With there being a better chance of the Rapture occurring than Donovan McNabb suiting up for the Redskins in 2011, it looks like Rex Grossman or John Beck will be under center
Buffalo Bills
Returning at quarterback for Buffalo is Ryan Fitzpatrick, who didn't lead the Bills to many wins, but had a knack for posting strong fantasy football numbers and engineering a litany of backdoor covers. And after all, isn't fantasy football and gambling all that matter when it comes to football? The problem with the Bills is that they will be bad in 2011, but not nearly bad enough to land the No. 1 pick and draft Andrew Luck. They probably won't even be bad enough to draft Matt Barkley, which will put them in the same position next year: Lacking a franchise quarterback. Therefore, I fully support them going 0-16 (not that it would look suspicious or anything), and drafting Andrew Luck, who would turn the franchise around. By the way, did you know that Fitzpatrick attended Harvard? Because I haven't heard the announcers mention this at all during Bills highlights.
Pittsburgh Pirates
There's bad, there's really bad, there's Isiah Thomas as a general manager bad and then there's the Pittsburgh Pirates. Somehow, the Pirates haven't had a winning season since I was two-years-old, and have finished at least 30 games back six times. Good God. Pittsburgh's calling card the past decade has been trading their good players for prospects, and then watching as those prospects fail miserably at the major league level. I hope Pittsburgh can get something going in the next couple of years, but they have absolutely no one except Andrew McCutchen. It's just never a good sign when the one thing that sticks out to me when someone says, "Pittsburgh Pirates" is an image of Randall Simon taking a bat to the back of the head of an Italian sausage mascot in a 2003 game against Milwaukee. At least Pittsburgh has the Steelers and Penguins.
Minnesota Timberwolves
Let this sink in for a little bit: At one point this season, Minnesota had Darko Milicic, Sebastian Telfair and Eddy Curry on its roster. Curry was with them for only a week before his contract was bought out, but I still find this amazing. I don't want to rip too much on David Kahn, but it's clear he has no idea how to construct a basketball team. Look at how the current roster is set up: Absolutely nothing fits together. The point when Minnesota fans looked at each other and said, "Holy Lord, we're screwed with this guy in charge," was when Kahn picked two point guards back to back in the 2009 Draft (Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn). My favorite comment from this situation came from Donnie Walsh: "I haven't spoken to Minnesota, but I will," Walsh said. "I don't know what's going on there. He took a lot of point guards, and I want to ask him, 'Why did you do that?' "
Charlotte Bobcats
Charlotte finished 44-38 last season and made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. Since then, they let Raymond Felton walk as a free agent, traded Tyson Chandler and shipped Gerald Wallace to Portland, becoming the first team in league history to dismantle a playoff team in 10 months. There is not one player on the Bobcats I would pay to see play, and good things usually don't happen when you have Stephen Jackson leading your team. Even the interesting subplot of former top pick Kwame Brown reuniting with Michael Jordan is now finished, as Brown's one-year contract with the team expired this past season.
