Offside Number 76

Oh, FFS, we have a No. 1. It's not going to be that tough to pick up a No. 2. Let's not get all gloomy just because freaking Meacham, who isn't that terrific anyway, chose elsewhere. And I'll be pretty pissed if the Bills waste a relatively high first-round pick on a receiver.

I'm not quite there. But if the plan was to wait until the coin flip and anthem and then walk off of the field (rink?) on "national" TV, then the owner was really left with no practical choice but to preemptively fire them and find new players for the game.

I have read elsewhere that the team planned to strike right after the national anthem. The game was televised by NFLN. If this is true, I can't blame the owner. If not, well, it is a little dickish to fly someone to Florida, fire him, and tell him to get back home on his own dime.

BR lost me with its endless slideshows. I never did think that it was run out of someone's basement, etc.; I just thought there was too little content for the clicks. The unreliable reporting is new to me. And seriously, a site that publishes that the Redskins might sign Stevie Johnson, about ten days after Johnson signed here, isn't going to be immune from criticism. Sorry.

Just make a Bleacher Report thread and insist that Bleacher Report stuff gets posted there. Then you can ignore the thread.

I like the fact that there's a Q in there--teams should draft one every year--but no, I really do not want this team, with so many needs, taking a WR in the first round. IMO, absent a freaky talent, a team never should take a WR so early.

Great idea. Helmets, too, for that matter.

And he was great in Remember the Titans.

Troy Smith, Matt Leinart, Jason White, Eric Crouch, Chris Weinke, Danny Wuerffel, Charlie Ward, Ty Detmer, Andre Ware, and Vinny Testaverde all recommend against that. And with the others, it's too soon to tell.

It's a $710,000 house and you think $15,000 in taxes is highway robbery? It's a pretty common configuration for a townhouse. It's a great location. It definitely is not a gated community, but I do believe that there is more than one unit in that building.

I would reverse the decision to fire Bill Polian.

Good move locking out Floyd. I think that's going to make the next CMD considerably more credible.

No, it isn't.

Warde Manuel to Connecticut. I'm not sure whether this is good or bad. I'm betting on NYS to put some politico in there instead of a real AD. On the other hand, I don't think too much of Manuel.

Consider the first sentence: "The NFL, which is trying to maintain its TV blackout of home games that don't sell out, missed an opportunity 40 years ago to preserve an even more restrictive policy when it rebuffed an effort by President Richard Nixon to lift the hometown blackout just for playoff games." I think the writer misses this point: Had the NFL not moved to the less-restrictive policy that it has now (blackouts only for home games that don't sell out, as opposed to blackouts for all home games), it never would have become the league that it is today. Television made the NFL.

And now they've booked a game at Ohio State. This won't be interesting.

Good news and please do keep us posted. Is there a league website? I could follow French football during the offseason.

Ack. Another "name the last time the Bills did this... but your answer doesn't count because..." thread.

I've had a relationship ruined by it, although I will say that it does not appear to be ruining her life.

Cute, but it didn't really turn up much in the way of answers, did it?

According to the article, it isn't crack. It's the far less deadly version. Still, hope the kid gets some help.

There's an easy St. Joe's joke in there somewhere, but Blitzer graduated from Ken West. He's pretty seriously Jewish (not that St. Joe's hasn't had Jewish students over the years; I'm sure that it has).

So let's rephrase: Has anyone seen a local paper saying that the local team should make a play for Stevie?

Hey Olivier--this sounds like an awesome opportunity for a kid who is right out of school. Have you considered direct emails to D3 coaches?

I don't really want the whole team doing backflips and round-offs when they're announced at the beginning of games.