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This is my impression as well. I obviously haven't watched the film on him for the whole year, but it seems like every time I watched the Colts, I noticed him whiffing on tackles and being caught out of position. Then again, this could be just as much a symptom of the whole crappiness of the Colts Run D over the year, but it certainly did not leave me with a glowing impression of him overall.

Just bustin' your balls This thread has potential, don't let us down....

Evidently it's backa*sward day in your neck of the woods, because I could have sworn you develop your point before you make a thread and then send it out to the wolves for dissemination...

yeah, i'd be disappointed too, so hopefully he's not. i'm very curious to see how they would do a 24 movie. has the potential to be really great or disappointing if they can't translate to a movie format without losing what the edge. is it shooting in europe? i heard they had written the script but don't know much about it other than that. personally, i don't think he's dead because they left it so ambiguous at the end. or, he's going to be on life support for this season and then come out of it sometime later.... there wasn't really enough build up just to kill off such a huge character as him... then again.... they did kill whats his name like that last year so....

"The victim, also 12, had a metal comb handle embedded four or five inches into her chest wall, including two inches in her heart. A 31-minute surgery with bolt cutters saved her life. She is expected to recover fully, but might need more surgery." Four or five inches into the chest wall with a metal comb handle! WHAT?! That's not some random flail....

yeah, he's the man in the high tower, directing all the pawns. he and bauer are going to tangle for sure. also now that i think about it, maybe curtis is dead, but they don't confirm it at the end of the show, we just see him lying there, right? i guess we'll find out for sure monday.

Yeah, we don't know Curtis is dead yet, btw Also, did anyone notice in the preview for this upcoming show that they show Fayad talking to the "man behind the scenes" guy that logan took his commands from last year?

Good post. This would definitely be the knock on him. It will be interesting to see where the cards fall. I, for one, would be extremely surprised if we took Lynch at 12, although i wouldn't hate it, depending on how we address the other pertinent positions

I'll assume you find the Colts winning the super bowl somehow less objectionable even though Peyton Manning "due" fest as the face of the NFL is much more marketable? Or dear god the !@#$ing Patriots? Or Rex Grossman, Super Bowl winning QB? Just because it's a "cinderella" story does not make it scripted by the NFL. It would be a rather amazing story if they did win, and if it was the Bills in place of the Saints right now in the role of the underdog out of nowhere, it would be nothing but hosannas of the highest from us right now while Saints fans jeered. All this said, the Patriots win again. Once they dispose of the Colts, neither the Bears nor the Saints have a complete enough team to knock them off: the Saints D is suspect, especially their Pass D, and Rex Grossman, enough said.

Only problem with this is that vincent and ko are both free safeties. And a good part of the reason vincent was deemed expendable was because he did not fit the cover-2 MO very well. Now would he have been a better converted SS than Whitner as a rookie SS? Maybe, but then again, our pass D this year was a top ten rated unit, so very hard to argue that case imo.

thomas is obviously a beast but we don't play the 3-4 so i don't see us interested. no to lewis. he hasn't been the same since his injuries. pashos i don't know enough about.

It is easy to say that we would be in the playoffs with Ngata. But look at it this way: we may not have had a top ten ranked pass defense if Whitner is not there in the backfield, and we easily could have had problems with stopping big pass plays. sure, who knows if this would have happened, but the point is that it is way too easy to say that with ngata we would be in the playoffs. same thing with drafting okoye: sure, he would most likely help a big area of need, but drafting him instead of lynch is no guarantee of playoffs next year. i would not categorically say that drafting lynch at 12 would lead to no playoffs. we could just as easily draft a DT in round 2 who ends up being better than okoye or sign somebody in FA that fills the void unexpectedly. and mccargo could all of a sudden turn in to bada*s numero uno. lots of possibilities. lynch coupled with a couple other line acquisitions via draft or FA could be an even greater impact scenario.

Thank you!!!

that's cool, as long as you are comfortable with an illogical and oversimplified argument that fails to address the complexity of the question at hand, then by all means, fire away amigo

it doesn't logically follow that drafting lynch at 12 would be "following Donahoe's draft techniques" and/or dooming us to utter to a 6-10 record. There are way too many variables and scenarios to occur between now and then and during the rest of the draft for this to be the case. Marv wouldn't become Donahoe simply by drafting Lynch. That is oversimplifying both Marv's and Donahoe's approach to being GM. This being said, I too expect Marv to draft someone that no one expects and for that person to contribute immediately and fit into our respective offensive or defensive schemes very well.

How about this.... Instead of making one sentence inflammatory pronouncements you actually unfurl something resembling a cogent and thoughtful argument that others might be able to respond to? THE SKY IS FALLING/LYNCH THE BASTARD is not a cogent and thoughtful argument, btw

Please God!!! *prays*

In the NFL, you basically earn "get out of bad play" mulligans after you've hit some of the recognizable benchmarks: pro bowl, playoffs, SB appearances, etc. Losman will begin to get his share of this pie after next year when he leads this team into the playoffs. That's just the way it works.

It is ironic in general that the "Willis is sh*t" crowd are also the ones to grossly overestimate his trade value. Willis' NFL performance so far has been neither sh*t nor that of a top flight RB; he is somewhere in the middle based upon his performance, which the potential to be much better if he finds a way to perform consistently (perhaps on a team with a more consistent offense and especially an OL). Then again, he could just continue to be just decent enough to always spark heated debate. All in all, we would be extremely, extremely lucky to snag a day one draft pick for him. This is the reality of the situation as I see it.

QFT

!@#$ the Patriots. Scum ridden maggots, the lot of them.

how does the mccargo tradeup/pick rankle when we don't know what we've got in him yet? Yeah, i know, we could possibly have gotten him if we didn't trade up, but do you really think levy and co. are so stupid that they would just trade up for no damn reason to pick up a player? there was obviously some kind of indication that he would not be there (now whether someone was blowing smoke up marv's ass is another story, but who knows?) If mccargo doesn't work out however, then yes it will be a terrible move, but that's the risk you always take with draft picks