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There's also the argument that with teams switching to the 3-4, more talent would then be available of players who fit the 4-3. The pickin's get pretty slim at good NTs when so many teams run / are going to the 3-4. It also puts a lot of onus on LBs --- a very costly unit that has one of the highest injury rates. Some would prefer to put stock into guys on the line who have more, shall we say, natural padding. Then, the theory would be that as these DL get more pressure on the QB. As OLs have gotten bigger and more adept at blocking, I guess the consensus in the NFL has shifted toward a need to create confusion (re: which LB may be blitzing) rather than lining up fat guys against fat guys. If we could get Fairley or Bowers, I would be all for reverting to a most-of-the-time 4-3 to clog up the middle and if they don't get penetration/pocket pressure/bat down passes (it seems like every team in the NFL except the Bills gets 2-3 bat-downs a game) they at least force the run to the outside.

If they don't already, they may soon regret leaving the Big East. May have seemed a great idea at the time to join a superconference, but as we've found out in basketball-BE, superconferences only guarantee that you'll have little chance at a championship, and be beat up for the post-season.

They also managed to nominate a woman who wasn't terribly popular as AG, where there are always things that can be turned against you, and who couldn't fall back on a family legacy when she didn't have any answers about jobs or health care --- even the bare modicum that Dems will allow their candidates to get away with. Coakley and her Botox-stiff upper lip (seriously, she couldn't smile and had the personality of a galvanized nail) couldn't connect the way any Kennedy could in MA. Like I wrote, they steered clear of it for a reason, but I wouldn't be surprised if one of them --- Caroline, Joe III or Teddy's widow --- runs in 2012. Brown has charm and a talented/hot daughter, but I don't think he stands a chance when the Dems throw it on full force in a 16-month campaign in the second-most-liberal state. I think Brown may decide to angle for a cabinet position (Attorney General?) in a Republican admin. So don't feel too sorry for him when reality sets back in.

I'm not well-versed in this topic, but there it was on google news, and it's apparently being published in a few respected journals and has actual scientific measurements of the creeping fields.... You're saying it's a bunch of bunk? That'd be cool with me.

Uhmm.... I linked to two articles on page 5 (some being published in Nature and Science journals, one from the British Geological Survey, not quite a "random theory"). Link

So, no reaction to the theory that earth's magnetic field is shifting and that this is what may be causing the wacky weather (and more, worse conditions to come)? Yeah, that sound about right for PPP. Keep talking about unions in a thread about "Global Warming."

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As I've written before, I would only consider a jersey that has my favorite number and my name. With free agency ensuring a human version of Buckyball in the NFL, it doesn't make much sense to do otherwise. After a player leaves, is suspended, traded or cut, you're left with an expensive piece of fabric that's now obsolete.

The last one was in May. Bledsoe and Mike Williams were introduced in the last hurrahs of the royal blues. And JW, we already do root for the Bills wearing pink, all through October.

Yep. Like I wrote, I root for the laundry/logo. It'd be nice to have some that doesn't look like [insert derogatory comment here].

Knows he's got a snowball's chance.... I expect the same from Scott Brown in Mass. He won in a special election when Dem turnout tanks (and I think the Kennedys --- Joe III in particular --- saw polling to this fact and stayed out), but he won't win a general.

Actually, no. The owner of the site has requested that photographic leaks not originate there. I gather that there are issues of legality and contract secrecy that many of the users (a number of them professional designers) of the site have to be wary of. If clients know that designers use that site and it's rife with leaks, those designers don't get jobs, and Mr. Creamer doesn't want that situation again. Now, if a picture leaks elsewhere, it'll be there --- but it probably won't originate there. Verbal descriptions are another thing entirely, and for that, it's still a good thread to watch.

That's all kinds of cool. I've seen 8 of the 10 so far. Quite a bit of variety this year. I enjoyed True Grit and think it deserves Best Picture. I'm still ruminating on it, but as a simple vignette piece, "Winter's Bone" really impressed me.

