UConn James

I don't know about anyone else, but whenever I used to read a BFinIndiana post, I always pictured him looking like Chubsie and screaming like a little girl.

If those two guys had their wishes come true, the entire NFL season schedule would go something like this.... Week 1: Washington at Dallas 4 p.m. Week 2: Dallas at Washington 1 p.m. Week 3: Washington at Dallas 4 p.m. Week 4: Dallas at Washington 8:30 p.m. Week 5: Washington at Dallas 4 p.m. Week 6: Dallas at Washington 9 p.m. Week 7: Washington at Dallas 4 p.m. Week 8: Dallas at Washington 1 p.m. Week 9: Bye Week -- everyone must kneel in front of their televisions and praise whichever God they pray to that Dan Synder and Jerry Jones were allowed to grace planet Earth with their presence. Week 10: Washington at Dallas 4 p.m. Week 11: Dallas at Washington 1 p.m. Week 12: Washington at Dallas 8:30 p.m. Week 13: Washington at Dallas 4 p.m. Week 14: Dallas at Washington 9 p.m. Week 15: Dallas at Washington 1 p.m. Week 16: Washington at Dallas 4 p.m. Week 17: Dallas at Washington 8:30 p.m. Wild Card: Dallas at Washington 12 p.m. Divisional Playoffs: Washington at Dallas 4 p.m. NFC Championship: Week 17: Dallas at Washington 1 p.m. Super Bowl: Washington vs. Dallas 6:28 p.m.

In TB, Dungy led them to pretty impressive records in the regular season and got them to the playoffs a few times but never got them too far. 1996: finished the season 6-10, tho finishing 5-2 and showing what they could do on D. 1997: 10-6, won the wildcard game, lost to the Packers. 1998: 8-8. Missed playoffs. 1999: 11-5, won in the divisional, lost to the Rams in the NFC Championship. 2000: 10-6 2001: 9-7. Both of these seasons ended in the wild card game to the Iggles. Dungy was fired, and Gruden won the Super Bowl that next year. It's been bandied around here by myself that there are different kinds of coaches. Builders who can make a team good but not great and then coaches who can come into an established team, tweak a few things that the previous coach couldn't, or more likely wouldn't, change and make them into champions. Right now, the Bills need one of those builder coaches like Dungy, then when he's taken us as far as he can, we need to follow it up with a finisher coach. All I know is that the last two guys we had couldn't make up their minds in what they wanted the team to be or rather that they wanted the team to be all things to all people --- first it was attacking defense as the core and WCO with quick passing, then power rushing, then deep passing with the change to Bledsoe, then adding in Willis. This year, the previous/holdover core was shown to have been eaten by the worms and the offense was shown to be what it was, all tricks and no mirrors. We need to find or build another core either by a change in philosophy or an upgrade in players. We have all been clamoring for this to be in the lines. We need to hire a coach who comes in and has been hit by the cluestick --- Buffalo has and always will get success by establishing its running game even tho everyone knew we would run it but we ran it anyways, and working off of that. We can't try to be Tennessee, we can't try to be the Patriots, we can't try to be the Steelers. Anyone who comes here will have to realize that, dammit, we've been trying to emulate other teams for too long. We need to be Buffalo. Your word to God's ear.... But if Haslett is keen to running the team in the way a Buffalo team needs to be, mainly through a workhorse back with a capable change-up/backup, keep-them-honest-passing and a swarming defense, then it might not be the worst thing. The guy we hire next is not going to be the finisher; we need the builder.

Just to nitpick here, that's a lecturn. A podium is like... a dais.

Rollerderby, Pro Bowling Tour, and WWF were the most popular sports of the '70s and '80s.

And, on this show, someone can jump an actual DHARMA© shark.

Ditto. Anyone replacing April as ST coach would be a downgrade. If a HC coming in here desires a downgrade in performance just to satisfy a whim of picking his very own ST person, then I don't want him as my HC. And, this is assuming that April won't get the HC job. Which I'm really warming up to. He knows the rulebook (See him chewing out the ref on the onsides kick, and being proven right when the officials didn't know the rules of the game?). He works with almost everyone on the team and has their respect, b/c look what he turned our ST into --- best in the NFL.

Mr. Mangini would have to read a lot of Shakespeare.

Maybe Marv wanted to reduce the number of quadruple-reverse pulling-guard halfback options to 20 per game. Or maybe he was ordered to pick a friggin' QB and go with him. Maybe someone should smack MM with the cluestick. He's actually moaning that RW and TM don't live in Buffalo year-round? And that matters how in this day and age?

"600 Dead in Mecca Stampede" For a culture that mourns its dead by carrying the corpse through the streets, openly weeping for people they never met and don't even know the circumstances of death, all while shouting "Death To [Fill In the Blank]!!".... A culture that likely doesn't have a translation for "Calm down".... I can't say that I'm surprised.

