The NFL Draft is like watching other kids open Christmas presents that suck. After all the mock drafts and blow-harding by the same experts year after year what you end up with as a fan is a big fat zero. Mock Drafts The most asinine of all endeavors. Where and when did it become not only important to guess what player will go where, but then grade yourself or others on how accurately they guessed? To what point? The teams themselves don't read mock drafts. The players selected with the first ten picks are so obvious you'd have to be under a rock not to guess them. I guess if you're anxiously waiting for the next issue of Coin Flip Quarterly a mock draft is right up your alley but for most fans it's an irritation we can live without. If you made up or read an entire seven round mock draft, get help. The First Round The stuff dreams are made of. But if you do a little research you'll find the gulf between the first ten picks and the next twenty-two is bigger than the Grand Canyon. Take QB's for instance, in twenty-years no QB taken from 11-32 has made the Pro-Bowl except as a spectator. Of the forty-plus QB's taken in the 1st round, 3 have won a Super Bowl and if your last name isn't Manning that number dwindles to one. Running backs taken in the 1st round #### out faster than a Yugo. Yet the 1st round mystique endures. Look at Andy Reid & the Eagles, he's backed the team out of the 1st round two years running because he knows what nobody will say out loud, if you don't have that #1-10 it isn't worth overpaying the 1st round bust. So do the math; Matt Ryan, (#3-Falcons), has a 7% chance of winning the Super Bowl in his entire career. Joe Flacco, (#18-Ravens), won't even make the Pro-Bowl. The Combine This is where the intense navel gazing pays off for the experts spewing out the raw sewage that gets lovingly crafted into countless mock drafts. Every year some combine darling vaults into the 1st round. This year's darling, Ohio State one-year-wonder DE, Vernon Gholston, charmed his way onto the Jets who wasted the 6th pick in the draft on him. Those wacky Jets, how they keep their fans from killing themselves never ceases to amaze me. You'll hear Gholston's name over and over for the next ten years whenever anybody is talking draft busts. I'll take a side order of Kyle Brady with that... Offensive and Defensive Linemen Did anyone get the same feeling I did they were watching the same film clips over and over? Behemoth crushes QB or RB, behemoth blocks for QB or RB. Is there a studio that just churns these mind numbing clips out all year long? Then you get the inane banter and dribble leading into the dullest thing ever saved on video, a clip of their combine workout. Never have little orange cones played as big a role in entertainment. Millions of people watching fat guys gallop around tiny cones. Excitement, Excitement, Excitement The draft has all the suspense of waiting for a bus on a rainy day. You're glad when it arrives but soon after you're crammed next to a guy that smells like a wet dog. The NFL draft provides the same experience when your team picks an unknown, undersized fill-in-the-blank player bracketed by two "Can't Miss" prospects who go onto Hall of Fame careers...couple this with mind numbing commercial breaks, thanks Tiger for inventing water with even more electrolytes in between winning golf tournaments in space, and you have two days of must not see sports TV. Holding Up the Jerseys With the number they were drafted. Please for the love of God we know you'll give them a uniform, it's a league rule, stop this awful practice. Grading the Draft The same knuckleheads that couldn't guess who got picked where are trotted out to #### on the teams who didn't listen to them to begin with. This is like asking a psychic to tell the future right after all the things they said would happen didn't. Simple fact is some of these guys will be very good players, some OK and not so surprisingly most are training camp cannon fodder. Next year I'm going fly fishing and I'm pretty sure sitting by a creek trying to outwit a fish can't be any less interesting than watching the NFL Draft.
The rats are abandoning the sinking ship faster than New England can bail. The New England Patriots cheated their way through their run of improbable Super Bowl victories. The Boston Herald reports the Patriots videotaped the Rams final walk through before Super Bowl XXXVI.
The narrow margin of their Super Bowl wins and this stunning revelation makes short work of the theory videotaping didn't give the Patriots an unfair advantage. New England's cheating is ongoing, systemic and made possible all their so called success.
