2020 Our Year For Sure

Good thing I made the call to start Steve Slaton over both Jonathon Stewart and LJ last night. I'm too lazy to count the points, but I had a good day so I'm expecting a win. Meanwhile, do the Chiefs not understand that they NEED to get LJ his carries?

After today, he's averaging 27.0 per catch!

Not only does it give the players two weeks to heal up, but it gives them two weeks with that sour taste in their mouths. Look for them to come out in front of the home crowd pissed off and charged up against SD. I think we win that game.

If you disagree, maybe go look at it again. Nothing ever hits the ground: the shin/knee amazingly never find turf, and then he's completely on top of the defender afterward, which is NOT down by contact. Then he swings his arm around and drops the ball before the arm hits the ground. There's plenty to complain about this week, but the absence of the red flag there is not one of them.

What was the deal you ended up making for Royal? I'm guessing the other guy backed out of the Edwards trade?

You're disappointed nobody responded in 12 minutes?

Last week the winner went 10-3. There's some margin for error.

Thanks guy, you're quite the gentleman. Here's to hoping I'm wrong! My passion for this team goes a lot further than a football pool.

I picked against the Bills in my pool for the first time all year. Just have a gut feeling about this game. We're much better than Arizona, and losing to them wouldn't change that...thats just the way sports are sometimes, the best team doesn't win every single game. I think we drop this one in a close game, then come out fired up in two weeks and knock off the Chargers.

I'm sorry, we're not allowed to discuss that. The board has used up its pre-paid optimism limit for the day. All we can do now is B word about trap games, holdouts and timid head coaches.

iirc, you don't have a flex and just start 2 RBs and 2 WRs? If so, I'd make that trade in a heartbeat, given your roster. Johnson doesn't do anything for you that you're not getting from Thomas Jones, and you've really got to find a way to upgrade that WR2. I'm not particularly high on Edwards, but this just makes too much sense for your team to pass it up. In conjunction with your first trade, you'll have improved quite a bit.

He'd have to be some kind of special player to justify being drafted 11th overall at our single most loaded position. The only thing saving that pick from a tirade of criticism is the absence of any real alternative on the board at the time. Lets see what he's got. If hes another solid starter like McGee, I don't think that pick makes much sense in hindsight. We could have gotten that by re-signing Greer instead of letting him walk after this year. If he's a Pro Bowler a few years from now, that pick is obviously a good one. Otherwise it could've been better used somewhere, anywhere else on the depth chart.

I tend to think shadowing Fitz with Greer would be tempting. He may be giving up some size, but he plays a physical game and his experience makes him a much better foil than McKelvin or Youboty.

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Right, but it wouldn't have made sense to go straight from St. Louis to Phoenix. Have you ever heard of a team doing that with two cities that far apart?

Yeah, so now I like Al Davis.

Personally I wouldn't have done it. I'm not sold on the Jets willingness to unleash Favre and allow him to reach his potential, so I don't know how much of an upgrade he's ultimately going to be over Edwards. I can understand your need to find a tight end, but would've rather seen you let go of one of those running backs than Wayne. Best of luck!

He looks like a fusion of Tom Brady*, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Jim Kelly, John Elway and Joe Montana.

It helped me win my pool.

Good point, crayonz. I'd actually prefer to win going into a bye week, so we should have let the Rams take this one today. But your point holds: when we finish 11-5 and tied with Tennessee or somebody for a bye week, these wins against NFC teams will come back to haunt us.

How in the world does 'either team could have won today' get labeled smack talk?

Here's one. I've already made my ammends. Good post, Bill. Whitner is becoming one of those safeties whose games you can't watch without taking notice of them. The guy is all over the field, he plays with intensity, and therefore really stands out. Regarding the ends, I seem to remember Schobel getting pressure on back-to-back pass plays at one point, the second of which ended a St. Louis drive by getting us a third down stop. Overall I've been disappointed with him, but he stepped up there. Kelsay is what he is, and what he is isn't a pass rusher. Would really like to see Turk more willing to throw the ball on 1st down early in games. We need to come out firing to loosen up defenses and set up the run, not the other way around. Evans is amazing, and this offense would look completely different without him. Get that signature! Undefeated after a month of football, who woulda thunk it? GO BILLS!

You have a point. My assertion that 2001 was the only year Jauron should have produced a record that caught people's attention may have been incorrect. But how about this one...maybe he never had any business achieving the outstanding record that he did. After all, among the 18 names you so liberally refer to as "talent," 4 of them are unspectacular recievers, 2 of them are QBs who had no business starting for an NFL team, 2 of them were very mediocre running backs, 1 is an unspectacular fullback, 1 is a kicker and 1 is a punter. That leaves (in my estimation, anyway) 7 quality football players. Maybe Jauron did a better job that year than we thought.