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Luck was touted as the best QB prospect since Elway, not the best prospect in history. Regarding the Gretzky comparison, would Luck and the Colts look better if he had five additional HOF players on the squad like Gretzky did? As well as a HOF coach?

How long will it be before Reinhart takes Pommer’s place again? This isn’t any run of the mill streak. Winnipeg and Minny are tough outs in their own barns and coming out with four points is amazing. Best teams in the league don’t do that. Nice. I was greedy after last night since we already got four points so we were playing with house money. Now I want all eight in the Burgh on Monday.

Sweet! I don’t think much of Housley, but I gotta give him credit for having these guys believing in themselves. And Dahlin! This may have been his coming out party. He was dominant. Several negatives, but screw it. I’m gonna bask.

I was gonna say that’s Tony Dow as Wally.

It just doesn’t seem possible that we outshot them 28-14 after the first period and shot attempts were 56 apiece. Just...strange. Perhaps it was because the Jets swarmed for longer stretches and had more quality chances? Great win. Most of us were gonna be happy with four out of the eight points over the four game stretch starting with Tampa. We are there already. Time to get greedy. Gonna be a tough road to hoe in Minny on the second of a back to back, especially while traveling late after an extended shootout the night before, but I think this team maybe doesn’t know better.

Christ, that’s an embarrassing effort. Seems to have no concept of the importance of running all routes full out and the impact that has on both the current play being run as well as later in games. He just makes it far too easy on the defense. Just not a competitor. Can’t be off my favorite team soon enough.

Steelers are gonna pay them back in spades to avenge the loss in the AFC Divisonal playoffs last season.

Good point about adding more size as the Peg do have some bigger players. But in today's league, speed kills and I'd rather have Erod's speed in the lineup and Berglund back on that effective fourth line with Larsson and Girgs. Hopefully, Housley will make a fool of me.

Could be. But Larsson has been a surprise and has solidified a solid fourth line (before Housley took Berglund off it) and he’s a good penalty killer. I think all the competition lit a fire under him. The player who hasn’t earned anything so far is Thompson. He’s a liability on the fourth line (hello Berglund) and certainly doesn’t generate offense like Erod. I just don’t understand Housley at times. He tinkers just for the sake of tinkering it seems to me. I happened to catch Hamilton’s report this morning on WGR and the way he described practice is concerning. Elie as an 8th dman on a pair with Nelson? Erod just leaning on his stick off to the side for most of the practice? He said he’s observed this routinely and asked the question, how does it benefit Elie or Thompson (when he’s a scratch) to be defensemen in practice? Why would you have Erod not participating in anything but drills? I hope Botterill has Quenneville on speed dial.

Housley just can’t help himself. The second line listed above has the makings of a disaster; slow, slower, slowest. Please prove me wrong, Phil. What did Rodriguez do to piss off the coach, anyway? Makes no sense to me to remove a player that can skate and generate offense.

Thanks for posting this. Glenn Campbell also has a seat at the table of guitar immortals. One of the most requested studio artists of all time and that was before got famous as a solo artist. Nothing he couldn’t play. One of the greatest renditions of “Malaguena” ever. Just...amazing.

More than a fair point and I'd probably get to the point of forgiveness eventually. The length of time it takes is probably proportional to the level of egregiousness of the act and that douche nozzle went way across the line.

One of the finest guitar virtuosos to ever pick a string. RIP.

In his prime but still having committed his gutless act on Tre White? Nope. Not for me. I'd have to stand on the principle of the matter. Still wouldn't want him anywhere near my favorite team.

Yeah, you’re right. Perhaps I’m being a little hard on the gutless wonder. NOT! You’re right above Belichick and he would laugh all the way to the draft board after fleecing us, too. But if our front office so much as considered making a deal to acquire that flaming Ahole, I’d have to give up my fandom.

I wouldn’t sign that puss bag if he offered to play here for free. Gronk is dead to me as a player. ZERO respect.

You know, Dr. Freud, sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar.

More like an injury threat with deep problems.

Barkley was viewed as a potential top 10 in his junior year. Then reality set in during his senior year and he wasn’t viewed as a top 10 pick by anyone.

Ohio is saying, "You ain't clinching anything on our home field. Not tonight." It'll be interesting to see if they can carry that emotion the whole game. If UB can get a score or two and Ohio starts to think about, that all that emotion can start to weigh them down. Hard to get it back.

I don't know, Promo. It's not the officials handing these guys their collective *****.

Can't. Stop. The. Run.

Makings of a barn burner early on. Ohio doing their best impression of Army running the ball.

It's not the same reasoning at all. We are conflating the issue here. Just because Peterman wasn't able to seize his opportunity doesn't mean we don't understand that he needed more development time. That's rather obvious. But Peterman doesn't need the Dibiase's of the world trying to say that poor Nathan Peterman never had a chance when he was given the chance. Peterman prepared his entire career for that "chance"; a chance that any QB prospect worth his salt would want. Was Peterman being denied "proper" support when he won the job last preseason? Should he have told the coaches he wasn't ready? Of course not. But as good as he was in practice and preseason games, the real game situations were too big for him. Shame on the coaches for being fooled by those practice and preseason game performances, but Peterman's Jekyl and Hyde performance is on him, too. Peterman was not the first and he won't be the last QB to fail when given the opportunity. Could he have used more time and seasoning to become a better QB? Absolutely. But that's a different argument.

That may not be Dibiase's intent, but the intent doesn't matter. That's exactly how it reads. Like I said, the idea that Peterman was put in a position he "never should have been put in" is preposterous and the idea that, as a grown man who has spent his athletic life preparing for just such an opportunity should be coddled because he wasn't "ready for it" is an even bigger insult to Peterman. And coaches; smart, dumb, or in between do dumb things (in hindsight) all the time. In trying to give his struggling team a spark and a rallying point after another flat offensive performance, he tried something and it failed miserably. That's on McD. You know what's not on McD? Observing that Peterman was his best QB in camp and preseason who clearly won the job. It's on Peterman, and Peterman alone, for not being able to translate practice performance into game performance. He simply wasn't up for the task. It happens; that's as far as it goes. Dibiase et al should try to understand that instead of tossing out the idea that Peterman didn't have a "proper" opportunity. It rings hollow and doesn't serve Nathan Peterman one bit.