+1. Freddy may say they're great, but I just can't shake this feeling that they're going to ---- this up too. Remember that all the players said these jerseys were great at the '02 unveiling. I've written before that the Bills unis are a lot like the formation of the team. They incorporate themes from several other teams and all the while, we're not the Buffalo Bills. We've got a Titans yoke to represent Gregggggg's 46 defense and "no fat guys," the Patriot navy blue that represents TD's days of bringing in Bledsoe & Milloy and hoping we could turn crap into gold like Belichick*, we've got a Broncos-like side gusset that represents our penchant for selecting RBs with our precious picks even when we have a good one. A so-called return to tradition by putting in a thin stripe of silver on the helmet. This team has tried to be many things, tried to copycat from some of the successes that other teams have found. We didn't know what we were. This has resulted in a mish-mashed roster and a mishmash jersey set. Time to take the Buffalo Bills identity back. Time to build on the progress that Gailey & Co. made. Back to the traditions, back to being a cold weather bully, a tough bunch of maulers who'll knock 'em all down and make 'em not want to get up. Frankly, I find it hard to root for many of the personalities that populate the NFL these days, and like a lot of people here say, "I root for the laundry." In that case, let's make the laundry look like it wasn't sewn together by a coked-up prostitute out of what scraps she had hanging around.

I guess they got the name of that facility spot-on.

Well, after all these years of The Dean telling everyone to "shiv the mofo" someone a barnyard animal finally went and did it!

So, I clicked on a link about the possibility of magnetic shifts causing the 'superstorms' we're currently seeing.... Some of this is pretty scary sh-- if it's accurate. Link 1. (Note that the copy-editing on this is positively atrocious.) Link 2.

Or Rod Woodson?

I'm now forced to watch it online. I've got a kick-a-- over-the-air antenna system, and b/c of the FCC assigning both FOX stations --- in Boston and Hartford --- on real-channel 31, there's a whole Venn-diagram-like 'tween section in northeast CT and parts of MA that can't get either. The competing signals get to your tuner and can't make anything of it. So, at least in this case, my breaking the rules is as a direct result of a bullsh-- government bureaucratic decision. BTW, channelsurfing is back on.... on a last-letters designation one might expect for, say, the European Union. @ Hopeful, it really doesn't matter if we post them, other than it may be uncouth to do this per the TBD TOS, since the feds officially cracked down on them. Rest assured, it's not that hard even for public employees to find out what iteration these sites are using now.

I'm sorry if this is sacrilege, but Whitney Houston was the first step into all this stuff where singers sound like they're undergoing electroshock treatments.

That rendition of the Anthem was a f---ing disgrace.

I believe this is the dude who beheaded his wife down the street from OBD... and who ironically ran a foundation to relieve Americans' misconceptions about Islam. You know, like, how Muslims don't just go around beheading people. Oh.... wait.... Link

That may be the biggest knock on Andre Reed --- that he had a HOF QB throwing him those balls. Which is a sh-- argument. They were a symbiosis. Likewise, if Kelly didn't have Reed, he wouldn't be in the HOF. Ten minutes of touchdowns in that video above, and that was only 4 seasons out of 16!

That's what most good QBs do. Frankly, I think getting a QUALITY TE (one who can block AND catch) in there would do just as much. Far too long we've been living with the legacy of Greggggg's H-back TEs who can't do one or the other. Kevin Boss would do a lot more for the line / offense than another RT plug-n-play.

If you ragged on every guy who has his position changed position from where he played in college ball, you'd be knocking a LOT of guys. Levitre wasn't drafted to be a T (and yet, in a pinch the last couple of games last season, iirc, he wasn't horrible at tackle). Many NFL LBs were DEs in college. BTW, Wood isn't a DT, and I'm sorry to burst your balloon, but he's a big boy who carries himself well.