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He was hoping to go to Charlotte, where his girl lives. He's from nearby, too.

He'll look sweet in our nickel packages.

Good move. Guaranteed their guy.

Beat me to it.

Opinion hasn't really changed on anybody, but if this board were picking the Bills' top pick four months ago, it would be a fight between Perry, Upshaw and Burfict, it seems.

If I knew how to post a YouTube video, it would be the "I like turtles" kid. That is all.

He'd never, ever, ever --- ever, get past Carolina.

Wait -- are you saying there have been busts before? Thanks for the reminder. I can't imagine them going that far out on a limb again. The player they pick will be a day one contributor.

It has gotten to that inevitable point where I don't really care who they pick. They're going to get a good player, and that's nice.

Kirkpatrick, Keuchly, Floyd.

Yeah, as if Berman should talk...

The next Fitzgibbons.

I said all but the opposite of that, but hey let's put the "Kumbaya" cassette in your Walkman and boogie. Ya dig? Also, just saw your edited post. I'm saying more quarterbacks are coming from spread backgrounds, so there will come a day when the "it doesn't translate" argument will be moot. The names listed weren't used to imply that spread quarterbacks are successful in the NFL. Those are just the guys who were drafted (in the first three rounds).

I don't think there will be much choice going forward. Pop Warner teams are running the spread. Let's take a look at quarterbacks taken in the first three rounds since 2009: 2009: Stafford Sanchez Freeman (spread) White (spread) 2010: Bradford (spread) Tebow (spread) Clausen McCoy (spread) 2011: Newton (spread) Locker (spread 2/4 years) Gabbert (spread) Ponder Dalton (spread) Kaepernick (spread) Mallett (spread) Surely, some of these guys are going to succeed, considering the majority of quarterbacks coming out (at least for the forseeable future) will come from a spread background. Of course there will always be exceptions from the standard line of thinking, but your argument that it "doesn't translate" is straight outta 1993.

So what does it mean when Pat Kirwan says the transition is overstated because most teams in the NFL run versions of the spread in various packages?

Don't get me wrong -- I don't think either of them will be franchise quarterbacks.

I agree with your first two sentences.

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I have also seen Dan Marino on TV.

The one with RG3 on the cover. I think it came out last week, but I could be wrong.

Anybody else read the article about him in ESPN the Magazine? I've never been a fan (he always looked slow in games and subsequently was found to be slow at the combine and at his pro day), but before reading the article I decided I'd go in completely open-minded. The article instead made him look even worse in my eyes; like a petulant man-child. Granted, many solid linebackers had bad combine/pro day numbers, but this guy brings with him lots (and lots) of baggage.

In time, he'll learn that the NFL, like accountancy, is a numbers game.

See, now that is a good comment.

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