Damn, that was a good article by Don Van Natta Jr and Kevin Van .
Having said that, there was nothing in it
that surprised me in the least.

I was interested in the stat about ‘pretrial diversions’.
The writers said that over 99 percent of defendants charged
with felony assault do NOT get pretrial-diversion-deals.
Only 1 percent get the sweet deals. I’d be curious
about WHO those 1 percent are. Somethin tells me they
are not poor-people.

Anyway, what was the driving force behind all the
lying and weaseling by the Ravens, and the NFL in
this scandal? Money? Somethin else?

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Dak wrote:

Harkey’s injury hurts the running game.

I do not have a good feeling about this game, at all.

Harkey may be my favorite player.
It just aint the same without
Harkey.

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RamBill wrote:

“I would play Austin Davis at this point in time,” Cosell said on Frank Cusumano’s Show, The Press Box. “Hill has been a career back up. There’s a reason he’s at the age he is and what (his role is) in the league.” Cosell said Davis played very well against the Bucs, but his arm strength leads something to be desired. “He does not have a real good arm by NFL standards. But…he has poise, he has a good feel for why plays are called and where to go with the ball. He’s got light feet and good movement. He’s got good accuracy,” Cosell said. Cosell also talked about the development of Brian Quick, the Rams defense and previewed the Cowboys game.

http://www.rams-news.com/greg-cosell-rams-should-start-davis-at-qb-radio-interview/

Well, my mantra iz,
if the Rams can Run,
and the OLine can protect,
then
it dont matter if its
Hill or Davis.

The Cowboys have some game-film
on Austin Davis now.
Should be inter esting.
I’m expectin the kid
to have some trouble this week.
But then i said somethin like that
about Kurt Warner before game two
in 99.

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Well, we all think we are right.
Ya know.
And of course, only “I” am.

http://www.jantoo.com/cartoon/29603114

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Well if Spags won Seven games
with No talent,
and Fisher only wins Seven games
with lots of talent…
what does that mean?

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waterfield wrote:

Yeah-I’ve made plenty of those wrong assumptions. The reason I asked the question is because on the HERD board I’ve been posting about the issues re spousal abuse, child abuse, concussions, etc and I’ve gotten a lot of responses about its media blowing stuff out of context, don’t discount the now wife started it, blah, blah-very protective of the players in general. Then I got a response today from someone who stated “facts” from blog called “RedState.com saying the whole child and spousal abuse thing and concussion is just part of a “liberal agenda”.

My problem is I don’t suffer fools gladly. So I engage and before long it’s out of hand. Anyway, my wife says “people are people and you may think their dumb and maybe they are but you won’t change how they think with debate and you may even piss them off more. So grow up and let it go”. That’s pretty much an actual quote from her.

Well, as you know, each board has its unique history
and ambiance.

A lot of us remember the old wars over ‘politics’
on the various Pol Boards. Each of us involved
in those…um…’discussions’ probably came away
with unique lessons from that experience.
I learned that it is pointless for ‘me’ to discuss
politics with people who significantly-different
politix from me. So, i just stopped.
Others came to different conclusions, I’m sure.

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waterfield wrote:

Just curious. IMO I think football fans-especially the hard core ones-tend to be conservative in their political beliefs even what some would call “right wing”. I’m not sure that is true with hard core baseball fans and I have no idea as to basketball fans.

Anyone care to share their opinion on this?

I dunno. Maybe the more ‘hawkish’ one is,
the more likely one is to enjoy ‘violent’ sports
like football and MMA and boxing, etc. I dunno.
Its possible.

NASCAR seems to be a rightie thing, in general,
according to some.

I’ve learned to be real careful about such ‘assumptions’ though.
Sometimes the assumptions just dont hold up.

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Interesting.

Its awfully difficult to know what to do
about cases where someone who may
be innocent, is at the stage where they
are only ‘accused’ of something.
I mean the Rice case was unusual —
there are not going to be videos
in most cases.

I wonder how much Friel gets paid
to join the NFL in this project?

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Enh. I cant pay much attention
to stats after only a game and a half.

I usually dont even look at stats
until four games have been played.
Thats just me, though.

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nittany ram wrote:

Unfortunately, you can only protect him so much. This is a violent game and he is a little man.

I fear his career will be an injury-filled one.

Well that CANT be right.
Cause that would mean that Ag
was right and they should have drafted
Cordaroy Patterson. We cant have that.

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InvaderRam wrote:

a head injury???

shaking my head…

The ‘Government’ would need 12 out of 12 jurors
to agree on a guilty verdict.
Defense only needs 1 out of 12 for a hung-jury-verdict.

Try and get 12 jurors on a panel
without at least one ‘spare the rod,
spoil the child’ government-hating-fundamentalist.

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zn wrote:

>wv wrote:
He’ll be found Not Guilty.
Jury will deliberate about ten minutes.

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New story though.

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zn wrote:
Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, already facing felony charges in Texas for child abuse, has been accused in a separate incident involving another son who is 4 years old, KHOU-TV in Houston has reported.

The CBS affiliate cites text messages that reportedly include a photo of the son with an apparent head wound covered by bandages.

Ok, the jury will deliberate 15 minutes
instead of ten: Not Guilty.

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Mackeyser wrote:

should be.

We were less than 50 yds from it when it happened. It looked GRUESOME. I didn’t want to watch it on the jumbotron, but I did. I thought we lost him for the year. Bucs fans around us patted me on the shoulder and actually commiserated with me. “First Bradford and now Austin. It’s not right”

Stuff like that. So, only two games or really more like 1 game with the bye? Yeah, I’ll take that.

I just watched the play on Rewind and I winced at the
Route. I dont particularly want Tavon to be
running comeback routes surrounded by three defenders,
while a ball is floated to him.

I have a feeling Martz would use more vertical routes
with Tavon. I know I would. They sure did at WVU.

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