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The Colts will be spending the next couple years getting their financial house in order. They are in cap hell with big contracts and lots of future dead money. The bigger deal though will be Irsay successfully defeating the state's pressure to redo the LOS lease. The state wants better terms and is willing to put the screws to Irsay to get it done. Irsay is the poster boy for soaking the taxpayer for sports venues.

I'd hate to be a GM that's getting major pressure from ownership to sign this guy. The medical risk just is not worth it. It took Mike Vick two years to get in real game shape with a year being away from the game and that was just rust from rotting in prison. Manning is coming back from an injury that prevented him from throwing a football for over a year in one of the most sensitive parts of the body. Any team buying Peyton Manning is really buying his services for 2013, not 2012. Unfortunately, with the amount of money you'll be spending, you, along with your ownership and fanbase will be expecting results in 2012, but it's not going to happen. You certainly aren't going to get the well oiled, practice all year round Manning Machine of the mid 2000s with his consistent cast of characters. In some ways, Manning could be considered a "system" quarterbacks of sorts. Dome quarterback, with a team offense that did not experience a lot of overhaul from one year to the next. He had the same center and linemen in guys like Jeff Saturday and Rien Diem, wide receivers in Harrison and Wayne, tight end in Dallas Clark and only two running backs with James and Addai for years. Consistency alone is a considerable advantage for a team offense.

I understand why the Rams want to trade the pick. If I were them, I'd ask for a package of conditional draft picks spread over the course of three to four years, (if you can do it) to minimize the upfront cost to bidding teams to get more competition and spread out the potential windfall. It keeps my team salaries from busting at the seams with two years of high draft picks and I have a chance of picking up some high draft picks in successive drafts. You infuse talent over a time period. Gives the Rams a lot of flexibility in meeting whatever team needs they've got year to year. Why force yourself to take extra players in the draft this year if you don't want to? If RGIII excels two-three years from now, those conditional draft picks you have in your cupboard becomes very valuable.

I think there is a good shot he could be in a Bills uniform. The Bills play the 4-3 in which he excels, and have either the most or close to the most money available to offer him in a contract. As a player he'd have to like that the Bills have Dareus and Williams on the line already. Those are all positives in our team's favor.

I can't read between the lines with Nix because I believe 97% of what he says to the media is nothing at all...or nothing we all haven't already figured out. What I do believe is that during negotiations, Nix told SJ about his plans for the team. I don't think his agent or SJ would have signed a five year deal if they felt that the front office wasn't going to make a significant investment in upgrading the team. SJ is now the fourth Bill (Fitz, Pears, Lindell) that's decided to stay with the Bills. I don't think that's coincidence.

I'm not a fan of resigning Bell this year. I think given the lack of comparable talent and youth in the free agent market, teams will throw lots of money at him simply because of the weak class. Don't pay Mercedes prices for the Cadillacs. I'd like for the Bills to resign Chandler. It'd be some consistency and production at a spot that's been a desert wasteland for so many years and a position Nix doesn't appear keen on drafting players. And yes, the Bills have the money. It's a question of will or won't, not can or can't.

That feels pretty good. A good Monday for Bills fans worldwide.

I feel it's a criminal act as well. You're played to play a game, not willfully injure people. The Saints are going to pay dearly for this. The NFL will make an example. It explains why the Greggo left New Orleans. That's a man filled with integrity isn't it?

I agree that taking the 3rd best LT prospect at 10 seems like a really big reach. I don't believe a word Nix says to the media. I don't think he's telling us anything of value, and that's alright. I wouldn't either. You lose your leverage to negotiate and flexibility to change your mind.

We all know managing money is difficult. The difficulty grows exponentially with kids and stuff like mortgage payments. Now imagine trying to manage millions of dollars with little in the way of advanced education, with four kids, four different mothers. Couple that with an uncontrollable impulse and a wanderlust of spending money because you spent your formative youth in poverty and that's the perfect recipe of how you go broke. Impulse is the sword of Damocles over every person's head in life. Can't control it and this happens.

Exactly. It's Nixinese and that's all it is. Nix isn't going to tell the media or fans anything of value or anything you don't know already.

The folks who want to do some Oceans 11 complicated trade to get RGIII didn't watch a game last year. It was the defense and a lack of depth that led to many of those losses. RGIII won't fix either of those problems and makes both current problems...worse by giving away draft picks. Now, if RGIII were the second coming of Bruce Smith, I might be interested.

My vote would be for Marcus Lattimore.

I'm against trading down from #10. Give me a top ten talent.

Teams talk to a lot of players to... ...not only find out about the player, but more importantly, find out about their teammates they have genuine interest in. When I see the Bills talk to a player they have no shot at getting like RGIII, it tells me they have some unique interest in perhaps a Baylor offensive lineman or wide receiver.

Carl Weathers.

I have been fascinated by the Bills injury bug the last couple seasons and trying to figure out the why and how. Conditioning coaches have changed, so it's not the same program. Could it be the practice and game day turf? There's a variety of studies that state that there are more ligament and joint injuries on turf versus grass. It appears that the majority of Bills player injuries are lower extremity ligament and joint injuries. When you consider that some players play on artificial turf from high school to the pros, that's a lot of wear and tear on ligaments. I've wondered if NFL injuries would go down if every NFL field was grass, and turf wasn't permitted. In the absence of that happening, you'd think the NFL or teams would spend time figuring out devices to minimize the rip/tear movements of the legs and feet on turf like a lightweight booted shoe that extends up past the ankle, mandatory knee braces for linemen, etc.

You guys that are high on Mercilus and Coples don't pay attention to what Nix has already told you what he's going to do with that first round pick based on the Spiller and Dareus picks. Draftniks are drowning in data and stats and not paying attention to the tendencies of the man doing the drafting. Nix doesn't draft one year wonders or guys out of creampuff conferences. He's going to pick a player from a southern conference with a demonstrated track record of productive years with no off the field issues. He wants a player that's played against competition that best mirrors NFL competition. He wants a player that's produced for more than a year. He wants one that works hard and stays out of trouble. Both Mercilus and Coples fail that basic litmus test in one way or another.

Going to be real tough to be a fast, quick safety all bulked up like that. Maybe professional wrestler. Or future Planet Fitness commercial acting career.

I'm pretty sure I've deleted all of my offending spoiler posts. You can have your thread back, girls.

If you want to read a pretty good tale of the US military versus zombies, check out the paperback "World War Z" where the military goes face to face with millions of zombies in Yonkers, NY in a full scale engagement in the early days of an outbreak. The book is being made into a film, with Brad Pitt as the star. If the movie pulls off the Battle of Yonkers, it'll be a blockbuster. As for the Walking Dead, zombies outnumber "alive" humans 5,000:1.

See that's the thing...I'm not sure he has a full beard working. I thought of Jeff Fisher, but he shaved the beard when he was introduced by the Rams.

With how injury prone Vick is, Eagles fans stand a good shot at really seeing this airplane crashing into a train crashing into a tanker truck of gasoline on the tracks for numerous games.

He's in the Coples-zone, even as a second rounder. His intangibles are such a liability, they outweigh the talent. Talent is no good if it's not on the field or unmotivated.

It's a good look for him. If I were him, I'd keep it. Would he be the only NFL coach with a beard?