murra

This is my favorite post of all-time.

Up by 6. On the road. On your own 30. You pass on 3rd and two. Don't get a completion. 4th and 2. WHO GOES FOR THAT?!?!?!?! What a complete jerk. Guy deserves to lose. Period.

Not to mention Harris. I'm willing to say that a Dick Jauron coached team starts every game with a solid 10-14 point handicap.

Fine. That play isn't impossible. I guarantee Ray Lewis takes him down. That play probably is a good indicator for defining what a solid middle linebacker is. Making a hard, clutch play is something we thought Poz was capable of when we drafted him.

I don't know why you extended this to 6. We only have 3 above average/good players. 1. Byrd - and he's a rookie. which is sad 2. Evans - would be phenomenal on the colts, steelers, patriots, chargers, etc. 3. Jackson - another incorrectly utilized player to add to the decade of debauchery

I'm not justifying the call at all. I'm just saying that it really isn't one of Jauron's worst. At least there was an argument for declining. We had them to 3rd and like 14. 51 yard field goals aren't exactly gimmies. I don't know what I would have done. Our defense vs. Chris Johnson on 3rd down, how do you know they don't easily pick up the ten yards right back?

Dick stands to gain nothing by doing this.

Did you catch third and long three plays earlier? It wasn't the right call, but it was one that maybe half the coaches in the league make there. It's not a typical Jauron blunder where he's the only one ever who would make that decision.

Ever heard of the expression "make a play"? Making excuses for a player who misses a tackle behind the LOS on third and goal in a tie game in the fourth quarter is crazy, imo.

George Wilson is better than Whitner. It's almost indisputable.

duh

Yeah because we lost this game because of T.O.

It's all of the coaching. QB sneak when you've got two good runs to take it to 3rd and a long 1??? Defensive play calls on third and long? Leaving Chris Johnson wide open??? Not calling a timeout at the end of the first half with 55 seconds and a 1 yard loss to Chris Johnson??? Yanking Trent Edwards because you think he'll get hurt??? There are about a million more, and that's just today. His blunders are mounting, and mounting, and his stats are decreasing with hilarity. I actually loathe Dick. He just doesn't show enough intelligence and wherewithal to actually change things when they aren't working.

Or one job. Quite fascinating legislation.

Yeah, he forgot to return his copy of The Notebook on blu-ray to blockbuster.

hahaha

Haha wtf?

Chill? I don't remember shouting at you or anything? It sounds like you took that one to heart, I'm sorry, I know how sensitive you guys can be.

My assertion was that we are far from a true democracy. I said that we can only return to it when your fallacy becomes accepted as such. Read it again. And I don't want to get into how wrong you are about Capitalism and Socialism, but I think you should note that OUR capitalism isn't pure capitalism. OUR capitalism has a little socialism instilled in it naturally, as we refrain from the laissez-faire theory. If government intervention was restricted, and we had a pure capitalist economy, it wouldn't need socialism at all. On the other hand Socialism sort of thrives on not allowing its public to demand inequality, and thus capitalism is sort of a paradox there. It never moves back and forth, we just messed up in creating a Capitalist economy that allows the government to pick and chose.

Homey, it was my point. How could you say what the point was? The point was about ideals. It had nothing to do with striving for the past. You need to think beyond the hip and cool Democrat platform to see that change is not always good. And if you think I'm learning about basic American history my last year of an undergraduate program then you're probably more of a moron than I ever thought before. And don't try and talk down to me again, you have already shown us that your intelligence (and arrogance for that matter) is not at a level where you can brandish insults based on age. Edit: And Weren't you the one who once tried to counter an argument with me by making fun of "Swingers"? Didn't you explain that you were only a few years older than me?

You do realize that is the number one fallacy in the relationship between citizens and their government? The very second this myth becomes widely debunked, is the second you start to see a form back to real democracy.

That's not the point at all. It's about ideologies. Not returning to some crappy era dominated by stagnant foreign policy. Eisenhower's America didn't long for the 1890's because the 1890's saw a heavily different political movement run by party machines.

We literally can't. The New Deal politics brought too much pork barreling in around that time. It changed the political agenda of the United States, and we've since become a world power. Taxes no longer means a method for providing government with funds to provide basic security. Taxes now stands for collecting money for the greater good of society.

But you're talking about pre-WWII United States... The United States that ran on ideals, and a sense of community...

Once???!!