Steely Dan

http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/index.php?...010+Free+Agents The conversation has started on them there too.

To be fair I decided to give you 6 hours and 13 minutes. You're still a loser.

Isn't Berman ESPN's signature star? I don't care where he goes, he'll always be a Bills fan.

What a bunch of sore losers. After SB 25 a huge crowd showed up in Buffalo and even cheered Norwood. Buffalo is the best NFL city bar-none!!!

http://anyguey.guanabee.com/2009/08/jaime-...ostitute-tester

This is from April 28, 2009 but it's still interesting: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_...?urn=nfl,159517 1. Mike Mayock, NFL Network: 10/32 2. Mel Kiper, ESPN: 8.5/32 2. The Big Lead: 8.5/32 2. National Football Post: 8.5/32 5. Rick Gosselin, Dallas Morning News: 8/32 6. Don Banks, Sports Illustrated: 7/32 6. San Diego Union-Tribune: 7/32 6. Shawn Zobel, DraftHeadquarters.com: 7/32 9. Todd McShay: 6/32 10. Peter King, Sports Illustrated: 5.5/32 So there you have it. Mike Mayock is the mack daddy of mock drafting. I'd make the following argument, though: It is entirely unreasonable to judge a guy like Mayock, Kiper or McShay on how many they got right in their mock draft. There are 32 teams in the NFL, zero of them trust those three guys enough to consistently tell them the truth about whom they're drafting, and most of the teams are constantly peppering those guys with things that are deliberately untrue. It's not their job to get a mock draft "right." http://www.nfl.com/seniorbowl/story?id=090...mp;confirm=true These rankings are from two weeks ago: Additional info, such as type of system and height and weight come from http://walterfootball.com/draft2010QB.php Quarterbacks 1 Sam Bradford* Oklahoma Height: 6-4. Weight: 214 2 Jimmy Clausen* Notre Dame Height: 6-3. Weight: 217 3 Colt McCoy Texas Height: 6-2. Weight: 210 4 Tim Tebow Florida Height: 6-3. Weight: 236 5t Dan LeFevour Central Michigan Height: 6-3. Weight: 229 5t Tony Pike Cincinnati Height: 6-6. Weight: 212 Running backs 1 C.J. Spiller Clemson Height: 5-11. Weight: 195 2 Ryan Matthews* Fresno State Height: 5-11. Weight: 220 3 Jahvid Best* California Height: 5-10. Weight: 195 4 Dexter McCluster Mississippi Height 5-9 Weight: 170 5t Joe McKnight* Southern California Height: 6-0. Weight: 200 5t Jonathan Dwyer* Georgia Tech Height: 6-0. Weight: 235 Wide receivers 1 Dez Bryant* Oklahoma State Height: 6-2. Weight: 210 2 Golden Tate* Notre Dame Height: 5-11. Weight: 195 3 Arrelious Benn* Illinois Height: 6-2. Weight: 214 4 Demaryius Thomas* Georgia Tech Height: 6-3. Weight: 229 5 Mardy Gilyard Cincinnati Height: 6-0. Weight: 179 Tight ends 1 Jermaine Gresham* Oklahoma Height: 6-6. Weight: 260 2 Rob Gronkowski* Arizona Height: 6-6. Weight: 260 3 Dennis