UConn James

Good thread and discussion here. I'm sorry, but I have some cold water to throw around in here. First, bear in mind that, traditionally, the Bills devote only 9-10 roster spots for OL. What I'm counting here, if more FAs are signed that means someone currently in the group gets the red card in the locker on cut day. This kind of talk also implies that JM doesn't know how to do his job, which includes development as one of his fortes. I'm all for drafting a C high and possibly a G later and cut L. Smith. If a FA is signed, that wastes the input to either McFarland or Peters. But the one-track acquisition frenzy isn't the best mindset, played out in how TD is operating. But the team also has a big hole on the line on the other side of the ball. Don't think this is going to be ignored. DT will also be a priority on day one if the right guy is there.

For the revenue-sharind reason, yeah. But also, unlike their regular programming, ABC can't so much put on re-runs of MNF to double or triple their ad take. $500M for (hmm... let's do the math here.... 17x3... carry the 2...) 51 hours of showtime each year? That's a lot of green. And the guess that it's "one of the higher rated shows on Monday" is wrong, wrong, wrong. In the past several years it has tanked. Utterly. Why do you think they tried Dennis Miller and reeled in Madden thinking these moves might boost ratings? They didn't. Don't be surprised if you have to watch MNF on ESPN next year, but you could see SNF on the network and Desperate Housewives moved to Mondays. Sunday is the natural day for football.

There's probably a reason for that. Such that decisions are best made rationally than rashly. The marginal value of adding Womack over what is on the roster isn't such that TD needs to "beat down the doors." There will be 53 players on the roster come August and it really doesn't matter that much, w/ McNally doing the job he's paid to do, whether the front office goes all NY Rangers on us. Signing high-priced vets doesn't guarantee anything other than a name on a jersey and salary cap grim reapers. The off-season just doesn't seem to mesh w/ your personality. It's a slow process. Relax(!) and nurse a Genny or something.

He is very good throwing the long ball the two times a game coaches might call it. Too bad he can't throw a 10-yard out to save his arse. If you want to go long every play, Drew's your guy, but you're not often going to win like that. Parcells has lost it in trying to relive the past.

If you knew the mettle of the current class in the CT police officer training course, you would be singing a better tune, and it's not unrepresentative of the rest of the country, either. About 60 percent of them flunked the lie detector tests for questions that'd have any law-abiding citizen going . And they take them b/c they're so shorthanded and they just don't pay very much in the first 5 years. I'd hazard that 75 percent of police do a great job and are to be commended for the stuff they do and the risks they take. And then there's the 25 percent who are the type to break your headlights w/ their Mag-Lite, get a BJ in exchange for not giving a ticket, going WAY overboard in physical restraint of a suspect, etc.

Too bad they've neglected the D in trying to be Colts-Lite. They've really been down on Harrington, too. If Garcia signs there, it's an open competition in camp.

There was a thread on this a while back. And yes, steve is correct, a player needs an actual prescription from his or the team's doctor to wear a tinted visor. Pretty inconsequential. I'm sure Willis could get one if he wanted one. Just say that the sunlight gives him headaches (I find that a lot of bright light will actually trigger a migraine for me), etc. Maybe doesn't want to outright lie to get one like all of the Lions RBs (they play in a friggin' dome!) so he just wears the clear visor.

Testaverde, Glenn, Curtis Martin, Bledsoe.... I wouldn't hazard a guess about whether BP is in his right mind, but as he's moved toward the twilight, he sure is bent on trying to re-create the past. Doing that almost never works.

Methinks he needs to lose about 10 pounds (he's 230 at 6') as he works out his knee. He relied on more of the power back last season rather than a mix of that and breakaway speed that he had at UM. Two years removed from the surgery seems like a good time to lose some weight and get some of the speed back.

Why? Are his eyes glazed over from the chronic?

Especially if you saw him in the playoff game against the Stillers a few years ago where he almost brought the Browns back before making a dumb sideline-to-sideline throw for an INT. He apparently does have an arm and some football smarts. I'm just a little worried about his attitude about being a backup. Always seemed like he wanted to be #1 which seemed to work against Couch's development. Then again, if he signs here he knows what he's getting into....

