i understand the love for athletic freaks and all that stuff but i appears that one issue that has been over looked. it is a simple evaluation. can they play football? take the right angles and all that simple stuff.

I think we have gotten to far away from the lunch pail mentality on defense. there is a lot to be said about a player that does nothing great but does everything else well. that is what we had back then.

nice job

keep the faith

DUDE, we'll take any help we can get!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe he can coach because our LB's ain't much!!!

Did I see Shanle on the side-line in the Dallas game?

Gawd! So much talent, yet so much incompetence. In the past, 1-3 would be considered a success.

Unfortunately, we're harvesting Artichokes again!!

Forgotten? Never. Come on, man, I went all the way back to 1980. I'm barely past that 2003 idiocy. And the wounds of those you mentioned have not yet healed properly, so I won't be able to write about or even acknowledge those for at least another 10 years. Give me time, man, give me time.

Hey you forgot the BeastQuake, and losing to the Niners with like 12 seconds left in the 2011-12 playoffs

It is a win, win for the NFL on a certain level. Player drama actually helps the NFL Network increase their ratings, those ratings equate to revenue from commercials.

This dawned on me when I was shocked to hear about the loss of confidence in Roger Goddell on NFL Sirius, a channel which actually falls under him, and then when you turn the TV on to the NFL Network the commentators are driving discussions that are negative about their boss/bosses.

Why not kill the argument of a "Welfare State" and take the people on welfare and put them to work on infrastructure. There are a lot of people who can do manual labor BUT there are also a lot of people who can do surveying, computer, managerial and even secretary work.

This is a two fold success. We get the infrastructure improvements we need and we take people off welfare and put them too work.

Win-Win.

Any thoughts? Am I being overly optimistic or stupid?

as it is right now it is better to let a player walk than go after a trade in most cases. comp pick turns out to better.

right now i think the nfl is lost on how to work this problem out. but as long as they get fat i do think it will matter to them much for now.

Honestly, I don't think we used Ingram to his full potential. We always talked about running the ball but for whatever reasons we ended up depending on Drew Brees. It may have been the offensive line or any number of reasons but we have been a passing team.. . . Actually I even thought the same about Reggie Bush . . we haven't really stuck to and committed to a running style football team..

I take magnesium supplements already, bro.
Another benefit of correct magnesium supplementation is its effect on blood pressure.

I think Jimmy Graham still thinks of himself as a basketball player. He uses skills he developed playing BBALL to box out defenders and catch the football. Great hands, quick feet and a great vertical leap are attributes of many basketball players. I wish now he'd develop some skills you can't learn playing BBall like run blocking, using a stiff arm or simply steamrolling defensive backs most of whom he outweighs by at least 60lbs. I'm personally glad they outlawed his goalpost dunk TD celebration. Maybe now he'll forget about BBall and try to be a complete football player. If he ever developed a nasty attitude like you saw TEs like Mike Ditka, Mark Bavaro or even Jeremy Shockey playing with he could potentially be one of the best all around players ever to play in the NFL and maybe even threaten some of Jerry Rices all time receiving records. He could also pick up a league MVP title along the way.

This little idea that the right-wing extremists in the House have come up with -- IMPEACHMENT -- is gonna backfire BIG TIME for you. I hope you guys do it -- because I can assure you that the mid-terms will go dramatically better for the Dems if you do. I am not a Democrat -- I am a Liberal from California ( yeah, a liberal -- and all the good that is associated with the concept ).

I believe that the profit motive should not be a part of health care. And, you should too. I mean what if you got hit by a car crossing the street and the guy standing over you told you that you had to pay him to call 911 for you? How would you feel about that? Even if you were willing to pay him -- what if you didn't have the money he was asking for? Think about it.

Well, that is what's happening when we let profit seekers into the health care system -- people who will only save your life if you pay them. And, pharmaceutical companies who want to keep you just sick enough, so you have to keep buying their drugs while they raise the prices to astronomical levels.

The whole health care industry is a huge scam and we are just cows at the slaughterhouse. Wake up.

I think I made it clear, in my posts above, why I think the Tea Party are a bunch of misinformed, misguided lunatics who are hell bent on f*cking up this country even worse than it is already ( agreed it is hard to believe that's even possible ). You people are not reducing government, but actually destroying whatever faith America has left in government post-Watergate, Iran-Contra and the misadventure in Iraq. You make up a bunch of lies and then sell them to your parties faithful sheep who obviously don't bother to read and you seem to be immune to facts, in general. Fox News is not helping you or the country. Get your facts straight first, then, Billy, we can talk.

