FireChan

A little more nuanced, but pretty much. Imagine if Texas said, "we want to be our own government and kill the rest of you." And shockingly, the rest of the US said, "no."

I will try to give you an example of what I am trying to say. Let's say I played T-ball for 2 years. My first year, I played decently, with a .800 batting average. My second year, I was missing much more than my first year, and I had .200. My career average may be .500, but that doesn't really tell the whole story, or my trajectory does it? I played much worse my second year than my first. That's reality. And personally, I don't feel you can say, "you'll bat .500 next year, because that's your average."

And I clarified my false choice with a "possibility" in my next post, because I didn't intend for the post to come off in an "either/or" situation. A little hostile today, are we?

Please. Enough.

Do you think it is pertinent to consider the future when deciding to draft somebody?

Rivers still gets drunk on some weekends and throws rocks at Nate Kaeding's house.

It all depends on where he is on Whaley's board. I completely disagree that we can't afford to take a project with a second or a third this year. There is a dearth of talent this year. We have no QB, and could very likely still not have one by the 2016 draft. Rather than shackling ourselves to possibly being "forced" to take one in 2016, in which the overall draft talent will be higher than this years, it is more beneficial to use a decently high pick on a project in this draft. This draft will have guys with second round grades going in the first round. Every pick past 15 is devalued. It's the perfect situation of little risk.

You don't see it being distinctly possible to need to draft a QB next year in the first round? Really?

You really do bring Bush up all the time. Why?

That actually hasn't cleared much up for me.

I'd rather pick a project in the second this year, then reach for a project in the first next year.

What?

FireRex

It's really not just you.

EJ's tQBR in 2014 was less than 20. 50/50? Really?

So he didn't play poorly and end up transferring? Pretty sure he threw 7 INTs in 3 losses, with a 59-0 loss to Alabama. Hardly "monster numbers," except when playing the Rice's of the world.

Didn't Texas A&M's new QB suck and transfer?

Again, I was not referring to you.

Hopefully they hold back as well.

Doesn't sound like he'll be a camp casualty.

While I'm not sold on Wikipedia as a reference, this is the first line on their "Health Effects," section. "Nicotine stimulates angiogenesis and promotes tumor growth and atherosclerosis.[13]" Edit: Although, I am finding papers that note the inconsistency on whether nicotine is strictly carcinogenic. Compared to cigarettes, it is relatively harmless.

That's not what I'm doing.

I don't go into other peoples topics and complain that they exist. If he doesn't care and doesn't want to talk about it, why post in it?

Definitely one thousand times better than cigarettes. I'll try to find some nicotine article. Still, you experience withdrawal, and nicotine messes with your ACh receptors. It's not the worst thing ever, but it's not necessarily "healthy."

Nicotine is a carcinogen.