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i have denver
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whoa whoa whoa,
let the other posters bid on that!
i've heard how hot and thin (and ethnicaly diverse) nebraska girls are, and i want to sit on that beach and stare!
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I hate to take the contrarian position to my usual role of railing against hindsight analysis. But, as in select cases when I go against my grain, I use hindsight to gauge a personnel decision based on the alternatives available at the time.
Thusly... Even with the Chidi signing in '02, and the prophetic drafting of Denney, there was room on the roster for DEs, yet the administration chose Grant Irons & Kendrick Office over Fisher. And here we are.
It's just emblematic of the personnel decisions that have not panned out for TD's era. I don't get into the game of blasting him for picking a player in Position A vs a player in Position B, because there was a likely good reason they had priorities at Position A. But, they should be called out when a handful of players in Position A picked after the Bills performed better. That's as pure of a sign of personnel evaluation or selection problem as you can get.
part of it might be the moron coaches who gw brought in with him who had no experience before making crap evaluations
still goes back to TD
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if we kept washington i'd bet with williams and washington as the middle our 4-3 bryce and schoble on our edges would have looked better than they did all the time.
remember what washington did for the pats in their second super bowl year?
given the roster we had that might have been us
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i said right there in my post he did well in STL, which is where he played right after leaving us.
when he came out he was projected as a possible 2nd round talent who would slip because he had a 1 year obligation, so we took him in the 7th round.
he is a super good guy type too, always good to have guys like that around.
anyhow, if we kept him we would have spent 1 and perhaps 2 less draft picks on DEs who can't even really play on our left side.
althoug bryce himself would be a solid starter and nothing more, he would have given us 2 more shots at some quality linemen for the other side of the ball, or perhaps more DTs if we were to spend those picks on the D line.
i always liked him and was just reminded of him because he was on the NFL network
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turned out to be a solid NFL starting end, did well in STL and is doing well in seattle.
7th round pick.
why did we let him go?
oh, that's right.
TD.
we have let too much talent go in the past 5 years, we are like the raptors
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the biggest problem with our D is come the second half every team we play knows exactly what we are doing and where we will be.
our secondray is not perfect, but in many cases it is set up to fail
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By the way, sounds like you're blissfully unaware of all the people out there who are ridiculously dumb yet fabulously wealthy for some reason.
Your equation of smarts with wealth is dubious at best.
If it were the case then the whole concept of education would be worthless -- the best and brightest would NEVER agree to a career that pays as poorly as education, because smart people = rich. At the same time, we'd be educated entirely by a crop of dopes. Not the case.
Many people are just satisfied with a station in life, whether it's laying tile or managing a staff of hundreds, or teaching a kid to read for around $30K a year. Your equations don't add up.
read my post before flashing your good guy badge.
i said MORE LIKELY.
poor households are more likely to have dumb people. wealthier house holds (wealthier than low income/poor anyhow) are more likely to have more smart people.
i did not state smart = rich.
and the best and brightest DON'T go into education.
have you seen how horrible many schools in north america are, particularly compared to those in europe and asia?
do you think this all just inspite of how smart and dedicated teachers accross the nation are?
teachers aren't parents or miracle workers. they are civil servants who administer lesson curricula to children and young adults.
it certainly doesn't take the best and brightest to teach children, but a poorly organized badly executed government boondoggle educatino of an education system can certainly make meaningful education impossible.
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To answer your question, a person who doesn't want Sherman is not too impressed with his postseason record, thinks he inherited a playoff-caliber team (or at the very leat, the best QB in the game), and won many of his games beating up on the Detroits and Chicagos of the world.
I'm not one of those people, though.
i feel that way.
that isn't to say i don't want sherman, i just think hazz would be a better fit.
i think a tough strong head coach will be tempered by marv and will get this team to play.
i think the personel moves of NO while hazz was there were terrible and inspite of this NO was a competitve team in a VERY tough division. (i see last year as a throw away).
hazz did win coach of the year and did get NO to its only ever play off win.
throw in his passion for buffalo and the bills and i think you have a guy who can be our cowher, but with more creativitiy.
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I agree.
It really starts early.
Did you know that verbal/linguistic studies exist for babies and children living in different homes across the social-econmonic spectrum. The results were astounding.
Where babies and children in low-income, working poor household were exposed to 3/4 less words per day than would a child in a high-income, professional background household.
low income households are more likely to be filled with dumb slow ignorant people.
it is not a politically correct thing to say, but most smart people find a way to not be low income and most dumb people are low income because they just aren't good enough to make more.
tire factories need workers and mcdonalds needs people to mop the floor.
attempting to meaningfully educate all these people together is insane.
