UConn James

The milk is spilled. You can't drink it. And it's really of no use talking about it except as to say that we need someone who won't spill the milk in the future.

It hurts to say it, but I think the realization is just hitting me and a lot of us that we're in the lower teir of teams. Five years removed from the playoffs, 10 years removed from winning a playoff game.... We've largely built up with FAs in place of drafting players. It has all the hallmarks of a team not knowing what it's doing or where it's headed, from the highest levels down. About in the same boat as SD was in '98. TD is a good team president, but as a GM, I've lost all confidence in him.

JC, we'll wait and see until the D and/or STs throw up a couple of stinkers, and then the posters here will realize that it was they who won the game, not Holcomb. When Holcomb has to put the team on his shoulders like JP was forced to vs. TB and NO, I'll still rabidly root for the Bills, but I8 don't think he'll be able to pull it off. Anyone watch at least the first half of Pitt-SD last night? Two relatively young QBs that were making bad reads and bad throws. Ben The Great Rothlisberger has a 58% completion rate so far. Thing is, he's not being placed in a situation designed to fail. And they've left him in there. They have used the running game adequately, whereas Tom Clements has his head so far up his a$$ he can see daylight. If anyone did some snooping, I'd wager you'd find that scoring and offenses in general are declining from previous years. Defense has made a comeback in the NFL after a few years where the league has bent over backwards to change rules to give an advantage to offenses.

NO NO NO! The failings of the offense were all JP. If he were in there, we would have lost by like..... 1,000. Didn't get your talking points today, did you?

He made two in the preseason from 50+. I think his struggles here have been more power-related (and perhaps some snap issues), and he did a good job of working on that in the offseason. As I recall, he worked with a guy who specialized in that, and I've been impressed with the results. It really shows in his KOs too; no more fielding at the 10-15. Most are at or near the goal line.

I believe it was 6 first downs given to the Bills on penalties, if the counters in the chat room were accurate.

I dunno. For all of his big break-away highlight reel runs at the U, Willis hasn't broken any like that here. Kind of disappointing, b/c behind this line, he hasn't shown to be much more than a guy who has a lot of 1-4 yard runs. There was one against the Falcons where EM had a nice block, but Willis got tackled by his biggest nemesis --- the Turf Monster.

That, and they made a cute couple. :D

Is he the one that got smacked pretty good by Vincent, was it? That RTP penalty late in the game was BS.... Same with some in the past few weeks (there was one vs. Vick that was legit). May be reactionary b/c of JG's aggressiveness/attack strategy. Just to show him. They probably would've called them earlier and more frequently if the DL were able to get to GF.

Yeah, Dan Dierdorf hasn't called a Bills game yet, has he?

Well, MM doesn't discuss the starters. Or the backups. Or what color jerseys. Or whether he puts sugar on his Cheerios.

If Moulds had the same attitude and production there as he had in his first three years here, I'm not sure he would've lasted or just been placed in the slot where he would have languished. Don't forget that EM was drafted in '96; Manning didn't come in the league until, when, '99? I always think questions like these are a little unfair to ask. Retroactively changing the organization a guy plays for and trying to read tea leaves to how he would've done is impossible. Every little thing would be changed that made that player who he is. Who's his QB? Does he trip over a misplaced stepladder?

10" here. Oh, sorry... You're talking about TVs....

Another thing, after seeing the repeat tonight.... The orientation film is stored behind a copy of "Turn of the Screw" by Henry James. Synopsis Essentially the question in the criticism since its publication has focused around where the evil eminates from --- the governess, the ghosts, the housekeeper, feminists ran the sackcloth at HJ himself in his manner of storytelling, etc. Kind of like a certain line of questioning going on w/in and w/o LOST.

Actually, they haven't, relatively speakin'. Based from his gametime last season to this season, he has learned a lot. Now he just needs to calm down on his throws and adjust to the speed of the NFL. The reason fans are pissed is b/c you don't learn this on the sidelines. As for leadership, I'm torn when trying to view it through the eyes of his teammates. Do they see it more in terms of how they themselves were introduced in the league, being benched when they goofed, etc.? Or a more pessimistic attitude that they've lost confidence in him, and thus, JP's ability to take a leadership role has taken a hit? I would think they might be able to empathize, but then there's Moulds' comments to slap you in the face. When JP gets back in the huddle, he's going to have to work extra hard to prove that he can do it, and I don't think that puts him in the greatest situation given what his problems have been so far. Unless TC actually calls a good game and breaks him in slowly by actually utilizing Willis to take a lot of the pressure off.