According to Mike & Mike in the Morning, The St. Louis Rams walk through worked specifically on offensive plays in the red zone. In the 4th quarter in the red zone the Rams were stopped on three consecutive plays and scored on the 4th, a QB sneak, which was called during a timeout and was not covered in the walk through.
Fact: The 14-3 New England advantage at halftime was the the first time in the 2001 season St. Louis fell behind in a game by more than eight points, in fact the Rams were 14 point favorites in the game.
Bud Selig 2.0 It's high time Roger Goodell, gets off the raft he's
floating on down the Denial River. When asked about the Herald's report
during his oblivious NFL state of the game address on Friday, Goodell
managed a non-responsive "I'm not aware of that."
Furthermore Goodell went on to praise the Patriots unaware a former
Patriots video assistant has come forward alleging the scope of the
Patriots video cheating goes back almost a decade.
The Time Line according to the Boston Herald: ***The Patriots have their final walk through ***An unidentified Patriots employee from New England's video department, stays behind and films the Rams. ***The cameraman rides the media shuttle back to the hotel What is not known What happened with the tape after that point? Did the cameraman act alone or were there more cameramen on the grassy knoll? Who instructed him to film the Rams?
What We Know They Filmed NFL Security confiscated five tapes from Patriots-New York Jets game in September 2007, and one tape from a Patriots video assistant during New England's 38-14 victory over New York at Giants Stadium.
According to Goodell the tapes showed;
Coaches making signals
Indications of down and distances
Sticking Your Head in the Sand Won't Make it Go Away How Goodell drew the conclusion, "I think it probably had a limited effect -- if any -- on the outcome of any game," indicates a grotesque and fundamental lack of judgment, even somebody with a rudimentary knowledge of football could make instant use of signal, down, and distance.
The Rampant Speculation Pennsylvania Senator Arlen "Magic Bullet" Specter, R-Pa., no stranger to allegations of broad and far reaching conspiracies himself, is already breathing down Goodell's neck over destruction of previously seized tapes from this year's New England Patriots Spygate cheating scandal.
The New York Times quotes Sen. Specter from a letter sent to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, "I am very concerned about the underlying facts on the taping, the reasons for the judgment on the limited penalties and, most of all, on the inexplicable destruction of the tapes."
The Senator said the matter puts the league's antitrust exemption at risk, Specter said the the Senate Judiciary Committee will call Goodell to address the antitrust exemption as well as the destruction of the tapes.
All of which occurred prior to the Boston Herald bombshell on Friday.
Let's trot out Bill Belichick's standard answer to the inevitable avalanche of questions in this matter and save everybody the time wasted by asking him;
"It's a league matter," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said during his news conference. "I don't know anything about it." Feel free to use this I have a whole box full just like it out in the garage.
A Letter Goodell Wishes He Never Sent In a Jan. 31 gobbledygook letter sent to Specter, Goodell said the tapes and investigation notes were destroyed ensuring the Patriots "would not secure any possible competitive advantage as a result of the misconduct."
What Goodell apparently forgot to add was, "Like they did on so many prior occasions." How could tapes in the possession of the Commissioner result in the Patriots getting any advantage? They've already seen the tapes. Who's to say they didn't make copies? Meanwhile despite two letters from a US Senator sent in November and December Goodell claims in his reply he just found out about Specter's inquiries. "There's a credibility issue here," Specter said. The Truth is Out There or Would You Like Juice with the Egg on Your Face Roger? Matt Walsh, former Patriots video assistant from 1996-2003 , says he has information embarrassing to both the NFL and the Patriots about videotaping that occurred prior to the Jets scandal this year and the NFL failed to interview him during the so called investigation afterwards. "If they're doing a thorough investigation … they didn't contact me, so draw your own conclusions," Walsh said.
