Johnny Coli

Good luck with your bridge. Funny, it looks an awful lot like the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge in Boston. It was part of The Big Dig project. It looks real nice at night when they turn on the blue spotlights, and we thank you for all of the tax dollars you contributed to helping make it all possible.

Everything is faster in a Dyson. It works better than your average vacuum.

Nice ...can't be but a hand-full will get that.

Bingo. Adios Marcia...history will ultimately frown on a mediocre system QB, especially if they never win another one. Like The Fridge, Brady will soon be a "Where are they now" story.

Nice.

That is some awesome work, Mike. The ranking your system puts out for this season is dead-on with how one would rank the QBs based on observation. Really nice work. Especially this little nugget: Not surprising, because it's what we've all known for some time now. I'd like to see the individual rankings per catagory as compared to the way the league calculates them. How do they shake out using your system, i.e. % positive plays, etc.

I totally agree with your feelings on JP's progress, and I actually look forward to watching the games each week because of him. I doubt I could say that if we had some other QB in there. How much do you think poor play-calling inside the 20 has had to do with their poor red-zone success? I don't think they have utilized his ability to run yet. There was a blurb on one of the pre-game shows this week, where they were discussing Vick and passing from inside the pocket. The gist of it was, why make him a pocket QB if the guy has another dimension to his game? I understand you'd want JP to get more comfortable passing from the pocket, and getting his game mechanics down, but this O-line blows. Why not turn the kid loose every once in a while?

It's probably a bit more intense for those of us living in cities that have other AFCE teams (in my case, deep in the heart of NE Paytiolet-land), or in cities with some history against the Bills. It's a matter of pride to wear the Bills gear in an enemy city..."Yeah we suck, but I'm a Bills fan, so !@#$ you". It's easy to represent when your squad is winning (case in point Patsy fans who all show up after a win, but bail after a loss), but to wear a Jim Kelly jersey into Foxboro when your team is 3-13, and get crap thrown at you, and get hasseled in the lot after the beating your squad took, well, that's what makes finally winning it worth it. When they are at their worst is when you should cheer the loudest. Tom Donahoe is not Buffalo. Eric Moulds is not Buffalo. Willis McGahee is not Buffalo. We are Buffalo.

I know I do.

Excellent question... Of Palmer, Brady and Manning, only Manning currently benefits from playing with a top 10 defense (Indy is 8th in total D) Also: Palmer is 2-3 against teams with winning records (combined is 39-14) Brady is 2-5 against teams with winning records (combined is 55-20) Manning is 3-0 against teams with winning records (combined is 22-11) Palmer is 4-3 against teams with top 10 defenses (looking at total yards against) Brady is 1-2 against teams with top 10 defenses Manning is 2-0 against teams with top 10 defenses Palmer is 4-2 against teams with top 10 rated defenses against the pass Brady is 2-1 against teams with top 10 rated defenses against the pass Manning is 2-0 against teams with top 10 rated defenses against the pass Lastly, against teams with a top 10 total D and a top 10 passing D... Palmer is 4-2 Brady is 0-1 Manning is 2-0 So, Brady, when unfortunate enough to be playing without Charlie Weis' system and the benefit of a top-rated defense performs sub-par against teams with winning records, is sub-par against teams with top 10 defenses, is mediocre against teams that defend the pass, and lost to the only team with a complete defense he faced (I don't have time to look at run-D, etc.). In fact, when faced with greater adversity than Mr. Mediocre, Carson Palmer beats him across the board. Face it Pats fans, your record is 6-5 with only 2 wins against decent teams, one of which came in the absense of Michael Vick. Had Vick played you'd be 5-6, having beaten only Pitt. But that's to be expected from a slightly better than mediocre QB running your offense.

It really is amazing, isn't it? Has a single player in the history of the NFL benefitted more from those around him than Tommy-boy? Has any other player been given so many accolades for having done so little on his own?

Not much of a stretch leaving Mr. Mediocre off that list. Once again, he comes up lame in a contest against a team with an above-500 record. In starts against teams with winning records this year, Mr. First-Ballot-HOF'er is a pathetic 2-5, with one of those wins against the Falcons without Michael Vick. The combined records of the teams he has faced and beaten this year is 29-36, with 14 of those wins split between Pitt and Atlanta. The records for the other four...15-29. So, assuming that a Michael Vick-led Atlanta team would have rolled over New England, Mr. Fabulous' record would be 1-6 against "good" teams. Hardly stats putting him in the QB elite. No top rated defense, and no Charlie Weis. At least he'll benefit from playing four the next five games against the Jets (twice), the Dolphins, and the Bills.

Spot on. If you're going to be known for something, it ought to be for being the best at it...like Vermont maple syrup, or Detroit murders. All Wisc-y has is a second rate cheese and Miller beer. They should have at least kept the Pabst brewery going. Then they'd have something there. Pretty freaking sad if you ask me, which no one has, but that's their loss because I'm an idea man.

