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Does anyone else find Bob Matthews' writings freakishly stupid?

In that case you would have hated the OJ days. Ferguson hardly ever threw the ball. Would you as the coach used OJ as a decoy so that the QB could throw?

If I had my choice of shouting four on a par 5 or fore on a par 5.....

54 - give him the season. Either way, management will definitely know who they want to keep and who among the scouts, coaches and players are expendable.

I've been in a lot of places, and I have to say...it begins at the top. Whatever personality the top dog has, it filters down through the ranks over time. Because the Bills have turned over so many players, I presume it is happening a little faster for them.

And most good football players are not on the wire.

I agree but for very different reason ... going off book shows a real lack of maturity. It indicates you have put yourself and your needs above others. By not sticking to the party line, JP forces us to try to figure out where he is coming from. Most adults understand the roles they play and they do their best to play them. For example, it wouldn't be good to sit down with a teenage son and smoke dope with them...doing so shows a lack of maturity. There are other ways to have a relationship with a teenage son...becoming one yourself is not the appropriate way....the kid can't figure out what it is your trying to do. JP needs to mature and understand that there is an appropriate relationship to have with fans.

By far and away it is college ball. There is nothing comparable to a rivalry that has grown over years like Michigan vs Ohio State. There is nothing like the highs and the lows during the game. Two touchdown leads are meaningless. Point swings are wild. The school bands are really entertaining.

This dog has bark and bite.

Yep....definitely the off season.

And don't forget to park it out on your front lawn.

isnt this cute? LaDumbass got his little buddies to join in too. ................ 709761[/snapback] I think you quoted the wrong post.

I don't think that was his point, but he can speak for himself. If you sort through all the BS in Ramius's response you come up with one point...what would you prefer a 6'4" Moss or a 5'4" Moss. The answer is pretty obvious. As you know, college stats are college stats. What a guy does there, he may or may not repeat at the pro level. There are a lot of other factors involved such as the guys in the NFL are bigger, better, stronger, faster, more determined, more persistant, more competitive, more mature, better trained, better schooled, smarter, etc. So maybe college stats only account for 20% of what makes a great NFL player a great NFL player. You are not going to win an argument about Nance having a chance in the NFL with only that ammunition. There are a lot of great college players with big stats that didn't make it. Although the manner was over the top...all LaDarius was saying is that you need a better argument than college stats.

You would have to include covariates for which there is no measure, like ability to come out of a turn, separation, etc. I would say don't bother.

Why would you think LaDarius would be banned? Because he disagrees with people on the board? One of his points is you guys just stick together and feed off of each other. Your opinions are group speak. You protect each other. I find it pretty weird that there isn't a more diverse set of opinions here. In any event La Darius is right. If a receiver cannot separate, can't accelerate out of breaks or turn, drops balls, is slow off the line of scrimmage then he isn't going to be a great wide receiver....even if he is 6'4" tall. If Nance suffers from these traits he won't be a great receiver. The question now is can these traits be rectified through coaching and practice. Apparently, the Bills brought him in thinking that it is possible to improve his burst off the line and his ability to separate and turn. Otherwise, he is just camp fodder.

Ahhh....he gave that one up on another bet. This time he is really sure.

my pop-up blocker isn't able to stop the junk from that site.

Ugly

It's hard to believe that Kemp is being voted off, he brought us two championships, and worked against racism in the league, and went on to represent western NY in goverrnment.

Sounds great if you don't think too hard about it. But when you do, it is easy to see how this all falls apart.

You seem to take two sides on the matter. My feeling is that the Wonderlic indicates how well you are educated, as do the SAT, GMAT, ACT, etc. The better educated you are the better you do on the tests. Since preparation for the Wonderlic, SAT, ACT, etc, can impact the score I think that supports my contention that the tests measure education. Being trainable/intelligent and being trained/educated are not the same thing. Trained - you put in the time and energy to learn something and learned it. This to me is what an educated person is. Trainable - if you applied yourself then you would have learned something. This on the other hand is a person that has the intelligence to be educated. Not necessarily the desire for it, but the ability for it. When a person does well on the tests, then I think of them as being educated. If they score low, I'm left with one of two options, either they are not trainable or they are not trained. If a student athelete is not trainable or not trained, I really wonder about the university he attended. It makes me think maybe they should invent a degree in sport. Hell if they have degrees in Black Studies, Hispanic Studies, Asian Studies, Feminist Studies, and General Studies...maybe it is time for Sports Studies. Back to OJ. He educated himself on the line blocking schemes in order to improve his performance. This shows his intelligence and education. He was trainable and trained. He saw the benefit of learning this material and went out and learned it. Next, Peripheral vision... Unless a person's head is oddly shaped, they do not have 270 degree peripheral vision. Everyone that I have ever seen has a flat face with their eyes facing forward and their noise between them. Since peripheral vision is measured while a person is told to look straight ahead, it is not possible for them to see behind them, and 270 degrees of peripheral vision would imply they could see 45 degrees behind them on each side of their head. Maybe Walter Payton, Sayers and Dorsett also understood the advantage of learning the line blocking schemes.

You may be wrong on this. In an interview recently, Joe Ferguson said that he thought OJ was pretty smart. Joe said that OJ new each of the blocking schemes for the running plays, and that that knowledge helped him perform better as a running back. Joe also said many of the running backs don't know even one play's blocking scheme. When I read that, I immediately thought of Willis.

I thought the guy was trying to say that Peters did not make good on his restricted free agent status (wine)...by signing an offer that was fairly low (beer). Nanker, I have no idea what your change means.

I thought it was pretty stupid, and a definite waste of bytes.

Yeah when he did that I heard a lot of cheap shots. But, that is because most people don't live by a set of principles. Ralph is old school, if you decide to quit because you don't do what the boss wants, then you shouldn't get paid for it.