I don't mean to sound like a-- here, but guilt is a theme in like, every episode.

Yes, the writers did have Charlie say 'What're you a priest?' multiple times. (Granted, tho, Charlie's observation about there being blood on the stick with scripture on it is a little weird to reconcile). There's more and better parallels in their two backstories, but I've spent the last three days taking care of my 5-y.o. to-be-step-nephew while my brother&fiance recovered from drill weekend. Fun is. I'd encourage myself and others to expound on this as we think it over, b/c the writers put these two characters together for a reason. The language on the computer seems too generic to be real. There wasn't anything on Michael's screen when he was typing all of the words in, was there? Why does it only show up when someone else initiates contact? Anyway, Michael went pretty loco in the preview for next week, even after he agreed w/ Locke that the 'Have Gun, Will Travel' thing was a stupid idea. Perhaps Locke was planting this idea in Michael's head, tho?

I'm on a rooftop antenna and it was raining tonight, so the picture was worse than normal. Hope they replay it on Saturday.... Things are converging. Very good ep that revealed quite a bit about Mr. Eko, and related his story to Charlie's. Interesting how Eko shot the old man to save his brother during that initiation-type deal and take his place in the gang and involvement with drugs (I may have misheard. Was his name Aaron? ), then the brother dies trying to save Eko. Trying to reconcile it with Charlie, tho, his brother Liam was the one who drew him into the drugs and Charlie who tried to save him and failed. Liam recovered successfully; Charlie remained an addict. Notice that it was the 23rd Psalm, which is the Shepard's prayer, yeah.... BTW -- that was a great scene with the voiceover of it. What was the writing on the stick? And, with the writing on the computer, and the blank screen when Jack looked, I think it begs the question of whether Michael is hallucinating the messages. Remember how losing a child on this island has tended to drive people slightly certifiably insane....

No, they don't put cocaine in rings. It's lines. And, I don't think Ralph will be given much/true consideration until after he passes. That whole thing about not appreciating what you have until it's gone, and all.... In any era, it's probably, what, 5 percent that get to the HOF. Does Ralph merit consideration of being in that top 5 percent of all owners from 1960-20--? I think when the owners from this first era of the NFL go en masse (seen it happening with Mara, Hess, Rooney isn't far behind.... etc), then they'll start to be judged for HOF.

Entering into the conference schedule is where a lot of teams start playing their serious games. The U, ranked #2, lost to Marquette last week. Then, the Big East is the conference for college BB; the fifth-seeded team there will be better than a lot of others' #1. Sh-- happens. A couple-few losses isn't too much to overcome. All you need to be is in that top 64, then it all starts for real from there. Up to that point, it's just jockeying for position.

People magazine just did an expose last week that said shutting up is the new "Hot" thing to do.

The high court just reversed the appellate court's ruling that everyone here didn't need to shut up. So let's all just calm down and have some quiet time.

See, I hear a lot of talking, but what I don't hear is a lot of shutting up.

Madden runs on 1s and 0s and 90 ratings that you can change on the "Edit Player" option, combined with statements like, "He just got knocked into next week!" Keep comparing Madden and the real world. Keep believing that a team is something you can put together like buying a deli platter, a bag of romaine and hoagie rolls at Costco. That'll tell everyone here how much you know about football in the real world.

Except, of course, that BB himself was a "dumb jock" at Wesleyan U.

Ouch. And, Kraft looks drunk already. But when isn't he?

In that case, Matt Millen is the Grand Wizard. The only team that's been nominally fined ($10,000 ?) under the rule. Maybe it was all carefully designed specifically to save Millen from himself (and it still didn't work)? He tractor-beamed in on Mooch and two years later, there the Detroit Lions are... two years further along and they've still got an idiot GM who's also taken THREE I've-heard-of-him!!!-WRs in the 1st round of the last four drafts. His survival as GM leads me to question Darwin's theories....

Does Kofi call his briefcase the Football or the Soccerball?

I wouldn't say never. He just needs to prove that he can succeed on his own. If he can do that (which would necessitate learning a lot more in how to scheme beyond blitzing that doesn't work and lining CBs up 10-15 yards off the ball in addition to how to make halftime adjustments that work) sure. He'll probably hook on somewhere as a DC, or a DB coach as a workup to becoming a DC again. I wish him well. But I think we've seen enough of him to know that we don't have the luxury to wait until he 'gets it.'

I think he's banking on: -- the past performance of the D -- that the Texans think 2+2=5 to go along with not noticing that said D took a walk off a cliff w/o GW or DL looking over JG's shoulder -- being able to fob off responsibilty for no playoffs on the O's problems (not an undefensible argument, actually). -- that the Texans really, really, really, really, really, really, really like blitzing on every down.