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I'd hope the moment his Passer Rating drops below the 16.7 it's at right now!

I hate to use Theisman as a reference but even that jackass pointed out the difference in pocket time "enjoyed" by the QBs, about 4 seconds for Brady and not even 3 for us.

During the Pat's second Offensive series we got good pressure on Brady up the middle on two consecutive plays, one resulting in a sack. Brady then lost nearly all ability to play football by throwing 4 of his next 5 passes into terra x and the first row of seats in Gilette. Luckily for the Pats Weiss adjusted well enough to control that same pressure for the balance of the game and Brady finally got his act back enough to string together another of his standard "Mr. Field Goal" games, with great production between the 20s but poor execution in the Red Zone. On the one hand was an exhibit of what pressure does in spurts; over on the Bill's Offense was a different example, the effect of a QB pressing due to constant pressure and stinking up the joint all night as a result. If a bit of humor can be garnered from the game it has to be the fan reaction to having Bill Belichick play our new staff for the second time in 6 weeks, this time on his own turf. It's hard to imagine any observant fan being surprised that Mularkey and Co. got worked by the best technical coach in the NFL today. But there they are, falling out of their chairs over an L to Bill Belichick. I have to say disappointment is one thing, but hysteria is another thing altogether. It's time for a little reality check for Bill's fans: Last year's NFC Champion Panthers, the team that New England needed Adam Vinatieri to put away in the Super Bowl, are 2-7 The Super Bowl winners (and runners-up) from the previous season are 3-6 Joe Gibbs, Bill Parcells and Jeff Fisher are all heading up 3-6 football teams. While the game of football is getting less predictable, Bill Belichick manages to give his team a strategical edge- especially against teams he sees more frequently. For Christ's sake, give the guy some props instead of trashing your own staff and roster; the guy is the top coach in football right now and we play in his division. Look at what he's done for the reputation of Brady, a QB who is in the bottom of the league in Red Zone production- some fans actually believe Brady is the best QB in football, and that takes some real magic from the head coach to mask the fact that all he truly does well is move the ball between the 20s. As far as the Bills are concerned, we have been improving our play through the course of the season and the Sunday night hiccup shouldn't change that at all. I expect this team is going to finish well, and that's regardless of who is playing at the QB position for us. We've beaten a good team and I see no reason why we won't do it with more frequency. Mularkey just got his certified indoctrination into the AFC East this past Sunday night, if he's our coach of the future our team will take a bigger step forward in the learning curve from it than any other game we've played under his tutelage.

By the time you get assigning percentages to individual offensive linemen, WRs and the overall D a figure of between 25 and 30% assigned to Bledsoe's awful performance seems logically supportable but it might be tight. The OLine play was so poor in the running game that they might just need 50% of the blame before pointing fingers anywhere else.

Michael Moore has found that it's far easier to sell an awful product to the least intelligent 48% of our population by convincing them that they're actually on the other end of the intelligence curve. It's a great business model and he should be lauded for his excelling in the American system and becoming filthy rich, even if it has been on the backs of those foolish enough to believe his tripe! What a Country!

Hate apparently is defined by the left as "thoughtful consideration of all aspects and ramifications of a strategy, not simply the spontaneous emotional conclusion". It might help them to recover from their continued slide into the chasm of insignificance if they study the rise of Talk Radio, a forum whereby persons who are uncomfortable allowing a 10 second sound bite or a political talking point to define their fundamental position on the broad subjects facing this amazing Democracy. While I would expect the left will find a small victory in gaining House seats in the mid-term elections, the long term reality for the Dems is that they will continue to decline overall as long as they insist on appealing to the shallowest of us with the EXACT SAME ANSWER for everything: Question: How should we deal with insert any major political issue? Dem Answer: We'll increase spending on insert same issue by taxing the rich! Memo to the Democratic Party: Your approach is wrong, your answer is stale, please stop insulting the intelligence of ALL Americans with your pathetic lack of creativity. OR, learn to accept your continued humiliation by a the opposition. It's a shame if you settle for #2 since our two-party Democracy thrives on both partys being forced back to the middle when they lose touch with the majority of the populace.

This Roll Call appears to support the assertion that Squids and Flyboys are among the Early Adopters Class ;-)

I was serving on a Nuke when we visited Western Australia in '79 so we had to port below Perth in Freemantle. While the Aussie men took some time to appreciate, there was no such trouble with the incredibly "welcoming" ladies.

If they feel right out of the chute that Gorin needs help then you've got the extra help on the side instead of the middle where Belichick likes it with his noodle-arm Offense. We've gotten some pretty good penetration from our DT rotation as of late, the biggest single threat to a West Coast attack and a fragile QB like Brady. If in fact the NE blocking assists in this game (from TE and RBs) are looking for heat from the edge let's hope Tim Krumrie's crew brings their A game Sunday and we see a lot of PW, Sam Adams and the ever improving Ron Edwards playing King of The Hump on Brady's little body in the offensive backfield.

Don't take anything away from Lechler who is an AWESOME punter regardless of conditions.

USN '77-81.

Yeah, what the heck would some stupid football player know about the game of football anyhow- better to check with the fans and the media to get the real low down!

There's no doubt Clements/McNally like some skills in space from their linemen and Smith just doesn't have the feet to do it, although as a pure pass blocker in the middle he performed far better than what we were used to starting the season at LG. Teague is so good on the move that it shouldn't be any surprise that they want to keep him in the middle where he can quickly get outside blocks to either side for Willis (the thing he was doing so well prior to getting dinged up). While the quality of our line players is being upgraded in most fan's minds right now, I'm more inclined to credit the staff with teaching a whole new system to a decent talent base, finally finding the right pegs for the appropriate holes, and as important as either of those factors accepting that the very deliberative running style of Willis McGahee makes our run blocking appear to be much more effective (when in fact it's no different than the blocking they provide for Travis). The promise in all this is that we've suffered through recent seasons when the coaching staff didn't seem able to think on their feet during the season to make the types of adjustments Mularkey and staff have begun to undertake. Now I just need to convince them to let someone other than Nate return punts ;-)

I had Ginger (Peter) in a seminar I gave maybe a dozen years ago and he couldn't even carry on a conversation at that time without reading lips. I'd think it could be somewhat of a challenge for him to do a live gig today with any precision.

