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Agreed. Think we should spend a day 1 pick at TE, esp. after cleaning house at the position in the offseason. No reason to throw depth away. Someone named 'El Tigre' should know the phrase 'A tiger doesn't change his stripes.' Wright is a RB. He will never be a FB. Then again, I said the same thing about Joe Burns and his naked pictures of Ralph kept him on the roster for how long? I'd be satisfied with either of them. OS is a bruiser ala Gash. Hillis does seem to be more well-rounded, which our offenses have tended to prefer sometimes to our own detriment. Don't know how many times Fairchild called passes to Shelton in -and goal situations, which were precious, don't you know. It was like an irresistible unnatural man-love for someone who should have known better than call them in the first place, or to keep calling them no matter how many times they ended in failure.

To be more specific, the rumors of a 'degenerative knee condition' that have floated for the past several weeks. FWIW, Jauron said the other day that the Bills trainers didn't see any problems in that regard. This is one of those things that happens every year as agents try to jockey for position to get their guy to be picked earlier. Sports agents as a group rate just behind 60-year-old biddies on the snark meter. He's scheduled to run next week and maybe any confusion will be cleared up by then.

BF, I don't exactly think anyone's surprised by this Admin's readiness to take a red pen to the Constitution. Not like the title of the document blatantly describes activity that violates Posse Comitatus or anything.... But, it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Thing is, we in the West have such short memories while much of the Islamic world talks and acts as if 600AD was yesterday. Just sayin'. They have a much different mindset and concept of time re: abuses/atrocities. I will say that the "Behead those who say Islam is violent!" signs are really Monty Python-worthy.

You should probably note that it's NOT for the squeamish. I haven't watched it. Don't intend to watch it. I know *of* what has gone on which is enough to have my mindset be "do whatever you need to get these bastards" --- but there's things that I don't want to *see.* My oldest brother who did three tours in -istans told me that he has enough nightmares and PTSD for our family... and that that's why he fought, so that we don't have to experience it firsthand.

I guess communism = "not the most capitalistic" There will never be 32 equal revenue markets in the US. There just can't be. Some owners will make relatively more $, some owners will make relatively less, just based on demographics. How 'bout we let individual owners of franchises decide what they want to do with their teams? If the NFL goes the way of MLB, so be it. If the little guy is priced out of going to games, so be it. Popularity will drop along with revenues and people can choose to spend their $ elsewhere... and maybe on something more productive than the opportunity to watch grown men in plastic shells hit each other senseless. <shrug>

Actually, I think the rookie signing pool $ you're allotted kind of puts the kibosh on it. The first pick alone is enough to put teams in a serious hole for a long time, and if he's a bust, the result is darn near tragic. That's kinda why I'm a proponent of trying to never get a lower pick than ~ #9. Draft is a big crapshoot anyhow; why bust your cap to select some schmoe low when you have just as good a chance to get screwed over by a Mike Williams type for a hell of a lot less at, say, #20... or you could get a Nate Clements there.

At first, I was thinking, "But the taxes will kill them".... but then again, if they were looking in Boston, Taxachusetts, apparently that's not a big deal. Hope they aren't looking for local WNY jobs to be able to pay for it all, tho.

Well, that's what I was referencing upthread. I just think that in a tussle for the ball, a small advantage goes to the "Tall WR" who is heftier and more physical against DBs who tend to be smaller. Agreed. I think just for the impact it'd have on not being able to get OOB to stop the clock as easily puts the kibosh on it. But along with the facemask one, the desire to cut out judgment calls on the part of the officials looms pretty large in these proposals. I think it's backlash against so much of wishy-washy referee influence that's happened in recent years; teams might just be tired of certain teams/players getting breaks. The league has trended heavily toward offense, esp. wrt PI... but sometimes the pendulum needs to swing back.

And thinking about it a little more, this proposed rule change puts a little more premium on the generic "Tall WR" that is coveted so much, and you'd probably want him to be a physical and a little meatier. A guy who can outreach and outjump smaller CBs/Ss, either at the sideline or as the action gets pushed a little further infield. I read in another thread that Malcolm Kelly is up to 230 and it hasn't affected his speed much (4.4).... Hmm.

No, the Patriot Act was passed for our national insecurity. The gun ban, automobile ban, knife ban, alcohol ban, cigarette ban, dart ban, 30mg Sudafed ban, trans fat ban, cell phone ban, screwdriver ban, pencil ban.... These will be for our 'personal' insecurity. Motherment, ya dig?

Ask them and they'll tell you that Lyme disease wasn't a nerve agent experiment that migrated off of Plum Island which is located off the coast of.... Lyme, Connecticut. Nope. Absolutely not. It's a secure facility!