Pitta BYU Height: 6-5. Weight: 247 4 Aaron Hernandez* Florida Height: 6-3. Weight: 250 5t Ed Dickson Oregon Height: 6-4. Weight: 244 5t Anthony McCoy Southern California Height: 6-5. Weight: 249 Interior linemen (guards, centers) 1 Mike Iupati Idaho Height: 6-5. Weight: 325 2 Maurkice Pouncey* Florida Height: 6-5. Weight: 318 (Center) 3 Jon Asamoah Illinois Height: 6-4. Weight: 300 4 Rodger Saffold Indiana Height 6-5 Weight: 318 (OT projected inside) 5 Zane Beadles Utah Height: 6-4. Weight: 307 (OT projected inside) Offensive tackles 1 Russell Okung Oklahoma State Height: 6-5. Weight: 305 2 Bryan Bulaga* Iowa Height: 6-6. Weight: 312 3 Anthony Davis* Rutgers Height: 6-6. Weight: 325 4 Trent Williams Oklahoma Height: 6-5. Weight: 315 5 Vladimir Ducasse Massachusetts Height: 6-5 Weight: 330 (played both G and Right OT) Defensive ends 1 Jason Pierre-Paul* South Florida Height: 6-6. Weight: 263 (viewed as a 4-3 guy) 2 Derrick Morgan* Georgia Tech Height: 6-4. Weight: 235 (4-3 guy) 3 Carlos Dunlap* Florida Height: 6-6. Weight: 280 (4-3 guy) 4 Everson Griffen* Southern California Height: 6-3. Weight: 280 (4-3 guy) 5 Brandon Graham Michigan Height: 6-1. Weight: 263 (4-3 guy) Defensive tackles 1 Gerald McCoy* Oklahoma Height: 6-4. Weight: 295 (works for 4-3 or 3-4) 2 Ndamukong Suh Nebraska Height: 6-4. Weight: 305 (works for 4-3 or 3-4) 3 Jared Odrick Penn State Height: 6-5. Weight: 301 (no system info.) 4 Dan Williams Tennessee Height: 6-2. Weight: 329 (3-4 nose tackle) 5 Lamarr Houston Texas Height: 6-3. Weight: 302 (no system info.) Inside linebackers 1 Rolando McClain* Alabama Height: 6-4. Weight: 256 (3-4 experience) 2 Brandon Spikes Florida Height: 6-3. Weight: 256 (no system info.) 3 Sean Lee Penn State Height: 6-2. Weight: 236 (no system info.) 4 Pat Angerer Iowa Height: 6-1. Weight: 235 (4-3 middle linebacker, Gotta love the name. ) 5 Darryl Sharpton Miami (Fla.) Height: 6-0. Weight: 229 (no system info.) Outside linebackers 1 Sergio Kindle Texas Height: 6-4. Weight: 254 (3-4) 2 Sean Weatherspoon Missouri Height: 6-1. Weight: 241 (4-3) 3 Daryl Washington TCU Height: 6-foot-3 Weight: 233 pounds (no system info.) 4 Jerry Hughes TCU Height: 6-2. Weight: 258 (3-4) 5 Eric Norwood South Carolina Height: 6-1. Weight: 246 (3-4) Cornerbacks 1 Joe Haden* Florida Height: 5-11. Weight: 190 2 Kyle Wilson Boise State Height: 5-10. Weight: 190 3 Perrish Cox Oklahoma State Height: 5-11. Weight: 189 4 Patrick Robinson Florida State Height: 5-11. Weight: 190 5 Devin McCourty Rutgers Height: 5-11. Weight: 186 Safeties 1 Eric Berry* Tennessee Height: 6-0. Weight: 195 2 Taylor Mays Southern California Height: 6-3. Weight: 231 3 Earl Thomas* Texas Height: 5-10. Weight: 195 4 Larry Asante Nebraska Height: 6-0. Weight: 211 5 Chad Jones* LSU Height: 6-3. Weight: 220

