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They're "going to do an evaluation this week of every position"? Really? B/c TD says in every one of his "Ask the GM" thingies that they only do player evaluations at the end of the season. From the sounds of it, it's probably 60-40 that Holcomb is playing vs. KC, and if he still can't put up much better overall results, then it's curtains. With a dink-and-dunk QB, the stats don't matter --- they will usually have good comp/att numbers, and Ds will give them garbagetime-like yardage gains in order to stop them or force FGs. When the field gets shorter, defending the D'n'D gets easier b/c the DBs aren't covering nearly as much ground. What does matter is whether the QB controls the O smoothly, methodically and with results. KH hasn't done that first one very well (to some degree, Tom Clements has a lot to do with this, but by that same token, TCs' craptacular 'Who's Willis?' O when JP was in didn't help the rookie), and the last one, well... you know the answer in that Rian Lindell is the team MVP.

You know, a lot of the Pats' opponents this year have come away from their game thinking the same damn thing. There's a point where it stops being sheer happenstance and starts being a pattern. They simply bring their opponent down to their level, don't allow the score to get too much to overcome, and then Brady lights it up in the 4th and is the Second Coming of John Elway. I can't say this is a good strategy by Bellichick, but he's pulling out some wins with a bunch of 3rd and 4th stringers in his secondary and OL.

Puhonix, Those are pretty cool shots, and the $150 and $100 prices you said seem about right. If someone is interested, you can always strike a bargain, but don't sell yourself short --- takes a lot of time/money to produce these things and people sometimes have a tendency not to realize that. Agree with JC about black/white, but then there is the whole craze with that now and everyone's doing it.... I always wanted to take a photography class at the U, but never had the proper schedule (it was a 6-hour/week class for the same number of credits as a 3-hour/week class, too). In my area of study, photography was kind of a run-along. Have had a lot of times where I've wanted to have a camera with me to take a photo of something that was really beautiful (ie a startlingly red leaf on the top of a gray stone wall last week), but for the moment, I'm pound-wise and penny-poor for one of those new-fangled digital cameras. If you're interested, there was a display in the library a few years back where a woman used light-sensitive photopaper to take pictures of the inside of fruit/vegetables. I was taking a botany course at the time and they just blew my mind how they related to the stuff I was studying, and how beautiful they were. My absolute favorite is "Sugar Peas" These pictures were about 3 feet by 5 feet, so they were BIG, but I looked at the prices for them and about went . Don't know if this link is still active, but you can also try googling if it doesn't work or for more info on how she did them. I've also seen the first name as "Ann." Anne Parker --- Botanical Metamorphics

Nope. Helps him offset when his nose is that W.C. Fields-like shade of maroon. Hell, if I had as much coin as him, I'd go through life drunk too.

How many times did they cut to Bruschi's wife in the stands? I gave up long ago in hoping that announcers talk about things that matter.

I don't leave it to announcers to dictate what is a good hit; you can turn the sound off and watch the game and not get a migraine. The players are the ones who matter. This one learned from the best. Rodney Harrison reincarnate. He was trying to make a highlight reel for a WM career-ending injury.

Well, he is consistent in getting overpowered, then doing his matador impression on nearly every play. I'll give him that....

This is an excellent one for MM's "Ask the Coach" thingy. Unless they're screening out the questions with any criticism of TC. I don't remember one entry with MM being asked about his playcalling, and his tendency of forgetting to run the ball and instead going with the cute plays, especially at the goal line. I don't really like Joe Theisman, but he had one good observation last night. When RP ran the end-around, he said something to the tune of 'This is the type of play you run when you're desperate and you're out of ideas.'

It may have been the Captain Morgan, but was I seeing MW play at LT? If so, it wasn't that bad....

When MM stated why JP was being benched, it was basically that very reason. To which I furrowed my brow and asked, "So, Bob gets fired b/c Bill sucks at his job?"

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Kelly, you took the words out of my mouth. Exactly what I've said since word came that JP was being benched. KH may fool you into thinking he's a competent starting QB with his completions/attempts statistics, but vouchsafe that he is a fraud. Did you see what happened in the first half and we got a grand total of 3 points? THREE points? This is exactly what happened that got JP pulled; what does it matter that KH is 17/24 while putting the same crap on the scoreboard? To anyone who thought that KH/The Bills dictated the game last night even with a ~40 min. ball control O, respectfully, you're wrong. Living in Patsie-land, I've seen every NE game in the past five years. I'm not going to say it's a great strategy for winning to stay close and win it with a miracle 4th Q drive --- that's for Bellichick to answer. And it shows in the Pats' record this year. But don't think that KH was doing anything the Pats didn't allow him to do. BB re-invented the dink-and-dunk with Weis. For sure, he knows how to stop it. For everyone who enjoys mediocrity, that's what you get with KH. And next year when this Swiss cheese defense is rebuilding and there will be no falling back on it, the offense will be expected to pick up the slack and we'll again have to turn to an unschooled (b/c TD&MM didn't want to pay the tuition) Losman. And we'll have two suck-ass years when only one may have been necessary.

You know BF, whenever I read one of your posts, I picture that fat kid from the commercials whimpering, "I should've worked at Capital One!"

Well, it has been established that Walt & Michael can finish the joke. It was on one of the cards that he sent Walt, and that they re-read in that ep. The answer was something like "Do you smell carrots?" Thing is, who gave Desmond this riddle to find out his replacement? And, Walt appearing and telling Shannon about the button would indicate that he knows it's what he needs to do. Maybe there's some kind of prophecy involving a child that the Others know about. I don't know about Desmond. It seems that as soon as his replacements got there and he could fob off sleep deprivation on someone else, he was G-O-N-E. Told Jack in the stadium, "See you in another life, brother" and when he saw him again it was in another kind of life. He repeated that quip in when Jack tracked him down. I think he will be back, but again, it's going to be in a different kind of life.

