Casey D

Yes, it is like a corked bat in baseball.

No, apparently not. Each team provides its own balls for offense that they maintain control over. I did not know that until this morning.

Fire Chan is Cutler's mom. So take everything from that perspective and it makes sense. That is absolutely untrue and cannot be proven according to Fire Chan.

Exactly. Like Cutler is an a-hole.

Take care.

Wow, you are amazing-- it's like proving to you water is wet. Are you Cutler's mom?

OK... that's the problem now days, everyone feels entitled to their own facts. Hard to have a meaningful discussion. But if Cutler had Flacco's drive, determination leadership skills and personality, then I would agree you might be on to something.

Why do you want to like a guy who is widely despised? I mean why do you rationalize this?

Thanks!

I don't know how to link. But if you google Jay Cutler attitude or Jay Cutler arrogance you'll find everything you need. Sorry about my technological limitations.

No one said that about Orton-- no one. And what do you care if other people get excited, not your concern.

OK I understand. We agree that a good QB is very important. You are suggesting creative/expensive ways to find one, because they are so hard to find. That's cool.

Seriously? Just google him. He is largely detested by fans and teammates alike.

No, he is not. Flacco is a stand-up stud of a QB with good but not great skill, Cutler is a dysfunctional prima donna with good but not great skill. Sorry. Flacco won a SB at 27-- Cutler is pushing 32 and has done nothing.

Please don't say things like "accepting mediocrity." Nobody "accepts that" and it makes you come off like you are more discerning than everyone else. You have an idea, it is interesting. It is not likely-- IMO-- to lead anywhere except an awful team with all the wasted picks you propose. But it is different.

I don't know. The Dolphins defense has been quite good, and the team is stuck at 8-8. Tannehill is the picture of average.

I think that is an oversimplification. Over the last 15 years the team has lacked talent generally, in signigicant part because of a lot of bad drafts. The team has been bad on both sides of the ball. Only quite recently has the talent level increased, mostly on defense. With some tweaks to the OL, this is likely a playoff team with poor/average QB play. I agree to go the final step and be a big threat in the playoffs, they need to have a good, if not great QB-- someone like a Flacco or Rivers. Yuck... that's the problem. You reach for an expensive mediocrity and you get nowhere fast.

Likely true, but it probably is easier to build a team with a great defense and an average QB than finding a franchise QB.

No question, but every wasted pick on a failed QB has the opportunity cost of not getting a good player that, as you say, are easier to find. If you do that consistently, like the Redskins, you still don't have a QB and the rest of your team sucks too.

No, and the additional problem is Washington totally crapped out taking RG III and Cousins, and it has set them back considerably. Every lottery ticket you buy means you don't buy other necessities like OL DL etc. It is a very big problem in the NFL right now, especially when it appears if you don't have one of the 12 you have no chance at a championship-- playoffs perhaps but not the big prize. If that does not change, if there is not some QB revival, the popularity of the NFL may decline because the same QBs/teams are always the only ones who can win the SB. It gets old.

The problem is there are only about a dozen human beings that can play QB in the NFL at a reasonably high level-- Brady, both Mannings, Rivers, Roethlisberger, Flacco, Luck, Romo, Wilson, Rodgers, Brees and Ryan. And not all these guys are great, just pretty good or better. There are another 5-7 that are servicable, but not very good. That means at least half the teams don't have a guy at all. It's reality. Finding a good QB-- one of the 12 or so, is mostly a matter of pure luck, either lucky in getting a guy with a lower pick or having the #1 pick when P. Manning or Luck come out. No one knows who will be one of the rare 12, if you knew it you could try and get a good QB with some certitude. But it is all largely guesswork, and waiting around for you lottery ticket to hit is not a viable strategy. You should keep buying those lottery tickets, but you need to do the best you can as a team with mediocre QB play, because that is what most teams are forced to do given the lack of men who can effectively play QB at the NFL level.

Love that place! Meg was hot back in the day.

Wow, I never thought of it that way. You don't think it will lead to a Great War, do you?

So you hate the hire, whatever. Do you think everyone is going to read your posts and have a V-8 moment and say FTL is so smart, Ryan does suck. You have a negative view to the hire-- we get it. But his team collapsed at the end of 2013. I think he is a very good DC, I don't think he is an NFL quality head coach based on the entire body of work at Detroit. I think Ryan is a better head coach, not great but better. I suspect most NFL owners agree at this point. What's your view? If they did not notice why then did they hire Ryan and ground and pound Roman?

You have an absolute right to be a pessimist and miserable about things and decisions over which you have absolutely no input or control. But most folks who are in the position where they have absolutely no input or control try to see the good parts of something, and hope for the best. No one is guaranteeing everything is going to work out fine, but this time at least we have a real name coach in his prime who has had some success in the past, not a total unknown or an over the hill guy. There is little sense in debating how this will all turn out, we will have to wait and see won't we. At least your expectations are very low, so you won't be disappointed if things go poorly and you can tell everyone you knew this was a mistake. And if it turns out well, then you will be pleasantly surprised, which is always nice, like when you get that Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.