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The schedule is out. You have to hand it to the NFL -- they keep a steady stream of "news" throughout the offseason. Even the schedule, which might be the biggest non-news piece of news all offseason, still gets on the front page of every sports section in the country. My only really impression on the schedule -- it's strange to have so many 4 p.m. games in the first half of the season. Maybe that means the Browns get a bit more exposure nationwide since fewer games are played during that time slot. More likely, it's just the way things shook out. Either way, the 2006 season will require unusual flexibility when it comes to scheduling quality game-viewing, beer drinking, complaining, etc.

Hmm. The 9 of 11 defensive starters for the Steelers are under contract for the next two years. I think this is a pretty good sign they will be restocking the shelf on offense later this month. Really, the Steelers are in good shape. Right now the best hope for dimished production is on offense where, besides losing Randle-El, they're a bit short at wide receiver and running back. That answer for the Steelers in the upcoming draft, however, is probably to bulk up on the offensive line. While thinking of division rivals, anyone else have the feeling that whomever the Browns don't pick (but lots of people want) will immediately be selected by the Ravens? We both seem to be most interested in front 7 defenders.

What would be wrong with picking WInston Justice in the first round? It sounds like he is worthy of the #12 pick, and if he is good enough then great. So far, he's the one non-front-7 defender that seems like a good fit for the Browns.

Simon Fraser back for another year. No comment, other than the usual good for him. It's nice to see guys make careers for themselves. You need, what, three seasons to qualify for the NFL pension?

Have the Chiefs done anythng this offseason other than bilk the Jets out of a coach? Are they ever going to get a quarterback that could maybe, in a pinch, win a game for them?

I'm intrigued where Leinart and young go in the draft. They both deserve to go high, the top 3 picks if I was a GM. But that seems unlikely now. What I don't get is the grumbliing about how Leinart didn't run a 40 yard dash. I guess that's weird and a little stupid, but does that really hurt his draft standing? If you're a GM that likes him would you honestly consider not drafting him because he didn't run a 40? C'mon.

You have to like the way the Sunday night football broadcast schedule will NOT be set in stone for the last half of the season. It might be too late for me, but future generations may not have to suffer the brain damage I have of hearing Theisman, McGuire and Tirico blabber endlessly while a totally meaningless game is played out.

Read the the Texans gave the Bills a fifth rounder for Moulds. The pick is the first pick of that round, so it has some value, but this is really a negligable price to pay. And in effect the Texans acquired Moulds as if he was a freeagent. And while they will certainly give him a nice contract, I'd bet the Texans bought themselves a pretty good discount over what Moulds could have drawn on the open market.

I wish I could have gone downtown and spent the morning at the Mike & Mike broadcast. Sounded like fun. The story about Bob Golic's only NFL interception what pretty hilarious (and how on the return he sidestepped the quarterback, who was unconscious, but sort of twitching...), and the conversation with Mark Shapiro was impressive. Shapiro is the man. And really we in Cleveland are pretty lucky to have what are apparently three very competent GM's for the Browns, Indians and Cavs.

I am not at all a NASCAR fan, but this, and the entire backstory story about Dateline trying to provoke anti-Muslim reaction from NASCAR fans is a joke. Why NBC would do this is not clear to me since NASCAR fans is a large part of the tv-viewing public, but then again this sort of approach is familiar to investigative news programs. I'm surprised Carl Monday hasn't already tried this! Anyway, my favorite part is the AP story that says that decoy Muslims "walked around and no one bothered them." Hehe. While I wouldn't against these decoys getting some harrassment eventually, the longer this sort of sting-investigation thing goes on the more likely the negative reaction will be because these people identified as Dateline decoys rather than Muslims at a NASCAR event. And while Dateline tries to suggest that NASCAR fans are prejudiced, what is known so far is tha tDateline producers certainly are prejudiced... against NASCAR fans. What a world we live in.

Props to Dennis Kucinich -- I'm not a fan of his policies, but I have to hand it to his office for being quite responsive assisting my mom in dealing with a certain Cuyahoga County government bureacracy. And, to be frank, this little experience has opened my eyes to something I didn't know a Congressman's office did, which is directly assist citizens in this manner. Pretty cool. Do all Congressional offices do this? Are Congresional offices at all obligated to assist individuals dealing with various government offices? I'm guessing this is up to individual Congressmen, but really don't know.
Published Apr 07 2006, 01:54 PM by MikeB
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Fred Tuttle said:

So Moulds for a 5th rounder. What did we get for Andre Davis? Oh yeah, a 5th rounder.

That was some slick work by Savage. Davis is half the receiver that Moulds is (and thats being generous to Davis), and only had a year left on his contract, but we got pretty similar compensation as the Bills got for Moulds.
April 7, 2006 5:03 PM
 

Fred Tuttle said:

Oh, yeah, and whats with us playing the Steelers twice within an 18 day span? I hope Charlie watches enough of the Steelers video from last season, cause he's not going to have much time to learn more between the two meetings this yeaar.
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