John Adams

The issue with Trent is that teams now have figured him out. He is quick and decisive when teams blitz (opposite of JP FWIW). But he struggles when there are 7-8 in coverage. So now that we know this is the story, the coaches need to help him progress. He needs to see a lot of 3-4 man rushes in practice and get used to locating his WRs. Consider the next 6 games his audition to be a starter going into 2009. If he sucks, he competes with some free agent in camp. If he makes progress, he's still the starter. Benching him now makes no sense. JP isn't the answer. Trent has played well and is still young. He must make the adjustment to these coverages though or he's effed.

This Edwards is a different guy from the one who played well last year and in many games this year. He was scared and shaken--with all night to throw and a line that was run-blocking. This loss is on him. Squarely. I can't give up on him though because I already gave up on JP. But Trent needs a coach to help now. Teams refuse to blitz him because he beats blitzes. What he can't do is find open WRs with 7-8 men in coverage. He flat out sucks at it.

Jaws said it all night in the color. Tonight's Edwards is not the same guy who started the season 5-1. That guy was a confident quick-decision maker. Tonight was a rookie. But worse: a scared rookie. He had ALL DAY to throw. The Browns blitzed--maybe--twice all night.

That's fine. I noted early in the season that his fakes were very good. Tonight he looked like a different guy out there. He sucked ass. I can't give up on him yet because I know JP sucks. If I give up on Trent now, that leaves no one to be the future QB and I can't live with that.

Riiiiiiight.

NO. Not tonight. The O-line was flat out dominant tonight. The line was playing to make sure no one hit Lynch for a loss. They got 1-2 yards for 3 straight plays. Not their fault.

Answer: the same coach who calls a TO after a run gets the team to the 1.

You will have to hold my head in a vice before I watch that again. I'll just let you be right.

Buzz. Edwards is excellent at play action fakes. I recall hardly any. That's a not a blanket defense of Edwards--just that comment. He played like a scared little boy out there. It was embarrassing to see Kelly--with the bravado he played with--on the sidelines watching Edwards play like that.

There's a reason Dick has a single winning season in his 8 years as HC.

Yup. He was terrible and O-line was dominant ALL GAME.

Is this based on Revelations? That's a good prediction. I don't see how GM gets out from all these deals without going through bankruptcy. Tieing the 25B to the successful navigation of BCY would give the government an interesting role in the BCY proceedings.

You should read the article. It talks about how the only way to solve all of these legacy problems is a good hard BCY filing. Otherwise, all the vultures (like the UAW among others) will refuse to give in enough. BCY is the nuclear bomb that gets GM out of a lot of the awful agreements it made. I hope someone smarter than me is making the call for whether 25 billion or BCY is better for the US. I could give two ***** what's better for GM. They dug this hole with their own shovels.

I understand the issue. Beats the !@#$ outta me which is the better choice. When I was a kid, I always prefered to eat all the bad food on my plate first. I feel that way about this whole mess. I want all the sh-- ini the fan all at once so we can rebuild ffrom a stronger base. But that's not a well-thought out rational answer. In the end, it very well might be better to "waste" the 25-50 billion so the rest of the industries advance while GM winds down. Beats me. I'm sure I'll be here to note that someone !@#$ed up once we see how it all plays out.

I agree with both of your posts. But I like the idea that under Chapter 11, GM has a lot more options than it has when it just gets a loan of 25-50 billion. It needs to dumpt a lot of people, contracts, and pensions. 25 billion from the government doesn't change that. If it's really possible for GM to enter bankruptcy and get out of it resembling a profitable business--by swallowing some bitter pills--I'd rather have that than the 25 billion down the drain. I have no confidence whatsoever that 25 billion will make any difference.

Some good facts in this piece. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122688631448632421.html Excerpt.

East of Erie closer to Port Colborne. I have been going there my entire life. Doesn't seem to be more or less traffic. If it's less, it's not noticeable to me (not that I've ever counted).

No idea what boombox is/was. Had Sirius for 5 years.

I saw them every day when I was on Erie last Summer.

Outsourcing makes sense on more than an economic scale. US schools are graduating more college students than ever--and yet fewer science and engineers than in the past. That trend is killing tech companies. In the meantime, Russia, China, and India are graduating more scientists and engineers than ever before. Outsourcing in the sciences isn't all about $$; it's about resources. The intellectual fuel for tomorrow's technologic advances is overseas. Companies like Intel and HP recognize this. I don't fault them one bit.

Note RL--I wasn't trying to hook you to insult you. I am more than capable of doing that to people but that wasn't my goal. My point is one I made once before on PPP: most college degrees aren't worth a lot in the real world. Their import is usually that they are a prerequisite for hiring/promotions. I worked a lot of huge construction including nuclear power before my current jobs. There were machine operators and feild superintendents who were WAY more valuable than me--but didn't get paid what I got paid because I could sling a computer and had a degree. VERY unjust. And yet it's the system so I recommend someone get a degree in anything rather than nothing. Business experience is important. A business degree doesn't contribute much to that. Being able to communicate in any job is vital; a communications degree doesn't help you communicate particularly well. There are some exceptions: it's hard (not impossible) to get a job in engineering without the formal training. (It's possible a person could self-study engineering but no one would trust them!) Obviously same if you're going to be an MD. Or a nurse. Or some other professions. As to concerns about engineering's health, there are going to be layoffs everywhere. But based purely on numbers, there are fewer engineers and they add more value--thus they will be in higher demand than a mid-level marketing manager with a communications degree. In the long run, I'd put my money on the engineer every day.

It would be nice if--in the story about the picture--they showed one of the pictures. I like looking at a pixel and knowing it's a planet.

Howard reports on the Sirius channels' popularity sometimes. He says Hits 1 is the #2 station (behind him) so another hits station makes sense. I don't listen to the music stations anywhere as much as the talk ones so the music shuffling doesn't bother me much. (A little annoyed to lose Buzzsaw to AC/DC radio for a bit.)

OK. BA in communications means nothing. Nor does marketing, Poly-Sci, business, etc. You might as well have started working out of high school and gotten the degree at night (because you need the degree to open certain doors, even though it's useless). Those degrees give you sh-- in the real world. I wouldn't hire a BA Communications person out of school at more than $8 an hour either unless they had a whole boatload of other work experience. BA Communications=wipe my ass degree=you learned nothing for 4 years. Deny it if you want but you know it's true. My advice: go into auto mechanics in blue collar field (going to be a growth industry because people are not going to buy a new car every 3 years for a while) or go back to school and get a useful degree like engineering. I'm serious about auto mechanics too--that is a good job. I would be considering it if I wasn't doing what I'm doing. Engineering has more upside. Another option: law enforcement (if you have the mettle for it). Good police are hard to find.

That trailer has been out for a while--I like that Silar (sp) from Heroes is Spock.