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I disagree w/ most of those. TH - Albeit he is limited in what he can do, but he's still be pretty good to back up WM. Bledsoe - Again, I sure as heck don't want him starting (like anytime after about the 10th game this year), but for a BU QB he's okay. Reed - See ya. If anything I would've liked to have seen him out the door b4 Shaw. Grat attitude, work ethic, whatever. He just isn't reliable. Denney/Kelsay - You can't have 11 Pro Bowlers on Dee. These guys are competent. If we could get someone better, great, but they're WAY down the list of needed improvements. Reese - Granted, we don't know the assignments of safeties, so we really can't make an accurate assessment of how well he's doing. But he doesn't make his presence felt. I'd like to see an upgrade.

Unfortunately, not good. Then again, he's probably not healthy enough yet. I'm hoping he gets in for a few plays in the next week or 2 & by midseason, is starting.

YES On top of my general dispair caused by our inept play, that actually pissed me off.

So wrong. The indication of when it's time to go shopping is when you run out of pop (soda is pop w/ ice cream in it).

Instead of choreographed, think pre-meditated. That obviously is NOT a spontaneous act.

Are those #s right? They look awefully high. Is it possible that they're for penalty assessed both against & for a team? (The #s are roughly double.) I thought if you're really bad you'd accumulate like 1000 yds in penalties a year (i.e. 63 per game).

Throwing the ball requires slowing down if running & often putting yourself in an awkward position. If you had a 250-300 Lb mean dude chasing you & you had the choice of nonchalantly stepping OB & taking a 1 or 2 yd loss or subjecting yourself to a vicious hit in most instances I'd bet you'd take the sack. In this case, discresion is the better part of valor.

The problem w/ assessing his chances were that sometimes the wind kills kicks, sometimes it doesn't. That particular kick had NO chance of making it. It had a slight draw to it like most good kicks, but then the wind just stopped it & push it back right. It landed about 3 yards in the EZ, so it was 10 yds short. By all appearances, it was a good kick. You give the guy a do-over & maybe that gust isn't there, or maybe he's able to get better contact & maybe it makes it. You've gotta believe it was a VERY low probablity kick. As someone mentioned, 4th & 4 you go for. Punting from the 25 (he's got to contend w/ the wind, too. & also consider that wind effects his drop, ergo his consistency.) doesn't make much sense. So you gamble & hope he makes it. Bear in mind, you're facing the worst offense in the NFL.

That's the way I'm viewing it. Bear in mind that had the call been overturned, Miami would have then accepted the penalty & it would have been 3rd & 15, so it was really a no-win for us. The coaching staff seems to have good situational awareness so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.

I gotta think so. Although, I will add that based on his FG miss, the wind wasn't so much as with him as it wasn't against him. That FG was a good kick w/ a slight draw & it just hit a wall & dove right about 20 yards.

You know how some players are said to perform better in games than in practice? I hate to bring up the analogy of DF & RJ but compare those 2. RJ very studious, works hard, talented & is probably the best looking player on the practice field. Not to imply that DF doesn't work hard but his physical limitations and playing style would make him a worse practice player - i.e. less productive. Now bear in mind that in practice your teammates depend on you to help them learn techiniques, assignments and generally play better. If a player doesn't perform up to his abilities his other teammates suffer as well. If you're someone like Moulds (a game-time star) or Jennings (who's always hurt & a solid contributor when healthy), you can get away w/ this. When you're the 4th or perhaps 5th best WR it just doesn't cut it. I recall it mentioned that Sam Aiken often looked the best of the WRs during practice.

Happy Feller. K w/ the 'Aints in the 70s.

If possible develop a test which evaluates the talents/skills that are necessary for the job. For instance, when hiring a programmer for a financial mgmt company the test included hexadecimal arithmatic, a 'what's the biggest integer that can be stored in 2 bytes', a word problem 'a ounce of gold costs $X, you buy 100 ozs for Y & sell it for Z. A Euro is worth W. What's your profit/loss in Euros'. Failing that, get them to talk about related to what they'd be doing. Try to assess their attention to detail, problem solving abilities or whatever talent is necessary for that position. I'd also say that if a candidate appears to lack a particular talent that you deem desirable or necessary, I'd discount them regardless of their other qualifications. (That might not be pertinent if you have the only say-so, but I've been part of a hiring team b4, have been overruled & I think everyone would later agree that it was a less than optimal hire.) Good luck, sounds like quite an undertaking & I don't think it would be delegated to you unless they think you're very talented.

I think I saw there was a show on Showtime or somewhere about 'Smile', possibly Sunday night. I meant to watch it, but if it was Sunday, I was too depressed and distracted to. I'll have to look & see if it's on again.

Actually, this time, particularly relative to other performances, it wasn't the blitzers that so much caused the trouble, but just the regular DEs. More times than not, we probably handled the blitzers okay, we just got beat one-on-one. Abraham abused JJ several times.

Wasn't this website set up to keep me entertained? There's nothing new to read.

I just read that in the transcript of 'You ask it' or whatever. It was worth a chuckle. It reminded me of when a few yrs ago Parcells was coaching NE & some reporter quoted him as referring to players as 'pre-Madonnas' as opposed to 'primadonnas'.

How our very good & prolific offense made our defenses statistically suffer (IIRC one of our SB years, our Dee ranked 27 outta 28). Is it perhaps also true that our statistical success that we have on Dee, primarily last year but this year as well, is due to our offensive ineptitude? (That's a good thing to call it ) Much like how when you score many points against a team they must try to keep pace and will rack up beaucoup de yards in doing so, does it perhaps also hold that if a team knows that if they only score 2 TDs & don't screw up, they're pretty assured that our offense won't be able to keep pace? Consequently, our defense benefits by our offense's inability to score. Just food for thought.

Actually, I was the L Smith move later in the game as well. If I were to speculate, it's either designed to be like a misdirection cue to fool the blitzers that it's an outside running play or they think Smith can cover 10 yards to block the DE better than MW can cover 10 feet (That'd be sad).

Belinda? Seriously, I saw the game on TV so I don't really know, but it does appear that all WRs (EM, LE, JR, SA & BS) are getting on the field in roughly equal amounts, even in 2 WR sets.

Watching the game on tape & what I believe is our last possession of the 3rd qtr, the last play is a sack. (Wow, hard to believe, huh?) Anyway, my observation/comment is this - 4 man front, Jets send 6 or maybe only 5. The LDE & LOLB are coming in unimpeded, L.Smith 'pulls' from his LG position to pick of the innermost charging LDE, which still leaves the OLB w/ a clear shot at Bledsoe. (If there was a 6th rusher he comes up the left middle & is picked by the RB) Now what's worse than having Smith trying to peel out to pick up the DE, is that MW shifts to the inside & BLOCKS NO ONE ('cuz there's no one there). WTF?

You can add me to the list of silent minority that don't have an objection to the actual playcall. The way I look at it, there's probably 2 or 3 defenders that need to be fooled for it to work. Unlike w/ someone like Vick or JPL, if these guys aren't fooled, I assume there's next to zero chance that it'll succeed. If they are fooled (you gotta admit they probably weren't expecting it), I don't know. Could be an easy way to pick up 3 yards, maybe not. I do recall Manning (not exactly fleet of foot), burnt us for like 40 yards once, leaving the important party's completely fooled and flat footed.

Don't know whether you meant this as a serious question or more of a facetious comment, but I'll tackle it anyway. 1) At least speaking of myself, JPL is like 20 yrs younger & although probably not still growing, his bones aren't in the decay mode that mine are in. 2) Don't know whether there is a correlation or not, but I'd be willing to bet that he's one heck of a better genetic physical specimen than any of us. 3) He probably does get better medical care & rehab than any of us would. Also, possibly the goal of his treatment/rehab might be somewhat different. (i.e. going through the ordeal of having a plate installed & corresponding painful rehab as opposed to no urgency & letting it heal 'on its own'). 4) Finally, I can only assume that he's a far more dedicated and ambitious individual than most of us. Particularly w/ regards to his physical condition. This drive is what will make him more successful in his rehab.

Although I think that suggestion has a great deal of merit, I think one thing it has going against it is that we had so many screw-ups that the corresponding litany of excuses would take too long even given the extra time allocated to film study yesterday. Seriously, as a casual observer, I could come up w/ at least 20 (penalties, blown assignments). On top of that you'd have to include ever knows how many other things that aren't apparent to us and since some of them might involve miscommunication between players, substantial dialog might be involved.. Actually, let me reiterate that I think that it's a GREAT IDEA. Unfortunately, I doubt its feasibilty.

No. You need 3 solid corners for each game. Forget about injuries. On top of that, I think it would be tough both on TV as well as the rest of the 2ndary trying to make a transition like that mid-season. Just asking for trouble. (If we lost like 3 safeties that would be one thing, as it would probably be a better alternative to whoever we could pick up off the street, but that's it.)