NFL Draft - Round Two

Round two begins with an interview of Bill Belichick. I promptly ignored it. There's a rumor being floated that this will be Mel Kiper's last draft for ESPN. I find that very shocking. Kiper does have some problems. For one, his hair is somewhat scary. For another, he never admits he made a bad call. His dead certain belief that he is always right can be somewhat annoying. However, the flip side of that is it makes for entertaining TV. Since his main function is the draft, he doesn't feel the need to suck up to team management. So, he'll call out a team for a bad decision whether it's the history of the Jets' draft or the time he got into a big argument with one of the Irsays in Indy when they took Trev Alberts. Plus, Kiper knows his stuff. Even if I disagree with him, he always has something more than gut to go on when he makes his projections. I'm just surprised they would let him go. He's been there since a minor sports cable channel decided to do a bare bones draft production as filler. Personally, I think Kiper's notoriety helped turn the NFL Draft into the big event it has become. If he leaves and goes to the NFL Network, there's a good chance I'll watch there show instead. Especially if they bring in some clown like Todd McShay of Scouts Inc. in his place. ESPN already has too many schmucks like Kornholer and Salisbury on their draft show.

And there goes Alan Branch to Arizona.

Always like the reactions when a team goes completely off the reservation like the Eagles did with Houston Cougar quarterback Kevin Kolb who many viewed as the sixth best QB. Mort did say that some teams had really liked Kolb. Hey Mort, thanks for mentioning that after he's drafted. Most pundits had Kolb behind Drew Staunton (Mich St), John Beck (BYU) and Trent Edwards (Stanford), but I watched all of them except Edwards play several games (Stanford stank and played late most of the time), and I can't see any of them being that much ahead of the others. Actually, I didn't think they were that far behind Quinn and Russell. I guess it's what you like. Wonder what Donovan McNabb thinks of this?

San Diego just traded four third to fifth round picks to move up in the second round to take a safety Eric Weddle. Huh. That seems like a lot.

Now, we get Miami taking quarterback John Beck which explains why Miami didn't take Quinn in the first round. Actually, it doesn't because a lot of people thought Beck would be gone by now. Wouldn't they have felt stupid if the Eagles had taken him instead of Kolb. I still can't believe the Dolphins took a number two receiver/punt returner with the ninth pick. It did lead to a funny clip of Miami coach Cam Cameron facing off a mob of angry Miami fans who weren't too happy they took Ginn over Quinn. Maybe they should have drafted Brandon Meriweather to fight them off.

I knew it couldn't last. Keyshawn is comparing himself (favorably) to every receiver being drafted. Then Dwayne Jarrett gets drafted by Keyshawn's Panthers, and it comes out that he said off camera he hoped they would so he could show his fellow Southern Cal receiver the ropes. I forgot how altruistic Keyshawn could be. What would be funny is if Jarrett so impresses the Panthers in training camp that they cut Keyshawn.

I just noticed something. The Colts traded a fourth round pick this year and next year's first round pick to move into the middle of the second round and draft Tony Ugoh who is apparently too skinny (at 301 pounds) to be a right tackle, lacks athleticism for left tackle and doesn't really seem to like playing football. If your trade involves giving up a first round pick, shouldn't that be to draft someone with first round talent?

So, Detroit didn't trade Mike Williams to Tennesee. They traded him to Oakland. I guess Al Davis has a fetish for lazy wide receivers. Since they are going to probably trade Randy Moss, this means Russell will be throwing to famous flop Mike Williams, ex-quarterback Ronald Curry and maybe Jerry Porter if he isn't suspended for most of the season again. I'm predicting Pro Bowl right off the bat for Russell.

ESPN is run by geniuses. They just did a 30 second sports update, and they led with a report on JaMarcus Russell being the first pick in the draft. Obviously most of the people watching the second round of the NFL Draft probably didn't know who went first.

ABC is pimping the Hell out of their Bingo game show which will probably be popular and in turn make me contemplate putting the parental lock on ABC. It doesn't look too realistic, because I didn't see any chain smoking old biddies.

Andy Reid says taking Kevin Kolb isn't about Donovan McNabb which means it's probably about McNabb. Sadly, Ron Jaworski is now having flashbacks to when the Eagles drafted Randal Cunningham as his replacement. Finally, Mort points out that McNabb is chronically hurt, so taking a quarterback is probably not a bad idea.