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I would just be satisfied if Scraps stopped saying "tractors".

I rarely do, but this is just madness. Our elected officials are to worried about looking racist and losing votes, and not worried about the health and well being of our nation. It's time to say enough. I just emailed every one of my contacts with Schumer's and Hillary's contact info. If you folks want to be heard, here are the links. It only takes a few minutes: http://schumer.senate.gov/ http://clinton.senate.gov/

How many of you are willing to go to a counter protest? How many of you have written your senators? (I emailed Chuck and Billary today... why not do the same?) Bitching on an internet forum is fun, but unless you speak up, you will not be heard.

Why not provide an armored exo-skeleton to every soldier? We can do that, right? Why did no one complain that Jeeps and Deuce's in WW2 didn't have enough armor? I'm pretty sure that even an MP42 could have torn up a Willy in a few seconds. Because it's war, that's why. You can't protect every single soldier without compromising your goals and becoming completely ineffective. Yes Scraps, we know you are not in favor of the war or the current administration. What you have also demonstrated is a lack of knowledge on the subject matter. This is essentially an non issue to most of the troops, and has been blown wildly out of proportion by the media. The notion that the "right wing" is actually in favor of making a warzone less safe is preposterous, and is nothing more than a fabrication.

I don't know if a team would trade for Moulds right now. Every knows he wants out and that with us signing Davis, he is a bit more expendable. Most likely, an intersted party will just wait for him to get cut. It would be nice if we could get a pick for him though...

I smell an alt...

It is the money. He has to pay for all of them babies somehow...

You beat me to it. He demonstrated last season that leadership, by far, is not his best attribute. My prediction is that he leaves, goes to another team as a #1 receiver, but is out-played by someone else, and will be relegated to second by the end of the season. But hey, why should you listen to an idiot like me, who halfway through typing this post realized that he has been wearing his Battlefield 2 communicator headset all morning for absolutely no reason.

For f*cks sake not again. Is it necesary to waste so much time flaming someone for making a prediction on a message board? So what if he is lying through his teeth or not. Why people get so worked up is beyond me. How often does ESPN or SI report that their sources within such-and-such state 'X' and then a week later the reality is revealed as 'Y'? They are the supposed professionals, and through advertising, we pay for their services (in a roundabout way). Does everyone flip out when they f up?

I wasn't referring to anyone specificaly. My original point through all of this is that the majority of writers, pundits, fans, etc., thought MW was a good pick at number 4.

I'd like to see the posts from Apr 02, to see where everyone stood on our picks at the time... It's real easy to say something was a good or bad decision in retrospect.

So by your logic drafting a RT made no sense and left tackle was locked up, which would mean no McKinney either. Tell me again why you are trolling in the Williams vs. McKinney thread?

I didn't see a smiley, so I'm not sure if you were joking. Another Roy Williams was drafted by Dallas with the 8th pick in the 2002 draft. http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0903232.html

No, you are both missing the point. The title of the thread is "Mike Williams or McKinnie". Most draft analysts said that Williams was a better pick and that he could play RT or LT due to his size, speed, and athletic ability. That was my point which seems to have eluded you both. I'm not saying I liked the pick, that in retrospect it was a good pick, or anything of the sort. He was supposed to be the better football player. He was not. Not by a longshot. This is what makes him a bust. If he had not been considered the better player, it would have merely been a stupid pick.

Nope. You have it wrong. Most scouts, media, and fans had Williams going above McKinney. My point was that TD did not do something that seemed crazy or stupid at the time. It's what makes Williams a bust. Everyone thought he was a better pick than McKinney. http://football.about.com/od/mockdrafthist...bl_2002mock.htm http://archive.profootballweekly.com/conte...raft_042002.asp And my favorite: http://www.bootlegsports.com/cgi-bin/bs3co...file=nfl-draftw Most likely to live up to expectations - Mike Williams, OT, Texas - Williams saw his stock rise higher than Bryant "Mount" McKinnie in the weeks leading up to the draft and rightfully so. He can play on either side of the line and is polished enough to step in and start for Buffalo. If there's such thing as a nimble 375 pounder, than Williams is it. Buffalo is expecting Williams to anchor their line next season, and with his excellent ability against the pass and the run, Williams will no doubt be up to the task. I'm sure I could find more mock drafts, and maybe even a few with McKinney going higher, but the point is that most had Williams going higher. Combine that with McKinney being kind of a jerk, and TD's initial decision didn't look bad. (Please don't think of me as some TD apologist, I'm glad he is gone. But just because he was a jerk didn't mean he should have been able to see into the future and predict that the guy viewed as the best lineman in the 2002 draft would turn out to be a lazy SOB.)

Are you guys forgetting that not only TD, but most of the sporting media thought Williams was a safer pick over Mckinney, do to attitude issues? And when McKinney held out on the Vikes, it sure did look like ol' TD made the smart move. Obviously in retrospect it wasn't, but everyone here is acting like TD went against conventional wisdom by drafting big Mike, when that was not the case.

Shturmovik means "Storm Bird". I think I learned that from G.I. Joe.

Huh? The Shturmovik is the IL-2, a WW2 era ground attack plane. The SU-25 is the "Frogfoot". Scary name indeed...

97-00 (I think... )

Really? I thought I read on this site that he was a free agent... No need to be a dick pal.

Actually I have a pretty good reason from the man himself, to suspect that he will not be returning. I don't want to reveal how I know or turn this into a 'soprano' situation, but I'll try to illustrate. Lets just pretend that Milloy had a personal website with a bunch of Bills logo's on it. Then he does away with that website and starts up a new one (about 5 or 6 weeks ago), yet this time there is no Bills logo, only an NFL logo. Like I said, thats sort of an illustration of what I know. The reality is very similar. I realize it could mean absolutely nothing, but this went down right at the end of the regular season. Combine that with the fact that the team played like sh--, the D wasn't very good, coaching staff turnover, and he is a free agent, and it doesn't look so good.

You know they used to see Genny Cream Ale in the south as a premium... (and I must admit I still enjoy a green screamer every now and again). True story about Iron City. When I went to Fredonia, the Quality Supermarket had mistakenly received a pallet of IC light. They had it on sale for 2.99 for a 12 pack. We bought as many as we could carry, went home and got stewed. A day or two later we returned to the store to get more, only to find the pallet was gone, so I asked one of the stock boys if there was any left. He pointed to a shopping cart filled with the remaining 12'ers. As we walked up to it we realized the price had gone down to $1.49 per 12 pack. I wheeled the entire cart right up to the register and bought the whole damn thing!

Too bad Milloy is as good as gone...

BOOYAH!

True to certain extent, but that is their style.