There is probably a black friday thread, but I thought this would be good for everyone to see.


http://www.gophn.com//wp-content/uploads/BF2009-Buying-Guide-Gophn.xls

It might take a minute to open but you can sort it by store that you want to
shop at :)

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/20/...ial/index.html

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sp...-70650377.html



my thoughts and prayers for Rock and his Dad, may he fully recover

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/70451747.html

:hysterical:

November 20, 2009

Redskins Park

Head Coach Jim Zorn

On injuries:

“Eddie Williams got an ankle injury on the second to last play during our practice. We’re going to go x-ray it and see what it’s all about.”



“Albert [Haynesworth] was on the treadmill today working. He’s questionable. It will be a game-time decision whether he can go or not.”



On if Carlos Rogers is going to start on Sunday:

“He could. But right now we’ve got a little mix going. We like what we’re seeing out there. I like what I’m seeing in Carlos and how he’s responded to the situation. Sometimes it happens where you just have to bide your time and wait for your next opportunity. I know with Carlos it will come, and I think he knows it will come as well.”



On feelings of his coaching staff:

“I think we have great leadership at the top of this group. In Greg Blache on defense, I think he keeps a tight knit group, and it permeates through our defensive team. Danny Smith does a wonderful job on special teams, and those teams respond well to him everyday. On offense, I think Sherman Smith does a good job of administrating and keeping that group moving. On offense, it’s harder because it’s a bunch of ideas coming together and then deciding on one thing. I think we do a really good job, and I’m not in that room every minute of the day, but Sherman does a great job of making sure we keep moving and we decide on something. That permeates what we’re trying to do on offense.”



On if he thinks Fred Davis is playing better now that he’s playing more:

“I think everybody does. It makes it more exciting to know you’re going to be out there. Especially because I think he’s a player. Some guys might enjoy just hanging around. We don’t have many of those guys on this football team, and they don’t hang around that long in this league. I think it is more exciting, but it’s a matter of a young guy like that learning from Chris Cooley and he’s done so and is taking advantage of that right now. He’s got a good future in front of him.”



On if Fred Davis has gotten more serious about playing since Chris Cooley became injured:

“I think he was serious. But when it’s totally on you and you’re responsibility when you’ve got the weight on your shoulders- he’s really taken it upon himself, because it’s on his shoulders, to really listen to those techniques that Scott [Wachenheim] is trying to teach. It’s made a difference. In these situations, guys are really going to rise up, but they just can’t do it yet. Sometimes it’s a matter of maturity and sometimes it’s a matter of ability and he’s really one of those guys that are rising up.”

OFFENSIVE LINE COACH JOE BUGEL

On how it affects things to juggle new guys in and out of the lineup:

“Well, when you juggle new guys, that takes a little bit of extra work, extra effort. Fortunately Levi Jones, he came in with a great attitude and he’s a good worker. He picked up things rather quickly, more quickly than I thought he would. But the injuries we’ve had, nobody around the NFL cares how many guys you have injured, it’s just who you replace them with. Chad Rinehart’s been working his rear end off. We decided it was time for him to go out there and start and he’s doing a heck of a job. Stephon [Heyer] has been having to hop from right tackle to left tackle, left tackle to right tackle, but he adjusts well. I’m real proud of the group. The group played really solid. Anytime you can go, I think it was 69 or 70 plays, with no holding penalties, no turnovers, you’ve really got a chance to win. We were really excited about our run game. The guys really did a good job. As a group, they really hung together really good.”



On what he saw from guard Chad Rinehart during the time he was inactive and then transitioning back into a starting role:

“I thought during that time when he wasn’t a starter, watching him on the scout team servicing the defense, he was doing a heck of a job. He was staying after practice and getting extra work. It came to the time where the kid deserved a chance. He was a third round draft pick for us, it’s his second year, and he’s come alive. He kept on growing. He didn’t go in a corner and hide or suck his thumb when he got benched. He just worked harder at it and it’s paying dividends for us right now.



“He’s healthy right now, he’s still a good weight lifter and he’s a high character guy. You can coach him real hard and, like I said, you can push a guy, push a guy, and sometimes a guy will just suck his thumb and sit in a corner; this guy just got better and better.”



On what he saw on film from tackle Levi Jones against Denver:

“His physicality. I wasn’t quite sure how good of a run blocker he was. I really didn’t study him when he was with the Bengals. He showed he has some great run attributes, the arm pump that we look for, but he’s a fast learner. He understands and grasps what we are talking about. His system in Cincinnati was totally different from our system, technique-wise and everything. He had a lot of catching up to do, but he came here to play. He worked well with the tight ends, he’s a good communicator. He’s a very soft-spoken man, but he’s got real good football arrogance. I really like being around the kid. He’s a good mate for [Derrick] Dockery, too.”