Yeah, so many of them (ahem, you excluded of course ) are so much fun in a football conversation. A lot, like Lori, are smart, and then there are those (not like you ) who are just downright annoying.

I have a Ford Focus and after having owned Datsuns, Nissans, Honda's and Volkswagens I'm unimpressed. You're very trying. Finally, we can agree on something!!! You are sorry!!

Here's another explanation from Tim Graham. http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/index/_/count/31

These things suck for the players; Guaranteed salary from 2010 and beyond is reallocated to capped years unless the entire 2009 salary is guaranteed. If I'm reading that right then that means something like this; (Double checking would be appreciated) Player A has three years at $1 million a year unamortized from his signing bonus. There is no CBA before the deadline and 2010 remains uncapped. When a new CBA is worked out, let's say for the 2011 season, player A's guaranteed salary from 2012 is added to the cap for 2011 and 2010. So in 2011 and 2012 player A counts $1.5 million against the cap. If a player has a contract that includes base salary guarantees then his salary is not moved into subsequent years but any incentives that can't be earned til the end of the year means the contract cannot be considered guaranteed for the year. So if player A has a base salary of $6 million this year in 2011 and 2012 $3 million is added to the teams cap number. So overall player A will add an extra $3.5 million a year to a clubs sal cap in 2011 and 2012. It looks like LTBE and ULTBE bonus' can no longer be pushed to the next year. There is no year-end netting of incentives in 2009. Not-likely-to-be-earned incentives are charged to team salary immediately when earned, and likely-to-be-earned incentives are deducted when they are no longer possible to earn. I'm going to assume that rule will also apply to the 2010 season. So there is going to be some large cap hits in 2011 from a lot of players. The 30% increase rule restricts salary increases from 2009 to 2010. For example: a player with a $500,000 Salary in 2009 would be limited to annual salary increases of $150,000 ($500,000 x 30%) beginning in 2010. If "salary" includes the final amortized money then it should look like this. Player B is just coming off his rookie contract where he made $1 million in combined base salary and the final amortized bonus money. He cannot sign a contract for over $1.3 million this year. If, as I suspect, the bonus has no bearing on the final year then we'll say that $500,000 was his salary in 2009. So he can't sign a contract for over $650,000. Bonus money probably doesn't count against that, and so all of it would need to be amortized after the 2010 season. This should negate any free spending by rich owners. Q. Are current player benefits affected in the uncapped year? A. We expect player benefits to decline in the uncapped year. The union agreed that in the uncapped year, clubs would be relieved of their obligation to fund numerous benefit programs. Examples include second career savings (401K), player annuity, severance pay, and tuition assistance. The total league-wide contributions to such plans in 2009, the last capped year, are expected to be in excess of $225 million, or more than $7 million per club. That's a lot of money for the union to lose. Since all of the benefit programs aren't listed it's hard to tell how much it will hurt the union overall but $225 million is a lot of money. During the uncapped year, the eight clubs that make the divisional playoffs in the previous season have additional restrictions that limit their ability to sign Unrestricted Free Agents from other clubs. In general, the four clubs participating in the Championship Games are limited in the number of free agents that they may sign; the limit is determined by the number of their own free agents signing with other clubs. For the four clubs that lose in the Divisional playoffs, in addition to having the ability to sign free agents based on the number of their own free agents signing with other clubs, they may also sign players based on specific financial parameters. What specific financial parameters means is really important to this whole thing.

I agree. The Etrade baby "milkaholic" commercial was pretty funny. After that the Dorito's kid slap and Punxatawny Polamalu. I must have missed the Megan Fox one.

Why? (He says with tongue firmly planted in cheek) Everbodi nose girlies no nuthin 'bout no football.

I have no problem with this as long as they don't give up anything above a third rounder for him. If they give up a first or second rounder then I'll have to start to question Buddy's GM abilities.

Dylan also sings "Lay Lady Lay" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dvOKrFbLmw

He, arguably, had the smoothest voice in R&R. Steven Page's voice is really interesting. His voice was a big part of BNL sound, JMO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuDpnHxmakA

That was when we thought you were gonna die. That doesn't apply anymore, Jackass!!!

“We are glad he was not killed doing this,” Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said. I'm not so sure about that. He is 62 and probably done with kids but there's only one way to make sure it never happens again.

:flip off:

That's the funniest thing you've written here!! I'm humbled and honored. Seeing what I look like probably would bring his sarcasm back.

Thanks

If Reed doesn't get in there is something majorly wrong with the system, I'd say it's my opinion but it's a fact baby!! When are the announcements?

Link The woman on the tape is visibly pregnant, the Youngs say. That means the video might not be the one specified in the restraining order, because Rielle Hunter, Edwards' former mistress, said that tape was created in September 2006, the Youngs say. There's more than one?! Ewwwww!!

I heard they were planning to market it as an ipecac.