The Big Finish, What has Every Failed Marriage Taught Us? Cheaters don't stop when they get caught. They find new ways to cheat. Divorce wouldn't be the national sport it is if cheating spouses stopped after the first discovered bite of forbidden fruit. A cheater cheats because it profits them. As long as the cost doesn't exceed the reward the likelihood of their stopping is nil. What's a draft pick compared to a Super Bowl ring? Once a cheater heads down the path can you ever trust them again? Can you change the spots on a zebra? The stripes on a leopard? After all it's only human nature.
Late Breaking Denial From the NFL "We were aware of the rumor months ago and looked into it. There was no evidence of it on the tapes or in the notes produced by the Patriots, and the Patriots told us it was not true," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told The Associated Press.
That is possibly, probably, most assuredly the dumbest thing I've ever read. So stupid my IQ drops every time I look at it. So the NFL relied solely on the Patriots tapes and their word they didn't do it. OK I give up, if they say they didn't do it, that's Goodell enough for me... NB: Information used in this report was taken from FOXSports.com, the Boston Herald, the New York Times, and ESPN.
The wheels are falling off the Patriots perfect season. Massive favorites against the Philadelphia Eagles the Patriots barely survived 31-28. Who threw for 351 yards and 3 TD's? It wasn't Tom Brady, it was journeyman backup QB, A.J. Feeley who started for the 1st time since 2004 and even though he threw three picks it shows the Run-Up-the-Score pompous Patriots are mortal. Tom Brady managed to find the end zone once which blasted his three consecutive TD's per game streak out of the duck pond. At the end of the game you could hear Robert Loggia barking like he did at the end of Independence Day when the massive alien space ships crashed and burned like Courtney Love's career as an actress--"Let's get on the wire. Tell every squadron around the world how to shoot those @%^&!'ers down." The Eagles lost but the real losers are the Patriots because when they lose next week or the week after (and they are going to lose this season), it all started here. I hope the Patriots took plenty of pictures but really this game will haunt them. The Eagles are the Kryptonite that killed Superman. Finally, I don't ordinarily use a coaster for my beer but this could catch on. I wonder if they sell them as a set or individually...
Randy Wolf Dodger Bound Wolf decided less money and California was a better deal than a longer contract for more money with the Phillies. Speaks volumes about the Phillies organization and prospects for the future. Now washed up, almost were's, don't want to play here. Good riddance, you DL crybaby.
Dellucci Joins the Tribe David Dellucci part-timed a .292 BA & .530 OBP for the Phillies and couldn't crack the starting lineup. He'll ply his craft fulltime for the Injun's...This translates into welcome back Pat Burrell. Pat the Bat, fills the sleepwalking slugger slot vacated by Bobby "I Jinxed the Yankees" Abreu. So much for waiting to offer Dellucci arbitration, that strategy stunk.
Adam Eaton, the 24 Million $$$ Phillies Retread
Backstory: Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1st round (11th pick) of the 1996 amateur draft, traded with Carlton Loewer & Steve Montgomery for mega-stiff Andy Ashby in 1999.
The Glory of His Times: 54-45, 4.40 era, peaked at 199 IP's in 2004.
Smelling it Like it Is: A baffling sub-lateral move since Eaton gives The Phightin's less arm than a Padilla or Wolf. Dragging a 5.12 boat anchor ERA on 65 IP's in an injury marred 2006 stint with the Texas Rangers (the place Kenny Rogers career went to die), Eaton notched 7 wins against 4 losses.
The Incredible Criswell Predicts: Eaton will never give the Phillies 30+ starts a season, at best is a .500 pitcher, capable of a 10 win season in his best remaining years.
Pain in the Analysis: What a staff, Myers, and Hamels while Eaton, Lieber & Moyer clog up the roster and block opportunities for every young pitcher in the organization.