I was there also. That guy was set up for the stunt with gloves and the right clothing for negotiating the wire. I beelive he got thumped pretty good when they finally got him on the edge and pulled him over.

Simply based upon the fact that the station employs Chuck Dickerson- not a chance. We've got a blowhard columnist in LA (TJ Simers) who subscribes to the same school of journalism and it's pathetic. It's possible to lose all credibility with one single, yet IMO catastrophic, decision.

You might take a look at Kwajalein, one of 7 major beach invasions my father landed on during WWII. Not only was it basically the Chicamuaga of the Pacific theatre, it was also possibly the most dramatic example during that war of a battle we had little or no reason to engage in.

It's impossible for me to imagine anyone thinking it is reasonable to call for an absentee ballot ONE WEEK prior to an election and then becoming aggravated when it doesn't arrive? Is this your first experience dealing with the union employees of a State in our Union? Have you ever, under any cricumstances either state or nationally had something done by State or Federal workers with the efficiency we are used to from 7-11 employees? Not me, not in Florida or New York or Texas or Georgia or Illinois or California. Good god man, there's union mandated coffee breaks and rules to keep complete slackers from being fired, not to mention special sick days given whether you're sick or not and of course family leave! This is NOT a free enterprise system, it's the wonders of government! I am flabergasted that an adult in our society could honestly believe that with 7 days before an election billed as the Mother of All Elections you could "place a call" to a state agency and have an absentee ballot appear in time for you to complete it and THEN get it back in time for it to be counted. Perhaps I'm missing a key component of your experience, if so please fill me in.

Expanded voting windows increase the temptation of irregularities. The Illinois Democratic Party is already famous for getting multiple votes from the same voter, whether they be alive or dead. Addiitonal days will prove to invite far more in the way of cheating, and in some states like CA this year, where you merely give your name when you show up to vote with no identification of any kind required, thousands of cases of multiple voting will likely be discovered if an investigation is performed. I wouldn't wait though for the Los Angeles Times to undertake it. In States like Ohio wehre Dems were trading crack cocaine for registrations it's safe to assume the same is true.

I must have become disoriented by those buckets of water in your hands with the Jack-Asses painted on them ;-)

The new ballot technologies are a direct result of the Democratic tactic of dividing Americans in the last ( and other previous ) elections by suggesting minorities were "disenfranchised" by using paper ballots. The resultant overreaction to an incredibly reliable system, possibly the most reliable ever devised, is the absolutely idiotic reaction we take to other hypocritical garbage from the left- we changed them out for electronic devices. Because, of course, nothing bad can happen with electronics! Stop whining, bitching, crying, getting your way and then whining, bitching a crying about THAT! Talk about the skunks who cried wolf! Enough with your hypocrisy, you're a member of a diminishing group of crybabys who obviously have learned nothing from the repeated ass-whippings your candidates are taking on a national level. Your base is diminishing because your garbage of scaring minorities and old people through your cronies in the MSM is being supplanted by the new information age offering news alternatives on the internet and talk radio. The elderly, with an understandable resistance to technology, are the last people you can still scare without there being a counterpoint- but that base is diminishing. Your lies and distortions and crybaby garbage about "they're attacking us" after you spent a full year and nearly 1 billion dollars calling Bush a liar and an idiot is beyond hypocrisy. Hopefully the new leftists who replace your tired, sorry and losing agenda will be a bit more genuine with the American people down the road. That might even lead to the left winning an occasional election.

Massachusetts Pride: John and Teddy until Death do they Part! I'm feeling better about California already! Thanks!

This elections losers' continued attacks on President Bush show a fundamental lack of understanding why the left continues it's quest for political obscurity. Let me help you: With over 500 million dollars spent proclaiming Bush a knucklehead and a liar, polls consistently show 60 to 65 pecent of Americans believe he's an honest, capable and decent guy. Might the left have better spent that 500 mil? If you need time to think about it you're a true knucklehead. Now, even after Americans have spoken on the issue, the whiners from the left CONTINUE with their failed campaign to paint Bush as an idiot. Your attempts to disprove the old adage about putting your hands in the fire are humorous but to some degree quite pathetic. But maybe we can get behind some government proposal to get you some asbstos mitts- well, maybe not. I beleive you've had those done away with ;-)

Possibly the reason he refuesed to file the 180: Kerry's Military Record Problem

Uncomfortable in his own skin Kerry made a run for it with the shameless and illegal help in some cases of a media that will never IMO recover from the bias they showed this time. CBS has already paid a major price and the circulation of the worst of the print media continues to decline. Many Americans who want to actually discuss issues with others opinions considered have chosen the AM radio dial and the internet. For some reason the base of the left does not appear to have the stomach to actually debate issues with some content, instead their "talk radio" shows require funding from people like Soros just to stay on the air because frankly advertisers prefer someone with an audience. The yearning for something more than a CBS soundblight or a CNN 20 second spot, the desire to discuss the differing sides of a subject apparently is nearly wholly a concept that either attracts more right-leaning persons or at the least leads them to vote that way after that consideration. It might get back to the same thing I mentioned in another topic- the answers from the left have become the same for all questions- spend more money and get that money by taxing the rich. Americans are no longer buying it.