Which one is it? There's kind of a difference. <James quickly looks over his shoulder> Isn't there? :w00t:

Reading the headlines today, it's not a stretch to wonder if this is the stuff that caused Nostradamus to be so horrified that he stopped looking into the future.... I'm not sure whether this stuff is happening more frequently, or if it's just being reported more frequently. Wonder if the mullahs are attributing this quake as Allah punishing them. Sad thing is, they will probably blame it on Musharraf and the "moderate" Islamists, etc., in their societies.

Nice to finally get a W against one of the bigger Big (L)East teams that've stymied us so far in our D-I odessey. Too bad it was against a Cuse team that's hit the snide. And too bad we won't get another chance at BC probably, ever. (That would have been a great New England match-up if they could have waited a few years. Instead, we're rooting against those liars, who were talking with the ACC as they were promising us they'd stay in the BE, so we'd build a new $90M stadium). What I've been calling for all season, we finally got the talented frosh QB, DJ Hernandez, in the game when the holdover backup went down w/ a broken collarbone. I dunno, to me it makes more sense to develop a QB from the start rather than trying to grasp at the vestiges after you must say goodbye to the best QB in school history.

I'm not trying to be a dick here, but do you ever contribute anything of value here? I think probably 98 of your last 100 posts in PPP are entirely composed of the above response and are merely a waste of space. "Don’t speak unless you think you can improve the silence." -- Adolph Rupp, famed Kentucky basketball coach

is the Posse Comitatus Act effectively being chipped away in dealing with disasters? Avian flu is now reportedly in Romania. In an era where effectively reacting to disasters and potential epidemics is very much an issue of time, is it really necessary to wait until every county manager, mayor, or governor formally declares a state of emergency? I admit that the use of the military as law enforcement is a little disconcerting as we've seen it applied in other countries, but I don't really disagree with Pres. Bush. Assuming a widely affected area, enforcing a quarantine is such a massive effort, and important to help contain the illness, I'm not sure there's another way to go at it to ensure our safety. I know there's others here that might discuss this with some authority for those of us who're curious to know, What would happen in such a situation? What are the larger ramifications for the future of PC?

This escaped me until I was washing the dishes a few minutes ago, but why would the DHARMA Institute, in the business of experimentation, stock that hatch with a friggin' arsenal? Connection with that skipped part in the film of what "happened" after they set up the hatch? And I can understand why Kate took the shotgun, b/c there's a wider pattern, but why didn't she take one of the pistols? Or was that a judgment call for the limited space where she put those chocolate bars? Which I think begs the question, under all that stress, heat is generated, if you see what I'm getting at. Wonder why Jack or Locke didn't make any comments on her racing stripes....

Admittedly, I left the chatroom at halftime and turned the TV off and went and did something productive. I read in a post earlier this week that MM punted when we were down by one score w/ 5 min. left. They do teach math at the U, tho I tried to steer clear of those buildings. It is disheartening for the D to see the O struggle. But that's when great Ds step up and say, "If you're not going to move your a--es, we will" and go into force fumble mode where trying to punch the ball out is as important as making a tackle. Tantamount to McGee's KO returns, there should be a feeling that if no one else is going to do something, you've got to personally go balls to the wall and make something happen your damn self.

So what are you saying? That doesn't count? Did this happen after time expired? B/c if it didn't, I fail to see the point when we were only down by 8 with 5 minutes left. Don't get me wrong, the O didn't do it's job. But I don't get people who say "Well, if you exclude that play...." Why do you exclude that play? It happened, didn't it? That's part of the strategy of breaking down a Defense, that you will then be able to get some long runs on them; discounting 70 yards willy-nilly is a cop-out.

By all means, if you thought Grace was good b/c of the sheer energy and emotion (and people shouldn't get the wrong idea of what "emotion" is in music, b/c it's not this "emo" crap that's the rage now b/c Buckley didn't have a style. Buckley was Buckley) you're in for a treat. I think it's like $12 on Amazon. It was actually my initiation, and when I was trying to find a particular lyric (where he does a drawn-out "You" part in Mojo Pin) I figured that he couldn't have been that deep in the second song. I was wrong. He was just ON that night. I think Grace was his way of working out a lot of sh-- from his past and dealing with his father's legacy and trying to dispel that he was part of it. I don't know how right he was about that. It all conspired to make him what he was, and for as long as it lasted, it was superb and it was real.

I've read that DT is probably the easiest position to learn and to make the jump from college to pro, given that a player has the physical tools. Note that I said easiest, which is relative, not that it is easy. Stopping the run is a big part of how teams become winners. Look at what Cadillac did; he was running all day and eventually the D breaks down. Takes a lot time off the clock and keeps our O off of the field. We must force 3rd and long, and then capitalize on it in ways we didn't vs. ATL. Good thing is we won't be playing against Ron Mexico this week.