But, since you asked, here are my problems with the Tea Party summarized:

1. The birth-certificate conspiracy. Reality: Not even official birth certificates from Hawaii, newspaper clippings from 1961, and the testimony of state officials will convince Tea Partiers. Which is why WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah lectured the National Tea Party Convention for an hour about the “truth” of the birth-certificate story.

2. Death panels. Reality: PolitiFact named Sarah Palin’s Facebook invention its “Lie of the Year,” and the belief was thoroughly exposed as a falsehood by every news network (even Fox). Yet Palin still insists that the panels exist somewhere in the health-care reform bill that was signed into law, its actual language notwithstanding.

3. Obama is a Muslim/Socialist/Fascist. Glenn Beck’s fantasy of the week -- one week Obama was a Socialist, the next he was a Communist, then a Fascist. Then it was on to Marxism and Maoism -- was avidly adopted by sign-bearing fans at Tea Party gatherings, who sometimes shared Beck’s confusion by just calling Obama All of the Above. Reality: Give us a break. Obama’s self-evident cautious centrism, embodied by his health-care reform package stripped of a public option, as well as his more recent embrace of a limited offshore drilling program, has infuriated liberals in his party -- but it hasn’t stopped Tea Partiers from denouncing the president as a radical anyway.

4. Obama is going to take away our guns. Well, the NRA managed to scare a whole lot of people into buying up every gun and piece of ammunition in sight the first year or so after Obama’s election. And at least five police officers died because the suspects they were arresting feared Obama was going to take away their guns. But Obama not only has adhered to his promise not to address gun-control issues, there hasn’t been even a breath of it from his administration. Which, of course, just makes the paranoids that much more paranoid: It’s proof that he’s really up to something.
CORRECTION: Obama sponsored gun control legislation only after 20 children and 6 adults were killed in Newtown and after it had become clear that these tragic massacres are just getting more common. Of course, taking away anybody's guns is not a part of the proposal -- but you wouldn't know that because you don't read anything or watch anything that would help you understand that.

5. Obama is raising our taxes. Reality: Obama lowered taxes for 95 percent of working Americans in his first year in office. But, you know, he’s a liberal Democrat – and for true-blue right-wing folks, that ALWAYS means a tax hike.

6. Fascism is a left-wing phenomenon. We can thank Jonah Goldberg -- with a big assist from Beck -- for the popularity of this one, even though Goldberg’s thesis has been demolished and angrily dismissed by academic historians. It’s especially come in handy for Tea Partiers with Obama-as-Hitler signs, who are not impressed by those pointy-headed professorial types anyway.

7. Global warming is a hoax. So Sean Hannity assures us, citing the Climategate brouhaha -- which was itself shown largely to be a hoax of its own. Meanwhile, the world’s ocean levels keep rising, and glaciers and the polar ice cap keep receding -- regardless of the endless words thrown up denying that they are.

8. Some 16,000 new IRS agents will enforce the new health care reform act by throwing you in jail. Reality: The IRS is actually only increasing its spending in the coming budget year as it normally would -- but some Republican operatives decided to figure out how many positions its increased budget would buy, and came up with 16,000, a figure that then became gospel on Newt Gingrich’s lips. According to the same mythmakers, this nonexistent new army of health care police was going to start throwing people in jail if they failed to buy health insurance -- though in fact, the only penalties contemplated for such failures are fines and taxes.

9. Two million people were at the 9/12 March on Washington. At the culmination of a month long promotion (highlighted by a national Tea Party Express bus tour) by Beck and Fox News, about 70,000 people gathered on the National Mall on September 12 to protest. Beck cited an erroneous early report that over a million had shown up. Later that grew to be two million, the figure now commonly cited by Tea Party leaders as evidence of their tremendous numerical force.

10. The Tea Parties are a non-partisan, broad grassroots movement. Sure, if by non-partisan you mean rabidly paleo-conservative, to the point of even dismissing Republicans, and by grassroots you mean fake populism organized and whipped up by the most popular cable-news network on television, with a heaping helping of corporate financing. Tea Party folks and their defenders also want to believe that they’re just ordinary Americans who want to be serious about helping their country. But it’s pretty hard to fit that description when you embrace plain old nuttiness.

From: Political Bookworm - 10 fictitious Tea Party beliefs

I say "historically accurate" because FOX doesn't even do that--there is no requirement for the (infotainment) news media to tell the truth, to report honestly. (believe it or not, it's true)