have.

I'm not particularly down on our overall roster situation, however. (My main concern is "can we score points") and I liked our draft overall. We came in with 3 areas of need: offensive line, defensive line, and the defensive backfield. We spent our top 5 picks on those areas.

The cap situation doesn't feel nearly as bad to me as many are making it out to be, so while we aren't going all in on bringing in big free agents (we don't often get value from those, anyway), we aren't in any kind of "cap hell".

Sure, we need to hit on our draft picks and the players that we have need to play well. Our coaches need to step up. McDaniel has had 3 full seasons to shape the coaching staff and influence the roster. For me, this is the season where we really start to see if McDaniel has grown with the job and managed to get the right people around him.

I'd have us as favorites to win about half the divisions in the league, but that's obviously irrelevant since that's not the game. I do think we'll get the second spot with a decent chance of making the playoffs, though.

The first article has the literal quote in question:

The day after the draft, Slavin said he reached out to "half the league" to find out what happened.

"They thought he was a third- or fourth-round pick, but too big of a name to be a clipboard holder," Slavin said. "Which I think is chickens---."

[it can cause muscle aches and a mild fever as your body tries to fight off the "infection."]

They literally spent several years saying that

No medical professional said that getting a medical treatment is "risk-free."  Hell, even getting your blood drawn involves a risk; it's just a small one relative to the benefits.

The anti-vaxxers are continually claiming that the vaccines were "supposed to be 100% effective" and "were claimed to have zero side effects," even when one of the prominent warnings of the vaccine was that it can cause muscle aches and a mild fever as your body tries to fight off the "infection."

They just said they didn't want to be forced to take something for a sickness most people would survive.

Billions of people took the vaccine and survived, so that logic doesn't make sense.  The disease is more than a million times more deadly than the vaccine.

And - at least in the US - no one "forced" you to do anything.  Every single person in this country was free to not take the vaccine... along with the consequences of that choice.  But as always, we have a bunch of babies who think consequences are always for other people.

They also said Ivermectin was too dangerous to take yet now admit it helps.

No, they don't.

It's become a regular staple in many houses these days including mine.  It's great for helping those of us who suffered from long covid.

Wait, I thought y'all were willing to take the risks of catching COVID?
Why are you now reliant on Big Pharma to reduce the symptoms of your freedom?

[Yale Study]

According to this Yale Study...

No one ever said there's no risk from getting immunized

They literally spent several years saying that and that conspiracy theorists were behind people complaining about the side effects ... hahaha. No one ever said everyone who gets a vaccine is affected. They just said they didn't want to be forced to take something for a sickness most people would survive. It was absolutely nuts with people punishing others for not wanting to risk it yet no one wanted to take responsibility if it did go bad.

They also said Ivermectin was too dangerous to take yet now admit it helps. It's become a regular staple in many houses these days including mine.  It's great for helping those of us who suffered from long covid.

BTW ... if you get off Google and go to a search engine not run by MSM you will see some different results.

[Yale Study]

According to this Yale Study...

..according to CDC findings, the risk of severe forms of myocarditis is greater in individuals who contract the COVID-19 virus than in those who receive vaccines. She emphasized that vaccination offers the best protection from COVID-19-related disease.

No one ever said there's no risk from getting immunized, but you can't compare the effects of getting immunized to nothing, you have to compare the effects of getting immunized to getting the virus that you're being immunized against. You can roll the dice and hope you don't get the virus and all of the very serious negative effects associated with it or you can get immunized and significantly lower your chances of any of that.

I did a quick copilot query and it provided the following information.

Vaccines can rarely cause myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle. This has been observed primarily with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in young males after their second dose. However, the risk of myocarditis from COVID-19 infection itself is higher than the risk from vaccination.

Most cases of vaccine-related myocarditis are mild and resolve quickly. Researchers have found that the inflammation is not caused by vaccine-generated antibodies but rather by an overactive immune response. Some studies suggest that spacing out vaccine doses may help reduce the risk.

I'm not sure how anyone would see the difference in reactions from Sanders being drafted and Ewers being drafted and think Ewers is the one excited and motivated to come to the NFL and work.  Ewers has the demeanor of someone whose dog was just put down.

Obviously different people respond to news differently, but if we're judging on limited intel, I would see no reason to consider Ewers "more coachable."

I saw that too and I thought the same when I first saw it and then I read an article that mentions Ewers had just had oral surgery and could barely open his mouth. When viewed in that light, I think the tears were tears of joy, but he couldn't smile so it looked very strange. Sure, he was disappointed with being drafted in the 7th round, but I don't think he really expected to be the 2nd QB off the board like Sanders. Ewers knew that he was probably going to go in the later rounds and I read that his biggest disappointment was that there were several taken in the 6th round in front of him. He also mentioned that although he was unhappy with falling to the 7th round he was in fact excited about going to the Dolphins where he felt it was a good fit for him.

ESPN: Inside Quinn Ewers' draft process and post-slide motivation

There was also another couple of articles that spoke with Ewers head coach at Texas and he mentioned how much that Ewers went through this year with Manning backing him up and calls for him to replace Ewers and the injuries that Ewers endured and how none of that got in the way with Ewers season and how much respect he and the Texas players had for Ewers.

And then there's this article that I read today. I think this or something similar is more likely the reason that Sanders was passed over and not simply because he was too big of a name to hold a clipboard. That particular reason was also called BS by the trainer working with Ewers by the way.

Report Shedeur Sanders was pissed at this NFC team after private interview

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cMRWz5tQpbs&t=82s


I watched the whole video even though it was nerve-racking

This YouTube channel is not politically motivated at all.  This seems to confirm what the republicans were saying all along.  

I have had one booster.  I wish there was a way to check to see if I have had any effects.   I invented a term about this called Post Vaccine Anxiety.  (PVA).  

I wonder if Wikipedia will update their website to reflect this.  They never post anything bad about the vaccines.

I can’t undo getting the shot.  I just wonder if I have any options now.  Should I change my lifestyle?  Are there any tests I can get?

To all you people who have gotten vaccinated, do you feel any differently now?  

Was the protection offered by the vaccines against Covid worth the side effects?

This was probably the last video I wanted to watch today, but it’s important to know the truth about this.

Unfortunately, not really, no.

I think we have some major issues and we are going to have to get lucky.

I'd say it looks pretty "openly entitled" to respond to being drafted lower than you hoped like it's a death in the family, but that's me.

I would say it depends on how long it lasts.  And what he does with it.  Tom Brady was so pissed at his slide he wasn't even home when the Patriots called his dad lied and said he was in the bathroom when in fact he had taken a walk to blow off steam.  And that guy's career turned out okay.

As long as turns into motivation to improve being pissed off at your draft position is fine.  Many players use being passed by a team as motivation on game day.

The worst thing a player can do is listen to those saying he should have been drafted sooner.  The best thing he can do is hear all the reasons given he wasn't drafted sooner and improve those areas. 

However, with Ewers the worst possible situation could be that having fallen to the 7th round he started putting together his list of where we wanted to go as a UDFA and the Dolphins were on the top of the places he absolutely didn't want to go to.

i did enjoy mel keiper losing his shit on tv, that was glorious