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And if the Pats has never signed Randy Moss, Welker would be lucky to catch 1/2 the number of passes he did last season. And then consider that welker averaged only 10 yards per catch. Thats the football equivalent of the mendoza line for WRs. Moulds and Price were garbage because they had trouble breaking that barrier. Welker isnt much better.

I'm amazed at your ability to determine that neither Sweed nor Kelly will amount to much in the NFL. That is the exact bias i am talking about.

So, hampton went to the pro-bowl. He's one of the best DTs in the game. But, according to you, pittsburgh should have kept drafting DL, because thats the only way to win in this league, to keep drafting DL, irregardless of how weak you may be at other positions. Instead, they solidified the position, and addressed other, more pressing needs in subsequent drafts. The Bills also have a pro-bowler on their DT squad. As for the offense, whats the definition of insanity? Repeating the same process over and over and expecting the same results. So we are supposed to just trot the 2007 offense (one of the worst in Bills' history) and expect it to all of a sudden to better? I certainly hope the 6 DTs you would draft if you were GM would be able to score a lot of defensive TDs, because thats the only way the Bills would win.

While your arguemnt holds some water, there is inherent bias in it. You automatically assume the DT we draft is going to be great, and that the WR is going to be so-so. You are saying that drafting a DT will give us the next tommie harris, while drafting a WR will give us a reggie williams. Theres just as good of a chance that we draft the next Roy Williams instead of the next John Sullivan. I am not opposed to taking a DE at #11. But if we do, and dont get a good WR in the draft, we are going to end up still scoring 13 ppg and complaining that we have no offensive weapons when we have scored 12 TD's through the first 10 games AGAIN.

I wonder, with JP bouncing every one of his passes, how he ever managed to complete 63% in a season?

Criticizing Trent does not automatically mean that one wants JP to start. Trent gave everyone a lot to criticize with his abysmal performances over the last 3 weeks of the season. As a corollary, thinking Trent has a lot to prove does not mean that one thinks he should NOT be starting. He needs to do a lot of improving, but he still should be starting this season.

You are still oversimplfying. look at the steeler drafts going back a long time. Their 1st and 2nd round picks from 1999 to 2007 (18 picks) amount to this: 5 DB 4 WR 3 LB 1 TE 1 QB 1 DE 1 OG 1 OT 1 DT In the last 9 years, can you explain how a team like the steelers, traditionally successful (including a SB win) spent 1/2 of their first and second round draft picks on WR/DB, and only 2 on the DL, yet somehow managed to remain successful. Because, according to your simplification, they should have gone the way of the Lions a loooong time ago. They havent drafted a DL in those rounds since 2003. Obviously, a strong DL is a good thing to have. But your oversimplifications are going overboard. Simply stocking the DL with draft pick after draft pick, just so you can have DTs, doesnt make sense, especially when a team has other glaring needs and already spent 2 draft picks on a DT. The Bills currently have a very solid, with a potential to be really good DT rotation currently, with Stroud, McCargo, Johnson, and Williams. Sure, if Dorsey or Ellis falls to #11, we should snag them. If they dont, then what DT do we take? The most successfuly teams draft the best players and telent, and more importantly, dont miss draft picks, regardless of position.

I'd say Uncle Rico. Everyone says Trent can throw the ball over them there mountains, but no one has seen it.

Make no mistake, we need help at the WR 2 and TE position. We've all been screaming for years to get more weapons for _____ QB. This draft seems deep enough that we can get a good solid WR in round 2. Ideally, we could trade down 5-8 spots and pick up a second in the process. Philly apparently is looking for an OT, and the top ones (Long, Clady, Otah, Williams) will probably be gone by the time they pick at 19. That would allow us to take a WR at #19, and have 2 second round picks to use on a TE and either line.

If we can't trade down into the late teens, i'd actually have no problem taking a DE at #11.

By oversimplification, you mean saying things like "Drafting first round DL means automatic success?"

Yawn. Are we going to get a weekly thesis on how drafting early DL automatically = championship? Someone let me know how ryan sims, john sullivan, dwayne robertson, etc are doing. But hey, our 10 OL, 1 QB offense, and our 8 DT, 2 DE, 1 CB defense could revolutionize the NFL! **Disclaimer...if Ellis or Dorsey fall to #11, we shouldnt think twice before snagging them. Its a no brainer. But, aside from that, reaching for a DL early simply because they are a DL is asinine at best.

You've posted a lot of dumb sh-- throughout the years, but this might take the cake.

Teams dont actually rotate 6-7DTs in any given game. I would venture to guess most teams carry 4, maybe 5 active DTs on any given day. Simply beefing up the numbers at DT isnt going to guarantee us anything.

How about this, dean? http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html

Good point. With this happening so much, we should to ban stingrays. However, seeing that this is highyl impractical, we should ban boats.

Again, no. The tampa-2 is a ONE GAP defense. They traditionally do NOT employ a large two-gap run stuffing DT. This is the reason Tampa-2 teams are vulnerable against the run. The trade off is that they'll allow 5 yds, 7 yds, 6 yds on consecutive carries, but then drop the RB for a 4 yard loss. Also, is passing situations, the Tampa-2 relies on pressure strictly from the front 4. The entire DL needs ot get to the QB, not just the DEs. http://www.footballtimes.org/Article.asp?ID=167 I'm not saying a big 2-gap DT cant work in the tampa-2, because they can. But in true tampa-2, you want smaller, quicker, 1-gap, gap shooting DTs, ala Warren Sapp and/or Tommie Harries. You do NOT rely on one of those clogging up multiple gaps.

Happy birthday! Here's one for you SnR. http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/m/m...ndy_moore_1.jpg

2. One for the stingray. Also, if this happens, chalk it up to "its your time to die and you aren't going to avoid it."

When the bags are filled, instead of disposing of them, you can sell them to soccer fans for their next game.

Nah, my neighbor made copies before the tourney and passed them out to everyone beforehand, so there were no shenanigans. The funny thing is that he missed 3 first round games, so its not like we expected him to go almost perfect the rest of the way. But he just started steamrolling.

why the hell would spencer johnson sign with a team that makes him bring his own lunch to work?

Technically, no. True cover-2/tampa-2 DTs are pure one-gap, pocket collapse-ers. They are required to help the DEs with the pass rush. The true cover-2/tampa-2 scheme doesnt use a 2-gap DT. I am glad that we got Stroud to clog the line, but Sapp was far from a 2-gap clogger. He was a one gapper, shooting into the backfield and disrupting plays.

I still havent seen a better bracket than my neighbor during freshman yr of undergrad. The kid knew his college ball, and nailed 59 of the 63 games correct.

stay up all night coming up with that one?