On if he sees tackle Levi Jones possibly being around for a few years:

“You’d think so because I think football’s real important to him. I think he realizes this is an audition for him and he’s going to play his rear end off. I like guys like that. He came in and he was no-nonsense. He just didn’t want to be part of the scout team. He said, ‘Buges, I came here to start.’ I told him, ‘Hey, stick around, the way we get injured, you may be in there tomorrow.’”



On how the injuries along the offensive line affect preparation during the week:

“You’ve got to have a great group because there’s a lot of guys that can’t play left and right [tackle] in this league believe it or not. Fortunately, we’ve got Stephon Heyer. He’s been left tackle, right tackle, but you’ve got to have a lot of patience and you have to demand. A lot of these kids, like Rinehart is in his second year in the league, you’re dealing with some young people. You’ve got to treat them as tough as possible in practice so they don’t get surprised in a game on Sunday. I’ll never change that. We’ll beat them to death during the week. On Sunday, make it a pleasurable day for them. They accepted that and that group played as good as I was hoping they could play last Sunday against Denver because Denver is a heck of a football team. They’re going to have to play a step better this week against Dallas because Dallas’ front seven is pretty darn awesome.”



On running back Ladell Betts:

“[Ladell] Betts is a highly respected football player. Three years ago, he came in and had five straight 100-yard plus game. The players trust him and they have a great respect for him. He’s the kind of a guy that says nothing – even if he has a mouth full, he says nothing – but when it comes time to play, he plays. And that’s the good thing about Ladell Betts and that’s why the guys respect him so much.”



On if a running back practicing throughout the week helps build chemistry with the offensive line:

“We have a team run on Wednesday and Thursday and usually you like to have your starting back in there to get the blocking schemes and linemen like that guy also because our backs, we’re a zone football team, and the way our backs operate back there, they bring the linebackers and the zones to us. That’s an important thing for us. [Ladell] Betts and [Rock] Cartwright and the other young man [Quinton Ganther] did a heck of a job. It was a fun Sunday last week, it really was.”

I know someone else started a Vinny draft picks thread, but let's break down his moves over the years more in-depth, including trades & FA signings.

Let me start off by saying I'm not a Vinny fan, and he does need to go, however he has made plenty of heads up moves.

Vinny's good/great moves: (* - may have been a Joe Gibbs move)

Drafted Samuels & Lavar in 2000
Drafted Ladell Betts in the 2nd round (02)
Drafted Rock Cartwright in the 7th round (02)
Drafted Derrick Dockery in the 3rd round (03)
Drafted Sean Taylor in the 1st round* (04)
Drafted Chris Cooley in the 3rd round* (04)
Drafted Rocky McIntosh in the 2nd round* (06)
Drafted Reed Doughty in the 6th round* (06)
Drafted Kedric Golston in the 6th round* (06)
Drafted Chris Horton in the 7th round (08)
Drafted Justin Tryon in the 4th round (08) (has played pretty well in a limited role so far)
Drafted Orakpo in the 1st round (09) - although my dog would have drafted Orakpo
Drafted Jeremy Jarmon, 3rd round supplemental draft (09)
Drafted Marko Mitchell in the 7th round (09)
Traded for CP*
Traded for Santana Moss*
Traded for Brunell* (he did get the team to the playoffs)
Signed Randy Thomas
Signed Mike Sellers*
Signed Ryan Clark*
Signed Casey Rabach*
Signed Pete Kendall*
Signed Todd Yoder*
Signed Marcus Washington*
Signed London Fletcher*
Signed Shawn Springs*
Signed Andre Carter*
Signed Phillip Daniels*
Signed Cornelius Griffin*
Signed Haynesworth (although it was because Danny told him to)
Signed Hunter Smith (best P the Skins have had in years)
Found Sean Suisham (best K the Skins have had in years)
Found Chris Wilson (good pass rusher)


Vinny's bad moves:

Drafted Carlos Rogers* over D. Ware & S. Merriman
Gave up a ton of picks to move up and draft Jason Campbell*
Gave up picks for Brandon Lloyd*
Drafted LL over both APete & Patrick Willis*
Drafted Taylor Jacobs in the 2nd round (although let's face it this was a heavily influenced Spurrier pick)
Signed Adam Archuleta*
Traded for T.J. Duckett*
Didn't draft OL in 1st/2nd rounds in 08-09
Gave up way too much money to sign MeAngelo
the 08 2nd round picks (could have had Eddie Royal & DeSean Jackson for example)
Traded a 2nd round pick for Jason Taylor (this could be viewed as either a good or bad move)
Gave too much money to ARE*
Hiring Zorny given his lack of experience

As funny as this sounds, I am going to defend Vinny not drafting OL between 02-07 (I won't defend not drafting OL the last two drafts). Keep in mind, 02-07 you had Samuels & Jansen at T, Dockery/Kendell at LG, Rabach at C, and Randy Thomas at RG. Anyone drafted in the 1st/2nd round would have been sitting on the bench making alot of money, not to mention may have left via free agency by the time they would have gotten playing time.

