UConn James

Just to clarify from above, no one was using the Wildcat / Single Wing formation in the NFL until My-yami. Whatever Mularky was running, it wasn't Wildcat. Any claim that he's been using it for 10 years is dubious. If he means his little 'gadget plays' (that more often than not failed in the Bills Offense), he should say 'gadget plays.' I'm far from saying MM is a meathead (and tho I'm glad he's no longer the Bills' coach, I wasn't and am not a fan of DJ either), but it's a little douche-y to compare end-around-QB/HB-options to Wildcat. The objective of getting an advantage through on-field chaos is the same, but the o-line formation (from left to right: TE, G, C, G, T, T, TE) and execution is totally different. My cousin's husband, a high school coach downstate who uses the single-wing/Wildcat spread, was interviewed and quoted in an SI piece about it last year.

Apparently, he groups all 'gadget plays' under the name Wildcat.

You also have to consider what kind of wife you have.

I didn't watch the show when it aired. But from the clip, that seems to be the case. He held back saying anything b/c she's a woman and anything he says or does besides encouragement (like he was trying to do) will be taken the wrong way. You could see from the look on TO's face that he's thinking, "I did the best I could. How much longer is this sh--?" I would not be reading anything into his response on this show toward how he would react on the football. On the contrary he showed a lot of control there. And hopefully, seeing someone who is as destructive to a (albeit, small) team will hold up a mirror and help him see the effect of some of his previous antics / calling out of teammates. I don't see how this tirade helps Ms. Krupa's professional career. People generally don't like working with people who, during crunch time, start pouring down the f-bombs. They're difficult to work with and they drag productivity down. Beauty fades and there's a million girls out there looking to take her place. Swearing like that and getting agitated and angry doesn't help anything --- in fact, anger makes your concentration worse in physical tasks. There's a reason why sports psychologists preach positive visualization. In college, during summers I did hardscaping, and if you start getting angry that stones aren't fitting, start swearing and getting worked up, nothing's going to go right. You start giving up easier and throwing stones back on the ground when working on a solution for another minute would have fixed the problem. I've worked with swearers and people quick to anger, and they create a toxic zone where things just don't get done b/c they're too busy being angry.

I would print out an 8x11 that says exactly that, and put it on the fridge, on his door, etc. FOOTBALL & ACADEMICS. YOU DON'T GET ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER. (Unless you go to UMiami or FSU....)

Of the options I listed, this would be the way I would go. List it for ~ 3 weeks and if there's no bite, I'd sell it to the junkyard place. Even $200 cash in hand is much better than a $500 deduction (if it's not the straw that breaks the camel's back vis-a-vis putting you in a lower tax bracket).

You might see if it can be donated for a tax deduction. There are a few organizations/charities that do that in the northeast. I don't know what they have as far as drive-ability requirements. You could put it in the listings and try to get some cash by hoping there's a kid who wants a spare 'parts car.' I have a friend who did that with a junker Puegot back in college. Call an auto parts yard (you know... ones that have a lot of wreck cars) which pretty much does the same thing as the kid mentioned above, for the odd customer who needs a gas door, fender, windshield fluid tank, etc. Or, you could sing some Don McLean and take it to the levy. Whatever way, from the sounds of it, don't expect to get much.

Read again. I wasn't commenting on Edwards' toughness. It is Pennington who, as I wrote, gets rattled and 'turns into a little girl.' I was flabbergasted at the gameplan for My-ami last season, giving the dude all day to throw and a still-white jersey at games' end. You need to hit Pennington, then he loses focus and his accuracy goes to hell. I wrote that to this point I haven't seen this from Edwards. He's taken hits, gotten back up and still marched the O down the field. (Usually, for a FG. That's gotta change, especially with the new toys Owens and Nelson, and this year may be make-or-break.).

To this point, I have not seen Trent take a hard hit (one that doesn't cause actual injury) and then seemingly transform into a little girl. Have seen this many times with Chadwick --- having a great game connecting passes, then a DE lands a POW! on him and if/when he gets up, he's erratic and his accuracy is more or less shot. And w/o accuracy CP is nothing.