Instead of signing a top tier pitcher the Phillies go pig in the poke, signing broken down frauds, for the love of God, let Madson, Floyd, Gio Gonzalez, Zack Segovia, and others take their lumps instead of pulling out all the stops to win 80-some games in '07 and pretending treading mediocrity is progress.
The stupid get stupider: I am not making this up, this is actually taken from the Phillies team website:
"The Phillies had been interested in Eaton since the start of the offseason and figured he could be a lower-cost alternative to top-tier names Barry Zito and Jason Schmidt."
Alternative? What? Barry Zito with a 3.55 lifetime ERA, 120 wins against 63 losses shouldn't even be in the same paragraph let alone sentence as Eaton.
Schmidt's eaten up 800+ innings in the last 4 years and has a 3.59 lifetime ERA. The Phillies are too cheap and have a well earned reputation for doing everything possible not to win a title, that's why those two aren't coming to Philly except in another team's uniform.
On a related tangent. I can't get rid of the sight of Iggles wideout, Hank Bassett throwing a fluttering duck interception against the Colts last night. A play seared onto my retina's that doesn't belong on a pee-wee football field let alone a pro-football game, especially a nationally televised one.
Aren't the games on a tape delay? Why the hell didn't the standards & practices, NFL suit in the booth, hit the button on that unacceptable pile of dog poo? This is why Janet Jackson might still nipple us in the future.
Andy Reid should've apologized to me personally and then to each and every Iggles fan. It was humiliations galores to see a 50 yard kickoff return followed by a trick play of such withering stupidity in a game where you needed every break you could scrape up.
The Cowboys cut Peyton Manning's #### Mike Vanderjagt. If somebody calls you a liquored-up #### kicker and you don't kick his #### or at the very least key his luxury SUV, you don't deserve to kick touchdowns (1) for the Big Tuna. In a related story, doctors expect to remove the duct tape wrapped around Bill Parcell's head which kept it from exploding after those same Cowgirls let 21 points evaporate in a loss to the Bucs.*
Michael Vick found a new way to show fans his finger is OK, another class move by Ron Mexico (aka #### Man).
(1) Special thanks and a Where is He Now?, to former Miami Dolphin touchdown kicker, Garo Yepremian.
Well it's official, move over Cambell's Soup make way for the latest pro-football jinx. With brutal lethality "The Noise Factor" by the Dan has destroyed Donovan McNabb's knee, McNabb is now officially done for the season with torn ligaments in his knee.
In an article filled with complimentary things to say about Air McNabbulous, the Dan put the kabosh, the hex, and the jinx on the best QB the Iggles had since Randall Cunningham was decimated by the Sports Illustrated Cover jinx.
Read the post that broke the backs of 7,000,000 Philly Iggles fans if you dare:
Warning: The Fowl Line is not responsible for ligamental injuries suffered as a result of reading this article.
At least Pittsburgh Steelers fans, currently being mauled by the Cambell's Soup jinx, can rest easy knowing the Dan hasn't put Roethlisberger in the crosshairs.
