Alaska Darin

HUGE first down.

You'll have to forgive me. I've been watching Mike Mularkey, Gregg Williams, and Dick Jauron. They tend to not use their TOs very wisely.

No kidding. Dierdorf.

That was an INCREDIBLE punt.

Belichick is friggin' smart. Conserving time with the wind.

I see the officials are already in playoff form.

Credit Jay Cutler for not throwing a more accurate 4th down pass and Mike Shanahan for some very questionable play calling. The BILLS defense was positively horrible in that game.

There's nothing wrong with the NFL playoffs the way they are. Your "solution" means winning your division/having the best record in the conference doesn't have much meaning. No thanks.

That's not how the process works, at all. The reason for the majority of cost overruns is the government changing the requirements during every phase, which generally means COMPLETE re-engineering because minor changes usually mean ripple affect on many other components/processes. It's really easy to sit back and Monday Morning QB these things but it's a VERY complex endeavor that most people simply cannot comprehend. Fixed price contracts wouldn't fix much of anything, though I guess in the short run it would mean less money being spent - but in the long term I'd bet it'd cost much more.

Define safely. I've been outside in 60 below. It's not much fun.

I'll be absolutely stunned if the BILLS manage to even keep this game remotely close. I fully expect to get blown the !@#$ out, while watching my "team" treat the Patriots with nothing but the respect normally reserved for royalty.

1970 Chevelle SS LS-6 454 or a Buick GS455 - if it has to be from that era. Otherwise I'd gladly take the new Corvette ZR1 - perhaps the greatest muscle car ever built. We are truly in the golden era of gasoline cars, both style and performance wise.

Who cares if they pass more regulation? The government can't enforce much of what it has passed because it concentrates far to heavily on things it shouldn't be responsible for, which is the reason that things IT IS responsible for end up the way they do.

I look forward to more "programs" like the ones that gave poor people the opportunity to buy houses they couldn't afford with money they'd never have, leading to incredible market inflation and the near ruin of the entire country. You partisan parrots are just never going to get it.

Plugs for everyone!

Last time I checked, you were a FNG and I could give a flying sh-- about your opinion.

Typical hippies. Don't want salt to leech into a salt water estuary? Love the "We're going to clear the roads enough for only the environment killing SUVs to pass" mentality. That's awesome.

They had a bubble.

There's no such thing as "free" money. I'm sorry you don't live in a state where the politicians actually did something smart by keeping the resource rights for the citizenry. It's not surprising at all that you "think" this is somehow a bad thing. And you're damn right I'm against assisting the automakers with BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars. They've had decades to fix what is wrong with them but have instead continued to do exactly the same things that got them started down the path in the first place. Giving them "free" money isn't likely to change their fundamentals.

Really? So the oil companies or their proxies don't patent innovation (or buy patents) and then sit on it them? You're lying to yourself if you think that the oil companies and Detroit haven't been in bed together for years, with significant help from the 'Ol boys network in D.C.

I'm glad I haven't been predicting this downfall for nearly a decade on this board. The current "bailout" is only going to expedite the demise. There will be TRILLIONS of dollars given away with zero oversight. It makes the fervor over the "Bridges to Nowhere" look absolutely assinine. Right now, our government is acting EXACTLY like a third world dictatorship - giving politicians the ability to "bail out" corrupt entities with taxpayer money they don't actually have. This is not a result of the "Bush Administration", nor will "Change We Need" do anything contrary. You partisans are getting what you've been voting for for half a century. Keep marching.

Don't be so hard on yourself. You're not at all shallow.

The biggest diffences between the 2 are at Center and QB. Favre makes them look better than they are but Mangold is a stud. I'm still not over the fact that we passed on him for friggin' McCargo. There's a reason the Jets went from suckitude to division contenders and the Packers went from the NFC Championship game to outta the playoff race over the offseason and it's not TALENT.

Nice strawman. You don't even realize you're proving my point. Which is an example of what, exactly?

The Jets are Brett Favre away from 6-10.