Thought #1

I was wrong in questioning the prime time draft, it was absolutely awesome! Not so much for the evening itself, but for the stiff line it drew between first and second round picks, thus providing an entire Friday full of questions.

Think about it, in what other draft can you remember there being such a huge deal between going in Round 1 verse 2? Heck, ESPN's SportsNation fielded a phone call from Jimmy Clausen's couch, begging for some to draft Jimmy so he would quit smothering him. Awesome! Last year we would have never gotten an entire day for such witty banter.

Thought #2

On that note, why didn't Jimmy earlier than the 48th pick? Simple. The echos of Brady Quinn's name was haunting GM's around the league. It makes sense.

It's kind of like Mark Wahlberg movies, no matter how good the film looks in the back of your mind you're always going to be thinking, "Really, Marky Mark? Aren't you the same guy responsible for the Funky Bunch?" Now don't get me wrong, Four Brothers was money, but you know those thoughts of Good Vibrations are hard to shake.

Same way with Jimmy. He looks good, came from a pro-style offense, but in the back of your mind you can't help but think, "dag, didn't this same company produce Brady Quinn?"

With that said, Carolina should be thanking God for Brady Quinn's early career suckfest right now. They got a guy they wanted in the first round in the second, which is how drafts are won.

By the way, is it just me or does Jimmy really look like he is related to Sid Vicious?

Thought #3

When I was little I really wanted a whoopie cushion. I'm not sure where this desire came from, but you always heard about how great whoopie cushions were. You saw them on TV, people pranking other people and tricking people into thinking they farted, they always appeared to be hilarious. So, being a kid who wanted to join the hilariousness, I finally when out and got one.

You know what sucks? Whoopie cushions. After spending about 3 hours trying to get various family member to sit in that one special spot where that obvious giant hump was, my grandma finally sat on it and it popped.

I say all this to say Tim Tebow was this draft's whoopie cushion. Hes going to go down as the huge reach of this draft, going to the Broncos with the 25h pick, and it's hard to argue that this is largely because of the last two weeks of media hype surrounding the guy.

Now sure, he's a good QB, but last time I checked in Feburary most teams were debating either taking him in the 2nd or 3rd round or taking him to play under center at all. So unless the Broncos were just extremely impressed by the Tebow family's ability to dress alike for draft night, I think they got sold on the Tim Tebow commercial.

Maybe the Broncos will be that one team that has success using Timmy, but just like that whoopie cushion, it's going to be tricky.

Thought #4

The Vikings may have gotten the steal of the draft in getting Toby Gerhart with the 51st pick in the draft. Over 1,800 yards on the ground, tack on 1,000 threw the air, and 44 career touchdowns, and I think you have yourselves a pretty solid running back here.

Now the knock on Toby is that he is a "one speed" back. Hmm, while I kind of understand that, I do wonder if that "one speed" is white. Is the Woody Harrelson effect kicking in here, at least on the subconscious level? It's not that a white running back is unheard of in the league, it's just that when it is heard of, it's heard of as a power back, a between the trenches guy, or good blocking back.

Regardless I think the Vikes got a steal here and I hope he ans out. I also hope Adrian Peterson tries to get him to prove he can dunk the first day of training camp.

Thought #5

I've never seen a guy so uncomfortable with hugs get hugged so much as I did Friday night when Roger Goodell became a human teddy bear.

Give Gerald McCoy the credit for kicking it off. The Commish went for the hand shake and Gerald said, "no sir, brothers don't shake hands, brothers hug!," and proceeded to wrap up Roger like he was a long lost relative. After that it became the norm.

Now I'm not a huge hugger, so I get Goodell's pain here. You just got to suck it up, treat this like one of those awkward church events with lots of elderly women, throw the arms out, give a couple pats on the back, and release as quickly as possible.