RuntheDamnBall

I call bull sh--. He beat up on Green Bay, Minnesota and the Lions in weeks 1-3. The Central was truly horrible this year. He could have lost them the game at Minnesota with two INTs. After this gift first month of the season against poor in-division competition, he posted a pedestrian completion percentage the rest of the season, so yes, most of the season. He put it in the hands of Arizona defenders four times. Need I remind you of how bad Arizona was this year? He rebounded to beat San Fran, yes, but he was worse than people are remembering in the New Orleans game, which he only won because the Saints kept turning the ball over. Grossman had some success this year, yes, but it was because the pressure was taken off of him by a good line and a good defense, not to mention a running game that his coach abandoned completely in the Super Bowl. For him to think he deserves a raise after a season and a half of average play on a five-year contract is absurd.

Wow. I had to wonder if Marty knew something else to the story when he didn't seem all that pissed about what was happening. This would make sense in that regard. What a total mess. Even if this report is untrue, for it to come out is not good at all for that organization.

A little short. Can't gather enough from it. I gotta say anything after 1981-3 their production is far too slick for my tastes. I was watching the live show they just put out and I liked everything but the drums which were excessively huge sounding. On those old records things are much tighter and more understated. Just my preference. I'll listen just to hear how things sound though.

I'm not sure it's great but I'm also not sure what's better. A lot of people think things were better when we lived lives in which we censored ourselves more despite always having these same freedoms. I can't say I agree, but you're right, it means we're open to everything. And as I've said before, people are free to hang themselves in public with opinions like this if they so choose. If the majority disagrees, it's not necessarily PC -- it's that they are as free to disagree with the unpopular opinion as the original author of the utterance is to speak his mind. I recognize the danger of getting into a world of 'ThoughtCrime' and excessive PC-ness. At the same time I in no way want people like Tim Hardaway, or people who share his beliefs, to be running this country, because they would surely be looking to outlaw ideas or actions that I support or believe are not in government's domain. That's why I'm distancing myself a bit from the language of tolerance.

Their TE Owen Daniels is pretty solid. They don't have much else, though. Carr is not great right now but I would take him over several other QBs in this league, including one who started the Super Bowl as S&J mentioned. He'd also be better than those who were QBing the: Raiders Redskins Vikings Lions Dolphins off the top of my head. One other thought -- a team he might be a great fit for would be the Jets. He could back up Pennington for one season, learn the ropes, earn some backseat cash and take a little rest from 5 seasons of taking a beating, and come in comfortably to a system that's solid with a great offensive line, and that will likely be adding a premier running back soon. If I were Carr I would take a discount offer to end up there.

Right on.

I think that's a mistake. It's due to an over-reliance on the word 'tolerance' more than the idea it's supposed to stand for, which is living ethically and treating others with the respect you wish to be accorded with. I don't tolerate people who find in their religious beliefs that it's OK to abuse women because they are supposed to occupy a lower station in society. So, yes, I'm not 100% tolerant. I'll tolerate anyone who wants to come to the table and be open to an ethical belief system and code. I don't have time for much else.

Pretty good point. Grossman's got one year left and thinks he's worth more money. That's a joke as the guy has gotten paid for next to nothing for half of his contract, and for being the textbook definition of caretaker QB for most of this season, except for when it counted most. Carr wouldn't be a bad option for them.

Lordy, he does it again. But crayonz, neither of those guys was as good or as gay as Chris Mullin. He had it all.

Is that directed towards me or towards Hardaway? I'm guessing the latter, I just have seen too many people really struggle with drugs, estrangement from family, and stability in their relationships because they can't come to terms with who they are with these kinds of messages of hatred repeatedly directed at them. I know it's an idiot basketball player and he's got a right to speak his mind. I just have a right to call him wrong.

No, he was #5 pick overall in that draft. But you're more right than I am. However, my point was that the first pick in a team's existence should not be a #1 QB, and Carolina didn't exactly prove otherwise. They won with good management and not on the arm of a #1 QB. Collins' numbers were pedestrian in that NFCC year: 204-364 / 56.0% / 2454yds / 14TDs / 9INTS

He has a right not to like them, stupid as his position may be. But if he desires to be so shallow it shouldn't be a problem for the rest of the team. And I have a desire to think Tim Hardaway's a bigoted moron who's probably got some issues of his own if his manhood is so challenged by the sexual practices of others in private. I'll tell you what; if Michael Jordan was gay, anyone who wanted to be traded off of his team for that reason would be the stupidest athlete alive.

Take a look at three of the past four expansion teams. Do any of them strike you as having met immediate success? Carolina's early wins were the combination of great performances from value FAs and an at-his-peak Super Bowl GM in Polian. The Jaguars' slow move toward respectability and Cleveland and Houston's struggles are more indicative of an expansion team's issues. And if I were ever to helm an expansion franchise I would never, never, never select a number one QB first. Too much pressure to succeed immediately, and it's one more pick -- the most important one -- sacrificed for a skill position player instead of in the important trench positions that allow a young team to succeed. Look at Jax and Carolina -- they did not succeed with first round QBs. They won with FAs at the quarterback position. Couch and Carr flopped and there's not much more they could have done given their situations. Carr could still be decent. Depends on whether he's too shell-shocked or damaged to make it. But he can obviously be accurate and run the short game given the time to throw, as he showed against us.

It says more about the people who would read it (because it costs a quarter) then it does about the paper, I'll have to buy that. It's good for washing windows and studying bad examples of Photoshop design, and not much else.

Un-effing real. Today's New York Post's page 2 headline is: "Bill Snares Osama Guy" -- first sentence: "Former President Bill Clinton helped his wife, Hillary, secrue a key endorsement from an African-American leader who was being courted by Illinois Sen. Barack OBAMA."

So, if your point is to make an argument, and your way of making an argument is, "you should agree with me, idiots! See, I was right!" -- that's not going to convince anyone. It stifles dialogue. You wonder why there's gridlock and no one gets anything done in Washington -- it's because the discourse swings between this stuff and the patronizing pretense of one side caring about the other.

Because your tactics are alienating anyone who might agree with you, and at the same time cementing the opinion from the other side that anyone with a left-of-center opinion is a loony who doesn't research and will post anything that says Bush is bad. I can't say I knew more at the time but in 2002 I could see that this was going to end disastrously, provide a forum for terrorists, and be an all-around bad idea in that America would become the lightning rod by taking out a secular regime, and help a movement literally run by a bunch of jobless bozos become something much more viable and powerful. It's too bad that in the name of politics (i.e. "I don't want to be branded as soft on terror, but I have no other plan") few had the balls to stand up on this one. In the meantime we've made it much harder for our intelligence community to do its job by giving them more fires to put out.

A good column from Easterbrook on how off predictions always are. Glad to see he implicates himself as well here.

Suggestions: Bend over and hand your wallet to the gas attendant.

I thought this was even smarter: Not bad work. And I like Hargrove, anyway. Win-win situation.

And allowing the other DL to flush out the pocket.

LaBrandon Toefield might be worth a look as a nice value FA.

The only person on their roster who intrigues me is Filip Kuba. He makes $3M so we'd be taking on an extra million bucks. Not likely. Plus I imagine Tampa likes him, being that they just signed him this past offseason. He'd have to be part of their playoffs plans I'd imagine, so picking up Marty to lose Kuba'd be sort of like robbing Peter to pay Paul.

The ESPN rumor mill brought this one up: