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And even more rare if they are legitmately deserved!

Yes, all the losses hurt...but yesterday, the sting was really felt...after the Dolphins game, I had really psyched myself into thinking the D was turining it around in front of our eyes, and, the rest would follow...D was better than early in the season (but still not good enough) and the offense (and coach...especially the coach) seemed to continue to regress...another December of meaningless games...bummer.

Now, I liked the energy that Fewell braught to the HC position, and would have preferred to any of the realistic alternatives at the time...but how quickly people forget how much Bills fans hated Fewell as the DC. Honestly, I think the Bills ship with Fewell has sailed. If the Giants make any kind of a run in the playoffs this year, I wouldn't be surprised if Fewell gets feelers from a few other teams...

Kids 47 years old might!

Maybe Fitz would be smart enough to save his offense from a "genius" HC/OC that is too pass happy

I have felt the same way...but I always have this fear that he gets hired away by another team and does well for someone else.

I always love arguments that are, essentially, "if you take away all the great plays this guy has made, he sucks!"

Donald Jones cannot catch.... except when he does.

I got to see them at Maple Leaf Gardens back in 1982, on the "Hot Space" tour. I wasn't a big fan of that album (or any after that really) but they were one of the best live bands ever...and Freddie had one of the greatest voices...he could do it live, and on record. This band had one of the more unique catalogs from that period... One of my very favorite singles ever...ever! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ti2P_z5IPw

You know, I didn't see this in time to give a legit opinion, but I would have likely told you Brees. I love RGIII and all, but I honestly thought the Cowboys defense would come to play yesterday...I was very wrong. As for Brees against the 49ers, I still like the matchup. Brees has been shredding good defenses for a few years now...and, with Kapernanck (sp?) starting, we could see a shootout type game...part of the reason the 49ers defense was so good was that the 49ers offense was slow, methodical and ball controlling..always helps a defense out. Kaparnack may move the team more, and faster, but (as Bills fans we know) the more a defense is on the field, the better chance they are exposed. The Saints have their defensive woes, no doubt, but they can move the ball...I would generally trust a vetran QB who has been doing it all along, over a rookie. But, RGIII is damn impressive... I am in a quandry over whether to stick with Cam Newton or to bench him in favor of Andy Dalton. Cam was my drafted starter, and I have started him every week, except his bye..and near every week, he does okay but never spectacular. On the other hand, Dalton puts up similar fantasy points most weeks, but has a handful of monster games as well...Cam still hasn't had a monster game. I was doing pretty well in my league (7-4), but have lost my last two games...where all of the sudden guys I could count on have not delivered. Thinking of going with Dalton this week...he is at home against Oakand (could be a shoot out, Okland has little other choice), but the idea that Cam finally has his monster game, on Monday night in Philly, intrigues me as well...not sure which way to lean. All of the "expert" sites out there seem to rank them as the 9th and 10th best starts of the week. Not that it means much.

Was the defensive performance against the Dolphins simply a case of an underachieving defense getting their adrenaline up for a primetime game, against a pretty mediocre (bad?) offense? OR- was it a case of things finally falling into place for the unit? I am banking on the latter...the Bills defense looked ****ty, earlier in the season agains equally bad offenses, and bad O-lines, and couldn't dominate when they should have. Maybe having Kyle Moore and Shawne Merriman getting a little more time really is a key.

I fall for it every year...hook, line and sinker...just telling my buddy last Thursday...so, instead of getting hot at the begining of the season (like 2008 & 2011) maybe we get hot at the end of the season, just in time to get one of those playoff spots... Just keep rooting for the Steelers, Colts, Dolphins, Titans, Bengales, Jets, and Chargers to lose...and keep winning...it doesn't seem so daunting a scenario as it did just a month ago. Just have to be one of the two teams standing from that group, six weeks from now, and end this playoff drought. You look at the schedules, and take into consideration some of the injuries that some of that group have suffered, and it seems even less daunting...of course the Bills still have to win. I was really encouraged by the defenses' play against the Dolphins. It may end up being an abberation, but I think that was, by far, their best defensive effort of the season...can they do it against a better offense than the Dolphins? Don't know for sure...but I got a good feeling from that Phins game...time to get the momentum rolling....

These recordings have been available as bootlegs, for decades.... the orignial boot was called the "Decca-gone Sessions". Unless these are differenct versions of those same songs, which I don't believe to be the case. Sure, it woud be cool to hear them cleaned up, but the boots sound pretty good to. I only have them on vinyl, never did transfer them to disc, but I am sure somebody has.

Good call! There are certain guys I respect, but they tend to put too much on an imprint on their productions...Don Was, Jeff Lynne, and Daniel Lanois come to mind...they seem to hit a nerve with an artist,and tap the best of them, but then they grind that nerve down, until it starts to sound like their album, instead of the original artists...Lanois kind of killed Emmylou Harris for me...I used to love her records. Now, even when he doesn't produce her stuff, his production sound is such a part of her sound, it might as well be him behind the knobs. Was is kind of that way too..but, to be fair, I also think he hitched on to the Stones when they were kind of creatively tapped. Can't get blood from a stone, so to speak... The nuggets from the "Vegas Stones" era are far between...but I kinda liked this one from "Bigger Bang", a Don Was production...lyrics are kind of nonsense....but kind of reminiscent of "Fignerprint File" or "Miss You" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvJbxl4Vmk [

If you hold out any hope that the Bills have a playoff pulse, you have to root against the Jets, Dolphins, Steelers, Bengals, Colts, Titans and Chargers...those are the teams the Bills are most likely battling for one of the two wild card spots...but the Pats losing is a decent consolation prize...Cowboys and Pats losing tomorrow would be pretty great too!

"By the lake with lilly flowers...she moans with a sigh...I echo her cry..." Dig that song too, but I can still not figure out why it is called "Gomper". True, "Their Satanic Majesties Request" may not be their best work, but it still has a couple of great songs..."2000 Light Years From Home" is a favorite of mine... it is also one of those records, I think, that has aged very well. "Gomper" is a pretty nice song...lots of Brian Jones texture on there. Obviously, the bands sort of self-conscious attempt at answering "Sgt Pepper". Love the Wyman song "In Another Land". I have a 45 of that tune, with a funny psychedelic picture sleeve...its' worth a few bucks!

Will she be arriving, or coming? What am I missing?

My suggestion: 1- pin one of these "GR sucks" threads, so somebody doesn't start a new one every other day....that would probably get GR's attention, and maybe they would listen to some constructive criticism. I appreciate what Kevin Sylvester/GR/Buffalo Sabres are trying to do with the hockey show...but man, I just feel pity for Sylvester. I like him fine, with a guest, but there is so little for them to talk about. I love the Sabres/hockey, but I just don't think this show is necessary year round...if there were games to talk about it might be different..I just can't listen right now. Again, don't blame Sylvester/GR/Sabres...just bad timing on their part.

It sounds like Freddie is going to be playing Sunday. Assuming that is true, I would go with your plan...Jackson and Reece. If there is news that Jackson won't play, or you get skiddish, go with Reece and Brown...it sure sounds like Brown is gaining favor over Bradshaw in NY.

I gotta ask Nanker and Gomper, are your screen names Rolling Stones references, or just coincidence? When I first heard about this documentary, they were hailing at a "Bealtes Anthology" type project, with the Stones full involvement. They were promising hours of private, previously unseen footage...there was none of that. It ended up being a two hour video essay on Rolling Stones chic. I am as big a Stones apologist as there is, so, if there hadn't been so much advance word about what this would be, I would not have been so disappointed with the finished project. I have a theory that Richards book, where he spends about a third of it ripping Jagger, may have taken some of the urgency off this project for the band, or, morevoer, Jagger. For the last 30 year, the Stones have been, essentially, a collective of 4 or 5 corporate entities (Jagger, Richards, Watts, Wood and Wyman to an extent) who come together every 5 years or so to make an album to promote a tour (in that order), so telling their story from 1981-2012 wouldn't likely be all that interesting to the casual fan. However, I think there are a lot of Stones fans (like myself) who are more than casual. Jagger and Richards have had their share of public fueds over the years...and to be fair, most of the shots have come from Keith, ripping Jagger for his Peter Pan complex...while I generally agree with Keiths' assesment of Jagger, I can understand why Jagger would have been less than thrilled to talk about all of this stuff. Jagger, to me, just doesn't seem to have put the Stones into their historical context...he still thinks (or pretends anyways) that they are making records as relevant as ever. Keith has more musical credibiltiy, and he has said, on numerous occaisions, he is under no illusion that the band has another "Exile On Main Street" left in them. From what I gather, the Stones "full cooperation" on this project ended up amounting to each one sitting down for interviews. That was the voiceover stuff you heard. Mick never lets his guard down, so he isn't giving anything up, and Keith pretty much speaks in rock-n' roll speak/cliche at this point ("I never had a drug problem, just a police problem"), Charlie has been "blunted" by reality almost since the begining...so I was hoping Wyman (still listed as the official "Rolling Stones Historian"), Wood and Taylors' interview stuff would have been more than surface stuff. I would have loved to see more about what these guys have been doing all these years, between their Stones projects. Watts has about 8 jazz albums out, Wyman left the Rolling "!@#$ing" Stones to head his own cover band, Keith immersed himself in Jamaican music (Wingless Angels projects are awesome) and hob-knobbed with almost everyone with any musical credibility in the rock/blues world...and Jagger has had numerous projects, most of them not so satisfying. If they covered the last 30 years of the band, in the context of the Rolling Stones, it would be hard for Mick to come out lookig good. I think Jagger is smart enough to realize this, but doesn't want to acknowledge it. So, I think that is why we came away with this puff piece on the history of the band. I couldn't help but notice that Jagger was the "executive producer" on the film....that is telling. Oh well...just downloaded a 1982 "Live at Leeds" show, and a 2005 Phoenix Club warm-up show off the Stones Archices site...great stuff...

Tried to pick up Hillman as well..but didn't get him. In that case, though, I could use another running back...I currently have 6 receivers, and only 4 running backs, two of whom are pretty marginal. If one of my starters at RB (Chris Johnson, Frank Gore) goes down, I am pretty screwed. As for the PPP board (I assume you meant PPP...we don't get points for receptions in my league!), I am trying to leave that world behind for a little while...and I apologize if I ever said something to piss you off over there...always amazed how I can see eye to eye with a lot of people on the other forums, but PPP just brings out the worst...particularly during presidential elections. You like Allen West, but you are a hockey fan...can't be all bad!

Website says the second half will begin in the "spring"... my guess is March... Hopefully with different writers...acting is fine! I can't believe how awful that show was...