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I agree completely with this. There are certain players that I wouldn't mind taking at 9 and Matthews and Robinson are certainly 2 of them. Yes I would love a trade down with Dallas! 17 isn't too far down to still get great talent and it would net us their 1st and 2nd. Which would give us 17, 41 , and 47. At 9 I would be happy with: Robinson, Matthews, Mack, Watkins, Clowney (pipe dream) In a trade down I would be happy with: Ebron, Mosley, Maybe Lee, Benjamin, or Lewan Guys I want to stay away from in this draft: Evans and Barr - both are my candidates for high draft picks that will be busts this year.

As do I and yes they clearly do. I hope I have not come off as hateful as that is most definitely not my intention. As I stated earlier there is a marked difference between the god presented in the old testament (where leviticus lies) and the god portrayed in the new testament. The god in the old testament was responsible for the exile from eden, the flood and noah's arc, and soddom and gomorrah. The new testament god is one that gave us his only son to wash away all of our sins. The one who said I give you one commandment above all else, love one another as I have loved you. The new testament god is much more how I like to picture him, compassionate, forgiving, and kind. I do not view a vengeful and spiteful being as one that I would follow. One that is compassionate to the point of sacrificing his son for me? That is the guy I can follow. To each their own though. I have no problem with someone disagreeing with homosexuality. Where I have a problem is the condemnation that some bring due to their disagreeing with it. I answered his questions but received no response. Some of his points were soft at best but I still tried to give him a fair shake to have a conversation.

I don't have to be smarter than you to teach you something. I also don't have to be above average intelligence to teach you something. Lastly, I don't have to be above average intelligence to be smarter than you.

Yes I am indeed intolerant of intolerance for intolerance sake. Murder, pedophilia,, the examples you used in your previous post, are things that effect other people. Homosexuality does not effect other people. I definitely agree that Christians interpret the Bible differently and always refrain from any name calling. That said I hate when people use religion in general, but specifically my religion, as a platform to condemn behaviors of others that have no bearing on them. I won't convert you over an internet message board. Your beliefs are your beliefs. I strongly oppose them and will speak up when the situation arises, this happens to be one of those cases as it hits very close to home for me. My Aunt was a god loving woman who sang in the choir every Sunday. During her funeral though my father, who did the eulogy, was not allowed to talk about her being a lesbian or anything to do with people that she loved and cared greatly for simply because they were gay. My interpretation is that we are meant to love one another not judge them based on their sexual orientation or anything else out of their control. Final piece to you is that our beliefs can change. You can change your belief system. Your faith is yours and yours alone nobody can tell you that they are right and you are wrong. I just strongly dislike when people use the name of my faith to preach intolerance.

This is indeed fun. I thought it would just be a mundane day of the off season instead I get to teach someone something... After years of identifying as a lesbian is straight out of your quote. That does not mean she was a lesbian it was just what she identified with because at the time she had a romantic relationship with a woman. Now she is in a romantic relationship with a man. That to me says that she is a bisexual. You know what else though? It says nothing to me about her character or who she is as a person. Was she an attention seeker or self destructive (to pinpoint your examples later in your post) and then decided she was through with all of that so it was time to "straighten up." Did she recover from her gay addiction? Your examples are certainly strange choices. Also you "stupid things comment" kind of got to me. Is being gay a stupid thing to do? If your answer is yes then that is indeed how you know that you carry a prejudice towards gay people. You actually care about what people choose to do behind closed doors with a consensual adult. So you cited one example of someone who decided to be in a heterosexual relationship as the whole premise of your argument. What happens if the marriage dissolves and she begins dating a woman? Does she then became a lesbian again? Sexuality is not the black and white picture you are trying to paint here...

Yeah I got to thinking about this so I did some digging Past Winners: Jarvis Jones 1st round 17th Morris Claiborne 1st round 6th Patrick Peterson 1st round th Rolando McCLain 1st round 8th Eric Berry 1st round 5th Glen Dorsey 1st round 5th Patrick Willis 1st round 11th DeMeco Ryans 2nd round 33rd David Pollack 1st round 17th Chad Lavalais 5th round 142 overall So the last 7 players have all gone in the first round. Sam was rated 3rd-4th round before this so it will certainly be interesting to see what happens from here.

I think if you searched youtube for some of his bits you'd be surprised. I'll give you a start

I think if the dust settles (Whaley's words for targets) and he is still available then the Bills may try to bring him in. If he signs early it won't be with the Bills. If that happens I doubt it will be an extravagant contract.

I was going to write a response but C Biscuit has me covered.... Cocaine and Marijuana are not at all on the same level.

Where in the world did you get that I don't believe in the judicial system? I AM a Christian and come down off of your cross buddy we are far from the least tolerated group. When do you get called any names for being a Christian? When are you denied marriage because you are a Christian? When are you denied visiting rights in a hospital because the state you are in doesn't allow you to be married so you aren't family? What groups are dedicated to the point of holding rallies against Christians? Next you are going to tell me the white man is the least tolerated group right? I quoted the Bible as saying judge not lest ye be judged. You know the same book that people like to quote to say that laying with another man like a woman is an abomination. So which is it? Do we listen to the Bible or don't we? Do we follow what it says or don't we? You can't have it both ways. Although reading your signature it appears that you feel you can....

1)That one ref! He has been at the dome at least 3 times this year and every time calls have favored the other team. I pointed him out early on to the people I was at the game with and said here we go... 2) Early reports are that he may or may not play. I agree it will be a huge loss but have learned to never doubt this team. 3) Fair played extremely well. Grant continues to be an absolute beast and Rak really impressed me. At one point in time Roberson, Gbinije, Grant, Cooney, and Ennis were on the floor. They actually held their own for the few minutes it happened. Roberson put forth a lot of effort last night. It caused him to make a few mistakes but I was happy to see him continue to try and assert himself. 4) I've noticed this as well and almost think it may be by design. Neither Cooney or Ennis are the fastest guys in the gym and it seems like Cuse is very happy to grind out every possession. I don't know if it needs to be fixed as I don't think Boeheim wants any track meets with this team.

