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Where do the Bills sit in power rankings now? https://t.co/bfGjHfD7kD

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Highlighting the Bills tailgating scene in Los Angeles https://t.co/7Y7DO3je4y

[Sara Larson | BBGurl4Life @sara_larson]

Help out my dude and go vote for him!! He’s in 2nd and closing in!! Appreciate the support!! #GoCanes #billsmafia

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Assessing what Bills snap counts vs. Patriots mean going forward https://t.co/rNGpMAZYWZ

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Some solid marks for the offense, but the defense is in need of improvement https://t.co/UVBXjmEhHv

[Sara Larson | BBGurl4Life @sara_larson]

To clarify, because apparently my point got lost: this was NOT a defense of Josh Allen’s play Sunday.

Josh was bad. He has a lot to shoulder for that loss. The left side of the offensive line was bad. Outside of Keon Coleman, the pass catchers were pretty bad too.

My point is that Josh and this offense have had two bad Sundays in a row. They survived one because they were playing a bad football team and the defense made plays. They didn’t survive the next one against a decent team.

If your defense is consistently giving up 28+ points, the offense has almost no margin for a bad game. That doesn’t excuse Josh when he plays poorly. It means his poor games become nearly impossible to survive.

Both things can be true.

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Reluctantly handing out game balls after Buffalo’s Week 4 loss https://t.co/vC7ArAdrrX

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Bills near top of power rankings, Patriots all over the place https://t.co/YyauMhJ7Nf

[Sara Larson | BBGurl4Life @sara_larson]

We are 3-0.

❤️Brand-new stadium.
🦬Undefeated football team.
💙Josh Allen.

And somehow the biggest controversy in Buffalo is the water bottle situation.

Only BillsMafia could walk into football heaven and immediately ask to speak to the manager about hydration.

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The Bills have the AFC Defensive Player of the Month https://t.co/eZTUTpxLOC

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What snap counts vs. the Chargers reveal https://t.co/EeFtgSuZQT

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Handing out game balls for Buffalo’s Week 3 win https://t.co/ggGZNDw80F

[Sara Larson | BBGurl4Life @sara_larson]

I’m definitely NOT in midseason tailgating form.

Go Bills!

[Sara Larson | BBGurl4Life @sara_larson]

Someone needs to launch a serious investigation into the 49ers’ injury history, because at this point, you genuinely can’t make this shit up!!

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In building a practice squad, the Buffalo Bills have important decisions to make beyond the initial 53-man roster. https://t.co/dvevv2fr7u

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A full explainer on the many player designations available to teams ahead of cutdown day https://t.co/N8xmafIvKg

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@MLFootball I don’t think the Browns need to stage this…These kids probably have NO clue about what he’s said or what he’s did in the past. They just know he’s the QB1 of their favorite team. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Sara Larson | BBGurl4Life @sara_larson]

“You’re not a journalist if you’re taking privacy into account” is quite a statement.

Privacy, public interest and minimizing unnecessary harm are absolutely considerations in responsible journalism.

Ed Oliver is a public figure. His child was not. And being a public figure does not mean every tragedy involving your family immediately becomes public property.

Nobody is arguing that the story could never be reported. The issue is whether there was a compelling public interest in exposing an intensely personal tragedy before Oliver chose to make it public himself.

For nearly seven weeks, people who knew exercised restraint and allowed a grieving father and his family some privacy. I don’t consider that a failure of journalism.

And if exercising independent judgment about whether publishing something causes needless harm makes me a “mouthpiece for the organization,” that’s a fascinating conclusion you’ve made for someone you don’t know.

Sometimes people independently arrive at the same conclusion because it’s the decent one.

We clearly disagree on where that line belongs. I’m perfectly comfortable with where I drew mine.

[Sara Larson | BBGurl4Life @sara_larson]

Knowing something does not automatically create a journalistic obligation to publish it. Journalists make editorial decisions every day about privacy, relevance and legitimate public interest. The death of a player’s young child, while he and his family are privately grieving, had no bearing on football, his job performance or any matter the public needed to know at that moment.

Respecting that boundary doesn’t make someone a “mouthpiece.” It means recognizing that journalism comes with judgment and responsibility, not simply an obligation to publish every piece of private information you happen to learn. If your definition of journalism is “I know it, therefore everyone else should too,” then I think we simply have very different definitions of journalistic integrity.

[Sara Larson | BBGurl4Life @sara_larson]

Yes, because “journalistic integrity” is famously defined as making sure you beat a grieving father to announcing the death of his child.

Silly me.

I thought there was still a distinction between information being available and information the public is entitled to know.

There’s a rather significant difference between “gatekeeping information” and exercising journalistic judgment about whether the public has a legitimate need to know something deeply personal.

The death of someone’s child isn’t a transaction where the first person to hit “post” wins.

Especially when that person is gloating that they “broke” the story all the while supporting a conspiracy narrative on his ability to practice or insinuating something foul occurred.