UConn James

Maybe they just want to give us the opportunity to showcase our fine PK, those big-hearted bastards.

Don't sass them, Monkey! They're from Canada. They invented the game. They don't get penalties! Any more of your backtalk, and they'll send the Canadian Mafia down to ice-cap your simian ass.

Purdue doesn't stress the THE as their trademark thingie. Their claim to fame is having put more people into space than Eli Lilly. On topic, Kelso pretty much nailed it. But in the Coaching Turnover category, I would add that we've had to work with the remnants of those several different philosophies in amalgum. I think generally, it's called 'bad fit.' It's now up to Jauron et al. to try to make some kind of combination that will work.* *Not running the Meathead trickery shovel pass to Shelton from the 1 should help.

The penalty section of the NHL Rulebook doesn't apply to anyone with the last name of Chara.

That sure quieted things down in Ottawa....

I don't quite think those were the arguments for picking Nugent. Nor was it being blind to our other areas of need. I've been clamoring about OL and the other key but unsexy positions for a while, but when the GM doesn't address them, what can a fan do but shrug. More like trying to play to our strengths. ST unit that could get even better with a much more powerful directional kicker, and an offense that would be more reliant on FGs for scoring what with the non-support it was getting from Donahoe beyond the shiny new skill players to whom the QB had no time to throw. They say you can't win in the NFL by kicking FGs, but you sure can lose in the NFL by not having a good, reliable kicker. Nugent will be that for the Jets for a while. As a matter of fact, I consider the Kicker and punter to be one of those key, unsexy positions.... b/c you don't know how key it is until you have someone like Jake Ariens shanking 20-yarders and extra points. TD's 'dime-a-dozen' comment when he first got here pissed me off. In perspective, Lindell was coming off a year that... well, let's put it mildly by saying it wasn't his best year, ending with that missed 28-yarder in the win-and-you're-in game vs. Pitt. Well on him that he got his sh-- together, got over the shoulder injury that was hurting his technique and got a much better long snapper. But sucks to TD for mostly waiting for the problems to go away by themselves.

You've got the startings of a good point there. But I don't think AY's grooming depends upon Troy Vincent. Also, another year in college most anywhere else would be negligible in terms of development, but it was at Ohio State, which has become DB U. I was pleased with this pick. There was no <sarcasm> tag in your post, so I'm just going to ask.... You do know that the average shelf-life of a RB is less than 2 years, don't you? And it's an area where you can put a young player in and they'll do all right. If Willis bolts, we grab a power-rusher in the 2nd.

What, is someone going to put his feet to the fire? Or are you talking about some other appendage, extremity or orafice?

Je m'excuse. Bob McNair. Ke-rist, that whole Oilers-Titans/Texans, McNair(the QB)/McNair(the owner) incest triangle catches me sometimes.

Also, why did Locke send his map sketch up the tube? Does he want to keep Eko from using it or to let the people at the other end know that he knows something? I'm surprised that Locke didn't get the sense that it was coming together more --- that he was 'destined'/the island wanted him to find the hatch that was under the plane, only that he missed the sign and now he can start again. His giving up tirade last night, that it's all a mindf--k is so un-Locke-like. No doubt it rekindles/reinforces his belief that he (or rather, his use of the numbers that haunt him) are cursed and cause harm to people around him. How does he react?

I had heard that he was up for a League front-office job, and was to meet with Bud Adams today to discuss his future.

