Redskins vs. Bills -5.5 in Toronto This isn’t a true home game as both teams will invade foreign soil for this one. The Bills are 0-3 in their journeys north since Toronto began hosting them. The Bills’ first problem is that this is a home field point spread and this is not a true home game. At least not compared to their normal advantage they enjoy. They are 3-0 at home this year with wins over the Patriots, Eagles and Raiders. Their second problem is that they are coming off a bye. Usually this is a good thing, but this year, perhaps to new rules essentially banning practice during the off week, it has been a disadvantage. Teams coming off their bye are 3-9 straight up and 4-7-1 against the spread so far this year. Their third problem is the Redskins’ defense isn’t as bad as Mike Vick and Cam Newton made them look the past two weeks. They have the ability to stop the run and pressure Ryan Fitzpatrick. Add all this up and you have the Redskins getting a big win and all of us diehards holding on to hope for at least one more week. For the rest of my picks visit DaoDeSam http://daodesam.blogspot.com/2011/10/week-8-nfl-picks.html

The NBA lockout has been such a depressing topic that I’ve tried not to think or talk about basketball since the draft in June.  Maybe coincidentally I haven’t played much recently either and while the frequency of my playing has varied over the years, I’m definitely not pumped about basketball right now. By now I was hoping to be writing about the endless exciting possible lineups of the rebuilt once again Washington Wizards, but instead we are a week away from the season’s normal starting time with the players and the owners stuck at impasse.  We could face months without professional basketball if not lose a full season if the two sides cannot come to an agreement soon.  

The fundamental problem is that the owners are claiming they are not making money in the current economic climate and want to change the business model of the league. What they want from the players is a 50/50 split in total revenue over ten years. This may sound like a fair deal, but that would mean the players come down from their 56% piece of the pie they agreed to in the last negotiation. Some people will just say, it’s tough times and the players make too much money already, and they should just take the deal, get back the work and be thankful they get paid for doing what they do.

 I disagree with this sentiment to an extent. I think the players should come down from the last deal, and they have agreed to go down to 53% already, but there are other factors involved. One is that the NBA is a more player-driven league than any other major professional sports league. In football and hockey, the players wear helmets. In baseball and soccer, the fields are so big the players look pretty anonymous from the stands and on television. Basketball players are by far the most visible because there are the fewest players on the smallest playing surface, indoors and under lights, wearing the least amount of clothes and covering. It has always been a star-driven league and sport and always will be.

 Also the 50% proposed is not quite 50%. Both sides have to pay taxes on their earnings to the government, of course, but the owners receive that as profit of a major business and can thus write off major expenses. So, the total amount of revenue received by the actual parties will tip in the owners favor. Plus, as we learned from the now forgotten NFL lockout, if the NBA owners strike a deal that would appear to be drastically favorable to them objectively by the finance community, their franchises will rise in value giving them more gain to their net worth over the players.

 I am mostly on the players’ side on this issue, but I do have one message to Billy Hunter, NBA player union boss: don’t compare the owners locking out the players to the plight of the American people during our ongoing series of recessions. I heard him say on the Bill Simmons’ BS report (http://www.grantland.com/podcasts) that the players make a few bucks during their career but still live another forty years or so after and even with making the best investments they will all eventually run out of money. He went on to say that the players are standing up for principles and are fighting the global battle of the little guy getting pushed around by the big guy, a little harder to swallow when the “little guy” is over seven feet tall.

Sorry Billy, but a lot of this is due to the extravagant lifestyles led by the players. The league median salary is $2.3 million, so even average players make the kind of money that can set your family up for generations if you make smart decisions and bank enough money to make interest on your cash. Say you’re doing it for the players who fought for these deals before you, like those who threatened to not play in the 1964 All-Star Game if the league continued to not recognize the first players’ union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_NBA_All-Star_Game). Say you’re doing it to ensure that you don’t send a bad precedent for the players to come after you. What you should not do is make yourselves out to be hero’s of the common man, while millions of us common men and women are struggling to get by while you guys are sitting on your progressively getting fatter asses refusing to play basketball. On second thought, fuck it, let’s #OccupyNBA bitches. Read the rest at http://daodesam.blogspot.com/ 

The Raiders shocked the football world today by trading their first round pick in the 2012 NFL Draft and a first or second rounder in the 2013 draft for hold-out/ semi-retired quarterback Carson Palmer. This move is one done out of desperation and they paid well over value, but there is a chance the acquisition of a once upon a time elite quarterback could inspire the Raiders to unthought heights this season.

