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BTW, just so you all know, the interception call in Indianapolis was correct. While it appeared to be caught, it wasn't because the receiver was not down by contact, i.e. no Colts player touched him. When you're a receiver (either offensive or defensive) and you're in this situation you can either lie there and get touched (while maintaining possession 100% of that time) OR get your butt, knees, elbows, etc OFF THE GROUND (i.e. every part of your body that would rule the ball dead if it's touching the ground and you've been touched) while keeping possession 100% of the time until all of those body parts are off the ground. The "football act" in this situation is getting off the ground. Morelli made the correct call. Of course you wouldn't know that because TV announcers don't know the game as well as they should.

There's a reason why the officiating is as bad as it is. The officials union got upset over last year's assignments because the system called for the top three officials at each position (R, U, LJ, HL, FJ, BJ, SJ) to get TWO playoff games (WC/Divisional and CC/SB). This meant that around 60% of the officials didn't get playoff assignments because the higher rating officials had more games. This year, the Conference Championship games are NOT being officiated by officials who already got assignments. These new crews doing the CC games are still ranked either 2 or 3 at their position. Therefore 14 extra officials get playoff assignments that wouldn't have normally gotten them under the 2004 system. This has led to very questionable crews (Triplette and Winter come to mind) getting assignments that they really don't deserve. FWIW, look for Terry McAulay and Ed Hochuli to be wearing white hats next weekend with Mike Carey (who was in the WC round) in the SB.

Too bad for the Pats... Coleman's crew will be in CHI Sunday.

The truth of the matter is that Haslett is far more similar to Rich Kotite than Bill Belichick. BB was a coordinator IN THE SAME DIVISION AND CONFERENCE before he was HC of NE. Further, this extra time was under Parcells. OTOH, Haslett has had 2 weeks since he's been canned by the Saints when he quit on his team and they quit on him. Further, he has no coaching pedigree whatsoever - I'd hardly call the Cowher pedigree something I'd put on my resume. His drafts have been horrid. Quite honestly he has no more qualifications to be a HC than did Meathead. I support the removal of Mularkey but there are far more palatable candidates out there that have proven themselves to be winners, including Mike Sherman and Jim Fassel.

I can understand the Levy hiring but this supposed love-affair with Haslett is horses#it. At least Levy's a HOFer. Regardless of the circumstances, what owner/GM in their right mind hires a coach who asked out of his job, finished 3-13 as a HC just this past season, and has no coaching pedigree whatsoever (unlike BB's situation with Cleveland/NE)? I for one will be furious if Haslett gets the job because he has no chance of succeeding.

How can anyone possibly support Haslett as HC? You really want someone who accused Hull of steroid use as the face of our franchise? You want someone who hasn't had a lick of success during his tenure as HC with the exception of his first season? I guess fans don't remember how successful Rich Kotite's second try at head coaching was with a Jets team whose talent is about on par with ours...

Regular Season != Playoffs.

You may be right. Anderson's crew is doing this game and they have a reputation of being flag-happy.

Meathead shouldn't be anywhere near JP...

I think we all know that it's Marv with Ralph's freudian slip.

Ralph is reassuming the presidency...

Wow... Good for Ralph!!!

Interesting slip by Ralph....

Dammit not again!!!!

The Wayback machine says he hasn't had a link since the website has been that way.

Donahoe was once a salesman for the inferior Cheese Nips.

Coach Chuck Dickerson!!!!

Everybody knows that since Son of Satan has left that our unis will be restored, JP will be the next Jimbo, and Marv will hire Tedy Bruschi to be our new one-man defense.

YAY!!!!!

Looks like Ralph got sick and tired of Whitey kicking him out of his own stadium after he asked him why his team is a shambles....

Easy solution to this problem. At Yankee Stadium, you can't enter if you appear to be intoxicated. You can take a breathalyzer if you feel that you've been unfairly tagged by security. Same policy should be implemented and actually enforced here for both day and night games. This would take care of most of the parking lot drunks and allows normal people not looking to get drunk to tailgate. During all night games (start times 4pm and later), limit alcohol sales to pregame and the first quarter just like Saturday night. That allows responsible people to enjoy a couple drinks during the game and prevents the idiots from becoming too intoxicated (many of which can't afford to get too drunk on stadium beer anyway). There haven't been too many issues with the 1pm games so sell until halftime as usual for those.

Why are Tirico and Sharpe apologizing for Mularkey and Donahoe?

Wow... just wow. This has to be the funniest thread on a message board that I've ever read.

They're up: Mularkey: http://www.buffalobills.com/news/news.jsp?news_id=3075 Donahoe: http://www.buffalobills.com/news/news.jsp?news_id=3074

In a Bledsoe-centric offense, you need a decent TE. Look at Coates in NE, Riemersma here. Both thrived with Bledsoe, and Drew himself didn't look as bad as he does now.