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I wasn't overstated 5 months ago. The trouble? 5 months have passed, and much has changed. Some posters/media seem incapable of processing that information. The other problem: people think Roman is a great OC, yet, somehow, also think he is incapable of running every offense there is/was/will be, at the same time. Does anyone really think Roman couldn't run the K-Gun if he wanted? It's like telling a DB designer he can only work in Oracle, because he's used it more often than MySQL or Mongodb. Ridiculous. A good DB designer is good because he's good at DB design, period. Just like you don't blame your tools for bad work, you don't credit them for good work. This roster screams spread O, even West Coast looks. We'll run Karlos up the middle to be sure, but the thinking that this O would be a running monolith was never right, and I've been saying it since Roman arrived.

"Just listening to what the coaches are saying..." Well? What did they say today? Tea Leaves! What else can I say? For me, "there's nothing left to do but smile, smile smile!" Scoreboard: TSW 51 WGR 3

Read the above, clown. I literally handed them the direct solution to every single one of their reqs...for cheap...and they said "they weren't ready for it". They could have deployed my system using discretionary budget, not 100s of millions. They CHOSE FAIL. I have been predicting this since then, because I saw for myself how F'ed things were. QED: This had nothing to do with $/they had plenty of it. This has to do with a bunch of assclowns whose paychecks/titles have an inverse relationship to accontability. The higher you go, the less competence, and more CYA, "but, this will record everything we do" you get(um, yes moron, and you will fail, but also learn, which is how you get better). So, again, standard liberal "throw $ at it" plan is actually worth less than 0 in this instance.

Give us one specific tenet of this deal, that represents the very best way to serve our interests. It can be anything.

I am sorry but I feel compelled to remind all here that in 2006, I told you guys this would happen. Here we are: The Democrats have wasted all their Congressional gains, the presidency is in ruins, and for what? Obamacare? EPA regulations that are gone no matter who gets elected in 2016? Dodd Frank(Gone, same)? Forget this Great Recession. For almost 15 years, this has been the Great Distraction: avoid Tax and Entitlement Reform. IF 9/11 hadn't happened, we'd have done this in 2001-2. Even if ALGORE had won, the mood of the country was to fix/remove/reform the rest of the Great Society/New Deal. All of it got sidetracked by The War on Terror(and, um, that terrorist threat seems awfully real today, doesn't it Micheal Moore? Notice how fatass hasn't said a word in years?). Now? After hauling out every divisive social issue there is, AND, supporting people who openly instigate racial war? It's still not enough: the Ds are going to have to face the music on entitlements, the tax system, and government in general. The more murders/people in the street? The more this looks like Nixon '68. All they have accomplished is to fight a defensive (never ending) campaign. But, the end is coming. They literally have nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide, especially since the same core people who voted for Obamacare...are the same core people who are voting for the Iran "deal". Literally nothing to run on, and nowhere to hide from their votes. They've polarized themselves. All this time? They've been predicting "demographics" forcing the Rs into "regional party" status. In fact? It's the Ds who will be the regional party, since the "demographics" argument only works in highly concentrated D precints.

You do realize that the same people that are being hired to do analytics for terrorism....are of the same ilk as Obamacare designers? Right? I swear on a stack of whatever you require: if the very best this country offered worked on these projects, we'd get it right. And, perhaps amazingly, for you, the very best don't avoid DC because of the lack of $. No. The government consultants I've worked with tell me that once you're in, you're in. It doesn't matter if you've failed 20 times. This attracts the mediocre, not the best. (And in case you're wondering? women/minority owned businesses suck just as bad as white male owned firms...when it comes to government projects. It's just a big pile of suck.) Ask Chef about his super-secret NDA of the Google and Apple programmers....who can't find their ass on a real enterprise project, becuase they only do consumer. Even if he doesn't answer: ultimately they brought in a representative of the real elite in IT, Accenture. Meanwhile, a guy like me, who has(as I've already posted recently) smoked the competition in a GSA bid, and still loses? It's not worth it to us. We're better off dealing with serious people. This is why, if you want things done right, you should support the opposite of whatever the far left says. The opposite means, by definition "doing it right". Please understand: Marrone is right in this case. Effort <> results. If the new POTUS comes out and says "I will support the best bid for bulk collection of data", and actually does that? We WOULD catch the Tangos ahead of time. Don't confuse comptence with incompetence/government enabled. But, also realize that the US government can only hire Accenture et al so many times before it becomes a total ass-raping.

My question is: Is Kim Davis going to have to face any lesbian micro-aggressions while she is in jail? If so, can I watch? See, I don't care if she's good looking, as Family Guy says: "This is about power".

