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But as we've seen with Ray Rice this year, speedier backs can be killed by those nagging injuries.

He's being projected as a 3rd to 5th round player so far. His smaller size (more the less-than-180-lb frame than his height) combined with his nagging injury issues in college are scaring off teams so far. I'm surprised he declared this year.

The award is voted on by media writers. Think about what you've heard all season. When Aaron Rodgers went down, all the NFL media talked about was that Eddie Lacy kept GB afloat. Meanwhile, it's been Phillip Rivers' comeback, not Keenan Allen's play, that has gotten most of the talk outside of San Diego. I can say with 100% certainty that Eddie Lacy is gonna win the award.

In all honesty, and not trying to be a homer here because I despise homerism (and being from New Jersey, if there's one word to describe the sports fans here, it's homer), but I honestly think the Jets are better set for the future. I wanted the Jets to use their second rounder last year to fill a need rather than picking Geno because of how good this draft is with QBs (already I'd say Bridgewater, Manziel, Carr, and Bortles are better coming out of the gate than Geno), but ultimately they aren't that bad talent-wise. They need a playmaker to add to their receiving corps (I'd love for Eric Ebron or Marquise Lee), an interior offensive lineman, some outside pass rushing and a good safety (maybe Clinton-Dix will fall to them), but for a team that sports websites were legitimately (and retardedly) predicting to go 0-16, there honestly exist fewer holes than most realize. I found it simultaneously ridiculous and hilarious to see things like ESPN ranking the Jets 32nd in the league going into the season that just passed. It's ridiculous how hard ESPN banks on the hateability they've created for the Jets, but at least a fully mediocre team (like I had expected to see coming into the season) shut them up. As far as Washington is concerned, although RGIII's an interesting player, I just don't see a way to justify trading 3 1st's to move up to pick this guy. Sure, he was considered an elite prospect, but there have been a ton of other QBs that have come along that wouldn't cost that team nearly so much. Now they're loaded with holes and lack the second overall pick they should have for the sake of one player. I'd imagine you know the nooks and crannies of the team better, but as far as I know, I actually feel as if, talent-wise, they're on their way to another bottom 5 finish this upcoming season (although it's too early for that). EDIT: Also, a lot of the perceived strength of this draft at OL and WR comes from some guys outplaying their previous profile (like Greg Robinson at OL and Jalen Strong at WR). The draft was already top heavy with good guys in both units projected to be top-half of the first round like Jake Matthews and Taylor Lewan on the OL and Sammy Watkins and Marquise Lee at WR but the units have strengthened throughout the college season.

I actually have a good feeling about him. I think he'll be a good one. His football instincts are killer and I think he'll adapt well.

Considering who votes for these awards, Lacy's absolutely gonna win it.

Agree to disagree, but I'd say that with what the Colts have they would've been fine with another good-but-not-great year if it meant solidifying their future. If their needs were sparse I'd agree with you, but the offensive line is so important and the team has a need at wideout opening up soon as well. In a draft so strong on offensive linemen and receivers, a first rounder this year would be great for them to have. I'd say that getting the Colts to misjudge so significantly makes the Browns geniuses. They got a very significant return for a player that, when you take origin completely out of the picture and just consider production and showed potential, didn't come close to deserving that return. I also wouldn't call it a failing of the Browns as a whole because Richardson was selected by the previous front office regime (and any front office that ever deemed Brandon Weeden worthy of a first round pick was a failure in and of itself). And no, I'm not a Browns fan. I'm a Jets fan so I can understand your pain as a Redskins fan. I didn't really see the Browns being a player this year because of their FA pickups, mainly because Paul Kruger's a streaky player and he and Desmond Bryant were overpayments (Bryant moreso than Kruger), but that's just me. At the end of the day, QB play will determine whether you sink or swim, and I wasn't even remotely high on Weeden (or Richardson, the other part of their offense).