Be on time?

"used to be a lesbian" So she is bisexual and has had both gay and straight relationships? Did she choose to be bisexual? What real world observations? You pointed out a person who is bisexual and mislabeled herself as a lesbian? Why would people choose to be gay? Seriously give me one good honest reason. Please! I have never understood this argument. Again lesbian/bisexual. It would be interesting to see a survey to see if you could find anyone that openly would admit they chose being gay. Not bisexual but gay. I have several gay friends, family members, etc... All of them have told stories of knowing very early on that they were attracted to the same sex. My aunt changed my views on this entirely when she told me that she had a crush on the cute girl in kindergarten! So I am left to wonder bbb and John in Jax how many people have you talked to about this. How many people (can you find even one) have told you they chose to be gay? Intolerance or ignorance. I am a catholic and have never understood the whole stance of the bible being against gay people. The new testament is much more open to acceptance while the old testament shows a much more judgemental and vengeful god. So leviticus says it is an abomination? What about "Do not oppress your neighbor" (leviticus) or how about "Do not hate in your heart" (also leviticus). What about " A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." (John) The best one though is "Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (Romans). So there you have one quote against homosexuality and several that are accepting of people (including everyone yes even gay people ). That is the great thing about the Bible it is open for everyone to interpret in their own way. I will leave you with one last new testament verse from Matthew (you know the GOSPEL) "judge not lest ye be judged"

Didn't post last time I tried... Keita is on the bench in his warmups. Has been flexing and stretching the knee. He has also bee up and down on it so hopefully it isn't too bad.

What are they saying the Keita injury is? I saw him leaving the court and limp down the tunnels but have no idea the severity or anything. He didn't come back out for second half warmups either.

Roberson Patterson Johnson I would imagine. Just a guess though as I've never heard the nickname before.

What recruit is at today's game?

I have never been in the can't give him too much credit (or blame) because it was Fisher's team camp. I think the DC gets the majority of credit and or blame. Look at Pettine. He came in and rapidly improved over 2 previous coordinators. It was indeed 2 different head coaches but they were both offensive guys. It will be interesting to see what happens for sure and we don't know what he will run. We can make educated guesses based on previous history which is what I think scottlaw was doing I just don't know if we can use the numbers from when he was a HC to reflect what he will do as a DC. As for the one extra blitz per drive how are you computing that stat? To me it would be 1 extra blitz every 10 plays which doesn't seem like that big of a difference. Add the fact that Schwartz's d usually perform better than Pettine's d when it comes to run defense and I would be willing to make that tradeoff.

Yeah I am never surprised by a person in authority abusing their power. On the flip side though once you become noticed by an authority figure they will be watching you more closely than anyone else. As I said earlier this is a huge non-story to me. She touched the security guard and got kicked out. He may have been rude but he didn't remove her until she crossed that line.

Can the Lions stats be used when talking about Schwartz though? Cunningham by the accounts I have seen designed and called the plays. Add in the face that it appears the Bills were blitzing 29% to the stated 20% and the difference isn't too huge.

How do you pull the bolded out of what is now going on. It clearly appears that bullying isn't what was happening in this situation and it was blown out of proportion by the media. Also many players backed Incognito in the immediate aftermath of this. Maybe he had grown up, or maybe he is a good leader (lots of leaders aren't nice guys - think Patton), or maybe they respected his fire. They're are still a lot of facts and details to come out of this but it sure appears that many used their previous thoughts of RI and instantly believed the narrative.

I work with a woman who's daughter sat right behind this woman. Said she was annoying the whole game and there were several comments to that effect below the story. Then again she is a Duke fan and coworkers daughter is a cuse fan so there is that. Who honestly cares though? This is a complete non-story. She touched the freaking security guard! I don't care what the reason was for it but that is grounds for immediate dismissal from the game. There was about 20 seconds left too. I had to laugh at her shirt choice too: I love D edit: I want to add that the whole reason I knew about it was because the coworkers daughter thought she left before the end of the game. She didn't realize that she got kicked out and was complaining about the publicity this fan was receiving even though she left early. Would lead me to believe that it wasn't as big a scene as the story makes it out to be...

I have to disagree with the student section comment. I was at the game myself and the student section was filled as usual. Also they have several new chants that I hadn't seen before. They now do a car alarm cheer during opponents free throws which was pretty funny. They were also much more coordinated than I have ever seen them. The crowd was very into it early especially when coney caught fire. The malaise set in for the middle part of the game all the way until about the 6-8 minute mark of the second half. That is when the crowd got back into as nd had closed the gap and was making their final push. The team definitely had a let down type effort but cooney carried them through. At half it was cooney 17 and nd 18. Early in the second he tied it 20-20! He was a one man wrecking crew last night. Which was a very good thing as the rest f the team (except Ennis seriously kid continues to be clutch) had a hard time finding any energy. A ton of in characteristic turnovers last night. They get a long week to rest before Sunday and that seems to be just what the doctor ordered.

Well you asked if there was a Calvin Johnson in this draft so I responded with wr candidates. There are holes on this team that can be addressed with the first round pick that will make the team better immediately. That is why another first on a qb would be a waste. 3rd or later? I'm on board with. The first couple picks at least should be made with giving the team the best chance to improve next year. Passing up elite talent for the 4th best qb most certainly would mess that up imo.

Coooooooney!