UConn James

In essence, the Buc's D (re: CBs, mostly) got in his head. Wasn't seeing the field fully. Tried to place the ball where the defender couldn't possibly get an interception or knock the ball down, either sideline tiptoe, leading way out to the side, shoestring.... Unfortunately, when you lead your receivers in that manner, you make throws where they can't possibly make a catch either. Welcome to the big leagues, kid. The Ds are going to be like this every week (unless you're playing the Texans or Cardinals). People need to give him a chance to fail b/c it's only through games like this that he's going to realize he needs to do better. It's called "grooming the QB." (And on that subject, JP really needs to get a haircut ).

A huge positive for me --- the furniture is still intact. There will be days like this in JP's (and MM's) development. Mope for 10 minutes, watch the tape and learn from it, get angry about it and work harder for next week.

Who is doing just as well as JP --- 2/3 for -1.

Feast or famine for the Colts, I guess. Who'd'uve thought after last year they'd be bad on O? Stuff like this has me not SO much sweating that our O isn't exactly lighting it up yet. Hey! Baltimore's supposed to win the Super Bowl, don't you know? Someone needs to inform the Titans that they need to lose.

On the original airing, I thought it was a chain-like thing that had Locke's leg. I'm on a rooftop antenna, tho. I paused the DVD on that scene and it looked kind of... how do you say... vegetative. I don't like how Lost is springing up all of these Out-There sci-fi shows. And no, with a mug like that, I wouldn't expect Mr. Maplethorpe to be getting many leading-man hero roles.

They interrupted one of the college games yesterday to show the line of showers moving right across the state. It was about 80 percent reds and purples (which basically translates to 'Wall of Water') on the radar, which goes to show how strong it was. Lots of lightning strikes. Up this way, we got a few boomers (a couple were so close that my dog about jumped up, hit the ceiling and came down on the couch. A 90-lb chicken-dog , but his mother was the same way) but it was mostly rain, which we desperately needed. Don't know where it came from, but it was probably leftovers from the showers on Thurs/Fri. When it was over at about 7, we had that orangish-yellowish half-light glow that comes after these things. I always love that.

I think the regulations were a little laxed that year, as tradition was what they were trying to promote for the anniversary. The time when the 69ers started wearing their black-trimmed unis in the season and then in the Super Bowl... well, it wasn't that far off from the regular garb and the NFL pro'ly said "Eh, what the hell...." Also, there's no rule for pants --- hence why we can switch b/w blue-on-blue, blue-on-white, white-o-blue and white-on-white. It's be nice if JP continued to voice his opinion about really loving these unis, and that he wants them to usher in his own era.

Paul, to be fair, there's a composition issue. Earlier in that sentence you were talking about the D's, seperated it by a comma and then mentioned that if we just had more experience.... I was furrowing my brow over that too. I'm just a little worried to see how Lindell will kick on grass. Prove me wrong, Rian! Prove me wrong!

Speaking of prospects for the first (or maybe second) round, I'd pencil in the FB Bernstein from Wisconsin. Shelton is getting up there.... And if you look at the tape of preseason and the last two weeks, he's missed on a few key blocks (see: JP's safety) and quite evidently hasn't been opening holes for Willis. Bernstein, when I saw him a couple of weeks ago, had that fire like a Sam Gash type. I'd love to see TD pick him up, and considering our ties w/ Wisconsin, I wouldn't be surprised by it. You're right, tho. Kiwanuka will likely be the #1 pick. Sorry, Matt Leinart fans.

Just be aware that the ticket girls all carry Mace®. Tho, it will take them 30 minutes to get the canisters out of the pockets of those jeans....

Yeah, he's a real prince.

Read your under-avatar line, then implode as you try to reconcile your utter hypocracy.

On PPP, when you mention that someone's relative was busted for intoxication, you get called a c**t. I wonder what happens on the main board....