 That’s the theory anyway. If Palmer can rekindle his 2005-2007 form, it might just work out. During that span, the USC alum averaged almost 30 touchdown passes, completed near 65% of his passes and averaged over 7 yards an attempt. That Palmer with the weapons around him the Raiders have is a scary proposition. Darrius Heyward-Bey is looking more like a football player and is still the freak athlete he always was. Jacoby Ford simply makes big plays every time he’s on the field and healthy. Denarius Moore has looked like a legit NFL receiver as a rookie when he has had to make spot starts due to injuries and Chaz Shilens is healthy for the first time ever in his NFL career and has contributed explosive plays as well. Add to that that defenses still have to stop Darren McFadden and the Raiders’ second ranked run game first and foremost and it’s not unrealistic to think that “Good Palmer” would definitely take the Raiders’ offense to another level.

The Raiders sit now 4-2 with a defense that has improved throughout the season. The trade became necessary due to starting quarterback Jason Campbell’s broken collarbone suffered in Sunday’s win over the Browns. The surface appearance of this trade is that an already interesting team should be more dynamic now as Palmer should be an upgrade over Campbell. Despite the fact the Jason’s inability to score in the red zone and his untimely turnovers have held back the Raiders’ offense, there are many obstacles to this ideal scenario playing out.

 The first is that Carson Palmer hasn’t played football since the Bengals’ January 2nd season finale of last year. With the lockout eliminating most of the off-season, continuity has proven to be a major factor thus far in the season. Carson will be learning a new offense, throwing to new receivers, living in a new town, and learning to do it all on the fly. That is not an easy thing to do. The second problem is that Carson Palmer hasn’t been that good in recent years. He missed most of 2008 due to injury, but the following years his completion percentage, average yards per completion and touchdowns all were down from his peak levels and his interception rate was slightly higher. Many NFL observers have also observed that his arm has lacked the same power and zip on his throws since returning from major knee injury.

 But, there’s still a chance. Raiders head coach Hugh Jackson worked on the Bengals staff during those Palmer salad years, and they share an agent, so there’s a possibility the offense won’t be as foreign as previously thougth and there could have even been something that rhymes with “hampering” involved. He could already know the playbook. Also, he has been reportedly been working out this whole time while pressuring Bengals’ President Mike Brown to trade him. If he comes in somewhat familiar with the offense, and if he is in great shape and the time off has finally allowed him to strengthen and heal his body, then maybe this trade might end up being worth the draft picks they gave up.

Draft picks are worth their weight in gold in today’s NFL. This is even truer under the new post-lockout rules where draftees’ salaries are capped according to draft position. Drafting well allows you to build a young core of talent that is locked up for several years making reasonable compensation. The Raiders’ willingness to part with picks reminds me of the Redskins’ seeming disdain for the draft under previous administrations. The Raiders are a young and up and coming team and their progress in future years will be retarded due to the loss of these super valuable picks. Unless they make the playoffs and a run at the Super Bowl, this trade will be remembered as a great train robbery for Cincinnati.  

But does anyone really think the Raiders can win the Super Bowl this year? I think this trade was done for the memory of Al Davis. I talked in my NFL picks spot last week about how a team can bond over a tragedy and they can ride the emotional cascade all the way to the top. The team and franchise loved Al Davis as much as he loved them. The Raiders have a winning record but now without a starting quarterback they had to make a move. They see an opportunity to do something special this year and want to harness this energy while it’s there to try to win it all baby, one last time for the old boss. So, to save their season, they pushed all their chips into the middle of the table and grossly overpaid for a quarterback who could be washed up, or could resurrect his career with this unified, spunky bunch and become a god to Raider Nation. For Al, and for my love of football, I kinda hope it works out for them. RIP Al Davis.

