2006 NFL Draft

Speculation about the #1 pick is going crazy. Here is an article from SI on the possibility of Young going #1 after his Rose Bowl performance.

People are caught up in the moment, but once we give it a week I think everyone will be more realistic about Young's draft status. He definitely didn't hurt his status, but NFL teams aren't going to let one performance sway them to an extreme. If they keep hyping things up he could be the next Aaron Rodgers. And people are assuming he's even going to enter the draft. He'd be a fool not to IMO, he's peaked, it's time to say, "Thank you, Goodnight!" and make an exit from college football.

So, any thoughts on Young? What do you want to see your team do in the draft?

What I want to see for Green Bay is at least one monster O-Lineman. Football is all about the battle in the trenches, and Green Bay needs a dominating player there.

I don't think Young will enter the draft.. he's been pretty miffed about not getting the heisman.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...tay/index.html

He knew he wasn't getting the Heisman, everyone knew it was Bush's this year. He was miffed about the margin by which he lost. After the Rose Bowl he commented about his Heisman pose and didn't come off as upset about not winning it at all. As long as he takes classes if he goes back for another year I won't question his decision of course.

I think Young would be crazy not to enter the draft. After that performance, his NFL stock will never be higher. Any team that picks Leinert over Young is nuts.

The Packers have so many needs, I just hope they get someone that makes an immediate impact. I kind of like AJ Hawk from Ohio State.

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Originally posted by Leshrak
I don't think Young will enter the draft.. he's been pretty miffed about not getting the heisman.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...tay/index.html

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That writer is an asshole.

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If so, then prove it. Come back for your senior season. Otherwise, your huffing and puffing the past few weeks was just a lot of hot air and you need to get over it.

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Bullshit. You can still think you deserved to win it, and do the SMART THING and go pro now.

Frankly, after that Rose Bowl, I think Young SHOULD HAVE won. I understand why people voted how they did at the time, but on the big stage, head to head, Young schooled Leinart and Bush combined.

You really can't top back to back Rose Bowl MVPs, winning a national title, and putting up 470 yards. Winning a Heisman, frankly, is not that impressive a thing in the eyes of the NFL. Far too many Heisman winners are titanic busts.

Young enters draft

Looks like Young realized that he had nothing more to prove at the college level, and that waiting a year had more potential to damage his status than help it.

Sweet! I'm glad Young is going pro. One less team for UGA to worry about. :)

Wow. Marcus Vick is a retard.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2285819

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RICHMOND, Va. -- Former Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick, booted from the team last week for his behavior on and off the field, was charged Monday with pulling a gun on three teenagers during an altercation in a restaurant parking lot.

Vick surrendered at the Suffolk magistrate's office after three warrants were issued for his arrest Sunday, Magistrate Lisa Noel said.

The 21-year-old Vick was charged with three misdemeanor counts of brandishing a firearm, and was released on $10,000 bond.

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Originally posted by Aristotle
Wow. Marcus Vick is a retard.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2285819

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Some people hit rock bottom and continue to dig. The Raiders will probably try to get him, he can thug it up there.

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Originally posted by Gadiantor
Some people hit rock bottom and continue to dig. The Raiders will probably try to get him, he can thug it up there.

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That would be a perfect fit.

Randy Moss.

Marcus Vick.

Sebastien Janakowski.

Now they need Terrell Owens.

Perhaps they can figure out a way to get Barry Bonds to play football.

Bush enters draft, it's official

Not a surprise, but now it's official. Barring something drastic happening Bush should be headed to Houston in a few months. Hopefully for him the Texans will do something to improve their line as well.

I am soooooooo hoping the Saints take Leinart. Let that asshole languish in that shitty franchise.

Now that the Rose Bowl afterglow has long since faded all the talk of Young being the #1 pick seems to have stopped. Don Banks Mock Draft has Young as the third QB picked. I'd check the ESPN mock draft, but it's part of their "in" content, which is total BS. They suck!

WTF is Leonard Pope doing on there? I never even heard that he had declared for the draft. He certianly had a shitty enough season last year that he has no business declaring. SHEESH.

And yeah, ESPN and their insider content is bullshit. It is like half the articles now. Basically, it breaks down like this:

AP Articles you can read anywhere and a couple of columnists - Free

Everything Else - Insider

And the new format at espn.com sucks too.

I wish someone who isn't ESPN, CNN, SI, etc. would make a cool sports site. I don't even care if a lot of the news is a little older (aka ripped off) from the big boys. Hell, even short blurbs with links to the bigger sites is fine with me.

It is no surprise that Leinart and Young aren't participating in drills at the NFL Scouting Combine, but it is disapointing. There are questions about whether or not Young has the arm to go with his legs, so I'd have liked to see him throw. Leinart has played enough that scouts have seen plenty from him. Both will have workouts at their respective colleges, but I'd much rather see them in the Combine. If these guys are confident in their abilities they should show them off against their peers in the same setting. Their fear of a bad showing and hurting their status overrides everything else though.

