JimBob2232

I dont care. You lost one game. Your right to complain about your future is over. If you lose out on a tie-breaker or BCS rank or whatever I dont care. You lost. The reason you are not in is because YOU lost. Its YOUR fault. I can live with that, and we can tweak the method of selecting teams who make it all day long, it doesnt matter, the problem is solved. The way i look at this is this: You win all your games, you get a chance to play for the national championship. You lose, even one game, you lose that right. If you are lucky, you get a second chance, but maybe not. If florida beats miami, but loses to virginia, too bad. Now you need help to make the playoffs. Its really that easy.

This will get interesting no doubt...Does bush try again to satisfy democrats, or does he try to sure up his base and attempt to salvage his presidency? The two ARE mutually exclusive. Say what you want to about Ann Coulter (i probably agree) but her column today made a very valid point. She basically said conservatives have never really been behind bush on many issues such as government spending, border protection, restrictions on free speech and lack of vetos. But they trusted him on 2 BIG issues. 1) War on Terror and 2) the supreme court. While many conservatives are still with the president on the War on Terror, giving in on the supreme court is not sitting well, and bush is losing the people who will stand up for him; The people that voted for him. Roe v. Wade is not, in and of itself, a republican litmus test. What republicans (okay, excuse me) conservatives want is a Justice who interperets the constitution and puts personal preferences and opinions behind them. I wonder privatly how many people have actually read the roe v. wade decision. I wonder how many people can even state the constitutional reasoning the majority stated in their decision. I dare say that if you cannot answer those questions, you should have no opinion on roe v. wade. Reasonable people will disagree on issues. Medical experts will disagree on when life is formed. To quote Justice Harry Blackmun, "One's philosophy, one's experiences, one's exposure to the raw edges of human existence, one's religious training, one's attitudes toward life and family and their values, and the moral standards one establishes and seeks to observe, are all likely to influence and to color one's thinking and conclusions about abortion. [The Supreme Courts] task...is to resolve the issue by constitutional measurement, free of emotion and of predilection. " This is what the conservatives want in a Justice. Someone who takes all personal beliefs out of the equation and "resolve(s) the issue by constitutional measurement" only. Thats it. And a good conservative justice SHOULD be the same as a good liberal justice. The problem with Miers is that we did have any proof she could hold up her end of the deal. I am of the opinion however that she was the presidents nominee and therefore should have had a chance to be at the hearings and heard. For those who think Roe v. wade is the only issue, tell me, what is John Roberts position on abortion? Dont know? Good. Its irrelavant, and should be irrelavant. He has proven himself to be an outstanding constitutional scholar, and will be an asset to the court, and faithfully interperet the constitution. So does Bush now nominate a Justice with a clear cut record and outstanding credentials? Or does he reach back into the pot and pulls out someone he can push through? Why is it democrats can nominate a very VERY liberal judge (Ruth Bader Ginsberg, ACLU member) and get her confirmed 96-3, and everyone is saying its a bad thing if bush nominates a very VERY conservative judge? Its because there is a clear cut double standard. Neither is right, there should be ONE standard. John Roberts met it with flying colors. Lets hope the next nominee does as well.

And chuck lester looks like he should be dating lafawnduh

they were only doing sure bets. SF, Houston and miami were about the only other teams "out". I was suprised to see him pick buffalo since we ARE only 1/2 game out. The way we are playing we are in trouble, but still, we are only 1/2 game out.

The difference is that nobody right now is claiming Ohio State, Penn State of Florida State should have a chance at the national championship. In fact, they already lost a game, Someone always gets left out. Even in the NFL or MLB there is always a team on teh cusp that doesnt make it. Doesnt mean the system is bad, just means they werent good enough to be a surefire team in the playoffs. If penn state wants to be in the playoffs and have a shot at the championship, they need to beat michigan. They didnt, they lost, now they need some help to get in, and if they finish on the bubble, thats their own fault, and thats acceptable. What is NOT acceptable is if virginia tech finishes undefeated but doesnt get a chance to play for the championship because texas and usc are also undefeated. This scenrio will not play out with a playoff system as proposed on this thread.

Here is my plan. Have 6 auto bids to the tournament. Give one to each of the following confeneces: Big 10, SEC, Big East, ACC, Big 12, Pac 10. Let each conference decide who to send to the tournament (i.e. regular season winner or tournament champion). Then have 2 at large bids. These auto bids would allow for any team not given an auto bid. Use a BCS-like formula to determine these 2 bids. Then rank 1-8 and play 1vs 8, 2vs7, 3vs6 and 4vs 5. Then have 2 remaining weeks to determine a champion. If money is an issue, it wont be when they see how much revenue a playoff system would generate.

I hope VA Tech goes undefeated and doesnt get a chance at the championship game. VA tech fans drive me crazy, and perhaps FINALLY, we would get a playoff system...at least VA Tech fans might stop arguing with me about it

On a side note, Im looking to go to the jets/bills game on/around new years. How are jets fans? I am going to be taking my younger brother (17) to the game as well. If we show up in full bills clothing will there be problems? We wont be antagonizing anyone, just watching the game. Anyone have any meadowlands experiences?

I dont know..the vikings without Randy Moss are greatly improved this year...might the same kind of sucess happen to oakland without him?

Drop Gonzalez and Henry, add in D. Jackson and Javon Walker and you have my disaster of a team.... Luckilly I have C. Palmer / C. Johnson to pull me out some weeks.

I also dont have a problem with it. If you are going to take that approach, then what is the point of even having divisions? Just take the top 6 teams in each conference and send them to the playoffs. Its something you have to deal with. You cant change the rules during the season.

Definatly the lines. Our needs (in order) 1. LT /O-Line 2. DT 3. LB (need some youth) 4. TE (less important if euhus or Everett pans out) 5. S (also need youth) And CB pending on clements. Really...our offense is set. We need some O-Line help, and like it or not, we are stuck with losman for 2 more years at least (note: I think he will be very good, he just needs time in the game). Defense is getting older and we need to start thinking about the future there. I am happy with our DEs this year. Of course, if we got a chance to draft a freeney or peppers, we cant pass that opportinity up, but its not worth taking a guy early if a good OL/DL is there

eh, i dont have a problem with him being the #3. We need a young guy to be the #3 guy, not shane matthews (though I am glad he is here too...).

Last I checked we start 2 CBs each game.

but but TD cant draft!

The real question that should be asked (if you can hold your breath and not critsize TD for a second) is why could seattle not get a 2nd for alexander? And why could Indianapolis not get a 2nd for James, yet we got a 3rd for Henry?

I admit, I wanted him out of here. I thought he had the ability to be a good kicker, but needed a change of scenery to do so. I am very happy to see him being so sucessful. I still have little confidence in him...but if he keeps going at this rate, he will earn it.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-r...ov=ap&type=lgns Hurt Groin...Return Questionable

Now that I think of it...they probably have scheduled only one 4PM game in HD every week...and since the Pats are playing...we lose.

Well thats a bummer. I thought for sure this game would be in HD due to the NY media market.

While I dont doubt that we might still have a chance at the playoffs, taking over 1st from new england seems like a very difficult uphill battle. I was suprised to see we were so close to NE in the poll. Course its just a poll, and an unscientific one at that...so it isnt worth anything, but I am suprised about 70 percent of the people didnt take NE.

New England 38% Buffalo 35% Miami 16% NY Jets 11% Whaaaaaa?

Dont see the game in HD listed on Directv. Does anyone know if it is?

Hmm....wonder if anyone could score.

Hmm...it seems to me that that is EXACTLY what he did. I dont read anything into it, but it seemed to me thats what he did.