I was thinking about Maya Angelou after the Bills disaster on Sunday. I know it doesn't make much sense. Starting to wonder if years of conversation with Dion Dawkins is igniting brain waves that create the type of deep, off the wall analogies Dawkins has turned into volumes of verbal art. A conversation for another day.

Angelou is famous for saying, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time". Brandon Beane's press conference after the trade deadline is why I can't push this quote out of my head. Beane was noticeably disappointed talking the local media after the deadline last Wednesday. It was a tone usually reserved for a playoff elimination loss. He admitted a trade to add some help was the expectation. "I would have lost money" on the Bills not making a move. W

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