R. Rich

Here's the information you'll need to sign up for the Yahoo! leagues that I set up. R. Rich’s Buffalo Bills League ID#: 270152 Password: BB06TBD TBD2 ID#: 270189 Password: OLDSENILEMEN2006 Both leagues still have openings as of now.

You should check the league website, Anthony. The answers to most of your questions can be found there. One team has already been replaced. They inherit the same roster and make their keepers based on that (which they've already done). The fee is the same as last season and the information on how/when to send it can also be found in the forums on our league website.

You mean this ain't Rome?

Good question, Dibs. Good question indeed.

As much as I like a nice outdoor jazz festival, especially for the way many artists gladly donate their time to show up there (as opposed to the diva-ish ways of many popular recording acts), I am and always will be a fan of acoustic jazz indoors. I love going to see a nice jazz trio or quartet in some small club (there was a great in house trio I saw once in Springfield Mass that was awesome!). The acoustics sound so much better that way, @ least to me they do.

If you like both Bird and 'Round Midnight, you should check out the documentary Clint Eastwood (Bird's director) did on Thelonious Monk called "Straight, No Chaser" which is the title of one of Monk's most famous songs.

Nice post. Kind of Blue is a classic, to be sure. Coletrane and Bird also have many classics as well. Here's my addition to the list: anything by the guy who had a strong influence on Miles Davis and is considered one of the all time greats of jazz. A guy who I fully intend to see in concert the end of this year when he makes his way to DC. His name is Ahmad Jamal.

I've been wondering that myself for about 6 years now.

Well, if we would've taken Bunkley w/ the 8th pick, the Iggles wouldn't have taken Justice @ 39, leaving him there for us 3 picks later. Maybe that's what he meant? Or, maybe he subscribes to the "first round pick is the entire draft" way of thinking?

Some of us like KISS' music. Some of us buy their albums (I still have many of their older albums on vinyl) and go to their shows (about 6 or 7 times for me, total). To each his own.

Oh, I get it. I get jokes.

You're on the right track, William. Now, give the man what he asked for and map out a draft strategy. You've already proposed accepting an offer to move down to around 14 and take Joseph. What next? I see Dibs' point. Those of us who have blasted the Bills' draft have done nothing whatsoever to offer up alternatives that are reasonable. Oh, and in doing so, rememer the 'domino effect' moving down and taking someone else's pick will have on the entire draft. They'll go to an alternative, which is some other team's first choice, which forces them to go to an alternative, which is some other team's first choice, which forces that team to go....

Don't stop w/ Hansen or the Backstreet Boys. You forgot Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Miles Davis, BB King, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, The Jackson 5, Howlin Wolf, Etta James, and Bob Marley. None of those performers were rock and roll, either.

The tough part is the ASSumption that it's as easy as ordering a pizza to trade down. As I recall, there were a number of teams that had difficulty moving down in this draft, as many teams knew they could stay put and get a good player, since many of those teams weren't targeting just one particular player or position. Personally, I think that considering how tough it was to move out of that spot, we would've gotten bent over trading down low enough to consider getting Mangold or Joseph.

Yeah, I caught some of that, too. My wife was watching, and she showed me the part where he traded the KISS snow globe to Corbin Bernsen, who collects snow globes. I forget what he got for it, though.

I actually lost a lot of respect for Lewis w/ his asinine comments after their playoff loss alluding to Roethlisberger "crying to the officials". It was uncalled for and showed a sour grapes mentality you don't want to see in a head coach who needs to turn around poor attitudes stemming from years of losing.

There's no way I'd take Justice 8th overall, and there was no offensive lineman that I would take w/ the 8th pick. Now, if there was some kind of trade down, I'd have looked @ getting either Davin Joseph or Nick Mangold w/ a later first. If no trade was worked out allowing us to move down and acquire additional picks, then there was no offensive lineman I'd take w/ the 8th pick.

In other words; blah blah blah blah blah....

You sure? I thought it was a kicker from Ohio State....

That's all we need.

Yeah. Me too.

No, no, I'm talking about that guy we drafted 8th overall this year. I just can't recall the name.

What's that guy's name that we drafted first? Hmm...

A strong safety, that spends a good deal of time playing near the line of scrimmage, possibly leading the team in tackles? Ridiculous.

No, the regular season game we have @ home against the Bengals this year.