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So if not in the case of protecting and enabling a serial pedophile and rapist where do you draw the line? You apparently have a much narrower point of view regarding the NCAA's authority regarding association bylaws and the NCAA Constitution relating to control over the athletic department, integrity and ethical conduct than most of us.

I really didn't have feelings about NCAA involvement until a few weeks ago, and mostly based on the actions of some of the vocal kookie alumni. Personally I read your posts as an attempt to scapegoat 4 people, just so you can have your Penn State football. The culture was a big part of the problem. The culture there has to change. I tend to believe there was a football problem in as much as some of the abuse happened on the Penn State Campus, in the Penn State locker room and it was the Penn State Head Football Coach who talked the others out of reporting a serial pedophile to the police.

To improve battery life on your Droid 4, switch to 3G, use 4G only when you really need it. More importantly, download and use Juice Defender. JD improved the battery life on my Bionic by about 70%.

At her bail hearing yesterday, the victim's family was sitting on her side of the room and the victim is refusing to cooperate with the prosecutor.

While this does sound remarkable, there were only 2 teams they played in the regular season that had winning records and there were 6 teams that would have had winning records if they had not lost to the Patriots*.

On TSW, that is enough.

Eagles, Redskins, Cowboys and Dolphins to name a few have ex-Bills on their teams and they didn't make the playoffs either. Yeah, we have let some players go that we shouldn't have and we have drafted poorly and made poor use of free agency. Detroit had plenty of stability with Matt Millen at the helm. How did they fair with him?

Might be to early to say but Andy Dalton was passed up twice.

In 2006 the Bills stood pat and chose Donte Whitner. Cleveland traded with Baltimore. Cleveland traded down and picking Kamerion Wimbley. Baltimore traded up and picked Haloti Ngata. Only one of those teams made a wise choice.

Spiller is a hit? Seems you denigrate their players and overrate of ours. It is tougher to break into the starting lineup on that team because of the talent they have.

Are their results (picking near the bottom) really worse than ours (picking near the top)?

The Patriots* have the best record in the AFC. When's the last time they missed the playoffs? They seem to know what they are doing. The rookie pay scale will make teams less hesitant to trade up since the financial risk is more limited than in the past.

Is the NFL really all that different from the NBA?

How many Packer fans were happy with Rodgers when he replaced Favre? Looking back, it was obviously the right move but I know many Packer fans who wanted the Packers to lose every game in the 2008 season because management were a bunch of idiots for going with Rodgers over Favre. Manning is probably held in higher esteem in Indy and across the league than Favre was in Green Bay.

No where could he be under more pressure than if he ended up at Indy. Can you imagine the relationship between Manning and Luck. Could Indy possibly push Manning aside to make room for Luck like Green Bay did with Favre and Rodgers?

The concern with Ryan Leaf was that he might be a head case, and he was. Nobody is saying that about Luck.

Since I copied the name in the 10th post of this thread and assumed he was right. So it was probably McKinnie. Does it really matter? Whoever it was has less game the Ferguson and still manhandled Maybin

Because it wasn't all that terrific. He wast waltzed completely out of the play by Ferguson. It was Falco's Bledsoe like running that allowed him to make the play. The strange thing is Flacco looked at him. It was almost as if Flacco thought 'not to worry, its just Aaron Maybin'.

I'll say 24-17 Bills. I am afraid however that this is the kind of week where this team could have a let down, especially after an emotional win over NE last week. Hopefully, Marvin Lewis will keep guaranteeing a win, helping to keep the focus of this team.

Not taking anything away from Belichick. He's not as classless as the pork faced satan Jimmy Johnson, but he isn't as good as Parcells.

So now you know more than an organization that certifies helmets? What is your background? It obviously has nothing to do with engineering or physics.

Yes, what does that have to do with helmet design? From the Snell Foundation How does a helmet prevent brain injuries? A good helmet provides the brain extra TIME and SPACE to avoid or reduce injuries. First, it is the sudden stop, not the fall, which causes brain injuries. Imagine yourself in a moving bus that comes to a sudden stop. Without a seat belt, your body would keep moving until you hit the back of the seat in front of you or the bus windshield. Imagine this: your brain tissues are like passengers on a moving bus. A good helmet acts like a good driver that gives your brain inside the helmet a little more time, a few taps on the brake, to come to a gentler stop. Secondly, when thumbtacks are used correctly, the wall is pierced, not the thumb. The flat of the thumbtack spreads the force over a broad area of thumb and the sharp point concentrates that same force against a small area of the wall. In the same way, a good helmet spreads concentrated forces from a rock or any irregular impact surface over a broad area of the helmet’s protective liner and the wearer’s scalp and skull. Instead of slicing through flesh and skull, the forces are redirected by the helmet. Not wearing a helmet is comparable to misusing a thumbtack, except that hardly anyone dies of thumb injuries.

The padding in the helmet is compressible. You really are clueless.

Man you don't know what you are talking about. The hard shell is used to distribute the blow across a greater portion of the foam padding so that more of the foam absorbs the blow. How are you going to stick a raised logo onto the helmet of the Bengals or Browns anyway?

I'm a bit surprised that the Pro Cap, or some improved version of it, hasn't been mandated league wide to reduce the frequency of concussions.