2 summers during college my dad made me work "blue collar jobs" so that "I would know what I'd be doing if I didn't finish". It may surpise, but college was touch and go for me for quite a while. I wasted a lot of time, and $(thankfully not mine, or my family's), not realizing that perspective on a subject is just as important as the content. When that pentrated my skull, class became important, and taking tests, getting Bs, and not showing up for class, ever, became less cool. I wised up. I should have got my MBA, but, like a junior that leaves school early for the draft: when I got my schit together, the $ was there. Given all this wonderful sentiment? I'm highly qualified to tell all of you: "the working man" is often the "punch in at 7am, on time, always...so that we can take the truck 40 minutes away and eat breakfast for an hour" man. He's the "I'm a master welder, plumber, electrician and see this belt buckle? National Champion backhoe guy(no, really, I have seen the buckle), so I do what I want". The hilarious part for people like me, given the balancing act I've done working my job in traditional blue collar industries? "It's not bragging if you can do it" applies just as much to CEOs as it does belt buckle guy. Both of them will talk schit in the bar: it's only a matter of which bar. The bottom line: Everbody who truly believes they are competent has a line. They won't cross it, because doing so makes them incompetent. This is the #1 premise of my methodology: those lines can be all over the place. But, when we start demanding that everybody have the same line? We not only lose liberty, we lose individuality.

ALGORE parrot! That ENTIRE speech is what AlGORE, Inc. said in 2006. Once again, I invite you all to Battery Park next summer. Hopefully we'll play the Giants in pre-season or somesuch. That would be the best. 10 years after ALGORE's dire predictions, we'll all have paper-mache kiaks, and spend the rest of the night trolling people. Also: I'm quite pleased to find that some are actually cracking jokes based on CO2 sensitivty(Azalin). That shows me that we're starting to get down to cases on what this entire thing is truly about. It's a variable that's been treated like a constant: change the value, and all the "settled science" starts performing as advertised. Unfortunately, while scientifically sound, it's a political loser for the "Global Warming" industry. The answer to that question...lies directly in the groundless assertion that follows. Surely you're not dopey enough to not see that. So, I'll ask again: Where is you Global Warming Mendoza line? Are you really so dumb as to not recognize what you bolded as "crimethink"?

The following contains real world, and hopefully concise info(and, you may PM me if you really want me to dig up the paper on this). In 2005, I took my fledgling software to the VA and did a demo for a RFP. Specifically, the req was for VA surveyors(the ineffective equivalent of what some of you know is QA/Compliance people). They had engaged a consultant to help them with their, what I call "tool selection". Tool selection is any real enterprise consultant's bread and butter: you "help" the client buy the right architecture/not be an unmitigated moron, you collect $50-100k for your firm, but, you have no accountability for the decision or implementation of said architecture. NFL consultants can do this after a 10 martini night, an 8-ball, whatever strange snatch was about, and never feel a thing until the plane ride home. It's that F'ing easy, if you are the real deal. I once saw a guy basically sleep through 3 presentations, and still get it right. Why? Because he already knew who the winner was, had already scheduled the demos that way, which is why he ordered me to go find a coke dealer at 1am the night before. If you ever want to know what "Partner" means in consulting? So, here I am, finishing my demo, and the "tool selector" says: "Well, obviously this is the best thing we've seen, and frankly, this is the best thing we're going to see. I'm ready to make my recommendation right now". BUT! The VA guys say "But wait, if we use what you have, that means we are going to record everything we do". (EDIT: Remember, we're talking about the people whose job it is to track what the VA does, and find the trouble. The trackers...don't want to be tracked!) "Yep" was my reply. Then, "But we're not sure if we're ready for that". Anybody who knows my business, knows: time to leave. I realize exactly where I'm at, and there's no point in playing it classy: "People, you've spent the last how many hours and minutes telling everybody how much you suck at your business process, and now...you're telling me you're not ready to stop sucking?" I started packing up. The "tool selector" gave me his card and said "If you're hiring". Anyone who has ever read Updike "The Lucid Eye"? That's why I keep subjecting myself to the idiocy of Heath Care. In 6th grade(EDIT: Come to think of it, it was Mrs. Volkner's class, credit where it is due) I decided to be the opposite of the sales guy uncle. IF the VA had hired "the best thing they'd seen" in 2005? I can only guarantee 1 thing: at the very least we would have caught the problem sooner.

