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I've heard that Buffalo is Marshall's top destination because steve tasker was his favorite player growing up. I think stroud, lynch, evans and 2 firsts is a fair price. Get er done russ!

"I implore all Christians to base their vote not on a political party or a polished politician but, rather, on biblical principle.” And I implore all non christians not to vote.

It seemed like he was taking shots at T.O. a lot more so than buffalo. But f*ck philly, GO METS!

That's definitely true. A much funnier story is how Bellicheck's older son got suspended from Rutgers lacrosse for cheating on his exams. It didn't make the news so I don't have a link, but my friend's little brother is his teammate and he told me about it.

And the "had the game been played in bad weahter" part is a pretty broad statement. I mean, does practicing in 30 mph winds prepare you for 10 mph winds or vice versa, does practicing in light snow prepare you for a blizzard?

That is absolutely correct, the worst ever, and then of course he get's fired the year after I graduate and we start having winning seasons , but I digress. However, Tim's point about the time factor can't be stressed enough. When there's a broken play due to sloppy condidtions you have to run it again, and in really bad conditions, when that's happening frequently, it does take valuable time away.

I played college football in rochester and we had to practice in blizzards a few times and it was completely useless. Slipping around, fumbled snaps, etc. don't add to your preparedness and put you at higher risk of injury. You're better off practicing indoors and seeing what the other team's plays look like when they're run correctly, watching the scout team trip over themselves does nothing for you. The way that bad weather is going to affect you from one day to the next is so unpredictable anyway. It's not like if a receiver slips on a route in practice it helps you because you know he's going to do it in the game.

To elaborate on the original post, I think for teams, stats can be very telling in football as far as how well they match up against other teams, where they need to improve, how well they're going to do in the future, etc. etc. However, as far as stats for individuals go I think that in football more often than not they are misleading for the reasons mentioned above as well as a variety of others. In baseball, I think stats do a very good job of telling the story, there are a few exceptions, but in my opinion it's largely an individual game.

I put on about 15-20 lbs of muscle within a few months during the offseason after my freshman year of college football when I was 19 and I'm only 6'1", a lot of other kids I played with did too. Different kids fill out at different rates, but at that age its not all that rare.

I was laughing at the pick at first because I'd never heard of him before, so I googled him to find out who the heck he was. I know highlight films have to be taken with a grain of salt, but he does look pretty badass. I mean if he would've been there in a later round its still a bad pick no matter how good he turns out to be, but sometimes that stuff can be very hard to tell.

We're doooooooomed dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed, everybody run! IfI remember correctly the colts did pretty well with a mid 1st round rookie left tackle recenty, cleveland's offense looked pretty good with joe thomas too, Jets made the playoffs in D'brickshaw furgeson's rookie year (while aaron schobel treated him like his redheaded stepchild), i don't have time to look up other examples, but I'm just saying having a rookie or unproven left tackle doesn't mean the qb is going to get decapitated. I dont think the line will end up being all that much worse than it was last year (with peters having an off year). Maybe it wont be nearly as good as it would've been with peters, maybe peters injuries/attitude will do him in and will be happy we got rid of him, but hopefully the FO uses the extra money/draftpicks wisely (I know, I know that's a huge assumption), and make the the best of it. I love Tim Grahmam, but the scouts inc guy is being a little too apocolyptic about the whole thing, I'm still willing to wait and see before I jump out the window.

Exactly, all the people saying "of course he was mad, he was the 21st highest paid LT, the 3rd highest paid OL on the team, etc." need to keep that in perspective. The bills did offer him a big contract, just not big enough. Obviously, any time you sign someone to a mega deal with huge guaranteed $ it's a risk. However, if you're going to make someone the highest paid (or top 2 or 3) at their position, you'd rather have it be a deal like peyton manning, or larry fitzgerald, or ed reed, or brian urlacher got. A guy who's still in their prime, but has proven that they are a star and a team leader. Peters had 1.5 great seasons and one average season. He also showed himself to be a bit of a malcontent, and somewhat injury prone. I wouldn't be shocked if he does prove to be a top LT for the next few years, but I'm not sure I'd pay 11.5 per yr to find out either, too many question marks.

I'm somewhat lukewarm. On one hand, when peters plays up to his potenetial he can be flat out dominant. If you can lock up a dominant LT for the prime of his career, it is definitely worth it to pay him, no question about it. However, the Ross Tucker article talking about how some guys stop working as hard once they get a ton of guaranteed money comes to mind (the one where he talks about Mike Williams without naming him.) The way peters had been acting lately, I don't know if I fully trust that he stays hungry after he gets his big pay day, and say at best case it is a risk. It's crazy how in a matter of a couple years the general perception of peters went from the underdog undrafted FA who worked his butt off, did all the right things and made himself into an all pro LT to a spoiled selfish me first baby. The reality is somewhere in between, and I can see the merits of both the argument to pay him and the argument to trade him. However, there's no question that giving him a huge contract would've been a very significant risk given the way he acted and played last year. Here's to hoping that the 28 pick ends up being a future hall of famer and we can all laugh about this in a couple years.

I'll definitely reserve judgement until I hear the details. A disorderly conduct citation is 100% the cops discretion, I've seen people get those for doing literally nothing wrong. A cop wanting to get his name in the paper for giving one to an NFL player definitley wouldn't surprise me. Maybe donte was out of line and did deserve the charge, but I'm not not going to assume that he has done anything illegal until more facts come out.

I still think its cool to see people talking about the bills, especially in march and april. The huge ESPN ticker on top of ABC studios had "T.O. reports to voulantary workouts in buffalo" running across it the other day, when I passed it on the way to work I couldn't help but laugh a little bit.

There's a guy in hoboken who buys giants jerseys in bulk from there and sells em outside the sports bars on sundays for 50 bucks each, they do look good. To my untrained eye they look no different than the jerseys you'd pay a lot more for at the store. I have friends that have bought them and they dont fall apart or anything like that, I think its a good deal. I'm thinkin about getting a johan jersey from there for baseball season. THIS IS OUR YEAR GO METS!

http://www.sportspickle.com/features/volum...25-workout.html

State of the franchise is actually a very interesting segment. Last year I found out that the state of the new york giants AND new york jets is actually new jersey. Also, the state of the kansas city chiefs in missouri. Who woulda thunk it.

Would we play a "home" game in a dome in december against a warm weather team? (I know that's irrelevant to the main point, but it still pisses me off)

Right hand column, not that funny, but a couple of the NCAA articles in there are hilarious, I especially like the memphis one. http://www.sportspickle.com/

Yea, its called the shannon, its a pretty good spot, when we were 5-1 there were a ton of bills fans there, when we were 7-8 not so much.

The original post was poking fun at people who seem to be nit picking to find a problem with this very low risk, high potential reward signing. I think that it's quite obvious that this signing gives us an array of offensive options that we didn't previously have and I'm excited about it.

I really am shocked at the amount of serious responses here, extremely disappointing. I'm not saying the original post was THAT funny, but I thought it was something to build on, I guess not, admins please close this thread.

Moving the chains is extremely detremental to a fg/punt oriented scoring attack. Attempting to move the chains represents an entirely new offensive philosophy. I'm worried that this change in philosophy will halt the progreesion of our young offense.

Exactly my point, if we did more wide receiver screens, I could see a place for him in our system. However, since we don't, he really doesn't fit into the buffalo version of the draw/screen offense.