Googling "Adam Rutherford," in the real world, he was a famous Pyramidologist. Hmm. Adam Rutherford in Jack's ER. Hard to say with the angle and the blood, but I don't think it can be ruled out. I can't find one of the coffin scene in "Abandoned" that's the bigger part of the argument. Anyone else with the DVDs? Or can anyone find the coffin image? It's not for nothing that they concealed the face. And in the "Abandoned" cast list, there is no listing for who played Adam Rutherford in the coffin. Jacob

I really think it is going to be the "LOST is a Game" (there's actually a very cool website/theory page called this, but their interpretation is that it's tantamount to a real-life video game. On edit: Link). However, it's going to be much more involved than it being a board and pieces, a box (think, the checker box itself) like backgammon, Risk, Mouse Trap, etc. that have been referenced. All of these little hints throughout the series about games and stuff are building toward something. As such, I don't think that in the series finale, the camera is going to do an overhead pan-out and the island is going to be on a gameboard. Tho... I will admit, that would be a totally awesome screenshot. Cuse and Lindelof (and I would hope JJ Abrams might be involved) want this series to end awesomely, and have said it's going to be awesome. Frankly, minus the Nikki&Paulo episode, they've earned my trust.

In grade school, I had a bus driver named Ms. Krupa. Nothing like!!!

In S2.6 Abandoned, pause at 16:27. I'd just like someone else's opinion on whether the faint angled glimpse we got of Shannon's father, Adam Rutherford, (in the casket) looks like who we now know to be Jacob. That blew my mind yesterday.

And your uncle could be your aunt. The day that an officer assumes the very worst about everyone, that everyone's out to get him/her and as a result they have an itchy Taser-finger... is the day they should be weeded out. In the academy, 60% of my brother's class washed out either b/c they couldn't do the physicals or, as he said, they were sh--heads. Among what was left, about half only passed b/c of nepotism, which when this was said, I was a little taken aback. Until, at the ceremony, about half of the class had their badges specially presented to them by their officer fathers, uncles, brothers, etc. I don't mean to take away from any of them who do their jobs well and got where they were by merit.... But sometimes it takes a little longer to weed out the sh--heads b/c they have deeper roots.

The thing that sticks in my craw, tho, is the SCOTUS ruled fairly recently that officers don't have to tell people the truth. Ala CSI, etc. where they say to a suspect in interrogation, "We got your DNA and it's a match!" when they don't have jacksh--. If they can lie in that situation, what stops them from lying, saying, "Sign here. It, uhhh, doesn't indicate guilt or anything." I have several nuclear family members who are in LE --- military, city and town. I've picked up a lot on how to handle given situations from the driver's pov, such that you don't unknowingly voluntarily give up your rights. If a cop asks to look in your trunk, ask him for the search warrant and that anything and everything that's listed had better be in there. So many people will just open up their trunks or do whatever is asked in 'go along to get along' style, when doing any of these things can only be bad for you. This case is just rife with stupidity. She's stupid for not signing the ticket, sure, but the officer surpassed that stupidity by leaps and bounds. It is legal to refuse to sign a speeding ticket. The cop can then arrest you... many/most cops just make a note on there of, "refused to sign ticket." The signature is just a surety that the accused will show up in court; arrest happens for those who will probably not show up. It's unconscionable that before Tasers came around, the officer would have shot her, because that's the threshold niche where SOP Taser use fit in. Unfortunately, we've seen all too many cases where their use is unfounded (i.e. the 6-year-old, the seated grandma, and the dude in the wheelchair) --- at best, it's a lazy cop's tool of immediate ultimate compliance and at worst it's little boys who want to use their toys. I see where some say that b/w an ugly, physical arrest or Tasering, it's Catch-22. Granted from the above, I'm more than aware that being a police officer these days is a tough, thankless job. In quite a few of these cases, tho, it's not yet anywhere near the level of a brouhaha/fracas arrest.

Nice pull, Tommy G!

AB probably just lacks franchisees. It's unbelievable the percentage of restaurants that close in short order. The success rate is very low. Franchising gets around this to a certain extent, but the franchise needs to be established. At this point, AB could very well be looked at by potential investors as a one-off, location-dependent success. I think anyone would be a bit leery of opening such a specialty place when there's lots of competition (Pizza Hut, Wings Over ___, KFC, etc.)... even if it's lesser competition. Definitely, the times aren't helping.