Better question: Does our, unfortunately Obama-driven, inaction mean they will continue to develop a blue-sea navy? Here's how this goes: Big ships cost big $, and take 5 years to build. They aren't going to build them today, with the expectation that they will be useful in 5 years, unless they have darn good reason to believe they can control the trade routes, which aren't "theirs" at all. The trade routes in question were created by both Europe and the Americas when China's "navy" was nothing more than sampans. There is a legend of a single Chinese captain who sailed to the West Coast. But, that's a legend. Meanwhile the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, Russians and USA actually charted and created the "trade routes"; reams of logs show documented evidence of this. Your premise is so silly that it literally requires the Boxer Rebellion to be nonexistant. How did the various powers create the very spheres of influence the "boxers" rebelled against..if not for sailing the trade routes they created to get there, and thus, create their little fiefdoms in the first place? I love it when Democrats try to play intellectual. Shows just how inferior they are when it's time to lay down the cards.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/democratic-sen-ben-cardin-says-he-will-vote-against-the-iran-deal/2015/09/04/53817e4e-5310-11e5-9812-92d5948a40f8_story.html At least give Schumer some credit? He came out against this terrible idea before they had the votes. Or, he's an inside guy, and, he knew before this Maryland dude how this was going to go, so, he could afford to go against it ahead of time. Democrats: do you REALLY think this is about conscience? Or better, Obama can't get elected again: why the F are you STILL sacrificing your entire party on his alter? Either way: the Orthodox guys I know aren't fooled whatsoever. Some of them will be voting R for the first time in their, very long, lives. Joe Lieberman says hello. Once again, the Democratic Party busies itself with creating Neo-Cons...and then tries to stick those of us who have never had anything to do with them, with their monicker? Um, dudes, you are driving Jews away from your party. The PC term for "Jews who suddenly realize the D party are wussies" is Neo-Conservative. Hence, Ari Fleischer, GW Bush's press secretary. A nice Polish boy! As I've said since before I even got here: please don't confuse a Jewish Democrat, who thinks Democrats are weenises when it comes to Israel, with a Libertarian or a Conservative. Neo-Cons are your own creation: own them, and stop blaming everybody else for your failure.

Hey now! This is Greg's league. We can't be throwing "ass pirate" around casually. Greg would probably agree that there is such a thing as an ass pirate, but, it's not the same as "jerk". Ass pirate has very specific connotations/dependencies. It can be ambiguous, but also quite acute. Mark Sanchez? Ass pirate. I mean, they literally call it the "Buttfumble". It's not the "Calffumble", or the "Thighfumble" or the "HamstringFumble". No, Sanchez(Who, let's not forget, lead the Jets to 2 straight AFC championships) was drawn to the butt. You all probably have a friend who turned up gay, but you knew years before: drawn to man's butt! To me? That's the proper use of the term ass pirate. Somebody who has their choice, but ends up in/near the ass, by either force of will or serendipity. I myself had a stretch in Pittsburgh, where, honestly, I was an ass pirate. I pretty much went out of my way to ass blast women. It was a phase. I mean, they were Steelers/Penguins/Ynzers. I reasoned, no really, I reasoned: they deserved it. Spend more than 2 weeks in Pittsburgh? You will come to the same reasoned conclusion. Gay or Straight.

yeah, I um was sorta hoping to let that slide in this thread...got Garcon on waivers. Butt still hurting though. One thing is for sure: My team is a like a Chip Kelly team now. Either I'm a complete idiot, or, a total genius. I will be entertaining trades for Cam Newton when some of your QBs go down for the season...I hope. Also, I think Oakland shocks the schit out of people this year: you heard it first here. Or, you heard it first here that I don't know schit about football, v.2015.

