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You'd think X-Men would be an incredible film but it dangerously looks like the Ocean's 30 of Superheroes. Way too many characters. Although we've already figured out how to beat Godzilla with gigantic robots, this movie looks well done. We haven't had a good disaster movie in a very, very long time.

I don't know how we can say that without a single 2014 down played. If we're talking about schemes, I'd argue the Tampa/2 is considerably more antiquated than the 4-3. You can do lots of things with a 4-3. You need almost perfect players for perfect roles in a Tampa/2.

I thought NASA was working on Battlestars. It's appaling that we were last on the moon 42 years ago and haven't been back since but...we're still confidentally talking about Mars. The Apollo missions were the high watermark of the US Space program. Yes, we have shuttles and telescopes and space stations but that's all low earth orbit stuff.

+1. Perfectly stated.

Donald Sterling is a weird, elderly cat and I think we're all taking what he says to an extreme it doesn't deserve. It just seems we as a society like to get bent out of shape as a form of exercise anymore. Oooh, an 80 year old man with racist comments...haven't seen that before ever.

I get an increasing suspicion of the Bills being involved in a 1987/Biscuit type of trade this year. Lots of smoke from various directions on CJ and SJ, lots of running backs in on visits, and they are two players that could plausibly be dealt in a big trade.

I have an uneasy feeling he will have a career year and then we won't resign him, regardless. I like some other fans get the impression that the coaching staff is looking at a different style of running back post FJ. Speaking of which, it's going to be a really sad day Fred Jackson retires.

NFLN but only for Mayock. It'd be great if it were just him and a fan of the team that was on the clock having some chit chat. Both ESPN and NFLN have a problem with two many guys trying to get their $.02 and shouting it too so it all comes off as a bad impression of 1980s WWF backstage interviews.

Thinking about it, I don't think the Eagles released Jackson because of his ties to Los Angeles gangs. The Patriots haven't suffered terribly from the Hernandez implosion. They cut him immediately and that was that. I think his release shows you how committed Jeffrey Lurie is to Chip Kelly and how impatient Lurie can be with diva-like personalities.

I hope the Bills want absolutely nothing to do with this guy. I see the Eagles exiting the enclosed space before the grenade goes off. There is something very foreboding when a player of his talent is released. Not traded, but outright released.

It's important to note it's a column and not an article. Although I think his opinion is tasteless, ill-timed and faulty, I suppose he got the ok to print the drivel from an editor bad at editing.

It's only underwhelming because it's an unknown. If the Byrd "replacement" ends up being a first ballot Hall of Fame safety and plays 10 years of Pro Bowl level football for the Bills, then it appears "better".

Interesting post. Yet another good analysis one here. You can pay a safety what New Orleans did. But it doesn't mean you necessarily should.

I've been fascinated at how the Bills are always attached to Mike Vick with no easily understood reason as to why they would be. It's like Jack and the Island in Lost.

+1. I've thought Arizona would make sense.

Great decision.

GENERIC. I'm convinced all the great uniform designers have long retired. It's unemployed guys in basements with Photoshop for a few years now.

I'm afraid if the United States leaves the invasion of Ukraine unpunished, it will embolden China to try Taiwan, embolden Putin to continue annexing former Soviet territories and give the Iranians enough confidence not only to develop a nuclear weapon, but put it on top of a shiny missile. You mix all that ugliness with a weaker United States and a global recession, that's a recipe for a World War. This is one of those nip it in the bud events. FWIW, I don't think Putin would go to war over Ukraine if push came to shove. Even a limited engagement with the US would kill the global economy and namely the golden goose of Gazprom. I think he's merely trading on his calculation that Obama goes weak in the knees when action is required. If say Reagan, Bush or Clinton were in office, this would have never happened. Reagan would blockade, Bush would invade something, and Clinton would have carpeted the area with cruise missiles for three weeks.

I'd or whatever novelty they have announcing the pick run (in full out Price is Right dash) to the podium to pick this guy.

"Crockett Gillmore". That's an awesome name. My pick: Lamin Barrow, LSU linebacker. He will be a late round pick by somebody but I think he could develop into a solid backer.

I think plenty of men in the Dolphins organization lost their jobs this morning with the release of this report. The Dolphins as a corporation lost control of said organization and people get fired for that. While Incognito and Martin are surely discarded, I wouldn't be surprised to see the entire coaching staff, Philbin included, cut, at this juncture. No matter the timing, the NFL will demand action.

That diner scene with Art, Steve the Pirate, Picker and Wynn Duffy is some of the best tv I've seen. Easily one of the top 5 scenes of the series. As a viewer you really had no idea how that was going to go down.

This is like picking between your wife of a year and her attractive friend who happens to cook and bake pretty good.

Even at 48 pages, this thread isn't even close to rivaling the classic Mario Williams or George Seifert threads. The hysteria (that I admit gladly partaking in) around Mario Williams was a lot of fun. George hanging out at the airport (or is he?) was hilarious. This Pettine event is just missing something.

What is up with these coaching hires? Don't these teams do *any* research?