The hair of that length can also obstruct view of a players' number, which some people find kind of important when wanting to know who is where. I'm not sure re: the force-out. It will effectively push the game further in-field from the sidelines on a field that's already only 25 yards wide. This would just make it easier for a defender to maul a WR, etc. who is anywhere near the sideline while jumping to make a grab --- just push them out and it's not a catch. I'd say this would have its greatest impact late in games, when trying to get OOB quickly to stop the clock; no sidelines passes = more time ticks, and when its your team desperately trying to come from behind, that stinks they don't get a chance.

WTF is this supposed to mean?

I didn't read or post in that thread (nor ones like it) b/c the issue is over and done with. JP was given more of a shot than 90% of players in the NFL get. He has an impressive skillset, but it didn't translate to success on the field, and those in charge of the team felt (like a lot of us fans did) that it just wasn't the right fit and that Edwards presented more of that 'right fit.' Time will tell if they were right. The NFL is a big-time business and like my underavatar says, your better needs to be better than their better. I support JP as long as he's a Bill, and afterward, if he's traded or whatever, I wish him well against everyone but the Bills. He seems to be a first class person. Good luck to whichever team you and the other people pick to support in the future. Just seems to be a little juvenile that you quit on your team b/c of a QB controversy that everyone outside of OBD doesn't know the real ins and outs of <shrug>. Peace!

Is he? If Widmore was connected to the DI, why did he have to buy at auction the captain's logbook from the Black Rock from them? Unless that was a way to launder them $.

Just watched the series finale on the CBS website. Missed it on the regular tube last night. The last three eps have been great television. The plot finally went somewhere! If only it had done this sooner.... This is not a day when you can lally around and wait for an audience to watch painfully slow developments. Same with LOST, there's a broad mystery that gets danced around and a lot of smaller things that get introduced then more clues and solved not too far down the line; we feel there is movement. "Jericho" has only had that broad mystery, and only in flashes. All that time they spent last season fighting New Bern should instead have been what this short season was. So, if it all ends like this, we take away that Jake and Hawkins started the revolution to favor the 'good guys' Columbus + Texas, especially when the truth about Cheyenne = J&R is shown and their military all rip the flags off their uniforms. I don't know what the chances are of SciFi or another network picking it up are... but for cable, a 5 share ain't bad, and this show has very loyal viewers in a coveted demographic. We'll see.

Is he still recovering from surgery (Hernia, was it?)? No real reason for him to go all-out this early and risk re-injuring himself.

This from an evil empire that also doesn't sell any kind of knives or even darts in their Massachusetts stores' sporting departments, as I was told by an employee a couple of months ago. I didn't check in hardware to see if hammers and screwdrivers had been similarly banned. One positive thing WalMart and Sam's Club do, tho, is the $4 prescriptions for common Rx's. I hear that they're starting programs that will put small medical clinics in stores for minor conditions. Theoretically, it will a) reduce cases that clog up doctor's offices, esp. wrt doctor shortage and 2) it won't cost $100+ net (whether you or your insurance pays for it, in the macroeconomic view, it still costs $100) for a 2-minute office visit to get an amoxicillin Rx, etc. III) As a result of the previous point, people who otherwise can't afford to might get earlier treatment, rather than waiting for minor conditions that could be treated easily to get grossly worse before they get help. It's a pretty bold experiment that could do a lot of good... brought to you by those evil corporate capitalist pigs.

I'm available to testify that it sure happened at UConn. Now get over 20,000 applications for fall semesters. Don't know how much is attributable to the championships and how much to the ginormous capital improvements... but then again, the capital improvements have a root in the attention from athletic success, so it's a chicken-egg kind of thing.

Laughable. Is this like the '06 McCain helicopter envoy that had a SAM missile fired at it in the Republic of Georgia.... only thing is, this week (or was it last week?) it was confirmed that it never happened? (Credit, tho, that McCain to my knowledge has never tried to lie about 'getting shot at' as testament to valuable CiC-worthy 'experience.')

I've always wondered how that's pronounced. Pay... Pea... or Peee-yay?

And with all that Kennedy influence.... Obama lost in Massachusetts.

Didn't say that I was talking about this particular sermon you linked to. I listened for about 5 min. before I said to myself, "Self, WTF are you doing listening to this bible-hooey for on a nice spring day?" No doubt that he doesn't always get carried away with the emotion that makes one say really stupid things... but it's pretty discomforting to many people the times he does do it. Obama's speech the other day hit home maybe the most important part --- that people who lived through all that have a hard time letting it go and sometimes speak words as tho things haven't profoundly improved, to wit, to the point that a black man is now a leading presidential candidate.

I'm trying to keep an open mind about it all, but it's just oddly stupid to me how every black preacher I have ever seen has to use that same cadence and get caught up in the same crescendo'ed emotional show-biz that invites them to "say things they otherwise wouldn't say" ala USKKKA. What's the worth of having a well-argumented speech's message totally derailed by letting fly some or other stereotype that whitey's to blame for everything. If you're in the pulpit, as Marv Levy says, "Act like you've been there before." I think it just makes people leery about exactly who will have access to the power in the WH. Not that every pres doesn't have weirdos or even crooks that he owes favors to....