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PLEASE don't vote until Irish makes his first argument. Thank you.

Gutsy move, let's see if it works.

Peyton's lovers are gonna hang you, but I like your pick.

Iron Curtain throwing a nasty curveball....

I would've liked this one. While Right Tackle is the most important position on the line, and the O line is the most important positions in football - I wouldv'e taken a Brian Urlacher.

Nice love for right tackles, though.

Very bold, but if this guy picks Manning like I suspect he will, remember that the Colts just replaced their left tackle with a rookie and look no worse off.

Replacing Manning with a rookie, OTOH, would be a disaster.

I will wait for both sides to finish But if you do not pick a QB you do not get the vote

That was a unusual pick, but I like it. I expected to see Palmer, Manning, Brady, Tomlinson, etc. Nice pick Cooz.

Marc Bulger

A fellow Simpson, lol.

I would take one of the following:

Carson Palmer
Champ Bailey
Steven Jackson
Jammal Brown

You must have read my mind, Cooz. I would have taken him as well. I have to see IrishR#1's pick before I vote.

"Dude stupid.So are you saying if we put vernand morency on behind jamal brown he is a star player?"

No, I'd say we put him in Green Bay and let him be a mediocre back, like the rest of the Packers backfield members of the last several years.

"...Replacing Manning with a rookie, OTOH, would be a disaster."

True, perhaps, but that's a very inaccurate comparison. This is a new (expansion) team. What you're saying suggests that every other player of the World Champions would still be in place, and 6-10 would be a disaster. That's the best record an expansion team has ever had.

Vote however you want, but don't look at this through Peyton's glasses. That's a HELLUVAn expensive investment to put behind a patch-work offensive line and no other marquee players. So the better question, Rodclo, would be how screwed is my team if Manning is on it, and some bum-nothing tackle gives up a career-ending sack?

I'd get in to how this is obviously going to go against me because I didn't choose arguably the best player in the game (and one of the most popular), but keep in mind, the question is not who the best player is, it's who I would start a team with. START a team, not add to a current roster. I have faith in my scouts to find very simply what I want in a QB. Seems to be clearly obvious a sixth-round QB can be even more successful than the first pick overall.

I like the pick Cooz...

You can always take an RB, QB, etc later in the Expansion draft (and that STAR QB or RB in the real draft with that first round pick, which is always number one with an expansion team besides when the Jags and the Panthers came into the league at the same time).

Nice pick Steelercooz. No vote to anyone yet.

I would go with Palmer

That last word in my second argument was supposed to be blocker. My bad...

"<a QB> is always number one with an expansion team besides when the Jags and the Panthers came into the league at the same time."

Excellent point...Hey, I happened to catch the Jags and the Panthers in their conferences championship games a few years later...hmmm...Why didn't they need a QB?

very good arguments on both sides

i'd start with a qb and then invest a lot in getting a line.

You're right about the backs though. How often have we seen a team down to it's fourth-string RB, and they still run for 100 yards? Plenty of times. Good lines make every back look better.

Peyton is getting too old, that is why I said Carson Palmer over him...

Cooz, that isn't what I meant. I meant that only once has an expansion team NOT had the NUMBER ONE pick and that was when the Jags and Panthers came into the league...