I think it is pretty pansy ass if they are skipping the combines, and frankly it makes me doubt what kind of real heart they have.

The true studs of pro sports had an "anywhere, anytime" attitude. They didn't pussy-foot around worrying about crap like "not having a bad day" or some garbage like that.

This ranks up there with Lebron not being in the dunk contest because his agent said "if he doesn't do as well as MJ, it will hurt his image."

If you go around always worried that failure might hurt your image, you'll never build much of an image in the first place.

Interesting article that makes a lot of sense imho.

Young Not Ready for Prime Time

Some of you will remember that in earlier threads (and maybe this one too) I thought Young looked like a great prospect. His lackadaisical attitude and terrible decision making really make him look like a risky choice.

Bwahahahaha. Stupid Texans.

Aside from the fact that you never have perfect knowledge of which players will be the real deal, the idea of taking a DE over a super star RB is idiotic.

I love that Bush and Leinart went lower than expected. All the USC hype and then they lose the big game to Texas, and the draft hype and they fall again!

I'm not sure what the Texans were thinking. If they were going to go with another position it would have made tons more sense to trade down and get extra picks so they could address multiple needs. There is a decent chance we could see them with another #1 overall pick next year with the offense they'll be fielding. They did allow more points last year than any other team in the NFL, so the upgrades on defense make a lot of sense, but I have to believe they could have done a much better job of it had they traded down.

I totally agree.

Are you telling me they couldn't have traded the Reggie Bush pick to someone (even New Orleans) to get something else - and still probably get the player they wanted?

Furthermore, if their player was lower than #1, they get to pay him less.

Texans picked Williams because he was cheaper and easier to sign. Not real difficult to figure out why they finished 2-14.

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Originally posted by vin
Texans picked Williams because he was cheaper and easier to sign. Not real difficult to figure out why they finished 2-14.

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He's not a bad pick for them, the point is that if they weren't going to take the top guy they could have traded the pick and gotten even more value by getting more players for less money. It'll be interesting to see how the Saints do next year compared to the Texans. I'm not sure that Bush is any better off...

Bush will sell tickets for the Saints. That makes the pick fantastic for them.

Is this the same Saints that the owner is desperately wanting to move OUT of New Orleans?

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Originally posted by Wyden
Is this the same Saints that the owner is desperately wanting to move OUT of New Orleans?

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I hope he is successful. New Orleans is a shithole, *AND* its tiny. And the Saints have sucked forever. It is bad karma.

I'd like to see them move to LA.

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Originally posted by Aristotle
I hope he is successful. New Orleans is a shithole, *AND* its tiny. And the Saints have sucked forever. It is bad karma.

I'd like to see them move to LA.

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San Antonio was trying to position themselves for a shot at brining the Saints in. LA would make a better fit. It's a big market with more security than San Antonio. We'll have to wait for the Katrina effect to wear off to see a move though.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...t&lid=tab5pos1

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Tuesday Morning Quarterback has long been suspicious of cases in which two highly drafted players played similar positions on the same college team. In 1998, for example, quarterback Peyton Manning of Tennessee was a first-round choice, and wide receiver Marcus Nash of Tennessee also a first-round choice. Nash was a bust: Manning had made him look better than he was. Call it Nearby Nepotism -- beware of collegians who played near other good collegians. Nearby Nepotism ran wild at this year's draft. Ohio State linebacker A.J. Hawk went fifth, then Ohio State linebacker Bobby Carpenter went 18th -- most likely they made each other seem better. Three members of the Florida State front seven -- Ernie Sims, Kamerion Wimberly and Brodrick Bunkley -- went in the first 14 selections, and most likely made each other look better. The cake was taken when three of NC State's four defensive linemen went in the first 26 selections. NC State had a 6-5 record -- if its D-line was so fabulous, how come the team barely broke .500? Buffalo used the 26th overall choice on defensive tackle John McCargo, who lined up next to the top overall choice, Williams. Most likely Williams made McCargo look better than he is. Or maybe McCargo made Williams look better than he is: either way someone is in for disappointment. Yours truly is guessing that of the trio of teams that took Florida State frontline defenders (Cleveland, Philadelphia and San Diego) and the trio that drafted NC State defensive linemen (Houston, Buffalo and San Francisco), many will soon be asking themselves, "How come this guy doesn't look as good as he did in college?"

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More from that article:

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Arizona: Had he come out in 2005, Matt Leinart would have been the top overall choice, gone to glamorous San Francisco and gotten a monster contract. Instead he was true to his school and returned for his senior season, now goes 10th to the woeful Cards and will get a medium-sized contract. Leinart took the most expensive ballroom dancing class in history!

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PWNED!

And the unsportsmanlike crybaby didn't even with a title or another Heisman.