Yaknow, that's probably the best one I've heard this year. You'd need to get a prostetic forehead to get that many wrinkles tho. Guy looked like Wharf on Star Trek.

Awesome Easter Egg find. Have you found out about any more? I meant to check somewhere to see if anyone found some (b/c there have to be some. There just have to) but b/w this, that and the other, never got to it.

Spun, some really good questions, observations, and predictions. Basically what it all boils down to that we're waiting for to develop. And it has been a lot of development this season so far, and not much real action. I guess when someone gets whacked in two weeks, the season might start to pick up steam. Agree that Ana Lucia is going to be facing some serious, "Hey, Brooklyn, shut the !@#$ up already. B word." when they get to the other camp. Not so nice of them to be leading the Others there, don't you know, and I don't think Sayid and everyone will appreciate it very much. I also don't know if she'll mesh with Locke very well --- she's very high-strung and domineering; Locke is congenial and fairly relaxed on the island. As far as the food stockpile, I'm not sure that someone resupplied the hatch frequently. It was said that Desmond only had enough food left for about 3 months; food like that can last for years, and who's to say that it wasn't past its official expiration date, yet still edible (a lot of companies use a rather arbitrary "use-by" date)? The Others could well be split up, and there's not necessarily only the eight or so that walked past. I was conscious of that, just didn't get it down in 12-point Times New Roman.... Rose doesn't have all that much of a story. They introduced her early on last season as the woman who was sitting all alone and not drinking any water, and she 'knew' that her husband was alive even tho he was in the back section of the plane. There was also an ep where she kind of prayed with Charlie. And then she disappeared for like 15 eps, and everyone was like, "WTF happened to Rose?" Bernard is the guy we've just seen among the new group of survivors. Johanna is the one who drowned. Apparently. Even tho she was a "strong swimmer" back in the real world and swam every day. I still think there was something weird about that.... Another "security system" on that side that lets no one get out? For any nookie action, Sawyer said something about that in the season finale as he was reading through the notes people put in the bottle. A woman wrote back to her husband and kids, and he's like "Ahh... but what she doesn't say is she's been shackin' up with Steve this whole time." And, the show is on an hour later now, not earlier. Charlie knows that the Virgin Mary statues have heroin in them. Someone mentioned in passing that it was a drug plane. When they passed by, Charlie saw one that was broken open and heroin bags on the ground. He took an unsmashed statue. Something will come up about this. Especially when Locke sees it; I also think it will lead him to use Charlie as his next "sacrifice," as the plane = heroin = Charlie, in Locke's whole "The Island showed it to me" schtick. I think this is the longest Lost post I've had in quite a while. Thanks.

And when we're playing Pittsburgh, our line can't handle three guys. Hmmm. Maybe we've gone about it in the wrong way.... Let's sign Belladonna to the OL! She could probably "handle" the whole opposing D. All at the same time.

In the "Ask the Coach" one, I'd like for MM to take one about Tom Clements' cutesy play-calling, which IIRC, he hasn't specifically done. I want to know about the man-love TC has for Damion Shelton near the goal line, and just how many times it needs to be shown that DS can't do the job. That and Mark IV's question, which yet stands --- "Coach, why do you abhor the run?"

JP is the gay wanna-be dentist elf. (I keed. I keeeed. )

Telling Jerry Gray not to blitz is like telling Medusa not to turn people into stone. The very definition of a one-trick pony. And Brady is going to carve this D up like a Christmas turkey.

He wasn't JP's go-to receiver, and for some reason they didn't click. He decided to speak against the rookie, thinking people would put stock into what he said. And some people did, especially the ones that mattered. Now, over three weeks with a MINDBLOWING average of 40 yards a game, it's pretty evident that said QB wasn't the only factor in our losses. Moulds should worry about Moulds. And yeah, since NFL salaries can only be reduced 10% per year (IIRC), I'd say he's gone next year. He knows TD's tendencies to draft replacements a year in advance.... and RP was our first pick. Memo to EM: 1) Grasping at straws doesn't work 2) Sh-- floats to the top.

Ever read "The Seven Daughters of Eve" by Brian Sykes? I challenge these girls and anybody else who thinks they're racially "pure" to a DNA test. There's a lot of people who would be absolutely shocked to see exactly what percentage of "black" or "white" genetic makeup they have. "We are all a complete mixture."

See the finish to the Giants game yesterday? There's a program that did what needed to be done last year w/ Eli, swallowed the medicine and it's going to be paying dividends for them. We have fans dictating the starting lineup and they are perfectly contented with sinking with the QB whose abilities are limited but known with Holcomb and getting *maybe* 5 wins vs. developing JP and seeing what happens. Our FO and high-level coaches have their heads so far up their asses they can see daylight. Tom Clements is in over his head. First drives have gone really well, and then he does a 180* from everything that was working. What is with the MAN LOVE he has for D. Shelton at the goal line? If Mularky has any balls, he needs to take over the O play-calling.

And I'll be wagering that the "Ask the Coach" and "Ask the GM" articles won't be running this week, after all the zingers they got after the loss to the Falcons. They didn't have one after the loss to the Saints. Then when they got a W, it started up again. These guys don't want to face much criticism and have their 'grand scheme' !@#$-ups brought to light.