Bill from NYC
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Being skeptical of him is fine. I myself am not expecint Orlando Pace, but someone who doesn't get JP killed and can open some holes in the running game. Anything more than that is gravy. I just can't see screaming and yelling over a guy who hasn't had much help in becoming a better player the last few years. I will say that he seems injury-prone, but so too was Jonas.
I hear ya!
I never thought Jonas to be dominant, but he was good, and look at the obscene contract he got!My beef is less about Gandy and more about the Bills taking more than a decade to put together a strong OL.
That said, I do credit TD for doing a better job than Mr. Butler wrt bringing us blocking.
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Again, based on both my own eyes , and from the radio commentary of AVP (he would usually say when a sack was given up whose actual responsibility it was on the play and it often conflicted with what "experts" thought here) Travis DID show improvement in the blitz pickup area in '04. The next sentence you mention about "lunacy" makes absolutely no sense at all if you read it again. And why not provide more than mockery in response? It is also a fact that he improved in receiving and route skills and showed this both in later '03 and in his final year, making difficult catches at times from so called "touch" passes from DB. This does not say that he was ever a great back, or even great at any of these particular skills, only that he did improve, especially from 2001 thru 2003.
I think TD did a great job with the trade as well and am happy with it by the way.
OK, let's just completely ignore the fact that sacks were drastically reduced when Travis was benched. It made little to no difference. Sound good?
I will admit that it is sometimes tough to assign blame for sacks. I truly believe that Travis was too stupid to even comprehend what his assignment actually was.
Why don't we wait and see just how stellar his performances are at Tenn.? It wont be long. I have a feeling that poor McNair is going to be one hurtin' SOB.
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MBD, I for one do not "write off" Gandy, but it is NOT unreasonable to be skeptical of a LEFT TACKLE who was cast aside by a team with such a poor OL that a shrunken, washed up Ruben Brown is a member of.
Left Tackles are worth their weight in gold. Verba has 2 pretty serious allegations and is supposedly in Vegas, parting his ass off, right? Well, the Bills have made an inquiry and the Texans an offer. This speaks to just how much teams want a quality LT.
Nobody will trade you a LT, and many are drafted in the top 10, if not top 5, year after year.
The only thing we have going for us wrt Gandy is that McNally appears to like him and this is big, but mistakes are sometimes made by the best of those who evaluate football players, no?
Bottom line? I wish that I could be as positive as you. Personally, I hope that he is the next Orlando Pace, but I am not convinced that he will even survive camp.
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Great post John!
Funny, one poster in this thread is purporting Travis to be a good receiver. Another went as far as to proclaim that picking up the blitz was a highlight of his dreadful 04 season! If this utter lunacy were to be true, Willis would be a non-issue because he wouldn't have been drafted. TD probably would have grabbed Steinbach to play LG.
TD did a GREAT job unloading a player who had such a dismal season in 04 for a 3rd. You are right, this pick can be used to move up if need be. It certainly gives TD more options.
If you believe TD, he said that making the trade was extremely difficult to do, and even likened it to his wife going through labor.
In any event it is over, and my sincere congrats go out to TD!
GO BILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It was kind bizarre really. It was for assault and stalking. I did not know the person, and in the end it turned out the person was never assaulted or stalked.
I fit a fictitious description. Of course they found no corraborating evidence, because I didn't know what the hell they were talking about. The police in the end were extremely apologetic, and perhaps overeager to do their jobs. But for the time that they thought they had their man were some of the scariest of my life.
Of course this doesn't have anything to do with the GWOT, but there was no warrant in this case, I was pulled out of a car.
Persons are constantly arrested and searched without a warrant. Probable cause is sufficient for arrests, for instance.......A woman enters a police station and states that her husband assaulted her. She has a black eye. The woman is photographed, and a complaint report is filed. Guess who is getting arrested? Her statement serves as probable cause, even though the detective didn't witness the assault. There is no need for a warrant. The search will be conducted incident to the lawful arrest.
Just curious.....did the person who you were charged with assaulting have any visible injuries?
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hogboy (AKA Hogboy the Slob) is still the King of all Trolls as far as I'm concerned.
Long live hogboy, the king!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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my understanding is this greatly expands the ability of government to collect private information. (computer records, business records, purchase records, library records, all with a gag order). This needs to be obtained with a court order, but without probable cause. Also it isn't discriminate information, it is everybody's information.
I was once mistakenly arrested and interrogated overnight for something I wasn't involved in. It turned out there wasn't a crime commited at all (so how could there be probable cause to search my person, effects, and documents.) The 4th Amendment is very important to me.
The above does sound like a very interesting story.
Btw, wrt arrests, probable cause is needed for the ARREST, not the search. Search incident to a lawful arrest is perfectly legal.
I am NOT judging what happened to you; whereas I do not know any of the facts, just trying to offer a possible explanation.
