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For the 11th overall pick, I need more than an outlet receiver. I need a guy who creates mismatches, stretches the field, and is almost/as good a blocker as an OL.

This dude is the next Ladairis.

Yeah "thebandit27," you imbicile!

So much for that felony charge.

His knee needed the more extensive procedure he ultimately had. Had he had the more limited one (to allow him to return to play in 2008), he still would have been out for 4-6 weeks and his knee still wouldn't have been 100%. The Bills did him a favor by paying him $1.75M and allowing him to get his knee properly treated, after his dumb decision to delay surgery. In an ideal world he'd sign a 1-year cheap deal with the Bills, have a monster season, and then hit UFA in 2010. But that's not going to happen and he won't get any big offers on the market, and probably the 1-year deal I mentioned.

I'll bet you $100 the Bills don't draft a CB on the first day this year.

It's definitely not performance-enhancing drugs. No way, no how!

He was coming off an All-Pro year and was sorely underpaid. I'd welcome the next Bills player who wants to holdout to make All-Pro first.

I asked a lawyer who has been following the case every step of the way to weigh-in on the situation. He said that merely having "improper" plates isn't enough to search the car, but seeing and smelling marijuana was enough. However since they didn't charge him with marijuana possession as they could/should have (because it was his car and he's responsible for what's in it), it throws into doubt that the "blunts" were there at all and thus the legality of the search (and yes they would have have had to retrieve the blunts and test them). If Lynch's lawyer wants to, he can fight the charges and get them dropped down to a traffic ticket if not dropped entirely on that technicality, and with LA's desperate economic situation, going to a jury trial for a non-violent weapons charge (where anyone with even a modest amount of common sense recognizes that it's 99.9% likely that the gun was there for protection and not criminal purposes) with possible illegal search and seizure isn't going to happen. However what he suspects is that since Lynch was caught breaking the law with the gun, even if it might have been illegally seized, he'll accept the misdemeanor charge, go to the Commish and say he could have fought it based on illegal search and seizure, but instead took his lumps, and hope for clemency in the form of just a fine, because it's his first true offense. So you see Don and Mr. WEO, I'm not just in the 0.1% (it's probably much higher) that thinks he didn't smoke pot, I'm in the group that questions whether there was pot at all.

For a first offense he should get a fine but no suspension. Second offense, suspension.

He could easily get at least 50% more money than what the Bills are offering.

The Bills tried to trade for him last year but he nixed the trade. And that was when the Bills were 5-1. I doubt his outlook on the Bills has improved any.

What would be the point? They have Lynch for the whole year, maybe minus a game, and have Fred Jackson. Then there's Omon. If they hadn't traded for RJ and had their 1st rounder that year, they probably would have taken Tra Thomas, since they drafted Antowain Smith the year before.

True. But a 4.87 40-time is a red flag, especially when he expected to run in the 4.4's, and taking him 11th overall isn't worth it IMHO.

They should have done the contract last year. It would have gotten him into camp on time, had him playing at an All-Pro level throughout the season, and would have been cheaper.

I believe he runs in the 4.6s.

Lynch will at best miss a game. Taylor is 33, been in the league for 11 years, and his best years are behind him. Pass.

After running a 4.87 and a 4.97 in the 40, he's not worth the 11th overall pick.

"Poor behavior?" When? -Hitting that woman and leaving the scene? The DA didn't seem to think Lynch was drunk and/or that he knew he hit her, therefore it wasn't poor behavior, it was an accident. -Not talking about the incident with anyone but his lawyer until he was charged with a traffic ticket? That's not poor behavior, that's being smart and listening to his lawyer. -Having "blunts" in his car? There's no proof there were, and the cops' decision not to charge him lends credence to the belief that it was an allegation created to search his car. It is no more credible than the steroid allegations against the Patriots that you so scoffingly dismiss. Yet you believe one and not the other. -Finding a loaded, concealed, unregistered weapon not on his person, but somewhere (some places I've read in the trunk and other places I've read on one of his buddies) in the car? Again I wouldn't call that poor behavior, but instead being dumb. It's not like he used it or allegedly flashed it at dear old dad. Everyone with even a lick of common sense knows it was for protection. And there was no report of him refusing the search, resisting arrest or even shouting "I'M MARSHAWN LYNCH! I'M WORTH MILLIONS!"

Haynesworth will get mad money. But red flags are that he didn't start to dominate until his contract years (the last 2 years), he's missed 22 games the past 6 years, and he had that incident with Gurode. My concern is the Bills give him the best offer, and he becomes another Dockery.

Look up the word "context" and take a reading comprehension course, oh "intellectual superior." But to edumicate ya, Lynch was exonerated from hit and run allegations. Now nod your head. Good boy.

The difference between OJ and Marshawn is that OJ was never charged with anything when it came to slapping-around Nicole, wasn't followed-up on as you mentioned, and there was ZERO publicity about it. He was truly, in essence, told that "it's okay." And his murdering her was a crime of passion. And ultimately he got away with murder. Lynch on the other hand has had a media circus revolving around both incidents, and despite being exonerated of hit and run, still has people saying he "got away with a felony." And without any proof there was really pot in the car, a lot of people still believe there was because he's a known criminal, and the cops never lie. I think he can't help but to have learned something from those. Now he was rightfully caught with a loaded, concealed, unregistered gun. One of those charges will stick and that should teach him a lesson. Whether it does remains to be seen, and if he does it again I agree with throwing the book at him, but there's no reason to think it won't. That is, it probably won't teach him any less of a lesson than getting charged with a felony, which is overkill, or even getting suspended.

Well then, if it's "extrememely minor," why is anyone getting worked-up over it? That's because it's not a "extremely minor" as you claim. If they wanted to use the excuse that they searched his car because of the marijuana, they should have seized the blunts and tested them for marijuana, and then tacked-on that charge to the gun charge, not given some idiotic excuse that only a rube believes like "no one claimed it was his" or "it's a hassle." Otherwise it never should have been mentioned.

Gee, how about CHARGING Lynch with marijuana possession? Oh wait that's right, "no one admitted it was his" and "it's a hassle..." Yes, you are truly a "rube." Is Poland your roommate?

Actually, it did. You see, that's what happens when a team gets caught cheating by videotaping and players get caught taking performance enhancing drugs, not to mention the other allegation of additional frequencies. I'm sure if they were a black Bills RB, you'd be more upset.