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Two observations: 1. In April 2011 we needed a big body badly. MD was the answer. Remember that freak performance on ESPN Sport Science? Don't overwhelm it with hindsight. 2. I'm still giving the kid a break. He's a big ol' country boy from Alabama living in the Northeast. His brother got killed at season's start and he's playing through it. Geez, give him a little time before you throw him overboard.

RIP. I remember listening to his War of the Worlds and also his "Paul McCartney Is Alive and Well . . . Maybe" going over all the Paul-is-dead clues. Great stuff. And right now I'm feeling about 1,000 years old.

Oh please. This doesn't even have sarcasm value.

Refresh my memory. What does Jairus Byrd do for a living?

He says he was signed, but he's not on the roster and he's not named in the three Press Releases listing the PS signees. ?

You have no specialists. These guys are locks: Moorman Lindell Sanborn I think Potter makes the team but the QB situation makes it complicated if they want to carry Jackson AND Thigpen.

I still love this man. And don't forget: "Germany couldn't win on the road." -- Marv

I thought the Redskins' maroon collar looked worse.

Exactly. The touchback that wasn't and the missing pass interference call . . . those aren't "NFL rules." Those are everybody's football rules. So evenif you cut them slack on the 10-second runoff (which I'm not sure you do) . . .

Something I wonder about: the substitute officials aren't just guys off the street. They're all college officials. Even if they're out of Div. III, College reffing is this bad????????

One of the things I love about that NFL Films version of the Comeback Game (playoff vs. Houston, 41-38 in OT, for you youngsters who weren't there) is the close-up's of the sideline. You get a great view of the player intensity. Nobody needs coaches to get stirred up. All the coaching talk is adjustments and strategy. Nobody tells Talley or Reid or Reich they have to dig deeper. That's a big reason I don't think speechifying on the sideline amounts to much. The best players bring it to the game themselves.

Yeah, fair enough. I was getting off your original point. I just don't think the DC needs to talk to the personnel all that much during the game with the position coaches around. But your point about looking into a player's eyes to read where his head is at is a good one. You have to hope the position c's are good at that.

This notion of being in a player's face during the game is way overrated. The DC doesn't have to do that anyway -- he's got position coaches. Regardless, that's not the time and place for chewing somebody out. Honest mistakes just need a word or two. A player who's so brain dead he needs a lashing during the game from the DC is not going back in too soon for Chan's team anyway.

The Pro Football HOF selection process always strikes me as suspect. I don't think Howie Long belongs but he's on Fox and everyone seems to love him. On the other hand, WR's have a tough time and no Steve Tasker is criminal.

Asper only makes this team via practice squad. He's not ready to play C in the NFL and Urbik is the backup to Wood. Sanders is a draft choice with upside. He's not going anywhere in '12. I pull for Jasper but he has to show something in games.

As somebody who's at least 300 miles from TC, I really appreciate the eyewitness accounts. Thanks again. And BTW, NJ (Newark) just got its first Dinosaur BBQ. I'd been hearing about it for years and I'm sold. The manager also gave us a head's-up about the Buffalo opening next year before it hit the papers.

Had to make room for Shiancoe I would guess . . .

Ohhhhhhhhh yeah. Thanks.

Refresh my memory. What do the Patriots do when they want to go long?

I've met people who call themselves New Englanders or said they're from New England. I've never heard anyone call himself a Niagara Frontiersman or say he was from the Niagara Frontier.

Really? Never heard that before. Does he have a connection?

And on the baseball side again: who could ever forget Oddibe "Young Again" McDowell?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah. Now I remember and I remember why I forgot. Kind of a "Men in Black II" thing. Except now I'm sorry I asked and got deneuralyzed.

That's how I remember it too. McDermott was cut but IIRC they kept #22, Mini-Max Anderson.

Did anyone wear 11 between Norwood and Bledsoe?