UConn James

Sure it wasn't Tom Brady?

Neither did McGee (besides KOs, and whatever else, a limited role). Marv drafted Youboty and was very high on him. He should get reps this year. I don't think we need to break the bank to get a satisfactory CB, and the way the draft and signings went, ML was planning for the short-term future. We are rebuilding. Might as well rebuild there too with talented guys we've already got on the roster. Cap $ needs to go to the DL, OL, LB and other core areas.

Neither was Dre Bly a couple years ago.... And the salary cap has only gone up. Samuel will get a big payday from someone. There is approximately a 97.8% chance that Nate will be gone next year. I wouldn't mind Youboty or Greer getting the spot.

It's going to be more organized this season. Six new eps, then a mini hiatus of 13(?) weeks, then all new eps the rest of the way. On the Season 2 DVDs, one of the producers explained why the scheduling was a mess last year. There's no way possible to keep up the production schedule --- even with 2 crews --- with the airing schedule. Something has to give. I think they made a great decision this year. Have a mini-finale, and you have to think there'll be a shocker; and none of the fractured repeat schedule. I got the S2 set last week and finished watching it yesterday, as a brush-up before it starts. Something to note --- the guy sitting next to Bernard in the plane seat in the tree.... is the same actor that played Jason, who Ana-Lucia murdered in revenge. It's more evident in some of the extras footage. They're so careful on the show; this doesn't seem to be something they'd just allow. Then again, they revealed that the Dharma logo on the shark was supposed to strictly be an insider joke thing, until the scene came out lighter than they thought and people spotted it. The biggest question? Obviously, what are the Others going to do with Jack, Sawyer and Kate. What is their intent? What was the noise & light? I don't think the nod really meant much. A show of solidarity. An 'it'll be all right' even tho they don't know that. Perhaps as a reminder that Sayid has their back.

Same difference.

The Minuteman Project says JP is a dirty Mexican half-breed stealing a job from real Americans.

Didn't you listen to the guy in the garage with black hair and full mustache in the DirecTV commercial? How can a QB like Peyton Manning throw a bad pass with a "laser... rocket arm"? I don't believe you.

Watch out for the aliens who landed their ship next to the coliseum. I still can't believe what they did to a classic stadium.

Dude, all due respect, but they're supposed to be PROFESSIONALS! And b/w Walt Coleman being a doctor or lawyer or whatever from 8-6 M-F, when is anything like that going to be done to the degree necessary? Also presents a problem of giving your secrets to someone else. Sure way to have it not be a secret anymore. To say it in other words, I wouldn't exactly trust the refs with our playbook in a league where teams like Buffalo have to do Amish bowling (rent "Kingpin" ) while everyone else is doing ten-pin just to ensure we don't get screwed. On 4th and 1, we need to get 3 just so there's no question.

If that Super Bowl wasn't enough to convince the league honchos that something needs to be done about refs, nothing will. They accept a lousy standard. Maybe b/c it adds a level of drama in the script.

It's just sad that our ST coach can exploit his knowledge of the rules to create an advantage for us... but all it leads to is blown calls by refs who don't understand the rules' application, which is kind of the most important part. It does nothing for April to school the refs in a memo on Mondays when we repeatedly get screwed on Sundays. Fecking people can't do the simplest part of their jobs.... to know the rules. But no need for full-time refs in the NFL!

Maybe that's what Saban meant by "positive gratification."

Is that half-way b/w like and love?

Had been a battle of field position that we were losing, up to that.

WTF is up with these refs and the "Opportunity to make a fair catch" crap? They have a 3-hour conference on it this week and want to take it for a test drive?

No, no, no! He's a "Playmaker." Ask him, he'll tell you!

That Rian Lindell.... putting KOs 5 yards into the endzone. He really sucks.

Devnull is keeping it on the down-low.

That threat works every time, for every man.

I can corroborate the ice situation as it gets closer to Rochester. Don't know where that kind of cut-off line is. Relatives ~50 miles east of the city get bad ice storms every year. One time the power was out for about 2 weeks.

See, I don't know what you're trying to say with that sentence. Anyone from a state with high taxes cannot factually point out that taxes are high in another state? ... I am personally 'in big trouble' for chiming in on the subject? ...

SnR, I was saying that, in almost all cases in how anyone looks at tax rates, you were right in saying that NY is one of if not the worst. That part about CT was just... what's the word... inspiration on my part for a state governed by a woman who's getting by on being slightly less corrupt than her old boss. Stop laboring in misapprehension.

Lots of people throw it out as a truism that NY has one of the highest tax burdens.... Certainly, it varies as one categories by net taxes, state taxes local, federal, per capita, as a percentage of earnings (which is probably the fairest way to judge)... etc. It can be as complicated or as easy as you'd like to make it. But the truism is so b/c it generally is true. According to the Tax Foundation NY is #2 only to.... drumroll please.... Connecticut. link to a pertinent article

That's already happened at UConn's new football stadium just outside Hartford. The rules make it so there is a de facto 'No tailgating allowed' in place. People cannot throw footballs in the lots.... I think it allows electric grills. But from what I hear (been out of there for a while), no one tailgates anymore like they did at the old stadium on campus. It is a parking lot for people watching football. This was done, evidently, for insurance reasons for the U. And before you go touting CT as uber-lib, I've had contact w/ the admin, and the people are about as bowtie-conservative as you get. Either way you cut it, both sides have their own list of things they want banned so as to make the concept of choice a thing of the past.

I would say it was ill-advised. iirc, Evans fell down to make the catch. There were a couple others, but I couldn't cite them specifically w/o the tape. On the above one, I remember yelling, "Look to your right!" and then a big 'Whew.' In one sense, I think it'll build JP's (Sigh... Can he just switch to Jon already, it always sounds like you're talking about a 10-year-old with "JP" ) confidence.... and to add something, it was a bad weather day, which factors in too. The fumble problems were attributable to blocking failures on his blindside, not so much his fault.