Dirty blond, though. (BTW, "blonde" with an 'e' is for a female). I don't know why they didn't just color his hair, if only to be slightly darker. Seems like they did it for Connery, yeah?

And, moreover, British.

Well, it's actually easy to blame Roger Moore after his comments about the Craig series. ... That he didn't like where Bond was going. To everyone else (even Cheech and Chong have moved on, man!), the 70s are over, but Moore apparently prefers the cheese and camp. He did nothing for Bond. The one centered around New Orleans was a complete waste of film.

Looking back now, the Roger Moore offerings are terrible. From the writing to the directing to the acting they are dreck throughout. The Dalton films aren't especially good or especially bad. These were my contemporary Bond films --- I remember watching them at a various network's "____ Night at the Movies" on our old blue & green floral-theme sofa whose fabric was itchy wool, with some homemade Chex mix. But all that being so with the memories, I saw LTK recently was very unimpressed. As we get further away from him, I don't think the Brosnan run is going to be well viewed. They consist almost entirely as one long line of pu--y and sex jokes / one-liners. There's no real substance to them. The Connery Bonds, otoh, still stand on their own as very good movies with good story, if slightly campy acting... but with some great cinematography (see: the train scene in FRWL). The storyline with SPECTRE (which I believe they've resurrected with the current series) just seems to add something that the string of lone-wolf weirdo with a weird henchman take-over-the-world types seriously lacked. I haven't seen the latest, but "Casino Royale" was excellent. I credit much of its awesomeness to Paul Haggis. Just as with the new Batman series, it's finally being put right after a long time in the weeds. Favorite? "Goldfinger."

Wow. I hadn't seen that before.

+1. I truly believe Uncle Tim would be the presenter if he were still alive. I think there's a lot worse things to do than picking a professional public speaker with an affinity for your team (not to mention access to a top writing staff) to present for your HOF induction. In general, player enshrinees should be picking someone whose role on the team was equal or slightly above them (coach, owner) or someone from their personal lives. Were, say, Steve Tasker to pick Berman it might be considered a tad tacky. With Ralph being an owner, Berman bringing a macrocosm viewpoint is very appropriate. Seems like, with this pick, Ralph wants someone who will highlight the larger role of what Ralph has meant to the NFL (and Buffalo) rather than leaning heavily on personal interactions and anecdotes.

Man, going further into S1 and the tells are just getting bigger for Locke = MIB. Also, the title "Deus ex Machina" has more significance now. At the time, we thought "God in the Machine" might have been the Mary statues in the plane, whatever was in what turned out to be the Hatch, something with the trebuchet or Locke's father with the kidney dialysis.... Think on this: MIB is the god, Locke is the machine. Man, you see it now and you see how much Locke/MIB has been instigating all kinds of stuff b/w everyone, fulfilling the "fight, destroy, corrupt" line. The final "LOST: Untangled" ep was supposed to debut yesterday, but it's been delayed.

There's a difference b/w good sportsmanship and the Dick-Levy-style sideline sedation. There's a difference b/w "maintaining your integrity" and taking one up the *$$ then doing nothing in response. In the Wilfork situation, that was maybe the most upset I've ever been with the team, and mostly the coach. It was a blatant cheap-shot, and nothing was done to Wilfork or in like kind to Brady. It let other teams know that they can run roughshod and Jauron will just stand there clapping. In the Miami games last year, it was just sad that the D didn't get within arm's length of Pennington. This is a QB who, as time has shown, turns into a little girl after he gets a good hit on him. He gets rattled by hard contact. A good game-plan would have allowed a DL to take a roughing the QB penalty early in the game or deep in their zone where it can be easily absorbed. Dickie played the straight man and Pennington picked us apart with screens, short passes and big gainers. And it's not something like the hit needed to end his season or something, just put him on the turf and make him uncomfortable. Didn't happen. People are expecting bigger things this year with the additions and such. I have no such enthusiasm b/c we still have this problem of DJ at the helm. Can't manage a game, way too conservative, fails to make adjustments, doesn't have a killer's instinct. The team takes on his personality. That doesn't cut it in the NFL. "Good guy. Can't win."