Covered territory.

Does anyone know what the rapport was like in Cleveland b/w Holcomb and Tim Couch? The end result of that wasn't very good in the development of a young QB.... It'd be nice to get an older vet who knows his place as tutor/mentor than someone who is absolutely craving the starter's spot. That and draft a #3 QB in round 4 or 5. I, for one, am not surprised. This year on the whole has been different than most. Don't know if it's the quality of the UFAs, a wait-and-see attitude, confidence that the coaches are good enough to develop some of our own talent, or whatever else. Rest assured there will be 53 players on the roster come time for the regular season.

For those of you w/ Tivo, did the guy say "Eight" or "eight-something"? Admittedly, my hearing has been going for a few years now but I thought he tack on "-something." And for those who are angry at no new eps until 13 April, well, I can tell you they were editing ep 16 when ep 14 was airing. Takes over a week to shoot each ep.... Sooner or later, even working every day w/ no off time (which makes Jack a dull doctor), there's going to be some repeats necessary while they shoot the ones that will air in April/May. Not to mention that ABC is actually losing money on the show right now due to high production costs in Hawaii; they need to recoup some of it. 'Course, they'll be filthy, stinking rich when the DVDs come out in August....

Touché!

The Return of the Friggin' Lonnie. Someone call Peter Jackson!

<lotus position> Haaaoooouuuuuummmm. Haaaoooouuuuuummmm.

I'd wager that OBD is, after they see this and have wallet cramps, figuring that they can get by w/ what's on the roster, by signing a mid-level FA and drafting an interior OL in the 3rd. Sadly, it's doubtful Nugent is even a speck on the radar at this point.

Wow. Karnak the Magnificent predicts TD selects a CB in round 2.... That is just too much and Nate will want more.

I certainly don't blame him for taking the cash (The 49ers version of 'A fool and his money are soon parted'). But "class" means shutting your pie hole and biding your time when you've made a commitment, and then being gracious that someone gave you hundreds of thousands of dollars to play football straight out of college. So far, he hasn't really run off his mouth about how much the Bills are sucky losers, but I give him until tomorrow's first bulldog edition of the SF Chronicle. Figures he'd go to SF, too. Did anyone read his parting words in the News? "I'm going to let my star shine somewhere else"? Who, outside of Broadway, talks that way? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Have a nice life, Jonas.

I think steve forgot to hit the <sarcasm> button. Jonas has never been classy, unless you call salivating and saying "I'd LOOOOOOVE to play for the Atlanta Falcons" while he's still under contract w/ the Bills for another two years a classy move.

To quote K-K-K-Ken in "a Fish Called Wanda": "Good!"

*AHEM* To say anything in this thread would really be like gloating....

One of the things that made the scene b/w him and Danielle so good. There was a load lifted when he realized he wasn't crazy. I think D. probably felt much the same way. "She said to say 'Hey.'" If you've noted, Hurley gets really defensive whenever Charlie or Jack have said things, even jokingly, questioning his sanity. Tgreg, it's all but certain Hurley was a patient for those reasons and that the receptionist was trying to get him out of there, he didn't know what Leonard's last name was means he wasn't holding the charts, if you know what I mean. It likely had something to do w/ an angry outburst like w/ Danielle. Noticed it a couple of weeks ago, anyone notice that Charlie's decorative bandages on his knuckles reads EVIL? What was the wire doing on the beach, looked like it went into the ocean. And then it apparently went down into the ground when they got to the bridge. Was it for the radio tower? The T-Rex idea? I don't know, but I wouldn't rule it out. One of the writers had an interview where he offered jokingly (or not?), "Maybe it's a Loch Ness kind of thing." And just generally b/c I don't want to do anything that may be deemed a spoiler, he said there wasn't going to be things that are WAY far out like time travel, etc. but they do play around w/ the science milieu. And for those who think there's a multiple-season "bible" for the show, that's wrong. There's general ideas of what the storylines in seasons 2, 3 or beyond, but nothing is set in stone.

And keep your pee-pee out of cha-chas unless it's desired there by someone who is at least the age of majority.