That Aud Smell

math is hard.

Agreed on drafting a RB that high. Howevah. The kid from Penn State appears to be a very special player. It'd be justified to take him if you felt assured you were getting a Gurley/Elliott stud (or maybe even better).

^ Yep, yep. Depth and competition. Depth and competition.

Wow - I remember that now about round 2. No Hasek in those games, either?

Jesus Christmas. That game is an eternity unto itself.

Fooking right. (Unless it is?) I will say, my annoyance turned to amusement when I watched the recent interviews of Rosen. I like that guy. https://twitter.com/JordanHeckFF/status/988870462443835393 Sorry it won't embed.

History teaches that, of the 6 who are being discussed as 1st round picks (that includes Rudolph and Jackson), only ___ will turn out to be very good or better than that; ____ will attain journeyman status; and ___ will eventually wash out of the league without doing anything meaningful. (The blanks are intentional. I have no frickin' idea.)

Two things about Allen: 1. I heard him on Pardon My Take and found him very, very likable. Just came off as a solid dude with a good head on his shoulders (and a better than average sense of humour). 2. I recently read, for the first time, that one of his hallmarks is that coveted 24/7 grind-don't-stop slavish devotion to all matters foobaw. Rightly or wrongly, that sort of thing really seems to matter to scouts and GMs. A lot. He's gonna be drafted very high. Maybe #1 overall.

Ha - now it's my turn, evidently. I don't base my hunch on anything but the history of the position and the frequency of injuries in the league. He's a marvelous talent who might go to the HOF.

^ My take: Last season was McCoy's last good one in the NFL as a featured back.

Caught this for the first time on Sabres "goal a day" on Twitter, but could not post the link here directly. So I found the camera feed on YouTube. At the ~:17 mark, Rip gets left hanging. HARD. Also, I'd never heard a version of this clip end with Rick asking "Ohhh. How do you spell second round?!" https://twitter.com/SabresGoalADay/status/988798002604232705 So, it seems like YMMV on those series-ending calls. They're not all going to be "Are you ready, Legion of Doom?!" or "Now do you believe?!" (which was followed by the awful "scary good" bit) or whatever that call about Jimmy Hoffa was (maybe that was not a series ender?). Sometimes, it's Rick wondering how to spell simple words. Also: Moog didn't stick around for the handshake?

Not atall. It was a proto binge watch show. We watched it obsessively when we had wee babies to care for at night. I’ve not watched a single binge show since. Not one.

i don't think size is the impediment it used to be, or has been at various times. he's listed as 5'10". i'm sure he's quite slight. maybe that's what a year in the A would be for.

Is there such a species of hockey player in the NHL? Also: What's this guy's deal? Ceiling? Comparable players/prospects?

Lost!

I can pick out the area of the store front on Google maps. I think there's a mom and pop bar/grill there now.

that's amazing.

Or, days gone by, a "loser." I do know what 4chan is, but was not really familiar with this sub-culture. Your big picture take is an apt one -- reads spot on to me. Also sounds like this guy was mentally ill, to a point. fair point.

Honestly, this stuff gets me so twisted in knots that I mostly end up being grateful that I'm not Beane. There have been proposals referenced above that seem okay to me -- this year's firsts and a 2nd next year for the right to take Rosen. And I'm just trying to be conservative and realistic about who these prospects are. I sure hope Rosen can become a very good NFL quarterback. But at this point? I'd take "good" or "solid." In that 9-13 range league-wide. I think a coach like McDermott can win 10-11 games with solid quarterbacking.

<Ahem> Fair enough.

Among my all-time great sport moments. Caught the second half of that game at a national bar/burger chain of some kind (Fuddruckers?) on Comm Ave in Allston. Glad to see you've finally got on board. The next step is to stop reading his dreck entirely.

In fairness to me, I've watched almost no Sam Bradford foobaw. (See what I did there? "In fairness to me, I am ignorant.") The comparison numbers to Taylor are interesting. I'm also of a mind that the Bills would improve at the QB position by getting similar output to Taylor's, just in different (less spectacular, more predictable/reliable) ways. What I'm mostly going off of is the idea that Bradford is an accurate thrower, a pure thrower. Which is stuff I heard when he was drafted. And, again, Rosen being the next Sam Bradford is NOT what I have in mind as a good outcome. Rosen being significantly closer to what Sam Bradford was as a prospect is what I have in mind -- while acknowledging that Rosen is not quite going to get there and is probably going to be, at most, a good NFL QB. Not a great one.

Eli fricking Manning won 2. Bledsoe was probably good enough to win one.

FTFY

I like all of that. How about we NOT screw up like the Colts did what Andrew Luck. Holy cripes -- what a waste of talent that's been. They're gonna hafta overpay, though. The hope is that they don't need to overpay a lot.