[sportscurmudgeon]

smootsmack:

I start each game looking for positive outcomes. In the past three or four years, those things tend to be very rare and the negatives tend to be very common. So I get "upset" with the negative things and wonder why they have not yet been elimimated.

I do not wager on every game. Part of being successful in gambling is picking and choosing your spots. Obviously, when I do make a wager, I greatly prefer to win as opposed to lose. I doubt that makes me significantly different from anyone else here.

When I say I'm too lazy to go look something up, that merely means I am not going to make up some BS and toss it out there as if it meant something. If I were ever waaay off on one of those guesstimates, I feel certain that half a dozen folks here would be eager get the real numbers and let me know how dumb I am. For example, earlier today I said that I THOUGHT that Ramsey had not won 10 games that he had started and that however many games he had won, he had probably lost twice as many. If I am way off on those assertions, I expect to be corrected - and not particularly politely either.

As for the devotees of "continuity" from this year to next, let me remind you that if you had held to that position last year, our DL this year would have Lionel Daulton and Darryl Russell playing DT. Remember last year when the DL could not stop anybody?

What happened was that they got rid of just about EVERYBODY (save Wynn and Haley who hasn't played much at all) and signed ONE free agent and then got a bunch of guys who hustle and do what the coaches tell them to do. BIG IMPROVEMENT. But that improvement came by blowing up the DL because it sucked wind last year. Don't be too afraid to look objectively at other parts of this team and think the same thing because it can be REALLY beneficial. I'd put the Wide Receiver corps under a microscope just to see if there might be a huge improvement to be made by saving only one of that batch...