Steely Dan

I think she was driven off by sarcastic comments about her posts. I've been thinking about emailing her to come back.

I know a guy who's wife died in front of him after hitting a tree while snowboarding. It's an awful thing to have happen.

I guess a lot of that was for others to read and not you but hopefully they'll understand that modern medicine is this/close to bloodlettings. I agree it's a stupid to have these guys expect people to abide by this and have a legal right to enforce it. As I said above it's a tempest in a teapot because the likelihood of this ever being enforced by one doctor is slim.

Alex called and wants your address. He said it was to deliver you a special something. Also how big is his lunchpail? Tim Anderson's was a Powerpuff girls lunchpail.

I bought two pre-draft mags tonight. Unfortunately I didn't look them over much before buying. One seems very good and the other very poor. Lindy's Pro Football Draft has ranks from NFLDraftScout.com in a book that can be held in your hand instead of reading a computer screen. That's all it has that's good. Under the Buffalo Bills synopsis it says the Bills had the second easiest NFL schedule because they only played four eventual playoff teams and NE* was missing Tom Brady. They played the Poorpisses twice, NE* twice and the Jests twice. NE* without Brady didn't really miss a beat. They played Arizona and SD. I find it difficult to believe that they had the second easiest schedule after looking at the NFCW. The listed QB's on the Bills are TE, JP, GH and MB. I understand these things are written before some FA signings but listing JP as being on the Bills? They have Duke Preston and Melvin Fowler listed on the OL. They have Jabari Greer under DB's. The second one is Fanball.com Pro Football '09 Draft Preview. The analysis of the Bills needs is spot on, it's written before some FA signings like TO but it mentions WR as a need for the Bills. It talks about DE, TE and a C that can handle 3-4 alignments being the biggest needs. I haven't read any of the player writeups yet but I really like what I've seen so far. What are other peoples or mags?

I find it hard to believe that you read everything you sign from front to back. Granted this is probably a short form but nobody I know reads everything they sign. If people did they'd spend a good portion of their lives reading this crap and would in some cases piss off the people behind them. I agree to a certain extent about being too bad if you don't read before you sign but not always. The SS comment. (no offense SS it would have been funny about anyone. Especially Deano or Beerball. JMO) I agree with the second bolded part. The third thing is something that in my opinion a lot of people don't understand and are, very rightly so, aggravated by. If you compare the human body to a football field then all we know about the body might take us to the one yard line. Working in a hospital really opens your eyes to how little we know about the workings of the body. There are drugs that are prescribed for people that doctors and pharmacists can't tell you why it works. Aspirin was invented in 1897 and it wasn't until 1970 that we started to understand why it works. Linkage Unfortunately, Hoffmann had to wait for fame. He finished his initial studies in 1897, and his employers didn't pay much attention to it because it was new and they were cautious -- they didn't think it had been tested enough. By 1899, though, one of Bayer's top chemists, a scientist named Dreser, had finished demonstrating the usefulness of the potent new medicine and even gave it a new name: aspirin. It is believed that the name comes from a plant relative of a rose that makes salicylic acid (several plants make this compound, not just the willow). The Bayer company could then support the tested medicine; they spread the word and marketed the new pill widely. Over the next hundred years, this medicine would fall in and out of favor, at least two new families of medicines would be derived from it, and innumerable research articles would be published about aspirin. Thousands have been published in the past five years alone! One of the most important pieces of research about aspirin came in the early 1970s, when a British scientist named John Vane and his colleagues showed how aspirin works. His work was so important that he and his colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1982. Dr. Vane was even made a British knight for his work! Today's medical knowledge is much less than people think. We're still using leeches on patients!!!! While I sympathize with your families aggravation I understand the difficulties the doctors may be having. There may be a few doctors in the U.S. who know the answer but often times information isn't as readily shared as it should be because it almost can't be. The piece about aspirin says that innumerable articles have been written about aspirin and that's something that we've been using for over 100 years. That's a good way but the question is can doctors limit what is said about them. IMO, anyone reading a review that has personal attacks on the doctor shouldn't be taken seriously and in fact almost makes me think the complete opposite of what they are saying. If a doctor tries to enforce one of these things it will, in most cases, be like trying to get blood from a stone as well as creating horrendous media attention for the doctor. It's like putting up a beware of dog sign by a Chihuahua.

The Bills will not take a C before the fourth round if their aggravating history is any guide. They seem to think this position is unnecessary and that JAG will be ok. It's infuriating to me. Centers are responsible for line calls they have to be able to snap the ball and get up into a DL's pads in one move. They have to protect the shortest distance for a DL to the QB.

Awesome!!!

How does this carom around somebody's noggin and still come out as a good idea?

OMG, that's the worst mugshot I've ever seen! Well he's no good to the Bills for those games. He's probably one step away from a one year suspension too. Shape up Marshawn you're pissing me and a lot of fans off!!

