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Just in time for the SUPER BOWL

At least the Bills organization has been trying to field a winner in recent years. They just aren't very good at it. There are other franchises out there where this could be a legitimate thing - Historically, the Chicago Cubs deliberately fielded crappy teams for decades because old man Wrigley discovered that they could fill the seats regardless of the results. In the NFL, the Bidwill family did much the same with the St. Louis Cardinals. Tanking for top draft picks has become pretty standard procedure in both the NHL and NBA in recent years.

Having been through both partial and full ACL tears, I would bet that there is about a 95% chance he's going to need surgery, and he would be better off just getting it over with ASAP. I had a partial tear with good stability, rehabbed hard, then tore the bejeezus out of it four months later in a pretty routine fall. Even if it is 'only' a partial tear, stability will never get any better than it is today. There is not enough blood flow to the ACL to prompt any healing. Even if it is relatively stable today, the ligament is compromised and unable to provide full support in all directions. Reggie Ragland's job is to get repeatedly body-slammed by 300 pound strongmen. The rigors of football will snap what's left of his ACL in due time.

Besides Wide Right, this would be the thing I would fix. That was such a brutally horrid decision. No telling if it would have changed the outcome of the game at hand, but I know that the Bills' Karma would be in much better shape today if Flutie had gotten the nod like he deserved.

Wide right. Is there any other answer?

Anybody catch this? At around :24, as McGee is reversing field in a crowd of black jerseys, A Bills player streaks through the crowd running due south and delivers a stealth groin punch to one of the Saints, who then crumples to the ground clutching his naughty bits. Great stuff!

My only beef is with the Cardale pick. He's such a long shot that I just don't see the point. I am also a firm believer that you should take a CB or safety somewhere in the first four rounds of every draft, whether it's an immediate need or not. That would have been a good place to take one. Otherwise, I think they got a lot of value across the board; a lot of seemingly safe picks, but nobody that makes you stand up and say, "dayum!!!". I'd give it a B+ overall.

What's even more aggravating is that it was an Ed Hochuli game. That guy calls a penalty every other down as matter of course, and he missed that one entirely.

He played great when he was healthy - made a lot of catches and had some big blocks, too, if I recall. If he has an injury that prevents him from ever playing at a high level again, that's not his fault. The FO took a flyer on a guy with a lot of talent and potential injury problems. They gambled and maybe lost. Why all the hate? What is wrong with you people?

Would not have mattered. That game was a beat-down.

Another Jasper thread?

Karlos actually reminds me of Adrian Peterson, but about 10% less amazing in all facets. Maybe like Adrian Peterson now, as opposed to Adrian Peterson at the peak of his dominance? Also, Karlos's moves on the TD run yesterday were reminiscent of Freddy J. - subtle shifts in direction that cause people to miss before they even get close. That takes incredible vision and Gretzky-like command of time and space.

We need a guy named Stoneburner.

I love how this guy just keeps plugging away and always ends up playing a bunch of games no matter where he goes. Consummate badazz.

Bad news for Kiko. ACL sprains are tough because they generally don't heal much at all - there's not enough blood supply to the area, unlike the MCL which heals itself in a few weeks. A sprained ACL is usually just one more twist away from popping completely, and often they are stretched out - creating laxity which puts every other part of the knee at risk. The only thing you can do for it is to strengthen the rest of your knee and avoid dangerous things, like playing professional football for example. Otherwise, it's surgery. He will probably opt for a cadaver graft this time, which is riskier (sometimes the body rejects them and they just rot away), but there is no damage from harvesting your patellar tendon or hamstring for material as there would have been in his previous surgery.

Only if Gronk is clinically dead on game day.

To answer the question, NO. But it does allow us to pay our stud D-lineman as if they were franchise QBs...

I had tendinitis for a while after my ACL surgery. It's very common at the patellar tendon, where they harvest the material to craft a new ACL. The odd thing is that I thought most pro athletes got cadaver grafts so they can avoid this situation. The graft harvest site is always the worst part of the healing process, and with a cadaver graft you bypass all that. In any case, it never got really bad - I didn't notice it while in the act of skiing, but the tendon would be screaming at me every lift ride up the mountain. It took about three years before it went away. Just in time for me to tear the other ACL! Keep in mind I am not a freakish professional athlete with access to state of the art rehab facilities.

Dan Fouts

I don't know, maybe it's not so crazy. Special Teams gunner?

Works out great for the Bills - They are the only team in the division that is guaranteed a Brady-free game vs. the Pats**!

It's irrelevant. Brady and the Pats were dominating the NFL well before 2007.

That is, without question, the worst song that I have ever heard. In my life, ever.

Not a sexy pick, but the aggravating truth is that you have to draft a DB somewhere in the first three rounds with regularity. The massive consequences of getting burned by NFL receivers means that you can't afford to skimp on talent there. I will choke this pick down and like it.