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No Parrotheads?!

Mitch Hedberg!!!

It's SOOO much easier for me to deal with that compared to these little ladies who don't do anything (Sandra and Kourtney).

to all you said.

According to the draft value chart, it would be a better deal for them to swap picks with us than just have our #41 for Gaithers. In the end, I like the idea though.

Mayonnaise, Miracle Whip, Cottage Cheese, Sour Cream...all that white stuff makes me wanna puke.

It probably won't make a difference, but Deaderick never once lined up at NT for Alabama. It was either Cody, Chapman, or Murphy. Deaderick was more of a DE/OLB hybrid. From what I've seen, he's projected as a 5th-7th rounder.

Here's something I got off of a Pats* board: "Here are two recent reviews of Terrance Cody and Dan Williams by KC Joyner at the Draftlab for ESPN Insider. First, Cody: The NFL scouting combine has a wide variety of drills to gauge a player's proficiency in many physical areas -- the bench press measures strength, the vertical jump and broad jump grade short-area burst capabilities and the 20- and 60-yard shuttle drills rank a player's ability to start and stop quickly. As valuable as these training methods are, after looking at game tapes of Alabama Crimson Tide nose tackle Terrence Cody, it is clear there is one physical attribute the combine doesn't measure that it badly needs to. That attribute is endurance. Look at Cody's relative lack of playing time in a key, four-game SEC stretch that the Crimson Tide recently went through (at Kentucky, at Mississippi, vs. South Carolina, vs. Tennessee). Alabama faced 116 rushing plays in those games and Cody was on the field for only 68 of them, or 58.6 percent. Nick Saban's defense also faced 165 pass plays and Cody was in the game on but 54 of those plays, or 32.7 percent. Add the two together and Cody was in the Alabama defensive lineup on only 122 of 281 plays -- or only 43.4 percent of the time. To look at it another way, he was on the field for approximately 30 out of 70 plays per game. That sounds like a low number, but a key element in the Draft Lab series is that any collegiate totals have to be compared to NFL totals to see how they contrast. The expectation is that a draft prospect should be able to post totals against the lower level of competition in college that are appreciably better than a pro player's totals against NFL talent. In Cody's case, a perfect comparison would be how his playing time matches up against that of NFL nose tackles. I don't have those numbers available, but I do have a reasonable facsimile in a 2007 study I did on playing time for three top 4-3 defensive tackles the previous season: Albert Haynesworth, Cory Redding and Kevin Williams. At the time of the study, Redding and Williams were both noted for their ability as every-down players, but Haynesworth had the same knock on him about his inability to stay on the field that he has today. If Cody's collegiate playing time doesn't even match Haynesworth's it cannot be seen as a good sign, but there is a caveat: Alabama has a deep defensive line rotation. It is possible that Cody could play more, but without a way of measuring endurance, NFL teams will have a tough time determining if that is the case. That isn't the only caveat, however. Cody reportedly weighed more than 400 pounds as a juco player, and the first thing the Crimson Tide coaching staff told him when he transferred to Alabama was that he would have to lose a good deal of weight in order to get on the field. He certainly accomplished that, with his reported weight now at 354 pounds, but it very well could be that the Bama coaching staff still lacks faith in his ability to stay on the field for longer periods of time. The Haynesworth comparison is also not entirely apt because Cody's performance metrics in these four games come nowhere close to matching Haynesworth's totals. Cody did draw a higher rate of double-teams (63.6 percent to Haynesworth's 2007 double-team mark of 51.3 percent) but he notched only five Point of Attack (POA) blocking wins in 22 POA runs, or a win rate of 22.7 percent. In the three full seasons of run metrics I have completed on Haynesworth over the years, his POA win rates were 43.4 percent (2005), 32.3 percent (2007) and 23.8 percent (2008). Haynesworth's metrics are a high bar to reach, but if Cody cannot exceed those totals against college blockers, it stands to reason that he might struggle to equal those numbers at the pro level. Cody also was basically nonexistent as a pass-rusher. He relied heavily on the bull rush and sometimes got into a very bad habit of doing a one-armed bull rush. That move didn't work for him in these games and it absolutely won't cut it at the next level. His pass-rushing metrics also reflect a lack of success. He made three splash plays in these four games and one of them was a borderline call that I decided in his favor (splash plays being defined as when a defensive player does something that impacts a passing play -- sacks, passes knocked down and offensive holding penalties being three examples). Good NFL nose tackles tend to generate six to eight splash plays a year and Cody is barely on track to reach that total. The last item of note is that Cody's draft prospects seemed to get a bit of a shot in the arm when he blocked two critical field goals in Alabama's win over Tennessee. As impressive as those were on their face, in both cases Cody was part of a double-team. He didn't defeat either blocker on his own, so the blocks should be seen as more of a collective effort than a singular effort. That he took his helmet off after the second field goal while the play was still live (something that should have cost the Crimson Tide a penalty) also indicates that he may have a bit of the bad part of Leon Lett in him. TFS Lab Result: Cody's size, strength and ability to draw a double-team are impressive, but his subpar metric performance and the overriding concerns about his endurance give him a qualified TFS overhyped grade. If a team takes him in the second round with the idea that he is a two-down space-eater who can plug run gaps, he's a good fit. If a team takes him in the first round with the idea that he will be an every-down nose tackle, that would be a mistake. In summary, Cody is an effective 2 down space eater who will eat up double teams and who will be hard to move off the line. He won't penetrate much, has no positional versatility, and is questionable as a 3 down player." --------------- This is a very good summation of Mt. Cody - a legit 2nd rounder. I highlighted the amount of defensive plays Cody was in to show you that being in 40% of the plays was only true during that 4 game stretch Alabama had in the middle of the season without having had their bye week yet. Also, teams simply didn't run against Alabama too often because a.) They were trailing OR b.) They couldn't run against Alabama. What I'd like to see is the percentage of 1st and 2nd downs Mt. Cody played in minus the 2:00 hurry-up offenses. That is a more accurate depiction of how much he plays. Also, saying Alabama played a lot of "cupcakes" and "pretty good teams" is laughable. They had the #2 strength of schedule according to Sagarin.

