Dr. Who

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.

Well, his mistake was he left 13 seconds on the clock.

I basically agree. The hiring inequity can be separated out from the paying to lose which cannot be tolerated without putting the whole league in question. The former is complicated and so ideologically charged it becomes polemical so there is more heat than light. I sure don't know how to resolve it, but it seems to me rather than focus on head coaches, there needs to be much more attention to placing minorities at the Coordinator level which is the best logical path to eventually becoming a head coach. Personally, I subscribe to MLK's dictum that one ought to be judged by the content of one's character and not by factors entirely outside anyone's control such as race or gender, but that remains largely aspirational and obviously other factors do become problematic in the real world.

Can the NFL really afford to cave at all when the charges so materially go to the integrity of the league? I think they are going to play hard ball.

Throwback blues with standing buffalo is the best uniform in football, but hard to argue taste. The all white is a very crisp look and we seem to always lose with the white over blue combo, so I can't see it without a trace of pessimism seeping through. The red on red is the only combo I truly dislike. Royal blue is our color. Red reminds me of the old Patriot uniforms when they were bad like they are supposed to be.

He better have strong evidence, because if its equivocal or purely subject to interpretation, NFL lawyers are going to eat him alive.

Folks will debate that, but he'd sure be my first pick. It's not just his superior athletic gifts at the most important position in football. Leadership and intangibles come into play. Fella is the real deal across the board.

He potentially destroyed his career to make a point? Very Captain Ahab.