Big pharma. We get whatever we want.

I've got a lot of things someone of your superior intellect probably doesn't have. A cube, a lab, friends, a sense of humor. What you, Red Dragon, and others before you don't get is that it's cool that you have issues with the team, GM, coach, whatever flavor-of-the-week has your panties in a bunch. But you drone on-and-on with your "I have a right to complain" schtick. That's what turns people off. If you don't come across so freaking preachy all the time, maybe you won't get crapped on by the board. But a few people call you nuts, and guys like you start with the "I'm smarter than you"-like posts. It makes you seem like, well, like a douchbag.

This was the funniest line in the manifesto: That one had me rolling aound on the floor of my cube.

You're only proving my point. Without the help of a top rated defense and without the help of Charlie Weis, Wonderboy's numbers are pretty mediocre, wouldn't you say?

And it is only the truly foolish who continue to persist in this assertion that Brady was the answer for the turnaround, not the defense, not the coaching, not the gameplan, and certainly not the kicker who actually was more of an integral part of their "dynasty" than Mr. Mediocre. The coaches leave, they take a huge hit on the defensive side of the ball, and what is Mr. Mediocre's record? Well it's 6-4, say the Pats fans. Once again, Mr. Mediocre benefits from a weak schedule: The combined records of the teams they beat is 26-34. Four of those teams have losing records. The other two are Pitt (now 7-3, a legitimate win) and Atlanta (6-4) who they beat without Vick. Take away the records of those two teams and the combined record of the other four wins came against teams that are 13-27, hardly the toughest schedule of all time. And who have they lost to, you ask? The combined records of the teams they lost to is 31-9. So, once again, Mr. Mediocre's numbers are skewed in his favor due to the prevalence of crappy teams they've played, and he will continue to benfit from playing most of the remainder of his gamaes against the worst division in football. But when faced with real adversity, and without the benefit of Charlie Weis and a top rated healthy defense, Brady is even less than mediocre, and hardly carrying his injury plagued team. Mr. Fabulous is being exposed as the slightly better than mediocre QB those outside of New England and ESPN know he really is.

In your quixotic quest to defend your boy Sparky, you negelcted to actually read the whole post that was actually ripping Brady's "performance" against the Bills. My post had nothing to do with Sparky except for using the two crucial plays he was involved in that turned the game in the Pats favor, once again illustrating that the Great Brady actually had absolutely nothing to do with the Pats victory over our Squad.

I'm shocked at the votes for Brady, who had as unspectacular of a game against Buffalo as a QB could have had and still retained his starting job. Take away Branch's 37 yard "catch" and Mr. Mediocre has a 16/21 162 yard day (including 3 sacks and a fumble), hardly numbers befitting his inevitable first-ballot HOF status, eh Hollywood? In fact, once again Mr. Mediocre needed a Holcomb fumble on the 23 yard line, a Holcomb brain-fart on 4-8, a crucial phantom offensive pass interference penalty, and two Corey Dillon TDs to come out on the winning end of this contest. The only shocker in that performance was his not needing his good buddy (and a major key to his accidental success) Adam Vinetieri to bail him out. Has a QB, or any player of any sport at any level, benefitted more from those around him than Mr. Mediocre?

I am not a fan of Tom Scholz.

Bingo, my man! I'll be damned if I'm going to spend my valuable time outside of work doing work. That's why I went to school, and that's why the guy that was dropped on his head as a kid fixes my car. Time for a cold one.....pfffssssttttt. Aahhhh!

Jesus. I'm stunned. Freebird? I don't like guitar solos for the most part, because I think they're just an excuse for people to show off their "chops"...you know, the bedroom guitar heros. It took Johnny Ramone four albums to put anything close to a guitar solo on record, and it was one note and a pick slide. I subscribe to the "dumb is good" aspect of rock'n'roll. I don't want to practice my ass off...I want to drink cheap beers with my buddys, write forty 90 second long songs about cars, chicks, booze and cigarettes, and play crummy clubs that smell like urine and vomit. Guitar "leads" should add to the song...like East Bay Ray's stuff from the Dead Kennedy's, or Johnny Thunders (NYDolls, Heartbreakers), or Cheetah Chrome (Dead Boys)...stuff that actually works for the song, not just wanking around for 45 minutes playing scales. If there absolutely has to be a lead, I like the guys that blast something out without any regard for technical proficiency...Bob Stinson comes to mind, or Jay Reatard...guys that let it rip, key be damned, while someone in the crowd is spitting in their face, or chucking bottles at them. If pressed, the best leads I've ever heard were by Billy Zoom (X), on Hotel Room in my Bed, or Johnny Hit and Run Pauline. Tasty, powerfull, and work well in the song. Technically, Zoom is light years better than most metal guitar guys, but he always kept it reigned in and concise, and never dicked around. But, in the end, music is subjective, so if long guitar solos are what some of you are into, that's cool. They're definately not for me, though. Freebird? Come on, man.

I am not a fan of Tim McGraw.