Dan

The university said it did the planning with minimal input from the White House. The school paid for the event, including $60,000 for 20,000 T-shirts bearing the words "Together We Thrive," which were handed out for free. The money will not come student tuition, fees or tax dollars. My link

The first place I saw her was some kinda HBO/cable/TV special quite a while ago (10 years?). Quite honestly, I can't really remember. But, back in the Napster free music days I haphazardly found a little of her music and have been listening off and on ever since. Great voice and great stage presence. Look at some more of those related vids and feel the joy.

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Beth Hart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHWYW6Tw67A

Facts suck. You've completely ruined a perfectly good conspiracy that the league has it out to keep the Bills down. Now, what? You expect us to face the fact that the Bills need to get better players and coaches? Thanks for nothin.

Really? Marv Levy took us to four consecutive Super Bowls. Have you seen some of the comments about him on this board? Seriously, I wouldn't be surprised to visit this board if and when the Bills win the Super Bowl, only to find someone complaining that so and so didn't do enough and we barely won.

I disagree. You can be guaranteed that no matter what a Bills player says, some fan is going to have a problem with it. Case in point... a young player tries to display a certain will to succeed and a confidence to achieve that success and posters want to tell him to STFU. God forbid any of our players exhibit confidence or emotion.

No way I'm looking at that pic... in a thread like this!

Looks like I stand corrected, Edwards is a good coach and Schobel is over rated.

We can all rest easy now. It seems the lyrical content of heavy metal rock and roll can be blamed now. Linky do. We can all continue our bitter partisan rhetoric and hate mongering vitriol with a clear conscience. Thank God for Rock 'N Roll!

Making mistakes isn't nearly as bad as failing to correct them.

Last comment ... a little over the top.. yeah?

That's exactly what I was thinking. Fairley seems to be "the" defensive lineman of this draft. (Maybe I'm wrong) So, if he's taken 1or 2, you can probably trade back to #9 and get the same player you would have taken at #3; plus get a couple of extra mid round picks. Seems like a no brainer to me. See... this drafting stuff ain't so hard. We got it all figured out. :beer:to us. Of course, refer to my disclaimer from me earlier post.

There's taking a step back and then there's looking completely inept. I would describe our defense as the second of those two options. Yes, we could use more talent on defense. But, what little talent we had was completely out of position, slow to the ball, and looked uninspired most all season. If Mr. "Skoobel" is so over rated as you implied, why did his departure have such a drastic effect on our defensive performance? You can't have it both ways. Either Schobel was a very good defensive player that was an important player in our defense. Or he was over rated and the defense shouldn't suffer much from his departure.

A matter that could be easily cleared up with.... yep, you guessed it... links!

Gotcha. I got confused. But, totally just my brain not functioning. Given that Luck was perhaps the only "sure thing" QB, and there may only be one "sure thing" DE/DT that's selected at 1or 2, I think this would be a great year to trade down a few slots and still get a top notch player and a few extra picks. So, I'd be all for it. Of course, I must qualify my opinion by stating that I have almost no understanding of who exactly is considered the best players in this draft, other than what I read here.

For clarification, you want to trade down and then select a CB?

I think all teams will be in a better spot if they reach an agreement on rookie salaries as part of the new CBA. A top 5 pick is absolute poison to a team. You pay 10's of millions to a completely unproven guy, leaving next to no money to sign guys that can shore up other areas of the team; hence, the top 5 guy busts out. And you're right back to where you started in a few years. I'd offer that, as much as anything, is leading to the division between good and bad teams. The good teams have more money to spread around to mid-round picks, while signing their proven veteran players. The bad teams, however, spend all their money on high-round, unproven rookies; while being forced to let their proven veterans walk. IMO, a slotted system for rookies will lead to fewer (high quality) FAs leaving teams and therefore more stability and improved performance from all teams.

Wait... I'm confused. I thought the Bills was the only franchise so terrible that people declined interviews to be HC? What does this mean? what does this mean?

My Bruce reference was in relation to a player giving up penalties at bad times, but making up for it with big plays at other times. Yeah, it's only 5 yards, but on 3rd and 4 that's still a first down. No worries though, bad analogy perhaps. I agree. His temper needs to be coached out of him. But, I'm not seeing any references to Haynesworth. But, I still say give me a big mean guy that plays mad on the line any day over the wusses we have now.

Kinda like Bruce with all his offsides. He'd get called quite a bit. But, if he's makin sacks, I can live with it. Now I agree, the guy needs to play with some discipline and not make stupid penalties. But, I like the attitude.

Knock.. ? I'd love to have a defensive lineman that plays mean! This team needs someone with some attitude and fire.

Furthermore, those guys (the Vick's and VY's) may have have lots of success, but it doesn't seem to continue through the playoffs. So, like I said.. I'm not sold.

I'm seeing another one of these option QBs that looks to run first; then makes throws to wide open receivers. What makes this guy so much better than all the other option QBs that have been drafted recently? Honestly, what am I missing? Fairley on the other hand is looking like a force out there.

I was thinking the exact same thoughts. They definitely need to be changing the cleats out there - a lot of slipping so far. And it almost looked like he alligator armed it. The throw was there, I thought. I really don't like all these college, option QBs. If that's Newton's game, I'm not sold. Oregon, easily has the hotter cheerleaders.