Accurate and beautifully worded. Something snapped for me when the lockout was reinstated, and for the first time in memory I didn’t tune in the draft’s Saturday airing. Watching these fools play chicken is wearing thin.

Under the old CBA, the NFL is one of the few businesses that continued to profit wildly despite the recession. Rather than continuing to appeal until reaching the inevitable negative outcome, the owners could have stopped this insanity, reinstated last year’s rules, and resumed the season. Then both parties could have negotiated a fair CBA. Instead they’re raging like Melville’s Captain Ahab at Moby Dick: “To the last, I will grapple with thee …” In the end, they won’t just lose the extra billion they were demanding but their antitrust exemptions as well. What a stupid price to pay for unchecked greed.

Toone is fast, appears able to create separation, and might be useful in the return game, as well, proving that being the last step before free agent is less of a burden than a you’d think.

Good luck to this year’s nominee, who has the double burden of not only being “Mr Irrelevant”, but also very much in the running for “Mr. Unpronounceable”.