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One of the things I love about football is the importance of team chemistry. In no other mainstream sport is the team concept so vital to winning. Baseball is actually more like a series of one on one matchups, pitcher vs. batter, over and over again, masquerading as a team sport. Basketball requires five men or women working together on the court, but the NBA level is so dominated by star power and super teams now that cohesion has taken a back seat. Hockey fans will argue their side, I don’t know enough about the sport to judge, but the only close thing in this regard to football is the other football, soccer. In soccer, a team could win 1-0 and it’s possible that the man who scored the winning goal could have had the least influence over the result of any other man on his team. In both sports, if the component parts don’t work well together, no individual talent can carry the team on his back all alone. A running back needs nasty fat guys to block for him, a striker needs service in the box, and linebackers need to help stop the pass and run because the defensive line and the secondary can’t do either on their own.

There’s a word for this phenomenon that happens to be one of my all-time favorite words; gestalt. Gestalt is a German word meaning the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In football, eleven players must each perform their given role for a play to be executed. Once a group of players play a lot together they learn each other’s strengths and weaknesses, develop an unspoken level of trust and begin to become something bigger than themselves. Nothing can replace time spent together on or off the field and the contagious enthusiasm it breeds. The Chiefs have a set of new Corn Hole (or Bags) tables in their locker room to at least partially to thank for their recent turnaround (http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/10/3199471/chiefs-use-locker-room-game-to.html).

The Eagles and the Redskins game this Sunday shows two teams on opposite ends of the G (gestalt) index. The Eagles are the self-proclaimed (Vince Young does speak for the whole team, right?) super team. They added a slew of high priced free agents to a team many thought were already the most talented in the league last year. They have a quarterback who has the most ridiculously unfair skill set in NFL history and a slew of speedy weapons for him to distribute the ball to. They added an elite corner and another very good one in the off-season to an already decent defense. Meanwhile, the Redskins rely on journeymen, castoffs and recent draft picks in several key positions and have only three borderline all-pro players in Landry, Fletcher and Orakpo, and that might be being kind. And yet, the Redskins come out of their bye leading the NFC East with a 3-1 record, while the Eagles are 1-4.

You can say the Eagles have played a much harder schedule so far, but the Eagles have definitely under achieved while the Redskins have outperformed their expectations so far. Some still think the Eagles will right the ship (Vegas is not among them as the odds for the Eagles to win the Super Bowl have soared to 100:1 when they were among the preseason favorites) but this Eagles team looks all too familiar to me. For a solid decade Dan Snyder threw money at the biggest free agents available to patch holes in the team. The big signings always disappointed and the Redskins never seemed to live up to their talent level. The simple fact is that no matter how gifted a player is they will not thrive in an unfamiliar system, with unfamiliar teammates, when thrust into an unfamiliar role.

Nnamdi Asomugha is the poster child for the Eagles’ problems thus far. Regarded for years as an elite corner, he has struggled immensely this year. During those years in which Asomugha built his reputation, he was mostly left on an island with an opposing receiver in bump and run man coverage, and this is what he excelled at. The Eagles have asked him to play a lot more zone and have lined him up frequently in a safety/ corner hybrid role. They are asking him to do things he is not comfortable with and largely taken away what he is best at. Tackling used to be considered one of his strengths and he was known as one of the most physical corners in the league, but now he is missing many more tackles, perhaps because he is finding himself in unfamiliar places on the field and does not know where to expect his teammates to be.

With gestalt in mind, let’s go to the games! As always, my lines are taken from the ESPN Pig Skin Pick ‘Em Game (my entry is now in the 97th percentile http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin-pickem/en/entry?entryID=310755 ), and my pick is in BOLD.

Last Week: 10-3

Season: 45-31-1

Sunday 1:00 PM EST

Eagles @ Redskins -0.5

This has been the most boring Redskins team in years and I mean that in a good way. There has been no one complaining about their role OR cross dressing for press conferences. There are no huge individual egos, but the players still believe in the team and have made predictions the experts laughed at. They had a good deal of turnover in the off season but the rookies and free agents they added are familiar with the system or at least were chosen to fill a particular role that played to their strengths. Ryan Kerrigan, Jabar Gaffney, and Barry Cofield are all good examples of this. And reports came out last week that many players were still hanging out at Redskins Park over the bye week getting in extra work spurning their sole in-season vacation. The Eagles have much better players but at this point, the Redskins are a much better team.

