Mark80

Maybe these athletes should look at their labor union who negotiates and agrees to all of these things with the NFL. It's quite simple, as the "company" the NFL is out to negotiate the most favorable deal with it's employees that it can, it's not their fault that their idiot representation accepts it. This. This would be an extremely high profile labor strike / lockout. Many high profile labor unrest get settled on public relations issues. If the players go to bat and explain themselves to the media / public and garner their support I believe the NFL would have no choice but to give in eventually. They just don't have the balls to do it or aren't willing to sacrifice a years salary for the good of everyone going forward. Most likely would fall somewhere in between the guaranteed number and the life of the contract number.

I also find Yeldon in the 5th to be laughable. Just because RBs don't go in the top of the 1st anymore doesn't mean they don't get picked in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th rounds. Yeldon will be gone by the end of the 3rd in my opinion, but, you never know. I actually don't really like or trust Yeldon. You need only look to his own backfield in Henry to find a better runner. That is never a good sign in my opinion for a college RB (save Thurman and Barry). I remember thinking the same thing about Richardson and Lacy, how Lacy looked better to me when he got the ball even though he was second fiddle, and look how that has turned out so far. Anyways, on to Abdullah. After Gordon and Gurley I like him on the next level with Duke Johnson and would be pretty happy with him in the 3rd. I don't think he's worth the 2nd though (I do think Gurley is). On Josh Robinson, he's a much better candidate for the 5th. Tell me that guy doesn't remind you of the bowling ball Maurice Jones Drew? He may be lacking the speed, but if our goal is to ground and pound, he can certainly do that. RBs are a dime a dozen and this is a good RB draft, just don't reach on a guy this year and then there are a number of scenarios that I would be happy with (as listed above).

I am of the opinion that Maxx will be the one long gone because, unlike Walford, he possesses the blocking skill package as well (supposedly). I think Walford will be around for our 2nd round pick, but it will be close especially since he is said to have looked very good during the Senior Bowl practices. Admittedly, I am a "U" fan and may be biased on him, but at the same time that means I watch a lot of "U" games and really, really liked what I saw out of him (and Duke for that matter) and would love them on our squad. Obviously I don't "know" that they are the difference makers, just taking some literary license with my words. As far as your assessment of the "Deep South", I think you can make those statements about some neighborhoods in pretty much every inner-city in the country.

My question is how the heck did the Saints and Raiders have no picks in the first two rounds! Saints I can understand because of the bounty scandal but the Raiders, jeez. No wonder they always suck.

Maxx Williams and Clive Walford are the difference makers in this draft.

What the hell does a GM have to do with defensive schemes?

Went to HS with Wes (now Wash TE coach I believe and on the rise), his son while he was the coach. He would always come to the football and basketball games and was so nice to everyone, just a regular dude. Always rooted hard for him after he left.

When you go to a school that is consistently ranked in the top 20 in the national rankings you sure as hell can. We are not talking West Virginia here, it's Berkeley.

Absolutely! "There you go, now it's in context."

How can you not love this. He's hilarious, all his teammates love him, a straight up baller, and his intelligence is very underestimated. http://youtu.be/UqMsT_2teus?t=15s

Go back to ECC and study harder man, you are clueless with how things actually work.

Cool man, if you want to believe that the President / CEO of a $3Trillion mutual fund is worth less than 0.0033% of his company then that is your prerogative. Me, I live in the real world.

Rocket arm for sure.

So do you ever admit when you wrong or do you just argue and argue and argue until the person just gives up and ignores you? Look up John Bogle and tell me where he is on your precious list. Guy runs a 3 trillion dollar mutual fund and they estimate his worth at less than $100M. Give me a break.

Obviously you stopped reading there, because the rest of the article destroys the list. Last paragraph sums it up for you perfectly. "the reasons to make lists of billionaires may have less to do with quantifying wealth than giving outsiders an organized, ranked way to gawk at it – which, even in the Occupy era, seems to be a treasured and profitable pastime."

Maybe you should read this article from the NY Times Mr. Link happy. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/the-billionaire-list-wars/?_r=0

Yeah, Ralph Wilson.

Just curious, how do you think Forbes makes up their list? Do you think they send out a survey to everyone they believe could possibly be on the list asking them how much they are worth? Unless the people are CEOs or huge shareholders in public companies, they are just guessing. There is no "hiding" money from Forbes, they just don't have access to that kind of information on many of the people on the list and very few people want others to know what they are worth. Accordingly, the list is known to be quite inaccurate and missing a lot of very, very rich people who are rich on the down low.

this is especially true of the Mega-rich who didn't make their money through public corporations where they are required to report salaries, bonuses, etc. I believe Mars is a private company so they have no obligation at all to publicly report their earnings.

He was a great stand-up guy in his day.

I find everything about most coffee shops to be stuck up except for the ones in Amsterdam, including barista.

The first graph shows all the teams. The Y axis represents the teams, "Frequency." Prior to the change, no team was over 56 touches per fumble, after the change no team is over 56 as well, except the Pats, who are at an astounding 74 (which includes all of Peyton's non Colt years). That's a severe outlier in stats terms.

On a side note, I'm so sick of every potential scandal ending in "gate" these days. I know the journalistic world has lost a lot of it's reputation lately with unnamed sources, false reports, quotes out of context, inability to proof read etc., but now they have lost all their creativity too? Just annoys the hell out of me for some reason.

Great article, thanks. The great thing about numbers and statistics is that they never lie, unlike Tom and Bill.

Wow, you are a real class act aren't you? You have quickly become one of the biggest tools on this site, congrats.