Jon in Pasadena
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I agree with your observations, and I would add that, IMHO, it looked like once TE spotted his open man, that he was probably going for a longish-intermediate throw, which he is just a tad slower at getting the ball out. (It comes out really quick on the shorter-intermediate routes). Anybody know for sure who/where his intended target was?For those who have the game available, or for those who have already looked at the play, repeatedly, I have a question or several, on the forced fumble play:It appeared to me that Edwards took a fairly deep drop on that play. It also appeared the DL took a path around Peters, coming up behind Edwards. Now, under most circumstances, I would expect Trent to feel the pressure and step up in the pocket (as he did on the throw to Evans in the 4th quarter). But, as Bill pointed out, he also had pressure coming from the middle. So in reality, the bad play was a combination of Peters letting his guy get to the QB too quickly, the inability of Edwards to step up, due to another missed/poor block, and his decision to put the ball behind him anyway, to attempt make the throw. Of course, it is entirely possible that Trent didn't sense the man behind him...in which case he is less culpable, but still a part of the equation.
I am in no way suggesting that Peters didn't make a bad play here, it is obvious that he didn't properly handle his man. I'm just looking for the other factors that also seem to contribute to this fumble.
So my questions are: Is any/all of this accurate? If not, what did I miss?
Again, I am really looking for the intelligent/informed opinion. I understand that I will also get my share of stupid/uninformed "Superfan" and Stupidfan" comments, too, but I will do my best to ignore those.
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I was ignorant
Jaws is considered among the best at breaking down formations and offensive strategy, especially what the QB saw on a given play.
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The set-up to pay-off ratio of that joke is around... infinity.
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Word.hypocrites that leave Sunday Mass and proceed to cut off other drivers and ignore humanity as a whole... *they* are a problem. They show up so they can tell their neighbors they were there.The other day I'm driving behind some ritzy BMW with a large X-ian "fish" emblem blazoned on the trunk, and the !@#$tard tosses his lit ciggy out the window. And people wonder why Griffith park seems to burn down every two days this summer. But at least he didn't get his ashtray full of ashes or anything, God forbid.
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I've seen some bad grammer and spelling on this site from time to time, but give me a break!
Do tell...
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No doubt about it.The snowiest place in the lower 48 is up near Lake Tahoe and one year they didn't even open Tioga Pass above Yosemite because the snow didn't melt.For a while when I lived in Nevada County I had to commute 100 miles to work, over Donner Pass. In winter. On a motorcycle. That was nutz. Once my throttle cable froze in the full ON position, and I rocketted over the icy pass right in front of a CHP. He went-on the bull-horn but was literally tongue-tied. What came out was something like "Hey! YOU, arggh,no,you--uh, snow,hey, what the !@#$?"
Another time, I was driving somewhere on Hwy49 I think, and a freak storm hit. It was bone dry when I started and 30 minutes later I had to pull off in some tiny hamlet because the snow was over my front fender. I spent a wide-eyed night in some dingy motel right out of "Hostel" and didn't get a wink of sleep, clutching my screwdriver & listening for the buzzing of saws....
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LA traffic is notorious, but for day-to-day life it depends almost entirely on where you live relative to where you work. I have an easy 30-40 minute commute which I think isn't so bad. Agree that there are too many people, but again, to what extent that affects you depends almost entirely on where exactly you are in the LA Metro area.No I'm sorry, the traffic line is pretty close to true. I've been there quite a bit myself and the traffic out there and have been stuck in full on traffic jams at 5:30am on the 91 freeway, and I don't even want to discuss the hugetastic CF the I-5, I-10 intersection is. CA is a great place to visit, chalk me up as one of the, there are way too many freaking people there and way too many aggravations to balance out the nice weather, crowd.
