Chuck Wagon

Stud: Latavius Murray - He's a freakshow (230 lbs and fast) and will easily beat out TRent 2.7. Oakland added some weapons on the outside with Cooper and Crabtree, so he should find some good lanes. If anyone watched the Chiefs game, he showed he can be a home run hitter. Dud: Won't be a popular opinion here, but I don't think I'm going near Shady unless he drops to the back half of round 1. I also think Emmanual Sanders feels like a good bet to disappoint considering ESPN has him as the #13 WR (a WR #1 depending on your league depth) and I expect the Broncos to run A LOT and try to minimize the hits on Peyton as much as possible. Landry will get all the underneath looks while Parker is drawing rave reviews in Dolphins camp, considering they added Jordan Cameron as well, there's a lot of mouths of feed for Stills to make too big a fantasy impact.

"Show me the baby"

I really want Peyton to break Favre's record and immediately retire in the middle of the game.

I thought it should be "I seen yous guys is practicing"

I have two Bills jerseys - one I loathe (Donte Whitner) and one I love (throwback Thurman Thomas). Always go throwback unless it's a guy like Kyle Williams who has established himself as a core player and is nearing the end of his career.

I have mutual friends with him so I don't want to criticize him too badly, but he's awful at his job.

I was expecting the obligatory "The Browns can pick him up and give him a shot" mention. Not even that. Just Bobby saying "the problem with the Bills is they've added a bunch of guys and now only have $7 mil in cap space". Brilliant Bobby, the problem with the team is we've added talent and have less cap space.

No Brandon Weeden mention, but pretty much exactly as expected.

Get excited Yolo - the clueless Columbus radio guys are about to talk about EJ.

No. We'll get our shot at Brady later in the year. Much rather have the guy making his first NFL road start in our home opener.

I can see why FSU wants him. Winston left after just playing two years and Coker left the program as well. Maguire is the only guy on their roster who has thrown a pass in a game and he didn't look like anything special when he did play. I really don't see him as a guy who translate into much in the NFL game.

Perfectly stated. Look at Denver. Everyone is putting them as an easy top 5 group, but when Orton/Tebow was the QB Demaryius was just a very raw WR who occasionally broke a big slant play. In Pittsburgh, Sanders was clearly 3rd in line when they had Wallace & Brown. Welker is a shell of his former self. Their TE is Virgil Green. Demaryius/Sanders/Welker have all posted the numbers that guys like Watkins/Woods haven't yet, but anyone who plays the tape and understands football can see the impact Peyton has on the group.

That's my point and I feel like people really struggle to separate it. Nelson & Cobb had some experience without Rodgers in 2013 and they didn't exactly light the world on fire, not to mention their 3rd WR/question mark at TE. It's been talked about before, but we have the capability to put 5 guys out on routes (including Shady) that can beat one on one coverage consistently. Jeremy Ross or the ghost of Wes Welker isn't doing that. I'll kowtow to the "lack of results" but I firmly believe we've got the potential to be in the discussion for the top of the list. I recognize Nationally no one is going to give us anything until we take it. As for last year's receiver class, I still wouldn't trade Sammy straight up for ODB. I'd probably do it for Evans just because he brings a different element to our offense with his size but I surely wouldn't trade him for Benjamin, Landry, Jordan Matthews or whatever other receiver looked good with a better QB and better coaching.

So does Boston become one big swingers party today and everyone celebrates by cheating on their SO?

Twitter question from NFL- Who has the best "receiving unit" in the NFL. I threw out the Bills and got laughed at while the consensus seems to be leaning Green Bay and Denver. Maybe it's the homer in me, but I really believe 1-4 we have the deepest group in the league. Sammy hasn't posted the big seasons some guys have, but guys like Belichick have said they treat him the same as they treat other guys. Clay blows away the TE for either Denver or Green Bay. Depending on how you slot Harvin & Woods as 2 & 3 I struggle to come up with 3rd WRs clearly better than ours. Am I a biased homer or are we getting slept on hard?

Realistically if Jimmy G. is the starting QB coming in to Buffalo week 2 and the Pats lose their 1st round pick this year over the amount of air in footballs, I'm a happy guy.

If that guy is starting for us 1) we're screwed and 2) things went very very wrong.

I really don't see many people writing Fred off at all, if any. Frankly I think his job needs to be a little less safe than everyone assumes it is, if Bryce and Boobie are better than him in camp/through the preseason I'd hate to cut a 24 year old with the upside of Brown or a guy who can contribute on ST like Dixon just to give Fred a farewell tour.

YEP Unless EJ or Tyrod step forward as an actual franchise QB or until we get one through draft/trade/FA we are trying to catch lightning in a bottle. You can buy the biggest bottle possible and read every bit of weather information available, but sometimes you'll hit and sometimes you won't. We've certainly raised both our ceiling and our floor from a few years ago, but without a real QB some year's we'll go 10-6 and others we'll go 6-10.

I also think Brady isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Peyton has talked about how if he'd played in the 90s or earlier his career would have been over long ago. Kurt Warner keeps half seriously teasing a comeback because he knows he can't be touched anymore. Granted it only takes one big hit (Favre was done after Moats got him) but 80% of the Pats offense is handing it off or throwing a quick pass, the only time Brady actually holds the ball is when he knows Gronk will be open in the seam and he knows any incompletion he gets hit on is likely bringing a flag. The only QBs who get hit now are guys like Cam & Big Ben, who either act like fullbacks (Cam) when they run or hold onto the ball longer than anyone else does (Ben).

I don't care if we beat Garoppolo, Brady Quinn, Tim Tebow, Jamarcus Russell and Matt Leinart, I just want to make the playoffs.

I think it's pretty obvious they view him as a perfect scheme fit and had him higher than a lot of the "experts" who aren't being paid to make decisions for teams.

I completely agree that in a not so obvious way it was in the league's best interest to drop the hammer. Everyone viewed Goodell and Kraft as having a relationship that was a little too close for comfort for the other 31 teams and most importantly the fans. If the punishment came off as a slap on the wrist, you'd have angry fans for 31 teams instead of just angry fans for 1 and the mock outrage crowd from the media (you'd have that group either way). People are making too much out of "permanently tarnishing Brady" and his suspension. Lets not pretend if Brady returns in week 6 against the Colts in prime time it's got very good odds to be the highest rated game of the season. No one is going to say "well I would have watched that game, but Tom Brady is a cheater". Unless Garoppolo is complete garbage, they'll still likely start the season around 2-2 without Brady, which is exactly where they were last year. This is the same league that idolizes Joe Namath and allows him to give drunken interviews. They put Ray Lewis front and center on ESPN's coverage. They'll use Ben Roethlisberger to hype the first game of the year. There might be a few people who didn't hate Tom Brady before but now do, but he was not the most popular guy to begin with and this isn't exactly an OJ Simpson like fall from grace.

The Colts got their brains beat in regardless. When you can't stop a team from jamming the ball down your throat you don't have much room to complain. The Ravens are the team that should be livid. This clearly happened in that game as well, plus the Pats hit them with all variety of shady substitutions that are now also outlawed and it was a close game down to the wire.

Bill Simmons was one of the biggest drivers of the 30 for 30 idea. Frankly I'm shocked they haven't done one on the Tuck game, the Pats 3 Super Bowls in 4 years, Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Borque.