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I'm not a huge Mallet fan, but you can't hold the Sugar Bowl against him. That's an entirely different game if his receivers make catches they're supposed to make. The first pass of the game should have been a TD and there were a few others that were easy catches that got dropped. I don't remember the guy's name, but #5 for Arkansas was the biggest culprit on the drops. He was just bad that night. That was Joe Adams, who had at least 4 big drops, including two sure touchdowns in the first half. If Mallett and Locker are 3rd round QBs, I'm not sure there are any 1st round QBs in this draft.

Three 1000 yard WRs? You're off by three. Also, holding a second quarter concussion (which occurred on a pass he completed) against Mallett as an example of him not performing against tough competition is downright silly. How dare he get his head slammed into the turf while completing a pass...? Also, that's interestingly selective in terms of examples. Alabama and maybe the last drive of the Ohio State game are the only performances on that list that really deserve citation. He had 7 or 8 balls dropped, including 2 sure touchdowns, in the Sugar Bowl. He made two poor passes against Alabama. Everything else is within standard deviation. No credit for his strong performances against aTm, South Carolina, or Mississippi State, all of which finished in the top 25? Man, sorry about saying anything remotely negative about your boy Mallett. I get it. You are a homer. You can talk bad about IU basketball if you want. Call Calbert Cheaney a douche if it makes you feel better. As for the 1000 yard WR thing, I was probably looking at their career stats. But the point remains, he had the best arsenal to throw to in the entire SEC. And it's not selective examples. The 4 games I named were teams that finished in the top 10. The 3 you named were 19th, 22nd, and 15th respectively. Obviously, not as good as the 4 I named. And I wasn't really counting the Auburn game against him underperforming. I was just pointing out that he either didn't play well or didn't play long against the 4 best teams he faced all year. That fact can't be disputed no matter how much you love him. I mean, if you want to turn it into a homer deal because you're just making stuff up, then it's whatever. There was no reason to mention Auburn at all. He missed nearly 3 quarters of that game. How is that relevant at all to evaluating him? That's just dumb. Also, saying he didn't play well against LSU is pushing things a bit. 320 and 3 TDs against an elite defense is kind of a decent. Yeah, you'd like to not see the picks there, but he made the plays when they had to be made. And are you seriously making a big deal about 56% completion with a sample size of 23 attempts? Come on. 99% of the QBs in America would have been happy with Mallett's line in that game--just ask Taneyhill, or, hell, Cam Newton. Mallett had the best day passing of any QB to play LSU last year, besides that bizarre game 1. So of the four games you mentioned, only 2 are even legit at all (Bama and OSU, and OSU was more about the skip balls under pressure and that last pick than it was about his completion %, because if half his drops got caught he would have been at 60%). Mallett is by no means a perfect prospect. His footwork under pressure needs work, he doesn't pass with as much touch as he should, and he trusts his arm too much. He's flawed enough where you shouldn't need to make stuff up to tear him down.

Three 1000 yard WRs? You're off by three. Also, holding a second quarter concussion (which occurred on a pass he completed) against Mallett as an example of him not performing against tough competition is downright silly. How dare he get his head slammed into the turf while completing a pass...? Also, that's interestingly selective in terms of examples. Alabama and maybe the last drive of the Ohio State game are the only performances on that list that really deserve citation. He had 7 or 8 balls dropped, including 2 sure touchdowns, in the Sugar Bowl. He made two poor passes against Alabama. Everything else is within standard deviation. No credit for his strong performances against aTm, South Carolina, or Mississippi State, all of which finished in the top 25?

It's weird how polar some of the player reviews were coming out of the Senior Bowl. Locker didn't look very impressive to me, inasmuch as he didn't look like any of his well documented issues have improved at all. He's a fierce competitor, a great thrower on the run, and a threat with his feet, but he's still inaccurate.

Matthew "Medical" Stafford

How can the Cavs be THIS bad?

Really, Les? Really?

Truly shocking.