Dammit! Beat me to it by almost a week. That in and of itself is a GIANT BS flag. As somebody who has implemented SAP, been hired by 3 times by 2 different German companies(all denied) and who works with ze Germans right F'ing now(hence, most or my AM posts aren't booze-related, they are tired-related)? The fact that she would get up in front of her own people and ask them for the very opposite thing they are known for, and in many cases admired for, the world over? That's hilarious. Try to have an agrument with a German about whether ARIS or BPMN is a better methodology. Hint: Professor Scheer created ARIS. Leave it to ...lybob. I mean...is there anything he won't say? It's like Hillary/Server. Yappity yap yap yap, your ideas suck and you're full of schit. We've had an object lesson in the failure of EU socialism, at the same time Obama has been trying to push it. The irony is hilarious, yes, but the timing? That's like Jimmy Kimmel vs. (whoever). Obama/Democrats, who have been pushing EU modeling for years, have been completely overtaken by events...in the EU. Learning opportunity? Like you know, when this guy taught Japan about TQM, during the 60s delusions of grandeur/Great Society, when we still had the only not-destroyed factories running, and the Big 3 were dumb, fat and happy? You really think Toyota had a chance in hell, WITHOUT an American calling the plays? That's like me moving to South Carolina, coaching lacrosse, and giving 100% credit to the players. Or, that's like pretending Marrone == Ryan. Ignorance. Next, well, actually Deming and and a few others completely cover #2. The internet is your friend: search for JIT. Hint: The Japanese didn't create it. Henry Ford, by definition of the Assembly Line, created JIT. Once again, the aftermath of WW2 comes into play: Japan, suffering from high unemployment and schit for natural resources, is forced to make small factories and chincy schit. Exactly like Taiwan later on. These extremes demand, not create, a JIT system. But, they didn't teach us a damn thing: we were building 1 aircraft carrier a month at the end of WW2(and also insuring the the health of all those workers en masse, which is where health insurance comes from). Do you honestly believe that was possible without hyper-granular JIT? Speaking of learning? I bet you are learning right F'ing now. When I become retarded(retire) I will go the old folks home for consultants: otherwise known as college professor. Until then? Spare me the "what we learned" crap. I'll be teaching it. GM is one of my past clients. I ran a $40M gig for them(when I was 27). GM's Plan: OVERTIME! Sure, they will pay a janitor $70/hr. But, they will also require them to work 80/hrs per week. Most people do it and then quit. This way: they never have union trouble. What other janitor job is there that pays that? The unions make out, because they get a %, not fixed dues. GM makes out because they are only paying for 1 guy's benefits. Seniority? Seniority in most of GMs labor is now 3-5 years. Why the F do you see guys smoking weed/drinking? Because, it's like the Army: go through hell/work 70 hours a week for 3-5 years, and when it's over, you've got startup $ to do all sorts of stuff. Nobody gives a flying F, and everybody is making out. Remind us all of the last UAW strike? Can you? There is no "career path" for labor at GM. All there is? Do your time, get your $ and GTFO. Learning anything? Um, let's not pretend that pretty much ALL of the learning that goes on in this world is NOT USA-->down. I spend most of my time teaching, not learning. Which actually sucks, but, as I have said many times in this post: the Germans and the Japanese(Just like the French, British, and Spanish before them) don't invent/teach anything. They learn from us, and this has been going on since 1789

China's pollution is both creating and preventing Global Warming, at the same time. All the heat is hiding in the ocean, now specifically, the Indian Ocean, which, is so warm compared to the rest of the ocean, that precise measurement of the hiding heat is near impossible due to the variance...but we know it's in there...somehow. Meanwhile, surface temps of the rest of the ocean remain the same...that is...unless some of the buoys are ignored/F'ed with. Somebody Explain: exactly what hand has the oil and gas industry had in any of the above? Hint: none. You cannot blame the oil and gas industry for the bad behavior and ridiculous "science" of the environtologists. The oil and gas industry isn't making any of these clowns do what they've done. They've done it all by themselves. Thus, trying to put an = sign between them is stupid. IF one group is behaving badly, we don't justify that by pointing the bad behavior of the other group: we hold BOTH accountable. And, I'll ask Baskin again: Why are we trying to explain a "pause" in Global Warming, and saying that "pause" doesn't exist, at the same time?

Time has passed since January. Rather obvious statement, I know, but, how much of the analysis out there, and on here, includes said obvious statement? When Rex got here, and then hired Roman, the QBs on this team were EJ and Tuel. Given that initial situation, what would you say to the media, BESIDES, "we're going to run the ball/get it to our playmakers?" Then, why wouldn't you tell Whaley to go out and get a QB, or 2? One of EJ's worst games was against the Jets. Rex saw it himself. So, Whaley responds and gets Cassel. But, ever since, as has been thoroughly discussed on this board: Things have changed, a lot. Apparently the local media, national media especially, and some fans, either can't or won't refuse to process these two simple concepts: 1. Time has passed since January 2. Things have changed, a lot I believe their bias begins with jumping to the conclusion that wherever things stood in March and April, automagically meant that's where we'll be Week 1. In fact, that's rapidly becoming self-evident. Where will the bias end? Cutting Matt Cassel would certainly shake the schit out of many media people, but also teach them a lesson: you can't cover the Bills the way you have for the last decade. You actually have to pay attention, and think, now. Understand: I'm not blaming the media. Lord knows the years prior to Whaley were enough to desensitize anyone to actually thinking about the team. But, I will blame the media for not recognizing #1 and 2 above, and not acting accordingly.

I just listened to this. The last ling Whaley sounded like was "all-business". His voice sounded sorrowful, like all of us feel today.

Wood.

Also, Jeremy White hiding out in WGR's dumpster for the week.