I've been trolling at AV Club - Breaking Bad where somebody writes a review of the episode and then you get a few hundred comments to put the show in perspective. Pretty interesting site that helps answer some questions.

I've read that it only took one take to make it happen.

You think the two brothers/hitmen are ever going to talk this season?

I agree with you completely. My point is that a Butkus winner is not a high, arm tackler.

And how did he win the Butkus Award as the nation's top LB?

Also, there were close to 1000 ppl there, so who says one of them don't represent Buffalo?

I ran across an article, which has a more detailed description of the story I originally posted. Pretty good article. Cody Makes House Call

Ed Young's Luxurious Lifestyle I don't know if any of you watch Ed Young on tv or go to one of his churches in Dallas or Miami, but this investigation is interesting. To sum it up, he is linked to owning a private jet and having a home valued at over $1 million in Dallas. Besides that, I personally know for a fact he has a home in Coconut Grove, FL that's valued at over $1 million. So, while he preaches the gospel successfully, he also abuses his riches. It doesn't seem we have many church-goers on here, but any thoughts?

Too many guys from the Big Tenleven in the front of that draft for us. I would like that Angerer pick though.

It's not my uncle, but thanks. It's from a poster on another football board I frequent.

Got this off another board I read... "I have been on this board a while and I am a lurker, but this is something that needs to be told... My uncle was diagnosed with liver cancer during the first week of September of 2009. The doctor was very upbeat, but told him it would be a battle. The doctor told him that he definitely would get to see Christmas and hopefully a lot more of them. Almost a week later the doctor told him he had 4 weeks to live. It was a shock for everyone in our family. My uncle and my father had worked together for the last 11 or so years and I have worked with them the last 2. The chemo almost started immediately and he was getting good results back from tests. He has been in the hospital a couple times and actually had a bad case of pneumonia and sepsis and came back strong. One week ago he began to fall ill and was taken to the hospital the doctor said he would not last through the weekend. The family was called in and stayed with him night and day. He began to feel better and by Friday was sitting up and talking and joking like he always did...Enter Terrence Cody... Terrence was signing autographs in Childersburg which is a a couple of miles away from Sylacauga where my uncle is in the hospital. Word got to him from a friend who set up the autograph session that it would make my uncles day if he could come by. He did, he took pictures, signed autographs, and talked for two hours. It was hard to get him to leave. It made my uncles day indeed. As of today he is supposed to leave the hospital to go back home. " Tidefans.com

The finale was great. Skyler annoys the hell out of me, but I suppose that means she's doing her job as an actress. It'll be interesting to see how Walt deals with such a big time dealer as Gus. Is Gus going to go after him since he knows he's related to a DEA agent, or is that a good thing (keep your enemies closer)? Also, what I thought was cool was how they foreshadowed the ending of the season with the names of episode 1, 4, 10, and 13...

I just finished up the 2 seasons of Breaking Bad and loved it. Everything about the show from the storyline to the acting to the location of the show blew me away. Cannot wait until the March 21 premiere. If you're a fan, check out these sites: Save Walter White Better Call Saul

Rolando McClain...It's like Verne Lundquist on CBS who used to call him Orlando McCain.

Anyone that says Cody didn't produce on the field is completely off-base. How else can you explain Alabama's 3-4 defense over the last 2 years being so successful? 2008 - 2nd in Rushing defense, 3rd in Total defense 2009 - 2nd in Rushing defense, 2nd in Total defense And for the record, these were Alabama's 2nd and 3rd years running the 3-4 scheme. Sound familiar?

Being a Bama guy, the first thing I noticed was Javier Arenas (CB/PR) is undrafted. I'll bet my life savings that won't happen.