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I'd rather have a guy who is thinking Super Bowl championship, not just getting into the playoffs. Seattle was a nice story this past weekend in round 1, but they're not going to win the Super Bowl. Until the team has a legitimate shot at being in and winning the Super Bowl, I won't be satisfied with the team, even if they do make the playoffs. One and done is only slightly better than not making the playoffs. The only thing is there are so many fans who are too young to remember what a Super Bowl contender looks like, they're willing to settle for one playoff game & think the season is a success. To me, that is just sad.

The flaw is that the guy has to be waived to get to the practice squad. When you waive a 2nd rounder, you expect someone to claim him. If you care about the player being on your team at all, you won't waive him. The only reason he even gets to the practice squad is because the other teams think he's trash & let him pass through waivers. I've explained this numerous times before, but here we go again. GB only kept 2 QBs on their roster when the Bills signed Brohm. He was the best insurance policy they had in case of a QB injury last November. So, they tried to match the offer in order to have the best insurance policy that late in the season because nobody else they could bring in would know their offense. It's no different than this year when they activated Graham Harrell after Rodger's concussion. They preferred the guy who knew their system. There are a lot of 3rd string QBs who are kept only because there's slim pickings among available 3rd stringers & it's better to have a guy who has been in your system. It's the same reason the Bills brought Brown back.

Nobody waives a 2nd round pick in his 2nd season unless they don't care if he gets claimed. In other words the team thinks he's worthless or pretty close to it. Since you claim you're still learning, try to find another 2nd rounder waived early in his career and put on a practice squad who ended up doing anything in the NFL. The lesson is teams don't waive high profile guys after 1 season and develop them into anything on practice squads. The low profile guys who can fly under the radar are the practice squad success stories, not high picks who bust and get waived by the team who thinks he's got no NFL future. The reason Brohm was put on the practice squad was because GB's plan was to keep a 3rd QB as insurance against injury on its PS & it's always better to have your insurance policy be a guy who is familiar with the system. When Rodgers went down this year the Packers activated their insurance QB from the practice squad. Like Brohm, the Packers didn't really care if Harrell had been claimed in September, but since he knew the system from camp, he was better to keep around in case one of their 2 QBs went down. Sometimes it's not about potential, it's just convenient for the PS QB on a team that only keeps 2 QBs to know the system.

Not a bad timeout-as long as the defense doesn't give the Jets a 1st down. Say the Jets throw an incomplete pass. Now it's 3rd down with about 24 seconds left. Then they still have to pass to get into comfortable FG range. If the Jets are kicking after an incomplete pass, the Colts still have about 15 seconds left if the Jets make it & time doesn't matter if they don't. Wouldn't you rather have time left on the clock if the Jets make the kick? The problem was the Jets completed another pass which made the FG easy & with the 1st down they were able to make the kick with no time for Manning. The time out was the correct call, because the Jets HAD TO pass in order to get closer to a comfortable FG attempt. I've heard the talking heads on the radio say what you have. If they influenced you, you need to think on your own. If you came to the conclusion by yourself, you are just as wrong as the radio guys, who look for anything to debate when nothing is there.

You left out the percentage of unresticted free agent OL disasters that the team has signed. Examples: Green, Walker, Dockery, Fowler, Reyes, Anderson. These guys make the signings of Villarrial, Teague & Panos look good.

The trip has been postponed due to the Arizona shootings. http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/President-postpones-Schenectady-trip-947085.php

No team can plan on tanking a season to get the #1 pick because there's always the possibility of a team or 2 being naturally worse than you. If a coach purposly played inferior players on the team from the beginning of the season, the players would revolt. The more likely scenario-Luck & Harbaugh are nowhere near as close as you give them credit for & Luck is probably glad to be playing his last season without Harbaugh & will be glad to see him on the other side of the field when the Bills play the 49ers in the future.

Only the 1st week we play them.

With Harbaugh gone Luck and his father are trying to arrange a trade between the Bills & Carolina & if the trade goes through, Luck plans on declaring and signing with the Bills on January 16th.

Name me anyone with a brain who needs more than $60 million.

Arizona Cardinals 2009 Warner QB Arizona Cardinals 2010 ? QB Atlanta Falcons with Vick Atlanta Falcons 1st year without Vick Atlanta Falcons with Matt Ryan Baltimore Ravens with Kyle Boller Baltimore Ravens with Joe Flacco Miami Dolphins 2007 no QB 1-15 Miami Dolphins Pennington in a healthy 2008-division winner The difference between having a QB & not having one is HUGE!