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a Vicodin was stirring for that loud mouthed Dallas louse...Welcome to the night before Dallas gets its #### handed to it by those Philadelphia Eagles and along the way the T.O. legend will lose whatever luster 35 pills didn't knock off. There's no way that, (and I'm quoting NGS 1 winner Ty Hildebrandt here), "...statue at quarterback ..." Drew Bleedsoe can withstand the "Dogpile on the Dallas QB" Jimmie Johnson serves up every year. Meanwhile Willie Mays Hayes, I mean T.O., (despite practicing all week with his Sharpie or running to the 50 Yard line and doing his best Morris Day & the Time's, Bird), is in for a long day where he will get knocked around like Rocky Balboa...or for you Phillies fans like Brett Myers wife in Boston... So my fearless prediction is Eagles 27 Cowbows 9, and T.O. will catch 3 balls for 12 yards before going "Ouch my hand hurts..." and sulking through the 2nd half on the bench... The rest of the NFL: 10/8 1:00 ET At Indianapolis v. Tennessee Tennessee gets beaten like rented mule... 10/8 1:00 ET At NY Giants v. Washington This game might go Gibbs way, Just kidding... 10/8 1:00 ET At Minnesota v. Detroit Detroit might be the only NFL team Temple University beats by 2 touchdowns. 10/8 1:00 ET At New Orleans v. Tampa Bay New Orleans rolls in Gruden's swan song season 10/8 1:00 ET St. Louis v. At Green Bay Home dog Favre doesn't last until halftime, the dream is over. 10/8 1:00 ET At New England v. Miami Miami still plays like, well, Miami, Pats many Miami few. 10/8 1:00 ET At Chicago v. Buffalo Buffalo, Chicago, Buffalo, Chicago, Nope Chicago by a lot. 10/8 1:00 ET At Carolina v. Cleveland What is a brown? A color can't beat a panther. 'Lina buries Cleveland like Jimmie Hoffa. 10/8 4:05 ET At Jacksonville v. NY Jets Jags ain't losing to 2 weak teams in a row. Jets get throttled. 10/8 4:05 ET Kansas City v. At Arizona Home dogs can't hunt. Herm & the KC Sunshine Band whoop up on the Cards. 10/8 4:05 ET At San Francisco v. Oakland This game stinks if you bet either team you are a degenerate gambler seek help. 10/8 4:15 ET At Philadelphia v. Dallas Iggles all the way. T.O. no you don't, not in my house. 10/8 8:15 ET At San Diego v. Pittsburgh Rothlisberger wakes up, it won't be pretty, I'm going Pittsburgh by a squeaker. Monday Night Football 10/9 8:30 ET At Denver v. Baltimore Denver at home against the Mighty McNair, Defense says: Ravens...
That's the skinny, while I believe sports gambling is a tax on the mathematically stupid I think this week offers the best hope for those who feel the need to cash in Junior's college savings bonds and invest in pigskin futures. Remember if you lose, wreck your marriage & condemn Junior to a life flipping burgers at minimum wage, there's always next week. When I guarantee I'll make up for going 1-15...
Mr. Pigskin
Mr. Pigskin spends most of his time smoking cigars in a corner taproom watching sports on a fuzzy black & white TV and eating pickled eggs. He's also the host of Mr. Pigskin's NFL Pickfest shown nationally on the Belch, Thursday's @ 11pm. and author of Little League Confidential, Inside the Belly of the Beast published by Harper.
Giants TE Jeremy Shockey licked the last of the barbecue sauce from his fingers and belched after finishing a plate of his teammates ribs. "We got outplayed, and outcoached. Write that down," said Shockey still unsure what print journalists do when not hanging on his every word. Asked why he was eating his teamates after the game Shockey said, "You saw the game."
Meanwhile Coach & Reverend Tom Coughlin was hurling thunderbolts and brimstone, "A team that does nothing but preach and talk about turnovers, we turn it over like nothing matters, nothing counts. It cost us the game." Which contradicted his earlier statement, "We just gave the game away." No matter whether they sold the game at cost or below invoice the Giants got buried and unlike last week where they got luckier than James Bonds using crocodile heads as stepping stones this time the hole they dug was foolproof.
Not content with merely losing and being bitter Coughlin ended his rant with a pile of football gibberish, "We started the game and lost our composure again up front and had a couple of foolish penalties ... We had what we thought was a good game plan together. And obviously we didn't execute."
Shockey also took time to explain what the heck it is coaches do, "You've got to go by their plays, They're the coaches. They get paid money. They call the plays. Every coach out there is trying to help everybody to move the ball and help his team win. You can't just go out of no-huddle all the time."
