SDS

This team is not good enough to draft for "need". In fact, drafting for need may be one of the worst things you can do. You need great football players. And if you happen to have more than one great football player at a position, then that is not a weakness - it is a strength. Injuries happen, contracts expire... crap happens. Just get great football players.

It is absolutely the coach's fault. They have to know they have one of the mentally slowest QBs to ever play the game in there. JPL is as close to clinical retardation as you can get. To call any play that forced him to actually think rests on this coaching staff and their inability to evaluate their own players strengths, weaknesses, and mental capabilities. Blaming this on Losman is like yelling insults to the short bud kids - they can't help it and neither can JP.

No offense, but the "vacation" you speak of is built in to their salary structure. I assure you that if they worked the traditional 12 months of the year they would be compensated for that additional time.

Seems like a lot of people are shoveling "hope" this season... Personally, I wouldn't hold my breath. My guess is that if they ever got their cost structure in line, they would still produce unappealing cars that large portions of Americans would never buy. GM $%#@% up Saturn when they had people dying to buy those cars. They burnt through that good will faster than their cash reserves and now Saturn will go away. Ineptitude is in their culture and it will remain there long after any deal has been brokered.

This is probably the greatest argument for letting them fail. If no one wants to buy their cars then the end is inevitable. Why throw good money after bad if the end result is the same?

Over here at my place, we have a location in Baltimore that is unionized. Here are two examples of mind-numbingly counter-productive union deals: 1. Engineers are NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH THE EQUIPMENT. Only "technicians" are allowed to touch the equipment. So, instead of one guy who may have his BS/MS/PHD tweaking the knobs in the lab - they have to sit in the lab and bark orders to a union employee: "change power supply voltage to 0.5 volts. Nope, too much: change it to 0.4 volts." etc... Real efficient. 2. Mechanical engineers are forbidden to draw parts in AutoCad. The union mechanical designers are only allowed to do that. So, the MEs have to draw parts with pencil and paper and not with their computers and high powered drawing programs and then hand the sketch to someone else to draw on their computer. But, somehow this is guarding against 10 year olds working 16 hour days... or so we're told.

Redskins under Norv. 7-1 that ended up 8-8.

Well, I posted in the right thread, but you seem to have run for the tall grass... Interesting how you can summon the "compassion" to unjustly rip into people, but have nothing left in the tank when mia culpas are on the menu. I'll step away from the thread hijack now...

What does any of this have to do your apology letter to the NFL? Is it in the final draft? What's the status of your disgust with the Christmas layoffs that never were?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/sports/f...l/10nfl.html?em Wow, SD you really nailed it. How should the NFL go about handing out the raises to the employees that haven't been identified for the RIF yet? Has your disgust for the Christmas layoffs that didn't happen gone away? Will you be sending a letter to the NFL retracting your statements? Curious minds want to know...

Did you stop for a moment and ask yourself what 1,100 people could possibly be doing in the corporate offices? That seems to be an astronomical number considering they don't actually run any teams. Regardless, your viewpoints on business and how they should operate are dreadfully naive. Again, start your own business and give it a whirl. I assure you that your point of view will be forever altered.

What are you 12? You know absolutely nothing about about these people. You don't know what they do, how they do it, if they do it well, whether what they do is no longer needed. You know absolutely nothing about the situation, yet you know it is "disgusting"? And what does this have to do with Christmas? Are they Christians? Jews? Non-believers? You don't really know, but you're pretty sure they should get raises. I've been laid off twice. Once after buying a new house 4 months earlier and once while my wife was pregnant - I assure you that did not make the situation any better because it wasn't at "Christmas" time. I have no opinion on these layoffs because I have no information. I hope these people land on their feet - I'm facing the same situation as them. However, I'm in no way asserting I have a right to employment because my big-ass defense contractor company made billions last year. If they don't have work for me, they don't have work for me, regardless of their profits. Plain and simple. You might want to put a basic economics book on your wish list this season. Or maybe start your own business and then see how much your mind changes about evil employers.

I shall refrain from comment while the contests are currently active.

No, just me...

With your health care system? No thanks.

You might be better off with a "green out". Everyone wears green (Ralph needs to show fans the money) at the stadium instead of the R, W, and B.

Fly By Night, by Rush would have been more appropriate...

I would look good starting next to Ed Reed....

You know, trying to be responsible here and see what we would need and what it would cost for a one month playoff extravaganza machine. Who knew?

If they up to $125M they'll promise to score a TD next time.

You know, just in cased you missed the game.

Can we trade for Shawn Hill?

his scrambles are butt ugly. WTF is he doing when he tries to run it?

we should draft one of those.