You talk like guys who can write their own tickets have never done that before. Bill Parcells took the NE job with the #1 pick in the draft. Bill Polian took the Carolina job with the #1 pick in the draft. Then Bill Polian took the Indianapolis job when Peyton Manning was in the draft & Indy had the top pick. In the NBA, Phil Jackson chose the Lakers with Shaq & Kobe already there. Do you think that when Cowher comes back he's going to go to a team with no QB and a mid round pick? If he wanted to he could have the Miami job & be in that situation with one phone call. When you're the hot name, you get to write your own ticket. Any hot coach or GM who would take a job with no QB and without the means to acquire one, like having the top pick in a year when the top QB is worth the #1 pick, is setting himself up to fail. Why would anyone who can write his own ticket ever put himself in a place where he has little chance of success and a great chance of failure?

I've been telling people for years that QB stats are worthless. Thanks for proving my point.

If we're losing on opening day, the Luck threads will begin in the middle of the 3rd quarter.

It's a Mercedes c300 sport sedan. I haven't rotated tires in the past, so I might just skip rotation.

Someone mentioned Chris Farley. It's a quote from the movie Tommy Boy.

I looked at my new car's tires & noticed the front and rear tires are different sizes. Here's what the manufacturer's website says regarding tires and wheels: Staggered-width wheels and tires Staggered-width alloy wheels and tires are wider at the rear for greater launch grip, and narrower up front for crisper steering feedback. Standard on the Sport Sedan are 7.5 x 17 front/8.5 x 17 rear 5-spoke wheels fitted with 225/45R17 front and 245/40R17 rear all-season tires. How do I rotate the tires? I'm leaning towards no rotation since all I would be doing is rotating the right side to the left & vice versa.

If that's true how do you explain the 18 year old actors who go to college & take classes that have nothing to do with their acting careers? He's not passing up anything, he's deferring it by one year. If he ends up making $155 million in his NFL career instead of $160 million does it really matter?

He's going to have a lot of money in 2012. I don't think the NCAA can stop him from taking out an insurance policy that protects him for life financially, and if he wants a new car or anything else they can't stop his father from giving it to him. If his father gets him a $50,000 car, he can always pay him back in 2012. It's a totally different situation than a kid who comes from a poor family. I'm sure Peyton & Eli didn't have any problem staying in school because they had no worries about losing millions-they were set for life during their senior years because daddy could afford the insurance. Luck is in the same boat as the Mannings were. It's only foolish if he's risking never having millions. He's not.

There's an antidote to 1/15. Say the labor agreement gets done in June. Luck signs with an agent, is declared ineligible & enters the supplemental draft where Carolina has drafted #1 & now gets Luck too. It's not likely to happen that way, but it can be done.

How many of those unsuccessful college coaches played in the NFL for 15 years? With his family history with a successful coach for a father, a brother with NFL success, combined with his NFL playing experience & college coaching resume, there can't possibly be a hotter coaching prospect than Harbaugh. Since he can write his own ticket, he should choose a franchise where he has a good chance at success. Miami appears to be the worst of the possible job openings because they will not have a QB in the near future. Henne has become Miami's version of Trent Edwards, a bargain pick (they could have chosen Matt Ryan but didn't and tried to get their QB in the 2nd round) who has set the franchise back years as a result of his lack of talent.

Did you have the same opinion about Peyton Manning in 1997 when the Jets wanted him at #1 & he stayed in college? His competitive nature must have been questioned & he dropped in the 1998 draft to ....#1. Maybe he's so competitive that he'd rather take the sure thing & play than have his rookie year be a guessing game as to whether a lockout would keep him from playing. He might just feel like playing rather than sitting out 2011. Really smart QBs can understand that an extra year in college can't hurt them when their families have money and that the most successful QBs spent more time playing college ball, not less. By the 2012 season, Luck will have his degree and be ready to enter the April 2012 draft.

If you really believe in a player, you don't gamble that he'll still be there and trade down, because unless you're projecting him an entire round down, that is way too dangerous. Also, trading down is a lot tougher to do with a top 5 pick. Moving down from 3 to 15, or somewhere in between is good if you don't have a specific player in mind and the other team does. In 2001, the Bills wanted a LT and there was McKinnie who made a lot more sense than Mike Williams available at #4. Never pick a guy with a history of weight problems that high, it's a gamble that is just too high risk, low reward. Even though McKinnie isn't great, he's been with the Vikings 10 years now and is way better than any tackle the bills have. So, if you think Gabbert is a franchise QB, you take him at 3, if you don't, you pass on him entirely and don't trade down because if he's either good enough at 3 or not worth it at 15. Any 1st round QB who doesn't pan out sets the franchise back a minimum of 3 years.

I always thought the reason Mularkey quit was that he thought Marv was bringing him back so that Marv could fire him in the middle of the next season & name himself coach. Marv only hired Jauron after Ralph was adamant that Marv had to find a coach other than himself after Mularkey quit.

Old Al saw one of those Direct TV ads and that convinced him to drop Cable.