Steve O

Rock paper scissors is still a game of chance. At least there is some skill required in the scrum.

Rather than change the rules, change the way to determine who gets the ball. Instead of a coin toss, have a scrum.

Damn they were backed up inside the 20 with no timeouts and a tie game. Would be great if things come full circle. If not, next year will be NE's fourth straight super bowl appearance. Can't let that happen!!

During football season I hate everything in all six states that make up New England. And I have family and friends that live in them.

Never said I would have had the same career without an education. Never would have gotten the jobs I did without it. I do think that at least for the engineering portion I would have been just as successful without staying in the library until closing every night had I been able get the same jobs (which I would definitely not have been able to do.) What I did was agree with the OP that college degrees were overrated. You wasted no time in telling me my opinion was ignorant (which was not accurate.) The response sounded angry, so thought I might have offended you. Should have put more emphasis on the ISO portion of my original response, leaving the education part out. As to what is fashionable regarding the worth of college these days, I have no idea.

So, let's satisfy your curiosity. Spent a little over 15 years as an engineer. Roughly half in production floor support, half in design (at Xerox they were separate jobs, in smaller companies they were the same job.) Following that, spent almost 20 years in purchasing and planning. With the career change I decided to educate myself and took the APICS certification program. Found this way more applicable to the new career, and was able to implement at least a few of the ideas in to actions that immediately improved the financial health of my organization. Things like ABCing inventory and tying the sales and operation plan to the production plan. That being said, while I did follow through and receive my certification, most of what was applied to the work place was learned in the intro course. In a similar way, I never said the value of my education was never apparent to me. Those were your words. However, I can tell you that most what I really needed to know I learned in Kindergarten. "...Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life—learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup—they all die. So do we..." https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/56955/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten-by-robert-fulghum/9780345466396/excerpt With those things in mind, I apologize if my opinion in some way offended you.

My opinions are not ignorant, they are based on my experience. Graduated from RIT with a 3.75 grade point average. Spent over 30 years working in both large and small companies (mostly large.) Since companies put a lot of value on education I played the game. But I learned more my first week on the job than in all my schooling. I've also seen what goes in to ISO certifications. All programs get put on hold for two weeks and everyone scrambles to make sure all ducks are in a row for two weeks before an audit. Then everything goes back to normal for 5-1/2 months until the next audit. Comfortably retired now for what it's worth.

When did we switch to metric?

I put college degrees up there with ISO certifications. A lot of effort and money spent on convincing people that there is a lot of value in something that has very little.

To the dumb point "...Taylor gives them that blind side protector..." Had to watch a second time to make sure Florida had a right handed quarterback, thought maybe I had missed something.

With both Lynch and Freddie already on the roster, Spiller was certainly a luxury pick we could not afford. Roscoe and Everett were picked to give Losman some weapons besides Evans, give the new franchise quarterback every chance to succeed.

Was wondering how long it would take for someone to mention Robb. Early in his career I agree. Later on, I think he was over used, especially in short yardage situations.

Well said.

New regime, new strategy. We now draft only players named Josh Allen with our first pick. After that, BPA.

That would be 23 teams that regret NOT drafting him. If memory serves. And I'm sure at least 5 of the 11 that didn't draft Sapp regret it. Pretty sure there was something about a positive pot test, could have been something else.

I'd hate to miss out on Warren Sapp by two picks because you beat MIami in two meaningless games.

Being 62 myself, way too young. RIP Turk.

Officially rooting for the Rams now. Please excuse me for a while, it appears to be getting a bit wet under my eyes, need to find some kleenex.

Played Volleyball until I was 48, softball until 59. Now it's just golf. What can I say, after college no one wanted to take the afternoon off to shoot takedowns.

Sounds like it was still worse that you deserved. But it also sounds like you got away with a few. Good you learned your lesson without anyone paying too high a price. Black lining, my friend died of cirrhosis at 45. He looked 85.

This one sucks, did it eventually go away? I can't imagine with your friend the DD testifying that this would be upheld. I had a friend who had 3 DWI's. Would have had a fourth but the only one that he caused any damage in was the one he got away with. Drove into a phone poll in the middle of the night. Did enough damage that he couldn't go anywhere. Turned off the truck and put the keys in the ash tray. Lit a cigarette. Finished it, put it out and closed the ash tray and went to sleep. Next morning someone called the cops, he still couldn't pass the breathalyzer. Cop couldn't find his keys. Neither could he. Car got towed away. No proof as to who was driving, so no DWI. Lock smith had to create a new set of keys. After his truck was fixed he got it from the garage, lit a cigarette, opened the ashtray and there were his keys. (Yes he was an alcoholic.)

Did they really have to include HR forward pass in it?

Based on the reviews above I'll definitely watch. Thanks for posting.

but, but...that's different. Oh wait, maybe it isn't. Actually the courts will decide both cases as Jeremy is suing.

I mentioned Breaking Bad in the OP...as the best. Saw at least one other best and one other worst in this thread. Guess we all see things differently.