Chilly

Ahahahahah. Thanks for the laugh this morning. You Obamians still can't admit that he was wrong.

Studying the drafting trends of the way bad teams approach the Top of the Draft versus the Buffalo Bills (one of only 4 teams in the NFL to have missed the playoffs this Millennium) may offer some insight into why we’ve been one of the consistently bad teams in the league for an extended period of time. Using the draft records of bad teams teams allows a look into how those teams have “budgeted” at specific positions at the Top of the Draft. This study does not establish whether these Positional Budgeting Trends are a conscious strategy on the part of all or any of the teams in the study, but the trends do represent contrasts between the players bad teams target at the Top of the Draft versus the positions the Buffalo Bills have been drafting. The methodology used for the study follows the primary trending results. A comparison of Bad Team Draft Budgets versus the Bills looks like this: Bad Teams: Cardinals, Lions, Dolphins, Browns, Texans, Vikings, Raiders, 49ers, Ravens, Titans, Chiefs, Saints, Falcons, Panthers, Rams, Bengals % of Draft Top of the Budget by Position: Bad Teams QB - 8.30% RB - 9.12% WR - 12.50% TE - 3.84% OL - 13.85% DL - 21.59% LB - 13.07% DB - 17.53% Bills QB - 8% RB - 20% WR - 18% TE - 0% OL - 12% DL - 16% LB - 6% DB - 20% Buffalo has “outspent” the bad teams at RB and WR while “under spending” them at DL and LB. Bills have spent a higher ratio of their budget on WRs and RBs versus DL, bucking the Bad Team trend of loading up on DL at the Top of the Draft. Bad teams are spending over 21%- or over a fifth of their Top of the Draft Budget- on DL, while the Bills have committed less than 16%. In order to compile usable information for the study, the following reasonable stipulations were adopted in order to establish a study group and time window: 1) Top of the Draft- This is represented by the first two rounds. The players selected in these two rounds represent the prospects that NFL teams have concluded are the best talent entering the league from college each season. 2) Draft Budgeting- To establish a position by position numerical score for each team, the study uses the sum of the specific draft choices in which each team selected players at each position during those first two rounds. In order to end up with a highest to lowest sum, the selections were counted inversely. Since there are 32 team picks in each round each of the first 64 picks is assigned the inverse of its position, with draft pick #1 being given a numerical score of 64 points, draft pick #2 counting for 63, etc. 3) Compensatory picks- Compensatory picks following the 64th pick of the draft were counted as 1 point in each case. 4) In establishing a window to study successful draft budgeting, the average number of years first round draft picks average playing for their original team (6-7) was used. The past 7 drafts were those considered. 5) “Bad Teams” will be NFL teams who have not made the playoffs at least twice in the last 4 seasons. Requiring teams to make the playoffs twice eliminates fluky teams that made the playoffs one year, only to be sub par the other three. 6) Positions- Positions are defined by: DL, DB, WR, OL, TE, RB, LB and QB. However, for fun, lets compare the Bad Teams with the Super Bowl teams: Bad Teams QB - 8.30% RB - 9.12% WR - 12.50% TE - 3.84% OL - 13.85% DL - 21.59% LB - 13.07% DB - 17.53% Super Bowl Teams QB - 6% RB - 8% WR - 14% TE - 9% OL - 12% DL - 23% LB - 7% DB - 21% Bad Teams have “outspent” the Super Bowl teams at LB while “under spending” them at TE and DB, and in all other positions (including DL) they were pretty close.

What record?

I guess he's only morally opposed to it if he's president. Yeah... a President who has shown time and time again that he's willing to completely and utterly compromise his positions on issues for political gain. That doesn't matter at all. Funny, I'd use the same like about most Obama supporters.

Has Trent been given the opportunity to do that yet?

Which is, IMO, a mistake, given how young our offense is and the implementation of a second new system for Trent in 2 years. :puke: I know Jauron is injury-scared now after last year, but he's gotta let them get their reps somehow, and from what I've read, he sure as hell hasn't been tough on them in practice...

He's an internet hero.

You don't have enough posts to be credible.

HBD

Running's changed, you need to be much more realistic. Need to wait for a hole to open up, follow where the play is supposed to go, and wait to Spring until blocking is setup.

You, sir, are one knowledgeable handyman. You always seem to know the answer to home questions.

* and the worst teams. We've been trying to tell him that for a while now. Don't expect him to listen. Plus, there is the whole issue of teams not being able to choose where their draft picks are and plan for such an instance reliably...

Not if he's using the very same event he is boycotting to do so. It is not a hard concept.

Yep, which is why I found it a rather silly ad. It's less about knocking Obama and much more about knocking the people who support Obama. It doesn't make me want to vote for McCain, it just makes me want to slap all the morons who are voting for Obama because he's dreamy.

You're not the only one who thought that, I too felt it was confusing.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If their reporting is true, this is the best news we've had in a long, long time.

Yeah, the immediate thought that came to mind was he's the type to jack off in the food before he serves it, but then I realized my statement didn't really explain that.

I love genitalia on my burger.

He's helping NBC profit off of an event that he disagrees with.

Another farking stupid ad by McCain. Great job!

Better pics of the BSOD at Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5035456/blue-screen-of-...-torch-lighting

So, Obama is taking a hard-line stance on the Olympics being in China, saying that unlike our President, he wouldn't attend the opening ceremony. Yet, for some reason, he decided to spend $5 million supporting the Olympics by buying advertising slots.

Depends on the system. On hte 360 version, there's a roster update that you can download and get Favre as a Jet.

Are you bringing an empty suitcase for all the food you're taking back?

Why would they pay you when they could just google it for free at google.com?