Nevertheless after eating the entire team Shockey was still up for dessert. Even cannibals like pudding so he finished off with a plate of coaches. "I think when Eli gets to call his plays, get his formations, I think we play better football, when he gets to decide a little bit more than just the set play and then you get to go for it,"
Funny how all the pompous pre-season pro-football pundits and so called experts dismissed the Eagles after a bad season where 70% of the starters were injured. The four years previous the Eagles dominated the division and pretty much exposed the Cowboys, Giants, and Redskins for the weak teams they were and apparently still are. The Fowl Line isn't surprised the so called pundits are wrong because gasbags are generally full of gas but it is surprised when the charade of the Giants, Redskins and Cowboys being the elite of the NFC East collapses into a pile of rubble, the wishful thinking gasbags are nowhere to be found.
The Dallas Cowboys have already begun the Terrell Owens auto-hypnosis program. Drew Bledsoe who quite frankly doesn't have half the arm of Jeff Garcia let alone one ten-millionth of the arm of Donovan McNabb is already saying what a swell guy T.O. is and if he has to tell T.O. to shut up in the huddle he will. Hoo boy. That's like calling your wife really really fat just before taking her out to meet your new boss for dinner.
Bledsoe sounds more like Pollyanna than someone who has actually worked with T.O. for any length of time. Saying Owen's is pretty much what I expected him to be, Bledsoe hopes previous experiences with Terry Glenn, Eric Moulds, and Keyshawn Johnson prove he can grab a rattlesnake wrapped in barbed wire and control it.
Don't forget when T.O. soured on Garcia he kept calling him #### til the 49'er's let his contract lapse. He decided Donovan McNabb, a guy who lobbied to get him and always threw him the ball sucked worse than the King of Vicodin Brett Favre who was throwing more interceptions than touchdowns in the last 2 seasons.
Meanwhile the Big Tuna acting as if he's taking a hit off the same pipe says maybe Garcia and McNabb have the problems and Owens doesn't. Wow. What a concept. There's delusional then there's T.O. delusional. Look I was aghast when Philly signed him considering Andy Reid was previously smart enough not to sell his soul to the devil. I guess that's not a problem in Dallas because Jerry Jones clearly has no soul.
My over and under for T.O. is half a season with the weak armed Bledsoe. No way T.O. is going to live on 5 yard outs and quick slants. Not only that Philly will get to paste him twice in the season and that will be the worst mugging since the Oilers receiver Jefferies got his nose broken on the first play of a MNF game by Wes Hopkins when the Oilers said Buddy Ryan & the Eagles were in for a world of hurt at the House of Pain. The Oilers were blown out in their own house. 15 years later, I wonder if Brian Dawkins will break T.O.'s nose...I'm going to consult with Pat Moran & Mr. NFL to come up with a FoxBlog T.O. Meltdown Pool...
Face it bad ideas go farther today than they did in the Dark Ages.Fleas are good for spreading the plague but not so hot at text messaging. Despite yawning indifference to major league baseball's IHOP in the spring and the queasy feeling it left watching soccer fans celebrate home runs, the NFL is pressing forward to play two regular season games abroad in what I like to think of as "Jet Lag Bowl 1 & 2."
Remember the Hertz First there's the quality difference. Who can forget the "Valencia Bomber" Endy Chavez swinging yard in the IHOP? Or MLB players shred the South African National Team even though they played without shoes and one hand tied behind their backs? The NFL solves that quality issue by making four actual NFL teams get passports, vaccinations and Dramamine. Why? Is that really the best course for football? I think seeing 103,000 people in Mexico cheer on the Tijuana eleven as the Texans run it up 323 to nothing not only offers a so-so chance for the Houston Texans to finally win big, it gives Texas another chance to remember the Hertz, I mean remember the Enterprise, Oh yeah, remember the Alamo. Couple that with a point spread to die for like "Think the Texans will cover 323 & 1/2?" Or "What about the over and under at 324?" and bookies would rake in the cabbage.
