Draft Recap
-I watched way too much of the draft.
-Why do people who are there boo the entire 3rd and 4th rounds? Just because they are idiots and don’t know the names of the people getting picked doesn’t mean they are bad picks. Most of them are pretty good. Can we get intelligent fans to attend the draft for a change? What would that take?
-The draft nowadays is visually tiring. How many tickers and comments and videos does one need? You used to be able to watch the draft in fast forward and catch all the information you needed. Now, watching in fast forward will make you dizzy, give you seizures, and scramble your brain. It’s too much information to take in at once. Believe me, I tried.
-I was glad to see that the shorter time period didn’t inhibit trading and still made for an ‘exciting’ draft. I didn’t think it would, but overall, I was pleased with the new 10 minute format for the 1st round.
-Overall, I think most people did well. Detroit still screwed up their first round pick, so did Baltimore. It’s hard to screw up the 1st and 2nd round too bad, the real differential comes in the 3rd – 5th rounds, that’s where you get your role players that make a difference down the road and it way too early to tell how teams did there.
Draft diary
Jon Stewart to the Panthers at 13? Who’s running that team? They have far bigger needs.
Jared Mayo becomes the first player selected that wasn’t even in my 1st round mock draft. Surprised it took that long. Bill knows what he’s doing, I trust him.
Detroit is on the clock. Now there’s a team I could run. I took turn them around. Just need a QB to throw to all those receivers.
Draft diary pt 2
Does anyone go back and check to see how Kipers assessments pan out? For example, he just criticized Jacksonville for moving up that high to get Derrick Harvey. He thinks its a giant reach. If he were so good at assessing talent, wouldn’t he have been hired by a team by now? They weren’t that far from the Super Bowl last season so they obviously have some idea what they are doing. I wish we could grade him instead of just being submitted to his grade.
Draft diary pt 1
I’m 4 for 4 so far on my mock draft. That’ll never happen again.
What is Michael Irvin wearing? Plaid pocka dots, AND stripes. And his hankerchief doesn’t match anything he’s wearing.
Quote from the wife referring to Mel Kiper: "His hair is deeply distrurbing to me"
Darren McFadden has family members in gangs and a mom who is a recovering crack addict? Him getting rich isn’t going to help that situation. I’m not trying to be negative, I’m just saying, I’m putting the over-under on his arrest at 2 years.
Mock Draft
Everyone else gets to have a mock draft, so I get to have one too, right? In the age of the Internet, everyone gets to make their opinion known.
1. MIA – Jake Long – Michigan
The draft is just no fun if we know the first draft pick on Tuesday.
2. STL – Chris Long – UVA
This will go down as the draft of the offensive linemen. In other words, no one will remember it in 10 years.
3. ATL – Matt Ryan – BC
Putting the final coffin in the Mike Vick ‘experiment’
4. OAK – Darren McFadden – ARK
Could be an interesting young team next year with Russell and McFadden
5. KC – Glenn Dorsey – LSU
They will be thrilled if he falls this far.
6. NYJ – Vernon Gholston – OSU
Can play and contribute immediately
7. NE – Keith Rivers – USC
A big help to this aging LB core. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them trade down and take someone else with this pick though.
8. BAL – Ryan Clady – Boise State
This year, picking o-linemen will be stylish. It’s the new black.
9. CIN – Sedrick Ellis – USC
Quietly almost as good as Dorsey
10. NO – Leodis McKelvin – Troy
Could pick Mike Jenkins here, I think McKelvin is the better player long term and fits better on this team.
11. BUF – Devin Thomas – MSU
12. DEN – Derrick Harvey – FLA
13. CAR – Brandon Albert – UVA
14. CHI – Rasheed Mendenhall – ILL
15. DET – Felix Jones – ARK – Overrated, typical DET pick
16. ARI – Mike Jenkins – SFU – Could spurn run on CBs
17. KC – Jeff Otah – PITT – need to address both lines with draft
18. HOU – Dominque Rodgers – TENN ST
19. PHL – Chris Williams – VAND
20. TAM – Philip Merling – CLEM
21. WAS – Malcolm Kelly – OK –
22. DAL – Jon Stewart – ORE – will get lucky to get him here
23. PIT – Gosder Cherilus – BC
24. TENN – Limas Sweed – TX – the perfect compliment for Young, already familiar
25. SEA – Dustin Keller – PUR
26. JAC – Kentwan Balmer – UNC
27. SD – Aquib Talib – KAN
28. DAL – Antoine Cason – ARI – Typical pick that Jerry Jones trades away
29. SFO – Brandon Flowers – VT
30. GB – Kenny Philips – MIA
31. Pick removed from NE – They should make them sit there in silence, while Mel Kiper and Berman repeat, “I hope they learned their lesson”.
31. NYG – DeSean Jackson – CAL