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I brought up a related topic a few days ago, & unfortunately, we don't know if our non-Moulds receivers suck or if they are decent, but not given the opportunity to contribute. I'm inclined to think that Reed at least for the time being, doesn't have it (he certainly gave indications his rookie year that he could be decent). Beyond that, who knows. Watching on TV, you never see any others enough to tell even whether they're open or not, let alone if they can catch consistently.

I think your reasoning should lead to a different conclusion. Everyone gets hurt or has the chance to get hurt occasionally. And when they do, sometimes they miss multiple games. Take for example, Malloy - he just missed like 6-7 weeks of action through preseason, bye-week, etc. Does that make him injury prone? No, as a matter of fact, these were the 1st games he's missed in his career! IIRC, something like 130+ straight games. All players, heck even us 'weekend warriors', frequently have minor ailments, but your Milloys, Teagues & Henrys manage to play w/ them. For your RJs, Jennings, etc. these minor problems are sufficient to sideline them. Is it their fault that they are prone to getting hurt more frequently &/or more severely than their counterparts w/ stronger constitutions? No, but just like you or I are inferior and unable to produce on the field to them due to our inferior size, strength & speed, so too are 'injury prone' players less productive (& valuable) than those that are healthy enough too contribute.

I'd like to clarify/ point out, that beyond being healthy enough to play, it would also be of great benefit for him to have gotten in adequate practice time. All indications are that that is not yet the case. Hopefully, now that he's sufficiently healed to play in a game, he's getting about 50% of the 'real' snaps in practice.

Everytime I hear that song, I picture a claymation hamburger playing an EVH style guitar.

As is their MO for many games, they improved in the 2nd 1/2. Granted, part of that is attributable to the fact that NE already knew that they had scored more than enough to offset the realistic chance of our offense getting a lucky TD. (The only chance we had was if they continued to score FGs and our KO team managed to return a few for TDs ) If you think about it, our defense only gave up 2 TDs, the 3rd down %age was avg. Considering the TOTAL lack of aide that our offense provided, their production really wasn't that bad. I'm of the opinion that we have a top 10 Dee, not a top 3. (I think part of their statistical success is due to opponents playing 'close to the vest' as our offensive ineptitude doesn't require many points to be scored.) Yes, the Dee had a bad day, but probably only to the statistical level of slightly below avg. had they had a bit of help from the Oh.

Right now, we have a top ten defense, probably one of the more productive ST units and a bottom 5 offense. You can view these #s as either statistical ranking or objective quality. Assuming we're able to maintain our defensive & ST talent levels, elevating our offensive to the level of mediocrity should be sufficient to have us vie for playoffs. Remember, there's 12 playoff teams & 20 not. So depending on the relative value of each aspect (Dee, Off & ST) a rank in the middle offensively, puts us in the lower echelon of playoff caliber. I realize that statistical (or subjective quality) ratings do not perfectly equate to playoff standing/ranking, but I think they're a pretty positive indicator.

Speaking as a dog owner (of a big ass dog that likes to chase bikes (& the occasional car)) I would suggest that since you know where the dog lives, stop by & talk to the owner. As you mention, the problem is w/ the owner, not the dog. I'm sure (well, relatively sure. Dog food is pretty expensive you know ) he doesn't want the dog catching you & causing harm. Hopefully, talking him will cause him to be more attentive to his dogs behavior. Might I also suggest carrying something like a whistle or put a horn on your bike so you can announce your pending arrival. If this doesn't work, I suggest you contact the local Animal Control.

According to NFL.com (which coincides w/ my approximate recollection) 12 of Bledsoe's 19 passes were intended for Moulds. Is this due to Bledsoe having poor field vision, play design or do our other receivers just suck that much? I realize that Moulds is by far our best receiving threat but common man, how 'bout distributing the ball a bit.

Look at it this way - Just see how much the home field means to us. When we're home, we're relatively competent & competitive. Guess the 12th man is in competition w/ Moorman for our MVP.

I'd like to see him kept, but only at a reasonable cost (like that's a novel concept). He's a good, not great tackle, so the concept of franchising him would be very imprudent . (I would guess it would require a 1 yr salary & cap figure in the range of $10m!) He certainly ain't worth that. As everyone points out, he is injury prone which requires having a solid BU, which we have in Price. W/o him, Price starts (a downgrade IMO) & on top of that, you have no one solid & proven to come off the bench. If we could sign him for multiple yrs, w/ a signing bonus $8-10m & avg $4-5m/yr, I'd be happy. Not much more than that.