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Cardinals @ Redskins -4

The Cardinals needed a 98 yard punt return from 2011 Sam’s Simmons/Freeman-esque Man Crush, Patrick Peterson, to beat the hapless (last year anyway) Panthers in Week 1. The Redskins played a balanced, efficient game on offense and defense and beat the Giants, who have had the Skins number in recent history. The part of the Redskins game that struck me most? The fact that we scored four touchdowns and no field goals. There was one missed attempt by Gano, but for the most part, the Redskins took advantage of their opportunities and turned three long drives into seven points each instead of three. Redskin fans know all too well that scoring touchdowns inside the red zone has long been a constant issue for this team. I like what I see from them so far and I think I’ll just keep picking them until they give me a reason not to. Just don’t throw at Peterson and punt the ball out of bounds. Dude is a beast. I<3PP.

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Giants @ Redskins +3

Yes, I’m a homer. I’m such a big ‘skins homer, people call me Homer Skins-son. But there’s a lot about the Giants not too like: Lots of devastating injuries on the defensive side of the ball, turnover on the offensive line, and just Eli Manning in general. I expect the Giants to try to pound the ball to take the pressure off their O-line and defense, so the key to the Redskins success is stopping the run, first and foremost. I like their chances do just that despite Landry being unavaible. And I thought this was the year Reed Doughty wouldn't start a game; a pipe dream from the beginning.

Redskins survived preseason healthy for the most part, and seem focused and sharp in the preseason. Although this counts for nothing once 4:15 on Sunday rolls around, I think this is a better team top to bottom than we have seen in some time. They might lack some of the raw talent previous years' teams had, but they seem like a more cohesive and focused unit. This is encouraging as much of the past decade has been spent trying to adapt around big talent that usually came with big egos and personalities.  This is a team game after all and I think less importance on the past has been placed on this. However, this year I am excited about the direction this team is headed, and the G-Men seem to be a mess. To me, with my burgundy and gold colored vision, taking them as the home underdog is a no-brainer. and if I’m wrong, I’ll be in a bad mood all next week, SO DON’T FUCK WITH ME!

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This is an odd season to be a fan of the Washington Redskins. No, it’s not because of the lockout that dragged on late into summer had fans around the country for months putting their fingers in their ears and singing, "La la la," every time someone suggested that there might not be a season this year. And it’s not because the Redskins brought in a new big name coach or a slew of high profile players to change the proud franchise’s dismal fortunes. In fact, this season is so different for the opposite reason. Read the rest at www.daodesam.blogspot.com

Hey guys! I have been seeing our rookie back Roy Helu on a lot of sleepers lists of fantasy guys I generally respect. What are his strengths as a player? Is he an ideal ZBS one-cut back? How has he looked so far in camp and where is he currently on the depth chart? If he has game I would prefer a younger back with more potential over Torrain or Hightower. Thanks! Go Skins!

 

Lets start here. Javale McGee is a better dunker than Blake Griffin. Anyone who watched the contest tonight knows this is a fact. McGee has the ability to do things that Blake simply can't. However, it was obviously in the NBA's best interests for Blake to win. They need to prop up their new poster boy. He's playing on his home stage. He's reviving a long time laughable, even by our standards, franchise. He rules all the internets. Blake had to win. And that was that.

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I saw a post about Yi Jianlian spending five weeks this summer working with respected coach, analyst and trainer David Thorpe at the Pro Training Center on truth about it. He had some interesting things to say about Yi's time there. Heres the link to the full article http://www.truthaboutit.net/2010/08/discussing-the-fortunes-of-yi-jianlian-with-david-thorpe.html#more-9093

On the impression Yi made on the court there...

"In our gym he blew us away," the coach said. "We were told by his agent, Fegan, that we would be shocked by how athletic he was and we were. All my players in the gym were shocked. All the coaches were shocked. And I think he shocked himself."

"He was dunking everything, and beating guards down the floor, and stripping guards, and making plays full-court in transition with the ball in his hands. His strength coach, who is with him full-time, said he’s never seen him do that kind of stuff before."

On his attitude while there

. "He absolutely killed it. Never missed a workout, never missed a drill. He just gave himself to us in a way that a lot of players in his position wouldn’t necessarily do."