So far this morning: Coller still digging/trying to cover his own ass. Howard Simon deconstructing his argument. Now? Coller is trying to tell us that Cassel might start because of the classroom. /facepalm

One of many stupid media-driven cliches plauging this team: Rex Ryan/Ground and Pound/Roman is a running game OC. I think we can all agree, just based on what we've seen so far, that Roman is top quality coach. Yeah, he's gotten some good pieces, but how many have played in games? Perhaps the big thing: Roman has 2 guards on this team that weren't here last year. But, does that really account for everything we've seen so far? No. Therefore, if we accept that Roman knows his business, then, does he only know 1 kind of offense? Does anybody believe that Roman couldn't run any kind of offense? Is the Hurry Up, Run and Shoot, Spread, West Coast or any other pass-heavy offense, inconceiveable to Greg Roman? Does anybody truly think he doesn't understand these offenses, or couldn't design and coach them? No. So why must we automatically assume that he's going to "run first", especially with Watkins, Woods, Harvin AND Clay? And, let's not forget that Shady's game isn't Demarco Murray's game: he can go run WR routes just like Fred can, and catching the ball is part of his game, just like Fred's. Is Greg Roman so intransigent that he's going to make Shady, or Fred, act like Murray? No. So what is the basis for the assumption? Roman did a lot of running with Frank Gore in SF. Do we have a Frank Gore on this team? Tyrod said we have only a few Read/Options plays, and that they want him to throw rather than run. Is that the mark of a "Greg Roman Offense" ? Does it seem to ANYBODY that we've been "run first" so far in this preseason? No, No and F'ing No way. We've thrown the ball all over the place. Even Cassel has been throwing more than handing off. Great coaches make their schemes based on the players/talent available. The notion that Greg Roman is incapable of doing that, given what we've seen, never mind doesn't want to do that, is silly. I've been saying since he got hired that he's going to use every tool we have, and that what Rex Ryan said about the Jets has nothing to do with what he's going to do with the Bills. So, please, somebody explain how this "Ground and Pound analysis" isn't merely laziness/ignoring the observed data/cliche(which in and of itself represents the absence of thought)?

Seattle has been kicking asses in the draft for years. Projections? I'd take Seattle's draft board over any clown in the media's. And, there were many posters here who wanted Russel in the third. I'd take the boards of the draft guys we have here over the media's also.

Perhaps this will serve as some last minute evidence to help push the decision our way? Who was the QB for the Chiefs when the Bills beat them 41-7, in Arrowhead? Matt Cassel. Here's the stat line, and, before you say but...but...but he completed 61% of this passes! Listen to this guy. 6 pass plays for negative yards! Yes, 61% of his passes, but 22 passes to get 119 yards? 5.4 yards a pass, in a game where you were behind big from jumpstreet? Therefore: a game where Cassel had to be throwing the entire game, against the Wannstedt defense? And all he gets is 119 yards? With this awful INT, on one of the few passes he threw that were beyond 10 yards? I don't see why we need to re-learn what Chiefs fans already know. They cheered when he got hurt for Pete's sake. Hilarios video: Todd Haley calls Cassel a "Dumbass Quarterback" Todd Haley knows. So does the fan with the headset on. That face/slight chuckle is all we need to know. But wait: There's more! Chargers fans know Matt Cassel sucks Jesus, the entire F'ing internet knows he sucks, including Detroit fans. There's an entire forum devoted to Matt Cassel sucking probably created by Vikings fans These are merely the ones I thought were the funniest. But, my God, does anybody see a pattern here?

You need to get real. Seattle had their "QB plan" in place. Wilson came in and scrapped it. He was supposed to be a development project. Instead, he took the starting job away, based solely on his own play. I don't care how inept a coaching staff is: great players are great players. Which...is why Wilson just got top $. Ask any Chiefs fan: They spent a decade importing coaches, players, and even the GM, from the Patriots, because of the "Patriot Way". They will tell you: it's crap. They stopped doing it, and now? They have a damn good football team. Chiefs fans have told me directly: "There is no Patriot way. The Patriot Way is Tom Brady". "Environment" has nothing to do with it. If we need another example: Drew Brees was released by the Chargers in favor of Phillip Rivers. In the Top 10 for dumbest football move of all time(I will never forget Rivers giving that playoff game away to the Pats**). The Bills tried to get Brees. If he had come here, are you saying that he would have been overcome by "the environment"? Or better: what was "the environment" for QB in NO, before Brees got there? The legacy of Bobby Hebert? Archie Manning? --- Side note: Chiefs fans hope we start Cassle, because they believe we have a scary team, they don't want to see us beat them in the playoffs, and he is a playoff preventing QB(high risk for INTs, low reward). They should know.