Comments on: Water Seeks Its Own Level in Talent Pool

By: baylinorcrush

baylinorcrush — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:20:56 +0000

Finally, somebody got that one, LOL.

By: sndvl

sndvl — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:15:26 +0000

Haha at Roethlisberger…

By: baylinorcrush

baylinorcrush — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:34:19 +0000

You obviously have Fairley on your mind, haha.

By: Yovi21

Yovi21 — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:36:37 +0000

That sucks! I feel like I’m having withdrawals from free agency..At least she says they should negotiate…but I’m Fairley certain that wont get us any further than we are now!

Tebow 11′

By: baylinorcrush

baylinorcrush — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:17:49 +0000

The best way is the negociations table like the owners have always said, because as soon as they agree on something, there is a season, but the players don’t want to do that, they want to litigate in courts, and courts take forever to decide on anything and appeals galore and no season in sight, the players have what they asked for, they are in knee deep in the start of litigations.

By: baylinorcrush

baylinorcrush — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:10:02 +0000

Appeal, either side, then it takes another two months to get anywhere.

By: Yovi21

Yovi21 — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:00:28 +0000

So, will someone clean up some grey area for me? If the judge comes back in 2 weeks and says that the lockout is unlawful or whatever does the whole thing just go away and we can have a season, or will there be a sea of appeals and many more long footballless months?

By: baylinorcrush

baylinorcrush — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:44:24 +0000

I believe Polian has the correct approach to the draft:

With the draft slated to take place ahead of free agency, how will teams determine their needs if they don’t know whether they will be able to retain their own guys with expiring contracts?

Colts vice chairman Bill Polian said he’ll take a worst-case scenario approach.

I asked him, as an example, whether safety ranks as a Colts draft need considering Melvin Bullitt could be an unrestricted free agent if a new CBA is struck.

“I think you have to go into the draft and say, ‘Anybody who’s out there [as a possible unrestricted free agent] is not coming back,’” Polian said. “Now, that’s for draft purposes. Don’t misconstrue what I am saying. That’s for purposes of evaluating players in the draft.”

By: henryac

henryac — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:40:03 +0000

Last night on NFL Network, they were trading Orton all over the NFL again! They couldn’t seem to decide whether he should go to Washington, the Bengals, Arizona or the Vickings. That has got to make him really happy! Oh yeah, Seattle, I forgot about them. If the lockout gets lifted, it could make for a madhouse on trading and FA, if they can ever figure out what rules they will be working under. They also traded Kolb and McNabb around a good bit so it will be interesting to see how all that works out, eventually!

By: baylinorcrush

baylinorcrush — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:36:31 +0000

And about picking Rudolph with the first of our 2nd round picks (by Legwold):

Rudolph could be available when the Broncos pick early in the second round. The 6-foot-6, 259-pounder is one of the biggest players at his position in this draft. That makes him more than functional at the line scrimmage for an offense like Denver’s, which plans to strengthen its running game.

Coach John Fox wants the Broncos to muscle up and run the ball whenever they want to and do it better than they have the last two seasons.

Denver has glaring holes at tight end. Tony Scheffler was traded before the 2010 season and Daniel Graham has been released.

Rudolph would be an elite prospect if there were no injury concerns about him. But there are some injury concerns. A separated shoulder kept Rudolph out of two games in the 2009 season. He missed seven games last year because of a torn hamstring, an injury that required surgery.

That does it for me, after everything I just said about damaged goods, no way I could overlook that and vehemently say no to Rudolph, plus Fox could care less about receiving TEs, a big attribute of Rudolph, and even so he is a good blocker for the running game with incredible size, I say no way Fox drafts a blocking TE that high, he rather get the running game going with FBs anyway.