On being accepted by the other NBA players participating

"All of a sudden, his personality came out, and he became a fun guy to be around. He brought spirit to practice. He was just a different guy,"

On his versatility and playing with John Wall

"I think there are threes he can guard, but I don’t think it’s a smart thing to play him at the three," said Thorpe when I asked him about  Jianlian’s positional versatility between the three, four and five spots. "I think he’s a face up four that can bang it down low a little bit. He’s very skilled with either hand." Thorpe said that around a third, half on some days, of the shots Yi practiced in Florida were left-handed shots.

"I think he should play a game like Rashard Lewis," said Thorpe, "Shoot the three, play a shot fake and attack game and spread the floor. He should be really, really effective in transition with John Wall because Yi is unbelievably fast."

"With John Wall, I would think they’ll really go up-tempo and spread the floor," speculated Thorpe on the game plan of Flip Saunders. "That’s exactly what Lian needs because he’s so fast, he’s so agile and he’s so skilled. You can throw it to him running full speed at the top of the key and he can put the ball down once and make a move and score."

 

Thorpe also says later that with Blatche still recovering the idea of a McGee and Yi frontline, while having potential as a pretty funny sounding nickname, Yi and Mr. McGee?, isnt ideal since neither of them has ever, well, you know, rebounded or played post defense consistently, or at all. Still this has to be encouraging and I wouldnt be surprised if Yi isnt a one year rental, but a long term piece of our return to relevance.

I first saw the potential John Wall nickname The WZA on a poll from this blog. As a lifelong Bullets/ Zards and Wu Tang fan this moniker made perfect sense to me. It is an eventualality that we select Wall and I think its just as much of a given that he will be an NBA superstar. Ok, I'm aware that he's 19 and has never stepped on an NBA court to this date, however, he's been regarded for awhile as one of those can't miss prospects. He's being regarded as a sure thing which is more rare than you might think.

 

In recent drafts there have only been a few sure thing guys. In the past twenty years the only other guys I think are also in this class are Shaq, Webber, Iverson, Duncan, and Lebron. Every other guy either had some question marks about how their game would translate to the pro level, or there was legitimate debate over if another guy in the class should be taken first. Anyway, I'm embracing Wall and his WZA alias for the following reasons:

1. After the past season, the Wizards will have to take on a new identity starting this year as to how they run the team, the style of basketball they play, the faces of the team, everything has to be rebuilt from the ground up.

2. John Wall will have to be the driving creative force on the court for this revitalization and the poster child off it.

3. Although only a rookie, as the point guard, he will have to be a unifying source a team with some strong personalities, namely Gil (if he's stil here) and Dray. As the distributor of the ball, it will be his job to get the best out of these guys and make them want to play their best for him.

 

This is all oddly reminiscent of how the RZA choreographed The Wu Tang Clan's meteoric rise from the projects of Staten Island to hip hop immortality. The RZA began with meager resources but he was also surrounded by untapped talent. He was able to coax the best out of each member and soon had 8 completely different MCs functioning as if one. Now the balance strained at times and it wasn't always harmonious, but fifteen years later they are still putting out albums as a group and as individuals(Sans the great ODB of course, RIP Dirty).

 

So there it is. John Wall is The WZA. I will do my part and use it when referring to him on every website I can until they are calling him that on ESPN as he leads us to an unlikely playoff run next spring. I hope you will do the same. But I want to take this one step forward. I'm about to proclaim the greatest possible name change for the Wizards that can sadly never happen. No, it's not Bullets, although that would be my first choice as well. Gil's incident last year nixed any chance of the return to the standard. I'm proposing The Washington Wu-Tang....... Let it sink in for a moment...... Ok, now I'll tell you my reasons:

1. It obviously helps my whole John Wall as the RZA metaphor.

2. The arena is in Chinatown and the name Wu-Tang refers to a mountain in China (I'm currently living in China and I went to the mountain over the last holiday to pay my respects. I stayed for a week at a kung fu school, unreal place)I think this would give the team more of a tie to where they play, then again, anything would considering the Wizards were born in the soulless 90s where people thought it was cool to give a team a name that had no connection whatsoever to the city it played in.