I'd be stunned if they were able to trade him. With the declaration that he's gone either way, a team isn't going to give up a pick to ensure the Titans part with him. The only positive to trading for him is the security to know you've got him while you work out contract details. I don't think that will be enough, though, for a QB who may not even be a starter. I fully expect he'll be cut unless a team really thinks it can fix him. With as many teams as there are currently looking for a quarterback, I can definitely see one offering a trade to keep other teams out of the bidding. I don't know how much they'd get, but a trade is very doable, IMO.

Quick! Find a negro! This is why I hate the Rooney Rule.

Different ownership, though.

Well, when you go 1-7 at home, you tend to run into attendance problems. I don't think haphazardly spending money in January is going to put butts in seats in September. Not for a coach, anyway. There's still a lot that needs to be fixed before that happens.

They're pretty much playing the "let's see what the other options are before we get rid of our current" game.

I think Harbaugh is a good coach, but...that sounds nuts for a guy moving to the NFL. As a Dolphins fan, I don't even know what to expect. What's the philosophy? What will be the staff? I can tell you right now, I don't want anybody but maybe Cowher if it's going to cost them Nolan.

And that's why the most important characteristic of a great corner is a short memory.

Hey, Joe, where you going with that nothing in your hand?

At this point I think Chekwa would have a better chance catching passes from Mallett with the broken wrist than Joe Adams.

Yeah, that looked bad. It was a fantastic play on his part, too.

That's as close as you'll ever see to a player not being down It reminded me of that one play by Barry Sanders against the Bears back in the day.

What the hell is going on in this game? Mallett's first two passes are dropped (the first one could easily have been 6), OSU scores on a fumble recovery, and then DJ WIlliams gets tackled but never goes down and coasts into the end zone to return the favor. And we're 3 minutes in. Wow, they called that back by saying his wrist was down. Weird.

Is Maryland that much better of a gig than UConn? Considering UConn's trajectory, I wouldn't think so.

Big 12 is 2-4, Big 10 is now 2-6. Of course, the SEC was 0-3 until today...

Fisher isn't any more done than he was a year ago. A bigger problem is that Artest has been hot garbage all season long. Besides Game Seven of the Finals, he's been garbage since he's been there. Not a good fit for the triangle. Throw Bynum and Artest at the Nuggets for Melo, and see what you get. Got to be better than whatever the Nets/Knicks can give. Artest was meh last year, but at least he was plus defensively to offset his medicore offensive game. This year, he doesn't even have that: he's been pretty abusable on the defensive end and a black hole on offense. Dropping off Bynum doesn't help the problem of Gasol wearing down playing all the minutes at C, and why would the Nuggets want Artest? Rotate Odom to center, and play more uptempo/smaller when Gasol is out. Start Barnes if you have to, and leave Odom on the bench to play center when Gasol is out of the game and go smaller. Artest gives the Nuggets a defender when their team simply doesn't have one anywhere. Along with Bynum, that should be enough to get the Nuggets to bite or at the very least, consider it with who the other contenders are. Odom is not a center. It's questionable whether he's a power forward. That would be a disaster. Also, how would rotating Odom to center help when he'd be the starting power forward? I'd do that deal, but I'm not convinced it would help them win this year...and there's no way Denver would do it.

Fisher isn't any more done than he was a year ago. A bigger problem is that Artest has been hot garbage all season long. Besides Game Seven of the Finals, he's been garbage since he's been there. Not a good fit for the triangle. Throw Bynum and Artest at the Nuggets for Melo, and see what you get. Got to be better than whatever the Nets/Knicks can give. Artest was meh last year, but at least he was plus defensively to offset his medicore offensive game. This year, he doesn't even have that: he's been pretty abusable on the defensive end and a black hole on offense. Dropping off Bynum doesn't help the problem of Gasol wearing down playing all the minutes at C, and why would the Nuggets want Artest?

Fisher isn't any more done than he was a year ago. A bigger problem is that Artest has been hot garbage all season long.