RuntheDamnBall

It's a different time and a different team right now, and this team has a shot. Darcy would be foolish not to measure what kinds of upgrades he can make, particularly with Goose now out for the duration. There is no time like now with the uncertainty of Drury and Briere's status after this season. The only thing that tells me there will be no deal is if there is a guy like Kaleta or McArthur who can provide what we need without having to cost us much extra. On the other hand, Darcy should be taking a good long look at the pieces and thinking about who is and is not going to be part of the future. IE, if Kotalik isn't, long-term, then best to see what rental can be gotten for him with an eye toward the young'ns for next season.

This is one of those 'no chance in hell' trades, but I would offer a pretty penny to Florida for Bouwmeester. I'm talking Biron, a blue-line prospect, and a forward prospect or Kalinin. It's sooo not going to happen, though.

Points one and three don't really reconcile in my book. If you're going to lose Drury and/or Briere (especially the latter) then you have to hold onto your young and cheap snipers who have some experience. If someone else is going to be packaged with a pricier talent like Kotalik or Biron then it will likely be a prospect. As regards goalies, should we deal Marty, we could feasibly give Adam Dennis the #2 job but he is beyond untested in this environment.

Won't he just eventually regress towards the mean?

Well, it's not as if the government has no say in it. CC and the like are private organizations who are licensed to use the public airwaves. I will agree with you more that it's an issue of anti-trust or de-regulation and I think the quality of radio has suffered immensely due to the likes of CC.

Pasquarelli's column says Cottrell might land in Big D or SD as a D-coordinator:

"Feeding your family on only 4 Million a year," by Lawyer Milloy

"Billy Joe Hobert's A Series of Unfortunate Football"

"Why I Am The Best At Bein' Modest," by Deion Sanders

"Wilt has 5000 Baby Mommas" by W. Chamberlain

There'd be a whole lotta shakin' going on at the wideout position if we were to make that kind of acquisition.

Good news. It seems that the mark of any (successful) Jauron team is going to be discipline. That is, stay in your gaps, don't do anything stupid, no personal fouls, minimize mistakes, and you give yourself the best chance to win the game. That discipline with an infusion of more talent strikes me as a winning formula for next year. Playoffs, let's do it!

Depends. Do they fit the profile? And what if they don't wear earbuds? How will we detect them? What if someone wearing a Walkman™ is mistaken for an IPod user and is shot on accident? Let's make sure the regulations are clear on this one.

A friend had the best satirical reply to this, which is: why don't we ban deaf and blind people also, because they are certainly subject to the same risks.

Isn't that just a simple way of banning IPods and cell phones from your life? In all seriousness, what the !@#$ has happened to common sense? I'm sorry, there's nothing that isn't already out there that can stop this. If the guy was reading a paper instead do we ban possession of newspapers on the street? You can rest assured no one in New York will stand for this. It'll be shot down quickly.

No, I'm certain you're right and I believe they are, but I'm not just talking fuels. And I think that the breaks need to be much more substantial for one vs. almost a penalty for the status quo and operating wastefully. Something that encourages actual transition rather than a simple taking advantage of the breaks.

Doesn't the water only serve to delay the inevitable? Serve 'em neat, boys. The hilarious meltdowns will come yet sooner.

I'm not against tax cuts or investment or rewarding entrepreneurship, but I'd love to see more favorable or targeted cuts given to people who are putting their money into alternative fuels and energy, sustainable development, and more environmentally-friendly operations. I see no reason why we need to continue to give the Exxons of the world the same kind of breaks, or better, as a company that's actually trying to push forward and create new growth industries -- industries that America could become a leader in, once they scale.

Nose drip!

Rhodes will cash in with some team willing to make him a #1 back. See: Lamont Jordan. I could see Houston throwing some cash his way.

It will give you next to nothing, which will help you afford health care, according to the President.

I liked it, especially the Dixieland dirge they played instead of Boyz II Men (probably a practical decision that cost way less than paying B2M for publishing); it was a nice little tip of the hat to New Orleans. The Favre at the end thing: silly.

As evidenced by one year of management and the well-reported notion that we're letting locker-room leader London Fletcher go? I mean, I'm optimistic about Marv, but don't think that he won't make what he views as the best football decision, if it comes to letting a player go when the player believes his value is higher than the organization's assessment of him. If you mean that Marv would have recognized that Pat and Ruben had some left in the tank, maybe you're right. But part of the problem with those two looking like they were pretty much through had to do directly with the coaching staffs and game plans they were a part of. It's pretty tough to gauge, without those problems, where we and those players would have been at all. It amounts to an alternate football universe.

Fruity-eccentric, not in a questioning his manhood sort of way.

Tons of turnovers, a dome ball team winning in the rain, Prince, no hateable teams, the predictable doom of Rex Grossman, how could you say it wasn't watchable?