3. The hip hop culture reference would be attractive to free agents, Washington would be a cool place to play, plus jersey and merchandise sales would go through the roof. People with no rooting interest in the team would be rocking our jerseys. When has that ever been the case for a Washington team?( aside Ovie perhaps)

4. A name referencing a famous place there would lead to a huge following in China, which would make Mr. Leonsis a lot of money and make us a stronger franchise all around.

5. There would be no trade mark problems in adopting the name since The Clan stole it themselves from an old kung fu flick. Plus, the RZA always talks about making Wu Tang a world-wide brand so offer him a minority stake for a million and then they're behind it too. Method Man sitting courtside? Come on.

6. Keeps the alliteration in tact, which is nice.

7. The logo kinda looks like the Wu Logo anyway, so we're talking minimal adjustments. You can keep the same shape, but replace Merlin with something a lot better. Maybe just a big W?

8. The whole ass kicking spiritual warrior image that kung fu conjures up. What would be better for a team to aspire to? It makes "Umbuntu" or whatever the C's where saying two years ago sound trite.

So that's my idea. Like I said, I'm aware this could never happen, but come on guys it's better than Wizards right? Would it not fit for a team changing identities and philosophy to adopt a completely new name too? Oh well, a man can dream.........

 

For all of you that want to draft Bradford at 4 or Tebow at all I will pose one question to you. How many top level or even starting NFL QBs came from national championship contending teams? Not very many. Think about it. Farve, Warner, Roethlisberger, Romo, Flacco, Gerrard, Josh Johnson and Delhomme all came from small schools who couldn't have won anything even with an undefeated record. Brees, both Mannings, Rivers, Brady, Rodgers, Cutler, Orton, Schuab, McNabb, Alex Smih, Matt Ryan, Hasselbeck, and even Stafford came from teams in power conferences that didn't have enough talent to put around the best college qbs at the time to compete with the top teams in their own league.Cassel was on USC but never saw the field.

 So what quarterbacks did play for elite college teams? By my calculations this list includes our own Mr. Campbell, Jamarcus Russell, Brady Quinn, Vince Young, Mark Sanchez and Carson Palmer. Campbell, Russell and Quinn have all been disapointments since being taken in the first round. Vince Young looked to be going in the same direction until turning it around a bit with his role in the Titans second half run. Sanchez played great in the playoffs but was one of the worst QBs in the league statistically as a rookie during the regular season as the Jets rode a dominant defense and run game, plus a weak end of season schedule (including the Colts backups in a game they needed) to the playoffs. Palmer may be the one exception to my rule as he was an elite QB before his injury though he has never looked the same since. Vick could be put in this category as well, but thats a whole other discussion.

My point is that I believe that the college years are vital to the development of young QBs. The top tier schools still get the best QB prospects, but if your team is more talented than the competition's at every single position, a young quarterback will never learn how to put the team on his back and carry them when the need arises. QBs have to know how to respond to a loss. There are no easy wins in the NFL. There are no UL-Lafayettes or Florida Centrals on the schedule. Young QBs have to learn to learn from their mistakes when things go wrong and then shake them off. When you blow out your opponents every week but then lose it at the end of the only game that really matters at the end of the season you can't learn this in the same way. The QBs from smaller or less competitive schools had to battle every Saturday of the season, which I argue, prepared them better for Sundays.

I'll end my rant with this. In the NFL things don't always go your team's way. The starting quarterback is looked to as the leader, the best player on the team or at least the highest paid player, the guy who makes plays and puts the team on his back when need be. If have five other future first round picks on your team, how can you ever learn this? How can you ever believe that you are truly the leader of such a team, especailly with the huge personalities of the big time college coaches to consider as well. I think we can see a common thread here with Campbell, Russell, Vince Young, Sanchez and Brady Quinn. Off the chart physical attributes, no doubt the best talent in the country coming out, seems to have it all, fine if they have a great team around them, but will any one of them ever be considered a truly elite QB?

This is why I'd prefer Lefevour or maybe Jevean Snead around the 3rd (assuming we get a pick through trading) or 4th over reaching for Bradford or Tebow. But what do I know, I live in China right now, which puts my Intelligence in Relationship to Proximity of Landover Quotient (the undoubtable logic of the IRPLQ) far in the negative. Its been 6 long months typing this one word a day but I can proudly hit publish now. What do you guys think about drafting QBs on dominant college teams? I think its looks like a big no-no when looking around the NFL today.