UConn James

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.

It's a token rule anyway. This is all predicated on some belief that a team wouldn't hire the best guy because of a simple gene expression. I'm trying my best to imagine how someone could be so stupid and I still can't fathom any GM or owner saying, "Well, this guy's philosophy fits our system and players and will get us 2 more wins than X, but he's black, so let's just go with X."

Every time I've thought that, I never got a call back. Ironically, it was the two times I bombed on a question (One of which was "What makes you get up in the morning?" WTF kind of question is that?!? I almost said, "Usually because I have to pee.") that I got the jobs.

My brother (smartass police officer) had the same thing last month: "<Click!> Uhmmm.... A man in handcuffs? " Too bad that enough money on a judge's desk will get anyone off. Seen it happen.

Didn't work out too well for Jeff Buckley in the Wolf River off of Beale....

I was blinded by Michael Irvin's tie-knot. WTF was that? And shouldn't he be in jail or at least un-TV-able for the latest cocaine thing?

People on the Wall call me crazy for it, but I think we've got to pick up the best-rated FB, probably with one of the 3rd rounders, maybe the 4th. Who that would be is yet to be seen... Bernstein? And I'm telling you first... This Nick Hartigan kid out of Brown is an absolute gamer. They used him as a rusher (and he set the Ivy league record for TDs) but he can block too, and he's got a body-type kind of like Alstott. Bruiser. As much as OL has been the problem, in the late going it got more plain that Daimon Shelton was sitting on the couch on Sundays two years ago for a reason. The OG out of Minnesota looks interesting, but I'd wait to see how he does in the bowls and at the Combine, etc. His durability, tho, is something our OL has lacked for a long time. I'd want to see if Peters could play LT and give MW one final year at RT before declaring him a bust. That said, we need to draft a replacement/backup this year just in case. I'm comfortable with taking Ngata in the first and finding OT help (it's deeper this year than in the past few seasons) in the 2nd or one of the 3rds. Later on would be FS, CB and TE. But I tell you, those are fuggin' luxuries at this point.

Ditto. Look what KH did to Tim Couch. Same damn situation is setting itself up here. Coincidence? I could give a sh-- that KH will point to his 24/30 120 yards as a reason he should have a chance. He's a quiet, no-talent supplanter.

Watching the HS All-America game, and ND has commitments from 26 players, and if I heard right, 12 of them playing in this game. Including the highest-rated OT. Wow, we're going to see what Weis does now that he has a team of his own making. Seeing what he was able to get from that group this year.... ND is headed places.

Mark, I like your turns of phrase (or is that your turn of phrases?), but this being the forum it is, I'm going to have to ask you to shut your trap. You talk too much. Same goes for the rest of you fruitcakes as well. I can't even hear myself think! Me, I'm always quiet. Except when I have to tell everyone to shut up.

Tom Clements was fired because he wouldn't shut up.

No one cares what polls say. Just 86 percent plus 13 percent of people to tell to shut up. I mean, could we keep it down in here, people? I'm trying to eat my lunch, and there's just all this jibber-jabber.

"Input" does not mean "complete control." It means, "input." In backseat driver terms, Ralph will be saying at the start of the journey, "I think we should take Exit 35, then 88 North." Then sitting back and not yelling, "Watch out! There's a car 300 feet ahead!" or "Oooo, shiny! Stop the car!" I imagine that Marv would be the one advising MM to pump the brakes or to slow down a bit for the curve, b/c he's driven this road before.

Best bumper sticker I've seen in a while: "Stop putting words in my mouth" -- God.

In all fairness, you don't usually get a staph infection from the doctor. Bacteria is all around and it's largely a matter of washing well and being very careful with cuts, wounds, etc.I had one last year and learned the hard way. Greg Lloyd had the same thing with his ankle. Can't expect the doctor to follow a guy around 24/7.

Yaknow, on I-90 on the NYS Thruway, there's an overpass with a sign that says "Dyke Road." I keep forgetting to bring my camera when I go out to visit the relatives. And, by the by, that half of the family is from Holland.

No, they're more in the Lenny and Carl role. Jerry Sullivan = Kent Brockman John Guy = Moe

RW = Monty Burns Russ Brandon = Smithers