Day-um, there's a lot of stuff to digest. The psychic Claire went to says he's a fake, that he lies and just takes people's money.... Why then was he so adament w/ Claire? As I remember in that ep, he was shocked; maybe it was the first time he really had a vision? But there's been a little discussion whether he's involved in Dharma. A little more of Eko's backstory. But the question remains why he had to go to LA. When he and Locke were at the plane and after Locke's dream, I was getting the sense that history would repeat itself, jogged along a bit by Locke's tired/memorized performance line that "Boone was a sacrifice that the island demanded." Again, Locke fails to tell the person doing the climbing the whole truth, especially with regards to seeing said climber die. And, a really dumb thing for Locke to do; imagine him accompanying two people in the space of a few weeks island-time, who fell in the same spot. Might raise a couple of red flags, ya think? What they find in the ? hatch... A viewing station, where the only working television is for the Swan hatch. Another orientation film that now features a "Mark Whit----?" in a tweed coat who before was Dr. Marvin Candle in a lab jacket; and again, the tape was damaged in a certain spot. Despite Eko's faith that it's something more (a Purpose for the lost souls of the island), I remain convinced that it's an experiment to see if they'll push the button. So, in this hatch, the Pearl, it was set up for viewing, yet there was a camera in it, too. Maybe someone's watching the watchers?

HB to a fellow Connecticut Yankee. (Tho, being in the upper right quadrant, I root for the Sox).

The preview would lead one to believe that Eko does a humpty-dumpty. Also shows Michael in the armory/jail. As the season winds down in the next few weeks, there will be a lot of stuff happening b/c the writers will want everyone talking over the summer.

I'm guessing it's a quote by everyone's favorite fictious mailman and "Cheers" scholar, Cliff Clavin. ----- I thought he signed a longer-term contract earlier this offseason but maybe I'm just remembering something that never happened. Sounds like either the Bills were seeking a discount b/c of the relative inexperience or Peters and his agent are holding off b/c they think he'll be very good this season and he'll get a big payday next year.

Had to read an excerpt of that for a lit class and after the semester was over, ordered it online. It was Michael Herr who wrote that screenplay, n'est pas? Basically a stream of conciousness, that you have to read about five times to really get exactly what he's writing about. But once you do... Fabulous account of the innanity, the horror, the hilarity and the sorrow. My uncle, who was about 1/2 mile south of the DMZ when Tet started, read it and upon handing it back to me, said, "Yep."

My brother's FTO last year called in the bomb squad when he saw a wristwatch lying on a backpack on a call they went to. Is it just me or is everyone wound way too tight? Not to mention that a lot of people have very high opinions of themselves as high-value targets. These people have never heard of useless saturation marketing? Use some fecking common sense.

Write. Eulogy form (even if you're not delivering it), a list of the things you remember, things you did, a letter to him.... It's rare that I tangle with a blank page with a pen as my only weapon and walk away not knowing more about what I really think/feel about something, someone, or some decision I make.

1) Someone should tell the reporter that the lawyers didn't "avoid murder charges." They made it so the charged murderer got away with it in criminal court. 2) Someone should tell the reporter (and editors) that OJ Simpson doesn't really matter anymore. Why is this news? 3) WTF does "natch" mean?

About the only bright side I can make out of it, is he might live to see the Islamofascists soundly defeated and Bin Laden's head on a stick.

I'm ashamed that the Buffalo Bills actually paid this man a $2M roster bonus last year. Combined with his piss-poor technique of getting blown back by DTs, he showed several times that he would not stick up for his QB when he was getting chased down and pounded into the turf (esp. that play in the Atlanta game). Some people here are ragging on the OT we picked out of Virginnie for his temper, cheapshots, etc. Some might call it dirty; I call it making the opponent not want to get to the QB. What the h--- is it?

You say that now, but once all the vagina monologue movie previews start, you'll come crawling back for one more "Boo-yah!"

Was it the group that sang with Paul Simon on "Graceland"?

And when you look at the career-span for a RB, TH lasted longer than the average of ~ 2 seasons... then, we got a 3rd in a trade. Not bad value for him (even tho there is a sad chew-'em-up-spit-'em-out quality to the story), I'd say. But then, that requires someone who types for a living to realize that not every RB will have a 15-year career like Emmitt Smith.

Shake hands with the Flyers players, or with each other? ... 'cause, !@#$ the Flyers! Also nice to see Day-Twaa brought down a notch.