We don't know how much of an influence or decision making Joe Gibbs really had with personnel decisions during his time here, so 04-07 is a bit cloudy as to how much credit Vinny gets for the good moves and how much blame he gets for the bad moves that were made.

Now Vinny's good moves far outweigh his bad ones, but the major problem most people have with Vinny, including myself, is on two levels:

1. His philosophy - listen to Danny, sign big names, overpay overrated players and the picks he has missed on have been HUGE mistakes and have cost the team in certain areas; drafting certain guys based on reputation rather than how their individual skills fit in with the philosophy of the offense or defense (for example Fred Davis is drafted probably just because he won the Macky award rather than how he specifically fit in considering Cooley is a pro-bowler and was only 26 at the time Davis was drafted)
2. What Vinny represents, which is someone who is Danny's puppet who is going to do whatever Danny wants and won't think and do things based on what he knows is best for the team.

Your thoughts - how do you grade Vinny based on the above?

Santa has a Twitter account and he only posts when he's drunk:

http://twitter.com/loadedsanta

FYI, contains NSFW language.

I though that he said that he was going to play.

This is not good if true! :mad:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/2...warming-fraud/

A hacker broke into the CRU's emails which reveal attempts to "cook" the data in their favor. The CRU has verified the emails are accurate.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576009,00.html

This may be the "smoking gun" to putting cap and trade to rest and proving that Al Gore and his climate change is a money making hoax..

Burglary suspect killed, Arlington homeowner arrested

By Jackson Holtz
Herald Writer

ARLINGTON – An Arlington area man who called police to report a burglary Monday was jailed early today suspected of killing the suspected intruder.

“This case is unusual in that the original burglary victim has become our shooting suspect and the alleged burglary suspect has become our shooting victim,” Snohomish County sheriff's spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said this morning.

“Detectives do not have any information indicating the shooting suspect was acting in self defense,” she said.

The victim, a Snohomish County man, 25, has not been identified. He died of apparent gunshot wounds. The suspect, 38, is expected to go before a judge later today.

Click on the link for the full article

Which ones do you guys like and don't like? Which ones do you feel is more of an entertainer than an actual chef?

I pose this question to those that are already joined at the hip to their counterparts. Now, I know a question such as this might be personal, but so is having a propaganda :D.

The common phrase that I so often hear is "Don't get married," but it is always said as a reflection of one's sexual deprivation. Is this the primary benefactor that makes you not feel the need for an obligation?!

For those not/ already married, where do you stand on this and how does it affect your decisions later on in life?

Pretty cool device. The interesting part is that the FDA is requiring an RX for it. I can understand how it would make marketing it much more lucrative but really?

http://www.popsci.com/bown/2009/inno...ed-piper-mucus

"Hawkins began building an electronic sound machine that would produce waves of 16 hertz—the same frequency at which the cilia move—to help break up the mucus. Generating a hum of such a low frequency normally requires van-size subwoofers, and so he spent 15 years honing and shrinking the speakers. Then one day as he was testing a mouthpiece filter for his machine, he noticed that blowing through it sent a slight vibration into his chest. Within five seconds, he sketched out the Lung Flute to amplify the effect. Blowing into the tube flaps a reed-thin sheet of plastic, which vibrates the chest and shakes the mucus until it’s thin and mobile enough for the cilia to usher it up your throat. “I felt so stupid because the answer was so simple,” Hawkins says.

Today, doctors in Japan use the $40 Lung Flute as a tool to collect sputum from patients suspected of carrying tuberculosis, and in Europe and Canada it’s used to help test phlegm for lung cancer. Clinical trials in the U.S. have shown that it is at least as effective as current COPD treatments. At press time, Hawkins expected the device to receive FDA approval any day, and says the reusable device could also provide home relief for patients with cystic fibrosis, influenza and asthma."

- more at link

I have a rescued lab/pit mix and he HATES all other dogs. He does however get along with my other dog perfectly fine which is strange....but any other dog he despises. Going to the dog park at this point would be a nightmare. He is 2 yrs old and I'd like to get him to get along with all other dogs.

If anyone knows any legit dog trainers in the No.Va area it would be appreciated. THANKS.

Did not see this posted anywhere.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post...emain-confused

I love this part - (Orakpo grew up in the Houston area as an avid Oilers fan. He has a healthy dislike of Dallas and the Cowboys, so he seemed to enjoy the conversation)