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47 Days!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I disagree with you on the public housing, for two reasons. One that was rental property subsidized by the federal/state government. Therefore, smoking should be banned there as it is offically public property. Second with the cost of cigarettes, I have a strong objection to my tax dollars supporting the apartments of these people knowing that they are spending several hundreds per year in these activities, that I am supporting. In additiona, a large portion of the people on rent control are also on medicade and medicare, hence we are also having to pay for the added medical problems that they are their familiy incures due to smoking problems.
The problem I have with this proposed law is that legislatures do not know when to stop.
Believe it or not, I can see your point, although I do not agree.
My wife grew up in a Housing Project across the street from Bellvue Hospital, on 1st Ave. Her father (may God rest his soul) smoked (my wife does not).
Even though their apartment was subsidized, it was their home. My father in-law was the "man of the house" in an old school Puerto-Rican family.
My wife is an officer of a major bank. His other children consist of a police officer, cpa, a Psychologist with a PHD, and a RN. Do you seriously think that it would have been OK for the government to burst into their home to punish/arrest this wonderful man for cigarette smoking? Would it be OK for his wife and daughters to be traumatized as such?
Please, give me an honest answer.
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Libby Pataki, a supposed anti-smoking activist, was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to speak about "health issues" and "women's issues," this with no medical background.
Do you think this had anything to do with why he changed his decade long stance and all of a sudden, supported the smoking ban in bars?
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Not to change the topic, but has anyone ever told you that you are an a-hole?
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I heard this on the radio. That New Jersey is now going to ban smoking in cars? You know as much as I hate smoking, and I do agree with the ban on smoking in public establishments, yes including bars and restaurants. How does Jersey honestly think that they can ban smoking in cars? Under what premise? Over legislating here. A few of these idiots need to be show the chemical dump.
This has been my point all along VA. Rights are not swept away all at once. It is a gradual process. Did you support the proposed smoking ban in NYS Housing Projects? It was equally stupid and oppressive, perhaps much worse.
My views on this issue are clear. When eating, drinking and smoking are banned in the parking lot of RWS (a matter of time), I suspect that you will be as unhappy as I am about the erosion of individual rights in our great country.
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That's like saying 'Our house is on fire! Quick, let's build a new addition!"
Howz about unions trying to fix their current disorganization before attempting to grow into new areas? Methinks the unions are so scared about becoming irrelevent they want to get into Walmart (and Toyota,etc) simply to get more union dues so they can keep the bloated behemoth on life support another decade or two...
Well, I respectfully disagree. There are still plenty of construction workers, police officers, and others who are afforded a better lifestyle and more dignity because of their respective labor unions.
Gavin, I am not a labor radical. I believe in a union/management environment where both parties can achieve a better lifestyle. That said, you will be hard pressed to convince me that workers at WalMart are better off without union representation.
If you disagree, please state your case.
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Dude, we have already leapt WAY across the line of boring others.
Why don't you run by us how great it is to work at Walmart, and how happy you feel about paying taxes to provide food stamps and medical care out of your tax dollars to WalMart employees, while they abuse their workers, pay them virtual slave wages, and lose law suits for discrimination, denying overtime, etc.
Sure, they would be worse off as teamsters, right?
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Do think that unionizing Wal-Mart and Toyota (whose workers have rejected UAW overtures before) might have an adverse effect on them?
No.
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Have you watched Aiken on coverage special teams? He is superb. Otoh, Reed has been in a steady decline since his rookie season.
JP is young and inexperienced. He does not need the added burden of the consistent dropped passes that Reed brings to the table. I personally would rather see Aiken get a shot.
Jmo.
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Good Luck Brother! May God be with you.
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The writing's on the wall for JR. Since his first year, Buffalo has drafted WR high. Now they are loaded. He has to prove that he can hang or he's gone. So, so long Josh! these young guys are too fast and too good for you to compete. I'm not even sure that he will make it on the final 53?
Jeff
According to CP, the Bills would save $458,000 cap dollars by cutting him.
I am hoping that they do so.
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Maybe I misunderstood your post. I thought you were, maybe, making sense in suggesting that Unions should focus less on recruitment, and more on fixing what shreds of credibility they still have, if any.
Do you think that Unions should be focused on organizing more workers? Like those at Wal-Mart (one of the biggest companies in the world) and Toyota (soon to be the largest auto-maker in the world)? And they should do this, instead of trying to change their relationship with companies like Ford, GM, and Chevy (the Bloated 3), each of which is in crisis?
I see nothing wrong with attempting to do both.
We traded Travis Henry?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I see your point. Perhaps I am spoiled. When I think of a pass blocking running back, I see images of the man on your screen name. I also loved what I saw from Willis. Often, star running backs are lacking in the blocking department, but not those two.
Looking back, the OL was not great for Thurman's entire career, but he was sticking his head and shoulders in there to protect his qb.
He could also figure out his assignments.