I'm sure Chester County is quite nice. I'm glad you are happy living there.Gimmie Southern Chester County PA. I can see the stars at night, I'm within an hour of Philly, 20 minutes from the Chesapeake, within 40 minutes from the Inner Harbor in Baltimore and an hour and a half from DC. If I go the other direction I'm 20 minutes from Amish horses and buggies. LA doesn't have that. You either live on the fringe and it takes a million years to get to the other side, or you live in the middle someplace and you live with the pink glow of streetlights all night long.Where I live (in the foothills of the mountains north of LA) I too have black skies with stars at night. Also, ski resorts 90 minutes in one direction, beaches 60 minutes in the other direction, about 2,800 restaurants within 5 miles of my house, great schools, great neighbors, a zillion museums and such within easy driving distance. I suppose you might say I live on the fringe...but so what? It takes me less time to go completely across the LA area than you posted it would take you to get to DC....and I seldom need or want to go there anyway. Not too sure why I should feel deprived living far from Amish country...I guess they're really nice people.
I actually don't mind shoveling snow (Chef!) I wouldn't really care if we started to get some (have seen hail a few times.) I took my kids sledding last winter and will probably start them on skis next winter.It snows about 20 inches a year, it doens't get super cold but there are 4 seasons.
I'm far enough away that they're NEVER a concern.I'm close enough to the shore to be able to enjoy it if I want to but far enough away that hurricanes aren't much of a concern.
Never much bothered by any of the above. Except for losing a few non-precious non-heirlooms in one EQ.no wildfires, no earthquakes, no landslides, no flooding if you live on top of the hills which I do, no tsunamis
The smog in my city is usually not bad; work is not great but I'm indoors with A/Cno smog, no CIG alerts
Can't recall the last time I was affected by a SIGalert.
Maybe not (yet) in Chester County, but have you checked Philly lately?and no crips, blood
Never run into either of them, but I do see porn stars quite often at one of the places I go to for lunch.Hiltons or Lohans.
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Thanks for giving your opinion of a place you been to quite a bit. But southern CA is a big place. I live 20 minutes from probably the most beautiful beach town this side of St Tropez. I hear coyotes howl at night and see them when we take our walks through the canyon accross the street from out house along with geese, ducks, heron and deer. But you can keep feeling that all of southern CA is like Los Angeles. I hate LA too, I'm glad I finally moved out of that county.
And...LA County itself is a pretty big place. Pasadena wasn't horrible by any means, but we moved (guess I should change my handle) last year to a *very* nice little city up in the foothills of the San Gabriel range. I too hear coyotes, see all kinds of wildlife, and can hike up a trail from my property to as deep into the mountains as I want to go...
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Just making the point that perfection is in the eye of the beholder -- and includes more factors than the weather.Why would I possibly have hard feelings over if you like where I live?In fact....why does anybody in this thread care what people think of where they live???
Why do people get so uptight about others' opinions on their chosen dwelling places? Who knows? My money is on those folks being pretty insecure individuals.
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Agreed. NO biters here. The last time I went to Florida I was eaten alive by the bastages. Over 72 bites in *one* evening. That was 30 years ago and I've never seen any good reason to return.It might be because I like garlic salt on my pasta, but I have NEVER been bitten by a tick or mosquito while I have lived in California. I was eaten alive by them in WNY, but not here. Other people here get bitten a lot. -
(Bad form, I know, replying to my own post....)I've spent some time in Oregon (mostly in Portland & around Reed College) and it's a very nice place. Went skiing at Mt Hood with a friend from College and his brother and had a great time.My "no place is perfect" comment was referring to more than just weather, by the way.
Hmm, I seem to remember that you're actually in the Seattle area, not Oregon, though your TSW profile still says NW Oregon
I've hung out in Seattle and also in some towns further west like port angeles & sequim. Great natural beauty up there. Froze my kiester off on Whidbey Island though, when the wind comes whipping off the sound...
