stuckincincy

But not craker cash. We can exercise free speech and say cracker, but woe to he who says !@#$. Racism seems to be a one-way street...

Perhaps they are running low on self-important, self-serving, vicarious saps to sell to. I thought the supply was endless...

Yet another dev/null post, without an ounce of description.... Talk to me, dev, talk to me. I can help.

There is no teleprompter in front of him for this. Remember his reliable default position... "Uh". Wait 5 days - perhaps we shall then see something, packaged appropriately, another opportunity for yet putting out another one of his signature straw men.

I could see JP ending up in CIN, if the price is right. W-L record aside, their assistant HC/OL coach Paul Alexander is one of the best in the business. Protecting Palmer is job#1, and they stockpile OLs. Last season, like the year before, they were rocked with OL injuries. The bench stepped up for Fitzpatrick. I've been meaning to post my impressions about Fitzpatrick, watching him play 12 games. He proved to be quick on the uptake, and very much a director of the offense. Forget any "noodle-arm" comments - he can make the throws. Very decisive - he ran often and well, realizing his inexperience. And as his time in games progressed, he hit the open receivers. Certainly, he was aided by Houshmanzedeh. And RB Benson's resurgence. The Bills signed him to a pretty decent contract. With good reason, IMO.

And punts are high-arcing things, ideally. The return blockers wait. Not much of a wedge formation like for kick offs.

It was legal. Was it necessary to aid in stopping a ball carrier?

Time to toss a bone towards ATL's OC - Mularkey. His head coach gig didn't work out with BUF, but I shake my head at folks that call him a quitter when he left. Wilson & Co. stripped him of his staff save a few. Same as in general business when such happens, he saw that his knees were capped and left graciously. Knowing that he was rendered impotent and was in the crosshairs.

Well, I'll comment on Ward's hit on Rivers. Rivers was well out of the play, and Ward swooped in high, and broke his jaw. I guess an argument would be, that Rivers should have looked around. IMO, it was a cheap shot by Ward. He could have gone low, and would have accomplished the same thing - taking out a player who was in no position to affect the play. Think back about Warren Sapp nailing GB OL Clifton, several years back. The NFL, and players (I believe), feel that such hits go against basic principles of good sportsmanship. If Rivers was an instant from making a tackle - fine. But that wasn't the case. The result of Ward's shot was that a promising rookie lost the rest of his season. And when starters go down, the competitiveness between teams that we like to see, gets diminished. I realize that a win is a win, but chalking up victories against heavily-injured clubs comes back. Witness the Bills' 5 - 1 start, when they faced off against some teams with severe OL problems and/or clubhouse mayhem. Facing clubs more or less intact, with some injury problems of their own - 2 and 8.

Perhaps not. Working in automotive, this phrase was an absolute truth: "An ounce of pull is worth a ton of push".

Thanks. I agree with what you say. I read this or that post about having a H-Back. That's useful, but for that position, I like to see a player who is a tight end first, and blocking back second. CIN does that with Reggie Kelly (factoid - he was the player that ATL drafted before Peerless Price). Kelly's a decent blocker, backfield or on the line. Decent hands - but their scheme decidedly doesn't look to TE receptions.

If they are marginal in coverage, and marginal in pressuring a QB - get better ones. With CIN, Spikes didn't blitz much - his value was in how much of the field he covered. When he did, though - he was terrific at it.

I see so few Bills' games - does Schonert's schemes try to feature the tight end? The impression I get is that the tight end is mostly a check down option for Edwards.

I'm aware that Tebow is a decent kid, despite your claim that "I obviously know absolutely nothing about the person Tebow is". I spoke of generalities prevalent today.

They were prominent AFL game announcers, on NBC.

That's especially sad, considering the favorable field position on offense and defense afforded by April's special teams through the years...

Well, she turned out far better than Zelda Gilroy, of the tv show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis Zelda: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/08/214644.php Dobie: http://www.tvparty.com/recdobie.html BTW, Dobie - Dwane Hickman, along with his brother Darryl, were childhood stars in many b&w flicks.

If it does happen, I can see reasons for it taking time...lots of negotiations to keep stadiums open for an extra week...dealings with municipalities, stadium labor, scheduling, and so on.

The American Idol television show wouldn't tolerate their stars getting injured and not able to show up and pump up the ratings. Same with the NFL. And their idols have contracts. There is no business like show business.

Same here.

A draft wow-wee player - sure he is. With a bum foot. Such injury has a tendency to come back. There is no part of the body under constant stress, like the foot. A risky pick IMO.

And who pays to enable folks to have that innocent child - in multiples? Time was, there was social opprobrium regarding the production of bastards...

Yep. Crabtree has a bum foot. Those injuries return.

In times past, wasn't what is today's networking called cronyism?