Border Security Besides the sight of 400-pound NFL linemen flattening the undersized opposition would be a ratings hit on the order of American Idol. No fair sneaking a bunch of well fed, athletic Hispanic Americans back into Mexico either. Once they or their ancestors crossed the border they're ours. Other proposed sites include Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany which allows us the spectacle of guys named Wally, Nigel, Dieter and Hans running around looking for a yellow card after a guy like Brian Urhlacher clotheslines them.
Who Do that Tagliabue Like You Do? "It now gives us a platform to grow the game internationally with a concept of clarity," says Mark Waller, head of NFL international development. We say Huh? Never use the word clarity in a sentence that's incomprehensible. On the other hand things grow pretty well in BS so this might be just the thing to sprinkle around the concept. NFL lame duck commissioner Paul Tagliabue called developing the game internationally one of his top five accomplishments. The other four being stadium extortion, dilution by over-expansion, Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction and keeping Barry Bonds out of football.
10,000,000 Frenchmen Can't be Wrong Hanover and Leipzig are the leading candidates for NFL Europe expansion clubs. The Amsterdam Admirals are the only NFL Europe team located outside Germany. Which makes sense. I can't imagine a guy named Jacques leading the league in sacks or "Mon Dieu Monsieur Pepe!" screamed every time an arena league caliber quarterback throws an interception. If in some small way NFL Europe gives the Germans an outlet for their "Let's enslave Europe, third time's a charm" aggression, I'm all for it, no matter what the cost. I say footballs not bullets and long bombs instead of incendiary bombs.
The Future of Giant Foam Fingers "It's clearly critical to the future of the game internationally," while Jim Connelly; managing director NFL Europe certainly has a flair for overstating the obvious he only had months or years to come up with something better. International junk is best suited to um, err, international places. Why would playing these games in Toledo or Kalamazoo fire up Albanians to "make football" or the Swiss to wear hats that look like cheese while waving giant foam fingers?
Outsourcing the International House of Pancakes Sports turning multinational is the same thing that made Coca Cola what it is today, a pale high fructose corn syrup approximation of the real thing. It made Exxon-Mobil as expensive in Dubai as it is here and put the swoosh into the miserable lives and pockets of some lucky kids in Asia privileged to pump air into Nike at 3 cents a day. Welcome to your lowest averaged cost per unit NFL, it might be made in a foreign country but soon it will be the only thing you can buy in America. We've outsourced everything else. What? Hold on. It seems I've just been outsourced by a firm in Kuala Lumpur who can do a better job of being me for just 2 cents a day. Sheesh. Look on the bright side they provide 24 hour a day customer support with a person who doesn't speak English or any other recognizable language but can repeat "I am trying to make understand of your problem" until you hang up in disgust and buy another one.
In Texas even the blunders are bigger, Mario Williams is truly Bosworthian.
Remember Ken Sims? Aundrey Bruce? Courtney Brown?
In the past 25 years top five DE picks are a stone cold mortal lock bust. For every decent end drafted four flat out stink.
Why didn't they trade down, make the same mistake and get an extra pick in the later rounds?
In other top twenty what are they thinking picks:
The Jets (4th) take the Brick, OT D'Brickashaw Ferguson is OK but the Jets need a QB so bad it makes my head hurt. With Cutler or Leinart available this is a gruesomely stupid pick.
The Lions (9th) take LB Ernie Sims who might be a force in college but in the NFL a soft coconut gets you nowhere. Concussion problems in the NFL , color Sims gone. GM Matt Millen's swan song pick will age like a delicate wine in a hot dumpster.
The Vikings (17th) take LB Chad Greenway, let me say that again. Luckily the Cowboys (18th) snatched LB Bobby "un-coachable" Carpenter next to make these picks tandemly moronic. Are they letting monkees throw darts at a newspaper's mock draft?
Meanwhile the rich get richer, the Eagles not only get DT Brodrick Bunkley at #14 they snag OT Winston Justice at #39 in the 2nd round. You win in the trenches and these 2 picks are rock solid.
