Jason, awesome as usual. Nice to read coherent sentences and reasonable thoughts after a loss -- debacle -- like Sunday's. Your strongest point to me was about burning his trump (nice euchre reference, I agree with the rest of the gang) so soon in the hand. Just like leading with your trump shows you know or care very little about playing with your partner in euchre, burning your "Pro Bowl backup QB" card this early shows you know or care very little about team dynamics and chemistry in football. Having Quinn obviously suck for 5-8 games would at least buy you the excuse to move to DA, even if more knowledgeable people would have known there were other issues for the sucking. Doing it this way embarrasses BQ, puts DA in an impossible position and tells everyone on the team "This could be you." There's hard-nosed disciplinarian and then there's unfeeling tyrant. Mangini, wittingly or no, is closer to the latter.

Great article. Maybe LeBron will get the hint next season and start " gettn after it" The one thing that confuses me though,I always considered Victor a "real grinder" who really "got after it "

I would agree that the team against Green Bay looked an awful lot like last years team. The good thing is that we've improved each week since that game. Less mental errors, less penalties and a team who shows up ready to play 16 times this fall. I think that would be a huge improvement over the last few years, regardless of who plays QB.

@nebbrownsfan said:Two things.... 1) the courts took into consideration ALL evidence for Stallworth, including the alleged video showing Reyes' actions prior to the ACCIDENT. 2) Vick INTENTIONALLY killed dogs in many heinous ways for YEARS, lied to everyone, didn't own up to it until people turned on him. Oh, and FYI, his 23 months were for breaking FEDERAL LAWS involving interstate GAMBLING, not for killing the dogs. 1) Even if Reyes was doing suicide by car, that doesn't excuse Stallworth from getting behind the wheel- he just had gotten paid $4 million- could have rented the penthouse at the hotel, or called a limo to drive him home. Bad choice Donte. Agreed, if he hadn't been drunk, there wouldn't even have been any charges filed. BTW, his suspension is not only for personal conduct, but for violating the League drug policy. 2) And Vick's gambling killed who? Stallworth isn't as big a PR nightmare as Vick, but I'm all for dropping the guy like a ton of bricks as soon as his suspension is up.

@playgroundlegend said:5. A right tackle prospect we could groom (a strong nasty pure run blocking type, im sure there will be some prototypical guys in the 5th) Houston OT Sebastian Vollmer would seem to be a good fit for what you're looking for. He was impressive during the East-West Shrine Game practices and was similarly impressive during the actual game. He may not be as big as you'd like (6'7", 314 lbs.), but his size & athletic profile is a good fit for our o-line. Some drawbacks: he played LT in college, so he may spend his first training camp struggling with his footwork. And he missed all of the '06 season because of a back injury, so there could be some medical concerns there.