The opportune thing is when you only use that excuse once for each kind of mistake. If JP uses it to describe himself throwing into double coverage, and then next time he doesn't, then I'd let it pass. Problem when Drew used the phrase was he'd do some boneheaded thing like throw the ball away on 4th down, pick the wrong side of the field to defend, etc. Continued making the same damn mistakes, and it rings hollow. Also how he'd say "we" when it was more like "I need to execute better."

My defense of him? Go back and read the post, especially that whole, "[A]nything short of collecting his only copy of something similar in world-changing scope to the Marshall Plan, I'd say it was wrong" part. The rest was pointing out that a lot of posters here picked up a two-pack of standards at Costco.

Well, when things are made to be broken so we have to buy more, more, more.... Cheap-o products are what keep our economy running.

Honestly, if the sh-- hits the fan in any area of the country, be it a natural catastrophe or man-made, beyond watching a TV which probably will not work, people have no idea what to do beyond jump in our cars and drive, drive, drive. And hope that we drive in the right direction. Waiting until the disaster strikes isn't the time to be telling everyone, "So here's what we're thinking...." You're exactly right, it would be a great thing to get this info out en masse to localities. Wanna spearhead it, Paul? The reason why those don't exist anymore? The Cold War ended (so the threat was entirely over, don't you know??) and it requires tax money. Lots of people just aren't down with that.

Notice how you didn't respond to the second part of my post? Yeah. I figured that. I think AA is wrong, too. I don't go around boasting that I'm a racist. Read your sig in the eyes of someone coming here for the first time. The sarcasm is hard to distinguish there, man.

I didn't miss the point. He probably used needed resources to piddle around. And anything short of collecting his only copy of something similar in world-changing scope to the Marshall Plan, I'd say it was wrong. But am I surprised it happened? No (I'm not surprised by much anymore). And am I surprised that here, he's being lambasted while every ®, including Tom Delay, is given the complete benefit of the doubt? The most repeated argument that came out of those threads was "Hey, everyone else does it, so why can't he?" B/c that makes it OK.

So it goes at the University of College Basketball....

Link Well, I guess it's only fair. They have to apply the rules equally.

Remind you of a story I related about Laura Bush and two shoeboxes? Perish the thought when politicians and their wives are used to getting their butts wiped, and expect it every time. Then again, maybe he had important legislative materials in there. Maybe he was drafting a bill. Who knows. But b/c he's got a D next to his name, now a story like this gets posted, on this board. Whatever.

You're trying to reason with a guy who proudly boasts in his sig line that he's a racist? And if that is somehow his attempt at sarcasm, one, it's not funny and two, how in the world can you tell? I wouldn't put it that "abortion is legal" b/c it's a misnomer. I would say that most people see it in terms of "It's none of your damn business." With an issue that is so rancorous and split as abortion (defining "when life is life" which for many includes various religious beliefs), that is exactly where failing federal or state law (and it would be a failure when every time the other party is elected, the law changes, back and forth, back and forth) the "reserved to the people [to make their own decisions]' part of the Constitution kicks in. Odd that the SC filed it under right to privacy, but I guess that's just another way of saying the same thing. When emotions get high on the anti-choice side, they forget that little clause.

In the most recent preview I saw, last night, the opened hatch is shown and a light comes on. Kate's(?) voice saying something's down there, a scream.... There was also a flash on a warning sign that I believe read, "Quarantine." , duey. Outnumbered three to one? Ouch.

This is why everyone should immediately stop hiring English majors. I hate people who spend 3 pages blathering about something that should have taken 2 sentences. Note: I'm not referencing your post. I heard today on one of the talking head shows that the posse comitatus act needs some refining, but that if the feds had wanted to, they could have declared an insurrection --- and seeing some of what was happening, I don't think anyone would have argued that. The NG and military in general suffer a lot from the legacy of how their counterparts are used in other parts of the world and mental flashes of Kent State, etc. Going forward, there needs to be some wiggle room for a quick, minimal red-tape response in situations of catastrophic natural disaster, etc.