Sketch Soland

You don't "cheat" your way to winning a SB. That is just ridiculous. Luck and dirty tricks are as much a part of football as they are of any other human endeavor.

Are you one of those three dudes from the X-Files, the ones that got their own show for a hot one?

the jury is still out on branch. give him a healthy hassleback for next season before we call him way overrated, although i definitely agree with your point in general about ex-patriot receivers.

It's "Star Trek Begins". Abrams is an intriguing choice. Has potential i think.

yeah what a crap year rivers had. his first year started he made the pro bowl and QB'd a team to a 14-2 record. what a bum. yes they didn't win the game sunday but they were praying God's chosen football missionaries on earth. most mortals stand no chance anyway. if i was a sd fan i'd be very happy with having rivers, just like im happy we have losman. both are up and comers.

Talk about oversimplifying. I assume a whole bevy of coaches watches film 24 hours a day scheming their opponents and developing playbooks because "football is football"?

if you don't honestly understand why the media fellates the Pats then you probably haven't watched football oh, the last five years or so.

ah, okay. i see. it just shows what a truly great QB can do, doesn't it, as much as i hate that bastard brady

San Diego's are worse.

Actually, he caught 61 passes for 760 yards this year But yeah, the point still stands that tom brady is simply amazing.

yes, looks like i'm an as*hole too Takes one to know one, right? Sketch Soland is a completely made up name by me (at least, i hope i didn't subliminally steal it from someone, that would suck lol)

Good post. I can definitely see your point. The only thing I really disagree with is trading Larry Johnson. I can follow your rationale up to there. LJ is the second or third best back in the league and you don't trade a franchise player just because you need help in other areas. They certainly need a youth injection at the OL, which will help johnson if the OL improves, for sure, and will most likely determine how productive he is over the coming years. This will still only be his fifth season coming up and he has still only had two full years of wear and tear. considering he does take a lot of hits as you say, unlike an LT or thurman, he conservatively has anothe 4-5 years of high production possibility left imo. of course it will depend on the team around him too but i just can't see trading him at this point. the chiefs would have zero offense then.

obviously you're not a golfer

And what is someone generally accepted as who flames people for "having no life"? A as*hole. But good call on the Vonnegut

So what does that make you, you who are willing to flame someone as "having no life" because they disagree and argue with you on a message board?

You don't want to compare apples to oranges? But you want the Chiefs to trade Larry Johnson because you know for sure he won't equal his production of last year next year because Jamal Anderson and Eddie George didn't when they set the single season carry record? Doesn't make sense to me, imo.

So you sight two cases and then conclude that anyone in the future who resets the record for most carries in league history will suffer the same drop in production? 2 cases hardly is enough to make such a blanket generalization. Larry Johnson just finished his 4th season in the NFL. He played sparingly in 6 games his rookie year, 10 games his second year, and then 16 games in his 3rd and 4th year in the NFL, the last two years hitting the 1700 yard mark. One could easily say he is coming into his prime 2003 Kansas City Chiefs 6 0 20 85 4.3 15 1 0 5 2004 Kansas City Chiefs 10 3 120 581 4.8 46 9 4 34 2005 Kansas City Chiefs 16 9 336 1750 5.2 49 20 15 97 2006 Kansas City Chiefs 16 16 416 1789 4.3 47 17 10 91 He has had only two full years of playing. Notice he only started 9 games in 2005, for a grand total of 28 games in 4 years. Taking two other players and concluding that LJ will do the same is flawed, because it fails to take into account a myriad of other possibilities for George's and Anderson's drop in production, namely the team around them, etc. You are saying because Orange A and Orange B fell off trees in different orchards the same way, that Apple A in a different orchard will also fall off its tree in a same way. Sure, it is certainly possible that LJ will never equal his past season in terms of carries or yards for a lot of possible reasons, none of which necessarily have to do with Jamal Anderson or Eddie George. I think my argument shows that your certainty that he will based solely on your analysis is misguided and is in no way worthy.

Berman is the man. No doubt.

what a great show.

I think ol Dicky J deserves a B this year. A good start. My grading criteria will only get tougher however next year, as expectations will be higher, naturally.

sure, but the point is is that this is the way the baseball HOF voting process is. they aren't going to change because some fans think they're voting process is off-kilter. Debating wheter Ripken should have been unanimously elected is essentially a moot point considering that over the history of baseball a lot of fan regarded "unanimous" HOF players were not "unanimously" elected. It is a petty and flawed process, sure, but that's not going to change as long as joe blow beat writer has a ballot and can do with it WTF he wants to do with it.

I like the fact that he is a good receiver as well. It seems like a Fairchild/hybrid STL offense needs a good receiver out of the backfield ala faulk. that would help out our whole offense. they also split him off at WR at Cal as well. i don't see us taking him at 12 but it's hard to deny his talent.

Marv is going to pull a WTF and draft someone no one expects at 12. It's his new MO.

Oh so easy for you to say, considering that you forget if Clements is gone then we have a huge gaping hole at starting CB. We may have to draft a 1st round CB for example. Don't let your eagerness to flame someone disregard some of the other details. The point is lots of things can happen between now and the draft that may produce needs/resolve needs for drafting a certain player at round 1.