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I've only made it out to Hawaii once, and it is indeed close. Perfect for some people...I'm just not one of them. No hard feelings, eh?Comes pretty close out here. -
I've spent some time in Oregon (mostly in Portland & around Reed College) and it's a very nice place. Went skiing at Mt Hood with a friend from College and his brother and had a great time.I disagree. Since mid June our weather has been averaging, eh, 75 degrees with NO rain and very, very low humidity. It stays like this for another couple of months with a few hot, dry days thrown in once and a while. It's wonderful here (during the summer) and then mild during the winter.My "no place is perfect" comment was referring to more than just weather, by the way.
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Have any heirlooms that are just nice? I mean, precious ones aren't the only ones that are fragile.
Not really. I like to travel light. Hate accumulating stuff, *especially* breakable stuff. That's how I roll.
(God, I'd kill for 75-85 degrees all year long).The same thought has occurred to me occasionally, when I'm stuck in traffic and it's like 105 degrees out. No place is perfect.
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I don't have any precious heirlooms. And my house is *very* solidly built, thanks!Yeah, the loss of precious heirlooms breaking on the floor and the threat of your house collapsing and killing your family sure beats snow.
Especially if you pay someone to do it for you.
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There are some investment products like ING's sharebuilder* which allow you purchase stock shares in fractional increments. I believe ETRADE* has (or had?) something similar.
* I am not recommending either of these products since I've never used or evaluated them. Just noting that they exist.
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I was in the middle of interviewing a job applicant this morning, when the room started bouncin'. I tried to convince the interviewee it was just leakage from our sound-stage, and I think I had him going until the other employees started streaming out the doors.
This one lasted a while, but didn't feel all that strong where I was (at work, in Hollywood). The strongest one I've felt was probably the Whittier Narrows quake in 1987. My girlfriend & were actually tumbled out of bed in my apartment in Pasadena; the wall cracked open, a lot of crap fell off shelves & broke, etc. The aftershock a few days later at friggin' 4:30 a.m. was fun, too.
The biggest quake I've been in was 1994 Northridge (really centered in Reseda), which killed 70 or 80 people and broke the I-10 freeway. My wife's apartment in Northridge was red-tagged due to that sucker.
Still, not too bad for over 25 yrs. of SoCal living....
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Yeah, but Kyle Williams was off today.
/sarc>
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Naw... that's for aNuts ---- can be put on the icing . -
Hey Angela wasn't half bad once upon a time. Even when I was 14, she was probably better looking than these two...dunno about the cheese grater thing, tho'. Maybe in a reeeeeal dry stretch...At 14 I would probably have jumped Angela Lansbury with a cheese grater lodged between her legs.Teacher= 4/10 + 1 point for power trip + 1 point for wrongness + 1 point for voyeurs + 2 points for raging hormones = 9/10 and job well done.
I must confess, I did sort of have a "thing" for my Junior High Art teacher.
(She was way better looking than Honeybutt). Sadly, she happened to be a Sister. Of the Roman Catholic variety. Not too sure how well that would have gone over. 
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Good grief.
If I was in the shower and turned around and saw one of those mugs, I'd feel the urge to...
... take a shower immediately.
So all-in-all I suppose it could have been worse.
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"They refused to launder the prisoners' undies with TIDE, and look what happens when you use that other brand -- YELLOW STAINS!!"
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On the 2-disk DVD release of X2 (the 2nd X-Man film) there is an interesting Special Feature about how they constructed their Oval Office & West Wing sets. I found it pretty interesting. They even made sure it was updated to accurately reflect GWB ordering the Oval Office carpeting to be changed from the traditional deep blue color to some horrible pinkish-beige-y hue.
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The last couple of days are work I've had to step out a few times because I started balling...
Whom, the receptionist?
Sorry about desecrating the thread. I had the shot and I took it.
The
made me do it.
The lack of political leadership
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Yeah, that sounds like typical government accounting...
(We'll just steal some hours from our grand-kids' days -- no problemo!
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