Brian Thomas

Be good, do good, God bless, and Go Bills

[Tom Pelissero @TomPelissero]

Statement from Bills DB Sam Franklin Jr.’s agents, Harold C. Lewis and Christian Addison, after appeals officer James Thrash reduced Franklin’s one-game suspension to a $14,926 fine for unsportsmanlike conduct:

“As we said from the start, Sam did not and would never spit at an opponent, and there was no evidence that he did. We're glad the suspension was overturned and grateful to the hearing officer for a fair and thorough review. It's unfortunate the league suspended Sam in the first place based on an unsupported accusation that received so much undeserved attention, and we hope the outcome is covered just as widely. We also hope the league takes a serious look at the opposing player's conduct, including striking Sam in the groin twice during the game. We're glad this is behind him, so Sam can get back to focusing on his teammates and next Sunday.”

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

At 6'9", Cooper Black is the tallest goalie to play in NHL history 👀

[Brian Thomas @btizzy]

@Pierre_Kingpin Secondary is awful!!!

[Brian Thomas @btizzy]

@DelReid @26shirts I literally started scrolling your posts looking for one that said you're hanging it up. Couldn't find one so thank god for that.

[Brian Thomas @btizzy]

@catsunrisechick @EdPiotrowski @jamiearnoldWMBF @AndrewWMBF @LiamKennyWPDE @jgreenhillwx @SCweather_wx @JohnSmithWX @LCWxDave @myrtlebeach @twcnewsdesk @Discover_SC @BILLWALSHTV @JimCantore @RealSaltLife Love it down there. My wife and I are thinking about spending our winters there. What are the winters like?? Are they warm enough or not far enough south?

[Super DIRTcar Series @SuperDIRTcar]

It's Monday, but we're still thinking about this finish.

[Brian Thomas @btizzy]

@Matt_Bove Congratulations!!!!! Welcome to the Mafia!!! #GoBills

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

T-Mobile spent five years trying to get rid of the exact spectrum Elon just called "the last critical piece" of complete phone coverage in America.

This 800 MHz block is Sprint's old Nextel spectrum, the stuff that powered push-to-talk walkie-talkie phones in 2004. The DOJ forced T-Mobile to divest it as a condition of the $26 billion Sprint merger. Dish had first rights at $3.59 billion and walked away because it couldn't raise the money. T-Mobile finally offloaded it to an investment firm called Grain Management last year for $2.9 billion plus a spectrum swap.

Grain's original plan was selling it to utilities for private networks.

Fourteen months later, SpaceX buys the whole portfolio, and shares of the carriers who passed on it fall as much as 8% in a single afternoon.

Here's why it matters so much. Starlink's satellite signal at 2 GHz can reach your phone outdoors, but it dies at the first wall. 800 MHz penetrates buildings. Most phones already have the band built in. So satellites handle the open sky, this low-band layer handles indoors, and suddenly Starlink Mobile covers everywhere a normal carrier does without the tower network.

Stack the moves. $17 billion for EchoStar's 50 MHz of 2 GHz spectrum. FCC approval for 15,000 Gen2 satellites this week. Now the low-band coverage layer.

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile paid $81 billion in a single auction for C-band spectrum in 2021, then spent years and tens of billions more deploying it on towers. SpaceX assembled a nationwide carrier out of a distressed-asset sale, a forced divestiture castoff, and rockets it already owns.

The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers. Nobody who touched it for twenty years saw that coming.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US.

With this new spectrum and our Gen2 constellation, Starlink Mobile can ensure Americans have access to high-speed mobile broadband no matter where they are → https://t.co/1Uaf48v5pm

[Brian Thomas @btizzy]

@MattParrino WTF do you see the imaginary injury??

[Brian Thomas @btizzy]

@cwietz1 @BenPopeCST Department of redundancy department

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

It’s only roughing the passer if it’s Mahomes

[Sal Capaccio 🏈 @SalSports]

Josh Allen is also wearing a red non-contact jersey… because he’s a quarterback… and they always do….. unless the team is wearing red….. so then he would have a green non-contact jersey. Got it!?

[Nick Sabato @NickSabatoGNN]

Ed Oliver: “Josh had to carry us for two weeks. And maybe every now and again, the defense might have to step up. At some point, maybe we both start clicking at the same time. Then we’ll have something to talk about.”

#Bills

[GG @GarryGates]

The NFL has released footage of the proper technique Chop Robinson should have used to hit Patrick Mahomes.

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

It’s here and it’s beautiful. 🤩

@JoshAllenQB | #BillsMafia

[Brian Thomas @btizzy]

I said the same thing!!

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

Of course @JoshAllenQB scores the first touchdown at Highmark Stadium!!

📺: @NFLonPrime

[NFL on CBS 🏈 @NFLonCBS]

"He just chucks it up in the air... AND IT'S CAUGHT"

- Ian Eagle on the Allen-to-Kincaid deep ball

📺 CBS & Paramount+

[Brian Thomas @btizzy]

@AnnieAgar BRO!!! You don't have to turn the oven on when you clean it.

[Brian Thomas @btizzy]

@Wegmans Brockport, could you rearrange the mums out front to help eliminate the bottleneck they cause??