Thanks to my brother Sam for sending the above photo. Now, before I get to Bills' personnel issues...

You don't care about performance-enhancing drugs.

You might care about the records broken on account of them, but you don't give a crap who is using them with the exception of the morbid curiousity that comes with knowing who is doing what.

Anyone who doubts this needs to take a step back and gaze at the hallowed New England Patriots. The news today is that special teams ace Larry Izzo is going to testify in the perjury case against Barry Bonds. Rodney Harrison was suspended for steroid use. No one is being asked to give their titles back.


I keep doing neck presses, neck squats and neck curls, but I just can't get that look.

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In getting prepared for my NFL draft podcasts and other assorted draft shenanigans, I've decided that the two guys I'm going to fawn over this year are on defense:

Penn State defensive end (now with linebacking capabilities!) Aaron Maybin:

It appears his knees are made of a combination of cement and steel.

and USC linebacker Ray Maualuga

I was going to downgrade him for his simulated grind of Erin Andrews, but he has a sword.

At the outset of this year, I wanted the Bills to wind up with Maualuga, and I'm still down for the Trojan linebacker.

The Washington fan site "Hail Redskins" compiles every single mock draft they can imagine, and who the 'Skins selected. Can someone please do this for the Bills' draft? All Bills fans would explode with gratitude.

Side note: I also wouldn't hate if the Bills took Mississippi's Michael Oher, but that's because I read Michael Lewis' "Blind Side" about how left tackle is the most important position ever in the history of any sport, and that Oher may be better than Orlando Pace and Anthony Munoz's genetically-impossible mutant child one day. So... he sounds like a good idea.

They let him place point guard in high school basketball. "Let" being the key word.

Our own Joe Buscaglia has his mock draft out ahead of his trip the combine. He, too, has the Bills selecting a perimeter rusher, and I wouldn't hate the fella he chose, either.

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Marshawn Lynch is favorite on-field Bill since Chris Spielman, and Cornelius Bennett before that. All that said, his misconduct off the field has me 100 percent prepared to trade him if value is offered in return.

I know bad guys are good at sports, and that there are some on every team, but if you came offering a second- and a third-round pick, or a first, or a tight end who can play football with decent success rates in rushing and passing, I'd listen.

Heck, deal Lynch and Jason Peters together to the Bengals or the Raiders. They'd love these two. Then, sign Fred Taylor to go with Fred Jackson for the Fred offense. Idea doesn't sound right to you? Well, it looks right:

Why not? He's known as a character guy, and was drafted with the pick we dealt for Rob Johnson. Also all the folks who bought A-Train jerseys can do the whole tape trick. Make amends!

It's a goofy sort of day. I'm going to the dentist and then Napville: nick@wgr550.com