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the question isn't so much, "Don't they have better things to do?", but "Should they be meddling in this?"
See, I agree 100% with your comment. In fact I DON'T think they should be meddling in this at all (I'm very much a proponent of small gov't :-) I just disagree with the argument as to why they shouldn't of "Don't they have better things to do". This is exactly what Kornheiser said, in fact started throwing out examples of where they should be focusing their attention instead of this. My point was, that was a lame argument because it assumes politicians can't focus on more than one thing.
posted by bdaddy at 04:54 PM on January 07
I tend to agree with Kornheiser's view of this in 2 areas
- The Mountain-west conference (to which Utah belongs) agreed to the system that is in place. You can't come back and cry foul now
- Specifically for Utah....join the Pac-10 or quit complaining
I do differ on his view about the Politicians getting involved with this and the concept of "don't you have anything else to worry about?". People act like the politicians/congress/etc. can only focus on 1 thing at a time...like it's impossible for them to multi-task. Let's hope they are capable of managing multiple things at one time.
posted by bdaddy at 01:55 PM on January 07
I'd love to see the Jets get Cowher as would EVERY media outlet in NY but I've yet to see any indication of Cowher's interest or even that they're talking.
Couple of quotes from an ESPN article
"Cowher has told friends the Jets job interested him for several reasons. First, Cowher would love to coach in the New York market. Second, two of his daughters are either going to school or working in the New York-New Jersey area."
"the [Jets] official says the Jets would be willing to do "whatever is necessary" to land Cowher if he is truly interested in taking the job."
posted by bdaddy at 05:04 PM on December 30
He also went to a team that surrounded him with a strong running game... and played to his strength which is his football I.Q. and managing the game.
Which begs the question, why didn't the Jets do this?
the wildcat offense (which regularly took snaps out of his hands)
Regularly?
posted by bdaddy at 05:01 PM on December 30
It would be interesting to see the Jets get Cowher for their head coach, and lure Parcells to New York to try and run the team's operations. That would be what you call a substantial upgrade.
I don't think Cowher would come back unless he had substantial control of football operations. He fought the Rooney's for that during his tenure. I just can't see him coming in to NY and letting someone else pick his groceries while he cooks the dinner, as Parcells always says. Especially someone as strong-willed as Parcells.
posted by bdaddy at 10:50 AM on December 30
Wow, Bdaddy, Rosie actually said that to you? What a bitch.
No, sorry...that's the LOOK she gave me. She didn't actually say anything
posted by bdaddy at 10:46 AM on December 30
Fraze -- you owe me therapy bills and reimbursement for the salve I had to put on my burning eyes.
Just my luck, she is one of my few celebrity encounters. Saw her close-up in the Vegas airport and she looked at me like "I see you recognize me..are you going to come bother me now?" but I had no interest in speaking with that. Why couldn't I run into Jessica Alba?
what happened to Romo. What kind of performance was that?
Not to defend the man, but from what I saw of the game he had someone in his face on nearly every throw and even ones he got off cleanly it looked like the defense knew exactly what was coming. I'm not sure the upper echelon QB's would have done much better with that pressure/playcalling. I'm also not sure he hasn't been playing hurt either as ever since the Pit. game it looks like his passes were sailing on him. Did his thumb ever heal?
posted by bdaddy at 11:41 PM on December 29
This is one of those times when it seems as though there are more openings than available capable guys to fill them.
Why do they have to be big names? Just look at the teams in the playoffs: Atlanta, Arizona, Baltimore, Miami, Minnesota, Pittsburgh...all have pretty inexperienced NFL head-coaches that were relatively unknown (outside of their circles) before they were hired.
posted by bdaddy at 04:35 PM on December 29
As I listened to Brumfield, I realized that most of the questions I had crafted in a spiral pocket notebook that I brought with me, questions that I had compiled from my family, were suddenly irrelevant. If he wasn't going to admit that he murdered my mom, as he did in his confession to police, I couldn't ask him questions about that night.
This pisses me off more than anything. Dunn just wanted answers from that night and the coward can't even give him that. What a total, spineless, piece of s**t. Own up to what you did and deal with the repercussions...death penalty or not. At least give this man, whom you've taken everything away by your own choices, some sort of closure by answering the "why's" for him.
posted by bdaddy at 07:32 PM on November 08
You can bring all the other things into it but leave the addiction out of it.
Why, though? Does the media leave the addiction side out of it when a Ricky Williams gets busted for Pot again? Or Pacman and his drinking issues? Or that Denver running back (name escapes me)?
All of those guys classify as having an "addiction", but that doesn't causes anybody to cut them any slack. They're considered "thugs".
posted by bdaddy at 09:15 AM on October 22
He's always been revered as this "class act" by fans and media alike, but some things he's done
- Let his retirement drag on, then when people were complaining said "what are they going to do? Cut me?" - Refused to help Rodgers his rookie year and said it wasn't his job to make sure he was ready to play - Had an addition to drugs - Forced to enter rehab for alcohol - Would sleep during meetings - publicly criticize the front office for their moves - publicly criticized teammate for holding out of camp - tried to tell the front office who to bring in as coach - Now (rumored) to be telling OTHER TEAMS his previous team's tendencies
I'm not saying all of those are atrocious, but seriously..if an Owens or a Moss did the above, we would be reading how "classless" they were, and how "selfish" they were. Instead, all we hear from the talking heads is how "he earned that right". Goes to show what a little media-love will do for your public image (ask Bonds).
posted by bdaddy at 09:45 AM on October 21
But I don't think you are really interested in the truth that there are many other possible explanations other than the one you've decided is The Answer
Because my "answer" (that some anonymous guy posting on the thread is making things up or misremembering) is more plausible given what we see in the video.
And why automatically give the benefit of the doubt to the anonymous poster over logic and visual evidence, however short?
You should understand that viewpoint, so I would guess you're just arguing to argue.
posted by bdaddy at 01:36 PM on October 09
You're missing the point. Your claim is that since you don't see the coach warning the kid on that video clip, therefore it couldn't have happened. My point is that given the extremely short duration of that clip, if the coach had warned the kid, you wouldn't see on that clip; therefore, that clip doesn't prove that it didn't happen.
You're missing my point. The claim was the kid was walking in the line mouthing off and shoving people, the coach grabbed the kid, warned him, he kept doing it, then the coach finally shoved him.
My point is, how did all that happen when we see the procession line and the coach is walking in the opposite direction of the kid and we see the exact moment when they intersect (which results in a push). What did the coach do, go through the line once, witness the kid acting up, grab him warn him, then run back around and get back in line at the end, then the video starts rolling as we see the second encounter?
posted by bdaddy at 09:00 PM on October 08
Another in the same vein claims that the kid was misbehaving in the line, the coach grabbed him and warned him, and then shoved him after the kid kept doing it. That is also blatantly false as the video shows none of that.
The video on that site is less than three seconds long. Of course it "shows none of that".
In that "3 seconds" the coach and the player are walking in opposite direction during a victory line. How is the coach going to grab the guy, warn him, then push him after that warning when he hasn't even GOTTEN to the boy yet at the beginning of the "3 seconds". We see that much in the video.
posted by bdaddy at 11:03 PM on October 07
Does the BCS violate antitrust laws?
Any league that depends on computers and voters to decide a championship instead of deciding it on the field will always be a joke.
The computers and voters are deciding BASED on what happened on the field. Some IBM mainframe didn't invent a loss against Oregon State for USC. It simply said "since teams A/B/C all lost 1 game, team A "seems" better than team B because it played better against better teams." It does a pretty damn good job of that as well.