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I've never understood the whole "anti-trust" thing. The owners should get together and re-form the NFL as a corporation with 32 shareholders (owners), and 32 franchises. The reality is that the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets (for example) do not compete like Target and Wal-Mart. No NFL team has a main revenue-generating product (football), unless there is at least 1 other NFL team involved. If the NFL wouldn't be allowed to set up drafts, player salary caps, or other "monopoly" behavior, why would it be allowed to dictate how many yards are on the field, how many points a touchdown is worth, or what the playoff system is like? It seems to me that these should all be contracted in individual joint ventures between pairs of teams, right? Otherwise there is collusion going on to some degree.

It is what it is.

While watching TV I saw an obscure clip of some Boston College QB throwing a great pass. His name was Floozie or Don F or something. Let's draft him! But only if he didn't cheat in college.

Tweeting causes receivers to drop the ball, I thought that was a well-established fact.

What cap?

That's a pretty major disparity, right there. I hope Fitz can break 60% next year. The great QBs are all over 65% in today's game ... if he can pass 60% Fitz can be good, if he can pass 62-63% he'd be great. However, until he passes 60% he will always be a flawed QB in my view.

And it won't come this year, unless we trade up. Which we won't/shouldn't.

The muscle memory of typing in all those tweets is causing his hands to become twitchy. Hello, dropsies!

That's why the money would have to be "entrusted" to the financial institution which would run the bond process, and presumably they would provide a suitably grey-haired face.

In games from week 3 onward, we have averaged 21ppg. That is improvement. It is reasonable to exclude the first 2 games with Trent at QB, although you are free to blame Gailey for starting him. That would be 20th overall, not great, but better. Also, we have outscored Carolina by 60 points.

Since NE, NYJ, and MIA play each other once each, they cannot all lose (although ties are a possibility). However if the Jets lose all their games, the Patriots lose all of their games except vs. the Jets, and Miami loses all of their games except vs. the Patriots and Jets, they would all finish at 7-9 leaving the door open for the Bills. I guess you could say we need a little bit of help.

He just pulled off 67% completions against Baltimore, with no garbage time/prevent defense... I always complained about his accuracy but he has seemed to be better over the last few games. Is it possible that the benefit of being the starter (more reps with the first team receivers to get in sync) pushes his accuracy into the "good" zone? He isn't a "great" QB but he may be approaching "good" QB status at this point. The long balls today looked very good overall.

Please explain what happened to Littman and Overdorf's influence on the Kelsay extension? It doesn't seem like they got him on the cheap.

I thought it would be interesting to speculate on what the market value (in picks) is for the rest of the team, considering all of the interest in rebuilding. Remember, this is not what you would accept for the player, but what you think someone in the league might give up for them. I looked over the roster and here's my list (players not listed have no apparent trade value due to age or performance): CJ Spiller - 2nd + conditional 5th-6th J. Byrd - 3rd L. Evans - 4th L. McKelvin - 5th K. Williams - 5th F. Jackson - 6th T. McGee - 6th T. Troup - 6th D. Whitner - 6th E. Wood - 6th A. Levitre - 7th R. Lindell - 7th B. Moorman - 7th P. Poslusnzy - 7th R. Parrish - 7th Not going to build much of a team with that. The value of picks is too skewed vs. veteran players.

Edwards and a 2012 7th for a 2011 7th round pick.

Good: - For a team changing defensive schemes, there were not a lot of stupid defensive breakdowns. Defense allowed only 13 points. Linebackers were not completely embarrassed. - Special teams coverage units played well after a shaky preseason. Bad: - Offensive line bad in all phases of play. - Gave up on the run game, did not try hard to change running back mix to establish the run. - Lots of negative/zero yard passes and runs. Ugly: - Holding penalties putting team in 3rd and 30. - Intentionally scoring on yourself. How low can we get? "If we can't score on you, we'll score on ourselves". - CJ Spiller: 7 carries for 6 yards and 4 receptions for 8 yards. Start Jackson next game until we figure out how to use Spiller properly, or until he learns to run with defenders all over the backfield.

When you leave your defense on the field for 2/3 of the game and allow 70 plays against, there are more chances for them to get injured. That's why we have only an average amount of offensive injuries and outrageous amounts of defensive injuries...