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Let's discuss the 2007 Draft.
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Let's break this down.
- Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder. Minorities covered. CHECK!
- Elton John. Same sex couples covered. CHECK!
- Stevie Wonder. Disabled persons covered. CHECK!
The 2006 Buffalo Bills. U-N-I-T-Y without offense (and defense).
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ontact Marina Kushner at ( 815 ) 572-8007.
Will they deliver dildo's to this woman? She certainly needs one. Caffine intoxication? Please! Has she even bothered to pick up a medical journal, praising everything that caffine can do?
I should pass this along to Dr. Dean Edell. He'll rip this broad apart!
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Can we bump all these current posts about Jauron, and have a great laugh?
On the surface, I don't like this hire, but the staff hasn't even been announced. Free Agency is still over a month away, and then there's the draft. There's a lot to be done yet. Let the clock tick (not in the same way Jake Plummer let it tick today, mind you), but I'm not gonna throw a Hail Mary on 1st and 10 either.
Edit to add: Am I gonna get yelled at by Boomer Esiason for using a football analogy?
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And it's really Jauron as HC, and Sherman as Off. Coordinator?
It's a possibility. Kinda like Peyton Manning winning a football game in the playoffs.
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I read this, and looked at my 3 year old daughter. My life would be extremely hard without her. My thoughts and prayers are with little Mera, and her family.
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That is fantastic!!!
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I asked him that very same question. How could they possibly look at everyone who is invited to go to the Rose Bowl Game. Without him telling me specifics, the committee members get the tickets well in advance of the actual game. That's all he would tell me, and then he said, "draw you're own conclusions".
I had joked about going into my local Pac-10 Headquarters (They're located in Walnut Creek, where I live), get a quick internship, and pick up a couple of tickets that way. My buddy told me that the respective conferences get very few tickets. I found that hard to believe, to which was followed up with the comment, "If you are a major sponsor of the Rose Bowl, you get a major ticket allotment".
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i don't know if this is common knowledge but it was news to me. According to a family member who is friends with someone who is a family friend of our former GM - TD is saying that Levy has been working for the Bills since November and has been making personnel decisions. He referred to Levy as a tyrant and that was reason MM decided to resign.
In the end Levy called TD into his office and told him that it would be in his best interest to resign. TD refused and initially told him that he would have to fire him.
As far as credibility issues - i have known of the TD family friend for several years and my relative are both credible sources to me.
Secondly there is another story which may be partially confirmed to bolster the source's credibility.
I had sent a copy of WGR's wickedly funny Teddy Bruschi parody that was made following the ESPN game where Bruschi came back from his stroke to my relative who then forwarded it to TD's family friend who then in turn forwarded it to TD.
TD thought it was extremely funny and played it for the entire team following the Sunday night game. It should be fairly easy enough to confirm whether or not the GR bit was played for the team and therefore validate at least a portion of my story.
Not disputing anything you just said, but does Google Language Tools have a translation for this dialect?
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Sherman - Head Coach
Caldwell - Off. Coord.
Jauron - Def. Coord.
April - Asst. Head Coach/Special Teams
Lofton - Wide Receivers Coach, with the ability to have big imput with Caldwell, kind of a Asst. Off. Coord.
And to really screw up the mix...
Jim Kelly - Quarterbacks Coach
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Impliment the restriction they have for staffers on the Rose Bowl Committee, and this would end right quick!
A very good friend of mine is on the Rose Bowl Committee. He had 12 tickets for this years game. I bugged the piss out of him, for one ticket. He told me about the restrictions placed upon those who get the complimentary tickets. From my understanding, they actually scan the areas where these complimentary tickets are given out. A list of names has to be submitted to the Board who gives out these tickets. If someone other than who is on the list is sitting in one of these seats, given as a gift, sold without Rose Bowl Board approval, he would loose his position on the Committee.
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Ok. This is gonna sound totally senseless. (Read the majority of my other posts, and it would fit!)
If Soprano, or someone else who posts here, are affiliated with the Bills in a Management or on-the field capacity, it might be something to think about to put them in their own member group. Something that might identify them as a poster that can be trusted. They still will have their identity hidden.
Also, if these people are getting bombarded by Private Messages which could limit their visitation, SDS can make it so that this user group would accept a limited number of private messages (as few as 1). The parties involved can also hide their email addresses. This would limit the amount of "distractions" the person would have to deal with. This would mean that if a decision is impending, be it Season Ticket Packages, etc., those involved can come here, gauge reaction, and then make a more informed decision without anything other to deal with.
Only a small percentage of Bills fans are on this, or any other message board, but it is a large enough percentage to where they can make a better informed decision. I also believe that having those involved with the organization posting on a fan site only leads to better fan relations.
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Unfortunately the recent history of the NFL has simply not been that the quality of your work and character easily outweigh the color of your skin.
1. Until the late 80s (actually the early 90s until it became routine) virtually all NFL teams refused to employ players of A-A descent as QBs in this league.
It was actually the Bills making use of Marlin Briscoe at QB way back when who broke this barrier but it took the work of James Harris and accomplishments of Doug Williams as SB MVP to show how stupid and against the interest of winning football games this was.
