Mark Long Beach

Yeah, but it's still OFF season! That's still a lot of traffic to be increasing that much. SDS you sure there's no hidden porn server on the machine?!? (I once had pirates hack into one of my wireless linux based robots and start to use it as one!)

I wouldn't complain having him as our second back, and short yardage back. Problem is he doesn't want that role, but it's all anyone is going to give him... so... Yeah, he's old and beat-up, but I think he's got a little left in the tank. So as a role-player I'm all for having him. We may play a waiting game and sign him later once he realizes there really isn't much out there for him.

I also agree. He's looked pretty stunning when I've watched him. We get a lot of SD games here in SoCal, so I've seen him a few times. Different runner than LT, but impressive. Very impressive looking. The hard part is figuring out how much of that is the good OLine, and how much is a tired D chasing after LT all game long, and how much is Turners ability... I will say, that it's not just one game that he's looked good. He looks good everytime he touches it. But he just hasn't touched it that much...

! Bwaaaahahahaaa! Nice. Caught me totally off guard.

I bit of a disapointment, but not a bust. Heck he was a good/decent starter for 3 years. That's the life of an NFL runningback. Disapointed, because I was promised more. A bust means we'd have gotten basically nothing. When in reality we got 3 years production and 3 draft picks out of him.

I'd rather have him as our 3rd RB than Shaud.

He's not a negative charactor guy. He's injured and not completely recovered from it (and may never). So I don't think there's a rush to get rid of the guy. If somebody offered us a sweethart trade... maybe. But not to cut. That's a training camp decision depending on if he can play or not.

Lost 3 starters, picked up 2... So far. We're only a week into free agency, relax and enjoy the show.

A summary please? Can't do video at work...

I'm afraid he wants too much money and wants to be a starter... If he'll take it to be a backup? sure, he's a decent backup.

More fingers crossed.

Any new news? It's after the 4pm supposed media presentation...

Considering how thin we are on the OL, almost any signing is a good one. He's versatile and good depth. Doesn't cost us much to keep him or to cut him. Sounds reasonable to me.

I'm holding out for a guard too, but... they seem to be really popular right now, so the price will be sky high.... I'm afraid it'll take an obscene amount to get one of the best, and we won't pay it. (not that that's necessarily a bad thing monetarily speaking)

Stick a fork in him. He might be able to limp along as a short-term replacement. But not one that you can count on game in and game in. We have enough of those type of players anyways. He's old and slower than he used to be, and it was really starting to show last year. He's on a downward slide that you can't really stop.

Wow. I really don't have the same negative feelings toward wacky wicky. I think he's a helluva runningback and when he was playing us, he scared the daylights out of me. He played better than ronny brown did when the two of them were together. He's starting to get old (injuries too), but he'd be a spectacular 2nd runningback. I'd love to have him as one of our runningbacks. Yes he's a little weird, but he works hard and runs hard. Gimmie.

Bowen was a bit of a suprise to me. What little I saw of him, he looked like a capable spot starter, and decent backup. It may be to sign him for less... but I don't see that as Marv's style... CV I'm pleased to see go. Decent when healthy, but we can't count on him anymore. We need all the stability we can get.

Yep. Not many carries. Of course he IS behind the single best runningback in the NFL bar none. So he's got a tired defense that he's facing, and a great Oline as well. All that aside, when I've seen him he looks mighty good.

Cleveland hands down. (I used to live there when Modell fled, so I still root for 'em) Bad luck and bad drafting. Extremely poor drafting for the whole time since their rebirth. (Dwight Clark was terrible) I've admired Pittsburghs drafting. Philly's done well too. Since I loathe Oakland and Al Davis I've really admired their pathetic drafts. I suppose Detroit has also earned a horrible mention as well with it's consistant bottom-feeder draft despite spectacularly hight draft choices.

I'm hoping he's just camp fodder, but re-signing him still makes me cringe.

Yes, but Money talks. Loudly. However, I don't think we'll spend enough to keep his attention. Although I'm hoping for it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2755105

Mind you, I literally slept through half of it (and the 2nd quarter), but what I saw was pretty decent. Better than most of the halftime shows. Admittedly, the bar is low for halftime shows. I might even bump it up a notch and say that I enjoyed it.

I totally agree. A great TE or a great WR2 are equal in my book. It's only a slight difference as to how your offense works. But a great guard (or better yet TWO great guards) help you do everything better.

And cable companies don't suck quite as bad as they used to. Mind you, I use DSL and DirectTV, because I still don't like cable companies. The original question asked why his telco offered DSL, but competitors didn't... I think the answer is roughly that you still need a connection from the copper of the phone lines to the internet. So you'd either have to install your own, or lease capacity from the telco on their lines. While the Telco's are required by law to allow this, my guess is that it's not cost effective in smaller markets where the leasing or installing company would need some large threshold of customers to make it cost-effective. Which is why electric and phone companies were classified utilities long ago, becuase they SURE wouldn't support smaller comunities unless they had to, and why much smaller comunities have no wired broadband access at all yet.