Dr. Who

No happy ending for you.

He can scowl real nice from the sideline.

The best case would be Ford resurrects his career under Kromer's tutelage and we receive some value for an apparent bust, but Kromer values athleticism, and Ford's RAS is not good. If you can get someone to offer you a late draft pick, that's probably the best you are going to do.

The returns are not economic, for sure. The return is without the Bills, you are Toledo, OH.

Well, I can't blame you for that . . . let's just hope the small sample size with Bates was the real deal, because the oline was certainly playing well end of season and playoffs.

This has repeatedly been addressed in the thread. If you go the 2nd round tender route, you face free agency again next year and end up paying more if Bates has a good year. If you think he is a starter for multiple years, Beane's strategy was precisely correct, but you are always the smartest fella in the room, I guess.

Waiting for the homeless Baker commercial.

There is no way Dotson is there in the 2nd for us. I think late 1st round is his floor for when he will be drafted. I live near Athens; UGA fan. Pickens has been my sleeper pick for wr if we go cb in the 1st, but he'll go early 2nd, so you'd have to trade up to get him most likely. I like Skyy Moore, but he's a smurf. Back to UGA players, James Cook as a mid-round rb would be a great third down back. Don't know about blitz pickups, but he's sneaky elusive and a natural playmaker.

Happy Birthday, fella.

If they pass on Olave for cb, I would understand it but not be happy. The Jets should hire you for GM. That's a nice draft for them.

I think you should take into account that McD runs a cb friendly defense and if there is one area where the coaching staff has shown itself able to coach up talent, its defensive backs. They can find someone they can work with in the second. There are five or six top end wrs coming out. Unlike in the old days, wrs are coming into the league more skilled, or at least developed for the contemporary NFL game. The game is changed. We need to get one on a rookie contract and match the arms race that the AFC has suddenly become. If it keeps a top level talent from the Chiefs, that's a plus. Hey, I resemble that tooth thing . . .

Neither is there at #25, though Olave could be close. Don't want to see KC go up and grab him.

Clearly you and I have a different definition of fun.

Not much difference.

I think they call that a tease in the media biz.

Oh, character is destiny. The ancients knew that. All I was attempting to say is that those who found his initial testimony useful for building an argument will still find it useful. They'll simply finesse the justification for using what he said.

I certainly see how CB would be a rational pick. I won't throw a brick at the telly if that's the way they go. Sure, there are always speed receivers you can get later, but what elevates the few above the many is harder to quantify than simply checking out forty times. I think Williams has a chance to be an elite playmaker and so I'm going to be rooting he's our pick.

Yeah, but will the folks who find the initial corroborating evidence useful going to allow him to retract? Maybe this is just caving to NFL pressure? You can always find your way around inconvenient facts in order to secure a favored interpretation if you nuance things sufficiently.

You're the fella I have tagged in my memory as the oline guy. I do hope they make a run at a Munchak or Cable if possible before going with a young guy. Plenty of youth already with the coaches on that side of the ball.

I'm assuming he means a safe throw to the checkdown and the like.

I'd like to get Breece Hall on day two.

Well, it could easily be taken for that, but I think it might just as easily be proof that the Texans are bat-guano crazy and stupid. Though, really, the NFL has got to know what a bad look that would be.

If Nick Wright has come around, the gig is definitely up.

The old guild system of the middle ages was designed to provide just this sort of progression from novice to master craftsman. The world of post-industrial individualism greatly increased choice and the geographical scope for talent, but it really vitiated all those soft forms of social integration that allowed persons to mature into excellence and prosper. It happens everywhere, but this is a good example in a relatively specialized ecosystem as it were.

Honestly, at this point, anyone with an ounce of simple instinct for self-preservation has got to know its no longer even possible to play the skeptic card for click bate without appearing utterly clueless.