By the mid 90s it became routine for their to be A-A QBs and folks like McNair and McNabb have led their teams to SBs from the QB position. However, the history of players of A-A descent being barred from this job is statisitically clear. The sudden change where now it is routine speaks to this past behavior as not being driven by the skills of A-A players to play and do well at QB.
2. The recemt past and current number of HCs of A-A descent particularly compared to the likely size of the pool of qualifed HCs candidates who happen to be A-A (this number is built by a majority of recent players being A-A and though being a former player does not mean you will or want to be a good HC, clearly the hiring pool of qualified candidates is larger than the 20% of current HCs who are of A-A descent or the recent days where there were only a couple of A-A HCs prior to the Rooney rule.
In general, it appears to me looking from outside that rather than A-A folks looking at getting an interview as happening "just because they are A-A" they look at it the same way that conservative activists like Condi Rice or Colin Powell view affirmative action efforts (which they are on record supporting generally).
These "token interviews" get their foot in the door so they can demonstrate what they can do. They are a chance to get into the good ol' boy network which has made unfair hiring decisions in the past based on who you know rather than what you know.
The "token" interviews will almost certainly not result in Lofton getting an HC job, but they can put him on a track to build a relationship with an HFL hirer that gets him a position coach or coordinator job.
If he does well with these this can be a fast track to an HC job.
I think the token interviews help the process and can get folks an opportunity they would not have gotten under past discriminatory MFL hiring processes.
This are all very good point. Something I probably should have thought of.
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I would tend to believe that if a African-American, Hispanic, whatever his nation or origin might be, that his qualifications would far outweigh the color of his skin. This rule is nothing more than a Paul Tagliabue over reaction. A few criticised the NFL, and their lack of minority head coaches, and the NFL put in this rule, for nothing more than to appease those speaking out (which again, are in the minority). This embarasses the NFL, and those who are interviewed late in the process.
Who here doesn't believe that Lofton went into the interview in Buffalo thinking to himself, "I'm nothing more than a fulfillment to a rule"?
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Well, if MS is hired as coach, I would have to think that Soprano would be as talented as this guy.
Yeah. I admit it. I'm a Rush whore...
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marv was brought in to baby sit mularkey who's now gone. it makes sense that marv would be a liability to a seasoned competent coach like sherman. seems like there's signs this is in fact the case. marv's expanded role beyond GM responsibilities will cramp any good coach they can bring in -- for the good of the team, admit marv's not necessary in light of recent events, pay him some reduced compensation and keep him as a "special consultant" or something, but by all means do whats right for the team and lose the guy.
Are you and the podium going steady?
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I saw Rush in the title of this thread, and got excited!
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MM is also gonna interview to be Ron Mexico's drinking buddy, ERRRR, Atlanta's QB coach.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/f...120falcons.html
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http://www.physorg.com/news9994.html
Study Reveals Dogs Can Smell Cancer in Patients' Breath
General Science : January 18, 2006
A new study reported by the National Geographic has revealed that dogs can detect cancer by smelling a patient’s breath. Domestic dogs can distinguish between infected lung and breast cancer patients and healthy subjects after just a few weeks training. The study was conducted by Pine Street Foundation, a California based cancer research organization.
Michael McCulloch, the lead researcher of the study team said, "Our study provides compelling evidence that cancers hidden beneath the skin can be detected simply by [dogs] examining the odors of a person's breath," When diagnosed early, a cancer patient's survival chances can be greatly improved. The new study has increased hopes for cancer patients.
Dogs have the ability to detect chemical traces at a range of parts per million. Separate studies conducted by other researchers have found that trained dogs can detect skin-cancer melanomas by sniffing skin lesions. Further research is on the way to prove that trained dogs can also screen for prostrate cancer by sniffing urine.
Nicholas Broffman, director of the Pine Street Foundation said, "Canine scent detection of cancer was anecdotally discussed for decades, but we felt it was appropriate to design a rigorous study that seriously investigated this topic to better evaluate its effectiveness,"
Lung and breast cancer patients exhale patterns of biochemical markers in their breath. "Cancer cells emit different metabolic waste products than normal cells," Broffman continued, "The differences between these metabolic products are so great that they can be detected by a dog's keen sense of smell, even in the early stages of disease."
The researchers trained five dogs. After inhaling breath samples from 83 people, the dogs identified 55 lung and 31 breast cancer patients. The dogs gave a positive reply by sitting or lying down in front of a test station. The research study was between 88 and 97 percent accurate. The results remained accurate even when considering whether the lung cancer patients were current smokers.
Canines' sense of smell is generally 10,000 to 100,000 times superior to that of humans. Although it is not clear what makes dogs good smellers, they have a greater convergence of neurons from the nose to the brain than humans do. Moreover, the dog brain is more devoted to the sense of smell than the human brain is.
Dogs may become an indespensible part of the early cancer screening process.
Copyright 2006 PhysOrg.com
Dick Jauron's coaching staff
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Any bets on how long it takes before this thread gets 205 replies and 40,000 views?
I'll start. This Wednesday at 4:35pm. (Eastern time zone).