Too Long

The 1st round of the NFL Draft took about 6 hours. 6 hours?!?!?! The first day didn't end until after 11pm on the East Coast. Do teams really need 15 minutes in the 1st round and 10 minutes in the 2nd round to make picks? Of course they don't, the NBA draft only allows teams 5 minutes in the 1st round to make picks. But the NFL Draft has become all about the ratings. And it's basically free publicity for the NFL since every team is featured, especially the teams that aren't as well known and aren't as good. Of course I watched gavel to gavel coverage, seeing where guys went. But I don't think it would hurt if things were shortened up just a bit.

I couldn't decide if I wanted Brady Quinn to get picked or not. If he got picked, then ESPN would've stopped talking about him. But if he didn't, he would have to sit and wait a little longer, and I was enjoying him suffer through the 1st round. I don't believe he will ever be an elite NFL quarterback. As proven in his senior season at Notre Dame, he needs pieces around him in order to be great. I don't think he's capable of putting a team on his back and carrying them to a championship. That said, I think the Browns did the right thing in trading up to get him because next year's quarterback crop won't be any better at the top than this year's. Right now, I only see Brian Brohm being better than Quinn.

I'm not sure why the Eagles took Kevin Kolb with their 2nd round pick, their 1st pick of the draft. Did they watch any Houston games? Houston's offense is basically backyard football with crazy formations, relying on deception to gain yards. Kolb is nothing more than a system quarterback who won't make it in the NFL. He has Andre Ware, David Klingler, and Tim Couch written all over him. The same is true for Jeff Rowe from Nevada, who got taken by the Bengals in the 5th round instead of Troy Smith. Rowe has the measurables Smith doesn't, 6'5 225. But Rowe played in the pistol offense, another quirky system that allowed him to succeed. So Smith wound up at Baltimore, where he'll probably end up as the #2 QB behind Steve McNair. The Bengals didn't have a terrible draft, but it was far from great. Why did they draft a Rudi Johnson clone in Kenny Irons? He's not a change of pace back, Irons does his work between the tackles.

And I loved how this year, ESPN would run updated mock drafts from their various analysts on the bottom of the screen like they were important. It seems like everyone has a mock draft nowadays. Maybe I should start doing one daily and it will become read daily along with the other draft fodder. Some of it is just outright ridiculous.

ESPN can show the clips of the bad New York Jets picks all day long and it will never get old. Also the commercial with "TJ Who's Your Mama", funny everytime it's on.

So April is over and May will begin this week. The days are getting nicer. Today was beautiful, especially good since the March of Dimes walk was this morning.

I've got the Sebastian Telfair movie on the tele. What a waste, very sad.