1. Yes, you're severely overselling his impact. You make it sound as if the Colts wouldn't have made it to the playoffs without him and yet the Colts relied on him to run the ball 10 times or more in consecutive games just once all season. 5 yards per carry is very good, but it's not as if he all of a sudden became a world-beater just because the team traded for Trent Richardson. Also, don't forget that while Donald Brown was getting his 55 yards on 10 carries Trent Richardson was plodding his way to 15 yards on 7 carries at the same time. I don't understand how a guy that went into the season third on the depth chart was suddenly inspired by the opportunity to split carries with a poor running back. 2. The most carries Donald Brown had this year in a game was 14... just because he can do well in a split back role doesn't mean he's all of a sudden gonna become a world beater. If he doesn't have the characteristics of a feature back like I don't believe he has, then don't expect his success to mean too much. Two seasons ago he had 134 carries and averaged 4.8 yards per carry, pretty similar to this year. Doesn't mean he's just gonna figure it out and become a 1,200 yard guy now like you sound so optimistic about. 3. That's you, but I'd rather improve an important unit and ensure long-term success. 4. Except the offensive line is a huge part of the reason Richardson was such a useless acquisition. Running for Cleveland last year, behind the 5th best run blocking offensive line in the league (per ProFootballFocus), RIchardson was mediocre. For the Colts and their poor line, he's been even worse. Now the team likely will take longer to fix their offensive line, meaning it'll be longer before Richardson can be effective for them, at which point his confidence will likely be shot and he'll be done as a runner. 5. Someone's been playing a little too much Madden. 25th pick is absolutely a high pick, as is essentially any pick in the first two rounds. Any team that doesn't view a late first round pick as one they can get value out of has no faith in their scouting department and needs to clean house. As for the Browns, I'd say they've drafted decently of late. Jordan Cameron, Alex Mack, Mitchell Schwartz, TJ Ward, Joe Haden, Phil Taylor, and Jabaal Sheard are all good players they've recently drafted. They've missed a bit of late at the top, but if they don't have confidence in what they're doing then everyone in the front office needs to go. 6. The Browns weren't genius because they found a team that was desperate. They were genius because everyone in the media was so convinced thanks to the idiot fantasy football community that Trent Richardson was so good, but the Browns were able to make the move that they needed to make before the rest of the league caught on about his true lack of value. They took so much shit for it at the time but in the end they were better off while the Colts had essentially no positive from the deal. 7. Out of this deal, the Browns got the 25th overall pick. The Colts got 2.9 yards per carry on over 150 runs. Saying that the Colts won the deal just because they made the playoffs is one of the least sensible things I've heard in a long time. So Andrew Luck, a swarming defense and TY Hilton had nothing to do with the Colts making the playoffs and winning their first game? It was Trent Richardson's 1 carry for no yards in that game? Okay. 8. That didn't really matter. Did anyone honestly expect the Browns to be good this year? They have the pieces on defense and they have a couple of weapons, plus a great offensive line, all they need is a QB and an RB (and a pass rusher). They are now well equipped to fill their needs with players who fit their system better. At the end of the day, at the time, Trent Richardson didn't fit Chudzinski's system that relies on quicker RBs, so (absolutely mind-blowingly stupid firing aside) given that they were considering that to be their system at the time, they got a chance to get high value in exchange for a reserve-level player and now have the chance to pick up a good prospect that better fits their offense moving forward.

Oh unicorn turds.

You're really, really overselling Donald Brown's contribution to the team. He's been pretty good but for a team in need of plenty of offensive line help, I'm sure they'd love to still have that pick. As for the Browns, seizing the opportunity of getting a high pick that I truly believe won't be able to put it together and that has been disappointing so far already is a pretty genius move. Just because the Colts needed a running back and just because a reserve finally got playing time and did fairly well with it doesn't make the overpayment worth it, that makes no sense.

Went with something a little different. CnC.

faceoffs yay I'm taking way too many shots

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When GIYGAS declared for the Season 33 draft, there was considerable hype, as he was brought in by an agent in Damien Walec who was coming off a Hall of Fame player in Tukka Reikkinen. There was also plenty of skepticism from the league's executives because of Walec's diminishing presence in the league towards the very end of Reikkinen's career as well as GIYGAS' pre-draft season, leading to a less-than-impresive total of practice hours going into the draft. GIYGAS slipped a bit to the seventh overall draft choice, but has since failed to make a significant impact on the league. Following a decent rookie year, GIYGAS' improvement from year 1 to year 2 was miniscule. At this point, he was not showing up to practice at all, which caused his third season (his first with Seattle after being traded from Calgary) to fall flat. Things came to a fever pitch when, in the league's inaugural Victory Cup, GIYGAS was a total nonfactor, scoring just 5 points in 20 games. Today, he decided to turn things around. "I'm definitely rusty, but what can you expect when I've played the last season and change without any practice," GIYGAS said "But playing in the Victory Cup, barely being a factor for my team and being easily pushed over, it brought me back to when I was a draft prospect and what I had imagined for myself in my career. And obviously, I hadn't expected to be playing that poorly in my third season. So I decided I had to re-commit myself." GIYGAS is playing on a two year deal with Seattle, but there is some speculation about his plans considering next year holds a mutual option. When asked which direction he's leaning, GIYGAS responded, "I'd love to stay in Seattle, honestly, but as of right now, I'm weighing all of my options." With a strong push in practice this year, GIYGAS could attract mid-level interest on the open market.

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3-1 Riga

I didn't really think you were anyways. Kinda like the Davos team, right?

Nah not really. At this point I'd be fine with a relocation, and I can completely understand people disliking the location, but the only other real reason that people cite for hating the franchise makes them sound like the ones that were butthurt (problems with Pensfan, problems with the most recent cup team despite the fact that much more annoying and chirpy teams, like Kyle's Volkov-era Davos, are remembered fondly in retrospect).

Pretty much it's just that 80% of the people in the league are pussy bandwagoners and most of them have no real reason to hate Vasteras but do just because they like to feel important.

Player Name: GIYGAS Cash you have: $8 million (my S36 money hasn't been edited in yet) Workout Name: 20 TPE Cost of Workout: $7 million Cash Left: $1 million

Ahhh yeah, I remember now. Alright, thanks.

First in a while.

You sure? I don't remember getting less than a 6 on a graphic in a long time, and I'm pretty sure I had like 2 or 3 unupdated graphics.

Is the backup up now?