You’re not just drafting a quarterback, you’re drafting a controversy too!

Congratulations are in order for Detroit, New York and Tampa Bay. These franchises didn’t just get the 3 least versatile athletes in the first round of the NFL draft. The selections of Matt Stafford, Mark Sanchez, and Josh Freemen aren’t simply unproven players who can only play the most expensive/slowest-developing position with the lowest success rate in pro football. With drafting a quarterback in an early round, in the NFL draft, you also get the built in headache of constant questions about when the rookie is going to “start”. I’m writing this two days after the picks have been made and that question has already been posed to all 3 player and all 3 head coaches multiple times. Of course the current prevailing theory on rookie quarterbacks, according to people who talk about football in the media, is that they need to sit and learn from a veteran. For the record, all 3 teams seem to have veteran starters in place. However, this situation usually only fans the flames of conservatory. If the vet is perseeved to play poorly early, then there is a clamor to get the young guy some “experience”. The “talking heads”/fans, usually start using this argument when the team is losing, which means that most of what the rookie QB will experience is: “what it’s like to suck”. The “learning on the job” approach does stop the “when will he start” questions, but unless he’s the .0001% that’s actually ready that young (Dan Marino/Matt Ryan) or the .01% that’s ready enough to be on a great team (Ben Rothesberger/Joe Flacco) then you run the risk of getting the “bust” talk going. If the vet is successful as the starter, you get the “who’s the QB long-term” questions. You have that question because you have the legitimate problem of who to play, the guy who’s proven you can win with him or the kid you’re paying more money to, in order to sit on the bench? Then you’re being badgered with the question “why did you draft a guy so high when you already had a good quarterback?” Which is a good question, because any weakness your team has, could have probably been helped by a guy you could have drafted instead of the kid you’re paying pro-bowl money to for him to hold a clip-board. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t draft a quarterback in the first round, I’m just saying that this what you should expect when you do

Why even interview NFL Coaches

There is no bigger waste of time than a media interview with a current NFL head coach, because they never say anything! If someone is experienced and intelligent enough to be the top guy at a franchise then he knows better than to give an honest opinion or the blunt truth to a reporter. It’s always the same vague, company-line bullshit. There’s been about 100 live interviews over the last two days at the NFL draft and they’ve been about as informative as a conversation with my asshole. Instead of wasting our time with all this live tele-conference interviews they should just wait to the end of the draft and say: “All NFL coach, have this to say:”:”we really like the players we got, we think they can come in here and help us. I can’t wait to get them in camp so we can really see what we got”. If a Head Coach does actually say anything informative to a member of the media the real news is he is about to be fired, because he is apparently to dumb to be a nfl coach!

Seahawks playing sanchez groupies for fools!

All this talk about Seattle picking Mark Sanchez at the fourth spot in the NFL Draft on Saturday is just one great bluff. The Seahawks are just trying to turn “Sanchez Mania” into more talent for less money than they could get with the Fourth overall selection. Realizing that you just have to give to much guaranteed money to an unproven rookie in the top 5 picks, they’re looking for a way out. They face the same problem that every team in the top 5 has faced the last couple of years, which is no one wants to trade for their pick. I can’t remember a time since 2004 (the year of Eli Manning) that any team has been able to trade a top 5 pick. (I’m not saying there hasn’t been, I’m just saying I can’t remember one, I’m to damn lazy to research it, you’re lucky I took the time to find that pic!) The secret is out, you’ve got just as good of odds drafting a pro bowler with 2 second round picks, as you do with a top 10 selection. Also, you spend around a 8th of the cap room on those two players as you would the top overall rookie. So Seattle was sitting around thinking they were stuck with a high pick like everyone at the top is, until they noticed how much attention Mark Sanchez was getting. There’s all this talk about how 4 or 5 teams think he’s the answer to their quarterback problem. Hoping all this is true, somebody got the brilliant idea to put it out there that they will pick him at 4. If all the chatter is true, some big-market franchise might be willing to send a whole lotta value to Washington state for the USC golden boy. This is all according to a source that spoke on the condition of anonymity, because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

by Devious Daryl: Another uninformed idiot with an opinion on sports

 

I’m shocked I made it through a whole blog posting about a guy named Sanchez and I managed to not put “dirty” in front of it once. That’s some real journalism shit right there!