Who'd you rather have on your team, Denney or Erik Flowers? Think of it this way - what do you think the odds are of Denney making the team next year and if he doesn't, unable to sign anywhere else where he has much of a chance of seeing significant playing time. That will be his 4th year, correct? That means that his career lasted longer than average AND he saw significant playing time. Certainly, he wasn't all that we had hoped for and further, if assuming we did indeed give up a 3rd & 4th to move up to take him (I'm too lazy to confirm this & don't remember), I'd say there's probably about even odds that you'd get at least as good of production out of at least one of the other choices. So I would categorize it as a 'poor' use of draft choice(s), but would not consider him a bust. Basically, for any given place a player is taken, there's a range of expected production. I'd say he's fallen at the lower end of average about a std. deviation or so below.

I don't look at it as belittling what our armed forced (& other military units) do in the least. In one respect, I suppose you can consider it a sort of tribute, i.e. these particular ST units are attemping to emulate certain characteristics or goals of military units. Personally, after reading the article, I sorta consider it juvenile. In order to be motivated to do their jobs, the highly paid professionals have to resort to a form of hero worship.

Extended Version? Does this mean that they're going to cover to the end of the book in the movie (i.e. their return to Hobbit land), too, or just extra scenes? Probably just the latter.

Okay, insert all of your smart remarks here. Seriously, here's the question http://205.134.161.85/forums/index.php?showtopic=9508 Then again, I'm all for the entertainment derived from another amusing 20+ page thread.

How do you distinguish between the two? This piece of fabric 'drapes' from a traversing rod 'curtaining' off a door/window.

Dang, I inadvertently posted this b4 I had finished, so I had to go back & edit & I already have like 8 responses. Thanks and y'all can call me a jerk if you want. Hey, would maybe pouring beer on it work?

There's no instruction tag or anything on it. The inside liner is like (cotton?) pillow case type material. The outside is..., well, curtain material. Do I take this to a dry cleaner? Use/rent a steam cleaner, or just throw it in the wash? IIRC, it was what I would consider moderately pricey (~$200 to cover a sliding glass door). Reason I ask is I got some blood on it (my dog got into a fight w/ a pit bull) & upon closer inspection (I always keep it closed so the room is dark) it's kinda dirty from 12 years of just hanging there, too. Thanks, signed your domestically challenged, middle-aged bachelor.

At my former employers, Commodity Trading Advisors, I did a limited amount of trading in Futures Options. Don't know if I can be of much help, (I do consider myself fairly proficient at Yahoo-ing ) but if you wanna ask, I'll give it a try. (You can PM me if you prefer.)

I'd guess it's what Stussy said. It would seem that they'd be more concerned w/ rug burns, but I'd think they'd be more prone to have them below the elbow. Also, those bands are pretty thin (i.e. don't cover much skin area). I use one for my knee as I play a lot of Volleyball. FWIW though, I wouldn't think receivers would be putting much strain on their elbows in that fashion; DBs, LBs, linemen & QBs (especially) I could believe. So maybe they are just to 'look cool'.

My observations I was just out, just after 2am EST outside Albany, NY.

That was/is SOOO Effing AWESOME! I went out about 10:00pm when I read here that they were visible. I didn't see a thing. (My northern horizon is obstructed.) Went out again shortly b4 2am w/ the dog & again it didn't look like much. If it wasn't for the fact that the southern sky was so clear, I woulda just thought it was illuminated clouds (I live a few miles due south of the 'big' city of Albany). After a few minutes, they start to flare up. Waves of light. The beams become more intense. Mostly just a pale blue hue but there was a significant amount of red for a short period of time. It looked like there was something wrong w/ my eyes or something. If I've seen the Northern lights b4, it was never like this. I wish I knew what the horizon looked like, but I could see from maybe 20° azimuth (is that the right term?) or so & there was occasional stuff visible upto directly overhead. Wow

I believe if one player calls for a FC, the other player has to oblige that call as well. I could be wrong about that however. Bear in mind, doing so is kind of 'unfair '. Looks like what happened to me is that NC called for the FC, but couldn't get to the ball, F/J Smith caught the ball & was about to run, but stopped & fell realizing that the FC had been called (prohibiting from running after the catch).

Yes, thank you. Actually, it is him about 100 pounds ago. (He's a Great Dane.)

1st, I'd like to thank y'all for a very amusing thread. Now, If I can add something: AFAIK, currency conversions (or how to use Google) has anything to do w/ the stock market unless you're trying to do some sort of arbitrage of ADRs or something.