colin

nice guy coaches can win in the nfl. imo the nice coaches have to have a ruthless edge tho -- that comes from cutting, signing, trading, and starting players as a ruthless meritocracy. so if a guy beats out the starter, he gets in, if a guy doesn't perform, he is cut and replaced. if the performance isn't there the consequence has to be change. dungy is good like that -- guys like him but if he doesn't like how the guy plays, the guy is gone or replaced. i THINK dicky j is like that too.

i will say i would not want to play tennessee in nashville. they are a strong tough physical team, i think we need all of our young guys healthy and making plays consistently to beat them. if it comes down to the playoffs, i REALLY hope that game is in a cold snowy (but not windy!) buffalo stadium with 70K losing their sh_t cheering the bills on. the whole team is huge and vicious and their coach is very good and has been to the bowl before, if we beat them i think we will be able to beat dallas/ny/whoever in the bowl.

whah wah wah!! I'M A BLEEDING HEART!! people who buy and use coke are responsible for their own down fall, just like people that die from smoking or drinking or being massive fat asses.

whether or not drugs should be illegal (not) moving heavy weight is the domain of slick ruthless smart detail oriented guys. i can't think of a person who less fits this description than travis henry. he would lose a game of chess to a well painted strip of wood fencing.

i think we can lose one or two corners and be good, just like it looks like we have have a fall off in peters' play and still be good. whitner is more of a leader, but has a couple years left and as a safety will be cheaper than a corner. lynch and edwards are our real stars, but are in the 2nd year of 5 year contracts, i think evans gets done this year. so while i'd rather keep greer, if we get a solid interior o lineman, te, or pass rusher in place of him i think we make our team better. although bill is against it (maybe he will come around one day) having depth at corner is important because you might need to put 4 of them on the pitch at once. two all world guys are great, but if your 3rd and 4th guys are crap then you are up a creek (look at denver).

i'm well aware of what the bailout (most recent one that failed anyhow) contains, but the results if it does or does not pass are not clear, and everyone who is close to the issue is close to the issue -- they have a lot of interest in one result. no matter what i'm fairly certain something will happen, but there could be an extention of the fed's backstop for the fdic, or just a bunch of pumping by the fed. there are lots of ways this could happen, but congress will have to be sold on whatever way will happen. the moral hazard is there too.

it's loans made to people who can't/won't pay them back. look up where the subprime defaults were, just do the math.

but then the question is how much will the problem be corrected in the long term, vs reflation? and what if the bailout isn't enough, what if there are still failures, and how much liquidity is being crowded out (including assests that the gov is willing to buy under the bailout) that will find its way even without the bailout? it seems from where i am sitting the bailout will help, but i'm on wall street and talking my book. if i'm a regular guy who lost money or an entire house, have some 401k that i don't need for a while, have reasonable certainty that my credit cards will work and that my cash in the bank is ok, i don't see how the bailout benefits me as much as wall street.

true (well it seems that way) but how different will it be? the fed is picking up a ton of slack, but question still remains: exactly what happens to who if the bill doesn't pass? i don't think there is much certainty here on either side.

the mkt is reversing (about 35% or so) the moves from yesterday. perhaps the bill isn't as important as it is being made out to be.

it's a bit of damned if you do damned if you don't. there are a lot of bad things (including the slippery slope we step onto) associated with the bailout, but the 64 dollar question is what happens if we don't? a good (but far from certain) result with no bail out is we have the fed just continue to flood liquidity into the market as necessary, some players go down but not too many (and with the result of positive cannibalization) and credit markets continue, just with much higher prices on borrowing. a bad (and far from impossible) result is a mini depression/big recession. this thing reeks of a bit of a rush job tho, perhaps something needs to be done but can we be certain the right thing will be done? lots of chances to cut this off at the pass were missed in the past 10+ years, hopefully (fat effing chance) the correct adjustments will be made that should have been before (including freddie and fannie, the boondoggles that they are).

i feel i should have one. i had some key comments, got down on peters who stepped up, and i called the correct half time adjustments. so here's to me

jackson finds the hole a bit better and is a better pass catcher. lynch has more size, speed, cut back ability, strength, and is just plain painful to tackle. lynch has more rarer skills, but jackson is perhaps featured in our O better. now if lynch can be a better pass catcher, watch out.

seeing how much we suck to start and how much we pwn in the 2nd, i think jaraun gets a bag of kittens and puts a gun to their heads at the half saying they get it if the bills don't smarten up. also i a big component of the bills recruiting is finding animal lovers.

4 real. compare him to oberman, who speaks well but if he ever finds himself withing 30 feet of me will find a size 13.5 allen edmonds in his face and ass.

+1 he sounds a little funny on some words, so do ditka, jimmy johnson, bradshaw all the time, and even jim kelly. solomon very rarely misses things, like the fumble on the looker hit that the refs missed (!) he caught. and he provides analysis of coverages, lineplay, and routs. compare that to fouts, who sounds smart speaking, but misses everything and even gets down and distance wrong, and you can see why i'll take wiltcots anytime.

yay!

u might be right, but i think it was a clean hit.

hope the kid is good.

leodis knocked that guy right out! FUMBLE!

i keep saying it. we do the hard stuff well, but the easy stuff is hard for us!

just like i told him!! well, me and the other guys here!

ok, good. BUT we NEED TO START WELL!!! i think our adjustments at half are good, but we need to get our big fat o line leaning on kids early. they look slow for the first 3 quarters of every game!!

killer instinct baby

their speedy line is tired from our fat kids, just like the raiders and jagz, so let's punch em!