RuntheDamnBall

You're right, we haven't had enough pick sixes this year.

And it's only, what, his seventh year in the league?

Happy Birthday!

What makes you think Nicks will come cheap?

Well, I never. FWIW, I think the Bills have run enough, maybe more than they should, in today's NFL. The ol' moniker is a reference to Kevin Gilbride's offense, which seemed to put everything on Drew Bledsoe's shoulders even if the situation demanded something different. But yes, running and tough guys and also fat guys. Football.

I.E. They will be calling Bills games for the rest of the season.

Uh, that, and not drop balls that hit him in the numbers, and not fumble anything in the last two minutes, or overtime.

Hey, that was the five yard line and you know it. It's the sneakiest yard-line.

He does have that awesome "sloppy swish" move. http://vimeo.com/53341064

Key has one. TO and Moss both had star turns in their SBs. Moss should have been in one with the Vikes. The point is not really about their specific transgressions - it's that talent > antics, whatever the variety (until you murder somebody). Stevie might not have enough of the former to accept the latter, even if it's just, as you rightly point out, kind of teenagey stuff. If Jordan's Bulls had come up short in the Finals year after year like the Bills, don't you think we'd hear more about gambling being a distraction, or him being too hard on his teammates and it being bad for chemistry? We always look at the result and work backward from there to explain it, and there's really not another way. The rest is just amateur psychology.

If the point is that personal maturity is not a pure indicator of athletic success, I fail to see how it isn't relevant. Irvin, Keyshawn Johnson, T.O., Moss, plenty of other receivers have been known for "antics" and still had long and productive NFL careers where they succeeded in the clutch. At times, they didn't. But they are all known as great receivers. I'd like for Stevie to tone it down but mostly because of the optics of it - I think it ratchets up the pressure and is a distraction, brings unwanted attention and then makes it 1000x worse when he does fail. This discussion, case in point. But I don't think anyone can prove that there's a real correlation, because individual examples can be pointed to to display that there hasn't been any correlation. The Jordan example is just one of many where a bad teammate is actually an effective team leader because his teammates respect his play THAT much. If, on the day Stevie leaves, other teammates open up about a perceived lack of commitment - or if that happens earlier on based on some team-wise dissent, then and only then can we really point to it. Till then, you have to go with the fact that they keep throwing the dude the ball, and they keep trying to rely on him. It's all we've got.

Obviously it pales in comparison to the four people who lost their lives, and any others who may have suffered life-changing injuries, but I do feel bad for this guy - his life is effectively ruined by a single case of the kind of doziness I think every one of us has felt at some point.

Michael Jordan punched a teammate in the mouth (Steve Kerr) and was a raving a--hole. But he was so damn good at basketball it really didn't matter.

All talk about cheating aside, I look at these photographs in the way I admire a Rembrandt.

You asked the question. I'll ask mine: do most teams trade up for players that aren't going to be difference makers? Run down the trades in the draft and see what there is. I will wager that more trades where you shed picks to move up in position fail than the other way around. It's just a case where the odds are against you. Same as it was with Bills and Losman, Bills and McCargo, etc etc.

Trading up for a whiff = horrendous mistake. Of course they are usually whiffs. They are lottery tickets. But you have a bigger chance of losing when you hold fewer of them.

The horrendous mistake is trading up to select a guy that was worth a fifth round pick, and hasn't really shown much since to merit any faith in him. That a pick later, Wilson was selected just adds insult to injury.

OK, White was a former sixth rounder. I stand corrected.

I'd do that. They traded a former 4th or 5th rounder for him, right?

I wouldn't mind if the Bills were that team, and I like EJ. I agree with the first part. The kid throws so many jump balls. He is also not going to find receivers as wide open in the NFL as he is in college. Pro defenses will eat this kid alive. But "thanking" for America's next top rapist QB is probably not a good idea.

Respectfully, I can think of few greater wastes of resources than spending a first rounder on a QB unless we end up in the top 5.

If this staff likes Thad, why go in any other direction?

They tried that. KC traded two picks for him and theirs were higher in the draft.

Here we go.

The NFL.