First let me say I don't know a lot about the kid I've only watched the Youtube video that has been linked here but I'm not at all that impressed with the kid. IMO, he's not first round material. The only way I'd want to see the Bills take him is if he was still available in the fourth round, which obviously isn't gonna happen. JMO Peters 3rd due to being a project, Williams would have been a UDFA, Brady would be the #1 pick, Colston would've been a first rounder. I don't think he's saying he thinks he'll be around then. I think he's saying that in his opinion he's no better than a third round talent. That was when nobody expected him to be at #11. I don't know if that makes a difference or not. I agree this guy has Flowers written all over him. From the SI link; After spending most of his career as a backup, situational defender, Ayers finally broke into the starting lineup this past season and recorded 49 tackles, 15.5 for a loss and three sacks. The Bills are in the market for a pass rusher, after they finished the 2008 season tied with the Washington Redskins for the third worst sack output (24) in the league. Even though Scout.com currently rates Ayers as the fifth best defensive end available in draft, he’s a bit of an enigma who, after his senior season, was projected as a mid-round prospect. But after a standout showing at the Senior Bowl and a quality performance at the Scouting Combine, the 6-foot-3, 272-pound Ayers has worked his way to being a borderline first round prospect. Some questions I have but am too lazy to look up. Who was he behind when he was a backup. The guy is right that the Bills would be looking for a pass rusher. Ayers had three sacks. He was projected as a mid round pick until the Senior Bowl and Combine. IIRC, Bill Polian said that he drafts by the players college film because that's the most important thing. Late risers = Erik Flowers. JMO Play one was horrendous guard play and not much from Ayers IMO. Ayers goes in unblocked. He never has to take on an offensive lineman at all. Play two he was unblocked again. Third play he doesn't do much and the guy makes decent yardage. Fourth play is the first one there on a running play to stop the runner and then the runner is gang tackled (good play) Fifth play Ayers gets a lot of pressure on the QB. Very good play. Sixth play Ayers fakes out the guard who couldn't block my grandma on that play. Seventh play Ayers stop comes with a lot of help from 55. Eight play. I have no idea why this play is even in the Ayers highlight reel. Ninth play. Excellent run stuff. Tenth play. Another why is this even on the highlight reel play. Eleventh play. Why is this in the highlight reel. He chases after the RB but into the arms of other players. I may be looking at the wrong guy because I can't tell if it's 94 or 91 on the jersey. Twelfth play. Why is this on the highlight reel? Thirteenth play impressive stop of the RB. Fourteenth play. Why is this on the highlight reel? So my analysis of the highlight reel breaks down into four good plays out 14. Five that shouldn't even be on the highlight reel and the rest he's pretty much unblocked. I didn't see him double teamed at all during that game. Maybe I'm missing something but I'm pretty sure I saw that. The guards and tackles he'll play against in the NFL won't be as bad as those guys were on that day. There is very little evidence he break blocks effectively in the NFL. In fact he looks like he'll be eaten alive by those guys. He's a better LB prospect because if the guys up front open a hole for him he could do some damage. JMO What he said.

What is it now? The fourth time he's retired? I can't really keep track.

After the way he tailed off with the Jests last year I can't see any team committing to him being the starter all season. IMO, there's about a 20% chance some team would do that. Favre would only sign with a team that commits to him for the season 100%. IMO, that team would have to be desperate.

Do you really think anyone gives a crap about what you watch?

I forgot about "Good Eats" with Alton Brown. I don't watch it a lot but I do off and on. It's a great show that covers the science of cooking.

Stroud was a trade and TO was a FA. So saying that the Bills haven't signed a FA anyone else would want, proves you wrong if you're agreeing with billsfreak. TO may have been cast away but some other team would have signed him. Stroud was a former pro bowler and if he had been cut would have immediately had a ton of interest from over half the league. He didn't look bad last season. Also, Dockery was signed and a lot of teams wanted him. Triplett was wanted by a lot of teams. Don't say that Triplett and Dockery didn't work out because the point is that, supposedly, the Bills sign players that no other teams have interest in.

IIRC, the player can't have any contact with the team, at all, during his suspension. That means staying away from the stadium completely.

Do you use your 8 track tape player very often?

Wow! I can't think of any ABC shows I watch either. I like 20/20 but the guide on my TV never has a synopsis like Dateline, 60 Minutes or 48 hours has. They also don't have a 20/20 email that tells you what is on that week and so I very rarely watch it and that's only when I happen to stumble upon a topic I'm interested in. IMO, it's a really stupid way to run a railroad as they say.

NBC Ranks Fourth NEW YORK — A big challenge of being a fourth-place network is getting the attention of viewers even when you have something new or intriguing, as NBC learned last week. Two shows that premiered on the network barely moved the Nielsen Media Research needle, most notably "Kings." The ambitious two-hour opener of the modern-day tale of David & Goliath, starring Ian McShane, was seen by only 6.1 million viewers last week. I guess I'm showing my age but man o'man how times have changed. ****Please don't turn this into a political thread about the news channels. This is about the shows on the networks.***** Thanks!! I love TRU TV for Forensic Files and other mystery type stuff. I also like Discovery for Mythbusters and their shows like Cold Case Files and FBI Files and UFO stuff. History is great for Ice Road Truckers, Modern Marvels, Wild West Tech, Universe and How The Earth Was Made and UFO stuff. I never really watch the big four networks any more. I watch Family Guy, The Apprentice, The Late Show With David Letterman and really right now that's all I can think of from them. If I had to choose only one channel to watch for the rest of my life I'd say the History Channel right now.

You could learn a lot from him.

Jesus H. Christ on a Honda!! If you're going to make intelligent posts then get lost. You don't belong here. Just read the vast majority of posts here and you'll see my point!!! Welcome!!

The only way I'd trade Peters is for two first rounders and two third rounders and no team would give the Bills that for him. People who rip on him are really funny for discounting his second Pro-bowl invitation. If he didn't deserve it then he barely didn't deserve it. I say pay the man what he wants. Pro-bowl LT are hard to come by. IIRC, Will Wolford is the last one the Bills had.

Stroud, TO 'Nuff said.