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That is always a problem for the "free market fixes all" crowd. Free markets chase profits and if a compelling need carries no profits, it will not be filled by a free market. On the other hand, the absence of a free market can lead to even worse problems. That is the fault line upon which policy alternatives precariously must perch. Balancing a free market so that these companies flourish while at the same time finding a way to steer some of their resources into less profitable endeavors is one approach that could work.
nonsense.
i don't know much about you, but i gather from your posts you don't understand economics at all.
under a free market, without government subsidy or protection, you have competition.
while it MAY be true that a given pharma won't want to sell a cure for a disease that it thinks it will make more money off of just treating rather than curing, don't you think their competition might have just a touch of incentive to sell the cure and make some money while taking market share from their competitor?
you make the mistake most (economic) socialists make, you are assuming that free market means "corporations are in control".
corporations are not government (although they are protected by the government, and would have less protection in a more free market, but that's a whole other ball of wax), they are groups of people with some capital and ideas trying to make money and grow.
the do not (and can not) simply conspire to maximize their own collective profits at the expense of all the good men and women living under their despotic heel. they are at the mercy of the buying public, and of each other.
even if some corporations schemed to collude and eliminate competition (in other words act something like a labour union) there is huge incentive to cheat (ever heard of a prisoner's dilema?) and groups outside of the cartel will look at the protectionist ring as something to eat.
so no, you don't think corporations left unfettered will hold back cures for diseases (since they can't), you just FEEL it emotionaly.
and it is wrong.
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i don't like sapp, but that hit was clean and sherman is a girlyman for crying about it.
how much do you want to bet that that o lineman (like all of them) has made a few dirty hits in his life?
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how'd you guys feel about throw backs full time?
i'd dig it myself
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Drugs certainly are very expensive to develop and most new drugs never make it to market - they fail along the way. With all the trial and error of finding a target and then ensuring that the drug is safe enough for human use, you're talking tremendous R&D costs.
That said, I just a saw a Frontline story on pharma. Did you know that R&D accounts for 13% of revenues for the average pharma company? By contrast, drug sales and marketing accounts for 16% of revenues - they actually spend more money selling their drugs than they do developing them.
The truth is, as a business the drug companies want to come up with the drugs that will sell best. They want to sell Lipitor to millions of people who want to reduce their cholesterol rather than create a drug that can stop liver failure but is only used by a few thousand times a year. They end up creating Celebrex for arthritis when there's no proof that it works any better than OTC ibuprofin in treating arthritis pain.
I'm not bashing the pharma companies for running a business, but you have to wonder how a free market economy governs the development of drugs for the good of society.
getting through the FDA costs much more than R&D.
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the biggest thing to me is the coaching.
the teams that make the play offs have kick ass coaches.
i really don't think mularky or our old batch of goofs had a snowballs chance in hell of winning a playoff game
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brown, pat williams, prelou (however you spell it), antoine, jonas, bledsoe, price, reimersma, centers
all those guys were cast off as donahoe moves.
some of them were better than others, but the big ting is they all got ditched without proper replacements.
he did an ok job replacing some guys, but he seems out of touch with what players to retain
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ben roth makes plays happen by avoiding the rush.
manning is a pure pocket passer, he will kill you if you make an early mistake, but doesn't seem to be able to wiggle out of a blitz to extend a play that well.
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didn't campbell do some things for us last year?
the biggest problem with our entire ex coaching staff is they just picked plays as if they were playing madden (badly at that).
nothing was ever run to set up other plays or to wear down the opponents.
we never showed them one tendency and got them when the bit.
these guys just sucked
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no bently or hutch?
what about FAs from the jests?
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pit also dumbed down the passing game for ben his first year.
we have had a dumb ass bunch of HORRIBLE offensive coached who have had zero sucess but still think they have to throw the kitchen sink at every game.
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I know they mention "socialized" Belgium and their vouchers.
Is there a large "underclass" in Belgium?
Vouchers would raise the bar. What happens to the students that miss that bar can't find room with the quality institutions. Now these marginalized students are in an even worse situation than exists today.
Can the system handle the physical contraints that vouchers bring with "reshuffling" of students?
the "underclass" in america can easily live better than the below average european.
all the need is a job.
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as good as they have been the pats are a very DIRTY team.
they hold chip and block low all the time on O.
on D it is frickin horrible, they play physically but do so much clutching and grabbing and late hitting it makes me sick.
seymore is a great lineman, but he leads with his head, twists at the knees and hits qbs late all the damn time.
dirty dirty team, i love watching them lose
Does anyone feel they know what we got in JP?
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he has a higher level of qb talent (wheels and deep ball arm, ability to scramble, ability to throw on the run, has thrown some very difficult passes with high accuracy) than many of the young qbs playing well today.
his problem is that he is green and gets dejected when he plays poorly.
he needs to learn to bounce back from an INT and come out gunning.
the thing is, our whole team was like that. MM and his loser crew moped and gave in at the first signs of a challange.
i remember after the denver game they asked him when the game turned, he said after that tipped pass for the TD. THAT WAS THE BRONCOS FIRST TD!!
so, jp might be a guy who gets beat too easy, but i think at this point we can assume that was a team thing and he can be re tooled