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The fact that Italy were GIVEN the victory in their match against Australia by the Ref in the last seconds & they go on to win the whole thing makes a joke out of the game. This world cup was THE worst refereed event I have ever seen. I can't wait till real football starts.

Actually, I thought that was surprisingly on the money. It fairly listed our faults while also putting some into perspective.....Ace running back Willis McGahee was utilized surprisingly infrequently in the red-zone as well as on third downs. The article also was not afraid of giving praise......Aaron Schobel may be the most underrated defensive end in the league and is a terror rushing off the edge.. For a Pats article.....I am quite surprised by it's balance.

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OMG There is a MW signed left shoe!!!!! $1.00

That is really, really funny when you sit there imagining it is coming from your avatar.....or am I just tired?

Fork off.

Beatrix Potter. English children's author Briar Rabbit. I'm guessing that you are in your 20s not 30s & up. I was raised on Beatrix Potter books. Also, the 1967 Disney movie 'The Jungle Book' from memory makes the rabbit in the briar patch famous. Being Australian is no excuse for your ignorance. Being adverse to reading or watching children's stuff is.

I think some of them have been pulling something the whole time.....if you know what I mean.

It's players like MW that give pro footballers & athletes in general a bad name. How much money????? 1.4mil to eat big & wave the NFL goodbye. People talk about character....the character that is important is the ability for self-motivation. I really don't care if a guy has an ego or likes to party or is a bit of a prick. As long as he loves to play & is intrinsically motivated, I want him to play for the Bills.

Yeah! I hear he was a high 1st rounder.....I'm hearing BIG potential.

Wow, that's a lot of effort you've gone to to prove a point. I applaud you for attempting to make the off-season more poignant.

Me neither, I just thought I'd stir the pot.

It took me a little to get my brain around that but you are 100% correct. Ah, if only football issues were as straight forward as this.

15 shekles? You must be joking! Have people not heard of haggling? BTW just because Fezmid provides a relatively free service for fellow Bills fans does not mean duey is wrong for trying to make a buck..... However, there is the issue of using a free chat-room(TBD) for the benefit of a commercial enterprise. Just thought I'd add to both sides of the arguement.

Just a filler piece IMO. All he said was "It usually takes a long time to replace a HOF QB. Here are some examples." No analysis at all really. Had he given information on how the HOF QBs were obtained(what round, how many years developing, changing trends through NFL history, etc, etc) I would view it in a better light.

I don't mind the questions.....it is just when people criticize I feel on this topic we don't have a right. We can criticize when things do not pan out ala TDs drafts but until it is proven to be bad, we might just be criticizing unconventional brilliance or even the start of a new trend. We just do not know & can only base our 'wisdom' on the 'experts' analysis & tradition. Wasn't the MW pick at #4 generally perceived as a good pick at the time?

Nice article in PFW preview 2006 about safeties....obviously I can't give the whole thing but... Article starts.... This, clearly, is not your grandfather's NFL. Nor, for thta matter does it all that closely resemble your father's NFL, either. Certainly not with the way safeties are acting all crazy, running from place to place before the snap, blitzing the quarterback, covering wide receivers, intercepting passes, and dragging bid bruising running backs to the turf like a leopard on a deer. Things have changed....... You get the idea. The fact that there were 3 safeties taken in the first round this year with 2 being selected in the top 8 helps support this & the concept that better atheletes are playing safety at a collegiate level. In the end, it doesn't really matter. You say..."But as of now we know the majority of teams in this league find safeties...". That is exactly what I'm talking about. Do we expect Marv & co. to make their decisions based on what usually is done?....peer pressure? 'Value' picks based on what others think rather than what they have planned? I don't get it. Are they being employed to do what others think?

I understand the argument. It is just that it makes no logical sense. My point is simple. Reach or Value is based upon what we(each individual) think. We base that opinion on what the media tells us(unless the person is so knowledgeable they can do their own scouting). When a player is taken before the consensus, he is called a reach. When a player is taken after the consensus, he is called good value. The consensus is not always right. The 32 NFL teams do not follow the consensus they follow their own scouting reports & their own analysis of the other 31 teams. I hate to sound like LaDarius but in this situation he would be correct. Parroting the media experts is no basis for knocking the decisions of a club on draft day. The problem really becomes....we will never know if a trade down would have had a better end result. If you agree that we will never truly know.... & you agree that your 'knowledge' of the draft prospects is based on the media (the same media that got Winston Justice so very, very wrong)... Then you cannot possibly believe that Marv stuffed up......just that he might have stuffed up(which is always the case anyway).

Der...I must have been brain dead yesterday Now for the Second one

I just cannot see how so many remain in the value/reach aspect of the draft system when the erroneous nature of it is spelled out time & again. Let's try this tact. 50% of all #3 picks in the draft are BUSTS. If a player predicted by all to go #3 were to drop & be taken at say...#10, all would say "what great VALUE that pick was." 50% of the time this would happen, the player would be a total BUST....no value at all. Similar could be said about all 1st round picks. IMO if they become BUSTS it does not matter where they are taken...#1 or #32. A BUST is a BUST. By the same token, it does not matter where they are taken if they become ProBowlers. Superstars come from not just every pick in the 1st round but from every round as well as undrafted. Hindsight is the only way to tell if the Whittner & McCargo draft picks are good picks. Until then, the 'value' of them was #8 & #26. To think any other way & you would have to say that we should have traded up into the #26 spot(or much higher) to get Winston Justice & traded up into the high 2nd round for Youboty. What great VALUE that would have been. VALUE is based on our public perceptions of what might happen on draft day. The only thing re: Whitner that we KNOW is that 7 teams thought he was not as good as at least one other prospect. Anything else is speculation.

Have you got a link to a list of them?

I must be really thick....All I've done is the bells...I don't know what to do with my spoon...or how to stop the water...or the elec switches... Is it simple trial & error or is there something to this that proved I'm a dummy?

I agree, using the definition not given as number 1. at the top would be terrible. http://www.answers.com/topic/terrible

O.K.....just for fun....taking out his best year 2004 & last year. Not really fair since I'm chopping a 16 good game year & a 7 bad game year but.... 2000-2003(4 yrs)(Including his 1st year starting) 1843-1160-13881-90-63 AVE(461-290-3470-22.5-15.75) QBR=88 %=63 YPA=7.53 Hey that's surprising, they are not much different to his career stats. QBR=91.5 %=64.4 YPA=7.73 On top of that, he rushed for 1917yds & 26TDs in those 4 years. I don't know how many fumbles he lost but....that averages to 479yds & 6.5TDs a year. Personally I think if you are going to factor fumbles into the equation, you must also factor rushing TDs, yardage & 1st downs gained off of rushes.

Dallas Cowboys Underrated: Drew Bledsoe is one of those quarterbacks who always gets picked apart, no matter what he does. But he had a heck of a year for the Cowboys, throwing for 3,639 yards and 23 touchdowns. There you go then..... plus.... San Francisco 49ers Overrated: When the 49ers overpaid to sign left tackle Jonas Jennings last year, it was a questionable move. Now we see why. Jennings had his season cut short by a shoulder injury, but when he was on the field he was far from dominant